Heaven Sent (TV story)

 was the eleventh episode of the ninth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.

Jenna Coleman appears as Clara Oswald as a manifestation of the Doctor's imagination after he lost her to the Quantum Shade in the previous story. The episode shows the Doctor dealing with and grieving over Clara's death.

The episode is notable for a number of truths conceded by the Doctor, he being inside his own Confession dial. It is also notable for showing the Doctor finally finding his way back to Gallifrey since he found out that it was not in fact destroyed in the Time War, but placed in a pocket universe.

This story takes place over an outstandingly long period of time, seeing the Doctor stuck in a recursive cycle that lasts for at least 2 billion years, during which he repeatedly perishes and comes back to life.

Synopsis
Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. One final test. And he must face it alone. Pursued by the fearsome creature known only as the Veil, he must attempt the impossible. If he makes it through, Gallifrey is waiting…

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
 * Clara - Jenna Coleman
 * Veil - Jami Reid-Quarrell

Crew
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Story notes

 * Whilst the episode was promoted by various news outlets as a one-hander, the presence of an imagined Clara and the Veil, and the appearance of the young boy at the end of the episode, technically go against this; however, the bulk of the storyline was carried by the Doctor alone with him having all but one line of dialogue.
 * While imagining talking to Clara, the Doctor breaks the fourth wall, looks at the camera and says "I'm nothing without an audience".
 * Each and every one of the skulls in the episode are modelled from Peter Capaldi's own skull.

Ratings

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Continuity

 * The Doctor retains his confession dial. (WC: Prologue,  TV: The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar, Face the Raven)
 * The Doctor remembers Clara's death and how she told him not to take revenge. (TV: Face the Raven)
 * The Doctor refers to a skull which he finds as his "predecessor," not knowing how correct he is in that reference. had previously referred to a skeleton in the Death Zone on Gallifrey in the same way. (TV: The Five Doctors)
 * The Doctor imagines Clara writing on a blackboard. (TV: Listen)
 * The Doctor mentions the Gallifreyan prophecy about the Dalek-Time Lord hybrid, (TV: The Witch's Familiar) and, after admitting that nothing can be "half-Dalek," apparently admits that he is in fact the hybrid. The Doctor's eighth incarnation had once purported to a human hybrid. (TV: Doctor Who) In one account, however, he dismissed this as manufactured by the Chameleon Arch. (COMIC: The Forgotten)
 * The Doctor returns to Gallifrey, having got there "the long way round". (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
 * The Doctor quotes "The Doctor will see you now." The Eleventh Doctor had said this once before. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
 * The Doctor previously had a connection to a room with his incarnation's number (TV: The God Complex)
 * The Doctor admits he is afraid of dying. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
 * The Doctor uses his sonic sunglasses. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice et al.)
 * The Doctor mentions that he was telepathic when he was young. Susan also mentioned being telepathic. (TV: The Sensorites, The Girl in the Fireplace)
 * The Doctor admits to being afraid. He had done so before. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)
 * The Doctor jokes about being "good at traps". (TV: The Time of Angels)
 * The Doctor was previously in a time loop of his own creation (TV: Under the Lake/Before the Flood)
 * The Doctor confesses he did not leave Gallifrey because he was bored like he had previously claimed, but because he was scared. (TV: The War Games, PROSE: Lungbarrow et al)
 * The Doctor previously encountered a recursive environment inhabited by numerous previous iterations of its occupants with his companion Adric (PROSE: Mauritz).

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