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10.1 The Mouthless Dead

Part one

The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Jamie, Ben and Polly to a train platform in Kent. It gets partially damaged by a passing train and the four are forced to leave and give it time to repair itself. They visit the signalman to inquire about any damage accidentally done to the train and he treats them to tea upon discovering Ben's and Jamie's credentials. He tells them some scary stories about terrible train accidents. Polly, wanting a breath a fresh air, steps out, followed by Jamie and Ben while the Doctor stays behind to talk trains with the guard, having got on well with him and he tells him the train story of the "Phantom Light".

While exploring the station, they get an uneasy feeling and Ben spots an eerie figure in a dark coat who disappears. They go to the waiting room and find a woman named Frances whom Polly talks to alone. She reveals she is waiting for her fiancee's body to be brought back from the war. Meanwhile, outside, Ben explains to Jamie about the First World War, the Unknown Warrior and the Unknown Warrior's Funeral. They see a lamp in the distance and decide to go warn a mysterious figure they see in the distance. Ben reveals the figure are actually figures and look like his Uncle's crew from the Lion moving towards them. He and Jamie finds the Doctor and explains the situation. The signalman tries to send a warning to the train through the signals to slow down while Ben explains what he saw to the Doctor. Jamie runs outside to see the shadowy figures approaching the waiting room in the station where Polly and Francis are...

Part two

Francis tells Polly about her fiance Michael Thomas who fought at the Somme. They hear the train and Francis explains she feels the body for the Unknown Warrior is him, so they go outside to check. However, once outside, the get a strange feeling about the train but the driver steps out and begins asking the girls questions. He goes off to talk to the signalman for more answers and Francis decides to go inside the train, but they get distracted by some approaching shadowy figures.

Jamie sees them and approaches but despite what Ben described, Jamie sees his fellow highlanders. The Doctor stops him from going any further. Frances goes to see the coffin and Polly follows her but the train begins to move again as the shadowy figures move towards them and Jamie sees them from the platform. The Doctor stops him from leaving, saying that what they're seeing may be spectral. The signalman goes to try and clear off the figures on the track but they end up killing him much to the fright of the three. The Doctor explains that it may be the TARDIS's doing, and that its telepathic circuits may have been damaged when the train hit it. Since it has landed in a post-war climate, the feelings of death and destruction so strongly associated with this war and with the Unknown Warrior are being channeled through it into the TARDIS, causing it to manifest the strange shadowy figures that killed the signalman.

Polly and Frances look at the coffin and she explains that she wishes Michael would've returned to her alive. Suddenly a shadowy figure appears. Polly tries to stop Frances from reaching out and joining them but discovers that her pity, acting like a magnetic of the same polarity repelling another, causes the figures to move away. They are discovered by the figure Ben saw earlier, who turns out to be Michael Thomas. The Doctor realizes that they don't seem to effect Thomas so he explains that they need to confront the shadowy figures and that they will need to use Thomas to guide them since the creatures do not effect him. They make their way to the train which is stopped at a signal when Thomas stops and explains he can't continue because he can't bear to face his fiance Frances and that the only reason he came was because he had hoped to see her get comfort from seeing the passing coffin of the Unknown Warrior. Inside the train, a figure approaches Polly and Frances, which Frances slowly realizes is Michael, despite the scar on his face.

References

• The TARDIS has a proximity alarm.
• The Doctor uses the TARDIS scanner.
• The Doctor recognizes a Southeastern and Chatham leaver frame and a Walker's two-position block and rule 55.
• Ben expresses his surprise with the Australian slang word "Strewth".
• Ben's uncle was in the navy and died in the Battle of Jutland
• The station is just outside Canterbury
• Reversing the polarity is mentioned

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• The TARDIS's telepathic circuits were damaged on collision with the train, causing the formation of the shadowy figures by channeling all the grief of the post-war climate of the UK. The telepathic circuits can also read minds and use emotions such as love and loss, which the Twelfth Doctor used to help Clara locate Danny Pink after he died. (TV: Dark Water)
• Ben uses the exclamation "Strewth", an Australian phrase Tegan often used. (TV: )