Our story begins in Aleppo, Syria 1380 when a girl, Tahira (Aruhan Galieva) asks to come into the asylum. Here her fears are unleashed as a hairy monster with sharp claws takes away her friend, Maryam (Sirine Saba) and everyone else at the place. The Doctor (Jodi Whittaker) drops back Yaz (Mandip Gill) at home for the anniversary she's here to celebrate with her sister, Sonya (Bhavnisha Parmar). She can cook now and that comes as a shock to Yaz. But we're not told what the anniversary is for, except it appears to be a painful time for them.
So Yaz it appears was empowered in this episode when Sonya says she always runs away so she's no help. Apparently this probably emboldens her for what's to come over the next few weeks. Well only 3 eps left. Ryan (Tosin Cole) turns up at his friend, Tibo's (Buom Tihngang) place who is scared as he's uses all his locks on the door and doesn't want to let Ryan in, but he had chips! Reluctantly he does and Ryan gets to the bottom of this asking what's wrong with him. He is hesitant in telling him since he doesn't want to be laughed at. He tells Ryan about the strange man in his dreams but he's really in his flat. Ryan stays over and he sees the man place his disembodied fingers in Tibo's ear. Cue complaints about encouraging the hacking of fingers for the impressionable viewers. He then vanishes with Tibo when Ryan confronts him.
Graham (Bradley Walsh) is in a card game with his friends who tells them he's feeling better now whilst being on a cruise. He gets a vision in his head of a girl asking for help on some sort of a planet. Yaz dreams of being in the open road with Sonya and a police woman behind her. Then the man appears in her flat too. The Doctor also sees the man in the TARDIS and she finds there's a clue leading to Aleppo which she decides to visit alone of course. She finds Tahira and the creature appears again. Of course that was her own manifestation of her fears. The Doctor doesn't get any reading on the Sonic as the creature doesn't exist. She does find a hair on the wall which she analyzes but still gets nothing, even though the hair is real.
The others tell her what happened and she pinpoints the planets Graham mentioned after plugging him into the TARDIS telepathic device, which is painful. They come in space where she sees two planets heading for a collision course and spots something in between them. It's the woman Graham saw asking for help and the Doctor tries to reverse the lock holding her prisoner. As the others vanish looking for Tahira, the man appears again and releases his fingers to capture them. Tying them up.
He then confronts the Doctor and we get the usual exposition about how humans are pathetic whereas she defends them. He is an immortal, Zellin (Ian Gelder) and he's playing with the humans as fun to last through eternity. He tells the Doctor he knew she would come and also help rescue the other deity friend of his. The people of the planet locked her up in the hopes of destroying at least one of them, setting their planets on a collision course, after the gods messed with them over the years, causing fighting and wars. The companions each have dreams where Graham is told by Grace that his cancer has returned and he only has hours to live. Grace asking why he didn't save her. Ryan's is more about Earth burning in fire in the future and Tibo asking where he was. Yaz is more of the same of running away and is spoken to by the policewoman, Anita Patel (Nasreen Hussain) who convinces her to go home and places a bet that she will be okay and to look her up in three years. The Doctor is confronted by the Timeless Child, heading ever forward to this story.
Zellin mention the Celestial Toymaker and the Black Guardian and is overjoyed the Doctor fell for his cunning plan to rescue Rakaya (Claire-Hope Ashitay). The mysterious creatures, Chagaskas (seems like we needed a little chug of something here) as to the dire nature of this plot. As it was Tahira's creation to begin with why even have the Doctor travel there to begin with to get her. Tahira did much of nothing, except the Chagaskas being used to catch Zellin and Rakaya into the orb again and lock them away. Their dreams aren't so fearful or scary either. Just more fuel to see what the Doctor now sees in the child.
The Doctor is caught and the pair go to Earth to torment the people there and Rayaka wants to take it slow as they have billions of years. Oh yeah well the rate at the which the planet is being consumed is anything to go by, infact does she have billions of years. Anyhow, the Doctor wriggles her hips, well kinda, to get the Sonic out of her pocket and catch it so she can undo her ties, releasing the others. Using the orb and the Chagaskas, Tahira can get the two into the orb, fearing for their lives, but they're immortal what harm could it do them.
Graham tries to tell his real fears to the Doctor who isn't very sociable and replies she'll come up with something reassuring about two minutes later. However there must be some cure out there if Graham ever needs it. Ryan helps Tibo get help as he's not one for talking in group counselling. As Yaz visits Anita to give her the 50p in the bet. She remembers Yaz of course. Ryan wonders how long they can keep doing this as they're older and people are moving on without them. Even if, as Yaz says, the Doctor can put them back at any time, he says they're changing and everyone else isn't. The Doctor breaks up their desperate talk to tell them "Frankenstein" and they'll need a change of clothes.
Seems like just a filler ep which really didn't add much to the scheme of things this series. Their fears weren't that drastic or scary, except maybe graham, but he still fears not being bale ot help Grace, would've thought that was more guilt than anything else.
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