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''to | The plot intertwines three threads related to present day England, Elizabethan England, and the fall of Arcadia, Gallifrey's second city, and the last day of the Time War. At Coal Hill School (the school attended by Susan Foreman in the first transmitted episode of Doctor Who, where Ian Chesterton is now Chairman of the Governors and W. Coburn is the Headmaster) Clara Oswald receives a message from the Eleventh Doctor and returns to the TARDIS, which is by royal order airlifted to Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery. Preserved instructions from Elizabeth I of England (revealed to have been married to the Doctor) are shown to the Doctor, along with a 3-D portrait of the Last Day of the Time War, entitled "No More" or "Gallifrey Falls", and other 3-D paintings. The instructions also name the Doctor the National Gallery's 'curator,' to protect treasures Elizabeth I felt no one else could preserve. The other 3-D portraits' glass has been broken from within and figures in the paintings have disappeared. It transpires that the shape-shifting Zygons, preserved in old images, are invading. To defeat them, UNIT plan to detonate a nuclear warhead in London, from within their base, which contains a number of artifacts and is TARDIS-proof. In the meantime, in the midst of the Time War, the War Doctor - a hitherto-unknown "hidden" or "dark" incarnation of the Doctor (who bridges the gap between the original and 2005 series, and is unrevealed until this season) - watches Gallifrey falling to a Dalek invasion, and decides to trigger a weapon of mass destruction called the "Moment", which is described as a "galaxy eater" and will destroy both races completely. The weapon is sentient - it appears with the form of past assistant Rose Tyler to challenge whether this mass killing is truly right, by showing him what will become of him and the consequences, if he proceeds. In Elizabethan England the Doctor and a young Elizabeth I also find themselves under threat from Zygons. Locked in the Tower of London, the Doctor communicates to his present-day companions the code to activate a time transporter at UNIT, allowing them to escape the Zygons. Joined by his previous incarnation and the War Doctor, they enter UNIT by entering a picture in the same way as the Zygons. The Doctor triggers a memory eraser, causing humans and Zygons to forget which of them is human and which merely shape-shifting human appearance, forcing them to discuss peace rather than extreme solutions. The War Doctor, believing he now knows the consequences and has decided what is right, proceeds with his intention of detonating the Galaxy Eater. However his other two present incarnations convince him to change his mind and seek an alternative resolution. Instead they summon all of the Doctor's incarnations (including a not-yet-shown future incarnation seen fleetingly) who, working together, time-lock Gallifrey in an unknown location leaving the Dalek invaders of that planet to destroy themselves by the intensity of their own attack, now without a target. The War Doctor expresses approval of the incarnations he will become, and both he and the Tenth Doctor depart in their respective TARDISes, and the War Doctor is seen beginning to regenerate, echoing the First Doctor by saying that his body is "wearing a bit thin". Due to the disruption of time streams, they know they will not remember the War Doctor saving Gallifrey; both will remember him as destroying it. At the end, the Eleventh Doctor meets the mysterious Curator of the museum—played by Tom Baker (who played the iconic Fourth Doctor)—and is told that the painting's actual name was neither "No More" nor "Gallifrey Falls," but the singular "Gallifrey Falls No More", and '"Who" knows', hinting that the plan to save Gallifrey had worked, and the Doctor's future involves finding it. The episode ends with a nod to the series' history when the Doctor describes a dream he's had—one where the entire range of Doctor incarnations are seen together and the Doctor determines he will seek out Gallifrey once more. | ||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
