As it rains Cybermen, (er, thinking about it, there's no pun here, re the song!) Missy/the Master (Michelle Gomez) is approached by UNIT, as they handcuff her and the flying Cyberman becomes a dark cloud over St Paul's and all over the world. Osgood (Ingrid Oliver) says she counted 91, which is one for every city in England. Clara (Jenna Coleman) tries to escape from the Cyberman by saying she's not really Clara Oswald, she's the Doctor and she's been fooling everyone all this time, she doesn't exist.
Kate (Jemma Redgrave) from UNIT tranquilizes the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Missy. Later saying it was necessary as all protocols need to be followed when dealing with aliens and they've even managed to retrieve the TARDIS from St Paul's which is under lockdwon.
She wants his help but only his orders will be followed as he later learns why. The protocols have been put in place and all the world leaders have agreed he should be the President, so they must follow his orders. Once again the Doctor having to save the planet. There are news broadcasts about it raining all over cemeteries but not in the places outside of them. Seb (Chris Addison) tells Danny (Sam Anderson) what he's really becoming since the Nethersphere and the afterlife are just words they were using and as we go to a morgue, which is now waterlogged, we see that he's become a Cyberman, as he grabs the paper from the pad saying the 'Doctor' and 'Pink'. Well he would become one wouldn't he, he's dead.
Clara tries to fool the three Cybermen into thinking she's the Doctor telling then who she is, where she's from but they're not convinced and think she's just stalling so she's not killed. Another Cyberman appears and says that she's not the Doctor, but he's not authorized to be here. She's the Doctor she insists and she's a good liar and as soon as she says that the Cyberman agrees, cos we know it's Danny, or at least you should've known and he shoots the other three.
Clara wakes in the cemetery and then finds the rest of the dead are waking up transformed into Cyberman cos of the rain which works on organic matter. As the Doctor says, the Cyberman are pollinating the dead. Missy tries to free herself of her cuffs and threatens Osgood, of course she had to go near her and didn't believe her when Missy told her she was going to kill her, really some geniuses don't think do they? She finds Missy's cuffs in her pocket and Missy does exactly that, vapourizes her. As Cybermen attack the plane, the Doctor realizes Missy is free. She tells the Doctor she wants to be his friend and that she knows where Gallifrey is. The TARDIS phone rings and Missy talks about Clara calling him cos she's got his number. She gave it to her, now donning a cockney accent, she tells him how she's the woman in the shop. With flashbacks to Clara calling Doctor Eleven all the way back in The Bells of St John ep and Clara talking about the mysterious woman in the shop. Kate comes down as the plane loses altitude and is sucked out of the plane. The Doctor also goes next, as Missy vanishes, leaving the plane to explode midair. He freefalls and finally slows down as his TARDIS reaches him, with Seb and Missy watching. She's had enough of this AI too and vapourizes him too, or should that be delete.
Clara sees the lone Cyberman and she approaches it as the other ones aren't fully functioning yet. He reveals himself as Danny but he can't shoot her. He removes his mask and she sees it's him. He feels emotion and he wants her to turn them off, but she doesn't know what to do. The Doctor tells her if she turns off his emotions, he won't feel any pain and he'll become a Cyberman then. He wants to help him and asks Danny what the cloud means and what will happen with the cloud. He knows but he can't see it, the only way he can is if he turns off his emotions. He must become one of them and share their hive brain. Showing the Doctor and Clara that's what he does, he says one thing but does another. "Clara, watch this, this is who the Doctor really is." But the Doctor can't do that to him and walks away. Clara wants the Sonic and she'll do it herself, as Danny says he can't do the dirty work. All she has to do is point and think about it.
He tells the Doctor the cloud will turn the living into the dead and Missy arrives with her vapourizing gadget. She wants to be the Doctor's friend again like they were on Gallifrey but he doesn't want to be. He tells him she found it and gives him the coordinates. Clara picks up the gadget as she hugs Danny. The Cybermen were for the Doctor, his own army. Now he can do what he always does, save people, those held by the Daleks, as we also had flashes back to the Dalek telling the Doctor that he has no soul. As well as saying to Robin Hood that he's also not a hero. Shown here, as it was Danny who saved the day. But the Doctor doesn't want an army, he doesn't need one. As he gives the bracelet Missy put on his wrist to Danny. The Cybermen obey his command. He knows they can save the planet by burning and that's what he does, taking all the Cyberman with him, as they all explode the world over. The sky is no longer dark. Clara has the gadget and wants to kill Missy but is stopped by the Doctor. Missy telling him he's saving her soul cos he wants to do it himself, which he does. Clara recalls the coordinates to Gallifrey.
Clara is woken by Danny calling out to her, he knows how to get back with the bracelet, but it's only a one way trip. He figured it out, but he sends back the boy he killed instead. She needs to find his parents, as he says goodbye. The Doctor comes back to see Clara two weeks later and sees the bracelet she's wearing, thinking she and Danny are together. She wants to tell him something, but he doesn't let her. He knows they have to move on and she has to be with Danny, even though she says she liked their travels. As we see the Doctor follow the coordinates, but he doesn't see Gallifrey. He lies once again! Saying Missy actually told the truth for once, so she thinks he's gone back home. They hug and he doesn't like hugs cos then you hide your face and can't see it. They say goodbye. Oh they lie so well!
So St Paul's now has a new retractable roof, was gonna say funky, but nah! ha. Missy going all Marilyn Monroe with singing, 'happy birthday, Mr President, as he got to fly in 'Earth Force One' and the Doctor kissing Missy this time! As well as Missy making an entrance with her umbrella, Mary Poppins style. Danny once again showing that he's a soldier firstly and foremostly and rallied the Cybertroops to save the world, with his rousing speech of, "...the promise of a soldier." Also Kate being saved by Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart, who always wanted the Doctor to salute him, which he gets since he realizes with the Cyber-rain, he became one too and saved Kate when she fell from the plane.
Then Osgood getting killed, maybe it was cos she said, "bowties are cool!" ha. Well she did get to mention Thunderbirds, but Cloudbase was actually Captain Scarlet as Captain Ahmed (Sanjeev Bhaskar) corrects her in his smallish role, cos he gets sucked out of the plane too! With the Doctor also mentioning Sylvia Anderson. Then there were the opening credits with the eyes of Jenna Coleman appearing as if she really was he Doctor, trying a tad too much to make this convincing. Let me talk about Clara here, did we really get a satisfactory conclusion to her storyline, especially when she was 'the Impossible Girl' the 'Souffle Girl,' we didn't get any mention of this, not when you think about it, which made her remark of being Doctor even more misleading. Saying she chose 23 November as her birthday cos she liked the number. Also in the Victorian episode, The Snowmen, her birthday was 23rd November 1866. Yet when she died with Doctor Eleven (Matt Smith) by her side, her gravestone read, "remember me...for we shall meet again..." I would like to see her get a proper explanation and want to know who Clara Oswin Oswald is! Jenna is returning for the Christmas Special, but I doubt we will get anymore about her. Also, the fact she and Danny had a child somewhere, somehow, still remains.
This show has visited cemeteries many times over, not to mention that Sherlock cemetery connection again from The Reichenbach Fall! ha. Okay don't make a big deal about it!
Of course finding Gallifrey made the Doctor react to Missy and he does want to find it as his anger and disappointment was shown when he bashed that poor console a number of times! It just goes to show Missy also lied, like he does and he was on the receiving end this time. A possible character trait they both share, but it ends there. The Doctor getting a visit from Santa asking what he wants, so gearing us up for the Special.
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