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Clara
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 While Clara Oswald and Danny Pink are talking over the phone Danny is hit by a passing car. Struggling with Danny's death Clara decides to force The Doctor to make him change the past. She secretly collects all seven of the TARDIS keys before using a sleep-inducing patch on The Doctor. After the TARDIS materialises inside an active volcano The Doctor wakes up and she throws the keys one by one into the lava (as this is the only way to destroy them) unless The Doctor takes her back to save Danny, despite knowing it would create a time paradox. The Doctor soon reveals this was just a dream state - that the patch did not work on him and instead he had used it on Clara - to learn why she was so upset. Despite Clara's actions The Doctor offers, as a friend, to see if they can use the telepathic interface of the TARDIS to find Danny in the afterlife.
The TARDIS materialises in a strange mausoleum which holds nearly a hundred tanks of human skeletons under water. They are greeted by Missy, who introduces herself as an android receptionist for the 3W facility, and are taken to Dr. Chang, one of the scientists in the facility who reveals that the human skeletons are submerged in a substance called Dark Water, which only allows organic material to be seen, and that the bodies are encased in a support exoskeleton. The Doctor though is sceptical about the true nature of the 3W facility.
Meanwhile Danny has regained consciousness in a spartan office and is greeted by Seb, who reveals he is in the Nethersphere - a giant city enclosed within a sphere. Seb explains Danny has died, and helps him to get used to the new space, noting that he is still tied to the state of his body which is likely being kept in a refrigerated morgue as Danny is feeling cold. As part of this, Seb has arranged a meeting between Danny and a young boy that he had accidentally killed while he was a soldier. But while Danny tearfully tries to offer his apologies, the boy refuses and runs off.
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Back at the 3W facility Dr. Chang establishes a communication signal to the Nethersphere and Clara is able to speak to Danny. While The Doctor investigates the 3W facility further Clara asks Danny a number of questions, that only he would be able to answer, to try to assure that she is really speaking to Danny. However, a distraught Danny presses Clara to end the call. Seb then offers Danny the option to delete all his emotions.
Meanwhile, as The Doctor and Dr. Chang return to the tanks, Missy starts the process to drain the tanks. Missy then points out to The Doctor a spherical device situated in the middle of the area that is the Nethersphere, which is a part of the Matrix housing minds of the deceased in edited forms. The Doctor though recognises the Nethersphere which is actually Gallifreyan technology, and Missy reveals that she is indeed a Time Lord. or rather, a Time Lady as she prefers to be called.
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As the tanks begin to empty, the skeletons are revealed to be Cybermen. The tanks finally drain and open and The Doctor races out of the facility, to escape the advancing Cybermen, only to discover that the 3W facility was inside St Paul's Cathedral in the middle London. As The Doctor tries to warn away the civilians from the Cybermen, who begin to march on London, Missy reveals her full name is actually 'Mistress', as, in her current female form, she certainly could not call herself The Master...
Still inside the 3W facility Clara realises that she is trapped in Dr. Chang's office with one of the Cybermen. So as to stay alive Clara tries to convince it that she is The Doctor and so should be kept alive, as she is of strategic value. While outside The Doctor, Missy and the invading Cybermen are confronted by Kate Lethbridge Stewart, Osgood and a number of UNIT soldiers. When confronted by Kate, who threatens them, The Cybermen use their rocket boots to escape. The roof of St Paul's Cathedral then opens and more Cybermen fly out. As they disperse to significant population densities in the British Isles one of the Cyberman detonates itself above London, creating a dark cloud. It then starts to rain Cyber-pollen over a nearby graveyard. As sewers and gutters overflow the water gets into the Chaplet Funeral Home and animates the newly converted Cybermen within. One of these is revealed to be Danny Pink who then rescues Clara who has failed to convince the Cybermen that she is The Doctor. Danny shots the Cybermen and knocks Clara unconscious. When, Clara wakes up, she finds herself in a graveyard just as Cybermen start climbing out of their graves. But instead of attacking her the Cybermen just wander aimlessly around as if they are waiting for instructions.
Meanwhile The Doctor and Missy, having been sedated by UNIT, find themselves aboard an aircraft called 'Boat One' and The Doctor is the newly inaugurated President of Earth, commander in chief of all armies on the planet with complete authority in every nation. As a council discusses the graves and what the best plan of action is to stop the Cybermen taking over the Earth, Missy is being held captive in another part of the airplane. However, unbeknown to Osgood, who is in the same part of the plane, Missy has already escaped from her bonds. After taunting and then killing Osgood, Missy presses a button on her bracelet which causes a horde of flying Cybermen to attack Boat One forcing the airplane to lose altitude. With Boat One going down The Doctor and Kate confront Missy who arranges for a section of the plane to be blown out sucking Kate out of the plane. Missy then orders the Cybermen to destroy the plane, with The Doctor still aboard, before teleporting away just before Boat One explodes. The Doctor though is thrown clear of the debris and using his TARDIS key he summons the TARDIS to him as he hurtles through the air. Just before he reaches the ground The Doctor manages to catch and enter the TARDIS.
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Back on Earth Clara discovers the Cyberman, that was once Danny, in the graveyard. Danny asks her to turn on his emotion inhibitor but Clara is unsure of how to do this. The TARDIS then materialises in the graveyard and The Doctor warns Clara not to turn on the inhibitor because if she deletes Danny's emotions he will revert to a Cyberman and then he will kill her. Danny though denies that he will do this. The Doctor tries to get Danny to tell him what the cloud will do. Danny though is unable to tell him as he is not fully integrated into the Cyber hivemind. This prompts Clara to take The Doctor's sonic screwdriver which she uses to enable Danny's emotional inhibitor. This enables him to tell The Doctor that the cloud will convert all of humanity into Cybermen.
Missy then teleports into the graveyard, demonstrating her full control of the Cybermen now assembled. She then gives The Doctor a bracelet, allowing him the same control, as a birthday gift, so that he can now save everyone he wants to save and right all the wrongs in the universe. The Doctor though refuses to control the Cybermen army. Instead he points out to Missy that one of the Cybermen is not under her control before throwing the bracelet to Danny, who puts it on and assumes control of the Cybermen. He promises Clara that she will 'sleep safe tonight' before flying into the cloud with the rest of the Cybermen and destroying it, himself and all the other Cybermen.
Clara threatens to kill Missy with her own weapon; The Doctor takes it from her and prepares to do it himself to spare Clara the trauma of killing someone. But before he can kill Missy a blast from behind them hits Missy. The Doctor and Clara discover a Cyberman is behind them. It lowers its weapon and points toward another section of the graveyard where Kate, who is still alive despite being sucked out of the airplane, is lying on the ground. The Doctor, realising that the Cyberman who shot Missy is in fact Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, remarks 'The Earth's darkest hour. Where else would you be?' before saluting him. The Cyberman-Brigadier then flies up into the sky.
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Two weeks later, Clara awakes in the middle of the night to find a portal to the Nethersphere in her hallway. Danny speaks through it, saying that his bracelet allows one trip to or from the Nethersphere - he then sends the young boy, that he accidentally killed while serving in the army, through the portal telling her to find the boy's parents. He says he is sorry before the portal closes.
Sometime afterwards, Clara meets The Doctor with the intention of telling him about Danny's ultimate fate, but The Doctor interrupts her with the news he has found Gallifrey at the co-ordinates given to him by Missy before she was killed. This though is revealed to be a lie, which The Doctor discovered earlier when he travelled to the coordinates and found nothing but empty space and so Missy had the last laugh. The Doctor does not tell Clara this so as not to make her feel bad about not wanting to travel with him any more, as he has assumed Clara has met with him to end their time-travelling together. Clara in turn lies to The Doctor about Danny's final sacrifice, instead making it seem as if she and Danny are going to settle down and resume their relationship. They leave the restaurant and as The Doctor enters his TARDIS, Clara thanks him for making her feel special. He thanks her for exactly the same thing and dematerialises the TARDIS leaving Clara to continue her life without either The Doctor or Danny.
Shortly afterwards The Doctor, alone in his TARDIS, hears someone knocking on the door, telling him that it can not end like this and that neither Clara nor The Doctor is 'okay'. The voice turns out to be that of Santa Claus, who enters the TARDIS and asks The Doctor what he wants for Christmas.
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(Position = 3 out of 12)
