Series 6, Episode 5 | 2 parts | First broadcast: 21 May 2011 | Writer: Matthew Graham | Director: Julian Simpson
Cast
- Matt Smith as the Doctor
- Karen Gillan as Amy Pond
- Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams
- Marshall Lancaster as Jimmy Wicks
Summary
At an acid-mining facility, workers routinely control disposable duplicate bodies called “Gangers,” made from a programmable substance called the Flesh, to perform dangerous tasks remotely. When a solar storm strikes and severs the connection between the Gangers and their originals, the duplicates awaken with full independence and memories of their own, setting up a volatile standoff over who has the right to exist.
Interesting Facts
- The Flesh and its Ganger duplicates raise pointed questions about identity and personhood that echo throughout the two-parter.
- The Doctor is revealed at the cliffhanger to have created a Ganger duplicate of himself as well, without anyone realising until the reveal.
- This story would go on to have far-reaching consequences for the series’ larger mysteries involving the Doctor and Amy.
- Writer Matthew Graham previously contributed the acclaimed but divisive “Fear Her” during the Tenth Doctor’s era.
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