The Zygon Isolation (webcast)

The Zygon Isolation was a Doctor Who: Lockdown! webcast set in the Doctor Who universe. It was created to accompany the watchalong of Peter Harness's two-parter The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion, serving as a loose sequel to its event by returning to the characters of the two Osgoods.

The webcast tied in more literally than most with the regrettable real-world circumstances of its making, as it featured the Osgoods communicating via zoom while themselves in lockdown. The Thirteenth Doctor was a part of the plot, influencing it in real time, but appeared only via a series of text messages sent to one of the Osgoods; Jodie Whittaker herself had no part in the making of the webcast.

Plot
Osgood contacts Osgood for a zoom meeting so they can catch up on each other's alter-ego and how well they are each coping in self-isolation. After they begin exchanging news, one of the Osgoods begins getting text messages from the Doctor on her phone. The Doctor claims to be trapped in a time eddy from which she has managed to contact them, a sort of time loop with an eerie resemblance to the repetitive lives in which the citizens of Earth are trapped so long as lockdown lasts. Eventually, as their conversation winds down, the two Osgoods decide to watch some television "together", in sync; after some wavering, they decide on a show whose topic they know very well…

Cast

 * Ingrid Oliver - Osgood, Zygon Osgood

Crew

 * Written by - Peter Harness
 * Directed by - Emily Cook and Michael Williams
 * Edited by - Michael Williams
 * With Thanks To - Steven Moffat, James Jarvis
 * Produced by - Emily Cook

Continuity

 * There are once again two Osgoods. (TV: The Zygon Inversion)
 * The Osgoods are aware that the Doctor is now a woman. (TV: Twice Upon a Time, Spyfall)