Heaven Sent (TV story)

Heaven Sent
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Featuring:	Clara
Main enemy:	The Veil
Main setting:	Inside the Doctor's confession dial
Key crew
Writer:	Steven Moffat
Director:	Rachel Talalay
Producer:	Peter Bennett
Release details
Story number:	260a
Premiere broadcast:	28 November 2015
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x55 minute episode
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Heaven Sent was the eleventh episode of the ninth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.

It features Clara Oswald as a manifestationer part of the Doctor's imagination after he lost her to the Quantum Shade in Face the Raven.

The episode is notable for revealing the inside of the Doctor's Confession Dial, revealing it to be the Doctor's final test, a prison that is bigger on the inside and very much like a miniscope.

It is also notable for showing the Doctor finally finding his way back to Gallifrey since he found out that it was not in fact destroyed in the Time War, but placed in a pocket universe.

Furthermore the Doctor revealed that the hybrid myth was wrong, that it was not half-Dalek half-Time Lord, but that he was the hybrid.

Synopsis

The Doctor is alone and trapped in a place unlike any other and he must face his greatest challenge yet. One final test. A fearsome creature called the Veil is stalking him an he must do the most impossible. He must complete the task, and Gallifrey awaits his return...

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
• Clara - Jenna Coleman
• Veil - Jami Reid-Quarrell

Crew

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References

• What seems like more than two billion years passes for the Doctor within the confession dial. However, as the Doctor keeps reverting back to his state upon arrival, he probably didn't age at all.
• A portrait of Clara is hanging in the castle.

Story notes

• Whilst the episode was promoted by various news outlets as a one-hander, the presence of manifestations of Clara and the Veil, and the appearance of the young boy at the end of the episode, technically go against this. However, the storyline was carried by the Doctor alone, and that's likely what was meant.

Ratings

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Filming location

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Production errors

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.

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Continuity

• The Doctor retains his confession dial. (WC: Prologue, TV: The Magician's Apprentice, Face the Raven)
• The Doctor remembers Clara's death and how she told him not to take revenge. (TV: Face the Raven)
• The Doctor refers to a skull which he finds as his "predecessor," not knowing how correct he is in that reference. The Tremas Master had previously referred to a skeleton in the Death Zone on Gallifrey in the same way. (TV: The Five Doctors)
• The Doctor mentions the Gallifreyan prophecy about the Dalek-Time Lord hybrid, (TV: The Witch's Familiar) and, after admitting that nothing can be "half-Dalek," admits that he is in fact the hybrid. The Doctor's eighth incarnation had once purported to a human hybrid. (TV: Doctor Who) In one account, however, he dismissed this as manufactured by the Chameleon Arch. (COMIC: The Forgotten)
• The Doctor returns to Gallifrey, having got there "the long way round". (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
• The Doctor previously had a connection to a room with his incarnation's number (TV: The God Complex)

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