Classic Moment: Rose revives Dalek ('Dr Who')

After a gap of 17 years and amidst much legal wrangling with the Terry Nation Estate, the iconic pepperpot returned in the 2005 episode 'Dalek'. Here is the classic moment when the creature had its power restored by Rose Tyler.

The Context

The Doctor and Rose have landed in an underground museum in Utah, 2012. Owned by alien relic collector Henry Van Statten, the museum contains an unidentified creature known as the 'Metaltron'. However, The Doctor soon discovers its true identity but is imprisoned before he can warn Rose, who has gone exploring with her new friend Adam. She soon discovers the dreaded Dalek.

The Moment

Rose takes pity on the rusty dilapidated Dalek, bound in chains in its darkened cell. She asks if it's in pain and says that her friend The Doctor may be able to help. The Dalek claims it is dying and praises Rose for not being afraid. Rose, welling up with tears at the creature's suffering, puts her hand on the Dalek's dome to comfort it.

Immediately, the Dalek jolts into energy, with Rose's hand leaving a glowing imprint and allowing the Dalek to extrapolate genetic material from the time traveller.

"Initiate cellular reconstruction!" the Dalek barks, promptly breaking free from its chains. Van Statten's chief torturer confronts the renascent Dalek, whose 'sink plunger' is erect.

"What you gonna do? Sucker me to death?" mocks the torturer.

The Dalek does precisely that.

The Aftermath

The sucker is used to figure out the combination to open the cell, with the Dalek promptly downloading the entire internet upon release. In search of orders, the Dalek makes its way around the base exterminating those in its way. Yet it emerges that the DNA absorbed from Rose Tyler's touch has caused mental changes as well as physical. Soon unable to cope with its own imperative to kill, the Dalek commits suicide.