Guide:Plot summary for New Who: Difference between revisions

The Doctor and Clara continue on their adventures, with Clara stepping up and taking a more active role, and the Doctor becoming more protective of her. This culminates when Clara dies, and the Doctor becomes trapped in a time loop for billions of years, killing himself over and over again to find a way out. When he does so, he finds himself on Gallifrey, freed from the bubble universe where they were trapped, and uses the technology present to extract Clara from right before her death. The two steal another TARDIS and fly away. But during their flight it becomes clear that Clara's death isn't being reversed, and the Doctor decides that to prevent the Time Lords from tracking her through their memories he'll erase hers. Clara refuses, insisting that her past is her own, and instead randomizes the device that the Doctor would use to do this. The Doctor instead erases his own memory, and Clara flies away in the new TARDIS, leaving him on Earth.

[[File:BillInOffice.jpg|left|thumb|360x330px|[[Bill Potts]], played by [[Pearl Mackie]].]]

Years later, the Doctor finds himself lecturing at [[St Luke's University]], and notices a young woman who audits a class of his without being enrolled, [[Bill Potts]], played by [[Pearl Mackie]]. He offers to tutor her, and she finds herself drawn into his world slowly but surely. The Doctor, for his part, has been guarding a vault with [[Nardole]], played by [[Matt Lucas]], and uses trips with Bill as an excuse to travel discretely off world, shirking his duty. In the end it's revealed that the vault contains Missy, and the Doctor has sworn to guard her for one hundred years, slowly trying to reform her, little by little. She finally accompanies Bill, Nardole, and the Doctor on a test run - an adventure on a colony ship, and everything goes wrong. Another [[Saxon Master|incarnation]] of the Master is present, as are Cybermen, and while Bill ultimately manages to make it off the ship the group is on, Missy and her earlier self wound each other lethally, and the Doctor forces himself to the brink of regeneration saving the colonists. He insists, however, back inside his TARDIS, that he won't change again. He's done becoming someone else, and just wants it to end. His TARDIS takes him back to meet his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]] who's wrestling with much the same dilemma. Eventually, they both decide to take one step more. And the Doctor regenerates into the [[Thirteenth Doctor]], played by [[Jodie Whittaker]].