Clara Oswald
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Clara Oswald (born 23 November 1986) was a companion to the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors. According to the former, she was "not possible" due to their meetings previously in his personal timeline, with two such encounters seeing her die. Though assured by the empathic psychic Emma Grayling and the TARDIS scanner that Clara was just an "ordinary girl", the Doctor couldn't believe that to be true and thought her to be "the only mystery worth solving". (TV: Hide)
While a physically ordinary human woman from the 21st century, Clara chose to enter the Doctor's timeline in his tomb on Trenzalore in order to try to reverse the damage done to his timeline by the Great Intelligence. This caused the time winds to shatter her into millions of what River Song referred to as "echos" or "splinters" that were dispersed throughout his personal timeline. These echos corrected the damage caused by the Great Intelligence, but were not the original Clara. She was trapped in the Doctor's timeline, but rescued shortly thereafter. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
After Trenzalore, Clara became a school teacher, though she still travelled with the Doctor. Clara met the Doctor's War and tenth incarnations. (TV: The Day of the Doctor) She was with him when he regenerated into his twelfth incarnation, and continued to travel with him thereafter. (TV: The Time of the Doctor, Deep Breath) Clara later met and fell in love with fellow schoolteacher Danny Pink. (TV: Into the Dalek, The Caretaker) However, she lost him to a car accident despite her best efforts to bring him back. (TV: Dark Water, Death in Heaven)
After the loss of Danny, Clara became less attached to Earth and began to copy the heroic aspects of the Doctor's persona; this unfortunately caused her to become increasingly reckless. She believed he would always have a plan. (TV: The Girl Who Died, Face the Raven)
Unfortunately, Clara's heroics eventually cost her greatly; trying to prove Rigsy's innocence of a false murder, she took a Chronolock, which killed the one branded, from him. Before dying, Clara made the Doctor promise to "always be a Doctor, never a warrior." (TV: Face the Raven)
Clara was extracted from her own fixed point of death in her timeline by the Doctor using an extraction chamber on Gallifrey. She lost all physical qualities such as breathing, a pulse and even ageing, being stuck "between one heartbeat and the next". The Doctor then stole a TARDIS and escaped Gallifrey, travelling to the end of the universe in an attempt to fully bring Clara back. This however proved to be ineffective. The Doctor planned to wipe Clara's memory of ever travelling with him. Instead, in a turn of events, the Doctor lost his memories of Clara himself. She then left in the other TARDIS, planning to use it to travel "the long way around" back to Gallifrey, with Ashildr for company. (TV: Hell Bent)
Biography
Before the Doctor
Childhood
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Clara Oswald was born on 23 November 1986 (TV: Death in Heaven) in the Lancashire town of Blackpool. (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, Robot of Sherwood) She first met the Eleventh Doctor as a young child when she accidentally kicked a football at his head at a park. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten) She loved to attend Sunday school, taught by a "nice lady teacher" in a small church room that smelt of oak polish and had felt-tip colouring on the walls. (PROSE: Into the Nowhere)
As a child, she liked travel books and science kits, but did not like hair products. (TV: Last Christmas) She was taught about Amy Johnson in school, who became her role model throughout her childhood. (COMIC: A Wing and a Prayer)
When Clara was nine years old, her father, Dave, took her on a trip to a tower block near Southport with a restaurant at the top. The restaurant had a solid clear glass floor, but Dave assured her it was "safe as houses". Two lads inside the restaurant started jumping up and down on the glass, shouting they were going to break it in "language Dad later said did not suit young ladies". Since then, Clara was not very keen on heights, or indeed glass floors. (PROSE: Normality)
Some time afterwards, Clara met the Eleventh Doctor again, when an earlier version of him was sad about not being able to locate Clara. He did not realise her identity, nor did she know that she herself was the "friend" for whom he was looking. She thought the idea of him finding his friend by destiny was "rubbish". As a child, she claimed she was always losing things: her "best pencil", her school bag, her gran and her "mojo", which she managed to get back. Whenever she would lose something, she'd go to a quiet place, close her eyes, then would find where she'd put it. The Doctor considered that he might follow her advice on this to find his friend, an idea she thought made sense.
Clara's mother, Ellie, told her that she "shouldn't talk to strange men", but she spoke to the Doctor regardless. (WC: The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel) Her worst fear as a child was getting lost. While on a bank holiday visit to Blackpool beach, her nightmares came true, but her mother eventually found her. Ellie comforted her by saying that she would always find her, wherever she was. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten) She passed her driving test on her first try. (COMIC: The Fractures)
Clara was left devastated on 5 March 2005 when her mother died. Clara's father, Dave Oswald, comforted her at her funeral, and the Doctor watched in silence from a distance. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)
Becoming a nanny
She wanted to travel after university, but before she left, she spent a week with a family friend in Chiswick, London to nanny for her children, Artie and Angie Maitland. Mrs Maitland died that week and, as the Doctor later put it, Clara felt duty-bound to look after the children. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)
Meeting the Doctor
Clara had a poor knowledge of the internet. While attempting to log on to the Wi-Fi in the Maitland home, she used a mnemonic device, "Run you clever boy and remember", to help her recall the Wi-Fi password, rycbar123.[1] She phoned a number for technical support, given to her by a woman in a shop, that reached the Eleventh Doctor in the year 1207. Perplexed, she believed that he was on a helpline, and so she requested that he go to her to help her figure out how to use the Internet.
He attempted to assist her, but Clara clicked on the Wi-Fi connection being used by the Great Intelligence to harvest human minds. A Spoonhead, adopting the guise of a character from Summer Falls, a novel she read, and uploaded her to the data cloud. The process was incomplete when the Doctor found her, allowing him to restore her. Clara found that her technical knowledge was greatly enhanced as a result of this.
She used this new skill to hack the Great Intelligence's operatives, choosing "Oswin" as a username. She discovered their location in the Shard, before she was downloaded again by a spoonhead, this time successfully. The Doctor had the entire cloud downloaded back where possible, restoring Clara once more. He invited her to come with him and she told him to return the next day and ask again. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)
Travels with the Eleventh Doctor
When the Doctor returned for her, Clara was waiting eagerly. She rushed to meet the TARDIS outside the moment the Doctor knocked on her door. When the Doctor asked her where she wanted to go, she was stuck at first. She quickly recovered, replying "somewhere awesome". He took her to the Festival of Offerings near Akhaten.
There, they explored the markets, and watched the festival. When Merry Galel, whom Clara had comforted and encouraged to sing the Long Song at the Festival, was taken by the Mummy, Clara and the Doctor saved her. In doing so, Clara had to give up her mother's ring, which had extreme sentimental value to her. To destroy Akhaten, she was forced to sacrifice something even more precious: the leaf that brought her parents together, "the most important leaf in human history". After saving everyone on the planet, they thanked her by returning her ring. After the trip, the Doctor dropped her back off at her house in London, which she remarked looked different. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)
The Doctor later took her on another trip, but instead of landing in Las Vegas as planned, they landed on the Firebird, a Soviet submarine at the North Pole in 1983. While the Doctor brought the sinking submarine to safety, the TARDIS activated its Hostile Action Displacement System and it dematerialised, leaing the Doctor and Clara on the submarine.
They quickly found that the Ice Warrior Grand Marshall, Skaldak, had been brought on board. The Doctor attempted to convince the submarine's crew to be peaceful to him, but Lieutenant Stepashin stunned Skaldak with a cattle prod. The Doctor ordered the crew to imprison Skaldak; Clara was sent to try and talk some sense into him, under the Doctor's guidance, but discovered Skaldak had managed to escape his capture and threatened to launch the submarine's nuclear missiles. The Doctor and Clara managed to make him hesitate his decision, and Skaldak and the submarine were rescued by an Ice Warrior ship. Skaldak left and remotely disarmed the submarine. The Doctor then confessed to setting the HADS, and found that it had sent the TARDIS to the South Pole; he had to ask the submarine captain for a lift, much to Clara's amusement. (TV: Cold War)
At some point, Clara went to Baghdad in 1930 with the Doctor.
Clara and Amy Johnson were attacked by sand creatures that took their form. Clara tried to defeat them by pushing a hotel trolley into them. It slowed them down enough for Clara and Amy to escape in a red car. While driving to meet the Doctor at Omar's place, the sand creatures caught up with them. They continued to take the girls' form, but Amy and Clara drove through them, temporarily disabling them. Just as the Doctor and Omar ran out onto the street, Clara and Amy drove up. The Doctor and Omar hopped into the car. The stopped when they saw Arnold Bradshaw, with his extremely powerful new arm. He introduced them to Koragatta, and the Doctor remarked that they were "going to need a bigger fez".
The Doctor, Amy, Omar and Clara decided to retreat, and Koragatta disposed of the "mindless" Clara and Amy sand drones. They watched as Koragatta froze other insects of his species. He soon grabbed Omar in a beam. Shook by this, the Doctor told Koragatta that he was the one that the monster was looking for. Koragatta agreed that the Doctor's mind was more powerful, and that if the Doctor granted access to his mind, he would spare Omar. The Doctor agreed, despite Omar's protests. Arnold revealed his plan to be able to fly again, and that he was assisting Koragatta because they were both soldiers. Clara and Amy watched in disbelief as Koragatta took off, with Arnold on his back, and the Doctor and Omar in his grasp. Clara and Amy ran to her plane. As Arnold realised that Koragatta wasn't a soldier, but a coward, he punched him with his extremely powerful arm. This gave the Doctor and Omar a chance to escape. They fell in the vortex with almost no hope of survival, until Clara and Amy caught them in the plane. The Doctor, Amy, Clara and Omar returned to Earth. They realised, however, that the Prime Mother had arrived. She was pleased that Koragatta was dead, but held Earth accountable for Arnold Brandshaw helping Koragatta. She planned to consume the world. The Doctor convinced her otherwise by explaining the story of the ant. He told her that they were the world dominant life form and convinced her to give them a chance. The Doctor insisted that he was telling the truth that ants were the dominant life-form. Clara bade a sad farewell to Amy, knowing that she wouldn't see Amy again until Amy's death. Clara wanted to let Amy live a longer life, but knew that history recorded her drowning in the Thames. She soon found a loophole, in that they never found her body. A few years later, as Amy Johnson was drowning, the TARDIS materialised around her. The Doctor and Clara took Amy to Cornucopia. (COMIC: A Wing and a Prayer)
Later, the Doctor took Clara to Caliburn House, the home of Major Alec Palmer, which was thought to have been haunted by the "Witch of the Well" for many years. Unknown to Clara, he took her there to speak to the psychic Emma Grayling and find out what Clara was. The Doctor took lots of photographs of the ghost throughout Earth's timeline. The Doctor used his photographs to explain that the "ghost" was in fact a time traveller from the future called Hila Tacorien, who was trapped in a pocket universe and being chased by the Crooked Man. The Doctor used a crystal from Metebelis III to make Emma open up the portal to the pocket universe. Whilst there he saved Hila but got trapped himself; Clara argued with the TARDIS voice interface when the TARDIS would not let her in, Clara wanting to use the TARDIS to save the Doctor while the TARDIS was concerned for its own safety.
Later, after revealing that Hila was a distant relative of Alec and Emma, the Doctor realised that the "Crooked Man" in the pocket universe was trying to get to another creature in the house, so he and Clara went back to pick it up. (TV: Hide)
While the Doctor was out, the TARDIS demonstrated her antagonism toward Clara by deleting her bedroom and creating a holographic leopard while she was in the bathroom. It also created multiple versions of Clara simply to annoy her. (HOMEVID: Clara and the TARDIS) After this, he and Clara made an arrangement: he would pick her up every Wednesday and they would have adventures, but unlike his previous companions, she wouldn't travel aboard the TARDIS on a permanent basis as she had responsibilities on Earth of being a nanny. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)
Timelines in the TARDIS
While trying to teach Clara how to operate the TARDIS, the time machine was caught in a magnetic hobble-field from a space salvage ship, operated by the Van Baalen Bros. A future version of the Doctor arrived through a time rift, throwing his present self a magno-grab remote with "BIG FRIENDLY BUTTON" branded into it to stop the ship's magno-grab. After the Doctor pressed the button, the TARDIS disappeared, escaping the Van Baalens and preventing its engine failure. The Doctor said aloud to Clara that two days had been compressed into the space of one. The Doctor asked Clara if she felt safe travelling with him, and after a long conversation she admitted that she did. (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS)
In an alternative timeline however, the TARDIS was successfully captured by the Van Baalen Bros., causing the TARDIS to leak the past and future. In the confusion, the Doctor made it out of the TARDIS, while Clara ended up lost inside, her hand burnt by the scorching metal of a magno-grab remote that had mysteriously appeared in the TARDIS and rolled towards her shortly before she was separated from the Doctor. Inside, she travelled through the TARDIS' rooms, running away from a time zombie threatening to harm her. She eventually arrived in the TARDIS library and hid there. She read a book called The History of the Time War, and found out the Doctor's true name.
She kept travelling inside the TARDIS, eventually arriving in an echo of the control room. She was pulled through to another echo room and reunited with the Doctor, meeting Bram and Tricky Van Baalen. The Doctor switched off the countdown to the TARDIS' non-existent self-destruct sequence, but realised that the magno-grab had caused the engine to start malfunctioning. On the way to the "centre of the TARDIS", the four kept running from the time zombies, and reached the Cloister Room, where they found out what the time zombies really were: them. The Doctor managed to trick the time zombies and make them fall to their deaths inside the Eye of Harmony. The Doctor and Clara ran to the heart of the TARDIS. There, the Doctor told Clara about her uniqueness, and about her multiple lives and deaths.
The Doctor found that the burn marks on Clara's hand had formed words: "BIG FRIENDLY BUTTON". The Doctor then realised they needed to go back to the point of the disaster and activate the magno-grab remote, which had caused the burn marks on Clara's hand before, to stop the field and prevent the disaster. The Doctor passed through a time rift to give the device to his past self, who successfully activated it, undoing the damage to the engine and making Clara forget about the Doctor's name. The Doctor did not want Clara to go searching for his name, because an important secret was connected to it. (TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS) This adventure, although negated, was later recalled by Clara when the TARDIS leaked time energy. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
Continued adventures
The Doctor and Clara travelled to 1893 Yorkshire and reached a new little town, Sweetville, run by Winifred Gillyflower and her mysterious partner. While investigating the town, the two were taken by Gillyflower's guards into a creepy dungeon, where they were lowered down into a strange red liquid — known locally as "the Crimson Horror". Clara was successfully preserved by the matter and was placed with another survivor into a glass dome in one of the Sweetville houses, awaiting the next part of Mrs Gillyflower's insane plan. After Jenny Flint rescued the Doctor from being held by Ada Gillyflower in an almost catatonic condition, they eventually found Clara. The Doctor broke the glass, took Clara out and pulled her out of her "puppet" condition. Clara, the Doctor and Jenny set off to finally defeat Mrs Gillyflower in a tower in the town; Gillyflower, along with her mysterious partner — the repulsive red leech, Mr Sweet — planned to fire a rocket that would spread the "Crimson Horror" all around the world, wiping humanity out except for those preserved by being lowered into the liquid. Clara broke a chair on Mrs Gillyflower's control console preventing her triggering the rocket. After the Crimson Horror was safely removed from the rocket, Mrs Gillyflower threatened to kill the Doctor and Clara anyway. She was shot by Strax and fell to the ground, suffering fatal injuries. Mrs Gillyflower died and Mr Sweet was also killed by Mrs Gillyflower's daughter, Ada.
The Doctor brought Clara back to the 21st century to the Maitland family house. Angie and Artie, the children she looked after, found photos from her adventures with the Doctor on her laptop and found out that she was a time traveller. When going through the photos, Clara saw one of her past lives, Clara Oswald, in Victorian London. Realising that both her physical appearance and where the picture took place in was different, Clara began to suspect something wasn't right. Before she could process the thought entirely, the kids begged her to take them to an adventure, or else they would tell their father that their nanny was a time traveller. Clara, lacking any other choice, agreed. (TV: The Crimson Horror)
The Doctor took Clara, Artie and Angie to the abandoned theme park, Hedgewick's World of Wonders, where Angie and Artie were taken by the Cybermen, who had been reawakened from their tombs after being presumed long-extinct. The Doctor put Clara in charge of the punishment platoon to fight the Cybermen and began a game of chess to end the stalemate over his mind with the Cyber-Planner, Mr Clever.
The Doctor released the children in exchange for one of his chess pieces and pulled in the "local resources" to stop the Cybermen. The missing Emperor, Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI, revealed himself as having been their short-statured friend Porridge and activated the planet-destroying bomb. This summoned his spaceship, transmatting the humans on Hedgewick's World to safety while the Cybermen were left behind on Hedgewick's World. Porridge proposed to Clara, but she declined. The Doctor returned Clara, Angie and Artie home. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)
Clara visited Tickle Town with the Doctor, and was trapped in a roller coaster. She eventually escaped in the TARDIS. (COMIC: Welcome to Tickle Town)
Together, they met the King of Bones, (PROSE: Normality) and visited the avocado seas of Venofax, where they visited an archaeological dig. While the Doctor enjoyed himself, Clara quickly got bored and pressed some buttons on the archaeologists' equipment, accidentally turning off the barrier keeping the site from being flooded by the avocado seas. Nobody got hurt, but the entire expedition was ruined everyone got wet.
After leaving Venofax, Clara changed into dry clothes in the TARDIS. When she came out, the Doctor had landed in Dallas in 1963. Clara and the Doctor discovered an parasite called the Shroud which was feeding off of the grief of the Kennedy assassination. After allying with some clowns from the planet Semtis, the Doctor took the Shroud to Venofax and trapped it there. (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow)
Some time later, whilst at home with Angie and Artie, Clara received a letter from Vastra laced with a soporific that took her into a "conference call". There, she learnt that the murderer Clarence DeMarco had said "The Doctor has a secret, you know. He has one he will take to the grave. And it is discovered," and showed Vastra the co-ordinates to where the Doctor's tomb was. The call was interrupted by the Whisper Men attempting to murder Jenny. River woke up Vastra and Strax, and the Great Intelligence appeared, using the face of Walter Simeon, to tell Clara that to save his friends, the Doctor had to come to Trenzalore - the place of his grave. When she woke up from the conference, River stayed connected. Using the telepathic circuits to get the co-ordinates, the Doctor and Clara went to Trenzalore, crossing the Doctor's timeline. The Great Intelligence was waiting there, and wished to enter the tomb of the Doctor, a future, decaying version of the TARDIS.
Entering the decaying TARDIS through a hidden passageway, Clara began to remember the events of a deleted timeline, in which the Doctor told her about her multiple lives, causing her to panic slightly. They eventually made their way to the Doctor's tomb, where the Great Intelligence demanded the Doctor tell him his true name. When he refused, River uttered it, and the door opened. Inside the tomb, the Intelligence entered the Doctor's timeline, rewriting his history, changing all his victories into losses. The universe began decaying, all the people and civilisations saved by the Doctor now destroyed. With no other choice, Clara did what she was meant to do, saying, "Run you clever boy, and remember me", she walked into the timeline as well, scattering her across time and space. This action projected her across time, creating many other versions of her that saved the Doctor time and time again. Meanwhile, the Eleventh Doctor decided to jump into the timeline as well in order to save her. Hearing the Doctor's comforting voice, she approached him. As they were just about to leave, Clara noticed an incarnation of the Doctor that she'd never met. This version was the only one to break the promise of the name "the Doctor". Clara and the Eleventh Doctor then departed, with the mysterious Doctor watching them leave. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
After she escaped the Doctor's timeline, Clara could only remember bits and pieces of her echoes' lives. Some memories were more vivid, others she only recalled as dreams. (PROSE: Into the Nowhere)
Hanging out into space from the TARDIS, Clara and the Doctor found a Tonnchenform, similar to Earth tardigrades. Soon after, they went on an adventure involving a dinner with alien robots, a small jewel-encrusted seashell stolen by Bozzi the Mysterio, and a chase across the snowscapes of Halas Four. (PROSE: Normality)
Becoming a teacher
Once George Maitland was coping well enough on his own, Clara took a teaching job at Coal Hill School. (PROSE: Normality, TV: The Day of the Doctor) She attended teaching school before taking the job, where she met fellow teacher Christel Dean. (COMIC: Clara Oswald and the School of Death) She then received the job offer shortly after becoming qualified, perhaps with the Doctor's help.
When she started at school, Clara temporarily said goodbye to the Doctor and the TARDIS, so she could live a normal live for a while. Six months in, she began to regret this decision. (PROSE: Normality)
In at least one lesson, she lost control of the class and tried to use empty threats to make the children behave. This was unsuccessful, and later this memory would help her when facing threats against her in a further adventure. (TV: Deep Breath)
In one particular lesson, Clara decided to switch things up, proclaiming, "Normal is overrated," and brought her English class outside to teach about tardigrades, in an attempt to give them a glimpse into the wonders of the universe. Once they got settled on the grass, she instructed them to look up at the sky for ten seconds, then to shut their eyes, count to five, open them again and tell her what they see. She presumably went on to explain, as the Eleventh Doctor did to her, that the little things floating in their line of vision were tiny creatures, and they were everywhere. (PROSE: Normality)
Clara rendezvoused with the Eleventh Doctor after school some days, and was with him when his TARDIS was air lifted by UNIT to the National Gallery. There, Clara met Kate Stewart and consoled the Doctor when he was reminded of the Last Great Time War. She travelled with a Zygon impersonating Kate Stewart to the Black Archive unaware that the scientific leader of UNIT was being impersonated. Using the code scraped into the wall of the Tower of London, Clara activated Captain Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator and escaped the menacing Zygons by travelling to 1562. There, she met the War Doctor, Tenth Doctor and Queen Elizabeth I and attended the wedding of the latter two.
She was inserted into the Gallifreyan stasis cube Gallifrey Falls No More with the Doctors to surreptitiously re-enter the Black Archive in the 21st century. When the War Doctor left for his own time to activate the Moment, Clara told the two remaining Doctors that she could see in his eyes that the ending of the Time War was still in the old incarnation's future. She travelled through the Time Lock with the Doctors and begged them to reconsider when they decided to cause the genocide together. They took this advice to heart. She was therefore present when the Doctor changed history as he remembered it, and saved Gallifrey instead of destroying it. Back on Earth, she briefly met the mysterious Curator, unaware that anything was extraordinary about him. She bade farewell to the past Doctors, and kissed her Doctor on the cheek; when the Doctor asked how she knew he needed time alone with the painting, she told him, "I always know."
Clara visited the Black Archive twice, but only had memory of visiting once. As a result of the visit she did not remember, she already had security access during the visit she did remember. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
At some point, Clara took tae kwon do lessons with the year sevens after school. (TV: Robot of Sherwood)
On her travels with the Doctor, Clara was attacked by a mind parasite. It caused her to have a horrible dream, which she knew it was fake. The Doctor said that it was probably because of all the lives she had lived. (COMIC: John Smith and the Common Men)
Clara visited the Obsidian Mainframe, and attended the auction for various creatures. She was with the Doctor when the TARDIS was sold, and the Doctor gained a lot of money. They were then forced to travel "the normal way" to the Cornucopia's airport, when Amy Johnson lived. (COMIC: Pay the Piper, The Blood of Azrael)
Trenzalore
Needing a fake boyfriend, Clara called the Doctor twice while he was orbiting a planet surrounded by the universe's most dangerous enemies. She convinced him to come but was shocked to find him naked, which he fixed for her by putting a holographic filter on her. Clara introduced him to her family, who saw him naked because he hadn't put the filter on them. Learning from Handles that the planet was apparently Gallifrey, Clara and the Doctor travelled there. When the Papal Mainframe arrived, the Doctor made Clara swallowed a holographic projector to generate holographic clothes around her. Once on board they meet Tasha Lem. Tasha agreed to teleport the two to the planet. On the planet, Clara found a Weeping Angel. Surrounded by Angels, the Doctor pulled a secret key out of the wig he was wearing and summoned the TARDIS, saving them. He then flew the TARDIS to the nearby town of Christmas, where they learnt that the town was surrounded in a truth field. Searching for the source of the transmission, the two found a crack in time, and the Doctor realised that it was the Time Lords trying to return. The Doctor then explained that if he said his real name the Time Lords would return but all hell would then break loose as the species surrounding the planet tried to stop the return of the Time Lords. After learning that the planet was Trenzalore the Doctor had Clara return to the TARDIS. In the TARDIS, Clara inserted a device the Doctor gave her and was returned home, but grabbed onto the TARDIS as it dematerialised again.
Clara returned to Trenzalore three hundred years after she left and found the Doctor middle-aged. The Doctor had been defending Trenzalore from various threats and revealed to Clara that this would be the end of him. Clara begged him to let someone else take up the job of protecting the planet and change the future they saw, but he refused. Clara watched the planet's brief sunrise with him, during which Handles died and the two were invited by Tasha to return to the Papal Mainframe. On the Papal Mainframe, Clara and the Doctor were led into a trap, as the Daleks had already taken over the Mainframe and converted everyone into Dalek puppets. Tasha's Dalek programming was activated and three Daleks accosted the Doctor and Clara. When the Doctor threatened to release the Time Lords if the Daleks tried to kill him, Tasha took Clara hostage, and the Doctor claimed not to care if she died. Bravely, Clara declared she would die anyway, telling him to do what he had to. Using Clara as an example of bravery, the Doctor helped Tasha regain control of herself and she teleported them back to the planet after disposing of the Daleks.
The Doctor and Clara returned to the TARDIS where they found Clara's turkey cooked, and he returned her home once again. At dinner, Clara had her grandmother repeat the story of how she fell for her grandfather and was relieved to hear the TARDIS again, grabbing a Christmas cracker to take to the Doctor. To her surprise, she discovered Tasha piloting the TARDIS, and Tasha returned her to Trenzalore some time further into the future than she left. Tasha told Clara to go find the Doctor. Upon reuniting with the Doctor, Clara found him very old and weak. While they sat together, Clara opened the cracker and read the poem inside. When the Daleks demanded his surrender, he agreed but asked Clara to remain behind so he could at least have one last victory by saving her. Desperate to change the future, Clara pleaded to the Time Lords through the crack. To her surprise, the crack disappeared.
Clara watched tearfully as the Doctor stood on top of Christmas' Clock Tower and surrendered to the Daleks, prepared to finally die either by old age or Dalek. As the Daleks hesitated and the Doctor goaded them on, the Time Lords granted the Doctor a new regenerative cycle. To Clara's relief, the Doctor began to regenerate, using his regeneration energy to destroy the Daleks. When the dust cleared, there was no sign of the Doctor, so Clara checked the TARDIS where she found him restored to his youthful self. However, the Doctor told her that he would still regenerate. Finally, the regeneration started, and he removed his bowtie. Clara ran to his side in tears, begging him not to change.
However, despite her pleas, the Doctor suddenly regenerated into a new, older incarnation who left Clara confused by staring at her face to face, and then making comments about his new kidneys. The TARDIS suddenly began crashing, and to Clara's horror, the new Doctor asked her if she knew how to pilot the TARDIS, having apparently forgotten how himself. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
The new Doctor
After crashing in prehistoric times, the new Doctor and Clara were chased by a Tyrannosaurus rex. They managed to escape into the TARDIS, which the dinosaur then swallowed. The TARDIS then relocated to Victorian London, bringing the dinosaur with them, which spat out the time machine after choking on it. The Doctor, suffering from severe post-regenerative confusion, stepped out and met Madame Vastra, Jenny, and Strax. An equally befuddled Clara joined him. Back at Paternoster Row, the Doctor was put to bed to recover. Vastra confronted Clara over her attitude to the Doctor's new face, and Clara admitted that it was a big change for her. Upstairs, the Doctor escaped his room, and attempted to communicate with the dinosaur in the Thames, when it suddenly burst into flames. Clara and the Gang left separately and ended up right next to him. The Doctor, still rather confused, disappeared into the Thames.
The next morning, Clara found a newspaper advertisement that called her the "Impossible Girl" and invited her to "dinner on the other side"... of the page, which turned out to be an advert for
- ↑ It is not clear whether Clara came up with this or if Angie Maitland suggested it to her.
