History Recap / DoctorWhoS34E4Listen

->''"What’s that in the mirror, and the corner of your eye? What’s the footstep following, but never passing by? Perhaps they're all just waiting. Perhaps when we're all dead, out they'll come a'slithering, from underneath the bed..."''

->''"Question! Why do we talk out loud when we know we're alone? Conjecture: because we know we are not. Evolution perfects survival skills. There are perfect hunters. There is perfect defense. Question. Why is there no such thing as perfect hiding? Answer! How would you know? Logically, if evolution were to perfect a creature...whose primary skill were to hide...from view - how could you know it existed? It could be with us every second and we would never know. How would you detect it? Even '''sense''' it? Except in those moments when, for no clear reason, you choose to speak aloud. What would such a creature want? What would it '''do?'''"''

->''"What’s that in the mirror, and the corner of your eye? What’s the footstep following, but never passing by? Perhaps they're all just waiting. Perhaps when we're all dead, Out they'll come a'slithering, from underneath the bed..."''

->''What’s that in the mirror, and the corner of your eye?
->What’s the footstep following, but never passing by?
->Perhaps they're all just waiting. Perhaps when we're all dead,
->Out they'll come a'slithering, from underneath the bed...''

->''"What’s that in the mirror, and the corner of your eye?

->Out they'll come a'slithering, from underneath the bed..."''

->''What’s the footstep following, but never passing by?
->''Perhaps they're all just waiting. Perhaps when we're all dead,
->''Out they'll come a'slithering, from underneath the bed..."''

What’s the footstep following, but never passing by?
Perhaps they're all just waiting. Perhaps when we're all dead,
Out they'll come a'slithering, from underneath the bed..."''

->''"Question! Why do we talk out loud when we know we're alone? Conjecture: because we know we are not. Evolution perfects survival skills. There are perfect hunters. There is perfect defense. Question. Why is there no such thing as perfect hiding? Answer! How would you know? Logically, if evolution were to perfect a creature...whose primary skill were to hide...from view - how could you know it existed? It could be with us every second and we would never know. How would you detect it? Even '''sense''' it? Except in those moments when, for no clear reason, you choose to speak aloud. What would such a creature want? What would it '''do?'''"''

* BadDate: Clara's first date with Danny goes rapidly downhill because of both of their emotional issues.

* IdenticalGrandson Danny's great grandson looks exactly like him.

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: [[spoiler: The Doctor]] was terrified of the dark as a child. [[spoiler:He]] was told by a kind voice that fear is a superpower and a companion, and that it doesn't have to make you cruel or cowardly.

* ShaggyDogStory: By the end of the episode, it is left ambiguous as to whether there was ever a MonsterOfTheWeek un the first place, or just a case of the characters letting their [[PrimalFear fear of the dark and the unknown]] get the better of them.

* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: The Doctor surmises that there are creatures that are so good at hiding that they are with us all the time unseen, and that this explains why we talk to ourselves and think something is hiding under our beds or in the closet when we're children, or think we see something out of the corner of our eye that isn't there.

* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: The Doctor surmises that there are creatures that are so good at hiding that they are with us all the time unseen and that this explains why we talk to ourselves and think something is hiding under our beds or in the closet when we're children, or think we see something out of the corner of our eye that isn't there.

* NothingIsScarier: There are little to no special effects and hardly even the hint of a monster in this episode, because the monster is in the imaginations of the characters and by extension, the audience. The episode works all the better for it.

* NothingIsScarier: There are little to no special effects in this episode and it works all the better for it.

* DontTouchItYouIdiot: The "do not open" warning drawn above the locked door of the astronaut's experimental timeship stuck at the end of time. He drew it there himself to keep himself from getting curious or desperate enough to open it and step out into the nothingness at the end of the universe.

* DontTouchitYouIdiot: The "do not open" warning drawn above the locked door of the astronaut's experimental timeship stuck at the end of time. He drew it there himself to keep himself from getting curious or desperate enough to open it and step out into the nothingness at the end of the universe.

* ShaggyDogStory: By the end of the episode, it is left ambiguous as to whether there was ever a MonsterOfTheWeek, or just a case of the characters letting their [[PrimalFear fear of the dark and the unknown]] get the better of them.

* NothingIsScarier: There are little to no special effects in this episode and it works all the better for it. It is left ambiguous as to whether there is even a MonsterOfTheWeek or just peoples' minds playing tricks on them.

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: [[spoiler: The Doctor]] was terrified of the dark as a child. [[spoiler:He]] is told by a kind voice that fear is a superpower and a companion, and that it doesn't have to make you cruel or cowardly.

"What scares the grand old man of time? What horrors lurk under his bed? Ghosts of the past and future crowd into the lives of the Doctor and Clara: a terrified caretaker in a children’s home; the last man standing in the universe; and a little boy who doesn’t want to join the army…"