History Recap / DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven

Clara, meanwhile, ''isn't'' actually the Doctor. She can't keep that bluff up for very long, even with the detailed knowledge of the Doctor's life she's picked up over time, but she doesn't need to -- Danny, now a Cyberman but with his original memories and emotions intact, takes her away from 3W and into a graveyard, where the corpses are already being cyberconverted by the Cyber-pollen. Their programming hasn't kicked in yet, and he begs her to turn on his emotional inhibitor so he's not in pain anymore. The Doctor is interrupted in his emotional conversation with the Mistress when Clara calls him, asking him to help her. But the Doctor refuses -- not only because he knows that fully converting Danny will make the Cyberman kill her, but also because Danny's link to the hivemind can help save the Earth. The Mistress merrily reveals that [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn she was the woman in the shop who put Clara and the Doctor together]] (because she ''loves'' to see the uncontrollable Doctor being controlled by such a control freak), then ruptures the plane, gets Kate flung out into the sky, and orders her Cybermen to kill some Belgians for the sheer hell of it.

The Doctor seeks out Gallifrey's coordinates and to no one's shock, Missy trolled him; it's still in the pocket dimension [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor he, Ten, and the War Doctor left it in]]. In anger, he flies into a violent rage against his TARDIS console and soon after breaks down crying.

* AndYourLittleDogToo: The Mistress kills Osgood and tries to kill Kate Stewart, solely because the Doctor likes them.

* AxeCrazy: The Mistress displays [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]] levels of murderous glee, fully admitting she's completely nuts and enjoys doing it. She sticks Osgood's murder on the same level as popping balloons and justifies the act of killing her despite her strategic value because she's bananas.
* BackForTheDead: Osgood hasn't been seen since "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]", and now she's killed by Missy.

** Osgood, wearing a bowtie, says that "Bowties are cool."

** Scenes with [[Creator/MattSmith the Eleventh Doctor]] from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn The Bells of Saint John]]" and between the [[Creator/PeterCapaldi Twelfth Doctor]] and Clara from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath Deep Breath]]" were shown during the reveal that Missy has been manipulating their relationship.

The Mistress joins them in the graveyard, in grand style, and reveals her plan... the rain will kill all humans on Earth, then convert them into more Cybermen. And the Cyberman troops are meant for the Doctor. He can use it to win every war, to liberate all the slaves in Dalek camps across the universe, to settle every dispute in his favour. She wants to see him lead an army, wants to make him admit that he's NotSoDifferent and just like her, that he needs to feel in charge. Because she just ''wants her old friend back''. The Doctor, suddenly understanding, finds in her words the answer to his question: [[ArcWords is he a good man?]] He gets down on his knees for her and kissing her, very gently, in thanks, he explains to her that he isn't. And he's not a bad man either. Or a general. Or a president. Or a hero. He's just an idiot with a box and a screwdriver, helping, learning.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: The Doctor rejects the Mistress' claim that they're NotSoDifferent by proclaiming that he is "an idiot with a box and a screwdriver".

* NotSoDifferent:

* WeCanRuleTogether: Attempted by the Mistress, as usual, who gives the Doctor control of the Cybermen to try and get him to admit that they're NotSoDifferent.

* RealityEnsues: Clara realizes that she and Danny aren't the StarCrossedLovers who commit TogetherInDeath that Amy and Rory were (remember that Amy wrote the book Clara was reading in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn The Bells of Saint John]]"), apologizing to him that while she wasn't really good at it, she did love him.

* ObliviousMockery: Clara boasts to a Cyberman that the Doctor is the person she's closest too in the whole world, and the one person she'd never lie to, unaware that the Cyberman is Danny. Then he takes off his mask and asks to be killed.

* SeriesResemblance: The episode centers on [[Franchise/MassEffect an aeons-long conspiracy spanning the course of civilization to use ancient alien technology far beyond human understanding in order to convert humans and other sentient beings across the universe into techno-organic zombies.]]

* BaitAndSwitchComment: The Doctor's WorldOfCardboardSpeech started off as a CallBack to "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]":

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: The Doctor finally answers the Arc Question: Is he a good man? He does so in good measure, just before beating Missy.
-->'''The Doctor:''' I am not a good man! And I'm not a bad man. I'm not a hero. I'm definitely not a president. And no, I'm not an officer. You know what I am? I... am... an idiot! With a box and a screwdriver, passing through, helping out, learning. I don't need an army, I never have. Because I've got them. Always them. Because love, it's not an emotion. Love is a promise. [[ThePowerOfLove And he will never hurt her.]]

--->'''SantaClaus:''' Hello? Doctor? You know it can't end like that! She's not alright! And neither are you!

* MoodWhiplash: Yet again, a ''Doctor Who'' finale about to end on a very low note runs headfirst into a "WTF?" moment. This time, ''Santa Claus''.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Missy raises an eyebrow at Osgood when she finds handcuffs in her coat. [[KinkyCuffs Osgood then says the cuffs aren't hers.]]
-->'''Missy:''' Oh! What's that in your pocket?\\
'''Osgood:''' There's nothing in my... ''[slowly pulls out handcuffs]''\\
'''Missy:''' Oh, my giddy aunt. [[NaughtyByNight The quiet ones are the worst.]]

** A [[TheBrigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] leading UNIT into battle against the Cybermen in the middle of London? [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion Sounds familiar...]] She even shows the damaged head of a Cyberman from that same attempt, old Mondasian design and all.

* DecapitationPresentation: When the Cybermen boast to Kate that Earth lacks the technology to beat them, she drops the head of a Mondasian Cyberman just to show them what happened to the last batch of Cybermen who thought messing with humanity was a good idea.

** Kate throws down a Mondasian Cyberman's head in front of the newly arrived ones from "the last time they tried".

-->'''Kate:''' Welcome to the ''only'' planet in the universe where we get to say this: ''[indicates the Doctor]'' He's on the payroll.

-->''[over the intercom]'' "Mr. President, you're needed in the briefing room."\\
"Remember when all you wanted to do was rule the world? ''[to the intercom]'' On my way. ''[to Missy]'' Piece of cake."

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Brigadier could be dangerous ''before''. Now he has Cyber Weapons. Would ''you'' like to get on his wrong side?

** Osgood, wearing a bowtie, says that Bowties Are Cool.

** Not ''quite'' back, but close. After being put on the bus a half-decade earlier, Jenny, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter the Doctor's daughter]], not only gets a shoutout, but the way Clara describes her strongly suggests the Doctor is aware that she is alive.

* CameBackWrong: The dead get to come back to life, but as mindless Cybermen. There are a couple exceptions, like Danny Pink and the Brigadier, that get to retain their humanity. Danny, despite the emotional inhibitor, still loves Clara and will not harm her (”Love isn't an emotion, it's a promise!"). The Brigadier just managed through his love for his daughter and his country.
* CardCarryingVillain: Missy calls herself “the Queen of Evil”.

* ChekhovsGag: Hah! The Brigadier only ever wanted the Doctor to salute him! We weren't expecting him to actually come back ...

** Missy's plan to create an army through converting the dead into Cybermen recalls the [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho Macqueen!Master's]] (the first incarnation of the post-Eye of Harmony regeneration cycle, which Missy is a part of) penchant for building armies via AssimilationPlot.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome:Danny leads the entire Cyber-Army into their final act: "The Promise of a Soldier: You Will Sleep Safe Tonight."

** Gallifrey's location? Right where it always was. Apparently the Doctor never bothered to check. [[SubvertedTrope Then]] it turns out that the Mistress lied, to nobody's surprise. Only for it then to be revealed in Hell Bent and Heaven Sent, that she ''wasn't'' technically lying - the location in space is true but Doctor didn't go ''far enough'' forward in time.

** Given precedent during the character's long history, no one seriously expected Missy to be KilledOffForReal.

* FreakOut: The Doctor has a violent one within the TARDIS when he discovers Gallifrey is not at the coordinates Missy gave him.

-->'''Danny:''' This is not the order of a general, nor the whim of a lunatic-\\

''[Danny removes his mask. Cue OhCrap moment from Clara.]''

** As usual, love trumps Cyberconversion, allowing Danny to retain his own mind even after having his emotional inhibitor turned on. The Doctor learns it's why Cyber!Danny wouldn't kill Clara. "Love isn't an emotion. It's a promise."

* ScheherezadeGambit: Clara tries to convince the Cybermen that she's the Doctor and therefore worth keeping alive. Cyber!Danny intervenes before we get to find out if it works.
* ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: So apparently Missy has, all on ''this single incarnation,'' been travelling throughout human history and uploading every human who has ever died into her cyber army, and despite this contradicting other Who canon, this is apparently the entire reason humans have a concept of an afterlife. Just to put this in perspective, at out current population levels, two humans die ''every single second''. Assuming she were to start with the death of the very first ''Homo Sapiens'' and progress linearly from there, Missy would've aged into the gnome-like form she previously accelerated the Doctor to in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]] centuries before humans even entered the bronze age.
* SeriesResemblance: The episode centers on [[Franchise/MassEffect an aeons long conspiracy spanning the course of civilization to use ancient alien technology far beyond human understanding in order to convert humans and other sentient beings across the universe into techno-organic zombies.]]

** Missy refers to Gallifrey as "[[{{Film/Casablanca}} their Paris]]".

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Osgood was killed by the Master purely because a) The Doctor liked her and b)Moffat wanted to show that The Master was still evil even though she was a woman. He admitted saying “Osgood was the one we flung on the fire to make the Master burn brighter.” Luckily, it was later revealed that either the original Osgood or her Zygon double was still alive, and she refused on principle to explain which one she was. The same story ends with ''another'' Osgood duplicate being created, as well.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: Missy's bracelet allows her to travel to the Nethersphere and return to a different location on Earth (which would explain her OffscreenTeleportation in the previous episode).

--> '''The Doctor:''' I had a friend once. We ran together, when I was little. And I thought we were the same. But when we grew up, we weren't.
* WeaponizedLandmark: St. Paul's Cathedral's dome opens up to unleash flying Cybermen, showing that the Cybermen never know when to leave it alone.

** Clara checking on Kate after a Cybermen [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness saved her]]. “She’s talking about [[BackFromTheDead her dad]].”

Meanwhile, back at St. Paul's, a flock of tourists descend to gawp and gaggle at the shiny metal men. The Mistress is amused, and quickly flicks through various video feeds to show more and more clusters of them, in every major city in the world. One of the tourists steps forward to take the Doctor and Mistress's picture, a familiar-looking woman in a spiffy-looking bowtie and familiar Converse... [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor Osgood]]. And just like that, the "tourists" whip out their guns, and UNIT springs into action. Out comes Kate Stewart, decidedly unimpressed at this whole "Cyberman apocalypse" thing -- [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion they tried it fifty-six years prior, didn't work then]], and UNIT's specifically built anti-Cyberman weaponry from the remnants of their dead in case they tried to stage a repeat. In response, the Cybermen... fly off with shiny new rocket boots. Several more spew from the Cathedral itself, ninety-one in total -- one for every city in the British Isles.

Meanwhile, back at St. Paul's, a flock of tourists descend to gawp and gaggle at the shiny metal men. The Mistress is amused, and quickly flicks through various video feeds to show more and more clusters of them, in every major city in the world. One of the tourists steps forward to take the Doctor and Mistress's picture, a familiar-looking woman in a spiffy-looking bowtie and familiar Converse... [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor Osgood]]. And just like that, the "tourists" whip out their guns, and UNIT springs into action. Out comes Kate Stewart, decidedly unimpressed at this whole "Cyberman apocalypse" thing -- [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion they've tried it before]], and UNIT's specifically built anti-Cyberman weaponry from the remnants of their dead in case they tried to stage a repeat. In response, the Cybermen... fly off with shiny new rocket boots. Several more spew from the Cathedral itself, ninety-one in total -- one for every city in the British Isles.

Kate has both Missy and the Doctor shot with tranquilizer darts -- Missy for the obvious reason, the Doctor because she doesn't want to risk him getting bored and wandering off before the world's been saved -- and taken aboard Boat One (an airborne UNIT base [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums a bit less Helicarriery]]). As it turns out, after the Harold Saxon business, the governments of the world decided to automatically make the Doctor acting President of Earth (whether he wants to be or not) should another global UNIT-level disaster occur. The Doctor, in between complaining about being saluted at and declaring that he's never going to salute back (although he admits to Kate that he would have done it for her father if he'd realised how much it would have meant to him), quickly figures out that Missy has been using modified [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin Matrix technology]] to store human minds for as long as humans have believed in an afterlife. Meanwhile, the Mistress starts her rampage by sadistically murdering Osgood, who was just being offered a companion position by the Doctor for being generally clever and awesome today.

Clara, meanwhile, ''isn't'' actually the Doctor. She can't keep that bluff up for very long, even with the detailed knowledge of the Doctor's life she's picked up over time, but she doesn't need to -- Danny, now a Cyberman but with his original memories and emotions intact, takes her away from 3W and into a graveyard, where the corpses are already being cyberconverted by the Cyber-pollen. Their programming hasn't kicked in yet, and he begs her to turn on his emotional inhibitor so he's not in pain anymore. The Doctor is interrupted in his emotional conversation with the Mistress when Clara calls him, asking him to help her. But the Doctor refuses -- not only because he knows that fully converting Danny will make the Cyberman kill her, but also because Danny's link to the hivemind can help save the Earth. The Mistress merrily reveals that she was the woman in the shop who put Clara and the Doctor together (because she ''loves'' to see the uncontrollable Doctor being controlled by such a control freak), then ruptures the plane, gets Kate flung out into the sky, and orders her Cybermen to kill some Belgians for the sheer hell of it.

Down on Earth, Danny reveals that he can only access the hivemind once he's converted; the Doctor knows that he has no choice but to turn on Danny's emotional inhibitor forever. He can't bring himself to do it, and Clara takes up his screwdriver and performs the act herself.

Clara has surreptitiously taken the Mistress's death ray, and doesn't plan on letting her get away [[JokerImmunity to come back with a new atrocity next week]] -- instead, she's going to murder the Time Lady in cold blood. The Doctor won't let her. Not because he can't bear to see his old friend die, but because he can't bear to see his new friend become a killer. He promises Clara that if that's what it will take to dissuade her, he'll kill the Mistress himself.

There's one Cyberman left -- one Cyberleader who has not only just zapped the Mistress, the Doctor and Clara discover, it's also taken the time to catch Kate Stewart when she fell from the doomed aircraft and bring her safely to earth. And Kate is muttering about her dad... It becomes solemnly clear that the late Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart has risen from his grave, and was one of the many souls placed in the Nethersphere. Except, he, like Danny, broke free of Missy's control... because he's still very much [[HeroicWillpower the iron-willed]] [[TheBrigadier Brigadier]] he was in life. The Doctor realises his old friend is standing before him, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong and he now has one more chance to say good-bye.]] The Doctor gives his old friend a first and last salute, and the cyberconverted Brigadier nods his head in acknowledgement, then rockets into the sky and out of sight.

The Doctor seeks out Gallifrey's coordinates. It's nothing but empty space. In anger, he flies into a violent rage against his TARDIS console and soon after breaks down crying.

** The Doctor and Clara's affection for each other is so strong they mutually sacrifice the opportunity to keep travelling with one another in the mistaken belief that this will allow the other to find their own happy endings (the Doctor believing Clara has been reunited with Danny; Clara believing the Doctor is returning to Gallifrey).

* TooSpicyForYogSogoth: Danny is able to break his conditioning, as is the Brigadier. Danny is even able to arrange to return the young boy he killed from whatever afterlife he ends up in.

* TakeThatAudience: One particular complaint waged by viewers about Series 8 began to crop up rather frequently -- that Clara was unfairly becoming [[SpotlightStealingSquad the new centre of attention]], over the recently introduced Twelfth Doctor, with Clara practically assuming the role of the Doctor in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]". In fact, some people dubbed the series "Clara Who". Here, Clara impersonates the Doctor altogether, complete with the credits changing to give her top billing and her eyes in the credits instead of the Doctor's. Which results in several thunderous digs in at this notion of Clara Who. Amplified when one notes that, originally, this was to have been Jenna Coleman's final episode before she decided to come back for the Christmas special and Series 9 (in which the series doubled down on the "Clara Who" aspect).

** Not ''quite'' back, but close. After being put on the bus a half-decade earlier, Jenny, [[DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter the Doctor's daughter]], not only gets a shoutout, but the way Clara describes her strongly suggests the Doctor is aware that she is alive.

* KickTheDog: According to Steven Moffat, Osgood is killed off to remind the audience that Missy/TheMaster, for all her [[DracoInLeatherPants amusing quirkiness]], is irredeemably evil.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome:
** Danny leads the entire Cyber-Army into their final act: "The Promise of a Soldier: You Will Sleep Safe Tonight."
** Although we don't really see what happens to him afterwards, the Cyber-Brigadier's appearance may also qualify for this trope.

** Gallifrey's location? Right where it always was. Apparently the Doctor never bothered to check. [[SubvertedTrope Then]] it turns out that the Mistress lied, to nobody's surprise.
*** Only for it then to be revealed in Hell Bent and Heaven Sent, that she ''wasn't'' lying - the Doctor just didn't go ''far enough'' forward in time.

* KnightTemplar: Missy's entire goal has been to convince the Doctor that he is one.

* NoodleIncident; Despite the reveal that Missy is an incarnation of the Master, the circumstances of her regeneration from her last incarnation to her current one -- and what caused her gender change -- go unmentioned. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls For now]].

** Missy's entire plan -- going up and down the Doctor's timeline, rescuing souls to be uploaded into the Nethersphere and downloaded into Cybermen -- was all to give him an army just to prove to him that they're not so different. It's ultimately defied.

* PocketDimension: Why has no one noticed the 3W facility inside St. Paul's? Missy anchored one of these to the cathedral to hide it in.

* ZombieApocalypse: Functionally this is what the Mistress' plan creates, with the twist that the zombies are Cybermen souped up with Time Lord technology.

* TooDumbToLive: Almost literally; the most basic security procedures would've kept Osgood from being killed. Osgood does her research on Missy's device ''ten feet'' from where they're holding said psychotic Time Lady prisoner, despite knowing exactly who she is and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E3TheSeaDevils how human prisons means nothing to her]]. There's not even a wall separating them, and [[DistressBall Osgood doesn't run as soon as Missy tells her she's going to die.]]

* AmbiguousCloneEnding: Given that Osgood's Zygon duplicate was alive and well the last time we saw either of them, this raises the question of which version Missy killed.

* TakeThatAudience: One particular complaint waged by viewers about Series 8 began to crop up rather frequently -- that Clara was unfairly becoming [[SpotlightStealingSquad the new centre of attention]], over the recently introduced Twelfth Doctor, with Clara practically assuming the role of the Doctor in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline "Flatline]]". In fact, some people dubbed the series "Clara Who". Here, Clara impersonates the Doctor altogether, complete with the credits changing to give her top billing and her eyes in the credits instead of the Doctor's. Which results in several thunderous digs in at this notion of Clara Who. Amplified when one notes that, originally, this was to have been Jenna Coleman's final episode before she decided to come back for the Christmas special and Series 9 (in which the series doubled down on the "Clara Who" aspect).