For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)

 was the first episode of Class. It introduced the series' regular characters, and revealed that an excess in artron energy from nearby time travel has opened up a tear in space-time in Coal Hill Academy. April begins sharing her heart with Corakinus. Ram has one of his legs severed by Corakinus but is given a prosthetic by the Doctor.

Broadcast on BBC Three on 22 October 2016, along with The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo, For Tonight We Might Die aired exactly ten years after the airdate of Torchwood's first episodes, Everything Changes and Day One.

This episode was also shown at the Class World Premiere in Shoreditch, London on 20 October.

Synopsis
When Coal Hill Academy comes under attack from deadly monsters, four alienated students must form an unlikely alliance to defeat them. But this incursion is only the beginning.

Plot
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Cast

 * Miss Quill - Katherine Kelly
 * Charlie - Greg Austin
 * Ram - Fady Elsayed
 * April - Sophie Hopkins
 * Tanya - Vivian Oparah
 * The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
 * Matteusz - Jordan Renzo
 * Coach Dawson - Ben Peel
 * Jackie - Shannon Murray
 * Varun - Aaron Neil
 * Vivian - Natasha Gordon
 * Rachel - Anna Shaffer
 * Corakinus - Paul Marc Davies
 * Mr Armitage - Nigel Betts
 * Miss Shah - Pooja Shah
 * Kevin - Alex Leak
 * Mrs Linderhof - Laura-June Hudson
 * Counter Clerk - Santam Bhogal
 * Student 1 - Ellie James
 * Student 2 - Moses Adejimi
 * Student 3 - Assay Hagos
 * Student 4 - Shalisha James-Davis

Technology

 * Miss Quill has a displacement gun, but she is not allowed to use weapons. It also has some sort of scanner that she is allowed to use.
 * Charlie, Tanya and Ram have Android phones.
 * Miss Quill has an iPad.
 * Tanya and Ram use computers to Skype.
 * Tanya's is a Samsung.
 * The Doctor's screwdriver, which usually flashes blue light, had green setting when he scanned April and Corakinus.
 * April mentions Instagram.
 * The Shadow Kin is looking for the Cabinet of Souls.
 * The Doctor says that fighting aliens is harder than Media Studies.

Food and beverages

 * When Tanya enters the little shop, a lot of wine gum, crisps, wine (and other kinds of alcohol), chocolate bars, cola, cereals and crackers can be seen.
 * Miss Quill eats a chocolate bar.
 * Charlie drinks a cup of tea.
 * Mr Armitage said he was gonna meet a friend for "granola and kale falafel".

Others

 * A lot of cleaner products, pills, and magazines can be seen in the shop too.

People

 * As punishment, Miss Quill remains effectively a slave to Charlie, with specific rules she may not break, including lying.
 * Miss Quill gets Kevin Williams to shoot both himself and a Shadow Kin at the same time with her displacement gun, which she is not allowed to use. She almost does the same thing to April, but Charlie stops it just in time.
 * Ram claims Charlie sounds like the Queen with the way he talks.
 * Charlie and Miss Quill pretend to be from Sheffield.
 * Charlie is a Rhodian and Miss Quill is a Quill, both from planet Rhodia.
 * Miss Quill was punished with an Arn.
 * When April had a heart attack, Tanya asked if she was epileptic.
 * The Doctor mentions a species called Lothans, a giant centipede-race, that are experts in prosthetics.

Businesses

 * Ram and Rachel take an Uber to the prom.
 * When Corakinus demands the Cabinet of Souls, the Doctor suggests getting a cabinet at IKEA.

Coal Hill School

 * The names C. Oswald and R. D. Pink are noticeable on the list of the dead in Coal Hill School. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, In the Forest of the Night, Dark Water, Face the Raven) Also seen is S. Foreman, a reference to the fact the the Doctor's granddaughter left Coal Hill with no explanation. (TV: "An Unearthly Child") A. Okehurst, J. Gibson, D. Hatcher, (PROSE: Time and Relative) H. Parson, (PROSE: Nothing at the End of the Lane) A. S. Alfredson, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) and A. Dunlop (TV: The Magician's Apprentice) are also seen. The Doctor further looks at Clara's name and tries to remember who she is, having no memory of her anymore (TV: Hell Bent)
 * Coal Hill has a Chess Club, a Breakfast Club, Science Club and Sport Work Shops.
 * Coal Hill holds a Prom in Autumn.
 * Coal Hill has "An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away"-posters hanging around.
 * Coal Hill has UCAS-posters hanging around.

Sports

 * The Doctor states he likes the sport darts and suggests football is boring, changing his tone since his eighth, (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game) tenth (COMIC: The Lodger) and his eleventh incarnations. (TV: The Lodger)

Popular culture

 * Tanya jokes that they'd already lost the Bechdel test when April only talks about Charlie.
 * Idris Elba is mentioned (his likeness previously appeared as John Luther in the 2015 BBC Christmas ident, which also featured the Twelfth Doctor) and Joss Whedon famously stated on writing Doctor Who: "Check back with me when The Doctor is a she or Idris Elba."
 * Tanya wonders whether Corakinus is referring to the singer, Prince, when he asks "Where is the Prince?".
 * Miss Quill calls Charlie "Prince Valiant".
 * She calls April a "ludicrous Care Bear".
 * The group mentions Hellmouth, "that town in Once Upon a Time" and The Vampire Diaries as being similar in concept to the tears in space and time they are faced with.
 * A Hackney Harvest poster and a Hackney Youth poster can be seen on a board.
 * When April said Charlie knew nothing of pop culture, she suggested he was either alien or Amish.

Music

 * The song "Sweet Lovin'" by "Sigala feat. Bryn Christopher" is playing at the prom.
 * The song "Turn The Music Louder (Rumble)" by "KDA feat. Tinie Tempah & Katy B" is playing at the prom.
 * The song "Fester Skank" by "Lethal Bizzle feat. Diztortion" is playing at the prom.

Mathematics

 * Miss Quill marks down an equation for a Gibbs probability density of a classical Klein-Gordon field on the board, which Tanya recognises.

Story notes

 * A working title for this episode was The Prom.
 * This is the third guest appearance by the Doctor in a Doctor Who television spin-off. The Sarah Jane Adventures previously featured appearances by the Tenth and Eleventh Doctor in the stories The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith and Death of the Doctor respectively. While the Tenth Doctor's hand was a recurring feature in the first series of Torchwood, the Doctor himself ultimately did not appear.

Ratings

 * BBC Three ratings: to be announced
 * BBC One overnight: to be announced
 * BBC America overnight: to be announced

Filming location
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Production errors
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Continuity

 * The Doctor's latest sonic screwdriver appears. (TV: Hell Bent, The Husbands of River Song)
 * The Doctor notes that he previously served as caretaker at Coal Hill School. (TV: The Caretaker)
 * The Doctor again acknowledges that the Coal Hill School area has an excess of artron energy, (TV: The Caretaker) due to it having a long history of time travel. (TV: An Unearthly Child et al.)
 * The Doctor says he has a soft spot for people who are the last of their species, referring to how he once thought he was the last of his. (TV: Rose - The Day of the Doctor)
 * A list of the dead appeared to have some names that the Doctor knew died or disappeared from the school. (PROSE: Time and Relative, TV: An Unearthly Child, Remembrance of the Daleks, Dark Water/Death in Heaven, Face the Raven)

Home video releases
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