For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)

For Tonight We Might Die
Main character(s):	Charlie, April, Ram, Tanya, Miss Quill
Featuring:	Twelfth Doctor
Main enemy:	Shadow Kin, Corakinus
Main setting:	Coal Hill Academy, 2010s
Key crew
Writer:	Patrick Ness
Director:	Ed Bazalgette
Producer:	Derek Ritchie
Release details
Story number:	1
Premiere broadcast:	22 October 2016
Premiere network:	BBC Three
Format:	1x45 minute episode
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For Tonight We Might Die was the first episode of Class. It introduced the series' regular characters, and revealed that an excess in artron energy from nearby time travel has opened up a tear in space-time in Coal Hill Academy. April begins sharing her heart with Corakinus.

Broadcast on BBC Three on 22 October 2016, along with The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo, For Tonight We Might Die aired exactly ten years after the airdate of Torchwood's first episode, Everything Changes and Day One.

This episode was also shown at the Class World Premiere in Shoreditch, London on 20 October.

Synopsis

When Coal Hill School comes under attack from deadly monsters, four alienated students must form an unlikely alliance to defeat them. But this incursion is only the beginning.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Miss Quill - Katherine Kelly
• Charlie - Greg Austin
• Ram - Fady Elsayed
• April - Sophie Hopkins
• Tanya - Vivian Oparah
• The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
• Matteusz - Jordan Renzo
• Coach Dawson - Ben Peel
• Jackie - Shannon Murray
• Varun - Aaron Neil
• Vivian - Natasha Gordon
• Rachel - Anna Shaffer
• Corakinus - Paul Marc Davies
• Mr Armitage - Nigel Betts
• Miss Shah - Pooja Shah
• Kevin - Alex Leak
• Mrs Linderhof - Laura-June Hudson
• Counter Clerk - Santam Bhogal
• Student 1 - Ellie James
• Student 2 - Moses Adejimi
• Student 3 - Assay Hagos
• Student 4 - Shalisha James-Davis

Crew

Executive Producers   Brian Minchin, Steven Moffat and Patrick Ness

General production staff Head of Production - Gordon Ronald Production Executive - Tracie Simpson Line Producer - Marshall Leviten Production Manager - Andrew Bonner Location Manager - Iestyn Hampson-Jones Location Assistant - Hefin Rees Unit Manager - Lyn Moses Production Co-ordinator - Jessica Elise Evans Assistant Production Co-ordinators - Jade Stephenson, Philip Meachem Production Runner - Emily Lowe Business Affairs Executive - Steve Robson Production Accountant - Dyfed Thomas Assistant Accountant - Lisa Lloyd Accounts Assistant - Greg Robinson Script department Script Editor - Emma Genders Script Executive - Lindsey Alford Camera and lighting department 1st Assistant Director - Matthew Scrivener 2nd Assistant Director - Delmi Thomas 3rd Assistant Director - Danielle Richards Runners - Alex Marli, Iain Rose, Alice Edwards Script Supervisor - Leon Williams Camera Operator - Matt Fisher Focus Pullers - Alia Bianco, Mani Blaxter-Paliwala Grips - Matthew Budd, Sam Reeves Assistant Grip - Matthew Hains Clapper Loaders - Chris Jacobi, Scott Waller Gaffer - Andrew Taylor Best Boy - Ben Griffiths Electricians - Gareth Williams, Matthew Challenger, Stephen McLean, Andrew Williams	Art department Supervising Art Director - Andy Holden-Stokes Art Director - Paul Cowell Production Buyer - Linda Morgan Petty Cash Buyer - Lesley Elliott Set Decorator - Janeeta Panesar Storyboard Artists - Mike Collin, Abi Lingford Graphic and Concept Artists - Matt Sanders, Kartik Nagar Prop Hands Standby - Richard Dalton, Nick Johnston Standby Carpenter - Jamie Farrell Prop Hands - John Jones, Tom Barratt, Phil Smith Standby Art Director - Sian Hughes Standby Rigger - Colin Toms Props Master - Tim Upton Construction Manager - Mark Painter Construction Chargehand - Dean Tucker Practical Electrician - Christian Davies Costume department Costume Supervisor - Susie Lewis Costume Standby - Charlotte Bestwick, Lydia Ellis Williams	Make-up and prosthetics Make-up Supervisor - Sarah Jane Marks Make-up Artists - Laura Beard, Inma Azorin Movement Stunt Co-ordinator - Crispin Layfield Stunt Performers - Belinda McGinley, Xavier Lake, Dani Biernet, Sam Stefan, Elliot Murray Casting Assistants - Ri McDaid-Wren, Louis Constantine General post-production staff Post-production Supervisor - Ceres Doyle Post-production Co-ordinator - Claire Rees Assistant Editors - Christine Kelly, Hayley Williams On-line Editor - Lee Bhogal On-line Edit Assistant - Rob Garwood Special and visual effects VFX Editor - Martyn Western Prosthetics and Creature Design - Millenium FX Colourist - Chris Rodgers Model Maker - Alan Hardy Sound Sound Recordist - Bryn Thomas Dubbing Mixer - Mark Ferda Sound Maintenance Engineers - Jeff Welch, Joss Colin Dialogue Editor - Darran Clement ADR Editor - Simon Price Effects Editor - Helen Dickson Foley Editor - Matthew Cox Foley Artist - Meltem Baytok

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.

References

Technology

• Miss Quill has a displacement gun, but she is not allowed to use it.
• She also has some sort of scanner.

People

• As punishment, Miss Quill remains effectively a slave to Charlie, with specific rules she may not break, including lying.
• Miss Quill gets Kevin Williams to shoot both himself and a Shadow Kin at the same time with her displacement gun, which she is not allowed to use. She almost does the same thing to April, but Charlie stops it just in time.

Businesses

• Ram and Rachel take an Uber to the prom.
• When Corakinus demands the Cabinet of Souls, the Doctor suggests getting a cabinet at IKEA.

Coal Hill School

• The names C. Oswald and R. D. Pink are noticeable on the list of the dead in Coal Hill School. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, In the Forest of the Night, Dark Water, Face the Raven) Also seen is S. Foreman, a reference to the fact the the Doctor's granddaughter left Coal Hill with no explanation. (TV: "An Unearthly Child") A. Okehurst, J. Gibson, D. Hatcher, (PROSE: Time and Relative) H. Parson, (PROSE: Nothing at the End of the Lane) A. S. Alfredson, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) and A. Dunlop (TV: The Magician's Apprentice) are also seen. The Doctor further looks at Clara's name and tries to remember who she is, having no memory of her anymore (TV: Hell Bent)

Sports

• The Doctor states he likes the sport darts and suggests football is boring, changing his tone since his eighth, (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game) tenth (COMIC: The Lodger) and his eleventh incarnations. (TV: The Lodger)

Popular culture

• Tanya jokes that they'd already lost the Bechdel test when April only talks about Charlie.
• Idris Elba is mentioned (his likeness previously appeared as John Luther in the Sprout Boy meets a Galaxy of Stars, which also featured the Twelfth Doctor) and Joss Whedon famously stated on writing Doctor Who: "Check back with me when The Doctor is a she or Idris Elba.”
• Tanya wonders whether Corakinus is referring to the singer, Prince, when he asks "Where is the Prince?".
• Miss Quill calls Charlie "Prince Valiant".
• She calls April a "ludicrous Care Bear".
• The group mentions Hellmouth, "that town in Once Upon a Time" and The Vampire Diaries as being similar in concept to the tears in space and time they are faced with.

Mathematics

• Miss Quill marks down an equation for a Gibbs probability density of a classical Klein-Gordon field on the board, which Tanya recognises.

Story notes

• A working title for this episode was The Prom.
• This is the third guest appearance by the Doctor in a Doctor Who television spin-off. The Sarah Jane Adventures previously featured appearances by the Tenth and Eleventh Doctor in the stories The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith and Death of the Doctor respectively. While the Tenth Doctor's hand was a recurring feature in the first series of Torchwood, the Doctor himself ultimately did not appear.

Ratings

• BBC Three ratings: to be announced
• BBC One overnight: to be announced
• BBC America overnight: to be announced

Filming location

to be added

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.

to be added

Continuity

• The Doctor notes that he previously served as caretaker at Coal Hill School. (TV: The Caretaker)
• The Doctor again acknowledges that the Coal Hill School area has an excess of artron energy, (TV: The Caretaker) due to it having a long history of time travel. (TV: An Unearthly Child et al.)

Home video releases

Nothing has been confirmed but the Official Doctor Who Fan Show hinted at a release.