History Recap / DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia

The only one who knows anything about how to get to Utopia is kindly old Professor [[YouAreNotAlone Yana]], who is only played by ''[[Creator/DerekJacobi Sir Derek Jacobi]]!'' Sir Derek's been stranded on this planet for a while, ever since he washed up on a beach here as a young kid. He's clever — a genius, in fact — and gets on tremendously well with the Doctor. As they hold hands and skip down corridors together and bond over Yana's gadgets, Yana's head starts getting a bit muddled every time he looks at the Doctor. Words like "Time Lord" and "TARDIS" trigger a very nasty kind of drumming in his mind. Yana tries to ignore it and explains to the heroes what he's building; his plan is to load everyone onto this enormous rocket and send them to Utopia, but the rocket isn't actually in working order. They need someone to enter a chamber filled with deadly radiation to reset some switches. Sounds like a job for someone immortal! Jack takes off a few layers of clothing for good measure before starting. While he works away at the device, he and the Doctor catch up on things (Daleks, Rose, etc.), and the Doctor confesses that he left Jack behind on Satellite 5 on purpose. Because Jack is now his own law of nature, an anomaly, something that just should not be. Jack calls the Doctor out pretty hard on his FantasticRacism.

* AmbiguousSituation: The fate of the [[ShroudedInMyth Utopia Project]]. During his sabotage of the bunker systems, the Master removes a piece of circuitry and dismissively mocks the concept of Utopia, raising the possibility that he removed the guidance system of the rocket and sent them [[KickTheDog in the wrong direction]].

** To "End of the Line"[[labelnote:*]][[NamesTheSame Unrelated to]] the Sixth Doctor audio drama of the same name[[/labelnote]], a ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comic strip starring the Fourth Doctor, which similarly features a handful of survivors on a dying world besieged by cannibal reavers, dreaming of a better life in a mythical land.

* FangsAreEvil: The savage Futurekind have fangs.

** When the Master awakens from regenerating, the music that plays is the same that played at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 "42"]] when Mr. Saxon's goons were talking with Mrs. Jones. Furthermore, Martha recognizes the new Master's voice...

* HeroicSacrifice: Jake, the blink-and-you'll-miss-him man who's the first sent into the chamber to fix the couplings. He's in a suit to protect himself from the radiation, but when it becomes clear that the build-up is about to reach a point that will fry him and his comrade urges him to get out while he still can, he simply, barely seems to consider it before going back to the task of fixing the couplings. This decision ends up with his body vaporizing as he tries to continue to get the rest of humanity shooting off into space. Good thing Jack was there to take the helm afterwards.

** The Doctor spends most of the episode unaware that Yana is actually the ''Master''.

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: When he's asked off-screen what he's a doctor of, The Doctor apparently responds with 'Everything'

* PardonMyKlingon: Chantho forgoing her VerbalTic would be the equivalent of swearing.

* RedHerring: Yana appears to be "reverting" to a primitive state like the others, but it's actually the Master's suppressed personality.

* ScrewYourself: Jack's the only man Jack's ever going to be happy with.

* SubvertedCatchphrase: Jack has to ''remind'' Ten to do his "I'm so sorry" thing when Chantho tells them her [[LastOfHisKind tragic back-story]].

* DeusExMachina: Jack mentions that without any stars, they should be freezing to death. The Doctor handwaves this with mention of an atmospheric shell.

The only one who knows anything about how to get to Utopia is kindly old Professor [[YouAreNotAlone Yana]], who is only played by ''[[Creator/DerekJacobi Sir Derek Jacobi]]''! Sir Derek's been stranded on this planet for a while, ever since he washed up on a beach here as a young kid. He's clever — a genius, in fact — and gets on tremendously well with the Doctor. As they hold hands and skip down corridors together and bond over Yana's gadgets, Yana's head starts getting a bit muddled every time he looks at the Doctor. Words like "Time Lord" and "TARDIS" trigger a very nasty kind of drumming in his mind. Yana tries to ignore it and explains to the heroes what he's building; his plan is to load everyone onto this enormous rocket and send them to Utopia, but the rocket isn't actually in working order. They need someone to enter a chamber filled with deadly radiation to reset some switches. Sounds like a job for someone immortal! Jack takes off a few layers of clothing for good measure before starting. While he works away at the device, he and the Doctor catch up on things (Daleks, Rose, etc.), and the Doctor confesses that he left Jack behind on Satellite 5 on purpose. Because Jack is now his own law of nature, an anomaly, something that just should not be. Jack calls the Doctor out pretty hard on his FantasticRacism.

* EyeTake: Yana does one upon becoming the Master.

** The Doctor is considerably more abrasive than usual in this episode, which Martha and Jack both call out. In a short space of time, the Doctor casually reveals that he can regenerate and regrow limbs, that he has had many more travelling companions than just Martha and Rose, and that they're all eventually dropped off somewhere to fend for themselves as soon as he's "bored" with them, all of which he had kept secret from Martha after previously promising to be straighter with her. The Doctor's apathetic reaction to Jack appears to be incredibly cold at first, but he later reveals that he has [[FantasticRacism particular reasons]] for being so weary of Jack.

In his laboratory, Professor Yana becomes increasingly fascinated by his watch. Strange noises echo in his head — a voice from long ago demanding power, a familiar cruel laugh, and a stronger voice ordering the "human fool" to open the light "and receive my majesty." His assistant Chantho all but begs him to just stop and rest for a minute... but he can't even hear her.

In his laboratory, Professor Yana becomes increasingly fascinated by his watch. Strange noises echo in his head — a voice from long ago demanding power, a familiar cruel laugh, a stronger voice ordering the "human fool" to open the light "and receive my majesty." and another familiar voice ordering him to “destroy them”. His assistant Chantho all but begs him to just stop and rest for a minute... but he can't even hear her.

In his laboratory, Professor Yana becomes increasingly fascinated by his watch. Strange noises echo in his head — a voice from long ago demanding power, a familiar cruel laugh, and a stronger voice ordering the "human fool" to open the light "and receive my majesty." His assistant Chantho all but begs him to just stop and rest for a minute... but he can't even hear her.

* YouAreNotAlone: Plot point! The meaning behind the Face of Boe's last words to the Doctor are revealed. [[FunWithAcronyms It's a]] MeaningfulName.

* AGodAmI: Invoked: The Doctor tells Jack a Time Lord who did as Rose had and absorbed the Time Vortex would become "a powerful and vengeful god".

* RealityEnsues: An aversion. Jack mentions that without any stars, they should be freezing to death. The Doctor handwaves this with mention of an atmospheric shell.

** The Doctor notes upon refuelling that somebody's opened up the Rift since he was last there, referring to the [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E12CaptainJackHarkness last]] [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E13EndOfDays two]] episodes of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' season 1. Which is why Jack is running full tilt towards the TARDIS. He heard the materialisation at the end of that last episode.

* ThemeTuneCameo: Listen closely to the drumbeat in Yana/The Master's head? Recognize it? ''It's the bassline of the Doctor Who theme''.

** The story, with the terrible Futurekind and the desperate humans searching for a promised land, evokes the Fourth Doctor comics story "End of the Line," which took place on a planet overrun with pollution. [[spoiler: In both cases, there wasn't a happy ending.]]

** The Doctor notes upon refueling that somebody's opened up the Rift since he was last there, referring to the [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E12CaptainJackHarkness last]] [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E13EndOfDays two]] episodes of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' season 1. Which is why Jack is running full tilt towards the TARDIS. He heard the materialisation at the end of that last episode.

In his laboratory, Professor Yana becomes increasingly fascinated by his watch. Strange noises echo in his head — a voice from long ago demanding power, a cruel laugh, and a stronger voice ordering the "human fool" to open the light "and receive my majesty." His assistant Chantho all but begs him to just stop and rest for a minute... but he can't even hear her.

Ok. If you'd told people, back when the old show was cancelled in '89, that not only would ''Series/DoctorWho'' return, but they'd get people like Sir Derek Jacobi to play the Master, well. They'd probably punch you out for taunting them or something. So, when and if you get a time machine, it's probably just as well if you don't do this. Not only that, Jacobi enjoyed the role so much he came back, in 2017, and started playing the Master regularly again for Creator/BigFinish, this time getting more than two minutes to be tremendously evil.

Anyway, bad ol' Koschei, not seen since [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the start of the Eighth Doctor's tenure]], promptly regenerates into [[Creator/JohnSimm the bloke from]] ''[[Series/LifeOnMars2006 Life on Mars]]'', steals the TARDIS and leaves our heroes stranded in the umpteen-billionth century with savages beating down the doors.

Meanwhile, the switches work! The evacuation starts; the rocket is boarded by the last dregs of humanity, hoping for something, ''anything'' better than a slow death in the night. Everyone congratulates each other on a job well done... and then Martha notices that Professor Yana has a pocket watch. And it looks just like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature the Doctor's watch]]. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood Which can be used as a receptacle for Essence of Time Lord.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Chantho, when talking about her [[VerbalTic beginning every sentence with "Chan" and ending with "Tho"]].

Which doesn't deter him, because, and it's this point the Whovians add it up and piss themselves... he is ''TheMaster''...

Ok. If you'd told people, back when the old show was cancelled in '89, that not only would ''Series/DoctorWho'' return, but they'd get people like Sir Derek Jacobi to play the Master, well. They'd probably punch you out for taunting them or something. So, when and if you get a time machine, it's probably just as well if you don't do this.

Written by Creator/RussellTDavies. The first episode of the Series 3 finale, based on the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho049Master Master]]". Leads directly out of the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' Series 1 finale, "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E13EndOfDays End of Days]]".