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What connects strange bird behaviour in the skies above a Madagascan beach to mysterious deaths by a deadly virus that seems to be spreading? And what does a famous British astronaut have to do with all of this? Can the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz solve this puzzle before it's too late?

Plot[[edit]]

Somewhere in space, the spaceship of an astronaut called Adam Lang is malfunctioning. He attempts to try and fix it but it does not work. The capsule starts spinning and turning violently as he tries to deploy the parachute.

Back on Earth in the early 2020s, off-duty police officer Jake Willis tackles a shoplifter to the floor, only to get scolded by a worker called Joyce, who reminds him that he should be on a break.

In Peru, Gabriela Camara takes her friend Jamila Velez to see a river so they can film it, only to find it has been polluted with plastic waste with birds gathering above, despite normally being beautiful. Late that night, Jamila goes outside her tent and is attacked by an unseen force.

Elsewhere, Jake is drinking in a bar as a breaking news story comes on the TV. It states that Adam is now missing, presumed dead. He is devastated until he receives a text from someone claiming to be Adam, telling him to come and find him somewhere in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, Gabriela wakes up, only to find that Jamila is not there anymore. She goes out to find her and comes across a bird dropping out of the sky. As she goes to touch it, Ryan Sinclair appears and stops her, telling her that something is wrong with the birds.

Jake arrives in Hong Kong. He tries to break into a warehouse where Adam supposedly is but fails to do so. Nearby, Yasmin Khan and Graham O'Brien arrive, brandishing a set of skeleton keys and they follow him in.

By a beach in Madagascar, a laboratory worker called Aramu greets his coworker, Suki Cheng. As they settle down for work, they spot the Doctor sprinting down the beach asking for help. Spotting a body in the water, the three work to get him to ground. The Doctor explains that she usually has help from her friends, but "I gave them all errands."

Meanwhile, Gabriela threatens Ryan about Jamila disappearing, but he denies knowledge as something is wrong with the birds. As Gabriela frisks him for weapons, she introduces herself, supposing Ryan knows her already. He admits he does not and she explains she runs a popular travel vlog with Jamila called Two Girls Roaming. Ryan gathers one of the fallen birds for research as Gabriela receives news that there was an ambulance call-out only one mile away that morning.

Inside the warehouse, Jake questions Graham and Yaz, presuming they had come from the European Space Agency, but they are unaware of Adam going missing. Yaz explains they have been told to find out the reason behind some unusual energy readings coming from the building, unaware that a figure in a full hazmat suit is watching them.

On the beach, the Doctor helps the man out of the water and Aramu identifies his uniform as a member of the US Navy. As the three introduce themselves, the Doctor explains that she has been checking for survivors after an American submarine went missing in the Indian Ocean. As they go to move the man inside Aramu and Suki's lab, he wakes up, begging for help. He gives his name as Zach Olson and explains that his sub got hit and was invaded by something before they could react. As he talks, a stone-like crystalline substance grows and spreads from his hand across his body. It eventually reaches his face, completely covering his features before his body shatters into dust. Stunned, the Doctor tells the others not to be alarmed and she laments not being able to see a connection between the three seemingly unrelated events she has sent her friends to uncover.

Ryan and Gabriela arrive at San Pedro hospital, although it appears deserted. Exploring, Ryan finds another dead bird and he ignores Gabriela's warnings to look inside a quarantined area. Inside, they find Jamila lying on a hospital bed with the same stone coverings as Zach had. Ryan uses his comm dot to contact the Doctor as Jamila starts spasming, her eyes blank. As the TARDIS arrives, the Doctor explains that Jamila is already dead but still being attacked, just as she too disintegrates. Ryan fails to calm Gabriela down as the Doctor realises the severity of the situation.

Meanwhile, Graham and Yaz track down the strange energy readings in the warehouse and discover a room full of strange alien consoles. As Yaz investigates, Adam is illuminated, looking very ill and still in his spacesuit, hooked up to the machinery. Jake rushes over and goes to unplug him, but the others stop him for his safety. Yaz uses her comm dot to call the Doctor but Adam warns them to escape just as two hazmat figures appear and start firing at them. Yaz holds up one of the control panels to the figures and they stop shooting. Sensing a chance, they escape, with Jake helping carry Adam out. However, Jake reveals that he is not an active police officer and so he cannot help more. The Doctor materialises and realises the figures and their weapons are not from Earth.

To escape, she leads her friends, Jake, and Adam into the TARDIS, where Ryan and Gabriela are already waiting. With everyone meeting each other, Yaz refuses to join them. She explains that the device that the aliens did not want to shoot must have been important, so she should be left behind for one hour to get it. Although the Doctor initially declines her, Gabriela volunteers to join, so the Doctor begrudgingly lets them explore.

As the TARDIS takes off, the Doctor performs a medical check on Adam. She receives a phone call from Aramu and Suki, letting her know something else unusual has happened. Landing back in Madagascar, the Doctor goes to use the lab. Graham wonders how Jake and Adam know each other; although Jake says they are married, Adam instead says they have split up because Jake did not put in enough effort in their relationship. As Ryan and Aramu discuss the strange birds like the ones in Peru, a very large flock gathers overhead. Ryan mentions to the Doctor about the one he picked up but Graham shouts to them that Adam's condition is getting worse. Aramu decides to keep watch of the birds.

Back in Hong Kong, Yaz admits to also not recognising Gabriela as they find the control panel from earlier. Yaz notices that it is triangulating signals from two other places, one of which is Madagascar. Briefly hiding from one of the hazmat aliens, it uses the control panels to teleport away. Yaz wants to follow it, to Gabriela's bewilderment.

Ryan hands the Doctor the dead bird and she tells him to dissect it. Talking to Suki about the lab, she checks the equipment and tells Graham and Jake to connect Adam to an IV drip, which Graham has experience with. As Suki collects some of the devices the Doctor needs, explaining she is working on a marine filtration system, the Doctor uses Suki's computer to analyse Adam's readings. Turning quiet, she tells the group that Adam has been infected with an alien pathogenic disease and she does not know how to stop it.

Meanwhile, Yaz insists on following the creature through the teleport. Despite not knowing what could happen, they channel the spirit of Two Girls Roaming to do it anyway. In Madagascar, Graham tries to comfort Jake about Adam's situation. Jake explains that he did not show to Adam's launch to the International Space Station seven months ago as he is not good with emotions, commitment, or foreign travel. Jake admits that knowing that his husband is an astronaut, he believes there is no way he could love somebody like him.

Yaz and Gabriela land somewhere dark but safe and celebrate surviving. Yaz believes they have landed in an alien colony while Gabriela spots some machinery that Yaz realises is part of the missing submarine. In the lab, Suki compares the blood of Adam and the bird, with hopes of using it to engineer a virus. However, the rock-like growths are spreading to Adam's face and the current antibiotics are not working. As Graham alerts the group that the birds are intensifying, Ryan notices his bird is full of plastic inside - something Suki notes is not uncommon in ocean areas. The Doctor realises the alien pathogen is attacking the plastic eaten by the birds and controlling them as if it was a living creature. She quickly dismisses Auton interference and wonders how this relates to the crystals appearing on people. She then realises that microplastics are everywhere, unable to be broken down, and are ingested by humans all the time, which is what Suki and Aramu's lab works to prevent. As the Doctor notices the dead bird's natural enzymes fighting back against the alien pathogen, Suki realises they could make a virus out of it.

Calling Yaz on her comm dot, the Doctor fills her in as Yaz explains where she has landed. However, the Doctor has an epiphany about Suki and her lab being suspiciously over-prepared. Suki says that the Doctor has helped give her more answers than when she experimented on Adam and, naming the infection as Praxeus, she calls it relentless and teleports away. As the birds intensify, the group go to escape, but they are attacked inside. The Doctor retrieves the samples and they all barely escape to the TARDIS waiting outside, although Aramu is unable to follow.

The Doctor locks on to Yaz's comm dot signal to join her but worries about the virus being spread by birds. Adam insists the potential cure should be tested on him but Jake tries to talk him out of it. Meanwhile, Yaz finds a dead hazmat alien and removes its mask to find out it has been fully infected by Praxeus as well. The Doctor uses the antidote on Adam under the promise that the TARDIS will make more if it works. She, Graham, and Ryan leave Jake and Adam inside.

Meeting up with Yaz and Gabriela again, the Doctor reveals they are not on an alien planet, but on an alien-made base deep under the Indian Ocean. They are beneath a natural pollution gyre, which is where Praxeus multiplies best. Ryan questions how it could arrive on Earth at all and the Doctor decides to track down Suki. Inside the TARDIS, Adam promises Jake that, if he dies, he should stop dodging life. Finding a hazmat alien, the Doctor believes it has not disintegrated due to having different biology to humans and wonders if they were experimenting on Adam to find a cure as well. Meanwhile, Adam's life signs turn vital.

Exploring the tunnel, the Doctor's group uncovers the end of a spaceship from which Suki emerges with a gun. She reveals that the hazmat aliens were members of her crew and she is not from Earth either; her planet was ruined by Praxeus so her people were sent off to find an antidote. She found Earth as the perfect lab to test in, although they crash-landed, destroying the ship and spreading the virus further. However, she brags at having found a cure that she has used on herself, although the Doctor reminds her it was made for humans. Inside the capsule, the Doctor tries to bargain with Suki, but Suki finally succumbs to Praxeus and disintegrates.

Outside, the Doctor assembles her friends to find an antidote and they are joined by Jake and a fully-recovered Adam - the TARDIS having worked and distributed a cure. Inside the shuttle, everyone works on the ship, setting its autopilot to the stratosphere with the organic fuel cells loaded with the antidote that will disperse across the world. However, it will also send the Indian Ocean crashing into their base, forcing them out.

Running back to the TARDIS, the shuttle's autopilot fails, but the Doctor knows it will at least take off. As the TARDIS flies away, Adam realises Jake is missing and he arrives on-screen, acting as a manual pilot for the ship. With no other choice, the Doctor gives him his instructions to release the antidote and eventually does it successfully, ridding the Earth of the virus. However, the ship breaks up in space and the Doctor laments being unable to save him as he proves his dedication to Adam. However, as she says it, the TARDIS materialises around Jake, landing him safely inside, and the husbands kiss.

Returning to Madagascar, the Doctor and friends bid a fond farewell to Jake and Adam, telling them to look after the planet. Jake jokes that he deserves a statue for saving humanity and Adam suggests that they hold their honeymoon on Madagascar. Gabriela decides to join them so she can vlog about it and the two groups part ways, safe in the knowledge that no matter how separate they are, the seven billion lives of Earth are safe.

Cast[[edit]]

Uncredited cast[[edit]]

Hazmat Alien - Jamie McKee^[1]

Crew[[edit]]

Executive Producers Matt Strevens and Chris Chibnall

Series Producer Nikki Wilson


Written by Pete McTighe & Chris Chibnall	Produced by Nikki Wilson	Directed by Jamie Magnus Stone	Director of Photography Catherine Goldschmidt	Production Designer Dafydd Shurmer	Visual Effects DNEG

Make-up Designer Claire Pritchard-Jones	Casting Director Andy Pryor CDG	Music Segun Akinola	Costume Design & Creature Design Ray Holman	Edited by Rebecca Trotman	Special Effects REAL SFX
Original theme music by Ron Grainer • Title sequence by Ben Pickles • With thanks to Niall Doran • Music mixed by Goetz Botzenhardt

General production staff

Script department

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

Movement

Casting

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound

South Africa crew

General production staff

Art department

Camera and lighting department

Sound

Sound Mixer - Ivan Milborrow


Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.

Worldbuilding[[edit]]

Locations[[edit]]

The Doctor has travelled to Madagascar and sent Yaz and Graham to Hong Kong and Ryan to Peru early in the third decade of the 21st century.
According to Gabriela, Peru has the most beautiful river in the world.
A beach in Peru is polluted with trash.
Adam Lang sends Jake Willis a map of his location.
A naval officer washes up on a beach in Madagascar.
The Doctor mentions that there is a talking cat in Ontario.
Gabriela and Ryan track Jamila to a hospital in San Pedro.
Jake, Graham and Yaz find Adam in an abandoned warehouse in Hong Kong.
Adam says he enjoyed watching Earth from above, seeing hurricanes and the aurora borealis, and the turn of the planet.
Yaz is relieved that she and Gabriela didn't teleport into an active volcano.
Yaz thinks she has found an alien colony which the Doctor reveals to just be an alien construct.
The Doctor and the whole team investigate the gyre at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
Suki Cheng's home planet was infected by Praxeus.
Jake takes the spaceship into the stratosphere.

The Doctor[[edit]]

The Doctor indicates she has more than one brain.
The Doctor gives the team gold stars.
The Doctor describes herself as "a romantic".

TARDIS[[edit]]

Gabriela asks if the TARDIS is an optical illusion.
Jake believes the interior of the TARDIS is a building.
The Doctor says the TARDIS is bigger on the inside.
Graham says the TARDIS is a space and time-ship.
The TARDIS has a holographic screen that can be extended away from the console.
The TARDIS has a bioreading table to bioread and synthesise the Praxeus antidote.

Science[[edit]]

Ryan vaguely knows how to dissect dead animals.
Suki has broad-spectrum antibiotics, a high-power microscope, blood cultures, rapid genome sequencing, a spectrophotometer, and a super fast incubator.
Suki and Aramu are working on a marine filtration system connected into a Crystal Oceans Initiative; Microversion.
A pathogen is a microorganism that carries disease.
Humans are filled with microplastics from ingesting microparticles.
The bird enzymes are trying to fight back Praxeus.

Individuals[[edit]]

Planet Earth is said to inhabit 7,000,000,000 people that are all both separated and connected from the depths of the ocean to the edge of the atmosphere.
A thief is stealing from Joyce's supermarket.
Gabriela and Jamila are vloggers on the channel Two Girls Roaming.
Jake Willis claims to be DI.
Jake wonders if Yaz and Graham are Interpol or ESA.
Jake is on a sabbatical.
The submarine's captain tried to rescue the entire navy team, but succumbed to the virus.
Aramu and Suki Cheng work in a lab.
Graham calls Jake Inspector Morse.
The Doctor thinks Ryan has changed his shower gel because he smells of dead bird.
Jake and Adam go on their honeymoon at last, with Gabriela following. She wants to vlog about it, which Graham suggests calling Three Idiots Roaming.

Languages[[edit]]

Adam's spacecraft uses Russian and English.
Gabriela and Jamila speak Portuguese.
- Gabriela refers to Jamila as her "melhor amiga".

Species[[edit]]

The Doctor mentions the Autons when speculating about the infected birds.
The aliens use hazmat suits.

Medical injuries and ailments[[edit]]

The Doctor does an MOT on Adam.
Praxeus is transferred to humans through contact with infected birds.
The Doctor informs Adam Lang that his bloodstream has been infected with an alien pathogen.

Business[[edit]]

The bottled water in the store is from Garwell.
A football match between Liverpool and Manchester City is playing on the television in a bar.
BBC News are shown in the bar, mentioning the European Space Agency.
Gabriela wears a Brasil CBF shirt.
Gabriela messages some contacts on Reddit to access emergency services and satellites in search for Jamila.
Jake mentions the International Space Station.
Zach Olson is from the US navy. He is a naval officer.
There's a Lido Bar in an alleyway in Hong Kong.

Technology[[edit]]

Adam Lang is onboard a Soyuz spacecraft while calling Control. The spaceship suffers automatic system failure with a failed DMP, unable to switch to ballistic descent and maintain trajectory.
The number plate of a lorry in Peru is RTE567UYT.
Jake Willis has a Samsung phone.
Adam contacts Jake using the number +852 07700 900 781.
A US submarine went missing in the Indian Ocean.
Team TARDIS keep in contact with each other using comm dots.
Yaz talks about unusual energy patterns coming from the warehouse.
The aliens have set up machinery with a control panel attached to research the alien virus.
The aliens use special guns.
The aliens use teleport devices.
Suki Cheng uses Windows 7 as her operating system on her computer.
The Doctor uses a Chemical Analyser on Suki's computer to check the chemical data on Adam's Blood Analysis.
Suki's spaceship has reverse pulse proton engines, organic fuel cells, engine vents, manual bypass, dials, comms, spatial regulators and autopilots.
Yaz and Graham have a set of skeleton keys that they use at the warehouse in Hong Kong.

Story notes[[edit]]

This episode had Doctor Who fans pointing out the parallels between the fictional bacteria Praxeus and the real world Coronavirus. The real virus was discovered in December 2019 and spread in 2020, notably after the episode was filmed around January and February 2020.^[2]
The Doctor's opening monologue places Praxeus as taking place "early in the third decade of the 21st century."
This story marked the first television role in any licensed Doctor Who media given to a Brazilian actress, Gabriela Toloi.
This story marked the last time Millennium FX worked on an episode of the show.^[3]
Soyuz spacecrafts, like the one seen in the story, exist in the real world.^[4]
An early version of the story was titled Hush, in which Jake would still have been a serving policeman while Suki's colleague was called Sanya, both working at a port where the Doctor was alerted to a beached submarine used to investigate plastic pollution. The virus would have infected humans into becoming 'plastic people' who would be revealed as clones trying to cure Adam due to Sanya's efforts at finding a cure to the Hush virus through the manipulation of Earth. (DWM 570 supplement)
The script for Praxeus names the hospital visited by Ryan and Gabriela as Cusco Hospital.^[5]

Ratings[[edit]]

3.97 million (BBC overnight)^[6]
5.22 million (BBC overall)^[7]

Myths[[edit]]

The Sea Devils were going to return. This was proven false.

Filming locations[[edit]]

Stellenbosch, South Africa - Peruvian beach
SBH Cotton Mills, Epping, Cape Town, South Africa - Cusco Hospital
Century City, Cape Town, South Africa - Gabriela Camara's tent
Kogel Bay, Cape Town, South Africa - Madagascan beach
Lido Bar, Cape Town, South Africa - Lido Bar, Hong Kong
Cape Town, South Africa - Hong Kong
Mamhilad Park Estate, Pontypool - Hong Kong warehouse
Cardiff Food Centre - supermarket

(All DWM 570 supplement)

Production errors[[edit]]

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

As the Doctor is standing in the TARDIS doorway watching Yaz and Gabriela leave, it is obvious that the interior of the TARDIS is just a photo pasted onto the back wall.

Continuity[[edit]]

Team TARDIS are investigating the three separate distress signals received by the TARDIS. (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon)
The Doctor briefly entertains the possibility that the Autons might have taken over the world's discarded plastic. The Nestene Consciousness recently did take over the North Atlantic garbage patch, with ongoing plans for world domination through Bakin Petrochemicals. Rhys Williams took care of this threat in the short term. (AUDIO: Sargasso)
Team TARDIS use comm dots. (TV: The Tsuranga Conundrum)
When the TARDIS materialises around Jake, he appears in the interior. (TV: The Parting of the Ways, Let's Kill Hitler, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
Yaz and Graham use a set of skeleton keys at the warehouse in Hong Kong. Previously, the Eighth Doctor carried a skeleton key. (PROSE: Jonah)

Home video releases[[edit]]

DVD and Blu-ray releases[[edit]]

This story was released as part of the Complete Twelfth Series boxset on DVD and Blu-ray in region 1/A on 9 June 2020, in region 2/B on 4 May 2020 and in region 4/B on 3 June 2020.

Digital releases[[edit]]

In the United Kingdom, this story is available on BBC iPlayer.

External links[[edit]]

Official Praxeus page on the Doctor Who website

Footnotes[[edit]]

[1] ttps://cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-who-praxeus-behind-the-scenes

[2] Did Doctor Who's new episode reference the Coronavirus? | Metro News

[3] Doctor Who Online - News & Reviews - Millennium FX Depart Doctor Who After 15 Years

[4] Here is how Soyuz returns to Earth

[5] S12: EP6 - Praxeus on bbc.co.uk

[6] Praxeus - Overnight Viewing Figures

[7] Praxeus - Official Ratings

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 == Synopsis ==
-''to be added''
+What connects strange [[bird]] behaviour in the skies above a [[Madagascar|Madagascan]] [[beach]] to mysterious deaths by a deadly [[Praxeus|virus]] that seems to be spreading? And what does a [[Adam Lang|famous British astronaut]] have to do with all of this? Can the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz solve this puzzle before it's too late?
 == Plot ==
-''to be added''
+Somewhere in space, the spaceship of an astronaut called [[Adam Lang]] is malfunctioning. He attempts to try and fix it but it does not work. The capsule starts spinning and turning violently as he tries to deploy the parachute.
+Back on [[Earth]] in the early [[2020s]], off-duty police officer [[Jake Willis]] tackles a shoplifter to the floor, only to get scolded by a worker called [[Joyce (Praxeus)|Joyce]], who reminds him that he should be on a break.
+In [[Peru]], [[Gabriela Camara]] takes her friend [[Jamila Velez]] to see a river so they can film it, only to find it has been polluted with plastic waste with birds gathering above, despite normally being beautiful. Late that night, Jamila goes outside her tent and is attacked by an unseen force.
+Elsewhere, Jake is drinking in a bar as a breaking news story comes on the TV. It states that Adam is now missing, presumed dead. He is devastated until he receives a text from someone claiming to be Adam, telling him to come and find him somewhere in [[Hong Kong]]. Meanwhile, Gabriela wakes up, only to find that Jamila is not there anymore. She goes out to find her and comes across a bird dropping out of the sky. As she goes to touch it, [[Ryan Sinclair]] appears and stops her, telling her that something is wrong with the birds.
+Jake arrives in Hong Kong. He tries to break into a warehouse where Adam supposedly is but fails to do so. Nearby, [[Yasmin Khan]] and [[Graham O'Brien]] arrive, brandishing a set of skeleton keys and they follow him in.
+By a beach in [[Madagascar]], a laboratory worker called [[Aramu]] greets his coworker, [[Suki Cheng]]. As they settle down for work, they spot [[Thirteenth Doctor|the Doctor]] sprinting down the beach asking for help. Spotting a body in the water, the three work to get him to ground. The Doctor explains that she usually has help from her friends, but "I gave them all errands."
+Meanwhile, Gabriela threatens Ryan about Jamila disappearing, but he denies knowledge as something is wrong with the birds. As Gabriela frisks him for weapons, she introduces herself, supposing Ryan knows her already. He admits he does not and she explains she runs a popular travel vlog with Jamila called Two Girls Roaming. Ryan gathers one of the fallen birds for research as Gabriela receives news that there was an ambulance call-out only one mile away that morning.
+Inside the warehouse, Jake questions Graham and Yaz, presuming they had come from the [[European Space Agency]], but they are unaware of Adam going missing. Yaz explains they have been told to find out the reason behind some unusual energy readings coming from the building, unaware that a figure in a full hazmat suit is watching them.
+On the beach, the Doctor helps the man out of the water and Aramu identifies his uniform as a member of the [[United States of America|US]] Navy. As the three introduce themselves, the Doctor explains that she has been checking for survivors after an American submarine went missing in the [[Indian Ocean]]. As they go to move the man inside Aramu and Suki's lab, he wakes up, begging for help. He gives his name as [[Zach Olson]] and explains that his sub got hit and was invaded by something before they could react. As he talks, a stone-like crystalline substance grows and spreads from his hand across his body. It eventually reaches his face, completely covering his features before his body shatters into dust. Stunned, the Doctor tells the others not to be alarmed and she laments not being able to see a connection between the three seemingly unrelated events she has sent her friends to uncover.
+Ryan and Gabriela arrive at [[San Pedro, Peru|San Pedro]] hospital, although it appears deserted. Exploring, Ryan finds another dead bird and he ignores Gabriela's warnings to look inside a quarantined area. Inside, they find Jamila lying on a hospital bed with the same stone coverings as Zach had. Ryan uses his [[comm dot]] to contact the Doctor as Jamila starts spasming, her eyes blank. As [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] arrives, the Doctor explains that Jamila is already dead but still being attacked, just as she too disintegrates. Ryan fails to calm Gabriela down as the Doctor realises the severity of the situation.
+Meanwhile, Graham and Yaz track down the strange energy readings in the warehouse and discover a room full of strange alien consoles. As Yaz investigates, Adam is illuminated, looking very ill and still in his spacesuit, hooked up to the machinery. Jake rushes over and goes to unplug him, but the others stop him for his safety. Yaz uses her comm dot to call the Doctor but Adam warns them to escape just as two hazmat figures appear and start firing at them. Yaz holds up one of the control panels to the figures and they stop shooting. Sensing a chance, they escape, with Jake helping carry Adam out. However, Jake reveals that he is not an active police officer and so he cannot help more. The Doctor materialises and realises the figures and their weapons are not from Earth.
+To escape, she leads her friends, Jake, and Adam into the TARDIS, where Ryan and Gabriela are already waiting. With everyone meeting each other, Yaz refuses to join them. She explains that the device that the aliens did not want to shoot must have been important, so she should be left behind for one hour to get it. Although the Doctor initially declines her, Gabriela volunteers to join, so the Doctor begrudgingly lets them explore.
+As the TARDIS takes off, the Doctor performs a medical check on Adam. She receives a phone call from Aramu and Suki, letting her know something else unusual has happened. Landing back in Madagascar, the Doctor goes to use the lab. Graham wonders how Jake and Adam know each other; although Jake says they are married, Adam instead says they have split up because Jake did not put in enough effort in their relationship. As Ryan and Aramu discuss the strange birds like the ones in Peru, a very large flock gathers overhead. Ryan mentions to the Doctor about the one he picked up but Graham shouts to them that Adam's condition is getting worse. Aramu decides to keep watch of the birds.
+Back in Hong Kong, Yaz admits to also not recognising Gabriela as they find the control panel from earlier. Yaz notices that it is triangulating signals from two other places, one of which is Madagascar. Briefly hiding from one of the hazmat aliens, it uses the control panels to teleport away. Yaz wants to follow it, to Gabriela's bewilderment.
+Ryan hands the Doctor the dead bird and she tells him to dissect it. Talking to Suki about the lab, she checks the equipment and tells Graham and Jake to connect Adam to an IV drip, which Graham has experience with. As Suki collects some of the devices the Doctor needs, explaining she is working on a marine filtration system, the Doctor uses Suki's computer to analyse Adam's readings. Turning quiet, she tells the group that Adam has been infected with an alien pathogenic disease and she does not know how to stop it.
+Meanwhile, Yaz insists on following the creature through the teleport. Despite not knowing what could happen, they channel the spirit of Two Girls Roaming to do it anyway. In Madagascar, Graham tries to comfort Jake about Adam's situation. Jake explains that he did not show to Adam's launch to the [[International Space Station]] seven months ago as he is not good with emotions, commitment, or foreign travel. Jake admits that knowing that his husband is an astronaut, he believes there is no way he could love somebody like him.
+Yaz and Gabriela land somewhere dark but safe and celebrate surviving. Yaz believes they have landed in an alien colony while Gabriela spots some machinery that Yaz realises is part of the missing submarine. In the lab, Suki compares the blood of Adam and the bird, with hopes of using it to engineer a virus. However, the rock-like growths are spreading to Adam's face and the current antibiotics are not working. As Graham alerts the group that the birds are intensifying, Ryan notices his bird is full of plastic inside - something Suki notes is not uncommon in ocean areas. The Doctor realises the alien pathogen is attacking the plastic eaten by the birds and controlling them as if it was a living creature. She quickly dismisses [[Auton]] interference and wonders how this relates to the crystals appearing on people. She then realises that microplastics are everywhere, unable to be broken down, and are ingested by humans all the time, which is what Suki and Aramu's lab works to prevent. As the Doctor notices the dead bird's natural enzymes fighting back against the alien pathogen, Suki realises they could make a virus out of it.
+Calling Yaz on her comm dot, the Doctor fills her in as Yaz explains where she has landed. However, the Doctor has an epiphany about Suki and her lab being suspiciously over-prepared. Suki says that the Doctor has helped give her more answers than when she experimented on Adam and, naming the infection as [[Praxeus]], she calls it relentless and teleports away. As the birds intensify, the group go to escape, but they are attacked inside. The Doctor retrieves the samples and they all barely escape to the TARDIS waiting outside, although Aramu is unable to follow.
+The Doctor locks on to Yaz's comm dot signal to join her but worries about the virus being spread by birds. Adam insists the potential cure should be tested on him but Jake tries to talk him out of it. Meanwhile, Yaz finds a dead hazmat alien and removes its mask to find out it has been fully infected by Praxeus as well. The Doctor uses the antidote on Adam under the promise that the TARDIS will make more if it works. She, Graham, and Ryan leave Jake and Adam inside.
+Meeting up with Yaz and Gabriela again, the Doctor reveals they are not on an alien planet, but on an alien-made base deep under the Indian Ocean. They are beneath a natural pollution gyre, which is where Praxeus multiplies best. Ryan questions how it could arrive on Earth at all and the Doctor decides to track down Suki. Inside the TARDIS, Adam promises Jake that, if he dies, he should stop dodging life. Finding a hazmat alien, the Doctor believes it has not disintegrated due to having different biology to humans and wonders if they were experimenting on Adam to find a cure as well. Meanwhile, Adam's life signs turn vital.
+Exploring the tunnel, the Doctor's group uncovers the end of a spaceship from which Suki emerges with a gun. She reveals that the hazmat aliens were members of her crew and she is not from Earth either; her planet was ruined by Praxeus so her people were sent off to find an antidote. She found Earth as the perfect lab to test in, although they crash-landed, destroying the ship and spreading the virus further. However, she brags at having found a cure that she has used on herself, although the Doctor reminds her it was made for humans. Inside the capsule, the Doctor tries to bargain with Suki, but Suki finally succumbs to Praxeus and disintegrates.
+Outside, the Doctor assembles her friends to find an antidote and they are joined by Jake and a fully-recovered Adam - the TARDIS having worked and distributed a cure. Inside the shuttle, everyone works on the ship, setting its autopilot to the stratosphere with the organic fuel cells loaded with the antidote that will disperse across the world. However, it will also send the Indian Ocean crashing into their base, forcing them out.
+Running back to the TARDIS, the shuttle's autopilot fails, but the Doctor knows it will at least take off. As the TARDIS flies away, Adam realises Jake is missing and he arrives on-screen, acting as a manual pilot for the ship. With no other choice, the Doctor gives him his instructions to release the antidote and eventually does it successfully, ridding the Earth of the virus. However, the ship breaks up in space and the Doctor laments being unable to save him as he proves his dedication to Adam. However, as she says it, the TARDIS materialises around Jake, landing him safely inside, and the husbands kiss.
+Returning to Madagascar, the Doctor and friends bid a fond farewell to Jake and Adam, telling them to look after the planet. Jake jokes that he deserves a statue for saving humanity and Adam suggests that they hold their honeymoon on Madagascar. Gabriela decides to join them so she can vlog about it and the two groups part ways, safe in the knowledge that no matter how separate they are, the seven billion lives of Earth are safe.
 == Cast ==
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 * [[Joyce (Praxeus)|Joyce]] - [[Soo Drouet]]
 * [[Zach Olson]] - [[Tristan de Beer]]
-* [[Arumu]] - [[Thapelo Maropefela]]
+* [[Aramu]] - [[Thapelo Maropefela]]
+=== Uncredited cast ===
+* [[Suki Cheng's crew|Hazmat Alien]] - [[Jamie McKee]]<ref>https://cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-who-praxeus-behind-the-scenes</ref>
 == Crew ==
-''to be added''
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+== Worldbuilding ==
+=== Locations ===
+* The Doctor has travelled to [[Madagascar]] and sent Yaz and Graham to [[Hong Kong]] and Ryan to [[Peru]] early in the [[2020s|third decade]] of the [[21st century]].
+* According to Gabriela, Peru has the most beautiful [[Peruvian river|river]] in the world.
+* A [[Peruvian beach|beach in Peru]] is [[pollution|polluted]] with [[trash]].
+* Adam Lang sends Jake Willis a [[map]] of his location.
+* A naval officer washes up on a [[Madagascan beach|beach in Madagascar]].
+* The Doctor mentions that there is a [[Cat (Praxeus)|talking cat]] in [[Ontario]].
+* Gabriela and Ryan track Jamila to a [[San Pedro hospital|hospital]] in [[San Pedro, Peru|San Pedro]].
+* Jake, Graham and Yaz find Adam in an abandoned [[Hong Kong warehouse|warehouse]] in Hong Kong.
+* Adam says he enjoyed watching [[Earth]] from above, seeing [[hurricane]]s and the [[aurora borealis]], and the [[Earth axis rotation|turn of the planet]].
+* Yaz is relieved that she and Gabriela didn't [[teleport]] into an active [[volcano]].
+* Yaz thinks she has found an [[alien colony]] which the Doctor reveals to just be an alien [[construct]].
+* The Doctor and the whole team investigate the [[gyre (place)|gyre]] at [[Bottom of the Indian Ocean|the bottom]] of the [[Indian Ocean]].
+* Suki Cheng's [[Planet (Praxeus)|home planet]] was infected by Praxeus.
+* Jake takes the spaceship into the [[stratosphere]].
-== References ==
 === The Doctor ===
+* The Doctor indicates she has more than one [[brain]].
+* The Doctor gives the team [[Gold star (score)|gold stars]].
 * The Doctor describes herself as "a [[romance|romantic]]".
-=== Locations ===
-''to be added''
 === TARDIS ===
-* The TARDIS synthesizes the [[Anti-Praxeus virus]]
+* Gabriela asks if the TARDIS is an [[optical illusion]].
+* Jake believes the interior of the TARDIS is a [[building]].
+* The Doctor says the TARDIS is [[Dimensional transcendentalism|bigger on the inside]].
+* Graham says the TARDIS is a [[space]] and [[time]]-ship.
+* The TARDIS has a [[holographic screen]] that can be extended away from the [[TARDIS control console|console]].
+* The TARDIS has a [[Bioreading synthesizer|bioreading table]] to [[bioreading|bioread]] and [[synthesis]]e the [[Praxeus antidote]].
 === Science ===
-''to be added''
+* Ryan vaguely knows how to [[dissection|dissect]] dead animals.
+* Suki has [[broad-spectrum antibiotic]]s, a [[high-power microscope]], [[blood culture]]s, [[rapid genome sequencing]], a [[spectrophotometer]], and a super fast [[incubator]].
+* Suki and Aramu are working on a [[marine filtration system]] connected into a [[Crystal Oceans Initiative]]; [[Microversion]].
+* A [[pathogen]] is a [[microorganism]] that carries [[disease]].
+* [[Human]]s are filled with [[microplastic]]s from ingesting [[microparticle]]s.
+* The bird [[enzyme]]s are trying to fight back Praxeus.
 === Individuals ===
-''to be added''
+* [[Planet]] [[Earth]] is said to inhabit [[7000000000 (number)|7,000,000,000]] [[human|people]] that are all both separated and connected from the depths of the [[ocean]] to the edge of the [[atmosphere]].
+* A [[Thief (Praxeus)|thief]] is stealing from [[Joyce (Praxeus)|Joyce]]'s supermarket.
+* [[Gabriela Camara|Gabriela]] and [[Jamila Velez|Jamila]] are [[vlog]]gers on the [[channel]] [[Two Girls Roaming]].
+* [[Jake Willis]] claims to be [[Detective Inspector|DI]].
+* Jake wonders if Yaz and Graham are [[Interpol]] or [[European Space Agency|ESA]].
+* Jake is on a [[sabbatical]].
+* The submarine's [[US submarine captain (Praxeus)|captain]] tried to rescue the entire [[navy]] team, but succumbed to the [[virus]].
+* [[Aramu]] and [[Suki Cheng]] work in [[Suki Cheng's laboratory|a lab]].
+* Graham calls Jake [[Inspector Morse]].
+* The Doctor thinks Ryan has changed his [[shower gel]] because he smells of dead [[bird]].
+* Jake and Adam go on their [[honeymoon]] at last, with Gabriela following. She wants to vlog about it, which Graham suggests calling [[Three Idiots Roaming]].
+=== Languages ===
+* Adam's spacecraft uses [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[English language|English]].
+* Gabriela and Jamila speak [[Portuguese (language)|Portuguese]].
+** Gabriela refers to Jamila as her "[[best friend|melhor amiga]]".
 === Species ===
 * The Doctor mentions the [[Autons]] when speculating about the infected birds.
+* The [[Suki Cheng's crew|aliens]] use [[hazmat]] suits.
 === Medical injuries and ailments ===
-* [[Praxeus]] is transferred to humans through contact with infected birds
+* The Doctor does an [[Multicentre Ovarian Tumor Study|MOT]] on Adam.
+* [[Praxeus]] is transferred to humans through contact with infected birds.
+* The Doctor informs [[Adam Lang]] that his [[bloodstream]] has been infected with an alien pathogen.
+=== Business ===
+* The bottled [[water]] in the [[Supermarket (Praxeus)|store]] is from [[Garwell]].
+* A [[football]] match between [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] and [[Manchester City]] is playing on the [[television]] in a [[Bar (Praxeus)|bar]].
+* [[BBC News 24|BBC News]] are shown in the bar, mentioning the [[European Space Agency]].
+* Gabriela wears a [[Brasil CBF]] [[shirt]].
+* Gabriela messages some [[Reddit user|contacts]] on [[Reddit]] to access [[emergency services]] and [[satellite]]s in search for Jamila.
+* Jake mentions the [[International Space Station]].
+* [[Zach Olson]] is from the [[United States Navy|US navy]]. He is a [[naval officer]].
+* There's a [[Lido Bar]] in an alleyway in [[Hong Kong]].
 === Technology ===
+* Adam Lang is onboard a [[Soyuz]] [[spacecraft]] while calling [[Control (Praxeus)|Control]]. The spaceship suffers [[automatic system failure]] with a failed [[DMP]], unable to switch to [[ballistic descent]] and maintain [[trajectory]].
+* The [[number plate]] of a [[lorry]] in [[Peru]] is [[RTE567UYT]].
+* Jake Willis has a [[Samsung]] phone.
+* Adam contacts Jake using the number [[+852 07700 900 781 (telephone number)|+852 07700 900 781]].
+* A [[US submarine (Praxeus)|US submarine]] went missing in the [[Indian Ocean]].
 * Team TARDIS keep in contact with each other using [[comm dot]]s.
+* Yaz talks about unusual [[energy pattern]]s coming from the warehouse.
+* The aliens have set up machinery with a [[Control panel (Praxeus)|control panel]] attached to research the alien virus.
+* The aliens use [[Alien gun (Praxeus)|special guns]].
+* The aliens use [[Teleport device (Praxeus)|teleport devices]].
 * [[Suki Cheng]] uses [[Windows 7]] as her operating system on her [[computer]].
+* The Doctor uses a [[Chemical Analyser]] on Suki's computer to check the [[chemical data]] on Adam's [[Blood Analysis]].
+* Suki's [[Spaceship (Praxeus)|spaceship]] has [[reverse pulse proton engine]]s, [[organic fuel cell]]s, [[engine vent]]s, [[manual bypass]], [[dial]]s, [[comm]]s, [[spatial regulator]]s and [[autopilot]]s.
+* Yaz and Graham have a set of [[skeleton key]]s that they use at the warehouse in Hong Kong.
 == Story notes ==
-* Despite being filmed in 2019, ''Praxeus'' has ''Doctor Who'' fans speculating if the virus in the story, [[Praxeus|known by the same name]], is actually a reference to the real world Coronavirus, only discovered in 2020, the year of the story's broadcast.<ref>https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/02/doctor-fans-confused-praxeus-seems-reference-coronavirus-despite-shot-last-year-12166155/?fbclid=IwAR1Xpu432hAkWrb0gUmxPCQ6XYQc-1uZv1cGmNk6GRpSfzC86H7ueNi8btE</ref>
+* This episode had ''Doctor Who'' fans pointing out the parallels between the fictional bacteria [[Praxeus]] and the real world Coronavirus. The real virus was discovered in December 2019 and spread in 2020, notably after the episode was filmed around January and February 2020.<ref>[https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/02/doctor-fans-confused-praxeus-seems-reference-coronavirus-despite-shot-last-year-12166155/ Did Doctor Who's new episode reference the Coronavirus? | Metro News]</ref>
 * The Doctor's [[Episode monologue|opening monologue]] places ''Praxeus'' as taking place "early in the [[2020s|third decade]] of the [[21st century]]."
-* This story marked the first televised ''Doctor Who'' appearance of a [[Brazil]]ian character ([[Gabriela Camara]], who speaks [[Portuguese (language)|Portuguese]] and is seen wearing an official [[Brasil CBF]] shirt), and the first television role given to a Brazilian actress, [[Gabriela Toloi]]. Gabriela Camara was not ''played'' by Toloi, however; a Portuguese actor, [[Joana Borja]], was cast instead.
+* This story marked the first television role in any licensed ''Doctor Who'' media given to a Brazilian actress, [[Gabriela Toloi]].
+* This story marked the last time [[Millennium FX]] worked on an episode of the show.<ref>[https://news.drwho-online.co.uk/Millennium-FX-Depart-Doctor-Who-After-15-Years.aspx Doctor Who Online - News & Reviews - Millennium FX Depart Doctor Who After 15 Years]</ref>
+* [[Soyuz]] [[spacecraft]]s, like the one seen in the story, exist in the real world.<ref>[http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-landing.html Here is how Soyuz returns to Earth]</ref>
+* An early version of the story was titled ''Hush'', in which Jake would still have been a serving policeman while Suki's colleague was called Sanya, both working at a port where the Doctor was alerted to a beached submarine used to investigate plastic pollution. The virus would have infected humans into becoming 'plastic people' who would be revealed as clones trying to cure Adam due to Sanya's efforts at finding a cure to the Hush virus through the manipulation of Earth. ([[DWM 570]] supplement)
+* The script for ''Praxeus'' names the hospital visited by Ryan and Gabriela as Cusco Hospital.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/documents/doctor-who-s12-ep6-praxeus-pete-mctighe-chris-chibnall.pdf ''S12: EP6 - Praxeus'' on bbc.co.uk]</ref>
 === Ratings ===
-''to be added''
+* 3.97 million (BBC overnight)<ref>[http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2020/02/praxeus-overnight-viewing-figures.html Praxeus - Overnight Viewing Figures]</ref>
+* 5.22 million (BBC overall)<ref>[http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2020/02/praxeus-official-ratings.html Praxeus - Official Ratings]</ref>
 === Myths ===
-*The [[Sea Devil]]s were going to return. ''This was proven false''
+* The [[Sea Devil]]s were going to return. ''This was proven false.''
 === Filming locations ===
-''to be added''
+* Stellenbosch, [[South Africa]] - [[Peruvian beach]]
+* SBH Cotton Mills, Epping, [[Cape Town]], South Africa - Cusco Hospital
+* Century City, Cape Town, South Africa - [[Gabriela Camara]]'s tent
+* Kogel Bay, Cape Town, South Africa - [[Madagascan beach]]
+* [[Lido Bar]], Cape Town, South Africa - Lido Bar, Hong Kong
+* Cape Town, South Africa - [[Hong Kong]]
+* Mamhilad Park Estate, [[Pontypool]] - [[Hong Kong warehouse]]
+* [[Cardiff]] Food Centre - supermarket
+(All [[DWM 570]] supplement)
 === Production errors ===
 {{discontinuity}}
-''to be added''
+* As the Doctor is standing in the TARDIS doorway watching Yaz and Gabriela leave, it is obvious that the interior of the TARDIS is just a photo pasted onto the back wall.
 == Continuity ==
 * Team TARDIS are investigating the three separate distress signals received by the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]'')
-* The Doctor briefly entertains the possibility that the [[Auton]]s might have taken over the world's plastic. In fact, the [[Nestene Consciousness]] recently did take over the [[North Atlantic garbage patch]], with ongoing plans for world domination through [[Bakin Petrochemicals]]. [[Rhys Williams]] took care of this threat in the short term. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sargasso (audio story)|Sargasso]]'')
+* The Doctor briefly entertains the possibility that the [[Auton]]s might have taken over the world's discarded plastic. The [[Nestene Consciousness]] recently did take over the [[North Atlantic garbage patch]], with ongoing plans for world domination through [[Bakin Petrochemicals]]. [[Rhys Williams]] took care of this threat in the short term. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sargasso (audio story)|Sargasso]]'')
 * Team TARDIS use [[comm dot]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tsuranga Conundrum (TV story)|The Tsuranga Conundrum]]'')
+* When the TARDIS materialises around Jake, he appears in the interior. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]],'' ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'')
+* Yaz and Graham use a set of [[skeleton key]]s at the warehouse in Hong Kong. Previously, the [[Eighth Doctor]] carried a skeleton key. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jonah (short story)|Jonah]]'')
 == Home video releases ==
-''to be added''
+===DVD and Blu-ray releases===
+* This story was released as part of the Complete Twelfth Series boxset on DVD and Blu-ray in region 1/A on [[9 June (releases)|9 June]] [[2020 (releases)|2020]], in region 2/B on [[4 May (releases)|4 May]] 2020 and in region 4/B on [[3 June (releases)|3 June]] 2020.
+===Digital releases===
+* In the United Kingdom, this story is available on [[BBC iPlayer]]''.''
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-[[Category:Stories set in the 2020s]]

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