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In the [[Nevada]] desert, the Doctor walks into a diner, and is greeted by a waitress who looks and sounds exactly like [[Clara Oswald]]. Having no money, he tells her he can play his [[Electric guitar|guitar]]. As he starts to play her a song, she asks him if it is a sad song. He says that nothing is sad until it's over. He tells her that he thinks the song is called "Clara". The waitress asks him to tell her about this "Clara"... | In the [[Nevada]] desert, the Doctor walks into a diner, and is greeted by a waitress who looks and sounds exactly like [[Clara Oswald]]. Having no money, he tells her he can play his [[Electric guitar|guitar]]. As he starts to play her a song, she asks him if it is a sad song. He says that nothing is sad until it's over. He tells her that he thinks the song is called "[[Clara (song)|Clara]]". The waitress asks him to tell her about this "Clara"... | ||
Walking through the desert-like plains of [[Gallifrey]], the Doctor arrives at [[Barn (The Day of the Doctor)|the old barn]] where he slept in as a child and [[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|worked out how to save his home]]. He climbs up into its loft, seeming nostalgic as he overlooks his old bed. A woman he recognises enters the barn; with the Doctor's face blocked by a beam, she cannot tell who it is, so she asks him to leave. Walking closer, she meets his gaze, immediately realizing his identity; she warns the Doctor that "they" will kill him. In the chamber of the High Council, the Cloister Bells are ringing, warning of great danger. Rassilon wonders why the Doctor hasn't arrived yet. To Rassilon's annoyance, [[Ohila]] and some of the Sisterhood of Karn arrive uninvited and advise to try appealing to the Doctor to get his attention; he doesn't blame the Time Lords for the horrors of the Time War, just Rassilon. Rassilon sends a soldier named [[Gastron]] to retrieve him. | Walking through the desert-like plains of [[Gallifrey]], the Doctor arrives at [[Barn (The Day of the Doctor)|the old barn]] where he slept in as a child and [[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|worked out how to save his home]]. He climbs up into its loft, seeming nostalgic as he overlooks his old bed. A woman he recognises enters the barn; with the Doctor's face blocked by a beam, she cannot tell who it is, so she asks him to leave. Walking closer, she meets his gaze, immediately realizing his identity; she warns the Doctor that "they" will kill him. In the chamber of the High Council, the Cloister Bells are ringing, warning of great danger. Rassilon wonders why the Doctor hasn't arrived yet. To Rassilon's annoyance, [[Ohila]] and some of the Sisterhood of Karn arrive uninvited and advise to try appealing to the Doctor to get his attention; he doesn't blame the Time Lords for the horrors of the Time War, just Rassilon. Rassilon sends a soldier named [[Gastron]] to retrieve him. | ||
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Clara watches on the monitor, coming to learn that the Doctor plans to erase all memory of himself from her, then drop her off somewhere to live her life. When the Doctor and Me enter the TARDIS, Clara argues with him, demanding to keep her memories and revealing that she had used the sonic sunglasses to "reverse the polarity" of the neuroblock device to erase the Doctor's memory if he used it on her. The Doctor is skeptical that she could do this, however, they both agree to take a fifty-fifty chance to have one of their memories wiped at random. After Clara suggests they forget the whole thing and just "fly away somewhere", they both touch the device, and press the button. It turns out the Doctor is the one to lose his memories. He collapses in pain to the floor. Before losing his memories, he gives out advice, from "never be cruel or cowardly", to the more bizarre "never eat pears". He asks Clara for one last smile before he blacks out. | Clara watches on the monitor, coming to learn that the Doctor plans to erase all memory of himself from her, then drop her off somewhere to live her life. When the Doctor and Me enter the TARDIS, Clara argues with him, demanding to keep her memories and revealing that she had used the sonic sunglasses to "reverse the polarity" of the neuroblock device to erase the Doctor's memory if he used it on her. The Doctor is skeptical that she could do this, however, they both agree to take a fifty-fifty chance to have one of their memories wiped at random. After Clara suggests they forget the whole thing and just "fly away somewhere", they both touch the device, and press the button. It turns out the Doctor is the one to lose his memories. He collapses in pain to the floor. Before losing his memories, he gives out advice, from "never be cruel or cowardly", to the more bizarre "never eat pears". He asks Clara for one last smile before he blacks out. | ||
Back in the present, the Doctor continues talking to Clara; he doesn't remember what she looked like, or the "very important" message she gave him in the cloisters, but remembers their adventures and half-heartedly says he is trying to look for her. Clara tries one last time to spark a memory by outright suggesting that she could be Clara, only to have the Doctor assert that he would "absolutely know" if he ever saw her again, causing Clara to turn away to hide her tears. Looking around the diner, he suddenly recalls having been to it with [[River Song|River]], [[Amy Pond|Amy]] and [[Rory Williams|Rory]] when he [[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|faked his death]] in his [[Eleventh Doctor|previous incarnation]]. He tells Clara that he is currently searching for his own TARDIS, as it has disappeared from where he left it in London. As he begins once again to play the sad melody he'd been playing, Clara smiles and reminds the Doctor what he told her about that memories become stories; while he can't remember what she told him in the cloisters, she suggests sometimes lost memories become songs. The Doctor compliments the sentiment and momentarily turns his back, as Clara walks into the back room, which is revealed to the console room for the TARDIS they stole from Gallifrey. The diner vanishes, leaving the Doctor astounded as he realizes he was talking to Clara; he then turns around to find his TARDIS, which still has Rigsy's graffiti memorial for her, left behind. | Back in the present, the Doctor continues talking to Clara; he doesn't remember what she looked like, or the "very important" message she gave him in the cloisters, but remembers their adventures and half-heartedly says he is trying to look for her. Clara tries one last time to spark a memory by outright suggesting that she could be Clara, only to have the Doctor assert that he would "absolutely know" if he ever saw her again, causing Clara to turn away to hide her tears. Looking around the diner, he suddenly recalls having been to it with [[River Song|River]], [[Amy Pond|Amy]] and [[Rory Williams|Rory]] when he [[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|faked his death]] in his [[Eleventh Doctor|previous incarnation]]. He tells Clara that he is currently searching for his own TARDIS, as it has disappeared from where he left it in London. As he begins once again to play [[Clara (song)|the sad melody he'd been playing]], Clara smiles and reminds the Doctor what he told her about that memories become stories; while he can't remember what she told him in the cloisters, she suggests sometimes lost memories become songs. The Doctor compliments the sentiment and momentarily turns his back, as Clara walks into the back room, which is revealed to the console room for the TARDIS they stole from Gallifrey. The diner vanishes, leaving the Doctor astounded as he realizes he was talking to Clara; he then turns around to find his TARDIS, which still has Rigsy's graffiti memorial for her, left behind. | ||
In Clara's TARDIS, Me tells her the [[Chameleon circuit]] is broken, but she is unconcerned, saying that she likes it. Clara asks Me whether the Time Lords can return her to her place and time of death, knowing she will have to face the raven eventually, to which Me responds with the affirmative. Me asks Clara where will she go now, she replies "Gallifrey, the long way around": she isn't going back to face her death just yet. | In Clara's TARDIS, Me tells her the [[Chameleon circuit]] is broken, but she is unconcerned, saying that she likes it. Clara asks Me whether the Time Lords can return her to her place and time of death, knowing she will have to face the raven eventually, to which Me responds with the affirmative. Me asks Clara where will she go now, she replies "Gallifrey, the long way around": she isn't going back to face her death just yet. | ||
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* This marks the first time a ''Doctor Who'' television episode has had the minor expletive "hell" in the title. The word previously appeared in the titles of the comic stories ''[[A Cold Day in Hell! (comic story)|A Cold Day in Hell!]]'' and ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'' as well as the audio story ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]''. | * This marks the first time a ''Doctor Who'' television episode has had the minor expletive "hell" in the title. The word previously appeared in the titles of the comic stories ''[[A Cold Day in Hell! (comic story)|A Cold Day in Hell!]]'' and ''[[The Road to Hell (comic story)|The Road to Hell]]'' as well as the audio story ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]''. | ||
* This episode marks the first televised appearance of an interior shot of a TARDIS other than [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the Doctor's]] since ''[[Time and the Rani]]'', the latter being [[the Rani]]'s. It is only the second [[TARDIS control console]] seen other than the Doctor's since ''Time and the Rani,'' after the [[Junk TARDIS]] in ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]].'' | * This episode marks the first televised appearance of an interior shot of a TARDIS other than [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the Doctor's]] since ''[[Time and the Rani]]'', the latter being [[the Rani]]'s. It is only the second [[TARDIS control console]] seen other than the Doctor's since ''Time and the Rani,'' after the [[Junk TARDIS]] in ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]].'' | ||
* The tune played by the Doctor when he was sitting in the diner is a simplified version of [[Clara Oswald]]'s theme from the Series 7-9 soundtracks. It is a rare example of a piece of incidental music composed for ''Doctor Who'' becoming part of its [[Doctor Who Universe|in-universe]] narrative. The Doctor says he believes the song is called "[[Clara (song)|Clara]]". "Clara?" is the name of the track on the Series 7 soundtrack. In the context of the story, it is implied that the melody represents the now-forgotten words Clara says to the Doctor in the Cloisters; this is supported by the fact the same piece of music plays when the episode cuts away from the couple as Clara begins to speak. | * The tune played by the Doctor when he was sitting in the diner is a simplified version of [[Clara Oswald]]'s theme from the Series 7-9 soundtracks. It is a rare example of a piece of incidental music composed for ''Doctor Who'' becoming part of its [[Doctor Who Universe|in-universe]] narrative. The Doctor says he believes the song is called "[[Clara (song)|Clara]]". "Clara?" is the name of the track on the Series 7 soundtrack, though it has also been performed at the Proms and other events as "The Impossible Girl". In the context of the story, it is implied that the melody represents the now-forgotten words Clara says to the Doctor in the Cloisters; this is supported by the fact the same piece of music plays (in a full orchestral version) when the episode cuts away from the couple as Clara begins to speak. | ||
* The ''Radio Times'' programme listing was accompanied by a small colour head-and-shoulders shot of the General, with the accompanying caption "Doctor Who / 8.00 p.m. The General (Ken Bones) prepares for battle in the series finale". | * The ''Radio Times'' programme listing was accompanied by a small colour head-and-shoulders shot of the General, with the accompanying caption "Doctor Who / 8.00 p.m. The General (Ken Bones) prepares for battle in the series finale". | ||
* Although they only receive a brief cameo, the inclusion of the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] ensures the continuation of a pattern that has been ongoing since [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]], whereby they appear in every twelfth episode of a series. | * Although they only receive a brief cameo, the inclusion of the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] ensures the continuation of a pattern that has been ongoing since [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]], whereby they appear in every twelfth episode of a series. | ||
