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The Pestilent Heart was a comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine in 2016. It featured the return of Jess Collins, who last appeared in COMIC: The Highgate Horror, and also introduced her her parents, Devina and Llyod, and her younger brother, Maxwell. Most notably, the ending marked the beginning of a short story arc in which the Doctor moves in with the Collins family while he waits for his TARDIS to repair itself following a system overload.
Plot
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Characters
Worldbuilding
- Lloyd and Jess plan to see the latest Carry On film, with Lloyd looking forward to seeing Sid James and Barbara Windsor in it.
- Lloyd is taken to Kings College Hospital.
- Moan'na landed in London shortly before the Bubonic plague of 1665.
- The Doctor uses the phrase, "Up Shobogan creek without a warp drive".
- When thinking about his family, Lloyd envisions Maxwell wearing a Spider-Man shirt.
- As he skydives out of the TARDIS, the Doctor yells, "Geronimo", saying he is quoting "a wise man".
Notes
- Clara Oswald, Gabriel Rosewood and the Corvids briefly appear in a flashback to COMIC: The Highgate Horror.
Original print details
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Continuity
- Jess recalls the death of her boyfriend Dave and the defeat of the Corvids by the Doctor and Clara six months previously. (COMIC: The Highgate Horror)
- The Doctor has no memory of Clara Oswald. (TV: Hell Bent) He does, however, remember the events of his previous encounter with Jess. (COMIC: The Highgate Horror)
- The Doctor once again tries to use "Funkenstein" as an aliases. (TV: The Zygon Invasion)
- The Doctor is as irritated by "domestics" as his ninth incarnation was. (TV: Aliens of London)