Dark Water (TV story)

"Dark Water" is the eleventh episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It is the first episode of a two-part story, the second being "Death in Heaven", written by Steven Moffat and directed by Rachel Talalay. The episode stars Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Michelle Gomez and Chris Addison, and sees the return of the Cybermen and the Master, this time portrayed as a Time Lady played by Michelle Gomez.

Plot The episode opens with the untimely death of Danny Pink, struck down while crossing the road and talking to Clara. Clara suffers a grief breakdown that she doesn't show, and is comforted by her gran before being phoned by the Doctor. In the Tardis, Clara steals all seven Tardis keys the Doctor keeps and uses a sleep patch on him after he pilots the Tardis to a volcanic planet, where she throws the keys in one by one every time the Doctor refuses to save Danny. After she throws the last key in, the Doctor reveals the sleep patch is a dream inhibitor and the whole thing was a test to see how far she'd go to save Danny.Following this Clara says "Where are we now, me and you" the Doctor replies to this with "Go to hell.Clara accepts and is about to leave when the doctor replies "No, I mean it we're going to hell", to find and return Danny. The Doctor plugs Clara into the Tardis mainframe and tells her to access her memories. She pilots the Tardis to a mausoleum. Meanwhile, Danny has woken up in the Nethersphere and is greeted by Seb, who offers him some coffee, before telling Danny he is dead.