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The Doctor (David Tennant) and Rose (Billie Piper) are headed for 1979 and an Ian Dury and the Blockheads concert in Sheffield when a malfunction in the TARDIS sends them a fraction off course and they land in a dank Scottish moor in 1879 where they find themselves surrounded by armed soldiers on horseback. The soldiers are guarding Queen Victoria (Pauline Collins) who is on her way to Balmoral Castle.

The royal carriage is travelling by road because a fallen tree has blocked the train line to Aberdeen, and The Queen suspects an assassination attempt. The two travellers are allowed to accompany the carriage on to the Torchwood Estate where the Queen plans to spend the night. Torchwood is the residence of Sir Robert (Derek Riddell) and Lady Isobel MacLeish (Michelle Duncan).

However, at Torchwood a group of warrior monks have taken over and have sinister plans for the monarch, and the full moon is about to summon a creature out of legend. For the past 300 years, livestock would be found ripped apart every full moon. Once a generation, a boy would vanish, and there would be sightings of a werewolf. The Doctor has reason to believe that the monks have turned from God and now worship the wolf! But where does Queen Victoria fit into their plans?