After traveling to the year 200,000, the Doctor, Rose, and Adam arrive aboard the space station Satellite 5, which is in charge of journalism. Something has impeded the advancement of human technology and attitude ever since the satellite started transmitting. Since he and a creature called the Jagrafess have created the “Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire” through Satellite 5, where the news has instilled fear in the human race and kept them in a closed society, the Editor invites the Doctor and Rose to the affluent Floor 500, where he holds them captive. In the meantime, Adam has set up a port in his brain and is sending all of his information to his parents’ home answering machine via Satellite 5. While the Editor and the Jagrafess are incinerated by the heat, Rose and the Doctor are able to escape when journalist Cathica reroutes the heat to Floor 500. The Doctor destroys the answering machine and exiles Adam from the TARDIS after becoming enraged with him and sending him back to his home.