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Hell Bent (Doctor Who)
"Hell Bent" is the twelfth and final episode of the ninth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was written by Steven Moffat, directed by Rachel Talalay and first broadcast on BBC One on 5 December 2015.
In the episode, the alien time traveller known as the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) arrives on the planet Gallifrey after escaping imprisonment by his people, the Time Lords, and takes over as the new President. He tries in vain to use knowledge of "the Hybrid", which is prophesied by the Time Lords to stand in Gallifrey's ruins and unravel the Web of Time, to save the life of his companion Clara (Jenna Coleman). Doing so causes the Doctor and Clara themselves to become the Hybrid. This episode is Coleman's final regular appearance as a companion.
The episode was watched by 6.17 million viewers and received positive reviews. Aspects that were met with praise were the episode’s unpredictability, emotion and the performances of Capaldi and Coleman.
On Gallifrey, the Twelfth Doctor has escaped from his confession dial after four and a half billion years of imprisonment, alerting the Time Lords. Aided by the Gallifreyan military, the Doctor usurps and exiles Lord President Rassilon. Now acting as new President, the Doctor learns that Rassilon imprisoned him in the dial to force him to confess about the Hybrid, which is prophesied by the Time Lords to stand in Gallifrey's ruins and unravel the Web of Time.
The Doctor has the Time Lords retrieve Clara from her timeline the instant before her death, with her biological processes suspended in a time loop, leaving her without a pulse, ostensibly so the Doctor can consult her about the Hybrid. The Doctor turns against the Time Lords and shoots the General fatally, leading him to regenerate into a female form. The Doctor then flees with Clara and steals a TARDIS from the workshops under the Capitol, telling her he held out confessing to have something to bargain for her life with.
The Doctor attempts to take Clara far enough away in the hope that her pulse will resume and she will not have to be returned to the moment of her death, despite potentially damaging time itself in the process. When this fails, they go to the extreme end of the universe. The Doctor finds the immortal human Ashildr waiting in the ruins of Gallifrey. Ashildr theorises that the Doctor and Clara together are the Hybrid. Since they are so alike, each pushes the other to potentially catastrophic actions. The Doctor reveals his intention to erase Clara's memories of him with a neural block taken from Gallifrey, hoping that the Time Lords will not be able to find her. Overhearing them, Clara attempts to reverse the neural block to backfire on the Doctor; Clara accepts her death, but insists on retaining her memory. The two agree to activate the neural block together, not knowing if Clara succeeded at reversing it. The Doctor concedes that he became the Hybrid by trying to save Clara.
The Doctor's memories of Clara are erased. He awakens in the Nevada desert, alone. In a diner, the Doctor tells his story about Gallifrey to Clara, working as a waitress there to check up on the Doctor after his memory-wipe. The Doctor doesn't recognise her face or voice as he has pieced together the hole left by the wipe aside from how Clara appears. After Clara leaves the room, the whole diner dematerialises, leaving the Doctor behind and revealing the Doctor's TARDIS. Travelling with Ashildr in a TARDIS stolen from Gallifrey, Clara begins her trip to Gallifrey to return to her death, "the long way 'round". The Doctor's TARDIS produces a new sonic screwdriver.
The interior of the TARDIS that the Doctor and Clara steal to escape the Cloisters is modelled on the original, as seen in An Unearthly Child (1963). This is the first episode since "The End of Time" (2009–10) to feature Rassilon. Clara uses the phrase "reversed the polarity" in modifying the memory wiping device; this is a phrase commonly associated with the Third Doctor, but has been used by other Doctors as well. The Doctor, once on Gallifrey, travels to the same barn in the Dry Lands where he spent time as a child, as seen in "Listen", and would later be where he debates the use of the Moment in "The Day of the Doctor" (2013).
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Hell Bent (Doctor Who)
"Hell Bent" is the twelfth and final episode of the ninth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was written by Steven Moffat, directed by Rachel Talalay and first broadcast on BBC One on 5 December 2015.
In the episode, the alien time traveller known as the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) arrives on the planet Gallifrey after escaping imprisonment by his people, the Time Lords, and takes over as the new President. He tries in vain to use knowledge of "the Hybrid", which is prophesied by the Time Lords to stand in Gallifrey's ruins and unravel the Web of Time, to save the life of his companion Clara (Jenna Coleman). Doing so causes the Doctor and Clara themselves to become the Hybrid. This episode is Coleman's final regular appearance as a companion.
The episode was watched by 6.17 million viewers and received positive reviews. Aspects that were met with praise were the episode’s unpredictability, emotion and the performances of Capaldi and Coleman.
On Gallifrey, the Twelfth Doctor has escaped from his confession dial after four and a half billion years of imprisonment, alerting the Time Lords. Aided by the Gallifreyan military, the Doctor usurps and exiles Lord President Rassilon. Now acting as new President, the Doctor learns that Rassilon imprisoned him in the dial to force him to confess about the Hybrid, which is prophesied by the Time Lords to stand in Gallifrey's ruins and unravel the Web of Time.
The Doctor has the Time Lords retrieve Clara from her timeline the instant before her death, with her biological processes suspended in a time loop, leaving her without a pulse, ostensibly so the Doctor can consult her about the Hybrid. The Doctor turns against the Time Lords and shoots the General fatally, leading him to regenerate into a female form. The Doctor then flees with Clara and steals a TARDIS from the workshops under the Capitol, telling her he held out confessing to have something to bargain for her life with.
The Doctor attempts to take Clara far enough away in the hope that her pulse will resume and she will not have to be returned to the moment of her death, despite potentially damaging time itself in the process. When this fails, they go to the extreme end of the universe. The Doctor finds the immortal human Ashildr waiting in the ruins of Gallifrey. Ashildr theorises that the Doctor and Clara together are the Hybrid. Since they are so alike, each pushes the other to potentially catastrophic actions. The Doctor reveals his intention to erase Clara's memories of him with a neural block taken from Gallifrey, hoping that the Time Lords will not be able to find her. Overhearing them, Clara attempts to reverse the neural block to backfire on the Doctor; Clara accepts her death, but insists on retaining her memory. The two agree to activate the neural block together, not knowing if Clara succeeded at reversing it. The Doctor concedes that he became the Hybrid by trying to save Clara.
The Doctor's memories of Clara are erased. He awakens in the Nevada desert, alone. In a diner, the Doctor tells his story about Gallifrey to Clara, working as a waitress there to check up on the Doctor after his memory-wipe. The Doctor doesn't recognise her face or voice as he has pieced together the hole left by the wipe aside from how Clara appears. After Clara leaves the room, the whole diner dematerialises, leaving the Doctor behind and revealing the Doctor's TARDIS. Travelling with Ashildr in a TARDIS stolen from Gallifrey, Clara begins her trip to Gallifrey to return to her death, "the long way 'round". The Doctor's TARDIS produces a new sonic screwdriver.
The interior of the TARDIS that the Doctor and Clara steal to escape the Cloisters is modelled on the original, as seen in An Unearthly Child (1963). This is the first episode since "The End of Time" (2009–10) to feature Rassilon. Clara uses the phrase "reversed the polarity" in modifying the memory wiping device; this is a phrase commonly associated with the Third Doctor, but has been used by other Doctors as well. The Doctor, once on Gallifrey, travels to the same barn in the Dry Lands where he spent time as a child, as seen in "Listen", and would later be where he debates the use of the Moment in "The Day of the Doctor" (2013).