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The short story on Rose is that we have no clue how or why she's returned. I'm not even sure that the look on her face qualifies as "mad." I could give you some casting spoilers for the end of the season, though, if you want ...
And what got cut from "Partners in Crime" was a rather sweet scene with Donna and her grandfather Wilf, up on the hill, where he kind of gently asks her what's wrong, in a much more non-judgemental way than her mother Silvia did - "You seem to be drifting, sweetheart." That's when Donna tells him how she met "this one man," without actually naming him as the Doctor, and laments the fact that she "let him get away." Wilf encourages her to keep looking for him, citing her childhood stubbornness - "When we told you that you couldn't go on holiday, you ran away! We had to have the police out after you!"
Just in case you didn't catch it, Donna's grandfather is the old man who was running the newsstand in "Voyage of the Damned," when the Doctor disappeared in front of him, so it's implied that part of the reason why he has his telescope is because he and Donna are both kind of looking for evidence of the same man, without even realizing it.
And proportionally, I actually spent quite a lot of time in the previous post, talking about the non-sexual aspects of those two episodes, so I think I'm entitled to some slack. 
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