In 2012, Rose and the Doctor find themselves in a subterranean bunker owned by Henry van Statten, a wealthy collector of alien artifacts, close to Salt Lake City, Utah, after a signal diverts the TARDIS. When the Doctor comes across his only surviving exhibit, he is appalled to learn that it is a Time War-survivor Dalek. The Dalek is the last of a race of genetically altered monsters determined to eradicate all non-Dalek life from the universe and the Doctor’s worst adversary. Rose follows Adam Mitchell, one of van Statten’s workers, to the Dalek, but she feels sorry for it and touches it, letting it to take up her DNA and become alive. Before Rose, Adam, and the Doctor are caught, the Dalek murders a lot of troops. Because it has developed empathy for Rose’s DNA, the Dalek spares her life when they become imprisoned together and ends its own destruction. Adam boards the TARDIS as the Doctor and Rose depart in order to prevent van Statten’s Vault from closing.