History Recap / DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist

[[caption-width-right:349:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/time_heist_poster_9729.jpg The Doctor meets a [[HotLibrarian vixen]]. Cunning like a [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Delphox_(Pok%C3%A9mon) fox]]. [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Colder than frostbite. Casually calculative.]] And cutthroat to the core. [[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:349:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/time_heist_poster_9729.jpg The Doctor meets a [[HotLibrarian vixen]]. Cunning like a [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Delphox_(Pok%C3%A9mon) fox]]. AddedAlliterativeAppeal Colder than frostbite. Casually calculative.]] And cutthroat to the core. [[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:349:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/time_heist_poster_9729.jpg The Doctor meets a cold, calculative, and cutthroat [[HotLibrarian vixen]] as cunning as a [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Delphox_(Pok%C3%A9mon) fox]]. [[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:349:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/time_heist_poster_9729.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:349:Having guilty thoughts while reading this article? Then scroll down before your brain gets turned to mush.]]

* ContinuityNod: Images are played of the Androvax, a Sensorite, [[{{Torchwood}} Captain John Hart]], [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine Abslom Daak]], a Slitheen, a Terileptil and [[TheSarahJaneAdventures the Trickster]]. In the case of Abslom Daak, this firmly cements him as a CanonImmigrant.

* DisproportionatRetribution: People caught disobeying rules or stealing at the Bank of Karabraxos have to face the Teller as punishment. Not only do they get turned into walking vegetables, but their descendants get incarcerated as insurance that the family will not commit a crime against the bank a second time. It makes sense in that there are such things as crime families afoot like the Slitheen who might co-conspire and this is a preventative measure designed to split them up, but innocent children... hoo boy, it's gonna suck for them.

* CruelAndUnusualPunishment: People caught disobeying rules or stealing at the Bank of Karabraxos have to face the Teller as punishment. Not only do they get turned into walking vegetables, but their descendants get incarcerated as insurance that the family will not commit a crime against the bank a second time. It makes sense in that there are such things as crime families afoot like the Slitheen who might co-conspire and this is a preventative measure designed to split them up, but innocent children... hoo boy, it's gonna suck for them.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: People caught disobeying rules or stealing at the Bank of Karabraxos have to face the Teller as punishment. Not only do they get turned into walking vegetables, but this is essentially a living death, meaning that their next of kin will be notified of the traumatic news.
** Except, just to KickTheDog further, the victim's descendants get ''incarcerated'' as insurance that the family will not commit a crime against the bank a second time. It makes sense in that there are such things as crime families afoot like the Slitheen who might co-conspire and this is a preventative measure designed to split them up, but innocent children... hoo boy, it's gonna suck for them.

* ExpendableClone: Ms Delphox uses clones of herself as secretaries and such, since she won't rely on anyone else. This doesn't stop her from killing them for failure.

* LaserGuidedKarma: The older Ms Delphox has reached a point where she has grown filthy rich, but too old and sickly to enjoy her fortune, and is now laid up in a hospital bed, where she lacks the strength to move under her own power and is nearing death from a terminal illness.

* BlessedWithSuck: Saibra's powers can't be shut off, which keeps her from ever touching people without assuming their form.

** Except, just to KickTheDog further, the victim's descendants get ''incarcerated'' as insurance that the family will not commit a crime against the bank a second time. It makes sense in that there are such things as crime families afoot such as Slitheen, but innocent children... hoo boy, it's gonna suck for them.

* LivingLieDetector: The Teller is a unique spin on this, in that it detects guilty and remorseful feelings from people that have stolen from the bank. If their thoughts come up as positive for guilt, they get a FateWorseThanDeath.

* CruelAndUnusualPunishment: People caught disobeying rules or stealing at the Bank of Karabraxos have to face the Teller as punishment. Not only do they get turned into walking vegetables, but this is essentially a living death, meaning that their next of kin will be notified of the traumatic news.
** Except, just to KickTheDog further, the victim's descendants get ''incarcerated'' as insurance that the family will not commit a crime against the bank a second time. It makes sense in that there are such things as crime families afoot such as Slitheen, but innocent children... hoo boy, it's gonna suck for them.

* {{Cyborg}}: Psi.

* LivingLieDetector: The Teller is a unique spin on this, in that it detects guilty and remorseful feelings from people to act as a security guard

* StableTimeLoop
* VoluntaryShapeshifting

* ContinuityNod: Images are played of the Androvax, a Sensorite, [[{{Torchwood}} Captain John Hart]], [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine Abslom Daak]], a Slitheen, a Terileptil and [[TheSarahJaneAdventures the Trickster]].

* ContinuityNod: Images are played of the Androvax, a Sensorite, [[Series/Torchwood Captain John Hart]], [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine Abslom Daak]], a Slitheen, a Terileptil and [[Series/Thesarahjaneadventures the Trickster]].

* ContinuityNod: Images are played of the Androvax, a Sensorite, Captain John Hart, [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine Abslom Daak]], a Slitheen, a Terileptil and the Trickster.

"The Bank of Karabraxos is the deadliest bank in the cosmos – only a fool or genius would tempt to rob it. Fortunately, for the Doctor, he’s both. But nothing even the Doctor has encountered can prepare him and Clara for the Teller: a creature of terrifying power that can detect guilt."