Hide (TV story)

Hide was the ninth regular episode of the seventh series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.

Synopsis
Clara and the Doctor arrive at Caliburn House, a haunted mansion sat alone on a desolate moor. Within its walls, a ghost-hunting professor and a gifted psychic are searching for the Witch of the Well. Her apparition appears throughout the history of the building, but is she really a ghost? And what is chasing her?

Plot
Professor Alec Palmer and his assistant Emma Grayling are attempting to contact an apparition haunting Caliburn House. Emma is a psychic, and uses her gifts to gain the attention of the 'ghost'. They are interrupted by knocking at the front door, and open it to find the Doctor and Clara. The Doctor tells Alec that he is looking for a ghost and Clara claims that they are 'Ghostbusters'.

title sequence

The Doctor claims to be from the Ministry of Defence, and knows who Alec and Emma are. Photographs taken by the professor show the same figure in the same pose throughout the history of Caliburn House. The Doctor and Clara search the house, as a strange creature stalks them through it. Loud knocking is heard, which is said to be associated with the 'Witch of the Well'.

The Doctor takes a series of photographs of the 'ghost' throughout Earth's timeline. Clara believes that she is nothing more than a ghost to the Doctor, because as a time traveller he has been to a time when she is long dead. He tells her she is "the only mystery worth solving". The Doctor uses his photographs to explain that the 'ghost' is in fact a time traveller called Hila, who is trapped in a pocket universe and being chased by an unknown creature.

The Doctor uses a crystal from Metebelis Three to enhance Emma's thoughts and use them to create a portal, a reality 'well'. He goes to rescue Hila, who escapes, but is trapped in the pocket universe with the monster. Clara returns to the TARDIS, and after a brief argument with the voice interface, manages to break into the pocket universe and rescue the Doctor from the creature.

As the Doctor and Clara are preparing to leave, the Doctor inadvertently reveals that Hila is Emma and Alec's future descendant. Alec and Emma are in love, and the Doctor advises them to "hold hands, and don't let go". Then the Doctor realises that the creature in the pocket universe has been trying to return to another creature in the house. He returns for a second time to the pocket universe to bring the creature home.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Matt Smith
 * Clara Oswald - Jenna-Louise Coleman
 * Alec Palmer - Dougray Scott
 * Emma Grayling - Jessica Raine
 * Hila - Kemi-Bo Jacobs
 * The Crooked Man - Aiden Cook

The Doctor

 * When the Doctor introduces himself, Alec asks him, "Doctor what?," to which the Eleventh Doctor responds, "If you like."

Individuals

 * Alec is a ghost-hunter, as well as a "member of the Baker Street irregulars, the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare, specialised in espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance behind enemy lines, a talented water colourist [and a] professor of psychology."

Popular culture from the real world

 * The Doctor and Clara introduce themselves as "Ghostbusters."

Buildings

 * Alec owns Caliburn House, which was built sometime before 1573.

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Filming locations
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Production errors

 * The Doctor mispronounces the Metebelis in Metebelis III, saying it like its written, its actually pronounced Met-a-be-lis. As made clear in "Carnival of Monsters, The Green Death and Planet of The Spiders"

Continuity

 * The TARDIS's cloister bell chimes. (TV: Logopolis, Castrovalva, Resurrection of the Daleks, Doctor Who, et al.)
 * The Doctor references fixed points in time. (TV: The Fires of Pompeii, The Waters of Mars, The Wedding of River Song)
 * The Doctor and Clara introduce themselves as "Ghostbusters," referencing the film, as had previous the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler. (TV: Army of Ghosts)
 * The Doctor uses his psychic paper. (TV: The Empty Child, New Earth, Partners in Crime, The Vampires of Venice, et al.)
 * The Doctor once again pretends to be from Health and Safety. (TV: Partners in Crime)
 * The Doctor uses a blue crystal from Metebelis III. (TV: The Green Death, TV: Planet of the Spiders'')
 * Emma speaks to the ghost, telling it to "speak to me," in the same vein as Gwyneth holding a séance and saying "speak to us." (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
 * The Doctor enters a pocket universe. (TV: The Celestial Toymaker, The Mind Robber, The Doctor's Wife, et al.)
 * The Doctor uses the same orange spacesuit he used on Krop Tor (TV: The Impossible Planet)
 * The Seventh Doctor also visited a mysterious stately home for the benefit of his companion, Ace. (TV: Ghost Light)

Home video releases
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