Saxon pull their funding, but Lazarus transforms into a monster and kills Lady Thaw. She insists that she be the next to use the machine so they can be young together, but he refuses. Meanwhile, Lazarus returns to his office with his partner, the elderly but greedy Lady Thaw. Using a sample of Lazarus' DNA, the Doctor and Martha find that Lazarus had successfully managed to instruct his genes to rejuvenate with sound waves, but also activated something in his DNA, which is trying to change him into something else.
Lazarus steps inside a capsule, and emerges as a much younger man. Intrigued by this statement, the Tenth Doctor joins Martha to go to the launch party at Lazarus Laboratories, where they meet up with Martha's sister Tish, who works there.
In present-day London, an elderly man named Professor Richard Lazarus announces on television that he will demonstrate a device that will change what it means to be human. The machine at Lazarus Labs as shown at the Doctor Who Experience. Executive producer Russell T Davies has stated that he directed writer Stephen Greenhorn to base this episode on the typical Marvel Comics plotline: "a good old mad scientist, with an experiment gone wrong, and an outrageous supervillain on the loose." The effects on Lazarus' DNA causes him to change into a giant creature that sucks the life force from other victims.Īccording to the BARB figures this episode was seen by 7.19 million viewers and was the twelfth most popular broadcast on British television in that week. In the episode, Professor Richard Lazarus ( Mark Gatiss) demonstrates an experiment at his laboratory near Southwark Cathedral in Southwark where he renews himself into a younger-looking man. It was broadcast on BBC One on and stars David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones.
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" The Lazarus Experiment" is the sixth episode of the third series of the revived British science fiction television series Doctor Who. List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)