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| |image = Clara holds the TARDIS.jpg
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| |series = [[Doctor Who television stories|''Doctor Who'' television stories]]
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| |season number = [[Series 8 (Doctor Who)|8]]
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| |story number = 249
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| |doctor = Twelfth Doctor
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| |companions = [[Clara Oswald|Clara]]
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| |enemy = [[Boneless]]
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| |setting = [[Bristol]], [[21st century]]
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| |writer = [[Jamie Mathieson]]
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| |director = [[Douglas Mackinnon]]
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| |producer = [[Nikki Wilson]]
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| |confidential = Flatline (DWE)
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| |broadcast date = [[18 October (releases)|18 October]] [[2014 (releases)|2014]]
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| |format = 1x45 minute episode
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| |network = [[BBC One]]
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| |production code = 4.9
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| '''''Flatline''''' was the ninth episode of the [[series 8 (Doctor Who)|eighth series]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' produced by [[BBC Wales]]. For scheduling reasons, it was a "[[Doctor-lite]]" episode.
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| ''Flatline'' was [[Jamie Mathieson]]'s first script for the show. Two years before writing it, he had pitched his ideas for a story to [[Steven Moffat]], but was unsuccessful. When he again met with the [[executive producer]], he showed him four ideas for episodes, complete with his own illustrations, aided by his background in art college. Taking an interest in the monster he had created for what would become ''Flatline'', Moffat asked Mathieson to produce a story outline and he got the job to script the episode.
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| It was only after writing several drafts that he was told the episode would need to lock the Doctor away in a single location, as [[Peter Capaldi]]’s scenes for the episode needed to be filmed quickly to bide by the production schedule.
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| Mathieson decided to write a script where the Doctor was "in the dark". For this to be successful, he had to create a unknown quantity to feature as his alien enemy. Much like his next creation, the [[Foretold]], he elected to have no dialogue for the aggressors, allowing something about them to remain "unknowable". ([[DWM 479]])
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| == Synopsis ==
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| In a [[council estate]], [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] takes charge as beings from another dimension threaten the [[Earth]]...
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| == Plot ==
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| [[Twelfth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|The Doctor]] misjudges location when returning [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] to the present day, resulting in them landing in [[Bristol]] rather than [[London]]. They also discover that the exterior of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] has shrunk down due a mystery power draining nearby; the Doctor stays with the smaller TARDIS to figure out what is going on while Clara looks around. She finds that locals are disappearing, and mystery murals of them painted in a nearby pedestrian tunnel. Clara returns to find the TARDIS' exterior has shrunk further, trapping the Doctor within as he is unable to fit through the miniaturised doors. He hands Clara his [[psychic paper]], the [[sonic screwdriver]], and an audio/visual earpiece so he can keep in touch with her, and then has her carry the TARDIS with her to where he has tracked a large source of energy.
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| Clara poses as "Doctor Oswald" and gains the confidence of a local graffiti artist, [[Rigsy]], who is part of a community service team, despite the Doctor's initial hesitation towards him. After finding nothing but a strange desert mural at the flat of the latest disappearance, Rigsy gains help from a police officer to gain access to the flat of the first known missing person. The Doctor instructs Clara to tear out the walls, believing the energy source to be within them. While they work, PC [[Forrester (Imperial Moon)|Forrest]] is sucked into the ground out of view of Clara and Rigsy, and when they reach her screams she has disappeared. They look around the room and find another strange mural, and the Doctor realises it's likely to be PC Forrest's nervous system, and believes the first mural was a closeup of human skin of the latest victim. As the entities start to move towards Clara and Rigsy, the Doctor quickly explains the creatures are two-dimensional, and must have been experimenting on the three-dimensional world. As Clara and Rigsy try to avoid the entity, which is in the walls and ground, [[Danny Pink|Danny]] phones Clara, and she manages to avoid questions of her whereabouts and quickly hangs up. The Doctor, who is listening in, recognises that Clara has lied to him about Danny accepting her continued travels in the TARDIS.
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| Clara and Rigsy return to the rest of the community service group, who are about to paint over the murals in the pedestrian tunnel. The Doctor realises that the images are masquerades for the two-dimensional creatures, attempting to understand three dimensions; after the creatures take one of the services workers, Clara leads the rest away with the creatures chasing them. They take shelter in a nearby engine repair warehouse, where the Doctor helps Clara to try to communicate with the creatures using mathematics. When another worker is taken, Clara and the surviving members flee into a disused subway tunnel. As they explore, they find their only escape route has been flattened to two dimensions by the creatures. The Doctor provides Clara with a [[2Dis|device]] to restore the dimensions, and they just manage to escape. However in the chaos, the TARDIS is shrunk further and falls down a shaft on to an active railway line. The Doctor activates the TARDIS' [[siege mode]] to protect it from an oncoming train, but without power is unable to return it to normal.
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| Clara uses the sonic screwdriver to stop an out-of-service train, and they attempt to ram the creatures to prolong time to get back in contact with the Doctor. However, the train is simply transformed into two dimensions; as they escape, Clara finds the TARDIS now looking like a plain [[Gallifrey]]an cube, and takes it with her. Taking shelter in a disused office space, Clara comes up with a plan to provide energy to the TARDIS by having Rigsy paint out a fake access door on the back of a large poster, so that when the creatures attempt to pull it into three dimensions, they instead feed their energy into the TARDIS, restoring it to normal. Realizing they have no interest in peace, the Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to stop the creatures, whom he dubs the "[[Boneless]]", sending them back to their dimension with a warning to those who survive the trip to never return. The Doctor returns everyone to the surface safely. Clara rejects a call from Danny, catching the Doctor's attention; he notes that she enjoyed 'playing the Doctor' for the day.
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| [[Missy (Deep Breath)|Missy]], seated in a darkened room, is watching Clara on what appears to be a [[tablet]]. The insinuation is that Missy has watched the events of the serial unfold. Missy says that with regard to Clara that she has "chosen well".
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| == Cast ==
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| * [[Twelfth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Peter Capaldi]]
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| * [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] - [[Jenna Coleman]]
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| * [[Rigsy]] - [[Joivan Wade]]
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| * [[Danny Pink|Danny]] - [[Samuel Anderson]]
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| * [[Roscoe (Flatine)|Roscoe]] - [[John Cummins]]
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| * [[Forrest|PC Forrest]] - [[Jessica Hayles]]
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| * [[Fenton (Flatline)|Fenton]] - [[Christopher Fairbank]]
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| * [[Al (Flatline)|Al]] - [[Matt Bardock]]
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| * [[George (Flatline)|George]] - [[Raj Bajaj]]
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| * [[Bill (Flatline)|Bill]] - [[James Quinn]]
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| * [[Missy (Deep Breath)|Missy]] - [[Michelle Gomez]]
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| == References ==
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| * The Doctor names the device he creates [[2Dis]].
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| * Clara suggests mimicking a hand motion as performed by the disembodied hand character Thing from ''[[The Addams Family]]'' to enable the Doctor to move the shrunken TARDIS out of the path of an approaching train.
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| * The first train bears the number A113, an animation in-joke used in several other animated movies and T.V. shows.[http://www.eonline.com/news/537548/the-story-behind-the-mysterious-number-that-appears-in-almost-every-pixar-film]
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| === The Doctor's TARDIS ===
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| * The Doctor puts the TARDIS in [[siege mode]].
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| * When the TARDIS is in siege mode, Time Lord writing is clearly visible on the exterior.
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| * The TARDIS makes itself lighter. When landed on the planet's surface, its true weight would fracture the [[Earth]].
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| * The [[cloister bell]] tolls when the TARDIS is in the path of a train with no shields.
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| * The Doctor has a desk underneath the console room.
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| === Organisations ===
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| * Clara pretends to be from [[MI5]] and [[Health and Safety]].
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| === Species ===
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| *The Doctor knows a race made of sentient [[gas]] who throw fireballs as a friendly wave and a race with 64 [[stomach]]s who talk to each other by disemboweling.
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| == Story notes ==
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| * The ''Radio Times'' programme listing was accompanied by a small colour head-and-shoulders shot of Christopher Fairbank as Fenton, with the accompanying caption "Doctor Who / 8.25 p.m. / Will guest star Christopher Fairbank be on hand as Clara is forced to go it alone?
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| === Production errors ===
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| * The Doctor's hair is noticeably shorter in several scenes, starting when the TARDIS falls onto the train track.
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| * In the TARDIS when Clara asks the Doctor to come and see the shrunken TARDIS door the scanner is in the right side of the TARDIS while before it was in the left side.
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| * The hammer the Doctor hands Clara has a head too big to have fit through the shrunken TARDIS' door.
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| * When the TARDIS was first small, the Doctor used one door to get out due to a lining in between in the doors. The second time the TARDIS was very small, both doors were open with there being no lining in between the doors.
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| == Continuity ==
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| *The TARDIS exterior has shrunk on previous occasions. In ''[[Planet of Giants (TV story)|Planet of Giants]]'', it was made smaller, as were its occupants. In ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', the Doctor's TARDIS was reduced in size after {{Ainley}} interfered with the [[Logopolitan]]'s [[Block Transfer Computation]].
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| * The Doctor again uses "pudding brain" as a mocking description of humans and their intelligence. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')
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| * The Doctor uncovers Clara's lies about Danny's stance of her travelling with him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'')
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| *[[Isolus]] and the [[Mona Lisa]] were able to transfer the two dimensional into the three dimensional, and vice versa. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fear Her (TV story)|Fear Her]]'', ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'')
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| * There are people naturally immune to the [[psychic paper]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')
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