Series 3 Episode 4: Daleks in Manhatten

Summary:
Martha and the Doctor travel to New York in the 1930s. After the financial crisis, many people live in Hooverville in Central Park. When the Doctor and Martha meet the people there, they soon discover that people are vanishing. They volunteer to go down into the sewers to repair something but down there they are confronted with strange things, half human and half pig. These beings chase them and Martha, the Doctor and Solomon can escape but Frank is taken. In the theatre they are in now, they meet Tallulah, who's boyfriend has vanished as well. When Martha is kidnapped by pig slaves, the Doctor chases after her with Tallulah. Down in the sewers they meet Tallulah's boyfriend who has been turned into a pig as well and he promises to help them to find Martha. Soon Martha finds Frank again but she is faced with the Daleks, an enemy the Doctor told her about. What do the Daleks want with all the humans and why do they need the Empire State Building for their plan?

It's always good to see the Daleks back in an episode and here we even have a two-parter. I love the bit when the Doctor tries to find out in which year they are and Martha is just reading it out loud from the paper. You can see that Martha and the Doctor are a better team now, although he's still not completely over Rose. The masks of the pig slaves are very cool but they are also a bit creepy because except for Laszlo, they can't talk. Every time you see the Daleks, you expect them to have some evil plan to take over the world and it's the same in this episode. We don't have normal Daleks in this story, which are bad enough, but here we have the cult of Skaro and they can make their own decisions. I think it's genius that the Daleks try to evolve to survive and the human Dalek is a really crazy mix of species. This episode is a great start for a two-parter and you can't wait to see the second to know what happens next.