Meanwhile, the gifts brought by the Adherents of the Repeated Meme contain robotic spiders that immediately work at disabling functions on Platform One. The Steward of Platform One recognises something is wrong, but is killed when the spiders lower the solar filter of his room and expose him to the powerful solar radiation. Rose attempts to learn more from Cassandra but is disgusted by her lack of humanity and insults her. Afterwards, Rose is approached by the Adherents and the leader knocks her unconscious. Rose is dragged into the observation room and locked inside with the sun filter programmed to descend. The Doctor and Jabe discover the Steward's burnt room and they are alerted to the observation room's filter; Rose wakes up as the sun filter descends but the Doctor manages to jam the filter but cannot get her out.