History Recap / DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia

** A brilliant older scientist with a devoted and adorable female assistant... sounds an awful like the Doctor, doesn't Professor Yana?

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 the Essence of a Time Lord.]]

With a dramatic cry of '''"[[IncomingHam DOOOOCTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!]]"''', Jack leaps onto the TARDIS as it's disappearing. It turns out that the TARDIS does ''not'' like Jack ever since he CameBackWrong, hurtling through time and space in an attempt to shake him off while Jack [[OutsideRide hangs on for dear life]]. Jack ends up dead when the TARDIS lands on a lonely dark planet trillions of years in the future. But everyone except Martha knows that [[DeathIsCheap death is pretty temporary for Captain Jack]].

With a dramatic cry of '''"[[IncomingHam DOOOOCTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!]]"''', Jack leaps onto the TARDIS as it's disappearing. It turns out that the TARDIS does ''not'' like Jack ever since he CameBackWrong, and rejects him, hurtling through time and space in an attempt to shake him off. Jack ends up dead when the TARDIS lands on a lonely dark planet trillions of years in the future. But everyone except Martha knows that [[DeathIsCheap death is pretty temporary for Captain Jack]].

* TheReveal: Twofold involving Jack and the ending of "Parting of Ways".

** Doubles as a BilingualBonus. The Greek word "Utopia", which Sir UsefulNotes/ThomasMore coined in his book of the same name, means ''nowhere''. This becomes [[invoked]]FridgeHorror two episodes later...

* StableTimeLoop: Martha mentions what the Face of Boe's last words were, while Jack is present. If he is indeed the Face (as he implies two episodes later), he now knows exactly the message he has to deliver, and what it means.

* WaistcoatOfStyle: Professor Yana — according to ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'', RTD told the wardrobe department to "[[Creator/WilliamHartnell Hartnell]] him up".

** As Yana examines the watch, an audio clip from "The Dæmons" plays which anyone familiar with Old Who will recognise instantly, making it pretty clear exactly who Yana really is.

Martha bolts from the room to tell the Doctor he might not be the last of his species after all — except the Doctor's less thrilled by the news than she expects. In fact, far from happy, he seems terrified at the prospect. Another surviving Time Lord? Yeah, brilliant, of course — only it depends ''which'' Time Lord...

In his laboratory, Professor Yana becomes increasingly fascinated by his watch. Strange noises echo in his head — [[Creator/RogerDelgado a voice from long ago]] demanding power, [[Creator/AnthonyAinley 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.

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. [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap 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, [[ParadoxPerson something that just should not be]]. Jack lightly calls the Doctor out on his FantasticRacism.

All at once, the Utopia rocket takes off with the rest of the humans, Yana opens the watch, and the Doctor and Martha recall the Face of Boe's dying words: "'''Y'''ou '''a'''re '''n'''ot '''a'''lone." The Doctor goes into full-on OhCrap mode and dashes back to the laboratory, but it's already too late: Professor Yana is dead, and the new man wearing his face proceeds to lock them out, let the Futurekind into the facility, and murder Chantho, who [[LastBreathBullet shoots him with her dying breath]].

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. [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap 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 lightly calls the Doctor out on his FantasticRacism.

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 lightly calls the Doctor out on his FantasticRacism.

Once everyone's all caught up, the Doctor lays it out: they're at the ass-end of time, right at [[NaturalEndOfTime the heat death of the universe]]. The stars have all burned out. Humanity, they learn, have all congregated together in this planet's ElaborateUndergroundBase, where they've been lured by vague promises of shuttle service to Utopia. Also, they encounter a group of savages called the Futurekind, who are eager to break into the base to get to the normal humans.

With a dramatic cry of '''"[[IncomingHam DOOOOCTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!]]"''', Jack leaps onto the TARDIS as it's disappearing. It turns out that the TARDIS does ''not'' like Jack ever since he CameBackWrong, and rejects him, hurling through time and space in an attempt to shake him off. Jack ends up dead when the TARDIS lands on a lonely dark planet trillions of years in the future. But everyone except Martha knows that [[DeathIsCheap death is pretty temporary for Captain Jack]].

All at once, the Utopia rocket takes off with the rest of the humans, Yana opens the watch, and the Doctor and Martha recall the Face of Boe's dying words: "'''Y'''ou '''a'''re '''n'''ot '''a'''lone." The Doctor goes into full-on OhCrap mode and dashes back to the laboratory, but it's already too late: Professor Yana is dead, and the new man wearing his face proceeds to lock them out, let the Futurekind into the facility, and murder Chantho, who shoots him with her dying breath.

Okay. If you'd told people, back when the original series 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.

* ActorAllusion: Though not widely known, this isn't the first time that Sir Creator/DerekJacobi has played the Master. He previously played another incarnation of the same character in ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'' (don't feel too bad; during interviews for this episode, Jacobi appeared to have forgotten this too). This isn't even the first time ''Series/DoctorWho'' pulled this one on the fans. In ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', Geoffrey Beevers (who had played the Master in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken "The Keeper of Traken"]]) appeared ''completely out of the blue'' in the Seventh Doctor audio adventure [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho021DustBreeding "Dust Breeding"]], playing a guy who turned out to be the Master in disguise. As he hadn't been associated with the role for a good few decades by the time of the story, fans didn't make the connection until TheReveal.

'''The Doctor:''' Hermits United. We meet up every 10 years, swap stories about caves.

Once everyone's all caught up, the Doctor lays it out: they're at the ass-end of time, right at the heat death of the universe. The stars have all burned out. Humanity, they learn, have all congregated together in this planet's ElaborateUndergroundBase, where they've been lured by vague promises of shuttle service to Utopia. Also, they encounter a group of savages called the Futurekind, who are eager to break into the base to get to the normal humans.

JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here [[Creator/JohnBarrowman Jack]] is back. And so is [[Characters/DoctorWhoMasters a certain enemy]] not seen for [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival a few incarnations]].

JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here [[Creator/JohnBarrowman Jack]] is back. And so is [[Characters/DoctorWhoMasters a certain enemy]] not seen for a few incarnations.

JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here [[Creator/JohnBarrowman Jack]] is back. And so is a certain enemy not seen for a few incarnations.

Once everyone's all caught up, the Doctor lays it out: they're at the ass-end of time, right at the heat death of the universe. The stars have all burned out. Humanity, they learn, have all congregated together in this planet's ElaborateUndergroundBase, where they've been lured by vague promises of shuttle service to Utopia.

All at once, the Utopia rocket takes off, Yana opens the watch, and the Doctor and Martha recall the Face of Boe's dying words: "'''Y'''ou '''a'''re '''n'''ot '''a'''lone." The Doctor goes into full-on OhCrap mode and dashes back to the laboratory, but it's already too late: Professor Yana is dead, and the new man wearing his face proceeds to lock them out, let the Futurekind into the facility, and murder Chantho, who shoots him with her dying breath.

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 onscreen 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.

* ActorAllusion: Though not widely known, this isn't the first time that Sir Creator/DerekJacobi has played the Master. He previously played the same character in ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'' (don't feel too bad; during interviews for this episode Jacobi appeared to have forgotten this too). This isn't even the first time ''Series/DoctorWho'' pulled this one on the fans. In ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', Geoffrey Beevers (who had played the Master in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken "The Keeper of Traken"]]) appeared ''completely out of the blue'' in the Seventh Doctor audio adventure [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho021DustBreeding "Dust Breeding"]], playing a guy who turned out to be the Master in disguise. As he hadn't been associated with the role for a good few decades by the time of the story, fans didn't make the connection until TheReveal.

'''The Doctor:''' ''Master''...I'm sorry.
* 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]]. This seems unlikely however, since the rocket had already left before Yana became the Master. It'll be [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords two episodes]] before we get any hint of what the moment could have meant but it's possible the Master already knew something Yana didn't.

* BigBad: The Futurekind initially seem to be this...then Professor Yana is revealed to be the Master and serves as the TrueFinalBoss.

* BondVillainStupidity: For once, averted by the Master:

The one where [[Creator/JohnBarrowman Jack]] is back. And so is a certain enemy not seen for a few incarnations.

** Doubles as a BilingualBonus. The Greek word "Utopia", which Sir UsefulNotes/ThomasMore coined in his book of the same name, means ''nowhere''. This becomes FridgeHorror two episodes later...