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So, we have been seeing this mysterious character for weeks now and after the end of Flatline, I have come up with 2 possible theories: 1. She is just someone who explains everything when people die 2. She is something to do with the GI. I know this sounds crazy but when Missy was looking down at the I-pad she reminded me a lot of Miss Kizlet from the Bells of St John. Maybe she is also the woman in the shop and the doctor and the GI had a fight and the GI won because of something Clara did accidentally or maybe the GI threatened to kill Clara so the doctor naturally wanted to save her. So Missy had to make sure that they would meet so that encounter would happen so she gave Clara the TARDIS phone number. But why would she be explaining things when people died? It seems to me that she is only doing it for people who's death the doctor is present at, as Seb did the policeman. But why? Maybe Missy/GI are making a trap for the doctor using the people who's death he is connected to. And perhaps Clara is a key point in this trap. That would explain Missy saying "I have chosen well". Missy may have chosen Clara as the most important feature in this trap. But how would they use this trap? Maybe the GI wanted to use them (well the versions of them in heaven) as reminders of the deaths the doctor has took part in. And Killing Clara would be the icing on the cake in driving him mad. That's just my theory. 90.223.205.134^{talk to me} 20:24, October 22, 2014 (UTC)

I think the general speculation is that Missy, short for "Mistress," is the Master, the Doctor's archenemy from a number of old and new shows. I rather like your idea that the GI has something to do with her, though, because the GI is something of an antagonist to Clara specifically. For the GI to have chosen her as the Doctor's companion, though, means that he chose the companion who would defeat his plans in the 7th series and at Trenzalore; he would have done better to choose a weaker adversary, unless Trenzalore was just a ruse to trap the Doctor in a deeper plot in the eighth season. 98.180.17.52^{talk to me} 02:16, October 25, 2014 (UTC)

I like the other theory put out that Missy and Clara are the same being; I even wonder if Missy is a companion erased from the timelines who has inserted Clara in her place, being the most successful of her copies... I'm not certain where I got the idea, however. Was there another story, perhaps in one of the written media, of a person who the Doctor promised would travel with him who never did, and who sought revenge on him for that? Jamar Redstone ☎ 18:54, October 26, 2014 (UTC)

Most likely, Missy is a dark version of Clara. There are many hints to it, like how Missy says The Doctor is her boyfriend in Deep Breath. And remember how she said "Clara, my Clara, I've chosen well", when she saw Clara in some device. I am pretty sure Missy is going to be Clara. Missy could have been created whenever Clara went into The Doctor's timeline, and it had an effect on her somehow...or, maybe, how Clara has been reincarnated multiple times, well, the first version of her met the First Doctor. That version of her was supposedly a Time Lady, so Missy could be an incarnation of that time lady, which was one of Clara's past lives. If Missy is not Clara, she could be the TARDIS, like how the TARDIS possessed Idris in The Doctor's Wife, except, an evil version of the TARDIS. Or maybe she is the new host of the Great Intelligence or a member of the Papal Mainframe.

Imperial Wyrm 00:17, November 1, 2014 (UTC)

Well, looks like Dark Water has cleared this up.