Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Fugitive of the Judoon


 * How is it murder if you sabotage a weapon somebody is going to use to kill you so it kills them instead when they use it to try to kill you?
 * That is not a discontinuity point nor a plot hole.


 * Wasn't there a previous episode where the tardis couldn't handle flying with two doctors at the same time?
 * If this is a pre-Hartnell Doctor, then perhaps this is a different TARDIS which Doctor Ruth chose to put in this shape.


 * If the Fugitive Doctor is a pre-Hartnell incarnation, why does she already have a TARDIS stuck as a police box? It can't be the same faulty TARDIS the First Doctor would go on to steal?
 * Whilst you are utterly correct this isn’t technically a discontinuity point for this episode. It is not suggested that the Fugitive Doctor is pre-Hartnell here, only that she doesn’t recall being 13
 * Actually, that IS suggested. All the Doctors, including Hartnell and all his successors, had some form of the sonic screwdriver. Doctor Ruth, however, did not know about the sonic. This means she is at least pre-Hartnell. Due to the Timeless Child retcon, we have multiple forms of this Time Lord, before Hartnell. Perhaps there were Doctors before Hartnell, all of whom did the same thing, meaning rescuing people and being a Doctor. The Time Lords wiped their mind after 12 regenerations, but the Timeless Child always grew up to Become the Doctor, taking up the same name. This will explain the name of Doctor Ruth, but not about the TARDIS. Let's see what happens.