The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did (TV story)

The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did was the seventh episode of the first series of Class. It saw Miss Quill get her arn removed, as promised by Dorothea Ames in Brave-ish Heart. This episode takes place during the events of the preceding story, Detained.

Whilst the previous episode was "Quill-lite", this episode featured almost nothing of the students and instead focused on Quill. It revealed that she held more of a grudge against the Rhodians than she did towards the Shadow Kin, and that she intended to get revenge on the only remaining Rhodian.

It also revealed a more sinister side to the Governors, as they forced Quill to kill a new found friend and suggested that they were expecting Quill to have died from the surgery of removing her arn.

Synopsis
With the gang trapped in detention and out of the way, Miss Quill accepts Dorothea's astonishing offer: to help remove the Arn from her head, and to reclaim her freedom.

Plot
The episode takes placed concurrently with the previous one. Miss Quill places Charlie, Ram, April, Tanya and Matteusz in detention for seemingly no reason, claiming she has things to do and does not want to be disturbed. She then locks them in the room and goes to see Dorothea, who warns her that if they proceed with the operation to remove the arn, Quill may die. Quill states that she wants to either die or have freedom. As they are discussing, a man named Ballon arrives and Dorothea says that they can begin. She takes out a device and they are all miniaturised and transported inside it.

They arrive in a mysterious forest that is clearly not on Earth.

to be continued...

Cast

 * Miss Quill - Katherine Kelly
 * Charlie - Greg Austin
 * Ram - Fady Elsayed
 * April - Sophie Hopkins
 * Tanya - Vivian Oparah
 * Matteusz - Jordan Renzo
 * Dorothea - Pooky Quesnel
 * Ballon - Chiké Okonkwo
 * Quill Goddess - Spencer Wilding

Crew
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Coal Hill School

 * Posters for an orchestra concert are seen.
 * Posters for the Level Two Careers Fair can be seen.
 * Some of the Governors believe the tears in space/time near Coal Hill weren't accidental.

People

 * Quill refers to the poet Warsan Shire and quotes his poem, "Home".
 * Miss Quill gets pregnant.

Species

 * The Arn can read the thoughts of the person they're attached to.
 * The forestal area has plants that hide when one gets too close.
 * Quill refer to Zygons as "Zygoats".
 * Ballon is a Lore.

Philosophy

 * Miss Quill claims metaphysics aren't real.

Technology

 * The Governors detain Ballon with special handcuffs. Dorothea Ames has a key to deactivate them.
 * Miss Quill mention trains.

Science

 * Ames has a machine that use metaphysics to function. Quill claims that metaphysics are just thought and theory.

Organisations

 * The Governors keep alien prisoners.
 * The Governors study the tears in space and time.

Music

 * A piano can be seen in the Coal Hill main hall.

Locations

 * Rhodia is mentioned.
 * The Lore homeworld is mentioned.

Story notes

 * "Bad Girls" by M.I.A. plays over the final moments of the episode.
 * The story takes place during the events of Detained and the beginnings and endings of both episodes are the same scenes, only this time told from Quill's perspective.

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Production errors
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Continuity

 * The boards with posters are seen again. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die, The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo, Detained)
 * Miss Quill again says "[she is] war itself". (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
 * UNIT is mentioned.
 * The tears in space and time are mentioned. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die-Detained)
 * The protection of the Zygons on Earth is mentioned. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion)
 * Rhodia is mentioned. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
 * Miss Quill says that the Cabinet of Souls is "(way) bigger on the inside", words commonly used to refer to the Doctor's TARDIS. (TV: An Unearthly Child, The Runaway Bride, et al.)
 * Miss Quill mentions that the last person she kissed was a robot. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)
 * Miss Quill lost her loved one during the war. Previously, she recognised hands of a person created from her memory, hands she held when she was a kid of a friend lost in a war. (PROSE: The Stone House)

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