The Doctor (Jodi Whittaker) finds herself up against the Judoon again and this being the first time the others have come across them. They have a forcefield surrounding Gloucester and look for a fugitive. This fugitive happens to be Lee (Neil Stuke) married to Ruth (Jo Martin) whose birthday it is on a Monday no less. She's a tour guide and when she gets her birthday coffee from the shop, she is given a dossier on Lee from All Ears Allen (Michael Begley). But she refuses to read it not believing he's like that. The Doctor does some more fixing to the TARDIS and the others ask more questions about where she disappears for days on end and doesn't return after she leaves them on planets to explore. She doesn't want to answer them and after some coaxing she says is searching for The Master, hoping to locate him with some form of gadgets. She always prefers to say "it's personal." Referring to what The Master told her.
Then the Judoon alarm goes and she's interrupted so we don't really get to see much more on this. She rushes to save whoever's in trouble, but already Marcia (Judith Street) is executed after their fugitive checks. Their actions and mannerisms are akin to when we viewed them in Smith and Jones ep and that's to be expected from their particularly characters. (I keep hearing David Tennet's voice everytime he said 'Judoon.') The TARDIS lands coincidentally, or not, into the said coffee shop's kitchen and as they are about to leave, Graham reaches for a cake and is zapped away. He ends up on a ship with Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) who's in search of the Doctor. Obviously we got Graham mistaken for the Doctor again as he was in the opening Spyfall. Until he tells him she's a 'she.' Which he finds interesting. He uses the beam and zaps Ryan (Tosin Cole) and Yaz (Mandeep Gill) as they leave Ruth's building as they attempt to stall the Judoon from entering until the Doctor can leave with Ruth.
This after the Doctor uses Psychic paper to show the Judoon she's an authority figure and they don't have jurisdiction here. She negotiates five minutes so she can enter the building as long as they don't use their radiation cannon which will kill humans. Inside she tries to get Lee and Ruth to tell her what's happening but they don't and Ruth doesn't believe Lee is hiding anything. Even after Ryan notices their bags are packed so they were escaping. Ryan and Yaz search the house and Ryan finds a box in their bedroom which isn't earthly. Lee again refuses to speak and as time runs out, the Doctor leaves with Ruth. The Judoon enter the building and are confronted by the woman, Gat (Ritu Arya) who hired them. She doesn't want him escaping and he's sentimental about the medal in the box which is how she tracked him here. She has him executed too as she searches for Ruth.
Ryan and Yaz end up with Jack as well and he finds out they're her companions too, as he says he always wanted a threesome, but that's another story. He finds the beam is faulty so he can't hone in on the Doctor, but as the nano genes are getting him, he has to leave, programming the ship to take them back. But not before a message of warning for the Doctor about the Lone Cyberman who is coming to wage war. The Doctor finds herself in the cathedral and she asks Ruth what the text message says but she doesn't tell her. The Judoon catch up and Ruth busts out into Ninja moves and breaks the horn off one of the Judoon Captain's face. She's still evasive but tells the Doctor about the message and takes her to the lighthouse where she was raised by her parents before she left.
As the Doctor searches outside at an unmarked grave, Ruth breaks the glass and is transformed into another person, dressed differently with a weapon. The Doctor digs and finds a TARDIS. As they confront one another, Ruth introduces herself at the Doctor and doesn't know how she fought them off other than having her memories triggered when she broke the glass. The Doctor takes the Doctor inside her TARDIS and she uses the Sonic to analyze them both. Ruth doesn't have a Sonic and also she used the weapon too. The Judoon arrive outside along with Gat who is a Time Lord from Gallifrey. The Doctor doesn't recall any time as Ruth nor does she know Gat but she says that they must be her past since Gallifrey is no more. She uses her mind to show Gat this. However Ruth knows she would use the gun even if she warned her not to. Being so characteristically different from our Doctor who never uses weapons. Which in a way probably also alludes to why there were three Vics here who were exterminated by the Judoon, including Lee. Though don't know how much of a Vic he was even if he did speak of honour.
As the others return they end up in the TARDIS and give her the message, not knowing who the Cybermen are, the Doctor explains and also mentions the Daleks. Heck I was just thinking about them the other day too and how the companions haven't come across any (yet) so hopefully they will. The others reassure the Doctor that they're here for her always and she can rely on them. They're not just friends but they're more importantly family, as Graham says. Which makes her feel better. Although she did want to meet Jack again.
Does this possibly mean that the Doctor is the Timeless Child that's been mentioned over the past eps now. Especially since there can't be two of them in the same time space continuum. As the Master told her she was lied to. Ryan refers to Jack as cheesy, but a good cheesy and each one of them has different reactions to him, but he takes it all in his stride. Fans tripping at the brief return of Jack even if just to deliver a message and not really doing much. So Ruth as the Doctor, destroyed another Time Lord, seeing as they're in short supply.
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