Series 7, Episode 13 | 1 part | First broadcast: 18 May 2013 | Writer: Steven Moffat | Director: Saul Metzstein
Cast
- Matt Smith as the Doctor
- Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara Oswald
- Alex Kingston as River Song
- Neve McIntosh as Madame Vastra
- Catrin Stewart as Jenny Flint
- Dan Starkey as Strax
- John Hurt as the War Doctor
Summary
Summoned to Trenzalore, the site of the Doctor’s own future grave, the Doctor, Clara, and the Paternoster Gang confront the vengeful Great Intelligence, who plans to enter the Doctor’s own timeline and unravel every victory he has ever won from within. Clara sacrifices herself into the timeline to undo the damage, scattering fragmented versions of herself throughout the Doctor’s history, and in the process the Doctor’s oldest, most carefully hidden secret is finally revealed.
Interesting Facts
- This finale finally explains Clara’s repeated appearances across different times and places throughout the Doctor’s past, confirming her as the “Impossible Girl.”
- The episode ends with the shock reveal of a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor, played by John Hurt, foreshadowed only as “the Doctor” the character himself refuses to acknowledge.
- River Song appears as a projected, translucent “ghost,” still linked to the Doctor from beyond her own established fate in “Forest of the Dead.”
- The Doctor’s grave itself is depicted as an enormous, wrecked future TARDIS, its true form finally shown at true scale.
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