Information
Writer: Matthew Graham
Director: Euros Lyn
Script Editor: Simon Winstone
Producer: Phil Collinson
Executive Producer(s): Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner
Originally Broadcast: 24th June 2006
Duration: 45 mins
Viewing Figures (in millions): 7.1m
Production Code: 2.11
Monsters/Villains: Chloe Webber/The Isolus
Year Set: 2012
Location: London, Earth
Synopsis
When the Tardis lands in 2012, the Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics.
But on a nearby housing estate, a desperate mother is hiding her daughter's unearthly powers.
Can the Doctor defeat the danger nestling at the heart of an ordinary British household?
When the Tardis lands in 2012, the Doctor plans to show Rose the London Olympics.
But on a nearby housing estate, a desperate mother is hiding her daughter's unearthly powers.
Can the Doctor defeat the danger nestling at the heart of an ordinary British household?
Cast
Monster File: The Isolus
David Tennant – David Tennant
Rose Tyler – Billie Piper
Trish - Nina Sosanya
Chloe - Abisola Agbaje
Maeve - Edna Dore
Tom's Dad - Tim Faraday
Kel - Abdul Salis
Driver - Richard Nichols
Neighbour - Erica Eirian
Police Officer - Stephen Marzella
Commentator - Huw Edwards
Home Star: The Sun
Life Form: Vedgetation
The Isolus were tiny empathic beings which looked like white flowers with streaming tendrils. They travelled on solar winds. They were originally born as spores from their mothers. These Isolus would travel through space in heat-powered pods and would grow for thousands of years before they become an adult, and in order to pass the time, use their ionic power to create fantasy worlds to play in. The ionic power of an Isolus to create these virtual worlds could also bring inanimate objects like drawings to life, as well as transform living things into drawings. These young Isolus also required strong emotions, specifically love, to survive. Isolus travelled in groups of around 4 billion and required constant companionship to feed off the love of their siblings. In year 2012, one Isolus was separated from its family after a solar flare. It landed on Earth and searched for heat and a friend. It was able to find Chloe Webber, another lonely child. Chloe swallowed the Isolus. Inside Chloe's body, the spore gave Chloe its special powers. One child was not enough for the Isolus, so it tried to use its powers to find more friends.
Preceded by: Love & Monsters - Followed by: Army of Ghosts
