Rose Tyler is being attacked by plastic mannequins in the shop’s basement. After saving her, the Ninth Doctor blows up the building and they escape. A guy named Clive, who owns a conspiracy theory website about a man who fits the Doctor’s description and has made appearances throughout history, is visited by Rose and her boyfriend, Mickey Smith, the following day. Mickey is abducted and replaced by a plastic replica while Rose is speaking to Clive. When Rose sees the Doctor again, he tells her that Mickey is an Auton. Together, they find the Nestene Consciousness, which has been using the London Eye as a transmitter to control the Autons. Auton mannequins then come to life and begin murdering humans. Rose saves the Doctor and those that the Autons had been killing, and she decides to travel with the Doctor through time and space in his time machine the TARDIS.