Our story begins on a cold, bleak, and biting Christmas Eve in the Scottish Highlands, as Roger is walking home through the snow, exactly seven years after the death of his secret business partner, Mad Pierre. Roger is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, old windbag who has no place in his life for Doctor Who or Christmas. He hates both, calling them Bahly hum bug. He even refuses to have a Christmas Competition.
As he reaches the door of his home....