History Recap / DoctorWhoS35E2TheWitchsFamiliar

* RuleOfSymbolism: To show that the Doctor and Davros are NotSoDifferent from each other, when the ending depicts the Doctor taking a young Davros home, it shows that the Doctor is holding a Dalek gun, while Davros is holding the Doctor's sonic screwdriver.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_witches_familiar.jpg ''"I... show... mercy..."'']][[/labelnote]]

* BottleEpisode: Unlike its predecessor, this episode is set entirely on Skaro.

While Davros [[WoundedGazelleGambit makes a complete fool out of the Doctor]]. [[OutGambitted At least, he thinks he does]]. [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny And meets the Master.]] [[ShapedLikeItself And shows us his real eyes for the first time.]]

The one where Missy [[IdiotBall makes a complete fool out of Clara.]] [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny And meets Davros.]] [[RefugeInAudacity And pokes him in the eye.]]

-->''"I'm the Doctor. Deal with it."''

** The Doctor rolling into the chamber filled with Daleks sitting in Davros' chair.

[[caption-width-right:350:Extermination, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks old-school]] style.]]

** If the Doctor kills young Davros, there will be no Daleks and the universe's history will be rewritten. He might get his friends, his homeworld, etc. back. No one need know he killed a child to do it... ''what will he do?'' It turns out he was saving Davros.

While Davros [[WoundedGazelleGambit makes a complete fool out of the Doctor.]] [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny And meets the Master.]] [[ShapedLikeItself And shows us his real eyes for the first time.]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: A twenty-foot[[labelnote:*]]6-metre[[/labelnote]] fall onto solid rock leaves Clara with little more than a few small scrapes. Likewise, she also endures having Dalek tech implanted in her temples but comes away with little more than a couple of marks.

* DiabolusExMachina: PlayedForLaughs. In Missy's story about one of the Doctor's past adventures, he escaped from a bunch of android assassins only to fall into a pit of vampire monkeys. But that's a story for another time.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Missy goes from saving Clara to threatening to eat her, to teaming up with her, to using her as bait to shielding her from an explosion. Also, she goes from saving the Doctor's life to goading him into exterminating Clara in minutes.

* LargeHam: Missy just ramps it up here, complete with using a crazy Southern accent while killing a Dalek.

* ManipulativeBastard: Davros exploits the Doctor's compassion to get at his regeneration energy, and Missy uses Clara's desire to save the Doctor to use her as bait and other things.

* SuperSpeed[=/=]SuperReflexes: According to Missy, the Doctor managed to [[DodgeTheBullet dodge gunfire]] from dozens of robot assassins, run several thousand calculations in his head, and concoct a plan to escape his assailants, all in the space of ''four nanoseconds or less''.

The one where Missy [[IdiotBall makes a complete fool out of Clara.]] And meets Davros. And [[RefugeInAudacity pokes him in the eye.]]

The one where Missy [[IdiotBall makes a complete fool out of Clara.]] And meets Davros. And [[RefugeInAudacity pokes him in the eye.]] While Davros [[WoundedGazelleGambit makes a complete fool out of the Doctor.]] And meets the Master. And shows us his real eyes for the first time.

The one where Missy [[IdiotBall makes a complete fool out of Clara.]] And meets Davros. And [[RefugeInAudacity pokes him in the eye.]]

The one where Missy [[IdiotBall makes a complete fool out of Clara.]] And meets Davros. And [[RefugeInAudacity pokes him in the eye.]]

-->-- '''Davros'''

[[caption-width-right:350:Extermination, old-school style.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Extermination, old school style.]]

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->"''So long as there is mercy. Always mercy."''

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I... show... mercy..."'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"I . . . show . . . mercy . . ."'']]

-->--'''Davros'''

At the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician's Apprentice"]], the poor Doctor was begging for mercy that would not be granted him. Having chosen to abandon an attempt to rescue a young Davros from a hand mine field upon realizing who the boy was (leaving him nothing but a sonic screwdriver), the Doctor -- now presently a prisoner of the dying scientist and the Daleks on Skaro -- helplessly watched as Clara, Missy, and even the TARDIS were exterminated by the Daleks.

** The Daleks in the sewers. Daleks are made to keep living, but they still age and rot . . .

* BaitAndSwitch: Davros searches through the Doctor's possessions, noting the Time Lord confession dial. The Doctor subsequently tells him that some of his things are off-limits . . . and quickly swipes his sunglasses away.

** Missy's story ends with her surrounded by Daleks as Skaro is torn apart around her . . . [[JokerImmunity and she's just had a very clever idea.]]

** Missy and Clara's Vortex manipulators save them from being vapourized. This also serves as a retroactive explanation for her survival of the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven "Death in Heaven"]], and possibly several other times when s/he escaped certain death over the years, including the end of the episode.

** Continuing the theme of this story following up [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks "Genesis of the Daleks"]], a Dalek having the word "mercy" in its vocabulary is a plot point that saves Clara's life. In "Genesis", Daleks ''not'' having "pity" in their vocabulary bank got Davros's [[TheDragon Dragon]] and only friend killed by them.

** The Doctor references [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 "42"]] when he says he's been in charge for 42 minutes.

* CrossReferencedTitles: With [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician's Apprentice"]].

** Missy disables a Dalek and replaces the mutant inside with Clara. She is a lot bigger than the mutant, but there's clearly a lot of empty space in a Dalek shell. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan "Daleks in Manhattan"]] previously demonstrated that you can stuff a human in that thing, and the First Doctor's companion Ian Chesterton effected an escape in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] in much the same way.

** The Doctor warns his enemies that there's no telling what he'll do if he finds out that Clara Oswald really is dead; as Missy and Clara overhear this the former marvels that this is what it's like when the Doctor has no hope -- that he's capable of destroying everything, even them. [[spoiler:In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]], Clara is KilledOffForReal and in her FinalSpeech she orders him ''not'' to go down the path of destruction, knowing he can't handle being alone. Alas, it doesn't take -- thanks to the horrors visited upon him in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent "Heaven Sent"]] exacerbating his anguish, he temporarily becomes a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, willing to risk the universe's safety to bring her back from the grave in the SeasonFinale [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]].]]

* HopeCrusher: Davros is pushing the already guilt-stricken Doctor to the DespairEventHorizon in hopes that he can turn him into a man willing to kill Davros' younger self, willing to commit genocide against the Daleks at last . . . all to prove his own belief that the Doctor and his compassion are wrong and have an ultimate victory over his nemesis.

* InSpiteOfANail: At the end of the episode, it turns out the Doctor ''saved'' Davros as a young child, and told him the value of mercy . . . and he still turned out an utter bastard. That one bit of mercy saved Clara's life, though, in spite of what Davros would become. It also goes a way to explaining Daleks like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek "Rusty"]] and why they need a MoralityDial to stay evil.
* InternalHomage: Much of the episode is this to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks "The Evil of the Daleks"]], down to one of the final scenes being very similar.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: Specifically, the Doctor and Davros sharing a genuine laugh and the Doctor subsequently transferring regeneration energy to heal Davros . . . at the same time reinvigorating the decayed and bloodthirsty Daleks in the sewers.

-->'''Missy:''' Cybermen suppress emotion. Daleks channel it . . . with a gun.

** We never learn the fate of Bors, the Doctor's friend from the middle ages. We last saw that he'd been converted into a Dalek puppet, but we know from the case of Tasha Lem from [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]] that this does not necessarily mean the person is lost forever.

** If the Doctor kills young Davros, there will be no Daleks and the universe's history will be rewritten. He might get his friends, his homeworld, etc. back. No one need know he killed a child to do it . . . ''what will he do?'' It turns out he was saving Davros.

** Similarly, her BadassBoast to the Supreme Dalek suggests a previous meeting between the two. "I fought him once on the slopes of the Never Vault." The Doctor also gave the Master a brooch made of dark star alloy as a present on his/her daughter's-- (Birth? Death?)

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Doctor warns his enemies that there's no telling what he'll do if he finds out that Clara Oswald really is dead; as Missy and Clara overhear this the former marvels that this is what it's like when the Doctor has no hope -- that he's capable of destroying everything, even them. [[spoiler:In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]], Clara is KilledOffForReal and in her FinalSpeech she orders him ''not'' to go down the path of destruction, knowing he can't handle being alone. Alas, it doesn't take -- thanks to the horrors visited upon him in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent "Heaven Sent"]] exacerbating his anguish, he temporarily becomes a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, willing to risk the universe's safety to bring her back from the grave in the SeasonFinale [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]].]]

** Similarly, her BadassBoast to the Supreme Dalek suggests a previous meeting between the two. "I fought him once on the slopes of the Never Vault."

** Similarly, her BadassBoast to the Supreme Dalek suggests a previous meeting between the two. Unsurprising given that the Master has both [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace worked with the Daleks]] and fought them in the Time War.