The TARDIS materialises in the bedroom of four-year-old Daniel Francis Thompson on Christmas Eve, 2006. To the Doctor’s surprise, Daniel enters the TARDIS and sets it in flight, claiming that he wants to see Christmas. The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Daniel to Ypres in 1914, to the temporary truce and football match between the English and the Germans, but this doesn’t seem to satisfy Daniel. The Doctor throws a Christmas party with guests from all over time and space, and even takes Daniel back to Bethlehem to see the very first Christmas, but none of this is enough. As Daniel begins to fade out of existence, the Doctor finally realises what the TARDIS is trying to tell him, and manages to track down the real Daniel Francis Thompson to St Nicholas’ Hospital in London; the young boy had slipped away from his parents just for a moment, and was hit by a car while running to see the Christmas lights in a house across the street. The Doctor steps in, arranging things so that the doctors at the hospital aren’t distracted by any other cases and find exactly what they need at hand exactly when they need it. With great effort, they save Daniel’s life, and when Daniel returns to his body and wakes, the Doctor is there waiting to wish him a merry Christmas.