History Recap / DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent

There's an old, cracked portrait of Clara in a bedroom, a dirt-covered shovel near the teleport chamber, and ''thousands'' of skulls piled up on the seabed surrounding the castle. There's a paving stone buried in the garden with the message "I Am In 12". The stars aren't in the right positions. And there are many, many rooms, that shift around whenever the Doctor makes a confession.

Written by Creator/StevenMoffat, Part Two of the Series 9 finale of ''Doctor Who'' picks up where "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven Face the Raven]]" leaves off. It also stands as the show's last Doctor or Companion-lite (in this case the latter) episode to date, as the show moved from airing once every year to once every 18 months or so starting with Series 10, removing the need for Doctor/Companion-lite episodes.

What happens when you push the button that should never be pushed, when you make the Doctor cross the line he should never cross? You get this episode -- which we refer to as: JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here Creator/PeterCapaldi carries a 55-minute episode nearly by himself and gives a tour de force performance in the process, in the process [[TraumaCongaLine dying so many times]] it makes Rory's and even Jack's deaths, put together, look like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor tripping over a brick]]. '''''Also''''' known as: The ''main'' reason to ''never'', ever, if you have at all valued your existence, piss off the Doctor (unless you're a Dalek, as they're [[JokerImmunity harder to kill than cockroaches]], in which case ''go right ahead.'')

What happens when you push the button that should never be pushed, when you make the Doctor cross the line he should never cross? You get this episode -- which we refer to as: JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here Creator/PeterCapaldi carries a 55-minute episode nearly by himself and gives a tour de force performance in the process, in the process [[TraumaCongaLine dying so many times]] it makes Rory's and even Jack's deaths, put together, look like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor tripping over a brick]]. '''''Also''''' known as: The ''main'' reason to ''never'', ever, if you have at all valued your existence, piss off the Doctor (unless you're a Dalek, as they're harder to kill than Cockroaches, in which case ''go right ahead.'')

* AndIMustScream: Basically TheReveal is that the Doctor has been dying over and over again, only to be replaced by a clone, for around 7,000 years, meaning he's spent 7,000 years in a constant cycle of death and resurrection. This eventually gets upped to 2 BILLION YEARS by the end of the episode, only for the next episode to reveal that he actually spent 4.5 BILLION YEARS in this cycle.

** "This place is my own bespoke torture chamber, intended for me only, and all those skulls in the water... how could there be other prisoners in my hell? The answer, of course, is that there were never any other prisoners."

What happens when you push the button that should never be pushed, when you make the Doctor cross the line he should never cross? You get this episode -- which we refer to as: The one where Creator/PeterCapaldi carries a 55-minute episode nearly by himself and gives a tour de force performance in the process, in the process [[TraumaCongaLine dying so many times]] it makes Rory's and even Jack's deaths, put together, look like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor tripping over a brick]]. '''''Also''''' known as: The ''main'' reason to ''never'', ever, if you have at all valued your existence, piss off the Doctor (unless you're a Dalek, as they're harder to kill than Cockroaches, in which case ''go right ahead.'')