The Time of the Doctor (TV story): Difference between revisions

The Doctor is among thousands of ships orbiting a planet after hearing a message being broadcast from it, a message that no-one can understand. He visits a ship, holding a Dalek eyestalk to show his bravery. Unfortunately, the ship belongs to Daleks, who fire at him until he teleports back to the TARDIS, where a disembodied Cyberman head that he calls "Handles" is plugged into the console. Clara calls the Doctor via the TARDIS phone, and pleads that he pretend to be her boyfriend for her family's Christmas dinner. The Doctor then accidentally visits a Cybership while holding Handles, where he is also shot at until he teleports back to the TARDIS again.

The Doctor picks up Clara from her home and takes her to the planet's orbit where, when asked to identify the planet, Handles claims it is Gallifrey, a fact the Doctor refutes. The two are invited aboard the Papal Mainframe, a space church headed by Mother Superious Tasha Lem (Orla Brady). Tasha and the Doctor discuss the signal coming from the mysterious planet, while Clara continuously sees and forgets several Silents that surround her. She bursts into the room where the Doctor and Tasha are conversing, but forgets why sh came there.

Tasha sends the Doctor and Clara to the planet, to a town called Christmas, surrounded by a truth field, so no-one can lie., Here the Doctor finds a crack in time through which the message is being broadcast. The message is a repeat of the same question; Doctor who? The doctor says this is the Time Lords, trapped in a pocket universe, trying to get out. If the Doctor speaks his name, the Time Lords will know they are in the right place and come through and all the alien species above will descend on the planet and begin the Time War anew. Tasha contacts the Doctor, telling him this cannot happen and the Doctor refuses to withdraw and let her destroy the planet, which she reveals to be Trenzalore. The Doctor tricks Clara into plugging a device into the TARDIS that transports her home and for the next 300 years defends Trenzalore. Clara returns after gripping the sides of the TARDIS and forcing the TARDIS to increase the shields and bring her back through the Time Vortex, slowing it down considerably. She meets a Doctor who is over 1500 years old, having spent 3 centuries defending the town of Christmas. He reveals to her his is in his thirteenth and final life (including the regeneration into the War Doctor and the regeneration energy used by the Tenth Doctor during his Meta-Crisis). He is then transported, with Clara, to the Papal Mainframe, now the Church of the Silence. The Silents are revealed to by genetically engineered senior priests, whose aim is to ensure the Doctor does not release the Time Lords. (The Kovarian Chapter broke away and travelled back in time to stop the Doctor reaching Trenzalore). After it is revealed that Tasha and her crew have been killed by the Daleks and turned into Dalek puppets, the Doctor, with help from Tasha, who regains her mind and defends the Doctor, escapes from the ship and tricks Clara home for a second time. Clara later hears the TARDIS engines and runs outside, to find the TARDIS piloted by Tasha, claiming, "Flying the TARDIS is easy, its flying the Doctor that hard." She returns Clara to Trenzalore to see the Doctor, saying she could not let him die alone. The Doctor is now very old and often acts slow and slightly confused. He still won't release the Time Lords, knowing that it would mean Hell for all the universe. All his enemies have withdrawn save for the Daleks, whom he has been fighting with the aid of the Silence. The Daleks launch their final attack and the Doctor, out of ideas, weapons and regenerations, goes to meet them. Clara cannot watch this and returns to the crack, pleading with the Time Lords to save the Doctor, saying; "his name is the Doctor! All the name he needs, everything you need to know about him! And if you love him and you should, help him!". The crack vanishes. At the top of Christmas's clock tower, the Doctor is preparing to die. Then, the Crack appears in the night sky and through it, the Time Lords grant the Doctor a new Cycle of Regenerations. As his 13th regeneration starts, the Doctor uses the energy to destroy the Dalek ship. In the Aftermath, Clara finds the doctor, young again, back in the TARDIS. He states that his new regeneration is taking some time to start up, but soon he will change. He starts to hallucinate about Amelia Pond, the first face "this Face" saw. She tells him, "Raggedy Man, good night," and he regenerates into the first incarnation of his new regeneration cycle, whose first words are; "Kidneys! I've got new kidneys!". The Doctor continues that he "doesn't like the color," and suddenly asks Clara if she knows how to fly the TARDIS.

* Voice of the [[Dalek]]s - [[Nicholas Briggs]]

* [[Dalek Operator|Dalek 1]] - [[Barnaby Edwards (actor)|Barnaby Edwards]]

* [[Dalek Operator|Dalek 2]] - [[Nicholas Pegg]]