Fear Her (TV story)

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Synopsis

The Doctor takes Rose to the London 2012 Olympics, only to find terror in an ordinary street.

Plot

The TARDIS materialises on Dame Kelly Holmes Close on the day of the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in between two skips, with the door facing the side of one, which prompts the Doctor to close the TARDIS and turn it around. On the street, concern is divided between preparation for the Games, as the torchbearer on the final leg, and the continued disappearance of children from their gardens.Rose also met a ginger cat who walked into a cardboard box & disappeared Cars break down on the street, something which a council worker, Kel, states has been happening all day.

The source of the problems is a small girl, Chloe, who is able to cause people to disappear by drawing them.

Rose, while wandering down one of the estate streets, hears a noise coming from one of the garages and desides to investigate. As she opens the door a round, fuzzy, scribble creature flies forward, hitting Rose square in the face. She falls backwards, landing flat on her back on the driveway. The scribble creature then begins to attack Rose, who swats at it helplessly. Luckily the Doctor arives just in time, deactivating the scribble with his screwdriver. The scribble lands on Rose's chest, and the Doctor helps her to her feet. The Doctor is able to deduce from detection of residual energy and the carbon nature of a scribble that had attacked Rose that the problem is coming from an alien influence.

Intrigued, the Doctor investigates and through talking to Chloe, he discovers that the disappearance is related to the Isolus, an alien life-form, who had befriended Chloe as she had a troubled childhood including an abusive father. The Doctor warns that the Isolus is desperate for love too, and will use the billions of people watching Olympic opening ceremony to renumber its family.

The Doctor returns to the TARDIS, which locates the Isolus pod to the Close. However, the Doctor and thousands at the Olympic Stadium start to disappear, leaving Rose to dig the pod up (to Kel's protestations). Rose realises that she needs to offer the pod heat, which she does by throwing the pod towards the torch, which had subsequently became a morale beacon, that is passing the Close.

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The Doctor and Rose gazing skywards

As the missing children start to reappear, Rose realizes that so will the demon-like drawing that Chloe had made of her father. Rose and Chloe's mother are able, though, to calm Chloe enough to destroy him.

As the torch-bearer approaches the Olympic Stadium, he staggers, but the Doctor completes the run and lights the Olympic Flame, allowing the Isolus to return home.

As the Doctor and Rose walk off to watch the Games, Rose remarks that however hard they attempt, nothing will ever split the two of them up. However, the Doctor does not seem so sure, as he surmises that a storm is approaching.

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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

  • The Doctor invokes the Shadow Proclamation.
  • The Isolus are beings that can draw power from other being's extreme emotion.
  • The Doctor mentions that he "was a dad once," a reference which was previously implied numerous times by his relationship as grandfather to Susan Foreman. This could also refer to his relationship to his adopted daughter Miranda Dawkins.
  • Humanoid catkind are mentioned.

Story Notes

  • Fear Her is a story which replaces an unwritten script originally allocated to Stephen Fry.
  • The Doctor has travelled with several children throughout all his lives, but this is the first televised story to deal with actual child abuse.
  • In 2009, Doctor Who Magazine conducted a reader poll to rank the first 200 Doctor Who stories in order of preference. Fear Her ranked 192nd out of 200, earning it the dubious distinction of being the lowest-ranked story of the 2005-present revival.
  • The London 2012 logo seen at the start is the bid logo not the current logo.

Ratings

  • 7.14 million

Myths

to be added

Filming Location

Temorfa, Cardiff

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.

Continuity

DVD Releases

Series 2 Volume 5 DVD Cover

See also

to be added

External Links

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