History Recap / DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater

* ThirdLawOfGenderBending: There's nothing stopping Missy from calling herself the Master, but she's changed it to the Mistress, and asks to be called a Time ''Lady'' with the coy insistence that she's "an old fashioned girl". She does a lot of hyper-feminine eye fluttering as well. She also snogs the Doctor at the first opportunity (though she immediately bends the law by offering to do the same to Clara).
** Granted, considering it's the Master we're talking about, it's entirely possible Missy is deliberately invoking this trope just to troll the Doctor.

** Just like the first Master we ever saw, the actor playing him/her has an obviously Spanish last name.
* AdultFear:
** Having a perfectly normal conversation with a loved one over the phone when you suddenly stop getting a reply. That would be because they were just killed in a freak accident.

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]", when the Master took over the whole of the human race, Wilfred wondered if that also included the dead in their graves. Now, [[WhamLine "All the graves on planet Earth are about to give birth."]]

* ChasteHero: Despite establised evidence to the contrary, the Doctor has no idea about either sexual advances or innuendo, as shown by his reaction to being kissed by Missy (and apparently to her having him put his hand on her ''[ahem]'' chest, although there turns out to be more to it than that), and his incomprehension of [[CovertPervert Dr. Chang's]] idea that water that renders non-organic matter invisible should be used in swimming pools.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Truthfully, Missy ''isn't'' out to destroy the world this time - she's just there to make an army for the Doctor. For her, that's a real change - she apparently has a standard even she won't cross.

* WaxMuseumMorgue: Twelve and Clara visit a mausoleum in which skeletons [[spoiler:that are actually Missy's Cybermen]] sit displayed in tanks of clear fluid.

* BiTheWay: Missy is also willing to snog Clara as well, but she insists it's not necessary.

Clara takes it hard. ''Very'' hard. So hard that the next time the Doctor comes round to call, she has him fly her over to a volcano before drugging him and stealing all of his TARDIS keys. Even the one in his pocket and the one in his copy of ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'' (though she missed the one [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie in the cubbyhole over the "P" of "Police Box"]].) You see, lava can destroy a TARDIS key. If the Doctor doesn't go back and save Danny (and yeah, saving a companion's loved ones, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay that went super well last time]]), he'll never get inside the TARDIS again. The Doctor takes charge of the situation soon enough, staring Clara down while she destroys every last TARDIS key in grief. (Remember, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath threats are meaningless unless you go through with them]].) After which he reveals that she wasn't able to drug him, and he's drugged her instead in retaliation, and they're safely in the TARDIS and never landed at a volcano site at all. And he's angry that she betrayed him, but asks her if she honestly thought that he cares so little about her that betraying him would make a difference. Asked what he wants of her, he tells her to "go to Hell". Literally. Off they fly, using [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E4Listen the TARDIS's glowy telepathic hand warmers]], to find Danny.

The Doctor soon finds out that the "dark water" surrounding the skeletons is hiding the fact that they're all encased in ''Cyberman armour''. And once Missy sadistically kills Dr. Chang, and turns out to be not actually a droid and actually the CEO of the institution, the Doctor confronts her about other very unexpected things... such as the fact that Heaven is really obviously a knockoff of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin the Gallifreyan Matrix, the network that stores the minds of all dead Time Lords]]. Modified to contain humans. Also, Missy has a double heartbeat, which she revealed to the Doctor when she pulled his hand against her chest. The Doctor ''freaks right out'' and runs like hell from her, still not willing to admit to himself who Missy is. Out on the streets, 3W turns out to be dimensionally folded into St. Paul's Cathedral, and the army of Cybermen is already making its way down the steps. Which is when Missy, fed up with the Doctor's refusal to realise her identity, finally tells him that Missy is short for "Mistress".

"Well... I couldn't well keep calling myself '[[TheReveal the]] '''[[WhamLine Master]]'''[='=], now could I?"

The Doctor backs away slowly in a mixture of terror and disbelief, very agape and letting out a gasp. While he's not shown much fear thus far in this incarnation, this is the first time he's positively ''[[OhCrap horrified]]'' - everyone's favourite Gallifreyan sociopath is ''back''. The Cybermen march in sync on their latest invasion out of the Cathedral, and [[OminousWalk steadily close in for the kill...]]

* ChasteHero: The Doctor has no idea about either sexual advances or innuendo, as shown by his reaction to being kissed by Missy (and apparently to her having him put his hand on her ''[ahem]'' chest, although there turns out to be more to it than that), and his incomprehension of [[CovertPervert Dr. Chang's]] idea that water that renders non-organic matter invisible should be used in swimming pools.

** [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDASDarkEyes2E4EyesOfTheMaster This isn't the first time the Master has taken over a scientific institute.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie This is also not the first time that the Master has allied himself with and murdered a good-natured man with the surname "Chang".]]
** It's not the first time we've seen [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors the Master allied with the Cybermen.]]

** This isn't the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums first time]] the Master has taken advantage of humanity's desire for paradise after the end. Only difference this time is that it involves those who are already dead, instead of those [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia at the end of their rope, desperately holding on]].

The Doctor backs away slowly in a mixture of terror and disbelief, very agape and letting out a gasp. While he's not shown much fear thus far in this incarnation, this is the first time he's positively ''[[OhCrap horrified]]''. The Cybermen march in sync on their latest invasion out of the Cathedral, and [[OminousWalk steadily close in for the kill...]]

[[OhCrap Then Danny stops talking.]] Then a woman picks up the phone, audibly shaken. There was a car, and it came so quickly...

** After Clara fails to put a dream patch on the Doctor, he puts one on her instead, which puts her into a dark fantasy where she holds the Doctor to ransom at the edge of a volcano.

-->'''Clara''': I don't deserve anything. Nobody deserves anything. [[TranquilFury But I am owed better.]] I am ''owed''.

This week, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords we're probably going to Heaven! Please don't hang your head and cry. But wonder why...]]

* TemptingFate: Clara says to Danny, "I love you, and you're the last person who's ever going to hear that." [[AnchoredShip She keeps her promise after he dies.]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. While it's not rape, but Missy's extended, ForcefulKiss of the Doctor (and subsequently holding his hand over her bosom) could still very much be classified as sexual assault. The actors play it off as appropriately disturbing and, while acting as a droid, Missy even says that her "intimacy settings" were set too high.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Not rape, but Missy's extended, ForcefulKiss of the Doctor (and subsequently holding his hand over her bosom) could still very much be classified as sexual assault. The actors play it off as appropriately disturbing and, while acting as a droid, Missy even says that her "intimacy settings" were set too high.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]] http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dark_water_poster_3005.jpg Death is like a pool of black water. You can't see past the inky surface. [[SchrodingersCat Perhaps there are things lurking beyond it...]] things you ''shouldn't'' see. [[/labelnote]]]]

** The dead can feel everything that happens to their body, hence the most frequent communication from the afterlife being "Don't Cremate Me", and Danny hearing the screams of a man who (according to Seb) left his body to science. Even though the whole thing turns out to be a scam to encourage the dead to relinquish their emotions, that's a pretty disturbing idea.
** Accidentally killing a child then meeting them in the afterlife.

[[OhCrap Then Danny stops talking.]] Then a woman picks up the phone, audibly shaken. There was a car, and Danny had never heard of SPLINK, and it came so quickly...

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[[caption-width-right:375:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]] http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dark_water_poster_3005.jpg Death is like a pool of black water. You can't see past the inky surface. [[SchrodingersCat Perhaps there are things lurking beyond it...]] things you ''shouldn't'' see. [[/labelnote]]]]

'''The Doctor:''' The [[DarkestHour darkest day, the blackest hour]]. [[StiffUpperLip Chin up, shoulders back]] -- [[DareToBeBadass let's see what we're made of, you and I.]]

[[OhCrap Then Danny stops talking.]] Then a woman picks up the phone, audibly shaken. There was a car, and it came so quickly...