EDA107-108 - Human Resources, Parts 1 and 2

This is the sort of story that Russel T. Davis could have done with David Tennant and Donna to great effect. But McGann and Lucie are just as good in the same roles, and it's possible that the TV budget wouldn't have been able to pull of the massive scale of the second part.

Everything was a dream, it seems, when Lucie wakes up starting her first day at the office she had been applying to work at when she appeared in the Doctor's TARDIS. Disoriented and annoyed, but willing to face reality, Lucie sets about adjusting to the Dilbert world of her new life working for Hulbert Logistics. But when she gets promoted to be an executive secretary, her new boss is the Doctor.

Back together, the Doctor and Lucie set out to discover the secret of Hulbert Logistics, which is that it isn't in Telford at all. War, it turns out, is far more effective when fought by the market research teams and number crunchers of an office environment, but an office environment inside massive walking war machines that are laying waste to an indiginous population to clear land for new settlements.

This finale two-parter takes many great twists and brings back the Doctor's other great villains, the Cybermen. A very clever story with a great mix of adventure and mystery makes this the best of the first series and a great reason to continue listening.