The TARDIS, along with the Doctor and Rose is brought to a rough landing by Coffa and Lute, who greet them with a warning: the survivors of "that dreadful day" on Platform One are disappearing one by one. While the biogrove's protective shields are down to let the TARDIS through, a cyborg called Montodon Slemm, along with his robotic gardener SNIP-7, also arrive. As soon as their ship lands and starts scorching the forest, they begin to harvest the land for intelligent trees for Slemm's customers back home (where he owns the Cyborg Intergalactic Garden Centres).