Doctor Who – Spyfall: Part Two

By: Ellie Dolan-Yates

The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) is stuck in the beyond asking herself what she would say to the others if they were there. There are several electrical fizzes around The Doctor and, as she’s worried about being inside someone’s liver again, she comes across Ada (Sylvie Briggs) who thinks she is there because of “paralysis.” She also believes that the creatures are her guardians. The Doctor soon guesses that the creatures in a human form are gateways to this other dimension that they are in. Ada tells The Doctor to take her hand so that she can leave with her. The Doctor is apprehensive but does so.

Meanwhile, Yaz (Mandip Gill), Ryan (Tosin Cole) and Graham (Bradley Walsh) are somehow still holding onto the free-falling plane. Ryan finds signs name pointing towards a seat pocket. He finds instructions on how to land a plane without a cockpit. Graham reads the instructions to Ryan and The Doctor appears on a screen. Graham thinks they’re going to die, but The Doctor tells him that they’re not. She says not to talk back to the screen as it’s a recording and she can’t hear them. Ryan opens an app on his phone that connects to the plane’s engines. Once Ryan has them level he hacks into the plane’s flight pattern.

The Master (Sacha Dhawan) and Barton (Lenny Henry) are flying through space and time in The Master’s hut. Just as The Master believes he’s gotten rid of The Doctor and fam, Barton gets a notification on his phone that the plane is set to land at its planned destination. The Master bangs his head against a monitor as an alarm blares. The Master tells Barton he will sort out this problem and he’ll drop Barton at his plane in order to take care of The Doctor’s friends.

The Doctor wakes in the middle of a nineteenth-century tech fair. The Doctor tries to explain her apparition to onlookers, but tells them that she can’t reveal her secrets. They can go about their day having witnessed the marvelous apparating man…lady. The room applauds, but The Doctor realizes she’s in 1834 with no TARDIS.

The team are hiding in an aircraft hangar and Ryan realizes they’re in Essex. Graham tells Ryan and Yaz that The Doctor will be okay. Ryan still has access to Barton’s diary and says they need to get to his keynote speech in London without getting caught. Elsewhere, Barton calls for tracking intel on the three.

The Master barges into the fair and starts shrinking people with his Incredible Shrinking Device! He makes The Doctor kneel before him and call him Master. She delights in The Master not knowing how she escaped and him not being in control of the creatures. The Master says the creatures are called Kasaavin. Ada tells The Doctor to get down and she shoots The Master with a steam gun. The Doctor tells Ada that she doesn’t approve. The Master asserts that The Doctor won’t get far without her TARDIS. Ada throws a bomb towards him.

The Doctor realizes that she is in a room with Charles Babbage (Mark Dexter) and his difference engine and that Ada is Ada Lovelace, or will be one day. The two being together must be a clue. The Doctor notices a silver model just like the one The Master had in his hut. Babbage says it was given to him by a young man as a “token of appreciation from his master.” The Doctor says they must take Ada to their dimension to study her as they can’t stay in ours long. The map she saw in The Master’s hut must have been multiple time periods rather than multiple earths. The Doctor uses her sonic screwdriver on the model to summon the creature to take her back to the 21^st Century. Ada warns her that she is taking a risk, but The Doctor says, “Where there’s risk, there’s hope.” Ada grabs onto The Doctor’s hand.

After finding out that Barton is tracking them, the fam hide out in the shells of new-build houses. They wonder how much they don’t know about The Doctor. Ryan and Graham reveal that they kept their spy gadgets and Yaz asks Graham why he didn’t use his laser shoes on the plane. Graham explains that they were in a confined space…and he forgot to read the instructions. Ryan didn’t read the instructions for the rocket launcher cufflinks either. As the Kasaavin emerge, Ryan tells Graham to stamp his foot and a laser shoots one of the creatures. Yaz tells Graham to aim better, but Ryan tells him to just dance.

Barton is in a hangar explaining to his mum (Blanche Williams) that the model she is looking at dates back to the 19^th Century. His mum asks why she is here. Barton asks her what he has to do for her to say “well done.” As Barton explains he “wanted to see [her] on the last day so [she] would be first,” she is taken by the creatures.

The Doctor and Ada wake in the middle of Paris 1943. A woman (Aurora Marion) tells them to hide. The Master is leading a Nazi patrol through the streets. They search the house where The Doctor and Ada are hiding under the floorboards. The soldiers shoot holes into the floor, but don’t find them. The Doctor realizes that their heroine British spy Noor Inayat Khan. This is not how she expected to meet her. Ada is sad to see that Paris is on fire, but The Doctor says “darkness never sustains.”

Yaz calls her sister Sonya (Bhavnisha Parmar) from a phone box and her call is tracked. As guns are pointed at them Graham comes to the rescue with his laser shoe. Ryan tells the gun men that their boss is stupid. Yaz made the call knowing they’d come and now they’re going to hack their GPS. Yaz tells him not to share the plan! The fam find Barton’s mum and Barton appears on a screen explaining that he let the Kasaavin test a part of him. He tells the team to look after his mum and Ryan notices the model.

The Doctor is transmitting a code – the rhythm of two hearts. The Master transmits it back. They connect through thought. The Doctor tells The Master that she’ll meet him at the top of the Eiffel Tower. The Doctor thinks The Master brought the Kasaavin to earth, but The Master says they were already here. They have sleeper agents across the universe in case they need to attack. He’s suggested a better plan.

Noor is sending a message back to London and asks Ada why they should trust The Doctor. Ada says she’s wise and unafraid. Neither of them can work out the mobile phone that The Doctor has left them. They use the phone as they come across something “anomalous” which sends a signal to The Doctor’s sonic screwdriver. The Master asks how The Doctor didn’t die. She explains her DNA must have confused the Kasaavin. The Master says he is using the Kasaavin to achieve maximum carnage. Once he’s destroyed the human race he’ll get rid of them. The Master says he needed to get The Doctor’s attention. He went home to Gallifrey and someone has destroyed it. She doesn’t believe him. As troops make their way up the stairs The Doctor tells him she sent a message that could be intercepted to the Brits telling them how valuable he’s been as a double agent. The Doctor meets Ada and Noor at The Master’s hut. She tells them this is her way back to saving her friends and humanity.

Barton tells his audience how they have given his company access to everything from their credit card details to their mothers’ maiden names and he can use their data to do anything. He sends a text to every device on the planet saying, “Humanity is over. You have 3 mins to prepare.” He tells them they can all re-purpose. Humans are the most efficient hardrives on earth as human DNA is the perfect storage system.

The model in the hangar begins to spin and energy surges from everyone’s devices gripping them. Graham and Ryan try shooting at the model with their gadgets, but it doesn’t work. The Master appears and tells them to move away. He explains that he’s just had the most infuriating seventy-seven years of his life. He explains they’re transmitting Kasaavian DNA all around the globe, erasing people’s DNA. It grips Yaz but suddenly stops. The Doctor and her new friends appear just in time. It seems she traced the model’s movements through history and planted a virus in it in Barton’s office last year. As the Kasaavin reappear, The Doctor tells them she’s sending them back to their home planet. She also plays a recording of The Master saying he’s using the Kasaavin. They take him to the beyond.

Yaz tells The Doctor that she has a lot of explaining to do and, noticing The Doctor’s new friends, Graham asks if they’re being replaced. Ryan wonders how she managed to save their lives on the plane. It turns out she hasn’t yet since she forgot! She runs off with Ada and Noor to record her life saving video and place her instructions in the plane.

After dropping Noor off The Doctor tells her that the fascists don’t win before removing herself from Noor’s mind. She does the same to Ada and tells her computers start with her. The Doctor diverts her TARDIS to Gallifrey and finds that The Master was right – there’s nothing left. As she is contemplating what she has found, The Master appears as a hologram. He tells her he did this to Gallifrey. He had to make them pay for what he discovered. Everything they’ve ever been told was built on the lie of the timeless child.

When The Doctor has her fam back in the TARDIS they notice she’s down and ask why she never shares anything with them. She tells them where she was born and that she’s a Time Lord who can regenerate her body. She stole the TARDIS and has been travelling ever since. The Master was one of her oldest friends. Yaz asks if they can visit Gallifrey, but The Doctor tells her another time.