Moffat Era Summary

The Eleventh Hour by Steven Moffat

This crack has got larger.

Amy Pond's childhood imaginary friend the Raggedy Doctor has returned to her life - one hour before the world ends.

The Beast Below by Steven Moffat

Do you not realize that all progress is based on exploitation?

Starship UK is a space ark evacuating British culture from a burning Earth, but escape comes at a terrible cost.

Victory of the Daleks by Mark Gatiss

Daleks... I sometimes think those mutated misfits will terrorize the universe for the rest of time...

The Doctor fails to convince Winston Churchill that the Ironsides, his new weapon against the Nazis, are actually Daleks in disguise.

The Time of the Angels by Steven Moffat

How do you kill a stone?

River Song ropes the Doctor into hunting down a rogue Weeping Angel in a crashed spaceship.

Flesh and Stone by Steven Moffat
Good heavens! The gargoyle. It's gone!

 

An army of Weeping Angels have found the ultimate food source - a crack in time...

 

The Vampires of Venice by

Creatures that stalk in the night and feast on the blood of the living....

The Doctor is intrigued by a Venetian girl's school where the students hate sunlight, lack reflections but grow fangs.

Amy's Choice by Simon Nye

You're good, Doctor, but you're not good enough.

The mysterious Dream Lord forces Amy to choose between realities - and the loves of her life.

The Hungry Earth by Chris Chibnall

The earth is hungry. It waits to eat. I can see them. They are the appetite beneath the ground.

2020. An isolated Welsh mining project is attacked from beneath as a war looms.

Cold Blood by Chris Chibnall

This planet is ours. It always has been.

The Silurians have been awoken, but can a peace be broken with extremists on all sides?

 

 

Vincent and the Doctor by Richard Curtis

What's the point of travelling through time and space if we can't change anything?

A van Gough painting has an alien monster in it, and the Doctor and Amy want to know more.

 

The Lodger by Gareth Roberts

Do you know any nice people? You know, ordinary people, not power-crazed nutters trying to take over the galaxy?

Trapped on Earth, the Doctor moves in with Craig Evans while he works to reclaim the TARDIS.

 

The Pandorica Opens by Steven Moffat

There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything that we believe in. They must be fought.

The greatest prison in creation is hidden under Stonehenge is under siege by countless alien armies, while the TARDIS threatens to destroy everything. 

The Big Bang by Steven Moffat

Well, that's one up to me, I think. There can't be many people who can literally claim to have saved the entire universe.

 

History is in freefall, the past never happened, and the Daleks have finally killed the Doctor.

 

 

A Christmas Carol by Steven Moffat

It's not supposed to be an argument! It's a statement!

 

On Christmas Eve, an old man is visited by spirits from the past, present and future to redeem him.

 

 

The Impossible Astronaut by Steven Moffat

What's he up to now? It'll be something devious and overcomplicated. He'd get dizzy if he tried to walk in a straight line...

River and the Ponds are first recruited by the Doctor to attend his funeral, then must investigate a mystery in 1969.

Day of the Moon by Steven Moffat

Or did I really forget? I forget if I forgot.

 

The Doctor, River and the Ponds must free humanity from an invader they cannot remember conquering them.

 

The Curse of the Black Spot by

Avery's curse? You can have that for the sharks!

Pirate Captain Avery is trapped in his becalmed ship, under attack by a ghostly siren and running out of crew.

The Doctor's Wife by Neil Gaiman

Well done, old girl. You're wonderful. Wonderful. She's wonderful. Isn't she wonderful? TARDIS wonderful!

The TARDIS is taken over by an entity from outside the universe, but its consciousness finds a new body to occupy - a madwoman called Idris.

The Rebel Flesh by Matthew Graham

You're talking about slave labour!

Artificial duplicates of a mining crew gain their sentience after a freak lightning storm.

The Almost People by Matthew Graham

The time of our enslavement is over. We will be free.

The humans and their duplicates have gone to war - but can anyone tell who is who?

A Good Man Goes To War by Steven Moffat

The stories I've heard about you... The great Doctor, all knowing and all powerful! You're about as powerful as a burnt-out android. Our ruler has finished with you once and for all.

The Doctor strikes back at the Silence for kidnapping Amy and her baby, but he has underestimated Madam Kovarian.

Let's Kill Hitler by Steven Moffat

Look, this is your problem. Think about it. Psychopathology, huh? Why are you doing this? Think about it.

The true identity of River Song is revealed, and now the Doctor has to die.

Night Terrors by Mark Gatiss

Fear itself is largely an illusion. And at my age, there's little left to fear...

 

The constant anxiety of a little boy starts to warp the reality of the housing estate where he lives.

The Girl Who Waited by Tom MacRae

This won't do at all. We can't have two of us running about.

When Amy is caught in a time-glitch in an alien hospice, it takes Rory decades to track her down.

The God Complex by Toby Whithouse

The Doctor never fails. I've got faith in him. Complete faith.

At heart of an endlessly-shifting labyrinth, a mintoaur awaits its willing victims - the TARDIS crew.

Closing Time by Gareth Roberts

Listen, when you've faced death as often as I have, this is much more fun.

On the last day of his life, the Doctor decides to visit an old friend and fight an older enemy.

The Wedding of River Song by Steven Moffat

I never thought precognisance of my own death would be so disturbing.

 

The time has come for River to kill the Doctor on the shores of Lake Silencio, but she insists on marrying him first.

 

The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe by Steven Moffat

All the vegetation on this planet is about to turn hostile.

An attempt to help a bereaved family at Christmas leads to revolt of sentient plants on the other side of the universe

Asylum of the Daleks by Steven Moffat

You do not understand hatred as I understand it. Only hate keeps me alive.

 

When millions of insane Daleks threaten to a prison-break, the Dalek Empire must turn to the Doctor for help.

 

 

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship by Chris Chibnall

The potential of the dinosaurs was never fully realized.

A Silurian ark full of dinosaurs is about to crash into Earth unless the Doctor and his unusual allies can stop it.

 

 

A Town Called Mercy by

You know you're fast becoming a prey to every cliche-ridden convention in the American West. 

 

The TARDIS crew are trapped in a tiny town besieged by an unstoppable cyborg gunslinger with a grudge.

 

The Power of Three by Chris Chibnall

Ten tons of alien material drift through space and land on this planet every day.

Overnight, small black boxes appear everywhere across Earth and both their origin and purpose are a mystery.

 

The Angels Take Manhattan by Steven Moffat

I always thought love was overrated.

The Doctor's time with the Ponds comes to a brutal end facing the Weeping Angels in 1930s New York.

 

 

The Snowmen by Steven Moffat

Prepare for a great darkness to cloud your mind.

 

The Doctor has retired to Victorian London but the Paternoster Gang have found a crisis worth of his attention.

 

 

The Bells of St. John by Steven Moffat

Mind you, I'm not wild about computers myself, but they are a tool. If you have a tool, it's stupid not to use it.

Finally locating Clara Oswald in 2013, the Doctor finds her targeted by a sinister menace lurking in the WiFi.

 

 

The Rings of Akhaten by Neil Cross

He's not the Great One. He's the Insignificant One.

The Doctor takes Clara to Akhaten, where lullabies keep an ancient threat asleep... until today.

 

 

Cold War by Mark Gatiss

We thought you were dead and then you came alive. What happened?

An Ice Warrior is defrosted aboard a Soviet nuclear submarine in 1983, risking World War Three.

 

Hide by Neil Cross

This house is exactly what you would expect in a nightmare. Yes, creaking doors, thunder and lightning, monsters and all the things that go bumpety-bumpety in the night...

The Doctor needs the help of some paranormal investigators, but they have problems of their own to deal with first.

 

Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS by Steven Thompson

The TARDIS, when working properly, is capable of many amazing things... not unlike myself.

 

The Doctor and Clara must find their way to the TARDIS's engine room before the time machine is destroyed.

 

The Crimson Horror by Mark Gatiss

You destroyed a whole planet to save your own skin? You're insane!

The Paternoster Gang investigate Sweetville, a mysterious gated Yorkshire community preparing for the apocalypse.

 

 

Nightmare in Silver by Neil Gaiman

Cybermen possess nothing that a human might want.

On an abandoned theme park world in the far future, the Cybermen recruit the Doctor to be their new leader.

 

The Name of the Doctor by Steven Moffat

If I were to take you back to Earth after you had died, it would be possible for you to see your own gravestone.

 

The Great Intelligence demands a final confrontation with the Doctor on the ruined world of Trenzalore.

 

 

The Night of the Doctor by Steven Moffat

I came back to life before your eyes! I held back death!

 

The horrors of the Time War finally drive to the Doctor toward Karn and a face literally worse than death.

 

 

The Day of the Doctor by Steven Moffat

Doctor... you saved Gallifrey!

 

The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors team up with UNIT to stop a Zygon invasion, but another Doctor also gets involved - whether they like it or not.

 

 

The Time of the Doctor by Steven Moffat

Well, my memory's not what it was, but one thing followed another and before we knew where we were, we were in the pickle we are today. 

 

The Doctor's journey reaches the millennia-long siege of Trenzalore as his final incarnation draws to a close.

Deep Breath by Steven Moffat
There's no point. No point to anything. Not ever.

Clara and the Paternoster Gang try to handle the very unpredictable new Doctor as an inhuman serial killer stalks Victorian London.


Into the Dalek by Phil Ford
It's not often I have the opportunity to watch a Time Lord squirm.

The Doctor is forced to help repair a dying Dalek that claims it has decided humanity are the superior species.


Robot of Sherwood by Mark Gatiss
You can't blow up a fictional character!

The Doctor attempts prove to Robin Hood doesn't exist and meets the robot army of the Sheriff of Nottingham.


Listen by Steven Moffat
You see, this is what happens when you travel alone for too long.

After a disastrous first date, Clara joins the Doctor in proving a theory he's had since his childhood on Gallifrey.


Time Heist by Steven Thompson
All I do is take a little from those that have too much and then I spread it around a bit.

An amnesiac Doctor and Clara must rob the biggest bank in the universe or die in the attempt.


The Caretaker by Gareth Roberts
How dare you! You stupid old man, you ought to go down on your hands and knees and thank us - but gratitude's the last thing you'll ever have, or any sort of common sense either!

When the Doctor goes undercover at Coal Hill School, Clara's normal life and TARDIS life collide.


Kill the Moon by Peter Harness
What's happened to you, Doctor? I can't bear to look at what you are now!

Events on the moon threatens to destroy life on Earth thanks to the Doctor's determination to prove a point.


Mummy on the Orient Express by Jamie Mathieson
Well, no, I get that it's important. An Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express in space. Give us a mo.

The Doctor's pragmatic efforts to stop the deadly Foretold might not leave anyone alive.


Flatline by Jamie Mathieson
Someone's got to be the Doctor.

With the Doctor trapped in the TARDIS, Clara is alone to take on forces from another plane of reality.


In The Forest of the Night by Frank Cottrel-Boyce
Seeds, spores and things. Everywhere. Getting hold, rooting, thrusting, branching, blocking out the light...

A magical, impossible forest covers the Earth's surface overnight but what does this event portend?


Dark Water by Steven Moffat
You're dead already. How many more will you let join you?

Bereavement draws Clara and the Doctor to the 3W Institute where the living apparently commune with the dead.


Death in Heaven by Steven Moffat
Life is wasted on the living!

As the dead rise from their graves, the fate of the world depends on whether or not the Doctor is truly a good man.


Last Christmas by Steven Moffat
You can't spot a dream while you're having it.

Santa Claus comes to the rescue of an Arctic research base under threat from alien parasites - but is he friend or foe?


The Magician's Apprentice by Steven Moffat
Doctor, you do disappoint me. We Time Lords are expected to face death with dignity.

The Doctor is willingly walking to his doom, as penance for committing a terrible crime.


The Witch's Familiar by Steven Moffat
Aw, poor Davros!

A dying Davros offers the Doctor one last chance to prove that mercy is a weakness.


Under the Lake by Toby Whithouse
Well, there are many different kinds of ghosts, Jo. Ghosts from the past and ghosts from the future.

The Doctor and Clara find an underwater UNIT base under siege from axe-wielding ghosts.


Before the Flood by Toby Whithouse
The Doctor chose to involve himself. Soon he will be a Time Lord no longer. That is his reward for compassion.

Journeying back in time to solve a mystery, the Doctor discovers he is destined to die.


The Girl Who Died by Jamie Mathieson
I'm under moral obligation. It's this village. I feel that I might be responsible for it's destruction, and therefore I must at least try and avoid this!

Alien mercenaries are about to destroy a village of peasants, but the Doctor and Clara stand in their way.


The Woman Who Lived by Catherine Tregenna
I feel my mind slipping into a bottomless pit of gloom and despair...

The Doctor teams up with a highwayman to find an alien artifact, and learns he has made a new enemy.


The Zygon Invasion by Peter Harness
Unless you learn to live together, there is no future for you.

The peace treaty between humanity and the Zygons begins to break down.


The Zygon Inversion by Peter Harness
Why begin a long and bloody war where thousands will be killed on both sides?

With the radicalized Zygons gaining the upper hand, only the mysterious Osgood Box can stop them now.


Sleep No More by Mark Gatiss
They're the new species, you see, taking over from homo sapiens. Man's had his day. Finished now. All we can do is marvel at the creatures who are taking our place.

A scientist working on sleep-compression unwittingly creates a new, unstoppable predator.


Face the Raven by Sarah Dollard
I only have one life. Could you remember that?

The Doctor and Clara's luck runs out in an alien refugee camp hidden in Central London.


Heaven Sent by Steven Moffat
We are not alone. We are not the first. We are not alone.

The Doctor is imprisoned in castle and stalked by a monster from his nightmares.


Hell-Bent by Steven Moffat
I thought I was just a survivor, but I'm not. I'm the winner. That's who I am. The Time Lord Victorious.

Waking up with amnesia in Utah, the Doctor tries to recall his conquest of Gallifrey and the end of the universe.


The Husbands of River Song by Steven Moffat
The last time I saw you, you turned up on my doorstep, with a new haircut and a suit. You took me to Darillium to see the Singing Towers. What a night that was. The Towers sang, and you cried...

Intending to use the TARDIS as a getaway vehicle in her latest con, River meets a Doctor she doesn't recognize.


The Return of Dr. Mysterio by Steven Moffat
That's the last piece of luck anyone on this rock will ever have!

The Doctor and Nardole's efforts to stop an alien invasion lead to them meeting a genuine superhero, the Ghost.


The Pilot by Steven Moffat
It's the oldest story in the universe, this one or any other. This isn't a ghost story, it's a love story!

When something unearthly consumes her girlfriend, Bill Potts turns to her tutor, the Doctor, for help.


Smile by Frank Cottrel-Boyce
Smiling all the time, smiling when it doesn't mean anything...

Visiting a colony in the distant future, the Doctor and Bill meet a race of robots that murder anyone unhappy.


Thin Ice by Sarah Dollard
Honestly, Doctor, and after that long talk you gave me about not meddling with history? You ought to be ashamed of yourself!

The last of the great frost fairs is being used as an excuse to feed human beings to a monster living in the Thames.


Knock Knock by Mike Bartlett
An old, empty house full of noises. Evil. Things I didn't understand. Undercurrents.

When the Doctor helps Bill move house, he discovers her new digs is a literal deathtrap.


Oxygen by Jamie Mathieson
I've beaten you and I don't care what you do to me now!

The miners of the space station Chasm Forge are under attack from their own spacesuits.


Extremis by Steven Moffat
This isn't Earth. This isn't real wood. These are not real trees. And you're not the real Sarah!

The Catholic Church summons the Doctor to help prevent the release of a book that drives its readers to suicide.


The Pyramid at the End of the World by Peter Harness
We cannot make war, we are not able. Flight is impossible, we have nowhere to hide. And submission? To what?

Earth will be destroyed within 24 hours unless humanity allow an alien force to take over the planet.


The Lie of the Land by Toby Whithouse
We are not fighting an alien invasion, we're leading a revolution. And today, the battle begins.

The Doctor discovers the only way to defeat fake news is to sacrifice his friend's life.


The Empress of Mars by Mark Gatiss
You check your history books before you decide what people deserve!

The British Empire helps return a Martian home, but will the Ice Warriors accept being ruled by Queen Victoria?


The Eaters of Light by Rona Munro
No one is safe, no one is innocent. Not a war between armies nor a war between nations, but just death, death gone mad. Is this honour? Is this war? Are these the weapons you would use?

The Doctor, Bill and Nardole discover the truth behind the mystery of the lost Roman legion to their cost.


World Enough And Time by Steven Moffat
This all started out as a way of prolonging life.

An injured Bill is trapped in a dying city where people are slowly turning themselves into Cybermen.


The Doctor Falls by Steven Moffat
Between you and me, I haven't got a plan. No idea. No way out.

To save the last unconverted Mondasians, the dying Doctor must ally himself with two incarnations of the Master.


Twice Upon A Time by Steven Moffat
All those things you've been ready to die for. I thought for a moment there you'd finally found something worth living for.

Two Doctors contemplating death are distracted by a glass woman abducting people from history.

RTD Era Summary

Rose by Russell T Davies

An alien who travels through time and space in a police box? 

Rose Tyler's world has been turned upside down as she encounters a deadly race of living plastic mannequins and the mysterious Doctor who stands between them and victory over humanity.

 

The End of the World by Russell T Davies

When dawn comes this planet explodes like a bomb.

 

After 5 Billion years, the Earth faces its final destruction and among those standing witness is a murderer...

 

 

The Unquiet Dead by Mark Gatiss

Either that or I'm talking to a couple of ghosts - and I don't believe in ghosts.

It's the night before Christmas, the spirits of beyond are animating corpses and Charles Dickens finally meets his biggest fan.

 

 

Aliens of London by Russell T Davies
You can't rule a world in hiding. You've got to come out onto the balcony sometimes and wave a tentacle.

 

A UFO has crashed into Big Ben and the Prime Minister has vanished, but it's not the end of the world. Is it?

 

 

World War III by Russell T Davies

The whole planet will become one vast molten mass of radioactive material, the fuel store for their fleet!

 

The Slitheen control Number 10 and to stop them, the Doctor must get help from the two people who hate him most.

 

Dalek by Robert Shearman

Oh, blimey, you don't half make mountains, don't you? One Dalek?

 

Henry Van Statten keeps a living alien specimen prisoner in an underground vault, but now it has escaped.

The Long Game by Russell T Davies

Never believe what you read in the newspapers.

In the year 200,000 Satellite 5 controls all the news for the Human Empire but are they truly beyond bias?

 

 

Father's Day by Paul Cornell

There are some rules that cannot be broken even with the TARDIS!

Rose's father died alone and afraid, but now she can change that. But she's hardly going to stop there...

 

The Empty Child by Steven Moffat

In a funny way, he reminds me of a sort of younger you...

 

Rose meets Captain Jack Harkness, a man seemingly better-qualified for space-time adventures than the Doctor...

 

 

The Doctor Dances by Steven Moffat

Sausages! Man will just become like a string of sausages, all the same!

 

The Empty Children are multiplying across humanity and discovering why might be enough to stop them.

 

Boomtown by Russell T Davies

We know you of old, you will not kill. Come then, look me in the eye. End my life.

 

The Doctor catches up with a surviving Slitheen criminal, which means he is responsible for her final fate.

 

 

Bad Wolf by Russell T Davies

The cameras are still functioning. Let the show begin.

Aboard Satellite 5, reality TV has replaced news, and mankind is now ruled by the mysterious Bad Wolf Corporation.

 

 

The Parting of the Ways by Russell T Davies 

I am to become a Dalek. We are all to become Daleks.

 

The insane Dalek Emperor has created a new race of Daleks and to stop them, the Doctor must sacrifice himself and all his allies - but can he bring himself to risk Rose's life?

 

 

Born Again by Russell T Davies

You travel with a Time Lord and know nothing of metamorphosis?

 

Rose Tyler meets a stranger claiming to her best friend in a brand new body, but is he telling the truth?

 

 

The Christmas Invasion by Russell T Davies

This is a struggle for power, matter over mind. I'm convinced all these people have all been overcome in this struggle and goodness knows how many more!

Christmas 2006. As the Tylers try to protect the new Doctor from scavengers on the Powell Estate, the mighty Sycorax use the Guinevere space probe to take over the human race through their very blood types.

 

 

Attack of the Graske by Gareth Roberts

Ew. Bodysnatchers.

The Doctor discovers aliens loose on Christmas Night, and he needs your help to stop them.

 

 

New Earth by Russell T Davies

Well I do know one thing: a new disease starts, people disappear and then you turn up!

 

The Sisters of Plentitude of New New York can cure every disease - but the cures don't come without a price.

 

 

Tooth and Claw by Russell T Davies

The British Empire's an anarchic mess. I can provide a new order.

 

Queen Victoria is forced to take shelter in a Scottish manor named Torchwood House, but is this safe haven is a trap?

 

School Reunion by Toby Whithouse

Oh, Sarah... Don't you forget me.

 

UFO sightings at a school with unreasonably-smart pupils draws the attention of more than just the Doctor.

 

 

The Girl In The Fireplace by Steven Moffat

I can't condone this foolishness! But then, love has never been known for its rationality...

 

The Doctor protects Madame Du Pompadour from the 51st Century clockwork robots stalking her life.

 

Rise of the Cybermen by Tom MacCrae

It is a foregone conclusion. You are wasting time.

 

Falling through a hole in time, the TARDIS arrives in a parallel universe where an old enemy is being reborn.

 

 

The Age of Steel by Tom MacCrae

We will survive. Now you will help us. You will become the first of a new race of Cybermen. 

 

Cybus Industries is upgrading the mankind into Human 2.0, whether they like it or not...

 

 

The Idiot's Lantern by Mark Gatiss

Keep it confused, feed it with useless information... I wonder if I have a television set handy?

 

The Queen's coronation in 1953 was the biggest TV event so far, and a smorgasbord for an alien predator.

 

The Impossible Planet by Matt Jones

But why? What good is a black hole to anyone?

 

On a dead planet circling a black hole, the Torchwood Archive are determined to find answers at any cost.

 

 

The Satan Pit by Matt Jones

Satan, Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, Beelzebub, the Horned Beast... Call him what you like, he was there!

As the possessed Ood drive the humans off Krop Tor, the Doctor takes a literal leap of faith to discover the truth.

Love & Monsters by Russell T Davies

I'm known on the Earth. It might be very awkward for me!

 

Elton Pope needs to discover the truth about the mysterious Doctor, but he's not the only one on that quest.

 

 

Fear Her by Matthew Graham

How odd. I usually get on terribly well with children.

 

A lonely girl named Chloe Webber knows why people are disappearing, including the Doctor.

 

Army of Ghosts by Russell T Davies

The crime we are committing in the name of science will make us infamous - that's assuming there's anyone left to pass judgement...

 

The Torchwood Institute's experiments cause spectral figures to appear in their thousands across the globe.

 

Doomsday by Russell T Davies

Their mutual destruction will be music in our ears. Unlike others, it is not power we seek, but destruction that we glory in!

 

As the Daleks and the Cybermen go to war, Earth is about to be caught in the crossfire.

 

The Runaway Bride by Russell T Davies

You don't deserve any explanations. You pushed your way in here, uninvited and unwelcome.

Donna Noble inexplicably vanishes from her Christmas Eve wedding to reappear inside the TARDIS.

 

 

Smith & Jones by Russell T Davies

Please, you must help me - you're a doctor!

Martha Jones is a medical student stuck on the moon, caught between rhino space police hunting a vampire and only a man called John Smith can make sense of it all.

 

The Shakespeare Code by Gareth Roberts

I met him once, you know, Shakespeare. Charming fellow. Dreadful actor. 

 

1599: Shakespeare's new play, Loves Labours Won, is being backed by a trio of witches.

 

Gridlock by Russell T Davies

There is no such thing as Macra! Macra do not exist! THERE ARE NO MACRA!

The underground motorway of New Earth is caught in an eternal post-apocalyptic traffic jam.

 

 

The Daleks Take Manhattan by Helen Raynor

The Daleks are my creation. If necessary, I shall genetically re-engineer them.

The last four Daleks in the universe are starting anew in the New York sewers of 1930.

Evolution of the Daleks by Helen Raynor

Our race will survive if it deserves to survive, but let it have all the strengths and weaknesses that we have. Compassion and hate. Let it do good things and evil. But we cannot let it become an unfeeling, heartless machine.

In order to prevent bloodshed and genocide, the Doctor must work to save the Daleks from extinction.

The Lazarus Experiment by Stephen Greenhorn

You are pathetic. I condemn you to everlasting life!

Richard Lazarus has discovered the secret to eternal youth and is willing to pay the terrible price.

42 by Chris Chibnall

Fools. Do they really think they'll be allowed to leave with this on board?

When the Doctor and Martha answer a distress call, they find a mysterious force will now allow them to stop the crippled SS Pentalion from falling into a sun.

The Infinite Quest by Alan Barnes

Treasure? What treasure? You don't want to go believing in myths and legends, Doctor.

Space pirates are being hunted down to locate clues to the ultimate treasure trove.

Human Nature by Paul Cornell

All we're doing is running to save our own lives!

English teacher John Smith dreams of being a fugitive time traveler called the Doctor.

The Family of Blood by Paul Cornell

That sort of blackmail won't work because I know what the consequences will be if you get what you want.

 

Alien psychopaths are after the power of a Time Lord, and John Smith isn't willing to die to stop them.

Blink by Steven Moffat

What I want to know is, how can a statue destroy the world?

Sally Sparrow is investigates disappearing people, DVD easter eggs and the Weeping Angels.

Utopia by Russell T Davies

You still do not recognize me, Doctor, but soon you will know me. Soon.

At the very end of the universe, the Doctor is confronted with more than one face from the past he thought he'd never see again.

 

 

The Sound of Drums by Russell T Davies

You make a unique contribution to altering the course of history. Hoist on your own petard.

 

Harry Saxon, the new PM of Britain, is making first contact with aliens. He's also the Master.

 

Last of the Time Lords by Russell T Davies

All or nothing, literally! What a glorious alternative!

The Master has had a year to rule Earth and build a new empire. Only Martha Jones can stop him.

 

Time-Crash by Steven Moffat

When you travel around as much as I do, it's almost inevitable that you'll run into yourself at some point.

The Tenth Doctor must convince the Fifth Doctor to help him prevent a temporal explosion.

 

Voyage of the Damned by Russell T Davies

If the freighter crashes into Earth with you on board, won't that make it rather difficult for you to carry out your task? I mean, you would be very crumpled...

 

A tragic disaster sends the starship Titanic on a collision course with Earth on Christmas Eve, but the Doctor suspects this accident is actually deliberate.

 

Partners in Crime by Russell T Davies

Like many scientists, I'm afraid the Rani simply sees us as walking heaps of chemicals.

Donna Noble investigates Adipose Industries' revolutionary weight-loss treatment.

 

 

The Fires of Pompeii by James Moran

Remember Cotopaxi? Mount Vesuvius? What about Pompeii? Surely you remember Popocatepetl?

When the TARDIS lands in Pompeii the day before the volcano erupts, the Doctor discovers the people are already turning to stone.

 

Planet of the Ood by Keith Temple

A long time ago, your ancestors accepted responsibility for the welfare of these Monoids. They were treated like slaves. So no wonder when they got the chance, they repaid you in kind. 

 

The Ood are a race happy to be enslaved by mankind, at least according to the company that exports them - until the killings start... 

 

The Sontaran Stratagem by Helen Raynor

My race has been at war for millennia. There is not a galaxy in the universe which our space fleets have not subjugated... I am an expert at war!

Suspicious of the sat-nav anti-pullution ATMOS devices, UNIT and Martha Jones call in the Doctor for help. The Sontarans however, are already one step ahead.

The Poison Sky by Helen Raynor

A molecule of five atoms absorbs oxygen... You know, a complete blanket of this would make the atmosphere of the Earth uninhabitable to the human race?

ATMOS devices are now choking the Earth with exhaust fumes, but why are the Sontarans so reluctant to fight humanity face to face?

The Doctor's Daughter by Stephen Greenhorn

The future arrives. The Children of the Generator will rise to claim their inheritance.

On Messaline, colonists both human and the fish-like Hath replenish their numbers with genetic clones and the latest produced is Jenny, taken from Time Lord DNA.

The Unicorn And The Wasp by Gareth Roberts

I don't want to understand everything. I want to work things out for myself.

When Agatha Christie attends a dinner party at a stately home, a series of brutal murders begins - carried out by a giant alien wasp.

 

Silence in the Library by Steven Moffat

Books are the principal business of a library, sir.

 

The biggest library in the universe has been deserted for centuries, and now an archaeological team is there to find out where everyone went.

 

 

The Forest of the Dead by Steven Moffat

A shadow of my past - and your future.

On a planet infested with lethal shadows, the Doctor must rely on River Song - a woman who claims to be a trusted ally of his future selves.

 

 

Midnight by Russell T Davies

It's not just death we're all facing. This place bewitches you. If we stay here, we shall become animals.

 

Trapped in a broken-down tour bus, the Doctor finds danger from both the creature outside and the passengers within.

 

 

Turn Left by Russell T Davies

An infinity of universes, ergo an infinite number of choices.

 

Earth is devastated, humanity is dying out and the stars are going out - all because of Donna Noble.

 

The Stolen Earth by Russell T Davies

Moving planets around is not for amateurs, you know!

 

Alien planets fill the sky and Sarah Jane Smith, UNIT, Torchwood, even Rose Tyler stand helpless as a reborn Dalek Empire conquers the Earth.

 

Journey's End by Russell T Davies 

It'd be more than just a loud bang - nothing in the universe would be safe...

Davros has prepared a super-weapon that will destroy reality itself, but just how far will the Doctor's friends go to defeat the Daleks?

 

The Next Doctor by Russell T Davies

You may be a doctor, but I'm the Doctor. The definite article, you might say.

 

In Victorian London, a man calling himself the Doctor is fighting an invasion force of Cybermen. But will his new friend John Smith ultimately be his undoing?

 

 

Dreamland by Phil Ford

We must alert the world to the menace of an alien invasion!

In 1950s Nervada, the US Military has more than one alien menace to confront with.

 

Planet of the Dead by Gareth Roberts and Russell T Davies

Sand, nothing but sand, the whole planet...

A freak wormhole dumps a London bus on a distant planet stripped of all life.

 

 

The Waters of Mars by Phil Ford and Russell T Davies

History sometimes gives us a terrible shock, and that is because we don't quite fully understand. Why should we? After all, we're all too small to realize its final pattern. Therefore don't try and judge it from where you stand.

 

The Doctor is on Mars the day the first human colony is due to be destroyed. Can he just walk away?

The End of Time by Russell T Davies 

A chain of circumstances that fragments the law that holds the universe together.

The Ood warn the Doctor that history itself is about to collapse as events converge to bring back the greatest threat the universe has ever known - the Time Lords.

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The New Doctor: Series 4

Everyone knows about the New Doctor. He was the mysterious time traveler who came to save the last human from the end of the world and bring her into the future when the Earth had recovered. But then the New Doctor was poisoned, and the new humans vowed to work on a cure. The New Doctor traveled forward in time to claim the cure... but he never appeared again, even after the antidote was discovered.

Why has the New Doctor never returned? Is the new Earth somehow a failure? Is it true that the humans are descended from an organic human and synthetic man? Must humanity be purified before the savior will return as promised? And would such a purge leave any survivors?

The day the purge begins someone who might be the New Doctor returns, only to die and come to life in a new body. If this strange woman really is the New Doctor, will she able to save the world before all impurity is scorched away?

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to make a fortune with inaccurate theme parks. OK, maybe Ned Kelly wasn't a super-powered android fighting Queen Victoria in her pink-coloured empire, robbing the rich to feed the Tasmanian Tiger people desperate to regain their land from the evil Terror Nullius. But you try selling glove puppets and showbags based on boring old facts!

It's not much consolation for Jess and Julio to see how much of their history has been forgotten, distorted or ignored and the New Doctor provides little to no comfort. Especially as there is something else going on with this theme park, an underground involving drug-running Spectrox and mind-swapping technology. When bodies are being hijacked, who can you trust?

The New Doctor and her companions are about to find out the hard way.

An effort to steer the TARDIS to 20th Century Australia only overshoots by 66 million years, leaving the New Doctor, Jess and Julio in a Jurassic-era plantation in the time dinosaurs ruled the Earth and the Silurian lizard-men ruled the dinosaurs. To the Silurians, the mammalian time travelers are overgrown vermin and not at all welcome - but they have other things to worry about.

A group of dinosaur-rights activists are raiding a Silurian zoological ranch, determined to free the saurians from their yolk. But good intentions pave the road to hell just as much as high ideals and humans and Silurians are soon at risk of being devoured by the newly-freed wild animals...

A long time ago, the natives of Delta Magna were driven from their world to one of their moons. The human colonists granted these dispossessed natives some giant squids to the swamps, to worship as their god. One of those squids grew so large, so dangerous and so uncontrollable that it began to devour every living thing on the swamp moon. That squid was called Kroll.

Finally, a mysterious Doctor destroyed Kroll, turning the colossal monster into billions of tiny baby Kroll scattered all across the moon. He was sure these babies would grow into normal giant squids, and be no threat to anyone.

He was wrong.

Now, the third moon of Delta Magna has been uninhabited for centuries. And when humanity finally returns, the children of Kroll are waiting.

And they are hungry.

A flash of inspiration allows the New Doctor to for once pilot the TARDIS to a specific destination. One problem is that she doesn't remember what that specific destination. A bigger problem is that this destination is what little remains of Skaro, home of the Daleks and centre of their fallen empire.

The Daleks and their empire were wiped out when Skaro's sun went supernova, but the remains of the planet are occasionally raided by scavengers and salvage teams stealing whatever they can find. They only have a few hours of night to raid the rubble, because during the day the gamma-radiation of the supernova sterilizes everything it encounters.

The New Doctor is trapped on New Skaro, trying to outrun the lethal dawn and the obscene creatures still surviving in the ruins. Her companions are no safer: they have been accidentally scooped up aboard one of the scavenger ships along with an old Dalek casing.

And the Dalek mutant within is still alive - and deadly.

 

 

An attempt to steer the TARDIS appears to be a complete success. The New Doctor has brought Jess and Julio back to their home time and place, in fact in their old high school. However it quickly becomes clear they have arrived too early - this is when they were attending high school, and there are a younger Jess and Julio out there attending classes and failing to summon the courage to ask each other out.

When the New Doctor is mistaken for a substitute teacher and her companions for their student selves, they find themselves risking undoing history by altering their own pasts - but perhaps it's time for Jess and Julio to play cupid with their younger selves?

More importantly, some of the students are acting oddly. There's a tree in the playground that wasn't there yesterday. The New Doctor soon discovers that the school is undergoing a very unusual inspection, and if it doesn't measure up to standards, then the entire Earth could be destroyed...

 

 

The Nova Mondas is one of the biggest and most successful casinos on the leisure planet, and the charming cybernetic staff welcome all gamblers to try their luck and win the jackpot - a prize greater than any currency, the prize of functional immortality in an indestructible cyborg body. You get to live forever, super-strong, super-smart, never feeling cold or sick or weak ever again...

 

...but you have to play to win. Don't you?

The New Doctor is certain Nova Mondas is part of a scheme to bring the Cybermen back from the brink of total extinction, but just who is behind this plan? Why are the Cybermen so comfortable around all these gold coins? And why, if everything hinges on winning the prize of Cyber Conversion, do unlucky gamblers keep disappearing in the casino basements?

 

 

When you're trying to steer a runaway time machine towards twentieth century Earth, the more often you try to land there, the more likely you are to end up in the middle of a world war. The latest attempt to return Jess and Julio home to 1990s Sydney leads them into a stinking war-town swampland between the armed forces of Britain and Germany.

 

Does it matter precisely what battle ground they've ended up in or which particular war they've been caught up? At the end of the day, the details don't change why humanity is fighting, what it is capable of or what horrors it can conflict. All that matters is that a lot of people are going to die for their beliefs.

And that might include the New Doctor and her two companions...

 

The Sontaran Empire has been at war with the Rutan Empire for longer than mankind has walked upright. The Sontarans will do anything to win. They will develop any weapon, forge any alliance, embrace any idea that might give them an edge in combat.

 

Up to and including boosting morale with a concert of stand up comedy, magic acts and the top ten West Galaxy Hits. After all, Rutans have no sense of humour.

On the plus side, this means the New Doctor, Jess and Julio have an excuse to arrive in the middle of Sontaran territory without immediately being executed. On the downside, they are now on the front line between the various forces trying to control the Sontaran/Rutan war, as everyone has their own agenda and are more than willing to kill for it.

On with the show!

 

 The New Doctor is not feeling herself today - and she isn't alone in that.

Acting uncharacteristically unpleasant, the Time Lord has set off on a mysterious quest to the planet Oseidon warning her companions they will almost certainly die if they try and follow her. As Jess and Julio brave the androids with the literal trigger fingers prowling the plastic forests on the surface, Marldrok, one of the last Kraals alive, is dealing with a fussy new customer - a wanted fugitive from Thoros Beta, the revolting Mentor Sil.

But then the New Doctor arrives demanding the best android that Marldrok can build and offering Sil the use of the TARDIS. Just which, if any of them, can be trusted to honour the agreement? And regardless, how will Jess and Julio surviving the impending crossfire...?

Their relationship at breaking point, the TARDIS crew agree to answer a mysterious distress call from the far future - specifically from a penal planet in the Belquon system, and the psychotic criminal Graz who is determined to escape prison at any cost.

 

Belquon is also home to an impossible spatial anomaly they call a black hole that leads to another dimension entirely. This gateway guarded by an overzealous squadron of trigger-happy gunships. But why is the blockade there? Is it to keep humanity out? Or to keep something else in?

Although Julio and Jess are horrified by the ruthlessness the New Doctor has demonstrated, it soon becomes apparent she has not gone far enough - and that overestimation could mean the end of all life in the universe as she and her friends can only watch on...

The final Dalek offensive against the  civilized universe has begun...

...but then what?

 

What happens after the Daleks succeed in their mission? What will they do when they run out of people to exterminate and planets to conquer? When there's nothing left to conquer and destroy, what point is there in the entire Dalek race? It is a question the Daleks and Davros, their creator, have been avoiding but now as they face total victory, the question must be answered.

But this is little comfort to the New Doctor.

 

Her oldest enemy has destroyed her time machine, her friends, her life and now all hope in the future. She has well and truly lost - or has she? Could it all be a trick to break her morale? Is her nemesis lying, or is she in denial? Either way, is there anything left worth fighting for?

The time has come to find out, once and for all.

 

 

101: The Monsters of Ness

102: Vienna, 1913

103: Secret of the Sontarans

104: Time Parasite

105: Volcano

 

201: The Pirates of Penance

202: Heartbreak

203: Battle Toad

204: Debts Owed

205: The Three Dimensions of the Rani

 

301: How The World Ends...

302: The Liberation of France

303: A Night At The Mausoleum

304: The Bone-Stealers

305: Wanderlust

306: Dalekmania!

 

401: The Phoenix Rises

402: Visitors to the Outback

403: The False History of the Kelly Gang

404: A Bygone Error

405: Son of Kroll

406: Dalek Salvage

407: High School Daze

408: Casino of the Cybermen

409: The Fog of War

410: Entertaining the Troops

411: Who Do You Want Me To Be?

412: The Black Hole Blockade 

413: Denouement of the Daleks

 

 

 

 

 

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I mean, I'm lying to myself to think there's anyone actually reading anything I write, so...

 

 

 

 

 

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Episode One: The Siege of the Sontarans

A 75-minute special introducing Dan as a politically-incorrect right-leaning comic relief figure. A slightly-tragic working class man living with his parents Sue and Peter in a "Wendy House", he is struggling with his sexuality and a love affair with a man named Rohan, getting little sympathy from his parents or even from his fellow homosexuals. He is caught up in domestic crime when he is outed by Rohan and beaten up by his peers for being "a lifter" on the construction site he's working at.

Gender-neutral Sontarans are travelling through human history to study cruelty and war tactics, including racism in the American Civil War and the Crimea War, while also discovering suitable weak points in history to attack Earth and destroy humanity like the trenches of World War I. The Sontaran leader is Noel and, as the legendary first Sontaran ever to marry, is accompanied by his trans wife Cheryl and neither consider their names remotely funny. He makes a xenophobic rant pointing out the horrible similarities between mankind and the Sontarans. The fact the war with the Rutans is going badly makes the Sontarans more ruthless than ever.

After observing the men beating up Dan to witness human nature and domestic crime, they are outed by the Doctor and Yaz. Exposed, the Sontarans shoot their way out, killing Rohan in the process. Dan insists on joining the Doctor and Yaz to follow the Sontarans, wanting vengeance even though Rohan betrayed him. Dan reveals he was previously married, but his wife committed suicide after their daughter perished in the ATMOS poison. Dan's subsequent struggles with mental health and survivor guilt allow him to both with Yaz and the Doctor respectively.

 

During the Crimean War, the Sontarans are actually after miserable old army boffin called Robert Wood, who conducts hideous brutal experiments on any expendable member of his own side, the injured or disciplined, and is very racist towards Yaz.

In the present, Jack Robertson is in the UK meeting up with unethical maniac Dr. Nigellic Couch, who is introduced in a mankini dancing to Elton John's "I'm Still Standing" and making crude innuendo. He has a gormless co-conspirator called Daniel Rooney who says things like "Don't touch my silly-jimmy! I like your baby carrot, sir!" They are working to politically reclaim the UK by inciting chaos and making conspiracy theories of aliens rigging elections. The Sontarans observe their deviousness with interest. At one point where a bomb is about to go off, Nigellic yells "Stop the count!"

 

And despite being simply a corrupt politician from Alabama who trained astronauts in 1969, there is a hint the Doctor recognizes him and he is more involved with the Sontarans than he should be. He crudely makes a lot of sexual innuendo and his first scene introduces him dancing round in a mankini. He is later defeated when he falls into the TARDIS a swimming pool and is unable to swim, even as the pool is jettisoned. Jack Robertson steals the Sontaran pod at the end of the episode. The Doctor, Yaz and try to find Robertson as he flies off through time.

 

While Robertson escapes in his Sontaran time machine, Crouch avoids the his foes using a disguise as a celebrity (Tom Hanks/Kevin James/Patton Oswalt/Danny de Vito) to flee to a TARDIS. He relocates the ship, which disguises itself as a pub called the Bull Inn.

 

Educated by the Doctor and Yaz after his insensitive remarks to the latter, Dan chooses to stay aboard the TARDIS and escape his closeted life and accepting himself - as well as honoring his late wife and daughter. The Doctor and Yaz start to develop a relationship of their own as they deal with the Judoon and the fallout of the Doctor's escape from space-jail.

 

Episode Two: Florence and the Nightingale

A British naval ship has run aground and unknownly crashed into a Sea Devil nesting site, one of the last few left on the planet thanks to deep sea oil-drilling and plastic pollution. On the verge of extinction, the Sea Devils plan to poison the waters of Earth to wipe out mankind and turn the oceans into a perfect breeding ground. The Doctor negotiates a peace deal between the human naval officers and the Sea Devils.

A 50s-set historical featuring Audrey Hepburn. Time windows and Captain Jack are also involved.

Episode Three: Out of Orbit

At Dan's request, they visit an alien planet. The Celestial Toymaker and other cosmic forces return to shed a little light on the Timeless Child. Lizard people will also feature.

 

Episode Four: Through the Looking Glass

 

The Doctor returns to the Bull Inn and discovers Nigellic Crouch. Despite his buffoonish and comical nature, Crouch reveals himself to be brutal and vile. While meddling with Irish politicians during the Troubles - assisting a group of radicalist Zygons enact more conservative government - he murders a cynical schoolteacher in cold blood:

(Several of the locals back away from this.)
 

DOMHNALL: What kind of creature is that? And do you think that scares me?

(Nigellic Crouch chuckles to himself.)

NIGELLIC CROUCH: Alexa... you know which song to play.
 

("It Doesn't Have To Be This Way" by the Blow Monkeys plays in the background of the scene, as Nigellic places his Amazon Alexa down and starts dancing.)
 

MICHAEL: (whispering) Domhnall, what if it's a weapon?
 

DOMHNALL: Don't worry, Mike. I've dealt with mightier threats in the classroom than this weirdo.
 

NIGELLIC CROUCH: Ain't you gonna join me in the dance, you low-brow school teacher? It's things like this that make me miss that boy - Rooney. We had some wild times together. (slaps his face) Oh! Why am I bein' so reticent about it?!

(Domnhall looks on in confusion.)
 

NIGELLIC CROUCH: Dance, muppet, dance! Or I'll make you eat a potato!
 

(Nigellic laughs hysterically at his own joke.)
 

NIGELLIC CROUCH: (singing along) When you walk out that door, you gotta ask for more!
 

(Nigellic does a bizarre "Irish Jig", during this part of the song. We can see him reaching for something in his coat pocket.)
 

MICHAEL: (whispering to Domhnall) We should go.
 

DOMHNALL: Hey, guys, he'll be calling us Leprechauns next...
 

(The singing starts again.)
 

NIGELLIC CROUCH: (looking into Domnhall's eyes) It doesn't have to hurt that way, just count the pain, you've only got yourself to blame for playing the game! YEAAAAH!
 

(Nigellic suddenly pulls out a gun and shoots Domhnall in the face. He dies instantly.)
 

NIGELLIC CROUCH: Oh, good ol' Domhnall. Never change, you funny Shamrock!

 

 

Episode Five: Angel

 

The Weeping Angels return to capture the TARDIS. They change the life of a librarian called Joe Lofthouse, who is accused of murdering his family (who have actually been sent back in time by the angels.) Joe tells Dan of the doctrines of Marxism and changes his perception of the world. This depressing and emotionally-resonant episode focuses on the isolation of Joe, separating from his family by the Weeping Angels, something Dan sympathizes with.

 

The episode starts with the Doctor, Yaz and Dan trying to throw off the scent of a Weeping Angel who had attacked them and clamped on to the side of the TARDIS. Uncertain why they are being hunted, the fam eventually escape stop in 1700s Wales beachside town and get bed and board with the psychic paper. As they go to bed they see the Angel in the waves from their window, but yearn the Angel has been on the beach forever. But the crashing waves allow other Angels to emerge unseen from the water.

As the Angels continue to erase more people from the modern day, Joe is accused of their disappearances until the locals turn on him for being a serial killer.

 

The Doctor learns from the Sisterhood of Karn that they created the Angels to protect Gallifrey but something went wrong turning the Time War. The Angels went rogue and are now hired by entities as mercenaries and assassins, and they have sent the Angels after the Doctor for helping the Master destroy Gallifrey. The Doctor has a vision of Rassilon standing over the Master who is in chains. She agrees to return to Karn in the belief truths about the Timeless Child will be revealed.

 
 

Episode Six: R.I.P.P.E.R.

 

Ruth returns in a tale of corrupt Judoon and topical deaths of suspects in custody in a dystopian future Earth. Nigellic Crouch is locked in jail. The Prime Minister of Britain, a BJ parody, is revealed to be a Zygon using the UK as a home base to install a globally-united fascist regime of Zygon-controlled government. All dissenters are sent to concentration camps and fought by rogue agents Kate Stewart and Osgood.

The governments of the world realize how vital UNIT and Torchwood are and discuss reviving them. Yay.

 

 

Episode Seven: The Night You Left

 

Robertson meets Krasko the space-racist who want to assassinate MLK before he makes his "I have a dream" speech. Robertson agrees to help him and when Yaz tries to stop them, they team up to torture her in the belief the Doctor is working with another Time Lord. In a shocking scene she dies before she gives in. A furious Dan kills Krasko is stopped from killing Robertson by the Doctor who is able to bring Yaz back to life with a magical kiss which establishes their relationship.

More shocking is the final scene where the Doctor travels forward to see MLK being assassinated as history records. To her amazement, the dying MLK starts to regenerate. Time Lords arrives to collect the newborn Time Lord, who is clearly the fugitive Doctor.

Episode Seven/Eight: Swan Song

Both of these episodes tell the same story, the first part from the Doctor's POV and the second from the Master's.

With his Cyber-Masters, the Master is hunting down Rassilon and tracks him down to the planet Karn where he is seeking sanctuary with the Sisterhood. The Master is determined to kill Rassilon over the Timeless Child, and the sisters telepathically summon the Doctor as the Cyber-Masters invade Karn. Ohila and the sisters tell the Doctor Rassilon is hiding in a mountain temple and knows about the Timeless Child warn something more dangerous than the Cyber-Masters is stirring.

 

Rassilon confesses the Timeless Child stuff is true and he disposed of Omega and Tecteun to ensure he alone wielded power over the Time Lords. Furious over his exile, Rassilon put the information about the Child into the Matrix to manipulate the Master into destroying Gallifrey in rage. The Master arrives, not pleased to learn this, but Rassilon reveals that the Master is also a Timeless Child, explaining all his incredible survival powers.

 

Rassilon is kidnapped by the Master and his Cyber-slaves who destroy Karn and the Sisterhood, but when the Doctor gives chase the TARDIS falls through a crack in time and powers down. The Doctor steps from the TARDIS and is stunned to be confronted by none other than Omega himself. Omega reveals he is controlling the Master and using the Cyber-Masters as a template to regenerate and re-enter the matter universe. The Master, meanwhile, has apparently killed Rassilon himself.

Ruth returns in a resolution for the Timeless Child plotline and strong hints are that the Master was wrong and the Timeless Child is not actually the Doctor. Nigellic Crouch is revealed to be a dark incarnation of the Doctor in her Timeless Child days, pre-Ruth, who has become a rogue member of the Division and out to cause chaos. The truth comes out when we see Crouch regenerate into Ruth.

We learn the current status of several members of Time Lords from the classic series. 

 

 

Finale

 

Back on Earth, Jack Robertson is finally the President of the USA and Kate and Osgood summon the Doctor. Robertson faces the Doctor's brutal wrath for his killing of Yaz.

 

Fearing another alien invasion, he secretly revives the defense drone project (now Kaled-free) as a last line of defense. Alas, the next alien invasion is that of the Daleks who are disgusted by humanity creating 'impure' Daleks and want to put those responsible on trial. Thus this attack is under the watchful eye of the new Grand Inquisitor Dalek, a black Dalek Emperor type that of course turns out to be Davros when it finally meets the Doctor. Davros is overjoyed to know Gallifrey has been blown up as they chat about the respective origins of Daleks and Time Lords.

 

The terrified Robertson uses his defense drones to protect him once more and, because as US President he has been able to loot the Black Archives, the drones are able to overwhelm the real Daleks and attack their main saucer. Davros sends a special weapons Dalek to wipe out all the drones and it does, but then Captain Jack arrives and uses some gadgets to stop the SWD before it kills Robertson. Robertson orders a missile strike on the saucer, as its defenses are down from the drone attack.

After focusing on their relationship, Yaz sacrifices herself to save the Doctor from dying. It doesn't work.

Davros and his two Dalek bodyguards emergency temporal shift away, leaving the Doctor on the doomed saucer. She tries to repair the shields when the missile hits and the generator electrocutes her. Nonetheless, she is able to steer the damaged saucer into deep space where its final explosion won't harm any inhabited planets and struggle into an escape pod and return to Earth. She crash-lands and is helped out by Yaz, Dan and Captain Jack who all immediately leave her to join the reformed UNIT, return to his normal life and reboot Torchwood in Cardiff respectively.

 

Left alone in the TARDIS, the heartbroken Doctor collapses from her injuries (Dan has shot her in the face at some point) and has flashbacks of her companions and friends before regenerating.

 

Nigellic Crouch will return as a villain next year.

 

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DOCTOR: What are you doing down here?
THE BEAST: Because I love the darkness. I live for the darkness. My soul is the darkness. My heart is the darkness. My life is the darkness. My soul stinks of darkness.
DAN: Oh nice - I'd like a sample for my shampoo collection.
THE BEAST: (laughing malevolent) You've never showered in your life, you greasy, morbid creature. I will devour your both.
DOCTOR: Wait... Before you do! Who are you?
DOCTOR: It's Scoffin' Scott!
DAN: Who?
DOCTOR: The Doughnut Officer mentioned him.
THE BEAST: No - I am much worse than that.

(The lights turn on gradually as we see the silhouette of a large shape, the sound of crackling flame and hissing breath. Then, they fully turn on to reveal a large man in simply a g-string, dancing towards them. It's the one, the only Nigellic Crouch!)

DAN: That's not funny. I have a medical condition.
DOCTOR: All right. Sorry, greaseman Dan.
(Dan looks like he's about to punch the Doctor.)

ROONEY: Hey guys. Do you know a really cool trick Nigellic taught me to do?
DOCTOR: No - I don't. But I'm sure I'm about to find out.
ROONEY: Well, he taught me it for when I'm aware from home and I feel excitable. You see, he usually helps me out when that happens at home - but now I'm away from him for the week. Well - anyway... Can I show you how?
DAN: (mouth watering) Yes, I need some kind of fun with myself when I'm in the middle of a crowd of women who aren't interested in me!

SEAN: Sorry, mate. That was a bit mean.
(Nigellic Crouch collapses in pain. Olly enters with a pen in his hand.)
OLLY: Hi guys. Got the pen now.
(Suddenly Olly sees Nigellic Crouch and the pen falls out of his handfs and into Nigellic Crouch's injury.)
ROONEY: Ain't that a sight to behold?
DOCTOR: One way of putting. Is he dead?
DAN: Damn well hope he is.
(Nigellic Crouch wheezes in pain.)
 

NIGELLIC CROUCH: (singing) There's no hope for hungry child, no wonder!
(Nigellic Crouch smashes through the glass window, and picks up all of the cakes on display. He stuffs a pan au chocolat, a brownie for good measure again and a Victoria Sponge in his mouth. Nigellic Crouch stares at his face for a split second and notices that he is lacking something... He then picks up the jam from another Victoria sponge and rubs it against lips.)
NIGELLIC CROUCH: And now... my joker is wild!
BAKERY WAITER: (aside to the audience) And they said the Jolly Green Giant was fictional.
(Nigellic Crouch then mulls over his next move carefully - and then he spots Sue Turns in the fruit section.)