Doctor Who: Pete Tyler

Staying once more with the Doctor Who franchise I could not mention Rose Tyler in the previous post without mentioning her father Pete.  Pete Tyler died when Rose was very young, too young to remember him.  When Rose met the Doctor a Time Lord with the ability to travel through time and space he offered her the chance to go back and meet her father.  In Series 1 of the Doctor Who Revival 'The New Series' episode 8 'Father's Day', Rose and the Doctor travel back through time and Rose meets Pete.

Throughout the episode a number of events happen but ultimately it is the effort to avoid his death that is the most important, for in doing so the laws of time are violated.  Where certain points in time are fixed, certain events cannot be changed, the death of Pete Tyler is one such point and the consequences for changing this are dire and depicted well.  In the end however Pete accepts his fate, much to Rose's dismay.  Pete dies being run over by a car just as Rose's mum had told her when she was younger.  Just as her Mum had told her a young woman with blonde hair stayed with Pete until the ambulance arrived - at the end of the episode we learn that the young woman was Rose all along.  This fact is later retold to Rose's mum in another episode.

The scene of Pete's death is one of tragedy for many reasons but ultimately it is the concept of destiny that is portrayed that holds the greatest point of thought, that despite all we do, if destiny exists then our fates are sealed.

The video below is the closing scenes of that episode.  This video won't likely stay up for long though.