'Rose' starts with a view from above the Earth and zooming down to Rose in a pink bed being awoken by her alarm.  She kisses her mum goodbye then rushes down the stairs accompanied by a strong beat of music. Working at Hinkleys putting clothes away. Lots of scenes indicating the passage of time. Rose meets her boyfriend briefly in the park before returning to work. At the end of the day she is stopped as she is heading home and has to take the lottery money via the lift to the basement to H.P Wilson, the CEO/Technician.

If this was a Jon Pertwee story the above would have happened in one episode. But as this is the new series of Doctor Who the above happened in 1 minute!

She can't find Wilson and hears a noise in the basement. Starts to look around and goes into another part of the basement which is promptly locked behind her. Suddenly the dummies in the room come alive and start to stalk her. Rose keeps reacting as though it is a stupid prank until they raise their arms to kill her. 

Then the Doctor appears from nowhere and grabs her hand. The Mannikins chase them down a corridor towards the lift. 

Mickey, her boyfriend, wants to take her to the pub to help forget all about it, and there's a match on at the time.

Rose gives Mickey the arm and he throws it away.

Next day Rose hears a scuttling and thinks it is a cat coming through the flap. She has a closer look and sees that the nails have been removed from the flap. Opening it she sees the Doctor's face on the other side.

She drags him into the flat suggesting to her mum that he's part of the investigation.

Conversation between her mum and the Doctor
Mum: "I'm in my dressing gown"
Doc: "Yes, you are"
Mum: "There's a strange man in my bedroom"
Doc: "Yes, there is"
Mum: "Well, anything could happen."
Doctor, leaving doorway quickly and shaking head "Er, No"

Rose makes coffee for the Doctor (just milk) while she tells him what needs to happen.
At the same time he is looking through the loungeroom at things. Looks at a magazine: "That won't work - he's gay and she's an alien." Flips through a book: "Hmm, sad ending" Plays with some cards but hears a scuttling noise. Looks in a mirror: "Ah, could be worse. Look at the ears."

Suddenly an arm jumps out from behind the sofa to strangle him. When he releases it it changes direction in mid air and attacks Rose. While Rose's mum uses the hair dryer the attacking hand causes the Doctor and Rose to fall together onto the glass table in the loungeroom and smash it. The Doctor disables it with his sonic screwdriver. Gives it back to Rose: "There you go, it's armless"

Long conversation between Doctor and Rose while walking. Some questions answered. Doctor tells Rose to forget him and she, for some reason (!) walks away in a slight daze while the Doctor vanishes in the TARDIS.

Rose decides to investigate and visits Mickey to use his computer. She visits http://www.search-wise.net
(search-wise is a page created by a production company for use by any tv show which needs a search engine)

She types in the keywords Doctor living plastic and Doctor Blue Box and finds a site which features a picture of the Doctor and an invitation to contact Clive.

Mickey drives Rose in a yellow volkswagen to visit Clive. Son answers the door. "Dad, one of your nutters"
Mother comments: "She? Reading the web site about the Doctor. She's a she?"

Clive takes her to his shed out the back full of Doctor who memorabilia and shows her some pictures of the Doctor at the assassination of President Kennedy. Folders line the walls. With only a few seconds on screen a lot of detail went into creating this room which suggests we may see it again. Folders say "Sightings 1960s" and they're full.

Another comment Clive says is "That's your Doctor isn't it" Not "This is him isn't it" which suggests Clive knows about all the incarnations of the Doctor. He shows her other pictures of the 9th Doctor through time. Clive warns her that the only companion to the Doctor is death.

Outside Mickey waits in the car and sees a plastic wheeley bin moving towards him. He goes out to investigate and, after his hands become stuck to the bin it swallows him and burps. When Rose returns to the car a plastic looking Mickey is waiting for her and has trouble driving up the road.

They head to a restaurant to have Pizza. The Mickey Auton wants to know how to find the Doctor and as he is talking someone comes up to them with wine. It turns out to be the Doctor who fires the wine cork into Mickey's head. He promptly spits it out and shapes his arms into giant plastic hitting bats capable of destroying a table. The Doctor attacks him and removes his head. Rose sets off the alarm and they both head out through the back of the restaurant.

The headless auton follows them and attempts to destroy the back door to get to them (now sealed by the sonic screwdriver)

The Doctor rushes into the TARDIS. After rushing back and forth trying to find an exit Rose walks into the Police Box, is shocked and walks out and around it to the accompaniment of dramatic music. She walks in again and this is when we finally get to see the new inside of the TARDIS. 

The large roundelled doors have been replaced with easy Dalek Movie doors which I personally thought were a good idea for the pace of this new series. But the roundels themselves have shrunk to little lights within the hexagonal wall panels. Doctor Who without roundels?

The console has also reduced in size to be more like the size of the wooden console seen in the Masque of Mandragora, with the style of the telemovie console. It is very organic looking in that everything is brown and green. The controls are difficult to see and look a bit like something you'd find on the great barrier reef.

The Doctor plugs Mickey's head into the machine to track the source of the Nestene transmitter while answering Rose's questions. Rose is upset that Mickey could be dead.

The TARDIS rematerialises near the London Eye, a huge circular carriage for tourists but doubling as a radio antennae for the Auton's planned conquest of Earth.

The Doctor shows Rose that he has antiplastic to help defeat the Autons but he wants to ask them to leave first before having to use it.

They go underground and find the Nestene consciousness in a vat of Auton plastic (that is NOT an octopus) and the real Mickey tied up. The Doctor tries to talk to the Nestene but it rejects his requests to leave and blames him for the Nestenes losing in a recent intergalactic war.

Two Autons grab the Doctor and find the antiplastic. They take it from him. The Nestene immediately sends out a signal via the London Eye which activates the Autons in shop windows. Rose tries to get hold of her mum by mobile to warn her. The Autons come alive and we actually see shop windows being smashed by Dummies.

Clive is also in the same shopping center and is one of the first to be shot by an Auton hand gun. His expression as he is shot is a resigned one and appropriate for someone in his position.

So, we leave the description here:
Rose and Mickey trapped near the TARDIS without a key. The Doctor held by Autons as the Nestene Consciousness signals all the Autons around London to awake. Rose's mother being faced by 3 Autons dressed in Wedding dresses about to kill her, and the beginning of the invasion.

To find out what happens next you'll have to watch the episode!

In-jokes:

I'm defining in-jokes as references that only Doctor Who fans will get.

0. 'Rose'. As in the 'Phoenix'. As in the Easter long weekend which is when it was first screened. 'nuff said!
1. One of the Autons has the face of an extra from the Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker era. Not sure of his name but he appeared as a guard in Planet of Evil, then a soldier in Android Invasion, then a guard in Seeds of Doom, then a watchmen in Masque of Mandragora, a guard in Deadly Assassin etc.
2. "Look at the ears" implies he's recently regenerated.
3. Brief suggested hypnotic effect of the Doctor telling Rose to walk away. 
4. Clive's wife saying "she's a she!?!" recognises that the majority of Doctor Who fans are male.
5. Clive saying 'that's your Doctor, isn't he?' A reference to the fact that there were previous Doctor's (new viewers wouldn't know this) and that it is a reference to something fans say to each other 'who's your favourite Doctor?' 'that's my doctor'
6. Clive shows Rose a picture of the Doctor in the crowd near President Kennedy's cavalcade, just before JFK was shot. (The first ep of Doctor Who was screened after the first announcement in the UK of President Kennedy being shot.)
7. The Doctor actually says that TARDIS stands for 'Time and Relative Dimension in Space' which is correct. Not 'Dimensions'!
8. In Spearhead from Space the dummies look like they smash a window and you hear the window smash but the BBC didn't have a budget for smashing windows at the time, so you didn't actually see it. Now, we get lots of Windows smashing to make up for it! Full action direct camera broken glass. Almost overkill as window after window is smashed!