Death in Heaven ReKapped! (Part Two)

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UNIT Extract 4:

4.1 Records indicate that Boat One was attacked by a squadron of air-born Cybermen. The craft was literally disassembled from the outside while in flight with the crew still aboard.

4.2 CCTV footage indicates that when the craft was destroyed, both Extraterrestrials were in the hold. Missy stated to the President of Earth that she had visited a number of points on his timeline, “meeting all those silly people who died keeping you alive.”

4.3 The TARDIS phone is known to have rung and the Doctor’s associate, Clara is believed to have contacted the TARDIS remotely.

4.4 Hostile, Missy, referenced a UNIT Incursion Event file involving the Great Intelligence infiltrating the wi-fi, where Clara was first put in contact with the Doctor. She also referenced a pre-UNIT Torchwood file regarding reports of a dinosaur and clockwork men in London in the 19th Century. It is believed that the hostile had arranged for Clara and the Doctor to meet and remain in contact. Her intent and risks of these two remaining together remains uncertain.

4.5 The final transmission record from Boat One indicates Officer, Kate Stewart was ejected without landfall equipment when hostile, Missy, blasted open the hold door.

4.6 The President of Earth was believed to be the last remaining passenger when the craft exploded.

Extract ends.

Missy has transported herself inside the data-cloud and watches the Doctor skydive towards the falling TARDIS and the ship rise above the clouds as he gets to the controls just in time.

The TARDIS homes in on Clara’s call and the Doctor reaches her in the graveyard trying to activate Danny’s emotional inhibitor.

She asks him to help her activate Danny’s inhibitor because of the pain he is in. The Doctor warns again that without emotions Danny would kill her and many more. Danny responds, “I will not harm her.”

The Doctor regards Danny’s converted body with horror and tells him that the pain he has is what makes him human. “Pain is a gift, without the capacity for pain, we can’t feel the hurt we inflict.” He asks Danny to access the Cyber-hive mind and tell him what the clouds are going to do next.

Danny bitterly explains that he can only find out Missy’s plan if his emotions are removed. He taunts the Doctor calling him a blood soaked general. “And didn’t all of those beautiful speeches disappear in the face of a tactical advantage, Sir?”

The Doctor is trapped between what he believes is right for an individual and his hopes of defeating Missy’s invasion. “I need to know.”

“Yes, you do.” Danny replies. The Doctor cannot activate the inhibitor and effectively kill Clara’s boyfriend. Clara tells him to hand over the sonic screwdriver. “Do as you are told.” The Doctor slips away between the graves with his head lowered while Clara points the sonic probe at Danny’s chest. “It feels like I’m killing you.”

Danny, looking her in the eye tells her, “I’m already dead.” Clara activates the inhibitor. Emotion drains from Danny’s face and Clara runs to him and embraces the Cyberman that used to be Danny. He doesn’t harm her but is able to tell the Doctor in a monotone voice that the rain will fall again but this time will convert the living into Cybermen.

Missy suddenly appears, transporting herself to the graveyard. The Doctor disarms her as she makes to kill Clara. She tells him that she is there to give him a gift.

Missy speaks into her wrist-band and demonstrates voice control of every Cyberman in sight, enacting an airline pre-flight directions. “You see, Doctor, the power to slaughter whole worlds at a time, then make them do a safety briefing.” She calls them an indestructible army where the more they kill, the more they recruit.

Wishing him a Happy Birthday, she slips the wrist-band onto the Doctor’s hand. And giving him control. “I don’t want an Army!” he shouts.

“That’s the trouble, yes you do. You’ve always wanted one.” She goads him that “good men” think they know what is right and now he has the power to force his morality on the universe. If he doesn’t “conquer the universe” she will kill all the living humans with a second rainfall.

The Doctor is horrified. “What’s the matter, Mr President, don’t you trust yourself?” Doubt shows on the Doctor’s face as he struggles with the idea of being a hero or a villain until something dawns on him. Missy is confused as he thanks her and says with confidence that he is neither a good man, a bad man, a hero, a president nor an officer. “I am an idiot, with a box, and a screwdriver. Passing through, helping out. Learning.”

Explaining that Danny was the one soldier not under Missy’s wrist-band control and that his love for Clara is a promise, not an emotion, the Doctor throws the device to Danny.

Danny already knows what he must do and leads the worldwide army of resurrected corpses into the sky to sacrifice themselves by burning the deadly clouds. The Cyber-Army set alight and the clouds are gone.

The Doctor, Clara and Missy are left alone in the graveyard. Missy quotes the original coordinates for Gallifrey, “Ten zero eleven zero zero by zero two.” And tells him that his lost home planet has returned to its original place. She bargains with him that they can both go there.

Clara interrupts, pointing Missy’s own weapon at her, “Doctor, I’m assuming you’ll remember those coordinates.” The Doctor says he won’t allow her to kill Missy. Clara replies, “If you let this creature live, everything that happened today is on you.”

The Doctor takes the device and points it at Missy to save Clara from that responsibility. Before he can shoot, a blast vaporises the Time Lady from a single Cyberman standing some way off among the graves.

It gestures over to a body on the grass. The Doctor and Clara run over to find Kate Stewart confused but alive. The Doctor realises that the Cyberman is the remains and transplanted consciousness of his old friend and Kate’s father, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The Cyberman salutes and flies away.

We join Clara some time later in her flat. A light appears in the corridor and Danny’s voice beckons. The bracelet allows one person to be manifested in the real world from inside the Gallifreyan hard-drive. Clara speaks to Danny and asks him to come back. But the figure that emerges from the light is the young boy that Danny accidentally shot when in active service. “One trip, one person.”

Clara realises that the man she loved is not coming back from the dead and has sacrificed himself so that the boy could have his life back.

Two weeks later Clara and the Doctor meet in a café. He sees the wrist-band on her and assumes that Danny returned. He believes Clara will want to remain with Danny and stop travelling with him. To stop her from feeling torn, he tells her that he has found Gallifrey – but in reality, he was in the TARDIS staring at the empty space where Gallifrey used to be. He breaks down and slams his fist into the console in despair.

Clara, believing he has found his home tells him that she and Danny “will be fine.” Clara asks for a hug. The Doctor agrees.

“Why don’t you like hugging, Doctor?”

“Never trust a hug,” he replies. “It’s just a way to hide your face.” And neither can see the pain in the other’s face.

They say goodbye and as the TARDIS dematerialises, the emotion drains from Clara’s face.

NEXT: “EVERY CHRISTMAS IS LAST CHRISTMAS – AND THIS IS OURS. NOW IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP.”

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