I was there the night the soldiers came.
I tried to save Him.
But they'd been sent before I could intervene.
They took Him away.
I was powerless,
all I could do was watch.
[RADIO] That was Santa's on his way by Manahms Bakar..
[RADIO] ..next up on listeners radio, silence.
Pay school fees of a hundred and fifty pounds
Whos that?
Dunno
I'll get it
Hello!
You're… not Rosanna.
And you are?
No, I'm not Rosanna either.
Call me John Smith.
John Smith…?
Ro, there's a strange man at the door
claiming to be our granddad.
Granddad?
Who would pretend to be our..
Hello!
Been there
Don't mind him, it's just the Doctor.
What are you doing here?
Hold on… a doctor?
Are you alright?
Yes, everything's fine..
Not now!
No, not a doctor, the Doctor.
Right.
So how do you two know each other?
Hasn't she told you?
We travel together.
Why, only last week we went…
Shut.
Up.
Travels?
Ro barely leaves the house.
That's the beauty of it!
Ignore him, please.
So, are you two…?
Us?
Oh, no, we're not a… a…
We're not a what?
A watermelon?
I mean, some clarity here would be really helpful!
I'll leave you two alone…
Bye Not Rosanna!
My name's Bekah.
You're so embarrassing!
Coming?
I can't just leave,
it's Christmas Day!
Time.
Machine.
It'll be fine!
Come on!
Ro?
So, where do you want to go?
The crystal falls of Persephone, where liquid moonlight flows the wrong way?
Well, it's not really moonlight, more of a photonic substrate solution.
Or perhaps the planet of Lapland?
With an entire economy based on cookies and milk!
Or how about…
Well, it is Christmas so..
Lapland it is!
I'll set the co-ordinates and before you can say Santa Claus we'll…
No..
Quite right,
I'd forgotten about the Reindeer Police
failure to present a candy cane and stocking at any given moment
means you're on the naughty List…
oh, and there's the small matter of the killer snowmen.
So where do you want to go?
Well its christmas so,
I'd love to see the birth of Jesus.
I mean, the real thing, as it actually happened.
A baby?
Yeah!
The whole of time and space for you to explore, and you want to see a baby..
.. in a barn?
I mean, Jesus was an awesome man, did some incredible stuff and inspired millions of people,
but as a newborn, he's pretty boring.
didn't do anything interesting, just baby stuff.
Well you may think that, but I want to see him!
If you insist…
If you'd like to direct your attention to the monitors we will begin demonstrating
the safety features of this time machine.
Emergency exits are located…
well, the door's over there.
In the event of a decrease in cabin pressure, check under the transverse manifold
for comforting jelly and ice cream.
Remember to help yourself before offering to young children.
Doctor!
Really, a baby in a barn?
Yes!
Alright.
♫ Way, hay, timey wimey ♫
♫ Way, hay, wibbly wobbly ♫
♫ Way, hay, nativity wivity ♫
♫ into ancient history ♫
Bethlehem, 6BC, I love this place!
You can almost taste the history..
Do you have to do that
every time we land?
Maybe?
Anyway, have fun,
I'm off to find something interesting to explore.
Don't wander too far!
That's odd
it appears that on our way here
we passed a unique time event.
It's like nothing I've ever seen before.
But she said not to stray too far…
It's only six months away, what could go wrong?
Excuse me, is this the inn?
No, but you're more than welcome to stay.
My name's Elizabeth.
Elizabeth?
So this isn't Bethlehem?
Oh, no dear,
you've wandered a long way off the path if you were hoping to go there.
Lovely thank you.
And she is…?
Mary: a relative,
and her son to be.
Wrong place and wrong time,
typical!
She's... three months pregnant?
My, you do have a keen eye.
Well yes,
three months ago she turned up on my doorstep
with a really interesting story...
Greetings, favoured woman.
The Lord is with you.
Don't be afraid Mary,
for you have found favour with God.
You will conceive and give birth to a son
and you will name him Jesus.
He will be very great and will be called the son of the Most High.
His kingdom will never end.
But how can this happen?
I'm, I'm a virgin.
The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
So the baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the son of God.
What's more your relative Elizabeth has become pregnant in her old age.
People used to say she was barren, but she has conceived a son and she is in her sixth month.
For nothing is impossible with God.
I'm the Lord's servant.
May everything you have said about me come true.
Well a few days later Mary arrived on my doorstep
and my baby jumped in the womb
as if he sensed somehow the presence of God living inside her.
Mary's been such a help to me these last three months , particularly since little John arrived
Bye bye my dear, God bless you
So, where are you off to now?
Back to Nazareth,
to break the news to my fiancé,
Joseph.
Joseph…?
Wait for me!
Youngsters..
92..93..94..
95..96..
97..98..
99..
Martha!
Stop moving!
Every single time!
I'll just have to start again.
1..2...
Six months, on the dot!
I'm starting to get the hang of these watches!
Nice quiet evening too.
Who parked their sheep here?
That'd be us.
Oh, right.
Hello!
Silly question,
I don't suppose you've seen any distortions in the space-time continuum nearby?
Any temporal fluctuations or general wibbly-wobbly-ness?
Well, Martha's been off her food for two days straight now.
And she always was a bit wibbly-wobbly on her feet.
If an unusual sign is what you seek, then turn your eyes...
to the heavens…
Que?
He means the star.
Which one?
There's millions of th….
Oh.
That one.
That wasn't there six months ago.
Wasn't there six hours ago either.
It just appeared, tonight.
With a whoosh, and a bang and a kerpow!
That's not how it happened.
None of us saw it arrive.
It was just… there.
But stars don't just arrive.
They require a gas cloud and pressure,
unless…the star is the disturbance.
Curiouser and curiouser …
maybe if I can get closer to the star
then it'll give me some answers, because of course
if there was a rupture in space time then it would be evident in the skys,
why didn't I think of that sooner?
What a strange fellow.
Nice blue box, though.
Anyway, where was I?
1.. 2..
Martha!
3..4..5..
Don't be afraid.
I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people.
The Saviour, yes the Messiah, the Lord has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David
and you will recognise him by this sign:
You will find a baby wrapped snugly in linen cloths and lying in a manger.
Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is well pleased.
What on earth was that??
Who'd have thought it?
The host of heaven..
..appearing..
.. to us.
Well come on then, let's go to Bethlehem.
I want to see this baby for myself!
Martha..
.. stay!
Uncle Joseph, Uncle Joseph,
Mary's back, Mary's back!
Grandpa, come and see!
Lord, I don't understand.
I've been a good and faithful servant,
but still I love Mary.
But this?
What can I do?
I know what the law says I should do..
.. but I still love her.
Perhaps tomorrow morning I should break off the engagement.
O Lord, you are good,
you do what is right.
Show me the right path.
Joseph,
son of David,
do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife,
for the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit.
And she will have a Son,
and you are to name him Jesus,
for he will save his people from their sins.
Hmm, I'm on earth.
Not the most obvious place to find a star
but then again, in the Arcturian star cluster,
there was this curious planet that had kind of combined with one.
A sort of… Plar,
or was it a Stanet?
Anyway that can't be what's going on here.
For a start the temperatures would be over 9000 degrees.
But the readings indicate it's nearby.
Too early!
What's up, old chap?
Affairs of the heart?
It's over for sure,
you saw how he looked at me yesterday.
How can I explain to him what's happened?
He won't believe me.
It's alright, everything will be fine.
But how do you know that?
Spoilers…?
Doctor?
The Imperial Emperor, Caesar Augustus, has decreed that all shall return to their ancestral towns for a census.
Compliance is mandatory.
Sire, you have visitors.
Go, see them in.
Magi from the east, my lord.
Greetings, honoured guests.
Go, you may leave us.
And what business brings you here,
to this humble palace,
of Herod..
.. the Great.
We are searching for the king of the Jews.
King of the Jews? That would be me.
With respect your majesty, my learned friend is referring to the new born king of the jews.
We've seen his star rise in the east and have followed it here, so that we might worship him.
A new king, you say?
And, when exactly did this star appear?
I ask out of interest, you understand.
The moon has turned her face nigh on eighteen times during our travels.
Our studies have led us to this land, but we don't know where to find the child.
I may be able to offer you some assistance in this regard.
Servant!
Go and find the leading scholar of religious law and tell him
I wish to know where the Messiah will be born.
Go!
Religious law?
You mean,
there are prophecies concerning this child?
If that is so, then maybe our gifts have more significance than we thought…
Just coming, your eloquence, sir.
Uh, if you can hold them.
Good lord uh,
You want to know about the coming Messiah, my Lord?
Um uh, well I have the scroll right here. Its a 700 year old prophecy
Uh..
.. and its in the scroll..
.. of..
Micah!
Uh, which is this one..
.. and it says..
.. quite clearly..
.. somewhere..
Get. to. the. point!
Ah yes
But you, O Bethlehem, are but a small village among all the people of Judah.
Yet a great ruler of Israel will come from you,
one whose origins are in the distant past.
And he will stand to lead his people,
in the power of God,
and in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
Then his people will…
Enough!
I've heard enough!
Absolutely sir,
I'm with you.
Well, it would seem that you have your answer.
Go to Bethlehem with my blessings and search carefully for this child.
And..
when you find him, report back to me,
so that I too, may go..
..and worship him.
Where am I going wrong?
I've checked the spectrophotometer,
standard levels of hydrogen and helium detected
nothing unusual there…
Think, brain, think!
Ok, what do we know so far?
There's a unique time event, unlike any I've seen before.
It coincides with the appearance of a star.
Trying to ascertain the star's origin is almost impossible
it's as if we're oscillating around a central point, without being able to lock on.
Can't make any sense of it,
I suppose it can't hurt to have one more try.
Scrap that, it's actually quite painful..
.. not to mention delicious!
Well, if I can't find any answers at the beginning of the star's life,
maybe the end will give me some clues.
Cross-referencing with star constellation records..
.. that's interesting.
Eighteen months after the stars appearance it's as if it just, vanishes.
That's certainly worth investigating…
I've always been,
in awe, of the heavens.
How each of the myriad lights
has its own path and place.
Have you ever just,
looked up at the night sky, and thought,
"I wonder what it would be like, to, to travel among the stars?"
Brian?
Have you been on the frankincense again?
Incredible..
.. just..
incredible.
Please excuse him, he's a bit of a dreamer.
What brings you to our camp ?
You're a scholar I see, are you here to exchange wisdom?
Indeed I am.
I have a fez!
So, I hear you're investigating the star.
May I look at your observations?
Of course.
We've been travelling toward it for some time now.
You can't just walk to a star.
It takes a good deal of thrust and generally going in that direction.
Walk to a star?
He's even crazier than Brian.
No really, the star is guiding us,
it is leading us to the new born king.
We're going to honour him with gifts of gold, of frankincense and myrrh.
Why is everyone so interested in a baby?
Join us,
and maybe you will find the answers to your questions as well.
There it is!
Look at that,
It's rising up over that house over there.
I'll bet you anything that's where it is.
Great, lets break camp everyone.
Brian!
If you wouldn't mind staying around a little longer, I'd like to hear more of your insights,
and I could do with an extra pair of hands.
Looks like I can't escape it!
Baby in a barn it is.
Greetings noble lady,
where will we find the messiah?
Through there.
Intriguing!
This is the epicentre of the anomaly.
But there's no star here.
Just a normal house and, oh, hello!
How could you leave me here, its been two years!
Aaughhh!
That felt good.
Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry,
it's just been so long.
I'm going to return home the same age as my sister,
how do I explain that?
Wibbly-wobbly?
King of kings, Lord of lords,
Emmanuel,
Fantastic, absolutely fantastic,
Incredible..
.. just..
.. incredible.
Do you want to meet Jesus?
Awh, humans,
I love 'em.
Especially the small ones.
All my calculations led me here?
Lets see whats so special then?
Hello, I'm the Doctor
Oh, you already knew that.
Well, I have a time machine and it's..
.. yes, bigger on the inside.
Don't really know how but..
.. oh. I see.
Interesting…!
You know a lot for a baby.
So, what do you want to be when you're older?
With that kind of mind you could be anything you want..
… oh… oh… right.
I didn't realise you had it all planned before you arrived.
What a remarkable child!
Almost worth breaking my favourite sonic for a conversation with Him!
Oh well, i'm sure theres another one round here somewhere…
Initiating temporal waveform reconstruction…
Last output signal peaking at… two hundred percent.
– well that's just silly, not to mention impossible!
Nope, no mistaking it definitely two hundred percent.
Registering as one hundred percent human baby and one hundred percent... unknown.
I'll have to check the archives I've seen tiny traces of this before, in Saul, but in
Jesus it's… pure.
It wasn't the star you were picking up, it was the light in Jesus.
What are you laughing about over there?
Don't you have donkeys to saddle, or something?
I'll have you know that…
Thinking face.
Now if I… resonate the DNA reading through the quantum dualiser.
Doctor?
And then push that through the dimension modulator I should be able to see five dimensions?
Six?
Seven, eight… yes, there is a pattern.
Doctor!
Shh!
Nine dimensions, ten, elev…
Yes!
That's how the paradox is resolved.
A meta-stable personality superposition!
Whatever this unknown being is, it permeates every atom of this existence, and somehow
it's encased, you could almost say, embodied in this child.
That's how He knew everything about me!
That's how he knows his own future.
He exists inside – and outside - time.
Simultaneously!
That's what I was trying to tell you…
He's Immanuel – God with us!
No, that can't be it.
Let me go and have a word with the Magi and see what they think…
Well firstly they'll agree with me, and secondly they're not there!
What do you mean?
I'm right, you're wrong!
No the other bit, about them not being there.
Do you really not know the Christmas story?
The Magi leave by a different route, after being warned in a dream not to return to Herod.
Well, Why would they do that?
Because Herod's planning to kill Jesus.
But he can't do that!
Jesus is awesome!
I can stop this!
But, you can't!
Just watch me!
I was there the night the soldiers came.
The Doctor tried to save Him.
I shall do as I please!
But they'd been sent before he could intervene.
They took Him away.
I was powerless – all I could do was watch.
The light shines in the darkness… and the darkness can never extinguish it!
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