Hell's just Heaven for bad people." The Veil backs off and the castle shifts again. Heaven Sent The Doctor looks at the dial again and speaks to it. The 2013 mini-episode. The Doctor reveals he had smelled the salty air earlier, which means the castle is standing in the sea. Jenna Coleman's name has been removed from the opening credits, making this the first regular episode of the revived series to only credit one actor during the title sequence. Clara previously said he always assumes that. The Doctor must solve the riddle of his prison in order to find out where he is and why he is there. DOCTOR WHO SERIES 9 EPISODE 11 "Heaven Sent" by STEVEN MOFFAT BLUE AMENDMENTS 24/08/2015 (SHOOTING BLOCK 6) (c) BBC Wales 2015. He then jumps through the window himself, falling down towards the misty depths below. The Doctor makes a "pop" sound with a finger in his mouth. The door is the only way in or out of the garden. Another memorable moment Walking down the corridor, he finds a spade, covered in dirt, leaning against one of the walls. Heaven Sent is already a pretty strong contender for being the best Doctor Who episode since Capaldi became the Doctor, but what is for sure is that it is Capaldi's best Doctor Who episode. Walking down it, the Doctor finds a room, with a semi-transparent wall, with the word "Home" written on it. He watches as the sections of the castle begin to revolve, rearranging themselves. He turns back in time to see the figure enter the hallway and realises he's seen this creature before. A wall nearby slides open, leading to a staircase. The Doctor exits onto a desert world, looking behind him to see the tunnel of Azbantium. In the following episode, Hell Bent, it is estimated that this cycle lasts for four and a half billion years, leaving it with one of the single-longest uninterrupted time spans of any given adventure in Doctor Who history. If they threaten you with death, show 'em who's boss. If he didn't know better, he would say that he has somehow travelled 7,000 years into the future, but he knows for a fact that he hasn't time travelled. One final test. The Doctor walks over to the monitor, pondering on the fact the Veil is tracking him. And if they ask you who I am, tell them I came the long way around." He notices a rectangular mound of dirt in the centre of the garden, and a spade nearby, which means something is buried beneath the mound that he is supposed to dig up. Main enemy: Music conducted & orchestrated by Alastair King  Series 9, Episode 11 This less ambiguously points to. Season 10 actually began nine years after season 1 started. Another official trailer Wondering where it's going, the Doctor looks around. He turns back to see the figure coming closer and closer to him. One final test. The TARDIS that he is standing in is a "storeroom" within his own mind, which he has created to give himself more time to think. The Doctor reaches the teleporter room and stumbles over to the control panel. He flips a switch and collapses to the ground, his body fading away into dust, as the teleporter activates, materialising the Doctor inside its chamber. Over 4 billion years later, the Doctor is punching the Azbantium wall. Collapsing to the ground, the Doctor only has enough time to write the word "BIRD" in the sand. Now a familiar voice: THE DOCTOR (V.O.) In the mental TARDIS, Clara writes on a chalkboard again: "Wrong question!" He also determines the wall is twenty feet thick. ", The Doctor successfully dives into the water, but falls unconscious, represented in the mind TARDIS by everything turning off. But jumping from a great height into the water doesn't guarantee that he will survive, so he needed to know the exact distance between the window and the water, which is why he threw the stool through the window. David Tennant, unusual amongst other Doctors, began and ended on special episodes, not regular ones. Also, except for one encounter, she is always seen from the back, which is how the Doctor last saw her alive. After that, the mental TARDIS lights shut off and his real body fades into oblivion, leaving nothing but his skull. The Doctor picking a frozen fly is a shout out to the horror film The Ring. There were many prophecies and stories concerning it. Suddenly, Clara is facing him and talking to him. With Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Jami Reid-Quarrell. And he must face it alone. Clara writes question three again. He talks about a time when he was a child. Die faster. Here's what we think of N128 Heaven Sent. (, The Doctor says "it must be Christmas" when faced with a challenge. BBC One THE CASTLE - DAY 1 Spires and towers, an ancient sprawling castle. The popular consensus appears to be that it will go down as one of the greatest in the show’s history. (28 Nov 2015). Enjoy the pix. "Tell them I'm back. However, as the Doctor soon finds out, everything is not quite what it seems to be. The Doctor walks into the TARDIS, apologising for being late. The Veil The Doctor refers to a skull which he finds as his "predecessor," not knowing how correct he is in that reference. Black Hangar Studios, Hampshire, England, UK. Doctor Who Extra: Visualising Heaven Sent. At that moment, the teleporter activates, materialising the new Doctor in the chamber, exactly as he was when he first arrived, including the state of his memories, continuing the cycle he has been in for the last 7,000 years, down to what he says in the same tone as he warns whoever brought him there that they will pay for Clara's death. Upon asking her what the right question is, he gets a written response: "Not why. Main setting: A noise causes him to step over to the window. Since most of the rooms reset to their original condition, it's logical to assume that the teleporter room has also done so. What?". He smiles sadly at the picture, before grabbing a miniature magnifying glass, so he can take a closer look, not noticing the nearby monitor. Noting how slow the Veil is moving, the Doctor deduces he has an hour before it arrives, so he starts digging. He says it's because of jumping through the window and asks if he should reveal how he got out of that situation alive. The castle and sea are then covered by a mass of gears and the cover of the dial comes back over it. http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-11-28/guess-who-modelled-for-the-skulls-in-doctor-who-episode-heaven-sent?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook, https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Heaven_Sent_(TV_story)?oldid=3073217. Face the Raven The Doctor confesses that he knows that the Hybrid is real, that he knows where it is, and what it is. The Doctor collapses onto a stair, finally letting out his grief over Clara's death. Milk VFX's test ideas for the look and mechanism of the Confession Dial. (, The Doctor says the Daleks would never allow anything to be half-Dalek. Setting the skull on a ledge, the Doctor looks around, knowing he is missing something. “Heaven Sent” is a one-man show for Peter Capaldi, and a highpoint for modern Doctor Who heading into the season finale. Contrary to common belief, season 10 kicked off in the last week of December 1972 — not in 1973, as would be expected. "You can probably still hear me. The Doctor must solve the riddle of his prison in order to find out where he is and why he is there. ", Original theme music by Ron Grainer  Heaven Sent Doctor Who Season 9. (Large cogwheels turn. • With thanks to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales  When it does so, the skull falls from the ledge and into the water, joining all the other skulls already on the bottom of the sea. (, Except for the painting, all of the Doctor's visions of Clara have her wearing the same outfit and hairstyle as when she died. He confesses that he is afraid of it. As he ponders this, the Veil arrives, but before it can grab the Doctor, he mentions the Hybrid. It is also notable for showing the Doctor finally finding his way back to Gallifrey since he found out that it was not in fact destroyed in the Time War, but instead placed in a pocket universe. Unfortunately, he can't see a way out of this situation. The Doctor declares to his captors, "the Doctor will see you now". Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. In Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 11, Heaven Sent, the Doctor spends almost the entire episode in a castle. Looking at the monitor, the Doctor watches as the image moves down a corridor. Looking up at the stars again, the Doctor asks what is wrong with them. Sleep No More. In all of the scenes where the Doctor states how many years he thinks he's traveled, the green screen for the stars seems to go through the Veil's hand and face. The Doctor asks if he can just lose. On another chalkboard, Question 2: "What did you say that made the creature stop?" The Doctor, alone and depressed, finds himself inside a nightmarish castle seemingly created to terrify him. It's the story of everybody. The lights start turning back on and the mental manifestation of the Doctor wakes up to the sound of Clara writing on the chalkboard. Writer: The Doctor heads down another corridor that leads him to an outside garden. Ben Pickles' previsualizations of a falling skull shot and the Doctor falling. Production order Heaven Sent Doctor Who Season 9. Jenna Coleman aparece como Clara Oswald como parte de la imaginación del Doctor después de haberla perdido debido a la Sombra Cuántica en la historia anterior. The Doctor knows that the room is a trap of some kind. Only certain parts are missing. This marks the only penultimate episode in a series during Steven Moffat's era as showrunner to not feature the Cybermen, though as there are only twelve episodes in this series, the following episode continues the pattern of the twelfth episode featuring Cybermen. ← Previous She tells him it's time to move on. Official trailer Matthew Adams. Steven Moffat ← Previous Tell them I know what they did, and I'm on my way. The castle contains screens designed to show what, The Doctor finds and generates billions of copies of his own, The Doctor at first thinks the castle is inside a, According to the Doctor, an "augmented ultra long-range, Whilst the episode was promoted by various news outlets as a one-hander, the presence of an imagined Clara and the Veil, and the appearance of the young boy at the end of the episode, technically go against this; however, the bulk of the storyline was carried by the Doctor alone with him having all but one line of dialogue. The Doctor continues to repeat everything over and over again, each time getting further into the Azbantium wall; he gets a bit more of his story out as the centuries pass. The episode was positively avant-garde in its themes, tone and execution All he would have to do would be to confess the secret details of the Hybrid. The Doctor runs down another corridor to a door but finds the door locked. The Doctor wonders if this is because of something he said. The Doctor opens the door to leave the garden, only to discover the Veil standing on the other side. [breaks the fourth wall, glancing at the … For context, very few are excellent enough to merit a 5.0 in our minds, and we'd take a 0.0 Doctor Who story over a lot of other, non-Whovian stuff out there. At that moment, the monitor in the corridor activates, showing the Doctor himself on the screen. The Doctor tells him to go to the city and tell someone important.