Context
The Ninth Doctor meets Rose Tyler in modern‑day London, kicking off the revival era.
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Historical Record
Early 2005, London. Retail districts, riverfront spaces, and residential blocks experience coordinated disturbances that begin as urban nuisances and escalate into a public safety incident. CCTV captures fragmentary evidence; radio chatter records municipal services struggling to keep pace with unfolding events. Amid the confusion, an unknown specialist moves through crowd scenes with practiced ease, locking down risks while deflecting attention from the most alarming details.
The day is important because it reopens a closed chapter. Agencies that once carried dormant protocols dust off contacts and contingency binders. A civilian drawn into the crisis becomes a witness whose testimony later appears in redacted briefings, linking street‑level experience to decisions made in rooms without windows. The response demonstrates a new blend of improvisation and compassion—an approach that will come to define twenty‑first‑century encounters with the extraordinary.
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A: Rose (Doctor Who, 2005) happens in 2005 .