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** The Doctor mentions that she's denied the reality of the Matrix [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin before]].
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* TomatoInTheMirror: The Doctor IS the Timeless Child, and effectively not a Time Lord, but their progenitor.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: The Doctor is not a Gallfreyan native, but was a refugee who was adopted by an explorer call Tecteun and brought to the planet. Tecteun discovered she had the ability to regenerate and spliced it into other Gallifreyans, allowing them to become the Time Lords, and the doctor is implied to have vast swathes of past lives that have been blocked from her memory.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: The Doctor is not a Gallfreyan native, but was a refugee who was adopted by an explorer call Tecteun and brought to the planet. Tecteun discovered she had the ability to regenerate and spliced it into other Gallifreyans, allowing them to become the Time Lords, and the doctor Doctor is implied to have vast swathes of past lives that have been blocked from her memory.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: The Doctor asks the Master if destroying Gallifrey made him happy. He says it did. She then asks if it satisfied his rage. He looks put out for a moment before saying it didn't.
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* DeathSeeker: After he kills the Lone Cyberman, the Master openly admits disappointment that the Death Particle in his chest didn't activate and kill everything organic on the planet, himself included.
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* IronicEcho: To The Doctor Falls, with the Master this time asking for the Doctor's hand, but she's too angry and says "never".
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* IronicEcho: ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The Cybermen have absolutely terrible aim.
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** To "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The DoctorFalls, Falls]]", with the Master this time asking for the Doctor's hand, but she's too angry and says "never"."never".
** The Master echoes the Lord President's words from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]": "For Gallifrey! For victory! For the end of the Universe itself!"
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** To "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Doctor
** The Master echoes the Lord President's words from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]": "For Gallifrey! For victory! For the end of the Universe itself!"
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** When the Master points out the ruins of the Panopticon, we see a hint of the metallic green decor it sported in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]".
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* ShoutOut: The Master saying "Look upon my works Doctor and despair" is one to [[Creator/PercyShelley Percy Shelley's]] Ozymandias.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** The Master saying "Look upon my works Doctor and despair" is one to [[Creator/PercyShelley Percy Shelley's]]Ozymandias.Ozymandias.
** The Master asks the Cyberium to choose him as its business partner because he has performed well in all the tasks, mimicking an ''[[Series/TheApprentice Apprentice]]'' candidate.
* ThreatBackfire: "It will not leave me while I live." Turns out the Master's just fine with that.
** The Master saying "Look upon my works Doctor and despair" is one to [[Creator/PercyShelley Percy Shelley's]]
** The Master asks the Cyberium to choose him as its business partner because he has performed well in all the tasks, mimicking an ''[[Series/TheApprentice Apprentice]]'' candidate.
* ThreatBackfire: "It will not leave me while I live." Turns out the Master's just fine with that.
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** When the Doctor is overloading the Matrix with her memories, after her memories go beyond the First Doctor we see the faces last seen in ''The Brain of Morbius'', officially establishing them as prior incarnations of the Timeless Child before their memories were erased.
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** The shot of the Timeless Child "dying" by falling off a cliff, being discovered by Tecteun and then regenerating is similar to one of the scenes of Brendan the police officer from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E9AscensionOfTheCybermen the previous episode]].
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* TomatoInTheMirror: The Doctor is not a Gallfreyan native, but was a refugee who was adopted by an explorer call Tecteun and brought to the planet. Tecteun discovered she had the ability to regenerate and spliced it into other Gallifreyans, allowing them to become the Time Lords, and the doctor is implied to have vast swathes of past lives that have been blocked from her memory.
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* DeadMansTriggerFinger: As Ko Sharmus collapses after taking multiple shots from the Master's elite Cybermen, his last act is to detonate the explosive that triggers the Death Particle.
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* EliteMooks: By combining the Cybermen's conversion technology with Gallifreyan corpses, the Master creates a new kind of Cyberman that can harness regeneration energy, making them impossible to destroy with conventional weapons.
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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: The cybermen threaten to execute Ethan unless Ryan surrenders to them. As Ryan goes to surrender, he hears gunshots, but finds the cybermen were shot by Yaz and Graham, standing behind them and disguised in cyber-armour.
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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: The cybermen Cybermen threaten to execute Ethan unless Ryan surrenders to them. As Ryan goes to surrender, he hears gunshots, but finds the cybermen Cybermen were shot by Yaz and Graham, standing behind them and disguised in cyber-armour.Cyber-armour.
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* DressingAsTheEnemy: Graham suggests stripping the organic components from inactive cybermen, and wearing their armoured shells as a disguise.
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* DressingAsTheEnemy: Graham suggests stripping the organic components from inactive cybermen, Cybermen, and wearing their armoured shells as a disguise.
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* ContinuityNod: The Episode closes with the Doctor asking "What? What!? WHAT!?", much like David Tennant's first two Seasons as the Doctor.
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** The Episode closes with the Doctor asking "What? What!? WHAT!?", much like David Tennant's first two Seasons as the Doctor.
** The Episode closes with the Doctor asking "What? What!? WHAT!?", much like David Tennant's first two Seasons as the Doctor.
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* ThePowerOfFriendship: Deconstructed, as the Master/Doctor's friendship, especially with Missy/12 and when they were kids, is what's part of his rage.
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** Thr mastr attempts to goad the Doctor into detonating a genocidal superweapon by telling her "Become like me". A very similar conversation took place between the Dalek emperor and the 9th Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of The Ways"]].
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** Thr mastr The Master attempts to goad the Doctor into detonating a genocidal superweapon super-weapon by telling her "Become like me". A very similar conversation took place between the Dalek emperor and the 9th Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of The Ways"]].
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* WhamLine: "The child is you. You are the timeless child."
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* WhamLine: "The child is you. You are the timeless child.Timeless Child."
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* ProfessorGuineaPig: Tecteun gene-spliced the Timeles Child's ability to regenerate into herself, then killed herself to test it.
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* ProfessorGuineaPig: Tecteun gene-spliced the Timeles Timeless Child's ability to regenerate into herself, then killed herself to test it.
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* CallBack: The Episode closes with a Cold Case division of the Judoon arresting the Doctor, calling back to ''The Fugitive Of The Judoon''.
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** Thr mastr attempts to goad the Doctor into detonating a genocidal superweapon by telling her "Become like me". A very similar conversation took place between the Dalek emperor and the 9th Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of The Ways"]].
** The Episode closes with a Cold Case division of the Judoon arresting the Doctor, calling back to ''The Fugitive Of The Judoon''.
** Thr mastr attempts to goad the Doctor into detonating a genocidal superweapon by telling her "Become like me". A very similar conversation took place between the Dalek emperor and the 9th Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of The Ways"]].
** The Episode closes with a Cold Case division of the Judoon arresting the Doctor, calling back to ''The Fugitive Of The Judoon''.
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* IronicEcho: To The Doctor Falls, with the Master this time asking for the Doctor's hand, but she's too angry and says "never".
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* CallBack: The Episode closes with a Cold Case division of the Judoon arresting the Doctor, calling back to ''The Fugitive Of The Judoon''.
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* DressingAsTheEnemy: Graham suggests stripping the organic components from inactive cybermen, and wearing their armoured shells as a disguise.
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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: The cybermen threaten to execute Ethan unless Ryan surrenders to them. As Ryan goes to surrender, he hears gunshots, but finds the cybermen were shot by Yaz and Graham, standing behind them and disguised in cyber-armour.
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* ProfesserGuineaPig: Tecteun gene-spliced the Timeles Child's ability to regenerate into herself, then killed herself to test it.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Inverted when the Master tells the Doctor that she is the Timeless Child from his story.
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* ProfesserGuineaPig: Tecteun gene-spliced the Timeles Child's ability to regenerate into herself, then killed herself to test it.
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* WhamLine: "The child is you. You are the timeless child."
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* ShoutOut: The Master saying "Look upon my works Doctor and despair" is one to [[Creator/PercyShelley Percy Shelley's]] Ozymandias.
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* DrivingQuestion: So what ''are'' the Timeless Children, and how do they relate to Time Lord history, the human/Cyberman conflict, ''and'' some Irish cop from the 20th century?
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* DrivingQuestion: So what ''are'' the Timeless Children, and how do they relate to Time Lord history, the human/Cyberman conflict, ''and'' some an early-20th-century Irish cop from the 20th century?policeman?
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What the episode might do is not material. However probable, it's still speculation.
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* SeasonFinale: The title alone signposts that this episode will resolve the season's StoryArc of the Doctor trying to figure out the DarkSecret of Time Lord civilization that drove the Master to destroy Gallifrey, rooted in "the lie of the Timeless Child", and which ''might'' also 1) explain where and how the Fugitive Doctor fits into her timeline and 2) allow her to save Gallifrey (again) -- unless those are being saved for the holiday special or Series 13.
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* SeasonFinale: The title alone signposts that this episode will resolve the season's StoryArc of the Doctor trying to figure out the DarkSecret of Time Lord civilization that drove the Master to destroy Gallifrey, rooted in "the lie of the Timeless Child", and which ''might'' also 1) explain where and how the Fugitive Doctor fits into her timeline and 2) allow her to save Gallifrey (again) -- unless those are being saved for the holiday special or Series 13.Child".
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* AfterTheEnd: Not only is the episode set after most of humanity and Cybermen have been wiped out, it's after Gallifrey's fall as well on the other end of the Boundary!
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* DrivingQuestion: So what ''are'' the Timeless Children, and how do they relate to Time Lord history, the human/Cyberman conflict, ''and'' some Irish cop from the 20th century?
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The synopsis indicates that this episode's events will permanently change the Doctor and her TARDIS fam's lives in some way, if not the larger continuity of ''Doctor Who''.
* SeasonFinale: The title alone signposts that this episode will resolve the season's StoryArc of the Doctor trying to figure out the DarkSecret of Time Lord civilization that drove the Master to destroy Gallifrey, rooted in "the lie of the Timeless Child", and whichcould ''might'' also 1) explain where and how the Fugitive Doctor fits into her timeline and 2) allow her to save Gallifrey (again).
(again) -- unless those are being saved for the holiday special or Series 13.
* SeasonFinale: The title alone signposts that this episode will resolve the season's StoryArc of the Doctor trying to figure out the DarkSecret of Time Lord civilization that drove the Master to destroy Gallifrey, rooted in "the lie of the Timeless Child", and which
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''In the epic and emotional series finale, the Cybermen are on the march. As the last remaining humans are ruthlessly hunted down, Graham, Ryan and Yaz face a terrifying fight to survive. Civilisations fall. Others rise anew. Lies are exposed, truths are revealed, battles are fought, and for the Doctor — trapped and alone — nothing will ever be the same again.''
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* SeasonFinale: The title alone signposts that this episode will resolve the season's StoryArc of the Doctor trying to figure out the DarkSecret of Time Lord civilization that drove the Master to destroy Gallifrey, rooted in "the lie of the Timeless Child", and which could also 1) explain where the Fugitive Doctor fits into her timeline and 2) allow her to save Gallifrey (again).
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Written by Creator/ChrisChibnall. This episode first aired March 1, 2020.
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* ExtraLongEpisode: 65 minutes, up from the Chibnall-era standard of 50.
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* ExtraLongEpisode: 65 minutes, up from the Chibnall-era standard of 50.
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