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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
As the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] marks her days in [[prison (The Timeless Children)|prison]], elsewhere in the universe the [[Dalek]]s are presented on national television. They are the new [[Defence Drone]]s, designed to protect the [[British]] public.
As the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] marks her days in [[prison (The Timeless Children)|prison]], back on Earth the [[Dalek]]s are presented on national television. They are the new [[Defence Drone]]s, designed to protect the [[British]] public.


Left behind on [[Earth]], [[Yasmin Khan|Yaz]], [[Graham O'Brien|Graham]] and [[Ryan Sinclair|Ryan]] need their friend more than ever. Now with Daleks on the assembly line, and [[Jack Robertson|a familiar face]] behind their production... What would the Doctor do?
Left behind on [[Earth]], [[Yasmin Khan|Yaz]], [[Graham O'Brien|Graham]] and [[Ryan Sinclair|Ryan]] need their friend more than ever. Now with Daleks on the assembly line, and [[Jack Robertson|a familiar face]] behind their production... What would the Doctor do?
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367 minutes after the Doctor melted the casing of the [[Reconnaissance scout]], a lorry driver takes the empty casing from [[GCHQ]] to [[Depositary 23]], stopping off at a [[ET’teas|kiosk]] for a cup of tea. Walking back to his vehicle, he starts to breathe heavily, drops his cup, and collapses. The woman who served him drags him inside the lorry with the casing and drives it away.
367 minutes after the Doctor melted the casing of the [[Reconnaissance scout]], a lorry driver takes the empty casing from [[GCHQ]] to [[Depositary 23]], stopping off at a [[ET’teas|kiosk]] for a cup of tea. Walking back to his vehicle, he starts to breathe heavily, drops his cup, and collapses. The woman who served him drags him inside the lorry with the casing and drives it away.


[[Jo Patterson]] - the [[Technology Secretary|technology secretary]] - drives to a breakfast meeting with Leo Rugazzi and [[Jack Robertson]] to see Leo’s new defence drones. They oversee a fake riot organised by Jack, where a defence drone effectively disperses the rioters. Afterwards, Leo shows the pair how the drones are controlled by AI and are solar powered. Robertson and Jo talk in private, and Jo warns him not to tell anyone that she tipped him off about advanced technology being transported from GCHQ. Jack tells her that the drones will take around a [[year]] to develop, in time to help her win the upcoming general election.
[[Jo Patterson]] - the [[Technology Secretary|technology secretary]] - drives to a breakfast meeting with Leo Rugazzi and [[Jack Robertson]] to see Leo’s new defence drones. They oversee a fake riot organised by Jack, where a defence drone effectively disperses the rioters with its water cannon and loud noise. Afterwards, Leo shows the pair how the drones are controlled by AI and are solar powered. Robertson and Jo talk in private, and Jo warns him not to tell anyone that she tipped him off about advanced technology being transported from GCHQ. Jack tells her that the drones will take around a [[year]] to develop, in time to help her win the upcoming general election.


In a [[Prison (The Timeless Children)|prison]] located inside an [[asteroid]], the Doctor wakes up. She scratches a  mark on her cell wall, matching numerous other marks covering the two walls. It is clear she has been here for years. A monitor flashes on her wall instructing her to exercise. She does so. Later on, she is escorted to an exercise facility, saying hello to the cameras and her fellow inmates as she passes. Back in her cell, a monitor flashes again, instructing her to sleep. She proceeds tries to tell herself [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone|a bedtime story]], but is interrupted by knocking from the other side of a wall. Recognising the [[Four Knocks|four knocks]], she wonders if she knows the individual.  
In a [[Prison (The Timeless Children)|prison]] located inside an [[asteroid]], the Doctor wakes up. She scratches a  mark on her cell wall, matching numerous other marks covering the two walls. It is clear she has been here for years. A monitor flashes on her wall instructing her to exercise. She does so. Later on, she is escorted to an exercise facility, saying hello to the cameras and her fellow inmates as she passes. Back in her cell, a monitor flashes again, instructing her to sleep. She proceeds tries to tell herself [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone|a bedtime story]], but is interrupted by knocking from the other side of a wall. Recognising the [[Four Knocks|four knocks]], she wonders if she knows the individual.  
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[[Ryan Sinclair]] and [[Graham O'Brien]] walk towards [[TARDIS 1 (The Timeless Children)|the TARDIS disguised as a house]]. They go to knock on the door, but it opens for them. Inside the [[TARDIS control room]] they find [[Yasmin Khan]] surrounded by coloured paper and post it notes covered in writing stuck to almost every surface. She has been sleeping inside the TARDIS, and is desperately trying to find [[the Doctor]]. Ryan and Graham tell her that she needs to move on because the Doctor has been away for ten months, but she refuses to listen. Graham shows her footage of a [[Defence Drone|prototype Defence Drone]] leaked from the fake riot Robertson organised. They recognise it as a [[Dalek]], and see Robertson overseeing the riot. They believe that he is in league with the Dalek, and she agrees to help them investigate because it was what the Doctor would do.
[[Ryan Sinclair]] and [[Graham O'Brien]] walk towards [[TARDIS 1 (The Timeless Children)|the TARDIS disguised as a house]]. They go to knock on the door, but it opens for them. Inside the [[TARDIS control room]] they find [[Yasmin Khan]] surrounded by coloured paper and post it notes covered in writing stuck to almost every surface. She has been sleeping inside the TARDIS, and is desperately trying to find [[the Doctor]]. Ryan and Graham tell her that she needs to move on because the Doctor has been away for ten months, but she refuses to listen. Graham shows her footage of a [[Defence Drone|prototype Defence Drone]] leaked from the fake riot Robertson organised. They recognise it as a [[Dalek]], and see Robertson overseeing the riot. They believe that he is in league with the Dalek, and she agrees to help them investigate because it was what the Doctor would do.


Jo Patterson — running for the position of [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] — summons Jack Robertson to a rainy forest. She tells him that she wants an immediate national rollout of his drones, and him to pay rather than have her government [[tax]] the British people. He nervously laughs, telling her that they had only just started regional [[beta testing]] and that it was starting to sound like a "shakedown". She blackmails him by threatening to alert the treasury about how much tax his companies pay in the [[United Kingdom|UK]]. He agrees to her proposal.
Jo Patterson — running for the position of [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] — summons Jack Robertson to a rainy forest. She tells him that she wants an immediate national roll-out of his drones, and him to pay rather than have her government [[tax]] the British people. He nervously laughs, telling her that they had only just started regional [[beta testing]] and that it was starting to sound like a "shakedown". She blackmails him by threatening to alert the treasury about how much tax his companies pay in the [[United Kingdom|UK]]. He agrees to her proposal.


That night, as Robertson gets out of his car, telling [[Leo Rugazzi|Leo]] that he's arrived, Yaz, Ryan, and Graham approach him. He recognises them from the [[Arachnids in the UK (TV story)|encounter he had with giant spiders]]. They confront him about the defence drone, believing it to be a Dalek, but he has no idea what they are talking about. Suddenly, people with guns surround them and Robertson tells them that he increased his security because of them, before walking away. After getting free from Jack's [[bodyguard|bodyguard]]s, they discuss how hard it is to "see what's going on" without the Doctor, [[psychic paper]], or a [[TARDIS]].
That night, as Robertson gets out of his car, telling [[Leo Rugazzi|Leo]] that he's arrived, Yaz, Ryan, and Graham approach him. He recognises them from the [[Arachnids in the UK (TV story)|encounter he had with giant spiders]]. They confront him about the defence drone, believing it to be a Dalek, but he has no idea what they are talking about. Suddenly, people with guns surround them and Robertson tells them that he increased his security because of them, before walking away. After getting free from Jack's [[bodyguard|bodyguard]]s, they discuss how hard it is to "see what's going on" without the Doctor, [[psychic paper]], or a [[TARDIS]].
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=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
* Jack Harkness mentions catching up with [[Gwen Cooper]].
* Jack Harkness mentions catching up with [[Gwen Cooper]]
* Jack Harkness mentions [[Rose Tyler]].
* Jack Harkness mentions [[Rose Tyler]].
* Ryan and Graham both have a vision of [[Grace O'Brien]].
* Ryan and Graham both have a vision of [[Grace O'Brien]].

Revision as of 16:55, 4 January 2021

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Revolution of the Daleks was the 2021 New Year Special of Doctor Who. It featured the return of Jack Harkness, and marked the Thirteenth Doctor's reunion with her companions following the events of The Timeless Children. The episode also saw the departure of Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien and Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair.

Continuing the Recon Dalek storyline begun in Resolution, a new line of Daleks were introduced, cloned from a remnant of the original recon scout. Their new design is a variant on the Recon Dalek's own casing. It also saw the return of bronze Daleks, last seen in 2017's Twice Upon a Time, leading to a battle between both factions.

Synopsis

As the Thirteenth Doctor marks her days in prison, back on Earth the Daleks are presented on national television. They are the new Defence Drones, designed to protect the British public.

Left behind on Earth, Yaz, Graham and Ryan need their friend more than ever. Now with Daleks on the assembly line, and a familiar face behind their production... What would the Doctor do?

Plot

367 minutes after the Doctor melted the casing of the Reconnaissance scout, a lorry driver takes the empty casing from GCHQ to Depositary 23, stopping off at a kiosk for a cup of tea. Walking back to his vehicle, he starts to breathe heavily, drops his cup, and collapses. The woman who served him drags him inside the lorry with the casing and drives it away.

Jo Patterson - the technology secretary - drives to a breakfast meeting with Leo Rugazzi and Jack Robertson to see Leo’s new defence drones. They oversee a fake riot organised by Jack, where a defence drone effectively disperses the rioters with its water cannon and loud noise. Afterwards, Leo shows the pair how the drones are controlled by AI and are solar powered. Robertson and Jo talk in private, and Jo warns him not to tell anyone that she tipped him off about advanced technology being transported from GCHQ. Jack tells her that the drones will take around a year to develop, in time to help her win the upcoming general election.

In a prison located inside an asteroid, the Doctor wakes up. She scratches a mark on her cell wall, matching numerous other marks covering the two walls. It is clear she has been here for years. A monitor flashes on her wall instructing her to exercise. She does so. Later on, she is escorted to an exercise facility, saying hello to the cameras and her fellow inmates as she passes. Back in her cell, a monitor flashes again, instructing her to sleep. She proceeds tries to tell herself a bedtime story, but is interrupted by knocking from the other side of a wall. Recognising the four knocks, she wonders if she knows the individual.

Ryan Sinclair and Graham O'Brien walk towards the TARDIS disguised as a house. They go to knock on the door, but it opens for them. Inside the TARDIS control room they find Yasmin Khan surrounded by coloured paper and post it notes covered in writing stuck to almost every surface. She has been sleeping inside the TARDIS, and is desperately trying to find the Doctor. Ryan and Graham tell her that she needs to move on because the Doctor has been away for ten months, but she refuses to listen. Graham shows her footage of a prototype Defence Drone leaked from the fake riot Robertson organised. They recognise it as a Dalek, and see Robertson overseeing the riot. They believe that he is in league with the Dalek, and she agrees to help them investigate because it was what the Doctor would do.

Jo Patterson — running for the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — summons Jack Robertson to a rainy forest. She tells him that she wants an immediate national roll-out of his drones, and him to pay rather than have her government tax the British people. He nervously laughs, telling her that they had only just started regional beta testing and that it was starting to sound like a "shakedown". She blackmails him by threatening to alert the treasury about how much tax his companies pay in the UK. He agrees to her proposal.

That night, as Robertson gets out of his car, telling Leo that he's arrived, Yaz, Ryan, and Graham approach him. He recognises them from the encounter he had with giant spiders. They confront him about the defence drone, believing it to be a Dalek, but he has no idea what they are talking about. Suddenly, people with guns surround them and Robertson tells them that he increased his security because of them, before walking away. After getting free from Jack's bodyguards, they discuss how hard it is to "see what's going on" without the Doctor, psychic paper, or a TARDIS.

Meanwhile, at the prison, the Doctor wakes up, scratches another mark on her cell wall, says hello to the cameras and proceeds to the exercise facility again. However, this time she finds Jack Harkness, also imprisoned there, in the fenced square next to her. Jack reveals he has been waiting nineteen years for the cell rotation to finally place him next to the Doctor. He then then shows her a temporal-freezing gateway disinhibitor bubble which he activates, joins the Doctor, and tells her to run. Now able to traverse through walls and the electric fence, they arrive at Jack's cell where he opens a little trap containing a vortex manipulator he smuggled. They then activate it to break out the prison just as the alarms sound.

Back on Earth, Leo talks to Robertson about the drones; he is worried about the speed of the production but Robertson reassures him, telling him to "live in the worry". Leo then talks to Robertson about the model casing, he explains that by examining it, he found out organic remnants in the machine and cloned them, growing a Dalek mutant, finding it beautiful and intelligent. Robertson, horrified by this discovery, demands that Leo incinerate the creature, and tortures Leo to keep it under wraps before leaving, angrily saying that this kind of science is why nobody likes experts. Leo brings the box containing the Dalek mutant to the incinerator, but when he opens it, the creature inside it grabs him and possesses him. He makes a final phone call goodbye to his family, before the Dalek completely takes control.

The Doctor and Captain Jack teleport into her TARDIS, where all the lights have been dimmed. Jack asks if she had listened to his message, and she says that she did give Ashad what it wanted, but fixed it, "sort of". She also tells him that she was imprisoned for evading the Judoon twice and '7000 other offences'. The Doctor then uses the TARDIS to find the others, on Earth. Yaz, Ryan and Graham talk about the Dalek they saw on the news, Graham tells the two that it's impossible that this one is the one they fought at GCHQ, as it was thrown in a supernova, Ryan suggest that the Daleks may have came to Earth and forced Robertson to work with them. Yaz then tells them to shut up, wanting to listen. The TARDIS then materialises in the living room, and the Doctor and Jack come out. After a brief discussion between Team TARDIS, Jack asks "What's new on planet Earth". The trio answers "Dalek", which horrifies the Doctor and Jack.

Meanwhile at Osaka, Japan, Leo, controlled by the Dalek he created, enters a building where the Dalek reveals what he was doing when he was in the box, connected to the network: building a Dalek clone farm.

In the TARDIS, the Doctor scans for Dalek DNA traces, and Jack explains to Team TARDIS that he is immortal. The screen on the wall beeps, revealing a DNA trace has been found in Osaka, but not an exact match. Jack and Yaz volunteer to investigate, whilst Graham, Ryan and the Doctor travel to talk to Robertson.

The Doctor materialises the TARDIS in Robertson's office, and she asks him about the Daleks, having blocked his phone lines so he can't call security. Exasperated, Robertson decides to show them the "production line", where he is 3D printing "security drones", which are all modelled on the Recon Dalek from GCHQ. They fill the whole room, and he shows them how there is nothing inside the drones, and that the machines are run by Artificial intelligence. Graham asks about his facility in Osaka, and Robertson replies that he doesn't have one because he would know about it.

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Cast

Crew

Executive Producers   Matt Strevens and Chris Chibnall
Written by Chris Chibnall Produced by Alex Mercer Directed by Lee Haven Jones Director of Photography Sam Heasman Production Designer Dafydd Shurmer

Casting DirectorAndy Pryor Composer Segun Akinola
General production staff

Script department

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound

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

Species

Popular culture

Individuals

Technology

Locations

  • The prison where the Doctor is being held is 79 billion light-years away from Earth.
  • Ryan reads a story online about a village in Finland that is supposedly dealing with a troll invasion.
  • Graham mentions having heard a story about a quarry in Korea that has been shut down due to reports of "gravel creatures coming to life."

Story notes

  • This was the first episode of Doctor Who to be simultaneously broadcast in 4K UHD with HDR colour grading, and the second episode ever made available in this format, Since the BBC doesn't broadcast in 4K UHD on its television channels, it was instead made available on BBC iPlayer, with a red button prompt appearing during its BBC One broadcast. Twice Upon a Time remains the first episode to be released in 4K UHD, as it was remastered in the format after broadcast for its re-release on UHD Blu-ray.
  • This was the first televised story of the parent Doctor Who series to be originally released to a streaming service, making its debut on BBC iPlayer around 10 minutes before its BBC One broadcast, rather than shortly afterwards or live and concurrently, as is the norm. However, Series 1 of Class had previously debuted on the same service. (Perhaps coincidentally, the episodes of Class had also debuted on the iPlayer service earlier than the time that they were advertised to be released.)
  • The opening title card ("A LONG TIME AGO... FAR, FAR AWAY...") is a reference to the famous Star Wars opening title, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...".
  • The "Defence Drones" have voices similar to those used by the Imperial Daleks in Remembrance of the Daleks, the last televised instance of a Dalek Civil War.
  • Chris Noth (Jack Robertson) is credited as "Robertson" on BBC iPlayer, and erroneously as "Alan Robertson" in Radio Times. Nathan Armarkwei-Laryea (Armen), Helen Anderson (Rachel), Nicholas Briggs (Voice of the Daleks), Barnaby Edwards (Dalek Operator 1), Nicholas Pegg (Dalek Operator 2) and Sharon D Clarke (Grace) are credited on-screen but not in Radio Times or on BBC iPlayer.

Ratings

  • 4.69 million (UK overnight)[1]

Filming locations

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Myths

  • Davros would return. This was proven false.
  • The prison the Doctor was in would be revealed to be Shada. This is unknown as this was neither confirmed nor denied.
  • Graham or Ryan would die at the end of the episode. This theory was incorrect as they would both leave the TARDIS alive at the end of the episode and given an open ending.
  • David Tennant would make a cameo as the Tenth Doctor. This was proven false.
  • The Special Weapons Dalek was to return. This was proven false.
  • This story would be a two-parter. This was proven false.
  • This story would continue the war between the Renegade Daleks and the Imperial Daleks. Although not entirely true, it does contain a similar plot element.

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

Home video releases

DVD releases

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Blu-ray releases

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Digital releases

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External links