The Bells of Saint John (TV story): Difference between revisions

The [[Eleventh Doctor]] re-discovers "the woman twice dead", [[Clara Oswald]], in [[2013]] [[London]]. After Clara's mind was almost uploaded and imprisoned for the mysterious "client" of Miss [[Kizlet]], the Doctor places this impossible person under his protection. The two become under attack by anything that can be controlled by the [[Wi-Fi]], while the previously un-savvy Clara has suddenly gained the abilities of a skilled hacker via a software patch.

[[Nabile]] warns anyone listening about the dangers of the Wi-Fi. He shows a placard with some odd symbols, and warns not to connect to any networks with writing like this. If you do, you'll get chosen. And people who get chosen die within 24 hours. At least temporarily — their [[soul]]s live on, trapped. Sometimes you can hear their cries, "I don't know where I am," on the [[radio]], on the [[television|telly]], or on the [[Internet|net]]. Nabile says that he knows this because, "I don't know where I am." He's trapped in a screen, surrounded by a wall of other victims who are all calling out in fear and confusion, "I don't know where I am."

In [[1207]] [[Cumbria]], a [[monk]] named [[Paul (The Bells of Saint John)|Paul]] pounds on the doors to an abbey, calling to wake the [[Abbot (The Bells of Saint John)|Abbot]] because "the bells of Saint John are ringing". As they head into a cave, Paul asks the Abbot why they call him (the Doctor) [[Aliases of the Doctor|the Mad Monk]]. The Abbot informs him that they should not, as the man is not really a monk. They give their message to the [[Eleventh Doctor]], who asks for a horse. As he goes to prepare, the monks discuss the [[painting (The Bells of Saint John)|painting]] in his room of "[[Clara Oswin Oswald|the woman twice dead]]", and her last message, "Run you clever boy and remember." The Abbot observes that if the Doctor is mad, that is his madness.

Meanwhile, in [[2013]] [[London]], it is 3:30pm and [[Clara Oswald (The Bells of Saint John)|Clara Oswald]] is having trouble with connecting her [[computer]] to the [[internet]]. She tells [[Angie Maitland|Angie]] that she's been ringing the help line but they haven't answered. [[George Maitland|George]] comes through on his way out, saying that the adverts to replace Clara are in. Clara catches sight of the [[book]] that [[Artie Maitland|Artie]] has, ''[[Summer Falls]]'', by [[Amy Pond|Amelia Williams]]. He tells her he's on chapter 10. She replies that "eleven is the best. You'll cry your eyes out." They head out, and Clara chants "pick it up pick it up" as she goes upstairs to her [[computer]] and continues to try the help line.

Back in 1207, the Doctor and the monks arrive to find [[the TARDIS]] [[police box]] [[telephone]] (which is next to a St Johns Ambulance sticker), is ringing. A very confused Doctor picks up the phone, to be told that the caller can't find the Internet. The Doctor slowly realises that the caller is in modern-day London. Clara was given his number by "the woman in the shop", and told that "it's the best helpline out there. In the [[universe]], she said." The Doctor starts to explain he's not actually a help line, but gives up and asks if she's tried clicking on the [[Wi-Fi]] button. She first tries the Maitland_Family link, but needs the password from Angie, who gives her a mnemonic to remember it. She mutters the phrase aloud on the phone as she enters it. "Run you clever boy and remember." The Doctor recognises her voice and the phrase, and shouts, spoiling her concentration. She puts in the wrong password. She goes back to the screen this time choosing the open network with the strange symbols.

Revealing that [[Oswin Oswald|Oswin]]'s not part of her name, Clara states that she doesn't remember him. "[[The "Doctor Who?" running joke|Doctor who?]]" He asks her to repeat herself, twice, and tells her that he never realised how much he enjoyed hearing that said out loud. Clara takes that moment to close the door on him, locking it. She pauses on the stairs as he continues to pound on the door.

The wall of little screens is in a dark room full of computers and people, where an analyst approaches his superior. [[Alexei (The Bells of Saint John)|Alexei]] calls Clara borderline, meaning she's "very clever, but no computer skills." Miss [[Kizlet]] tells him to "upload" her anyway, and "splice" her a computer skills package. He responds that he'll activate the [[Spoonhead]]s, which Kizlet complained were called "servers". As she returns to her office, Kizlet discusses him with [[Mahler]], then decides that they should probably [[kill]] him, but only after he gets back from holiday — stating "Let's not be unreasonable."

Mahler is worried that they're uploading too many people too quickly, that they'll get noticed. She tries to comfort him, calling this "[[immortality]], only fatal." She then picks up a [[Kizlet's tablet|tablet]] which shows his name and picture, and sliders marked conscience, paranoia, obedience and [[IQ]]. She lowers the conscience slider, and he backs down. Mahler then realises that she hacked him, as reflected by his rising paranoia slider. He voices his concerns, to which Miss Kizlet coolly asks, "Because you changed your mind?" and lowers the paranoia until he's walked out of the office.

In the TARDIS, the Doctor decides that a change of clothes is in order, since "Monks are not cool." He tries on a [[fez]], then drops a tweed jacket, in favour of a new purple one. With new clothes on, the Doctor opens up a compartment below the [[control room]], and takes out a fancy box with a [[bow tie]] in it.

He walks out of the TARDIS, excited to make a better impression. He asks her to let him in through the intercom, and she responds with, "I don't know where I am", clearly upset as she continues. Using his [[sonic screwdriver]], the Doctor enters the house, and finds Clara lying on the floor, unconscious. She's not moving but he can still hear her cries. Looking up, he realises that her voice is coming from the Spoonhead, which still looks like the little girl. Clara's face can now be seen in the indentation. He uses his screwdriver on the little girl and it reveals the true form of the Spoonhead, a walking [[robot]]ic base station. The upload halts and the Doctor thinks aloud that it is "hoovering up data. Hoovering up people." It used a camouflage based on its victim's thoughts. He quickly scans with the screwdriver, and finds Clara's [[laptop]] upstairs. He grabs it and brings it back downstairs. He begins to reverse the upload, typing rapidly and stating "Not this time," because he doesn't want to lose Clara again.

At the secret base, Alexei is working on Clara's acquisition when an alarm goes off. He, Mahler, and Miss Kizlet find that the download metre for Clara has halted and is going down rapidly. They marvel and Mahler reveals that such a reverse ''is'' possible, in theory. Alexei is typing rapidly, apparently attempting to block the reversal, but the Doctor prevails and the bar goes all the way down to zero. A pause, and then the Spoonhead transmits a pillar of light that returns to Clara. The Doctor checks her pulse.

In Clara's room, the Doctor is tidying up. He takes out [[Jammie Dodger]]s, half-eating one and leaving it on the plate. He then leaves the room. Waking up from her sleep, she pokes out the window, and the Doctor, outside guarding her, recounts everything that she'd missed. Clara reveals that she is a friend of the family who live in the house, and she looks after the children - a "governess", as the previous version of Clara that the Doctor met had been.

When Clara makes a tech-savvy joke, they realise that she has gained greater knowledge of [[computer]]s as a result of being partially uploaded. The duo spot another Spoonhead, presumably sent to re-upload Clara, before all the lights in the neighbourhood switch on. The Doctor realises that the residents are being compelled to do so via the [[Wi-Fi]]. The lights in the rest of [[London]] go off, and the Doctor and Clara see an [[aeroplane]] that is plummeting towards them. He rushes her into the TARDIS and they quickly travel aboard the plane, where the confused Clara watches the Doctor managing to pull the plane out of its dive and revive the crew and passengers, who had been rendered unconscious via the Wi-Fi.

The Doctor and Clara travel forward to the next morning, and travel on [[Anti-gravity motorbike|a motorbike]] to a local [[café]], where Clara uses her laptop to hack into the unknown organisation's webcams. She then searches for the staff on social network sites, where they have all detailed their work location — [[the Shard]]. In the café, the Doctor talks to several people who are being controlled remotely by Kizlet while Clara is re-uploaded by a Spoonhead replica of the Doctor. Upon realising what occurred, the Doctor sets off for the Shard on his motorbike and uses its [[anti-gravity]] setting to scale the building and crashes into Kizlet's office. He tells her to download Clara from the cloud. Kizlet states this is only possible if everyone else in the cloud is downloaded too. He says he knows, and tells her to download everyone. She refuses, and the Doctor states that he intends to motivate her. As his head spins around, Kizlet realises that this is not the Doctor, but a Spoonhead.

It is then revealed that the real Doctor is still at the café and has reprogrammed the Spoonhead, saying "You hack people. Me, I'm old-fashioned. I hack technology." The Spoonhead uploads Kizlet. Experiencing the fear that her prior victims felt, she then from a TV screen orders Mahler to download everyone. They initially do not, but the Doctor has the Spoonhead use Miss Kizlet's tablet to hack Mahler to make him more obedient to her instructions. They download everybody from the cloud. Clara wakes up at the cafe to find the Doctor gone.  

Later, as [[UNIT]] troops begin to take over the base, Kizlet reports a failure to the organisation's leader, revealed to be the [[Great Intelligence]]. He identifies UNIT as "old friends" of the Doctor, and orders her to restore the members of the organisation to their "factory settings", stating "It is time for you to reduce". As a result, all the organisation members' memories after being inducted are wiped, with Miss Kizlet revealed to have been aiding the Great Intelligence for most of her life, as she now has the mentality of a scared [[child]].  

Clara and the Doctor then talk inside the TARDIS, where the Doctor invites her to travel with him. She declines, but tells him to come back the next day to ask her again. She leaves, and the Doctor says "Alright, Clara Oswald. Time to find out who you are."

* The 65th floor of [[The Shard]] is The Great Intelligence's base.

* The episode begins series 7b's seeming "[[Cumbria]]n agenda", with scenes actually set in the region.

*A police box on Earl's Court is mentioned. In real life, one can find it on Google Maps by searching for "Police Telephone Box" and can enter it to find the TARDIS control room (as it appeared in series 7b) while positioned correctly in Street View.

* All the employees working in The Shard used social media sites such as [[Facebook]], Twitter, Foursquare, Google+ or Tumblr, and they posted the location of their workplace.

* Peoples' voices could be heard on the [[radio]], on [[television]]s, and on the [[internet]].

=== TARDIS ===

* There's a garage in the TARDIS.

* The Doctor can't fly an [[aeroplane]]. Despite this, his [[eighth incarnation]] was perfectly capable in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]''; he even specified that he could and in the audio story Dark Eyes the eighth doctor actually flies a World War 1 aeroplane in France whilst attempting to escape the Daleks. The Eleventh Doctor had previously claimed that he was due for a lesson in flying a bi-plane in [[1911]], but never attended the lesson. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'')