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The Doctor can't bring himself to kill Davros, in Resurrection of the Daleks,

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ne of the unique qualities of the Doctor as a ‘hero’ figure, and perhaps one that has helped give the character such lasting appeal, is that he doesn’t carry a gun.

It’s probably fair to say that the majority of popular genre heroes carry a weapon of some sort, and regularly use it with lethal effect against their enemies. The Doctor, however, makes a point of not carrying weapons, finding them to be abhorrent.

This isn't to say that the Doctor is a coward, or allows others to walk all over him and the people he cares about. In the face of oppression, the Doctor will defend himself, and will advocate that others should do the same. In The Mutants (AKA The Daleks) (1963/4 - see Volume 1], the Doctor and his companions encourage the pacifist Thals to fight the Daleks who will otherwise wipe them out,

Similarly, in The Girl Who Died {2015 - see page 78], the Doctor and Clara organise a rag-tag band of inexperienced Viking civilians into a battle force to oppose Odin and his Mire warriors.

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Instead of shooting people, the Doctor prefers to rely on his ingenuity to outwit his opponents, resulting in often highly imaginative lateral thinking, employing whatever resources are to hand.

In The Mutants (AKA The Daleks), the Doctor makes use of the hand mirrors, carried by the Thals, to confuse the Daleks’ monitoring equipment, allowing them to access their city undetected. In The Robots of Death [1977 - see Volume 26], he uses helium gas to alter the voice of the insane Dask, resulting in his robot servants turning on him when they do not recognise his orders. And in The Girl Who Died, the Doctor uses electric eels as a means to electrocute and incapacitate several of the Mire in their robotic armour.

There have, however, been instances where the Doctor has, often reluctantly, wielded a gun. Even then, though, he’s unlikely to pull the trigger.

The Fifth Doctor had a stand-off with Dalek creator Davros in Resurrection of the Daleks {1984 - see Volume 39]. Believing that a universe without Davros would be a better place, the Doctor decided that he should kill him. However, despite Davros’ evil and the suffering that he would cause, as the Doctor aimed a gun at him, he wavered, his conscience preventing him from pulling the trigger.

Davros believed that the Doctor's conscience was a weakness, when in fact it is a strength. Violent conflict is the Doctor's last resort, and his conscience motivates him to find alternative solutions to conflicts, saving lives in the process,

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o you believe in ghosts, Brigadier?” asked the Doctor in Day of the Daleks [1972 - see Volume 17]. Of course, in that instance the Doctor was simply needling his old friend - and the ‘ghosts’ in question were actually travellers from the future. A similar apparition - this time from the past - was misinterpreted as a ghost in The Time Warrior [1973/4 - see Volume 20]. Much later, the Eighth Doctor cleared things up - claiming he didn’t believe in ghosts in the Doctor Who TV Movie [1996 - see Volume 47].

Along the way, however, there have been ghosts of sorts. Magnus Greel set up a fake ghost to ward off intruders in The Talons of Weng Chiang [1977 - see Volume 26]. In Image of the Fendahl {1977 - see Volume 27], the Doctor explained that haunted places appear to manifest ghosts because of a weakness in the fabric of space and time, We also learned that houses appear to be

haunted because the structures absorb a ‘psychic residue’ in The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang [2010 - see Volume 66].

Usually, however, what people interpreted as ghosts are actually creatures from another dimension. Dickens’ Christmas ghosts in The Unquiet Dead [2005 - see Volume 48] turned out to be the gaseous Gelth. The spirit in Hide [2013 - see Volume 73] was Hila Tacorien - a woman trapped in a pocket universe.

Eventually, however, the Doctor encountered the real thing, in Under the Lake/Before the Flood. The Doctor is, of course, initially sceptical, but after he observed that they could walk through walls, tended to come out at night and were sort of see-through, he had to concede they were dealing with ghosts.

But while the manifestations in Under the Lake/Before the Flood are actually ghosts of the dead, they’re still not the out-and- out supernatural phenomenon you'd find in traditional ghost stories. They still respected the laws of physics, and were unable to penetrate the base's Faraday cage that blocked out all signals, and it turned out that these ghosts were created in order to transmit a message across space.

The definition of what a ghost actually is, is always going to be elusive in Doctor Who. At the end of the 2015 series, in Hell Bent [2015], the Doctor and Clara finally ended up on Gallifrey, where he admitted that the Time Lords have “a big computer made of ghosts... guarded by more ghosts’.

The important thing, of course, is that the idea of ghosts is scary... and that’s the very reason why we try to explain them away. i

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Introduction

Left: The gaseous Gelth inhabit Mrs Peace’s body in The Unquiet Dead,

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Under the Lake

he year is 2119, and the crew of

an underwater mining facility

known as the Drum has located an alien craft on the lake floor. They bring it into the main hangar. Crewmember Cass explains - via her sign language interpreter Lunn - that it was buried when the valley was flooded in the 1980s, and so was missed by earlier surveys Captain Moran discovers some symbols scratched on the wall of the inside of the craft. Then suddenly the craft's engines ignite, killing Moran. The rest of the crew is forced to evacuate - but then they see Moran, returned as a ghost! [1]

The TARDIS materialises in a corridor in the Drum. The Doctor and Clara discover Moran's ghost, next to the ghost of an undertaker. The ghosts lead them to the hangar, where the Doctor examines the strange symbols in the craft. [2]

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Moran and the undertaker arm themselves with an axe and a harpoon gun and attack the Doctor and Clara The Doctor and Clara take refuge in a sealed chamber with the remaining crew: Pritchard, Bennett, O'Donnell, Lunn and Cass. Cass explains that when the ghosts started trying to kill them, they hid in the

chamber, It’s a Faraday cage and for some

reason the ghosts can't enter. [3]

The base computer announces ‘Day Mode’ and, as the corridors light up, the ghosts vanish. The Doctor takes another look at the craft and notices that the pilot’s suspended animation chamber and a power cell are missing. [4]

They reconvene to the bridge - when suddenly the base switches to Night Mode. Pritchard is in the airlock at the time, having searched the nearby flooded village for the power cell. The Moran ghost opens the airlock and Pritchard is killed. [5]

Clara and Bennett are gathering supplies in the mess when Clara spots

Pritchard's ghost. On the bridge, O'Donnell manages to reactivate Day Mode, and Pritchard's ghost vanishes. The Doctor realises the ghosts are working out how to use the base against them and tells O'Donnell to put the base back into Night Mode. He has a plan. [6] Darkness falls. In the mess, Bennett

sees the three ghosts and runs. Clara lures the ghosts down a corridor, then Lunn tries to lure them away, but only Pritchard follows him. O’Donnell closes a flood door, enabling Clara to hide from the Moran and undertaker ghosts. Lunn, however, is trapped by the Pritchard ghost. [7] The ghost picks up a wrench - then drops it and walks away.

The Doctor lures the three ghosts into the Faraday cage chamber using a hologram of Clara. The Doctor then enters the chamber and faces the ghosts. Watching on a monitor, Cass notices they are all repeating the same phrase. “The dark, the sword, the forsaken, the temple.” [8]

The Doctor returns to the bridge. He thinks the ghosts are broadcasting a signal and each time someone is killed, it strengthens the signal. He deduces that the repeated phrase refers to the church in the flooded village. [9]

Bennett uses a drone submarine to investigate the church and locates the missing suspended animation chamber. [10] The Doctor realises the words inside the craft have rewritten their brains so that when they die, they will become beacons!

The base computer malfunctions and initiates an emergency protocol to flood the base. Cass gives the order to close the internal flood doors. The Doctor reaches the TARDIS while Clara, Lunn and Cass remain trapped in the base. [14] The Doctor assures Clara he will come back and leaves in the TARDIS with Bennett and O’Donnell.

In the mess, Clara spots a new ghost floating outside the base. The ghost of the Doctor! [12]

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bootstrap paradox: Imagine there's aman with a time machine. He travels back in time to meet Beethoven ~ but Beethoven doesn’t exist. So the time traveller takes Beethoven's place in history. But if that’s the case — who composed Beethoven's Fifth? (| The Doctor and O'Donnell emerge from the TARDIS in the village before it was flooded in 1980, when it was used as a military training site. They are joined by Bennett and find the alien craft, which contains the suspended animation chamber and a body wrapped They are greeted by the Tivolian undertaker, Prentis, who explains that he has come to bury the Fisher King, [2] In 2119, Clara's phone rings; it’s the Doctor calling from the TARDIS. Clara tells him she has seen his ghost, which means he will die.

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Alone in the alien craft, Prentis notices that something has scratched symbols onto the wall...

ara tells the Doctor that his ‘ghost’

is repeating a list of the names of the dead. The ghost Doctor releases the other ghos ]

The Doctor, Bennett and O’Donnell return to the alien craft and discover Prentis’ corpse. The Fisher King has gone, taking the suspended animation chamber with him.

s from the Faraday cage.

Hearing a roar, they run. The Doctor and Bennett hide in a derelict building. The Fisher King attacks O'Donnell, who dies of her injuries. [4]

The Doctor and Bennett return to the TARDIS. The Doctor tries to take the TARDIS back to 2119, but instead it lands back in the village, half an hour earlier - just as the earlier Doctor and O'Donnell are emerging from the TARDIS. The Doctor and Bennett see Prentis; the Doctor warns Bennett they can't save him, “You can’t cheat time!”

The Doctor sends Bennett back to the TARDIS; meanwhile he goes to the church to face the Fisher King. The Doctor tells the Fisher King that

he has come from the future and seen the ghosts; they are beacons to summon an armada that will enslave humanity. [6]

Clara, Lunn and Cass run through the base - but they lose Cass. And Cass can't hear that she is being slowly followed by Moran's ghos axe behind him... [7]

The Doctor tells the Fisher King he can still survive - he can “tweak the future a bit”. Then he condemns the Fisher King for bending the rules of life and death, telling him this is where his story ends. [8]

Cass feels the vibration of the axe being scraped along the floor and escapes from Moran - running straight into Clara.

The Doctor tells the Fisher King he has removed the symbols from the inside of the alien craft.

, dragging an

Cass joins Clara and Lunn and they run to the main hangar and into the alien craft. [9]

The Fisher King returns to the alien craft - to find the symbols still there. The Doctor lied! But the Doctor has removed one of the power cells, and placed it at the bottom of a nearby dam. The cell explodes, causing the dam to burst, killing the Fisher King. [10]

In 2119, the suspended animation chamber opens - and the Doctor climbs out! [11] He uses the roar of the Fisher King to trap the ghosts in the Faraday cage. It turns out the ‘ghost’ Doctor was a hologram created by the real Doctor with his sonic glasses.

The TARDIS returns Bennett to 2119. He tells Lunn to tell Cass that he (Lunn) is in love with her. Lunn does - and Cass kisses him passionately. [12]

The Doctor and Clara depart in the TARDIS. The Doctor explains that he didn’t change history; he set in motion his own actions. A bootstrap paradox!

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ne of the things we very

rarely do in Doctor Who is just

straightforward ghosts,” said

executive producer Steven

Moffat to the BBC Doctor Who

website. “Just ghosts, that was the idea. What if Doctor Who did ghosts? So it’s a base under siege. But it’s a base under siege from ghosts.”

Toby Whithouse had been writing for Doctor Who for a decade, ever since School Reunion [2006 - see Volume 52]; he had subsequently written The Vampires of

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Venice [2010 - see Volume 64], The God

Complex [2011 - see Volume 69] and A

Town Called Mercy [2012 - see Volume 71] r for showrunner Steven Moffat during thes % Eleventh Doctor’s tenure. However, since

2012 he had been busy as an executive

producer on various versions of Being

Human, the fantasy drama which he had

created for the BBC and which had now

spawned an American version, as well

as setting up his Cold War thriller mini-

series The Game which had been made

by BBC Cymru for BBC Two and BBC

America since August 2013) Whithouse enjoyed contributing to Doctor » — Who and was pleased to be available to * discuss a story idea for what he believed ~~ would be a single episode that would fit into his working schedule in late 2014. During 2014, Steven Moffat had emailed Whithouse with two story suggestions, one of which was about ghosts. Whithouse indicated that he liked this idea and added that he also had the idea of doing something with a time paradox or a key element of time travel; he had admired this

aspect in other stories - including those by Moffat - and wanted to write such a story himself. As the story developed in. 7 discussions, Whithouse latched onto the es al fact that adding a time travel element > allowed a person to meet their own ghost. _

On meeting with Moffat, Whithouse discovered that the production team was thinking in terms of two-part stories for the 2015 series; this meant some rearrangement of the writer’s schedule to allow him to take on the extra work, The BBC team offered the writer the

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first production slot of the 2015 series - Block 1 - and tempted him by indicating that as this would be the first story to be made, that there would be a substantial budget available.

While Steven Moffat requested a ghost story, for some time Whithouse had been considering the idea of an alien infection which spread from person to person when they heard a specific phrase, surviving in the form of a curse - a series of words in which a life form was hidden, In the very early stages of discussion, the writer mentioned this to the executive producer who was excited by the idea and added it to the haunted base story concept. To put a new spin on a ghostly tale, rather than setting the story in an old house,

a futuristic setting was discussed to draw upon science-fiction tropes as a contrast to the cliché. The main idea was having a small crew trapped by ghosts in a location such as a moonbase, a space station or an underwater base; the underwater base was favoured by Whithouse, and Moffat was

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attracted to this because it was a setting which seldom featured in Doctor Who.

Researching real-life underwater buildings, Toby Whithouse discovered that no matter how well these were built, they were continually damp from the humidity, and also the interiors would be covered in moss. Remembering a rejected ghost hunter storyline from Being Human, the writer recalled his research into the idea of a Faraday cage, an area from which electromagnetic fields were blocked by a continuous conductive material or mesh; these were named after the nineteenth-century English scientist Michael Faraday who invented them in 1836. The atmosphere for the scenes aboard the base was very much influenced by horror science-fiction movies such as Alien (set aboard a spaceship) from 1979 and The Thing (set in Antarctic research station) from 1982.

Initially, the writer was unsure about tackling a two-parter as he felt that the story would be too complex. However,

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during the creative process, he began to understand the freedom which this allowed the story and its characters. Steven Moffat was keen that the second instalment of the story should move the plot on ina significant way, and knew that Whithouse instinctively understood this. Consequently, the story began with the claustrophobic setting of a remote base in the future, and then shifted both in time and space to a different, more open location in the past. The writer had always been fascinated by the setting of deserted army bases, recalling the effective use of a coastal military outpost of the 1940s in the serial The Curse of Fenric [1989 - see Volume 46].

Furthermore, Moffat wanted the cliffhanger to change the nature of the story, with the appearance of the Doctor's ghost fitting the bill perfectly. For this sequence where the figure appeared floating underwater outside a window of the base, Whithouse recalled the television ini-series Salem's Lot, an adaptation of the 1975 horror novel by Stephen King which was shown on BBC1 in 1981; in this, one sequence featured the vampiric Danny Glick floating outside the bedroom window of his school friend Mark Petrie. The writer was also influenced by the science-fiction movie Under the Skin which had been released in the UK in March 2014; this featured drowned, submerged figures floating underwater.

The alien figure which would appear in the second instalment was named the Fisher King, the title of a character in the twelfth- century Arthurian romance Perceval by Chrétien de Troyes; as the Fisher King weakened, his kingdom was reduced to a barren wasteland. Toby Whithouse saw the term ‘Fisher King’ as being the Earth translation of an alien name. To represent those who had been repressed by the Fisher King, Whithouse felt that the race of the Tivolians would be perfect; his script for The God Complex had featured Gibbis, a native of Tivoli, the most invaded planet in the galaxy. The Fisher King would have been repelled by the Arcateenians; one of this race had featured in the script Greeks Bearing Gifts [2006] which Whithouse had written for the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood.

Connections:

Timey-wimey

3} The Doctor explains the concept of the bootstrap paradox by referencing the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven with particular reference to his Symphony No 5 inC minorwritten between 1804 and 1808, The Doctor had indicated in The Lazarus Experiment [2007 - see Volume 55] that he had learnt to play the organ from Beethoven,

hen it came to writing for the new Doctor and his companion Clara, Toby Whithouse was keenly

following the 2014 series as a viewer. He quickly tapped into the idea of the 2015 series featuring a Clara who had put the

¢ i Left: death of Danny Pink behind her and now The Doctor relished adventure, but was becoming steps back addicted to danger and risking the lives Inhehases i Caithness in of others. “Clara has suddenly become the 1980s,

a bit reckless. There’s the sense that the handbrake is off,’ the writer told Doctor Who Magazine.

The writer’s desire to develop a time paradox storyline led him to uncover various time-travel theories including

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Cass and Lunn communicate in sign language.

the ‘bootstrap paradox’, a causal loop in which an event or object was created by itself or existed in a closed loop. The term originated from a short story by Robert

A Heinlein entitled By His Bootstraps which was first published in the October 1941 edition of Astounding Science-Fiction; in this, a metaphysics graduate was encouraged by his future self to become the person that would rule in the future. Consequently, Whithouse planned to have the Doctor saved by his own creation sent to him from his own future. “The initial idea never happened,” he explained on the BBC website, “I find all that absolutely fascinating. The fact that something can have no moment of creation.”

The Drum

he idea of having a deaf character arrived quite early in the process, said Toby Whithouse of Cas one of the underwater base crew - on BBC Two's See Hear. “It began from a quite practical point of view. I wanted a character who could lip-read, and then the more I wrote her, the more she kind of developed and expanded as a character. And as she did that, her deafness became less and less important. Certainly there was never a point where it was the defining characteristic.” Whithouse thought back to a panel which had discussed inclusivity and diversity at the BBC Writersroom Writers’ Festival at the Leeds College of Music in 2010; here fellow writer Jack Thorne had declared that ‘disabled’ actors should be cast more often.

The basic story for Toby Whithouse’s two-parter altered very little; the story outline was quickly agreed and all the important elements were in place prior to scripting. The title Ghost in the Machine was originally applied to both episodes

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of the story and appeared on draft one of the script dated Tuesday 30 September 2014; it was defined as ‘Shooting Block 1’. In this version, the Drum was described

as ‘an underwater base, maybe a mile in diameter. The cutting edge of sub-aquatic mining.’ The story opened in the staff quarters showing clothes attempting to dry in the humidity and remains of human inhabitation such as food and plates, with moss growing over the walls. Once upon atime, the corridor of the base had been ‘white and smooth’. Inside the hangar, the spaceship was described as ‘black, smooth. Almost like a space hearse,’ No establishing date was given in an opening narration, and the base members dressed in ‘military green... combat shorts and flipflops, bandanas as sweat bands’ were Hicks (Military. The highest ranking. SOs. Father figure’), Cass (‘Female. Military. Second

in command. Deaf... Brave, disciplined’),

Lunn (‘Civilian, Male, her sign language interpreter. They're in love with each other, everyone knows it except them’), O'Donnell (‘Female, diminutive, northern, tomboyish. Blunt and fiery. Military. Technical support. But don’t call her that’), Bennett (‘Male. Marine biologist. Would describe himself as a coward, the truth is he’s anything but’) and Pritchard (‘The representative of the oil company. 30s. Kind of a dick’). There was no appearance of a ghost when the engine flared and killed Hic! who immediately reappeared in the hangar: ‘Ethereal and transparent. He is trying to say something, screaming silently at the crew. Screaming. Screaming. And no one hears him,

After the opening titles, the first scene was the Doctor and Clara inside the capsule hull pondering why the TARDIS hadn't translated the markings as they used the sonic. They emerged to talk to the

crew of the Drum who had cordoned off the spaceship. Ray Pritchard introduced himself as representing Clarxxon Petroleum, while O’Donnell blamed Pritchard for causing Hicks’ death and attacked him. A strange force in the hangar made the cargo crane chains move. The Doctor discovered the Faraday cage as the team moved towards the bridge, while on entering the canteen all the furniture had been thrown about. O’Donnell explained that the ultraviolet filters on the lights

were used to give the crewmembers their vitamin D; the Doctor had the UV turned up to maximum, revealing the spirit of Hicks which was picking up chairs and hurling them around. Cass confirmed that this started after Hicks died. On

the bridge’s monitor screens, the Doctor studied images of Hicks caught in the UV across the base and deduced that Hicks was a ‘ghost’. The noise of the Cloister Bell - which Clara passed off as a “car alarm” - summoned the Doctor and Clara back to the TARDIS; here the Doctor pointed out to Clara that Bennett and Lunn were both

“handsome chaps

..] They've got jobs,

Below: Clara and the Doctor explore the Drum

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prospects. Yes, they smell a bit mossy, but you'd get used to that.” Clara reprimanded him for fretting over her. After Pritchard was drowned by Hicks, Clara was approached in the gallery area (‘On the wall, an immense mural of a sea monster. Expensive art for what is essentially a corporate environment. But the moss is slowly devouring that too’) by the lonely Bennett who was keen to talk to somebody “normal”, After the discovery of Pritchard's corpse, O'Donnell explained to the Doctor why there was a Faraday cage on the base. Lunn, Bennett and Clara then lured the ghosts of Hicks and Pritchard into the Faraday cage where ~ after Clara’s hologram vanished - they were confronted by the Doctor in deep-sea diving gear, saying: “Your move, Casper” (in reference to the animated character Casper the Friendly Ghost). The crew was able to watch the confrontation through a camera in the Doctor's diving helmet. After Cass lip-read the mantra of the ghosts, the Doctor discussed how this was a set of increasingly specific directions ~ a demonstration he gave by asking O'Donnell how to get to the mess room. After recovering the suspended animation chamber from the flooded village, the Doctor discussed the inscription with the crew, being apparently ignorant of Bennett's role as a marine biologist (“Stop thinking about mermaids”) and telling O'Donnell to “stop thinking about Bennett”. When the Doctor explained that the message climbed up the line of sight, Bennett compared it to the candiru fish (a form of parasitic catfish). The Doctor was also struggling with the idea of what

that Clara once had an argument with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,

the leader of the Indian

independence movement against British rule in the mid-twentieth century who advocated non-violent civil disobedience.

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thoughts he should and shouldn't say out loud, and which Clara was helping him with. The script ended with three ghosts appearing outside the gallery window: Hicks, Pritchard and the Doctor.

The script for the second episode was entitled Ghost in the Machine Part Two and draft one was dated Thursday 16 October. To tease the audience with the concept of the bootstrap paradox, Toby Whithouse decided to attempt something different which he suspected would be removed by Steven Moffat in subsequent redrafts, His idea was to have the Doctor break the ‘fourth wall’ of the television screen and address the audience directly, something only attempted briefly before in episodes such as The Feast of Steven, the seventh episode of The Daleks’ Master Plan [1965/6 - see Volume 6]. “I genuinely popped that pre-titles scene in, thinking with each draft they'd ask me to cut it!” he told Doctor Who Magazine. The Doctor's opening monologue was originally about a time traveller who had a passion for Leonardo da Vinci and travelled to fifteenth-century Italy but accidentally landed his time machine on the infant Leonardo, killing him, and instead using the paintings and inventions he had brought with him to create the genius’ historical objects.

ravelling back to 1980, O’Donnell T referred to the Doctor's companions

Rose Tyler, Martha Jones and Amy Pond as well as Harold Saxon (the Master’s alias as Prime Minister in Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords [2007 - see Volume 56]) and the Moon exploding (or rather hatching in Kill the Moon [2014 - see Volume 78] - broadcast a few days earlier on Saturday 4 October and set in 2049), Finding the space hearse, the Doctor

scanned the corpse with his sonic. It was now that they met Albar Prentis range mole-like creature. A Tivolian (like Gibbis in The God Complex). He's wearing a shabby black suit. Like a none-too-successful Victorian undertaker!

When Clara showed the Doctor his own ghost on her phone, he claimed: “Wait, look, it’s fine! I’ve clearly died of old age!” “You look like you do now,” she insisted The ghosts of the Doctor, Hicks and Pritchard entered the gallery, and Clara’s group was also suddenly confronted by a ghost of Prentis, which Clara showed to the Doctor over the phone. When the Doctor told O'Donnell to stay in his ship, he added: “My TARDIS, my rules.” “Feel free to make a formal complaint,” said the lance corporal as she ignored him.

The noise made by the Fisher King was ‘a howl... Something between a wolf and the roar of a lion. A sound straight from a nightmare. The Doctor’s group hid in two different empty houses, with the Doctor

wedging the hall door of one house shut with a length of discarded skirting board. The noise of the approaching alien was ‘a clank of what sounds like armour’ and its silhouette was ‘immense, broad. His arm raised. The metal of his gun glints.’

Trapped in the Faraday cage, Lunn told Clara that she had probably met lots of brave people before, but that he wasn’t one of them. “Just admitting that means you're braver and smarter

replied Clara.

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of its ability to create the ghosts: “It comes from a time so far back in our history, science was called magic.” When the being was revealed, the script noted: ‘Even in

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his weakened state, he’s huge. About 10 feet tall. A spacesuit that looks more like a suit of armour. But his head is a skull, like a cow’s skull’ The alien said that it could create ideas which could live on through repetition and parables, and that it found the Doctor's mercy fascinating because it had none.

The Doctor was revealed as the occupant of the suspended animation chamber before the Fisher King was drowned; he took his sonic and jammed it into the Drum systems to create the roar of the alien to lure the ghosts away from the hangar to the Faraday cage. The Doctor then used the sonic to remove the memory of the inscription from Clara, Cass, Lunn and Bennett. The Doctor pointed out to Lunn that Cass was holding his hand: “Do you feel faint? Are you eight years old, are you going to go wandering off somewhere?” Clara admonished the Doctor who said: “I don’t understand!

Is he full of helium? Is he going to float away?... Oh. Oh I see. Blimey, they're all at it! Her and him with the hands, Bennett and O'Donnell.” It was after the group went to find Bennett at the door at the Faraday cage that the Doctor explained

to Clara how he got into the chamber

and slept for 150 years, recalling how

the TARDIS went back in time a short while so that he and Bennett encountered Prentis again, and then the end of his confrontation with the Fisher King in which the Doctor announced that in the future the alien’s words had gone and they were now “off the map”, prior to the destruction of the dam. On their way to find Bennett, the Doctor also explained to Clara about the temporal paradox of his hologram’s creation, asking (with reference to his earlier monologue) “Who painted the Mona Lisa?” As Bennett mourned for O'Donnell at the door of the chamber, Clara suggested that if the Doctor cleared some box-sets from his sonic, there would be room for another hologram. The group travelled back in time to the empty house... where O’Donnell sat up, She had been shot by the Fisher King but was wearing a bulletproof vest and her death was merely a pretence to help trap the alien and upset the original Bennett. O'Donnell was touched that Bennett came back to save her, even though time travel made him sick; she grabbed him and they kissed. With the couple united, Clara

said to the Doctor: “Feels good, doesn’t it?” “Yes. Yes, it does,” said the Doctor,

genuinely moved. _—

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Whithouse was amazed that Steven Moffat did not ask him to remove the Doctor's opening monologue to camera. The executive producer had been surprised by this innovation, but reasoned that the Doctor - seeing himself as a hero - would often play out thoughts in his head as if he had an audience (in this case, the viewers).

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