series 11 rewrite

WHAT IF THE CHIBNALL ERA HAD RTD2’S BUDGET?

Notes on the 12th Doctor, Regeneration, and narrative justification for Series 11

10 regrets. 11 forgets. 12 reflects. His arcs examine the Doctor’s whole history– his problem with soldiers, his oldest friendship with Missy, the Genesis of the Cybermen, UNIT, Zygons, Ice Warriors, Davros, a sequel to the 50th, Galifrey, the Doctor as a child, the reason he ran away, the longest-running, most ‘important’ Companion, River, St Luke’s, Jelly Babies, the First Doctor. 12’s era is the most connected to Classic of NuWho..
As Capaldi says, 12’s era is about death. S8’s arc is the afterlife, S9 is Clara’s death and the ‘ability’ to die. The Doctor expected to die on Trenzalore and doesn’t want to go on – by S10 12’s near-suicidal (The Lie of the Land, The Eaters of Light). Danny dies. Clara dies. River dies. Bill, whose arc centres on her dead mum, dies. Missy dies. His last story is about mourning.
In many ways 12 fulfilled the Doctor’s character arc – 12 being the last would’ve worked
So, his attitude is ‘If we’re gonna do this again, we’re gonna get it right’, and pours all his self-reflective wisdom from examining himself – “Am I a good man?” – into his final words to 13:

“Run fast. Laugh hard. Be kind.”

13 is deliberately as different as possible; young and bubbly and self-assured where 12 was old and morally conflicted. That makes the gender swap a choice. She’s an attempt to distance herself from the Doctor’s dark legacy
That’s why 13 goes to new places with new aliens, why she wants to be loved as an equal. It’s why she has three companions like 5– the most human Doctor- and 1, in the beginning:
That’s why she doesn’t do a grandstanding speech or reference the Time War or go dark – she’s trying to move past the bad habits of the past. After processing their grief as 12, 13 starts over.. 12 saw their new regeneration cycle as a burden, 13 sees it as a gift.
13 succeeds at what 11 tried to do by wiping himself from history (before falling back into his destructive pattern on Trenzalore).
This is why S11’s Big Bad is new – the central conflict is 13 helping her friends, not fighting someone she has history with

GENERAL/OVERVIEW

DESIGN- TARDIS, SONIC, COSTUME

The S12 TARDIS (which I quite like) with some additions:.
Reduce the number of collumns from 8 to 4
Move the columns outside the first raised platform. The time rota is too crowded.
Increase the angle of the columns so they reach up instead of curl over
As S11 goes on, 13 piles spare parts and manuals around the columns’ bases
Add a doorway in the side of the room, leading to a workshop area - using the same 3 raised levels stair design.
Copy the 8th Doctor’s TARDIS, and fill the empty space between the columns and the walls. 13's TARDIS already has similar columns to 8’s, and S11 is about family and grounded, human connection. So the Fam gradually fills the space around the console like a proper home - chairs and books and cushions and games.
Straighten the sonic’s handle - the crystalline/melted metal look is cool but the first thing any adult fan thought of looking at the curved handle was a vibrator.
I like that 13 dresses like a children’s TV presenter, she’s trying just a little too hard to project brightness and positivity.
Personally, 3 articles of clothing with 3 different blues is too much. Her rainbow t-shirt should be wihite. No long sleeves underneath, just a regular baggy t-shirt
13’s coat is a patchwork. Not like 6’s technicolour monstrosity, but Dr Strange’s layered cloak. Each layer is a different TARDIS blue:

While inside the coat is the navy black-purple of the original, a starry sky with the rainbow lining.
Her costume’s underlayer came from Earth, but the long, iconic Doctor-y Coat comes from the TARDIS and ties to the Doctor persona/duty. She treats The Coat like a Superhero costume, as 12 treated his red jacket from Face the Raven (“I liked that jacket. It was very… Doctor-y”)- it’s got a curved, cloak-like cut as opposed to 10 and 11’s overcoats
The patchwork design is emblematic of how 13 regards the Doctor persona as a patchwork of previous incarnations, hiding a dark side underneath and her true
The only place she doesn’t wear the Coat is inside the TARDIS, with the Fam. In S12 she starts wearing it there too as she puts up walls between them.

A secondary costume: A short-sleeved shirt with vertical coloured stripes (keeping the rainbow motif) and TARDIS-blue overalls (with lots of pockets) and a tool-bet. Simple, practical, androgynous, colourful but not garish, showing her ‘tinkerer’ trait. Introduced in 11x6 with the original, used in 11x7, 8 and 9

13’S CHARACTER

Introduce 13 like the 9th Doctor
It compartmentalises a lot of narrative fallout from S10.
13 has trekked across Earth for weeks, scrounging alien and human tech to help her find the TARDIS. She’s still fresh – think 9 checking his reflection for the first time.
This gap can be used to more naturally integrate the UNIT disbandment and O subplots later
Skipping Wacky Regeneration Time means more time establishing 13’s real personality – regeneration barely affected the plot anyway
This also creates more mystery around the Doctor again, after Moffat’s overreliance on lore post-50th
This naturally recentres the show on Team TARDIS as our audience POV – instead of meeting 13 from the moment she’s ‘born’, we meet her as we did 9 through Rose’s eyes
Also justifies 13 having so much separation anxiety from the TARDIS
13 is careless and easily distracted (“I’m almost going to miss you.” / “Hi Yaz, forgot you were there.”).

She’s slow to trust, contrasting Jodie’s infectious enthusiasm.
As she grows to care for Team TARDIS she prioritises their emotional wellbeing over her own, compartmentalising as we saw in S12
13 is meant to be a tinkerer, but we don’t see much of this in S11 outside building the Sonic
So she wears a tool belt, instead of the fanny pack from Arachnids in the UK
The belt is bigger on the inside and 13 pulls tools and scrap out of it like Mary Poppins’ carpet bag
13 cobbles things together when she’s excited / nervous / talking (pipe cleaner helicopters! Catapults! Wind-up mice!)
This distinguishes her from 11, who also did a lot of hand-flapping and already has a superficially similar personality
As she gets excited explaining something 13's speech will speed up to Eminem levels, the Fam must remind her to pause and breathe
Permanently rolled-up sleeves and more fly-away hair. It makes her seem more energetic, constantly in motion.
A popular explanation for the Sonic’s abilities fluctuating from episode to episode is that over the years the Doctor has added so many features they’ve overloaded it. Now 13 has a new Sonic, she’s constantly fiddling with it/adding new features
Address the NuWho Doctors’ over-reliance on the Sonic (a big S11 problem) - 13 keeps expecting the Sonic to do things that its new software can’t yet, and she has to solve problems on her own
A running gag where 13 goes ‘watch this, gang’ and the Sonic does something completely opposite what she wanted (think wand shopping in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
In the finale the Sonic finally works properly and 13 uses it to beat Tim Shaw

COMPANIONS

The 3 companions need defined roles
Yaz is the Doctor’s favourite, Ryan is the TARDIS’ favourite, and Graham is the audience’s favourite
I’d replace ‘Fam’ with ‘Team TARDIS’. It’s less cringey

YAZ

S11 focused on Ryan and Graham, with 13 and Yaz’s standard swept-off-her-feet devotion in the background. I think Chibs didn’t focus on them because we’d seen it before
Justify their devotion!
Yaz’s secondary dramatic anchor is her family. She’s stifled by them, and 13 can relate. Over S11 the importance of family is reinforced and Yaz learns to value them more
PC Kahn 'investigates’ 13’s family
Yaz is 13’s favourite, somewhere between Martha and Clara. But 13 is wary of attachment, and uses Ryan and Graham as a buffer to avoid answering her questions and stop herself getting too close. When Yaz cuts to close to the bone 13 reverts to calling her ‘PC’ or ‘Officer Kahn’
This makes 13 telling Yaz about her family in It Takes You Away an important milestone
Parallel arcs - Yaz gets 13 to open up as Ryan gets closer to Graham
Yaz pushes for justice where 13 wants to explore - Yaz unknowingly sets an example for 13. The 1st Doctor learnt his morality from his Companions (he tried to brain a caveman with a rock in An Unearthly Child)
Pragmatist straight-woman Yaz keeps 13 grounded and on-track

13 + GRAHAM

Build on 13’s constant annoyance with Graham (“Don’t kill the vibe”)
They butt heads over Ryan – if Graham says no, 13 will say yes. Graham is overprotective, 13 pushes a touch too far.
In Rosa, Graham snaps over 13’s recklessness with Ryan in this volatile time. He says 13 only took them with her because of her guilt over Grace's death.
In It Takes You Away, 13 explains how travelling with her granddaughter Susan helped them bond and grow. Now she wants the same for Graham and Ryan.
Graham growing braver and supporting Ryan earns 13’s respect
Graham becomes her confidant by S12, the only one 13 shows her age to. They talk about the Doctor regenerating and reinventing themself after tragedy again and again because the universe still needs them, as Ryan needs Graham. 13 has lots of experience moving past loss, and they support each other through the pressure of responsibility (for Ryan and Yaz respectively)

RYAN

The Woman Who Fell to Earth set up 13 as a nurturing parental figure (“That’s the kind of thing Grace would’ve said”). The pieces of an arc are there (Ryan’s immaturity and speed to violence in ep2) but aren’t built on.
Ryan doesn’t like 13 ‘replacing’ Grace (Doctor-companion conflict! “You’re not my Nan!”) – so 13 settles into the ‘crazy auntie’ role.
13′s use of slang (skillz with a z) comes from Ryan having fun teaching a socially inept alien
A running joke where 13 invents crazier and crazier secret handshakes for them
Ryan and Yaz went to high-school together. Capitalise on that. When Ryan talks about his Dad leaving (Tsuranga, It Takes You Away) Yaz understands because she saw him go through it. They compare monsters to old teachers, Yaz pokes fun at how geeky Ryan was.
In S11 Ryan mostly stands there saying “they’re gone!” or “it’s a spaceship!”. Build this into his character. Early on, Yaz is the most active companion (development!), with Ryan in the background bc dyspraxia+nerves, growing more active/competent as the series goes on.
Chibs made Ryan a YouTuber in 11x01 to be Down With The KidsTM, but never uses it again. Ryan brings a camera to document his travels, annoying 13 at first. Ryan explains he started vlogging as a journaling device after his mum died, on the recommendation of the school therapist. He also uses it to document his progress learning physical skills like bike riding. He admits that after Grace’s death and the weirdness of TARDIS life, he needs the camera as a filter to help him process things – like in the movie Chronicle.
The camera emphasises Ryan’s natural curiosity – he investigates things, he’s genuinely interested in the aliens he meets (interviews!) giving Chibs a built-in excuse to do a good found-footage episode.
Ryan recognises 13’s brain works differently because of his time spent around autistic people in disability support at school; he flags ADHD-like behaviours and is the best at calming 13 down when she’s on a tear.

THE STENZA

Re-jig the Stenza to parallel the Doctor
Not just warriors but stealth/trophy hunters. They’re not an imperial/military force like the Daleks, they only leave their homeworld to hunt, alone. They’re boogeymen, a legend people whisper about but don’t believe in.
Because of this isolation, their ‘gimmick’ is that Stenza Hunters have a unique hunting Companion - an engineered bio-weapon (like how humans use dogs or birds of prey). I extrapolated this from Tim Shaw’s Coil in The Woman Who Fell To Earth.
The Stenza are telepathically bonded to their Companions, and they share senses (think Daemons from His Dark Materials)
In this way, as isolated ghosts roaming the universe, figments of legend that strike fear into the hearts of people, and travelling with a Companion, the Stenza offer several thematic parallels to the Doctor not present before.
Tim Shaw has a uniquely abusive relationship with his Companion, compared to other Stenza, who have a moral code and prize their Companions above all else.
Tim wants to imperialise the Stenza and turn them into the stereotypical, oppressive Empire from the original S11 (“the conquerors of 9 galaxies’ or whatever)
After they meet Tim in 11x01, the fam meet another Stenza hunter later in the series, where this contrast is made clear

FORMATTING

Modern Earth / Historical / Space

The Woman Who Fell To Earth - 75 mins [by Juno Dawson]
The Ghost Monument - 60 mins [by Jody Houser]
Rosa - The Witchfinders - 60 mins [by Maxine Alderton]
Arachnids in the UK – Arachnophobia - 60 mins [by Sarah Dollard]
The Tsuranga Conundrum – Demons of the Punjab - 60 mins [by Vinay Patel]
Demons of the Punjab – When the Whales Came - 60 mins [by David Solomons]
Kerblam! – The Good Doctors - 60 mins [by David Solomons]
The Witchfinders – The Current War - 60 mins [by Nina Metivier]
It Takes You Away - Kerblam! - 60 mins [by Jamie Mathieson]
The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos – Rosa - 60 mins [by Malorie Blackman]
Resolution – It Takes You Away - 60 mins [by Neil Gaiman]
The Life And Times of Timothy Shaw - 60 mins [by Juno Dawson]
Mars and Bellona - 75 mins [by Juno Dawson]
Resolution - 75 mins

Keep pre-credits scenes (except 11x1) for pacing
Longer episodes to fit my additions in and give the larger cast more room. The Woman Who Fell to Earth and Resolution (60 minutes) were Chibnall’s best scripts
Instead of 2 trailers for the next ep (pre- and post-credits) use post-credits stingers to add character moments/plot set-up
Chibs said he wanted S11 to be Who for the Netflix age, but that doesn’t just mean better effects – it means serialised, binge-worthy storytelling. No Moffat-y time wobbliness, just a tight, evolving story
Instead of Murray Gold-esque themes, assign the companions soundscapes and musical genres for identity.
Ryan = hip hop, (stereotypical but the only kind of music he showed interest in) Yaz = Demons of the Punjab-style traditional stuff and Graham = 60s Swing?
Theme for Grace’s death
Graham and Ryan’s themes should compliment each other so they can intertwine as the characters grow closer.
Theme for Tim Shaw (variant for Stenza) - chanting sand drums, like Bane’s theme from The Dark Knight Rises
How to fund this? HBO. The BBC spent £50-60 million on 8 episodes of HBO co-production His Dark Materials. Surely they can spend the same amount on 13 episodes of Doctor Who, provided the same exclusivity deal HBOMax has with HDM.
(for comparison,BBC prestige dramas like DW usually receive £1 million per hour- this would quadruple that)
I’d also implement a break between the Moffat and Chibnall eras. The Capaldi era ran from 2014-17 (or, since this is fantasy, straight through 2014-16). S11 wouldn’t premiere until late 2020. A 3-4 year gap would help with the fatigue that a lot of fans are complaining about, and limit immediate comparisons to what came before.

EPISODES

01. THE WOMAN WHO FELL TO EARTH - 75 mins(?)

Redesign Tim Shaw: Swap the cliché robo-suit for an insectoid exoskeleton with a head like a smaller Koh the Face Stealer from Avatar: the Last Airbender, a giant eyelid. He steals his prey’s faces as trophies instead of teeth. His face changes when the eyelid ‘blinks’. His default face is like a court jester or mime.
Swapping teeth out for faces offers thematic parallel to regeneration- 13 is furious at Tim for stealing faces, she knows the importance of them

My Tim is like the MCU’s Loki. He doesn’t fit into Stenza culture, he wants more than their narrow, lonely existence, and has suffered because, though heir to the throne, he hasn’t met his people’s expectations.
Tim hunts Ryan, not the rando on the train, because Ryan brought Tim to Earth. His plan was to wait in his protective pod while his creature kills and brings Ryan to him.
(Ryan’s first instinct when the pod appears is to film it, before calling the police)
13 must protect him. This builds Grace and Graham’s personal investment and tests Graham’s bond with Ryan from the start
It also sets up Ryan’s arc - from victim to proactive hero by the series’ end
We meet Yaz clearing up a parking dispute by a building site near her police station, which will recur in the climax. She is trying to get Ryan police protection
Switch the electricity ball for a bionically-altered animal/hunting partner. Use it to personify Tim’s internal conflict. The Slave opposes his actions, the last sliver of his conscience, but Tim abuses it to suppress those thoughts – Tim is evil-er and the Slave sympathetic
This sets up the Stenza’s bioweapon ‘Companions’ - a distinctive ‘gimmick’ like Dalek extermination and Cyberman conversion, to be explored in later episodes
Tim’s slave finds/scans Grace first because of her genetic link to Ryan, leaving because she isn’t the target.
13 is on the train with Grace and Graham. Grace talks to her instead of the rando. 13 is searching the area after detecting alien signals, looking for anything to help her get back into the universe.
She introduces herself as John Smith - Jane, I mean Jane.
The train is turned on its side. 13 climbs on top and confronts the Slave like a lion tamer, trying to have a conversation with it, recognising it’s in pain
When it’s clear the Slave has failed its task, Tim emerges; angry, petulant, stressed
When the guy who took Tim’s pod asks about his sister, Tim shows him her face, and when 13 et al spot Tim leaving the warehouse, he’s wearing the guy’s face, which they recognise when they see his body
Yaz recognises the man. He was a regular haunt around the station- public unrest, breaking and entering. She knows about his sisters’ cold case. She pores over the unsolved ones in lieu of being let on active cases
They track down the Slave, as in the original, with Graham’s bus intel
A moment with the Slave before Tim arrives- 13 understands it’s being abused (which Tim does when he arrives) and wants to rebel against him
Hunting humans as a rite of passage is stupid because it isn’t challenging, and 13 calls Tim out. The Stenza are meant to hunt fierce warrior races; he rigged the system for an easy win
He then targeted Ryan as ‘physically inferior’
Tim acknowledges his wrongdoing but insists it’s justified- his arguments with his Slave hint at deeper motivation, a desperation to win to protect someone other than himself
Once she realises he’s cheating 13 completely steamrolls him- think how offended she was about Tim stealing teeth in the original, that’s even worse now he’s stealing faces, especially with a new one fresh on. She disregards Tim’s justifications- make her moral high-roading a more obvious flaw
The twist is when Tim collects data from the Slave, it identifies Ryan as the target. 13 realizes she’s led him to his death.
The rest of the episode plays out like The Terminator meets Predator 2 – an urban chase movie. Down off the roof into the hardware megastore below
13 and Yaz both try to distract Tim, a Jurassic Park Velociraptors in the Kitchen- style cat and mouse while Tim and the Slave argue. The Slave corners Yaz and has the opportunity to kill her but lets her go.
Tim nearly catches 13 and directly threatens to steal her face. 13 makes gadgets on the fly to slow him down (think Tony Stark in Iron Man 3) and gives him the slip by blowing up the store.
13 is knocked unconscious shielding Graham from the blast. Yaz takes charge, bringing the group to the police station for protection. Her superiors don’t take her description of events seriously, proving 13 right.
This ‘downtime’ beat replaces 13 sleeping at Grace’s house. Grace treats 13’s injuries from fighting Tim and the Slave, and when she wakes calms her nerves- a bonding moment they didn’t get in the original. It’s clear 13 looks up to Grace.
Yaz’s SO draws his own conclusions from her story and takes 13 for questioning. Yaz observes, furious. 13 demands her Sonic and freedom- they’ve endangered everyone by coming here.
This interrogation is the 9 and Rose one-shot, 10 lectures the Sycorax, 11 in young Amy’s kitchen, 12 harasses the Victorian hobo scene- 13 undoes her cuffs immediately and paces the room, bouncing plans for beating Tim off Yaz’s SO (instead of offscreen), while pleading to be let go. Tension mounts.
Tim and the Slave attack the Station. Mass panic. Graham and Grace start an evacuation. Yaz grabs the Sonic from Evidence and frees 13, apologising
13 explains her plan, leading the group out to the construction site across the road.
Ryan must climb the crane to buy 13 time to stun Tim by exposing him to his slave’s chronic pain through their psychic link.
(like when men are artificially exposed to the pain of childbirth and pass out)
Yaz swings the other crane across.
Tim corners Ryan at the top of the crane, 13 jumps across, using the ‘Doctor’ name for the first time and offering him the teleporter. Tim says returning home defeated isn’t an option for him.
Realising 13’s plan, Tim remotely kills the slave. Grace dies because she’s trying to help the poor thing.
Tim is a second too late and is stunned by a flash of the Slave’s pain. He staggers, eyelid closing and reopening to reveal Grace’s face, which he absorbed in that last moment of connection with the slave.
Enraged, Ryan pushes Tim off the crane – establishing the speed to violence he’ll grow past over the series. Tim teleports away.
Graham and Ryan take 13 in until Grace’s funeral – a quick scene bonding over the kitchen table. 13 doesn’t sleep.
13 doesn’t get her iconic coat from the charity shop- instead a stand-in rain coat

02. THE GHOST MONUMENT - 65 mins

Pre-credits scene establishes Epzo and Angstrom’s relationship, fighting as they leave the planet before Desolation. Epzo breaks an alliance and abandons Angstrom. Another racer dies.
Crucially, the Stenza teleport moves in time and space. Desolation is millennia in the future
Build the threat of this Stenza-ravaged world. Show us the flesh eating water instead of telling us, cut the boring robots for more time with the Remnants
The original ep gave no reason for the race. Each Racer is followed by a camera-probe which streams their progress and monitors foul-play. The spectators are the uber-rich, paying for premium entertainment. When the Racers go through hardship- deaths, the ‘Mum’ speech etc, the camera crowds in.
One of these spectators is the CEO of Kerblam!
Intercut the action with Hunger Games-style commentary of the Race and the Fam’s surprise appearance

The racers don’t look human. The female, Angstrom, is aquatic and uses an unreliable breathing apparatus. The dehydrating desert is especially hard on her
Angstrom’s ship is like a giant sea-shell or ammonite, organic with tentacles. As they land the ship expires, and Angstrom mourns. The camera gets it all.
Epzo has curled ram-horns
Out-of-orbit Desolation has short, irregular days (5 hours, 3 hours) so the threat of the nocturnal Remnants is ever-present - build tension and character at day (the “Mum told me to jump” speech) with scary chase sequences during the two night sections
Desolation has a sickly pink-green sky (colour corrected) from the pollutants released by the Stenza’s experiments
While Ryan and Graham are on Angrstom’s ship a 3rd ship explodes coming out of warp, transitioning between them to Yaz, woken from her med-pod on Epzo’s ship.
Instead of the middle of the desert, the ‘start line’ is in the ruins of a Stenza lab, setting up that an outside force ravaged Desolation. This is because, instead of bio-weapons (used in 11x01), my Remnants were created by the Indigenous population to take revenge on the Stenza. Revealing the planet-poisoning now sets up this twist for later.
Ryan, Graham and Angstrom land in the middle of a storm- and sprint for shelter in protective gear- think The Martian:

Epzo crashes in one of the flammable gas fields. 13 drags Yaz out of the burning ship as the fire ignites the gas and it explodes behind them. This dramatically establishes the gas-fields.
They’re blind in the storm without protective gear- from the shelter Graham steals Angstrom’s flare-gun and fires it into the air; 13 et al run towards it and the others are there to meet them. The Fam form a human chain pulling them inside
A moment of calm/beauty after the chaos of the opening:

Graham: The storm is… glittering.

13: Yeah. Weird, that. Not fauna or flora, clearly. Mineral, maybe? There’d have to be a hell of a lot of mining deposits for particles to be dispersed in the sand like this. It’s unnatural.

Yaz: It’s beautiful

The Stenza used Desolation to create their Companions like Tim’s Slave. This reminds 13 of the Time Lords’ tactics in the Time War, (hence her interest in the planet) Yaz starts wondering about the Doctor’s people/family
The camera probes project the race organiser’s hologram.
Epzo and Angstrom are not the first to arrive at the ‘start line’ - two others are already ahead of them, to increase tension. And now they have to wait for the storm to disperse. Lone-wolf Epzo forges ahead anyway
Ryan, the amateur videographer, is curious about the camera following Angstrom. He tries to touch one and gets an electric shock - strike one
Moment of Angstrom looking at her ship’s carcass, a blur through the storm, while packing. She’s just learnt she must abandon it.

A: Home-grown she was. Practically the family pet.

13, thinking of the TARDIS: I’m sorry.

A: She did what she had to. They’d be proud of her. How much more of home will I have to lose?

G: Help us. Please.

A: Sorry. I can’t afford to let it be for nothing. Not now.

Team TARDIS actually compete in the race

13: My ship. It’s the Ghost Monument. Her engines must be stuck in a loop, phasing in and out of time. If we get there when the tide's in, so to speak, I can stabilise her and get you home

R: Blue wood, he said. That’s your spaceship? Doesn’t sound all that.

13: It’s very all that! Anyway, first we’ve gotta get there. And if that boat’s the only transport across the water-

Y: We have to get there before they leave us behind. We have to compete

R: You want me to win a foot race.

13: I’ll win. You lot can cheerlead. So, the plan is, chase the angry man with a gun across a toxic wasteland. [Starts running] Come on - Time waits for no-one. Trust me, it’s really annoying.

Climbing over a mountain, the Fam are already dehydrated and sunburnt. 13 is way out in front, then Ryan, then Yaz and Graham behind. Ahead and above they spot another racer, who fires a warning shot above them. Mini rockslide. 13 stops but Ryan trips, both Graham and Yaz lunge but can’t reach, he’s about to fall -
13 grabs him by the arm. Their eyes meet, hers wild and fearful. She easily swings him back onto solid footing.

13: On second thoughts, might be best to stick together, eh?

They descend into the ruins of an indigenous settlement, the temperature dropping rapidly: Desolation freezes over at night, like it gets colder in the desert.
They move through the ashes of the village, Epzo smashing through things and looting ahead. The remnants of lives abandoned in mid-action as some kind of disaster rolled in. There is a body they recognise from the broadcast of a previous race. 13 is disgusted.
13 finds evidence of some kind of bio-imprinting ritual. It looks sacred - hieroglyphics, instruments, ornaments
The fabric Remnants are scattered across the village. Redesign them. Instead of simple strips of fabric, they’re more like classic sheet ghosts or hollow mummies, with intricate decoration and the distinct impression of a person, like a burial shroud over a body. This ‘humanisation’ suits their new backstory better- they’re not faceless weapons
Strips of fabric lash from within the cloak like jellyfish tentacles, bioluminescent so they stand out at night

13: What are these? Memorials? Altars, maybe. Tributes to the dead. There was a whole culture here, Ryan. People living and loving and growing. This is just a graveyard now.

Ryan thinks of Grace’s grave, her favourite flowers

13: Oh what a lovely day for a walk amongst the tombstones.

She snaps out of it, tries to grin and walks ahead. Ryan watches her go, this strange scraggly figure with the dusty coat and flyaway hair.

R: You sure we can trust her?

Y: I’d be dead already if we couldn’t. She did stop Tim Shaw when- when we couldn’t.

R: Yeah, but only after-

G: I know. But she's still our best hope, son. Or only option, depending on your politics.

R: I s’pose. We’ve gotta trust in the wisdom of bus drivers, right?

G: Right. Wisdom of a grandparent, too.

R: Calm down, Graham.

Dusk arrives as they near the river – 13 uses the Sonic as a torch
Catch up with Angstrom, struggling with her breathing apparatus

A: Rekking thing - why couldn’t I have been a salamander? I’m doing everything with my hands tied.

R: Welcome to my world

A: Shut it, scaleless

G: Oi!

Now they’re in a petrified forest near the river - touching the trees slices your skin. An irritant fog rolls in from off the water, Noises and the skeletal shadows of trees through the fog. They see a body impaled on a branch and think it’s an old contestant, but Angstrom recognises them as one of the two finalists who got here before them
Another contestant runs out of the fog, terrified. 13 tries to calm him down but the Remnants lash out of the fog and grab him - his fingers carve furrows in the earth as he’s dragged away

Everyone runs,

A: Water!

13, grabbing her: No! It smells chemical, don’t-

The Remnants catch dyspraxic Ryan and start pulling him away by his legs. 13 and Graham run back for him, Epzo starts pushing the boat out without them. Angstrom protests and Epzo pulls a gun on her. Yaz tackles and disarms him.

13, sprinting back to Ryan: Right, think, they’re nocturnal, which means they don’t like the sun, which means - LET THERE BE LIGHT!

Graham gets Ryan up while 13 uses a high-beam setting on the Sonic to hold back the Remnants (think Dementors vs a weak Patronus)

G: Could’ve done without the catchphrase

13: Hush, Graham, I’m busy being awesome and heroic.

Ryan and Graham get on the boat just as Epzo cranks the engine - 13 run-jumps across the water, just as the Remnants lash out –
Angstrom and Yaz grab 13 and nearly get pulled into the water – the splash eats at her clothes (“Get your jacket off!”) to establish the corrosive water.
The boat is made of corrosion-resistant alloy
In the confusion Epzo gets his pistol back and 13 immobilises him with a nerve-touch

13: Venusian Akinto, taught by the Grand Pacifist.. Functionally harmless. Useful when dealing with idiots. What’shisname told you no direct injury or murder. Those are the rules

E: Maybe I don’t play by the rules

13: ... Did you practise that in the mirror?

E: Shut up, I know what you are. A trick, a trap. You’re not distracting me.

A: Epzo, why are you so convinced the universe is out to get you?

E: How’s the family, Angstrom? [sneers] You’ll get there eventually.

A: Just because I’m racing for more than myself -

E: Yes, because that’s done you a world of good. [The engine stutters and fails] See? You’re cursed.

13: Enough.

Graham complains how cruel it is that, dehydrated and gasping, they can’t drink the water
The Ryan/Graham moment in the original,
Yaz catches Angstrom’s camera spying on their heart to heart and grabs it; she gets a flash of what the Race’s audience is seeing: She writhes until 13 saves her. Strike two - a third strike will result in disqualification and personal reprimand by the Race Organisers

Instead of a battery, the boat uses lunar sails that store energy ala Treasure Planet’s solar sails. A ship powered by starlight.

Replace Epzo’s ‘Mum’ speech with a real back-and-forth expanding on the character’s backstories
Angstrom’s home planet, the jewel of five galaxies rich in rare resources, has been stolen, seeding Tim Shaw’s plot in the finale.
Epzo comes from a slave planet (unrelated to the Stenza). Between the two racers we see the effects of recent loss (A) vs long-term oppression (E)
Both characters believe they deserve the prize because they’ve suffered and lost more.
Yaz breaks the tension by talking about her family, and gets unexpectedly emotional. Angstrom opens up a little about hers, and Graham mentions Grace. Both Ryan and Epzo stay surly silent. The camera-drones crowd in.
When 13 is asked about her family she goes above decks to check on the lunar sail
Later, when Ryan is sleeping, Yaz goes up to check on her. They talk, lit by the glow of the sail.

Y: Whatcha doin?

13: Hmm? The corrosive chemical is biological. Produced by some kind of bacteria.

Y: Fascinating. [Sardonic, but 13’s enthusiasm wins her over. 13 sticks her hand in the fog and gets burnt. Yaz grabs her hands] That was reckless. What’d you do that for?

13: This body’s fresh on. Gotta test my limits somehow

Y: By communing with the bacteria?

13: Better company than GI Joe down there. ‘Sides, you can’t lecture me about keeping safe Miss ‘use myself as a human shield against the alien apex predator’

Y: That’s my job.

13: Mine too.

Y: Are you qualified?

13, dropping her gaze: Experience is the best qualifier in my book.

Y: You sound like my Commanding Officer.

13: Ugh. That’s low, PC Kahn.

Y: If this fog is dangerous, we should get back below decks.

13: Nah. Down there, too tight. Smaller on the inside. [She withdraws from Yaz and curls in on herself]

Y: A solid roof over our heads can only be a good thing.

13: In my experience the only thing a roof is good for is blocking out the stars..

Y, looking up: It’d be a shame to miss them. You’re a traveller, you said? Anywhere you’d recommend visiting?

13: Not 'round here I’m afraid, this isn’t my neck of the woods. That there is the beehorn galaxy, I think. That or a Celestion is having a tantrum. Long way away. But that’s good. That’s better. No point going places where you know all the answers, that’s how you forget to ask questions. What’s wrong with right here?

Y: You mean besides the flesh-eating water, the exploding gas, the killer bandages -

13: Don’t be such a pessimist

Y: Realist

13: Same thing, basically.

Y: Why won’t you come down?

13, looking across the water: Are they alright? Down there?

Y: … Yeah. Engine’s keeping them busy. You can come check on them yourself. Reassure them ‘bout how we... they’re gettin’ home.

13, finally meeting her gaze: I will get you home, Yaz. I swear to you. I’ve already failed you once. I will not let it happen again. [head whips round] Can you hear that?

Y: What?

13: Sounds like… crying? No, chanting. Funeral choir.

[runs to the prow, climbs up and stretches over the water like she can reach whatever’s making the noise]

Y: What’re you doin’? You can’t help whatever it is.

13, pained: I… Maybe below isn’t such a bad idea.

They arrive ashore. Ryan identifies the smell of the gas again: Another field, another lab
Everyone races to the 2nd lab for shelter
Show the racer’s contrasting approaches- both super competent after making it this far in the race. Angstrom scans the building while Epzo expertly destroys security turrets
The flammable gas was produced by the Stenza’s experiments and vented from the labs via pipes
Inside, the racers fight, Yaz separates them, paralleling her intro scene in 11x1 – from parking disputes to this
The Remnants interrupt – Ryan asks for Epzo’s spare gun. They try to fight them off but normal weapons are useless. They’re chased into an underground chamber,. 13 tries to lock the Remnants out but Ryan flags behind (his ladder moment). He decides to shove Epzo forward and save him instead of himself
Just as the Remnants reach him, Ryan grabs Epzo’s camera- strike three. He’s transported away, to the station where they’re broadcasting the Race
Ryan is taken by guards to meet the Race Organiser, in the nerve centre where he sees how many people are watching the race (think the Architect room in The Matrix Revolutions)

Back on Desolation, this is the All Is Lost moment. 13 thinks, immediately after losing Grace, she’s lost Ryan. Graham is distraught. Yaz is the one comforting him with her counselling skills while 13 distracts herself trying to find a way out
Parallel sequences play out, cross-cutting between the Race Oragniser explaining how he acquired Desolation to Ryan while 13 accesses the Stenza lab’s records: 3D projections onto sand particles in the air, spectres rising from the drifts on the floor.
It was the Stenza who violated the planet. The projections show enslaved locals being forced to use their unique bio-imprinting skills to create new hunting partners for the Stenza, like Tim’s Slave - they ghost across the room, show their treatment, not just tell it

A: Them. It’s– [tries to run] No, I can’t – I

Y: It’s alright. You’ve got to stay here, stay–

A: You don’t know! Scaleless is already dead, you don’t know what they are-

G: Actually, we do. These things, they killed my wife.

A: … Mine too. I’m sorry.

13: And Ryan isn’t dead. He’s gone. But we’ll find him. Once I have my ship I’ll be able to… it’ll all be alright once I have my ship.

The Remnants were not made by the Stenza. The Stenza ravaged this world, and the natives made the Remnants in revenge, They are bio-imprinted with the consciousnesses of their warriors and designed to hunt them down like bloodhounds - they’ve literally been consumed by revenge. The race organiser trapped them here, so instead of fulfilling their purpose they take their anger out on the racers, their sentience degrading over the years.
Graham remembers Ryan talking about the flammable gas and suggests using it. Ryan watches from afar, unable to help but shocked Graham actually remembered something he said (usually it goes in one ear and out the other)
Plan is to lure and trap the Remnants in the lab, fill it with gas by breaking the pipes, and blow the whole thing up with Epzo’s cigar

E: Where are you going?

13: This is a good failsafe, but I’ve got to try and talk to them first.

G: You wanna negotiate with the haunted bandages?

13: Absolutely. They’re victims of Stenza too. I have to try and help.

Y: And they’ll try to kill you!

13: If I judged things for that I’d hate half the universe by now - just go, go, go.

As 13 rubs through the base the viewer is now allowed to distantly hear the chanting 13 heard on the boat - a psychic sound like the Ood's Sobg of Captivity
As she emerges into the open and the swarm of Remnants descends the chanting reaches a frenzied fever-pitch
The Sonic's light fends off the swarm, swirling around the lab like a hurricane, a thousand vipers darting through the air

13: Please! Let me help you. I know what you’ve been through, I know how this feels. You’re not alone, but you have to let me -

The Remnants give their speech about 13 being unsure of herself, and tease secrets she doesn't know about herself.
The others are breaking the pipes that divert the gas produced by the expiments .
They run back inside, luring the Remnants inside where the gas is filling the building - through, holding their breaths - the main chamber passes in a blur and behind them the Remnants screech , Yaz risks a glance behind and sees them flinch away from the equipment lining the walls the way a mule cowers from a brand.
13 last out, slam the hatch closed together, instead of cigar Epzo’s cigar 13 short-circuits the other camera drone- BOOM
Flame roars out of the broken windows like dragon maws, the Remnants flee in smoking, shrieking tatters.

13 looks away: Come on. We have to keep moving before they regroup. It’s almost dawn.

Y: I’m sorry you couldn’t help them.

13: They weren’t interested in help. Not anymore. They just want to make everyone else feel what they do. Milennia stewing in an echochamber of your own pain will do that to you.

They struggle to the final tent, all fatigued and sunburnt but now helping each-other along. The racers argue again – escalating from before. Who deserves to win?
GIVE 13 HER BIG MOMENT because I didn’t ‘get’ her until the last line of S11. 13 is the joyous explorer, she doesn’t have time for wallowing in angst, there’s too much universe out there to see.

13: It’s not about what you’ve lost, that doesn’t make you better than him! All that matters now is what’s ahead. What are you going to do if you win, where will it take you? Have you even thought about it? Because maybe, just maybe, if you stopped pitying yourself you could make something good from this. Yes, your family is gone and I’m sorry. But just because they’ve stopped living doesn’t mean you should too. Move forward.

This differentiates 13 from RTD and Moff’s Doctors, who used their pain to feel superior to those around them. It also ties to Ryan and Graham letting go of Grace.
When the Organiser beams down, Ryan is with him as his prisoner
In the original the Organiser agreed to Epzo and Angstrom’s terms because of vague threat. Here, 13 has used the sonic to hack their Camera Drones so they have the location of everyone they're streaming to.

Organiser (visibly uncomfortable): And what are you going to do with that?

Yaz: Send it to the authorities.

Organiser: There isn’t an authority in the universe that won’t turn a blind eye for the right price.

Ryan: We’ll send it to the people, too. Go viral, get the word out. You’re a businessman, yeah? How much bad PR do you think this will cause?

13: All those abuses of power. Exploiting and killing the vulnerable, using the residents of this world and a hundred others as toys in your bloodsport. Imagine the scandal.

Angstrom: And then you’ve got us to worry about.

Organiser: Why the hell should I worry about you?

Epzo: Because we just won the most dangerous race in the universe. We’ve learned a lot. Built connections, made a name for ourselves. You turned us into the most dangerous people in twelve galaxies for your entertainment. Thanks for that.

Angstrom: I think it’s about time we showed you what we’ve learnt in person. Don’t you, Epzo?

Epzo: Can’t wait.

Organizer: You have no way off the planet.

13, waving cheerfully: I do!

Graham: Trust me, mate, it’s easier just to give them what they want.

13 uses the cameras to address the Viewers- take the brilliant resolution of 13’s first DWM comic story, The Warmonger: 13 shares Epzo and Angstrom’s combined grief and pain with the audience for a moment, then declares:

13: I’m the Doctor, and I declare the Rally of the Seven Galaxies over. Get your jollies someplace else. If anyone asks what happened to this perversion, you tell them I did. And if anyone tries to recreate it, you warn them that I will be coming.

Just like in the comic, this will come back to bite 13
Once they reunite, 13 realises the TARDIS went to Desolation because she wanted to help the planet (re-emphasising her sentience and personality)
We’ve previously established the TARDIS can change atmospherics like the weather, and it’s had thousands of years on Desolation to analyse/calculate etc, so 13 shows off to her new companions and terraforms the planet, reversing the Stenza’s damage

Yaz: Did you just save the planet?

13: No, the planet already died. But we did give it a fresh start. Fitting, don’tcha think? I wouldn’t mind going down to have a look now.

Graham: Can't we go home?

13: Oh right, forgot about that. Home. Hedgerows, lawnmowers, white picket fences.

Post-credits stinger - while the companions explore the TARDIS, 13 views footage she collected over thousands of years of the Stenza violating the planet - she doesn’t look happy, but then Yaz calls her for a tour and she puts on a bright smile again. The footage stops on a grainy image of Tim Shaw ordering some scientists

03. THE WITCHFINDERS - 60 mins

Switch Rosa and The Witchfinders. Don’t wait til episode 8 to tackle gender discrimination
Pre-credits shows some guards in a rowboat being attacked by vines from the lake. A PG-13 Swamp Thing- instead of impaling its victim, the tree traps him
As in Rosa, 13 is trying to return to Sheffield, but keeps missing (“To be honest with you, actually arriving is usually pretty low on my list of priorities.”) She detects an alarm from an alien prison. PC Kahn wants to investigate
13 is overconfident- she gets Team TARDIS to wear period clothes (a S11 nitpick) but assumes she doesn’t need to- “I just walk around like I own the place, never fails.”
After the water in 11x2 ate her first coat, 13 finds her main coat in the TARDIS wardrobe
Swap the bleak grey for rich autumnal, halloween-y aesthetic
Tonally, think Over The Garden Wall; creepy, lonely, Halloween-y. This is the perfect setting for it; the puritan village, hysterical witch-hunting mob, deep dark wood, witch’s cottage, graveyard, and looming, decaying manor house

The same opening sequence with 13 failing to stop the Witch Trial. The Lady specifically blames Witches for a slew of recent disappearances
Yaz is offended by the Witch Trials’ miscarriage of justice
King James was fun, but clashes with the serious themes, Swap him for male advisors pressuring the Manor’s Lady Becca Savage, a complex human villain, into enforcing the law
Witchfinder General Graham goes to the Manor alone (a flash of him and Grace walking the same trail together in the future)
He tries to stall them, uncomfortable with their association. He apologises to Becca but she shirks him
Yaz and 13 buddycop subplot- Yaz’s police protocol (door-to-door questioning etc) VS 13’s “fuck it, let’s wave the glowy science stick’ flippancy
Yaz enforces discipline, 13 teaches Yaz to think outside the box and bend the rules.
13 embraces cop show stereotypes– good cop/bad cop, sunglasses, noir monologues
Yaz’s door-to-door leads to Willa, whose Gran 13 failed to save. Yaz comforts her, relating the Trials to work experiences (domestic abuse?) on top of the original bullying.
Ryan feels guilty for not defending Yaz from bullies because his dyspraxia, dead mum, and absentee dad already made him a target
Willa explains the complex history between her Gran and Becca, whom she raised from birth but was abandoned by and turned on.
Willa takes them to her Gran’s classic Witch’s cottage. It comes off creepy and menacing
They find the guards sent to ransack her place after the trial:

Gran was a herbalist who worked in harmony with the Morax. They find a relic alive with an alien signal
13 and Yaz follow the signal while Ryan stays with Willa to help bury her Gran, affected
13 and Yaz find the tree-ship and read its logs of the Morax’s history.
The Morax is a hive mind, like a non-genocidal Australian colonist - exiled here by their tyrannical homeworld, it colonised the forest - 13 notes the diversity and density of the plants, some extraterrestrial
The unjust Witch-Trials strike a chord with the Morax - the lake and forest are attacking the aristocratic rulers.
The Morax lures the vulnerable into the forest and 'trapping’ them in trees that act as stasis pods - sleeping faces hands sticking out of trunks
While Willa buries her gran flash to them burying the other 'Witches' together (as in the novelisation)- she shares their rituals with a sympathetic Ryan

Willa: And now we say the prayer.

Ryan: She’s in good hands. Reckon she’d be glad it’s you, laying her to rest

Willa: She taught me all I know [choked sob]. We’ve had too much practice.

Ryan: Too many funerals. [he looks around around, notices…]

The corpses rise from their graves. Ryan calls 13- messing with the prison provoked the Morax. It’s a hive mind, its roots underground reacting like neurons firing in a brain
The Morax weaponises the bodies of the Trials’ victims, to avenge their deaths.
Keep their black mud-dripping mouths and eyes but add roots (green and brown to add colour) webbed across the skin like veins. The bodies are puppeteered by roots, connected to the earth like umbilical cords.
They charge at Ryan instead of standing still. Yaz sprints in and chops a cord with an axe and the body collapses. The rest stop, confused? 13 tries to communicate
The advisors/guards arrive with Graham and attack. The corpses kill them (ignoring Willa, 13 and Yaz)
The survivors accuse them of Witchcraft. Willa flees but Yaz and 13 are tied together and marched to the Manor.
They pull each other around trying to escape– Yaz surprisingly matches 13. Either a 3-legged race, or they’re tied back-to-back and 13 piggybacks Yaz.
The Doctor realises what history is like for her female companions.
The 13 chained-up scene, talking to the Lady not King James, discussing why she executed the woman who raised her and explaining the Morax want to stop the Trials
Meanwhile Ryan and Graham bond bouncing rescue ideas off each-other
Though he doesn’t initiate it, Ryan is more willing to talk about Grace.

Graham: The last one to go was a healer. Your nan would’ve been chained to that stool the moment she got here.

Ryan: Would’ve worn it as a badge of honour n’all

Graham: Giving ‘em a piece of her mind all the way down.

At the Trial Ryan and Graham free Yaz but 13 is dunked and escapes.
The Lady agrees with the Morax and offers herself as a vessel for them to stop the Trials. They possess her
As she is alive she looks different to the reanimated corpses: A moment of beauty where new flowers bloom underfoot.
The Morax underestimated the Lady, who uses its power to kill her advisors.
She flees and starts gathering soldiers from the graveyard. She wants to kill King James and his supporters so she can rebuild the land in her own image
13 is in a morally tricky place; though the Trials and their enforcers are bad, she can’t condone mass-murder and damaging time to stop them.
She reboots the Morax prison to try and separate them. In a moment of clarity, the Lady says she would rather die than go back to her old life. With the Morax she is part of the land itself: She can feel every flower,, eerie insect, every root.
(think this expression of the Force in The Last Jedi)
13 uses the prison to put the Lady into hibernation- the Morax encases her in a tree as it did the young women, but she goes peacefully, finally free
13 forges paper instating Willa as Lady of the Manor. She inherits her Gran’s position as wise woman/herbalist. She’ll keep watch over the Morax’s ship and use it to defend against any other officials trying to enforce Witch Trials

13: Criminal does not mean evil. The law can be evil too.

13: I’m a criminal. [realises the can of worms she’s opened, decides what to tell them]. Yeah. A thief.

Yaz: Why doesn’t that surprise me?

13: I’ll take that as a compliment

Ryan: What’d you steal?

13: The TARDIS for one. You lot, for two.

Graham: Yeah, but you’re givin’ us back, though.

13: Right. Back. [looks down, halting] Thank you, by the way. For savin’ me from the dunk tank of doom. It was a first.

Ryan: Like you didn’t have it handled.

Graham: S’no sweat, Doc. It was our turn, after you got us off that rock. Right?

These first two adventures put 13 at her most vulnerable- first without the TARDIS, then facing gender discrimination for the first time- and force her to rely on the Fam

04. ARACHNOPHOBIA (previously Arachnids in the UK) - 60 mins

Pre-credits is an exterminator biting off more than he can chew and getting dragged off
Ryan is ignoring calls from his Dad - going to Yaz’s with 13 is a distraction. Graham goes home
Only Yaz’s sister, Sonya, is home- Mum is checking on the renovation of Yaz’s old school as a governor, and Dad is out ‘being weird’- she points to his office; conspiracy boards and DIY tech. When Yaz introduces Ryan as ‘an old friend from school’ Sonya gets defensive - you weren’t one of them who hurt her, were you?- before flirting
Yaz gets a call from her Superior Officer. Dad is in a holding cell for trespassing. Her SO will let him go with a warning if Yaz collects him. 13 and Ryan tag along
Yaz collects Mr Kahn, embarrassed. The Station is still recovering from 11x1’s ‘terror attack’. They pass the Control Room- everyone is investigating city-wide disappearances
Yaz complains about being out of the loop. Her SO shows a gentle side; Yaz went on leave after Grace’s death. He’s sorry for mishandling that situation, but wants Yaz to ease herself back in. Subtextually he worries she’s fragile due to her history with mental health
Mr Kahn replaces the original’s spider expert, because my Spiders weren’t made in a lab. Think a weird Wilf- Mr Kahn loves the paranormal, not space. Go full Ghost Hunters, he has a van (the Mystery Machine meets Ecto 1) and DIY equipment.
Some of this equipment is UNIT issue, which Mr Kahn managed to get online at huge prices (Yaz is exasperated). 13 is troubled. UNIT has been liquidised and some of its equipment has made its way out to the public.
13 loves Mr Kahn, and they get Yaz to look into the Spiders. Mr Kahn tells 13 his conspiracies, which are growing more frequent. 13 says there should be groups covering them up, and later she’s surprised UNIT haven't dealt with the Spiders. This and the equipment sets up UNIT’s disbandment.
They investigate the spiders around the city in Mr Kahn’s van– abandoned exterminator vans, cobwebs everywhere:

This is where we have the sequence finding the cocooned body in the flat
They trace the Spiders to their nest. Replace the hotel with Yaz and Ryan’s old school, being renovated into a sprawling Academy, for personal context.
Cut the Trump stand-in - I hate him but Chibs’ hamfisted virtue signalling was embarrassing
The environmental message was also tacked-on. Instead, the Spiders are from Metabelius 3. Cut off from their world’s psychic web, the youngest are going feral, and the eldest/biggest are now too weak to control them (think Aragog in Harry Potter, or the Macra in Gridlock)
As mentioned by Sonya, Mrs Kahn and some canon-fodder school governors are checking the renovations. Yaz can’t believe both her parents are here to embarrass her- flirting etc. This dramatises how she’s smothered by her family
Build on Yaz being bullied after 11x3- Mrs Kahn became a governor to help (Sonya is still attending the 6th form) but her overprotectiveness made things worse

[Taking a breather by a cabinet that lists former prefects/student awards]

13: Can’t see your name up here?

Y: Me? You’re kiddin’. I was too busy gettin’ into fights. And, y’know. Losin’ them.

As an active pillar of the community, Mrs Kahn respected Grace and gives her sympathies to Ryan
After they pass the SEN department. We see a flash of Ryan being there with other special needs kids- he sees Yaz being bullied and stays quiet. He applies his experience with SEN kids to 13 when she goes off on one of her rapid-fire rambles. He gives her some office supplies to fiddle with (the way fidget spinners help people with ADHD concentrate)
The spreading spiders reach Graham’s flat. He runs to Yaz’s to find 13, saving/bringing a few extras. There he meets Sonya. He calls Ryan. 13 reckons disturbing the Spider’s nest has provoked widespread aggression.
We now have two tense scenarios:

Graham barricades Yaz’s flat against the Spiders with Sonya and the others. She worries for her family, he comforts her- making good on Grace’s last line "promise you won’t be scared without me” - 13 has made him braver.
The Spiders chase 13 et al around the school (cutting off corridors with webs – think the giant spider in Return of the King). 13 weaponises a delivery of lab supplies

They’re herded into a staircase, with Spiders descending from above
The Spiders take Yaz. 13 is forced to admit she’s attached to her new friends. She and Mrs Kahn save Yaz from the Spiders’ nest (undoing the Jackie “you endanger my kid” trope) while Ryan uses Mr Kahn’s equipment and the school’s new sound system to lure the spiders away with music (his first time leading– 13 pushing him is good!).
In the Spiders’ nest, the Elder Spiders psychically share their origin/memories of home with Yaz.
Mrs Kahn’s maternal affection strikes a chord with 13– S11’s theme is family. 13 asks the Elders for restraint, but they’ve lost control. The young are enraged by Yaz and Mrs Kahn freeing their living victims
Ryan’s music draws all the spiders across Sheffield back to the school, saving Graham and Sonya trapped in the flat
Reunited, Graham thanks Ryan for saving him- callback to his line in 11x02 ‘we look out for each other’
13 herds the Spiders into the TARDIS, and leaves the Fam. She nearly ejects them into space, hand hovering over the switch (livid they hurt Yaz), but recalls Yaz’s sympathy for them and instead drops them on Metabilus 3. She debates going back.
Meanwhile Ryan and Graham help clean the Kahn’s flat, Ryan is resigned to 13 abandoning them (he denies another call from his Dad), Yaz worries but tries to hide it, Graham stays positive for both of them. When 13 returns Yaz tackles her, Ryan is in quiet shock.
A small moment of Yaz helping 13 experiment with femininity, like Mike doing Eleven’s makeup in Stranger Things. 13 uses the makeup to paint. They choose 13’s earring together, because her piercing just appeared in The Woman Who Fell To Earth.
Ryan grabs his camera before leaving in the TARDIS at the end.

05. DEMONS OF THE PUNJAB - 60 mins

This should be 11x5, because it continues 11x4’s focus on Yaz’s family (pre-credits is Umbreen visiting after 11x4’s cleanup to check on everyone). Together the eps cap off the Yaz-focused first half- Yaz is inspired by the Spiders’ disconnect from their cultural roots damaging them
Yaz asking to meet her Nani as her first trip causes instant regret for 13. This story sees her struggle with her choice to bring the Fam along

13: I’m too nice! I invite you lot along and things immediately get messy. And I knew this would happen cos it always does- joke’s on me for thinkin’ you’d be any different! Aww, I was gonna be all cool and professionally detached and yet here I am again. Right in the thick of it. Serves me right

Yaz bonds with Umbreen over bucking tradition- marrying a Hindu and becoming a police officer against their family’s wishes
The Thijarian assassins competed with the Stenza hunters: their planet has been stolen by Tim Shaw, not destroyed
Now the hologram of their planet’s fate foreshadows Tim’s threat to Earth in the finale
It’s weird that Yaz goes to see her Grandmother, who she discovers remarried, and Ryan doesn’t react at all, after losing his Grandmother, who remarried
Ryan had nothing to do in this ep, and now it’s earlier in the series Grace’s loss is fresher. When he and 13 are alone with Prem he asks to visit Grace when she was young too (with her first husband - implicitly rejecting Graham)
Conflict over 13 ‘replacing’ Grace – “You’re not my nan!” – address that Yaz has quickly become 13’s favourite, hence her
After seeing Prem’s fate and Graham’s compassion for him, Ryan lets go of seeing Grace again - he’s content with Graham. He warns Yaz not to take her family for granted after losing so much of his.
Yaz asks 13 to go back home, They resolve any lingering conflict over Prem’s death

13: This won’t be the only day like this. People die, in my line of work.

Yaz: Mine too.

13: This is serious, Yaz. Are you sure you want to come back after seeing your Nani?

Yaz: Yeah. Because that was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. I couldn't have held my nerve on my own. And I don’t think you should have to either. It’s our line of work now.

13: I… Much obliged, Officer Kahn. Now, Ryan’s waiting. Off you pop.

Yaz takes him to meet present-day Umbreen in the closing scene (“I was lucky enough to know your Nan”)
13 settles into a ‘mad auntie’ role for Ryan.

06. WHEN THE WHALES CAME (new episode) - 60 mins

A clipshow structure and found-footage format, inspired by minisodes like Night and the Doctor and Pond Life
Throughout S11 Ryan films with his camera, and here he uses the footage to create a kind of documentary
Intercut ‘home movie’ snippets from Earth - vlogs, Ryan filming Graham and Grace’s wedding, Ryan and Yaz in a school play, Ryan’s Mum etc
A loose narrative tracking the centuries-long, intergalactic migration of a pod of Star Whales. 13 is ecstatic because the last time she saw them (millennia later in The Beast Below) they were extinct. You need no prerequisite knowledge to understand this
The first time they see them it’s in the middle of awe-inspiring cosmic mating displays- others are watching from a nearby asteroid and 13 parks the TARDIS to join them. These people exposit about the Whales. Ryan tries to interview one with his camera
Later, around the campfire they tell ghost stories of the Stenza as Boogeymen, and then the Doctor (via pseudonyms- Oncoming Storm, Predator etc). 13 says it’s time to leave
13 resolves to check in on the Star Whales every now and then. There’s a time-jump between each Star Whale sequence- snippets of unseen adventures a la The Power of Three and the Fam grow more experienced/closer.

Morning jogs w/Yaz to help Ryan practice- she babbles about investigating 13’s past. They stop in the library and Ryan talks about his documentary. There’s a great shifting sound from above and two books fall. Ryan picks it up; a guide to film-editing, and another on grief.
The TARDIS is telepathic and sympathises with Ryan and Graham’s grief. Yaz jokes it likes him
Ryan thanks her awkwardly for the editing book but puts the counselling guide back on the shelf
The TARDIS guides them out of the library via light-up panels on the floor (like in the cosole room) to a small room full of old-fashioned monitors- on them play security footage from the Fam’s time onboard. She’s offering to let Ryan use her security cameras for the doc.
Yaz asks if Ryan can look further back, but the TARDIS is only showing footage of them.

R: She’ll tell you when she’s ready.

Y: I know. I know, and I don’t want to violate her trust. I’m just- curious.

(cut-away to Yaz putting up an investigation board in her room about 13’s past)

Y: What’s that look for?

R: Nothing.

The Fam follow the calves being raised. 13 does her best Attenborough, giving them personalities. then later when they’re older feed them.
Ryan spots an ominous figure tracking the Whales a few times, but 13 ‘misses’ it, then tells him not to worry.
This is another Stenza Hunter.13 hides it from Ryan and Graham for fear of upsetting them. The crystal powering 13’s Sonic is Stenza tech so it detects similar power sources, including otherwise undetectable Stenza cloaking
Intercut the Whales with family bonding - fashion shows in the TARDIS wardrobe, alien flu, takeaway escaping a rainstorm. Small, domestic moments shot through with alien weirdness
The console room fills with domestic bric a brac. The Fam collect souvenirs from their travels
Contrast living in the TARDIS with 13 living with Ryan and Graham in 11x1.
They’re playing an alien boardgame (Graham is winning). 13 dpoesn’t have patience and gets annoyed by Ryan filming, filtering his travels through the camera. Before Ryan can justify himself they’re interrupted; predators are attacking the Whales
Team TARDIS fend off the predators. At one point 13 orders Yaz to man the console but she doesn’t understand- Ryan comes in and pulls it off. As a result the calves are saved, though one is injured.

13: How’d you know what to do?

R: Seen you do it a few times. Nothing special. I’m just observant, I guess.

13: Well she’d beg to differ. Right natural you are. Sorry. For what I said ‘bout the camera.

Ryan explains he got into YouTube when his therapist recommended it as a journaling device for his struggles with dyspraxia and then the loss of his Mum.
He stays up one night and finds 13 in her workshop. I like the idea of her making random gadgets

R: You’re still up?

13: Oh yeah. Day-dreamer, night-thinker, that’s me. Speaking of- [holding up a small device] Does this look familiar? Do you know what it is? Nah, neither do I. I made it last night in my sleep. Apparently I used Gindrogac. Highly unstable.

R: Doctor…

13 : I put a button on it. Yeah. I feel compelled to press it, but I’m not sure what will happen if I do.

[Ryan runs for cover]

13: C’mon. I bet you’ve got some hidden talents.

R: Yeah, they’re so hidden even I can’t find ‘em. You’re forgetting I can’t even ride a bike yet.

13: So what? The only way to get good at something is to be really, really bad at it first.

Can’t ride a bike? Let auntie 13 teach you to fly a time machine instead. 13 coaches Ryan through the basics of flight; a sequence of him flying alongside the whale pod
The Stenza Hunter makes his move, targeting the calf injured by predators. 13 reveals what it is to Ryan; he’s angry and suggests attacking the Stenza to protect the whales.
His ship is fashioned from the skull/exoskeleton of one of his kills, fused with tech
Panicked, 13 uses the TARDIS to try and throw off the Hunter. She hacks into his ship's monitors to talk to him.
To their surprise, instead of attacking them the Stenza warns them away - he doesn’t want to hurt non-prey, and promises he’ll kill his chosen whale mercifully
This Stenza’s faces (i.e. his kills) aren’t sentient creatures but monstrous beasts
His promise isn’t enough for 13, who’s seen the Whales extinct. She diverts the whales into a stormy nebula to shake the Stenza off. A tense game of Battleship between the Stenza and the TARDIS, its light blinking like a submarine’s sonar, as the plasma storm builds in the background
The Stenza sends his Companion onto the calf’s back to find a soft spot, seeing through its eyes
13 follows, using one of the gadgets she’s made as a tether to expand the TARDIS’ dematerialisation field over the Whales (setting up saving the planets in the finale)
Mad moment in a space suit and an abseiling harness, jumping out of the TARDIS onto the calf’s back. She has a POV camera (maintaining the found-footage framing) so Ryan knows when the device is attached to dematerialise
Ryan substitute pilots the TARDIS- keeping an eye on the live feed into the Stenza's ship- as Yaz watches 13’s abseiling line and keeps Graham - who arrives in his dressing gown, asking what’s going on- from learning about the Stenza
The Star Whales have their own ecosystems growing on their backs – film in a forest with adjusted lighting instead of an expensive CG environment
The Hunter closes in as the nebula storm builds in the background, 13 tries to attach the dematerialisation device to the calf’s back while avoiding the Companion
The Hunter realises the storm is upon them and tries to shield the TARDIS from a plasma blast. It strikes just as 13 attaches the device and Ryan pulls the dematerialisation lever. The Stenza takes the brunt of it but both ships are hit; the TARDIS’ bulb explodes as it dematerialises around the Fam. The dematerialisation field/plasma combo causes a feedback loop that blasts 13 and the Companion of the calf’s back.
End with 13’s POV camera; she’s unconscious, drifting with failing life support. The Whales and the TARDIS are gone. The Stenza ship comes into view, drifting. Dead silence. Cliffhanger leading into...

07. THE GOOD DOCTORS (previously The Tsuranga Conundrum) - 60 mins

Team TARDIS’ incapacitation is built into the last episode
13 is worse off because she was unprotected in space
Graham is annoyed the others didn’t wake him and tell him what was going on
The Stenza Hunter and his Companion are also saved by the Tsuranga ship, They’re both in a worse condition and still in stasis, after his ship took the worst of the plasma blast.
When Graham finds out he’s livid at 13 for not telling him.They all argue against the nurse over treating the Stenza, insisting it’s a danger to other patients
The nurse insists that if the Stenza hadn’t intervened when the Fam where in space (after the TARDIS dematerialised) they’d be dead
The Tsuranga ship is modelled after creepy old Victorian hospitals- tiles, pipes, labyrinthian corridors etc- with futuristic sci-fi tech bolted on top
It reminds Graham of his chemotherapy (underexplored in S11) and we see flashes of him meeting Grace – he relates to the patients
The ship warps to a planet famed as a prosperous safe harbour. The planet is missing (taken by Tim Shaw). All that’s left is an asteroid field that used to be the planet’s rings
The ship is hit by the asteroids. A disaster movie collision. Life support is hit and the injured Companion escapes, wild with fear and without the guiding influence of its Hunter
Cut the 2nd nurse- Tsuranga is an understaffed charity. The one nurse (make him catkind) dies while running instead of walking into it.
The conflict is more nuanced- the Companion is a patient to be helped instead of beaten.
13 tries to pilot the ship instead of the sick general, but can’t due to her injury (which lasts the whole episode!)
Team TARDIS fill the injured Doctor’s roles. Cut the general’s brother- 13 takes his engineering role- fixing the ship as fast as the Companion dismantles it (a living weapon acting on instinct)
Yaz guards the antimatter drive from the Companion with the general’s android bodyguard.
Ryan watches the patients (the pregnant man), drawing on Grace’s memory, as Graham debates whether to wake the Stenza for help
The sonic stays broken so 13 has to do this all by hand
Show the ship fly through the asteroids
13 tries to access the Companion and Hunter’s mental bond. The unconcious Stenza reacts, tossing and calling out to help his companion. Contrast this healthy relationship with Tim and his Slave: 13 is shocked by their genuine devotion.
The Companion turns off the artificial gravity. 13 is thrown all the way down a corridor and must climb back up to reactivate it as the gravity keeps switching directions.
Meanwhile the Companion goes for the anti-matter drive and Yaz must fend it off in the changing gravity (using stun settings on weapons on-board in case of pirates- she stops the Android killing it)- think this sequence from Star Trek Into Darkness and Inception’s corridor fight
Losing gravity endangers the pregnant man and Ryan, though especially struggling due to dyspraxia, helps him into a harness with Graham’s help (parallel his encouragement with the bike)
13 re-activates the gravity, but after Ryan was endangered Graham bites the bullet and wakes the Stenza Hunter for help.
To their surprise, the Stenza is honourable and immediately acts to help. When blowing the Companion into space is suggested, the Hunter says that losing his companion is like losing a limb.
This sets Tim up as worse than the average Stenza, possibly deranged
Parallels/mutual respect between the Hunter and the general, both disciplined, honourable
The last this Stenza heard of Tim, the Royal embarrassment was sent to oversee the creation of Companions
13 helps the Hunter get their Companion back under control and they repair their mental bond - big emotional moment,
The post-credits scenes until the finale will be 13 sneaking off to help Tsuranga, using the TARDIS as an ambulance, inspired by this ship
The ship arrives at a space station staffed by Catkind. Team TARDIS let the Stenza go (though Ryan and Graham’s feelings are NOT resolved - they’ve shifted their anger from the Stenza species to Tim specifically).
Team TARDIS set out to hitchhike back to the TARDIS

Minisodes- THE DUSTWALKERS

The BBC actually set up Ryan’s YouTube channel, and posted the two clips from The Woman Who Fell to Earth there
After The Good Doctors, release found-footage clips of the Fam hitchhiking back to the TARDIS.on Ryan’s channel (alongside the official DW one). 13 is forced to take the slow path and walk amongst the dust
5 parts, they stop with the finale 2-parter
This is on top of the ‘PC Kahn Casefiles’ already made for S11 (which should develop Yaz, instead of the boring ‘These guys are Bad’ stuff in the originals -check in on Yaz’s fascination with 13’s history etc)

08. THE CURRENT WAR (previously 12x4 Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror) - 60 mins

The next episodes (Tesla, Kerblam!, Rosa) focus on Ryan’s growing independence
Expand on Ryan’s engineering EPQ;. He’s the only companion who knows of Tesla. He and 13 geek out together
Switch Ryan and Yaz’s roles- Yaz bonds with Miss Skeritt, Ryan stays with Tesla.
Capitalise on the thematic potential of the Orb of Thassa. It really is a store of the great Thassa race’s knowledge, not a repurposed spy drone, it came to Earth to gift its knowledge. Tesla and Edison fight over it- Tesla wants to apply their knowledge to his work. Edison wants to monetize it
Ryan relates to Edison’s exploited workers, he knows how monotonous a production line is.
‘Wonder’ moment of 13 opening the Orb; projections of its knowledge dance across the room- think the map from Treasure Planet

The Skithra want the Orb, and interrupt Edison and Tesla’s argument. They take Tesla and Ryan with it. There the Queen recognises the Orb chose Tesla to receive its knowledge and decides she wants him too; The mind who can use the knowledge is more valuable than the knowledge itself. Tesla has been ‘chosen’ by two races.
Graham worries about Ryan being taken- building the conflict that’ll climax in Rosa
The Skithra are relatives of the Racnoss. They became scavengers after the Time Lords wiped out their family of species.
13 actively hides her past from the Fam, going feral when her happy-go-lucky escapist fantasy is threatened
Emphasise the parallel between the mindless Skithra drones and Edison’s workers (they don’t bump into each other)

09. KERBLAM! - 60 mins

More insight into the Kandokan economy for a more nuanced conflict- the original does all it can to glamorise Kerblam and demonise Charlie’s grievances
Pre-credits sequence sees a group of desperate Kandokans comendeer a shuttle and go to the Kerblam factory to demand jobs.
This is like these sequences from Elysium. The Kerblam! exec running the factory nearly shoots them down, but the HR lady insists it’d be bad PR. Security masses as the shuttle lands.
Team TARDIS arrives in the standoff. After titles we see Kerblam’s message arrive in the TARDIS, amd catch up to the present
The Psychic Paper casts them as execs, not linked to the First Lady. HR lady apologises; the invaders will be punished to the full extent of the law- life in labour camps. 13 gets them sent home instead. They leave screaming for help.
After this disturbing intro we revert to the original’s glossy, upbeat tour. Because team TARDIS are execs, workers are scared of them, while the real Exec running the factory relaxes and is flippant about workers’ rights abuses
Kerblam!’s board is bitter over the 10% Organics law reducing their efficiency; they pressure organic workers to be machine-efficient. Ryan sees a worker collapse at the conveyors (as in Amazon warehouses). The Exec suggests burning through enough bodies could justify returning to full automation. Kerblam! threatened to leave Kandoka if workers unionised (like Nike et al in less developed nations)
Lee Mack fears the shuttle invaders will cause a travel ban and stop him seeing his daughter
Swap the pendant she gave him for a holographic locket with a looped message inside. This is a window into Kandokan life- ultra tight and frugal, think Japanese capsule hotels
In the break area, adverts run on the walls; a fictionalised vision of overjoyed unemployed people opening parcels. The tagline is near-verbatim the positive stuff Kiera said working on the conveyor
Charlie doesn’t kill workers; he chooses those he thinks will join him- like Lee Mack- lures them to his base and tries to recruit them. Refusal ‘forces’ him to kill them
Charlie executing an operation that big alone is ludicrous. The shuttle invaders from the beginning escape security and bring him the final pieces of a transmat system in his base, which they use to ferry supplies back and forth.
Visual storytelling: Twirly the OG Kerblam! bot showing 13 that Charlie has been testing the bombs on people is like Mr. Incredible discovering Syndrome killed the Supers
When Charlie is discovered, he uses this transmat to show Team TARDIS (plus HR & Exec) what Kandoka is really like-
Think how 1984’s world was split between the brutalist, uniform homes of the Party, and the decaying, archaic slums of the Proles. Kerblam! workers’ families get to live in corporate-sponsored capsules while the unemployed live in squalor.
They live off of Kerblam's waste- faulty products etc. The rebels base is built in disused shipping containers.
Charlie is from this area- HR found and took a shine to him.
Once Twirly takes back control of the Kerblam! Men, they march through the transmat to confront the rebels
The classic chirpy but dangerous robot. Not evil/homicidal, but will do anything to fulfill its purpose of protecting company assets
The climax is a standoff mirroring the opening. 13 tries to protect the rebels while stopping their plan- until she’s driven to give up on the fanatical Charlie and lets him die. This snsps the rebels- and HR- into stopping. Charlie’s death will be revisited in the finale
Charlie's motivation and death cause conflict in Team TARDIS - Ryan sympathises, Yaz is caught between the law and what's right. 13 leaving Charlie angers Graham, who bonded with him.
Ryan, who saw Charlie as a peer, is cautioned about using violence to solve problems
13's subjective morality, written intentionally, dissects 12’s ‘run fast, laugh hard, be kind’ mantra. What does that mean in practice? 13 can’t be herself because she must put others first as 'The Doctor'. A meta-commentary on how fans expect 13 to act, and how she in turn acts like she thinks The Doctor ‘should’ instead of the way she would

10. ROSA - 60 mins

Ideally a ‘pure historical’ with no ‘villain’
This is when Graham and 13 fight over Ryan – Graham wants him safe in the TARDIS, but 13 doesn’t fully get the danger (think 10’s mild reaction to Martha’s questions in The Shakespeare Code) – her mind is on the bigger picture, the damage to time.
Ryan is adamant he’s staying. There will be no white saviour here.
Yaz is offended by the Sherriff enforcing racist laws – building on Kerblam!, she struggles with the difference between what is lawful and what is right
The timeline changes ripple forward to create more personal tension - Ryan and Graham must hold on to their relationship. The conflict is doubled with Graham/Grace.
This gives them new appreciation of each other when things are fixed
If Krasko is there, flesh him out. He was imprisoned for years before escaping – Prisoner of Azkaban Sirius Black vibes. Sad and desperate.
Krasko’s ineffective term in Stormcage makes Yaz reflect on the system she represents
Krasko’s heard horror stories about the Doctor in Stormcage (he recognised the TARDIS). She makes him look like a saint. 13 is embarrassed and doubt is sown among the Fam- is 13 as good as she makes herself out to be?
Stay with Ryan for MLK et al’s meeting. Like The Umbrella Academy 2,, show chosing non-violent protest (Parks disagreed with MLK’s tactics in real life; use that to start a discussion) and the conscious organisation of the bus boycott, ignored by the original episode
Ryan's arc isn't blindly learning and repeating 13's pacifism, but forming a more nuanced moral compass able to grapple with shades of grey
Ryan mentions arguing about violent protest before with Kerblam!

11. IT TAKES YOU AWAY - 60 mins

Graham is in a bad place after Rosa threatened his memories of Grace and implicated him in a racist event she hated.
After fighting in Rosa, 13 and Graham talk it out – 13 reveals how Ryan and Graham remind her of her and her Granddaughter, the original companion, Susan
Cut Ribbons and the flesh-moths. They’re OK ideas, but that time can more effectively build the Solitract’s mirror-world, rushed in the original. Instead of Ribbons, the between-place is an abandoned guard-station in the Kassavin’s dimension.
Yaz is tempted by her dream promotion (for saving Grace’s life) and validation from her childhood tormentors. But Yaz, having already ‘let go of temptation’ in Demons, isn’t fooled
Add a short scene of Ryan bonding with Hanne - her competence without her Dad, both are capable of more than people expect
When 13 tells Yaz the Solitract story, instead of coming from her grannies, it’s a bedtime story she told Susan. Yaz is finally getting answers for her investigation
This sets up the Solitract turning into Susan at the end, instead of the frog. When the mirror dimension deteriorates we get ‘monster’ stuff to make up for losing the flesh-moths - think Coraline’s creepy third act
S11’s core theme is family, and you don’t need previous Who knowledge to understand who Susan is when the Solitract becomes her.
Cast the actress from An Adventure in Space and Time (like David Bradley’s First Doctor) and Carol Ann Ford - the Solitract flickers between the young and old versions of her.
The Solitract reveals it can interact with our universe because the beings that the ancient Time Lords created to guard the barriers between dimensions, the Kassavin, have abandoned their posts. This sets up an expanded backstory in Spyfall
After they escape, Graham and 13 talk

G: I don’t know if I can keep doing this, Doc.

13: No-one’s expecting you to know. Not yet. But that’s why you’ve gotta keep trying. And trust me, two thousand years in? It gets easier. You’ve got to keep trying. That’s the hard part. But it does get easier.

G: How do you do it?

13: You move forward. You find new things to live for. New people. [She indicates where Ryan and Yaz are playing with Hanne]. The universe is full of them if you care to look. Start small. The smell of woodsmoke, feeling the breeze on your face. The sound of cicadas after dark. Little victories. [nods to the sky] Even just watching the sunset. Who says endings can’t be beautiful?

The Solitract is a link to home, and an omnipotent consciousness 13 can relate to (think 9 and Bad Wolf - “That’s what I feel, all the time!”). Finding, then immediately losing that is traumatising.
While Ryan and Graham are bonding, Yaz catches 13 crying in the TARDIS, but she quickly covers up.

13, forcing a smile: Don’t mind me, Graham’s the priority. This’ll pass. It always does. Practice makes perfect.

12. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TIMOTHY SHAW (new episode) - 60 mins

Start with a version of this beautifully written scene.
The Fam are at home. The TARDIS lands in Graham’s garden in the wee hours of the morning. He finds 13 unconscious on the floor. He makes her comfortable and puts the kettle on, and when she wakes they talk.

G: Is this what you do when we’re not looking, then? Between Saturdays. You tidy up. Make things neat. You do all the dirty work.

13: …The universe doesn’t stop while I’m takin’ you lot to Space Majorca.

G: Don’t I know that? Don’t we all?

13: I have a duty.

G: Rubbish. Says who?

13: Says- Says the universe. Says the breath in my lungs and the blood in my veins. Duty is only sayin’ to yourself, ‘I can, and so I should’ and then- doin’ it

As in the post-credits scenes since The Good Doctors, 13 is helping the Tsuranga medical service between trips with the Fam, using the TARDIS as an ambulance
The TARDIS displays show 13 has returned to Desolation (The Ghost Monument) to help the Remnants trapped there. She wired one up to the telepathic circuits, but, already exhausted, exposing herself to its pain incapacitated her, and the TARDIS brought her to safety..
The Remnants are– as set up in 11x02 – like bloodhounds. They hunt down and kill a specific victim. Guess who this one is tracking
(It’s Tim Shaw)
Graham is angry 13 hid a path to Tim, and planned to diffuse the situation without killing him

13: Maybe I am a liar, when I promised I wouldn’t be, but that’s only because I know what this is like, Graham. To want to hurt the people who hurt you. How that anger burns you up like fire, like a whole supernova. And it took me so long to move past it. Whole lifetimes wasted hurting and hating. I couldn’t let that happen to you. No-one deserves to be broken twice.

13: I spent so long hurting. Helping, because I felt I owed someone. And then getting … so angry because I, in turn, felt owed. You know what I learned? The universe doesn’t care. It was here first.

13: I spent so long living in fear of who I really was, hiding behind a promise, hurting and raging. Just because I thought that was the only way to be. Not anymore.

13: You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

Their argument wakes Ryan, who calls Yaz over to be the voice of reason. Graham refuses to let it go. When 13 tries to kick them out, the TARDIS doors close
Make the TARDIS active in the series. She waited on Desolation in 11x02, and brought 13 here now because she wants to help Ryan and Graham process their grief (set up in When the Whales Came)
13 reluctantly agrees to let the Fam tag along in the hopes that Graham will be able to forgive and let go.

The Remenant guides them on a journey through the ‘greatest hits’ of Tim Shaw’s life, observing from the sidelines with perception filters (The Sound of Drums)
Think Avatar the Last Airbender 3x16 The Southern Raiders, or the muscle memory/Armathy subplot in Rick and Morty 3x02 Rickmancing the Stone
Graham pushes to let the Remnant kill Tim. Team TARDIS argue and get caught up in events, 13 must stop them changing time (Father’s Day)
Yaz, after being in a similar situation in Demons, sympathises but stands with 13. Tim should be brought to justice, not killed in revenge
A rift forms: Graham and Ryan vs. 13 and Yaz
Graham doesn’t want Ryan to kill Tim and corrupt himself. Graham is the expendable one. (as suggested by his funeral speech in 11x01).
We see Tim’s childhood, neglected for an older brother (think Farimir and Borimir in Lord of the Rings). His dream to grow past the limits of the Stenza’s lonely traditions is ignored by his abusive Father (Sr)
They go to Desolation (centuries before its poisoning, when the Stenza were still on good terms with the Indigenous) and are bonded to their Companions in a ritual ceremony. Tim’s (not his Slave in 11x01) is a runt, and Sr shuns it. Every following scene has a moment affirming their connection.
Tim’s only solace is a Wife who believes he’s destined for greatness.

Graham bumps into Wife, Girl In the Fireplace-style She reminds him of Grace and he’s surprised by her and Tim’s genuine devotion.
Tragedy strikes. Sr sends him on a suicidally dangerous hunt to ‘prove himself’.His prey have an imperial military, Tim is overwhelmed, and his Companion is killed.
This moment tempts Graham- all it would take is the slightest nudge to kill him.
Tim is now mutilated in the Stenza’s eyes, functionally losing his soul; Wife nurses him back to health.

Now confirmed as useless to Sr, Tim and Wife are sent to run Desolation in the vague hope the indigenous can heal him.
Here, at his lowest ebb, Tim starts indulging his imperialistic dreams, validated by the army that injured him
Tim’s childhood bonding with his Companion showed that the Stenza and Desolation’s indigenous used to work in harmony.
Now, Tim industrialises the sacred process, taking too much from the planet and pushing it into the decay we saw in 11x02. Tim isolates himself from his wife, consumed by self-hatred
Sr forces the Indigenous to give Tim a new Companion (the Slave from 11x01), though they insist he isn’t ready. Tim’s self-hatred is reflected in the Slave and their abusive relationship.
The rebellion seen in The Ghost Monument plays out. The Fam are caught in it and Wife is injured saving Graham. Tim gets her out, barely, in stasis. Their ship drifts for years.

They’re woken years later to the news that Tim’s older sibling has been killed. Sr is only waking them now because Tim, much to his fury, is now first in line for the throne.
Tim is sent on his hunt under the burden of his wife’s injuries, knowing that if he fails again, she will be punished. So, he rigs the system to give himself an easy win.
The Fam watches Tim leave for Earth. Graham wants to follow. 13 refuses because of the temptation to save Grace, but before the argument escalates a portal opens in space and a beam shoots out of it, hitting the Stenza Homeworld.
The Fam escape to the TARDIS as the planet is shrunk- Ryan falls and is taken away with it
13 uses the energy signature to track the beam across the universe to Ranskoor Av Kolos
They arrive on Ranskoor, a war-torn battlefield. 13 detects billions of lifeforms in tiny clusters - the planets.
Set up the ‘psychic-attack field’ via 13’s telepathic senses. Yaz (with her history of mental health struggles) is terrified of a planet wrecking her sanity
No time to worry about that- the moment they leave the TARDIS, they’re captured by a small military force who’ve been sieging Tim’s fortress
The attackers destroy the Remnant with specialised weapons - it screams as the Bio-imprinting process is forcefully undone and the consciousness bound to it is torn away. The fabric crumbles to dust. 13 is furious, but knocked unconscious and they’re all dragged away

13. MARS AND BELLONA (previously The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos) - 75 mins

Begin as RAK did; Tim appears 3,000 years in the past to pilgrims the Ux
The original Ranskoor’s psychic attacks were a cheap ploy to delay basic plot info
Ranskoor is in a psychic vortex– a tuning fork for the universe. The Ux (one ancient, one a small child) isolated themselves here generations ago to attune themselves to the ‘voice of Creation’- all the prayers and songs and wishes of the universe end up here
They took Tim’s arrival, a face-changer in Royal armour, as a Sign. He’s the first alien they meet, the first weapons etc. He used his experience exploiting Desolation’s traditions to manipulate them
Redesign the Ux with a skin of swirling stars that fluctuates with their mood

Tim spent 3,000 years planning his Empire, using the Ux to steal the most prosperous or dangerous (the Thijarian assassins’) planets, waiting until he could steal his Homeworld and Earth without rewriting his past. He’s waited millennia to save his wife and take revenge on 13
The stolen worlds’ anguish has overloaded/corrupted Ranskoor’s psychic field. With each new planet it grows stronger.

The Fighters besieging Tim’s Fortress are those whose planets were stolen, led by the Racers from The Ghost Monument. 13 fumes; a headhunt isn’t what ‘doing something that mattered’ with their winnings meant.
The Fighters rank recruits with AI – Graham is a Private, Yaz a Sargent (validation!) and 13– to their surprise– is promoted to Commander.
13 is reluctant to take charge, evading Yaz’s questions. Graham feels validated by her rank.
13 pulls rank – her harshness shocks Yaz - using the Racers’ experience with her to persuade them to let her negotiate with Tim, This isn’t a battle, or an assassination. It’s a hostage situation.

Ryan is brought before Sr. Without its moons or sun the Homeworld is in chaos. Ryan bargains for his life, offering to help the Stenza (using his limited knowledge to figure out what’s going on - think Clara in Deep Breath, The Girl Who Died or The Zygon Inversion), contrasting his earlier speed to violence.
He’s imprisoned next to Tim’s still-recovering, pregnant Wife. Ryan is conflicted. Does he help?
Tim’s voice comes down from the heavens, framed as a Divine visitation. He says the Stenza’s true leader has come to claim the throne. He demands they give him his wife or else
He proves his point by destroying an entire continent.
Wife is terrified, barely recognising Tim. Ryan realises that to get out of this they must work together. He helps the injured Wife escape to Tim’s designated rendezvous before the Stenza can catch and use them as bargaining chips.
This sequence

1) gives Wife a voice, bargaining with Sr for her life (reminding Ryan of Grace)

2) presents Tim as a self-made god, and

3) develops Ryan’s perspective on the culture of violence that created Tim

13 leaves Graham with the rear guard outside Tim’s Fortress to stop him being tempted
This enrages Graham; Tim has taken Ryan too, and with the Remnant destroyed by the fighters’ specialist weapons Graham has lost his ‘middle man’, and has to kill Tim himself
The Fighters have psychic protection, but with the Stenza Homeworld added to Tim’s collection the clock’s ticking until it’s overwhelmed. As the episode continues the Fighters with Yaz and Graham start to succumb- collapsing into unresponsive husks or having psychotic breaks.
13 notes the unknown material the Fortress is made of, trying to figure out what it’s for. The older Ux directs her to Tim while Yaz leads a squad to find Ryan and the stolen planets.
They find the child-Ux in the bowels of the Fortress, with the world-stealing engine and the recently acquired Stenza Homeworld. The other planets are stored elsewhere.
Practicing Muslim Yaz is furious at Tim exploiting the Ux’s faith. She stops the Fighters shooting the child
The Ux is extracting Wife and Ryan from the Stenza homeworld. Yaz helps save them from the pursuing Stenza. We see this escape from Wife’s POV, emerging into this terrible place.
Ryan stays with Wife while Yaz finds 13. He must stop the Fighters using their special weapons to sever her from her Companion. S11 has reinforced how important this bond is, and losing it drove Tim mad. Stop feeding into a cycle of revenge and pain.

Meanwhile, 13 confronts Tim. He sends the Elder Ux away to tend to the stolen worlds in an unknown location
We see Tim’s cunning, and the Doctor/Stenza parallels gain narrative weight.
Tim has watched the Doctor for 3,000 years: She too has become a God of War. Krasko feared her (Rosa), the Skithra were affected by a genocide 10 committed (Tesla), she was in the horror stories told in Whales. She inspired the Racers to lead this force. They treat 13 defeating the Remnants as legend. Their AI made her Commander, and she jumped right back into that role. She can pretend she’s grown, but it doesn’t change what the Doctor is.
(Hence the title – Ares and Bellona are respectively the male and female Roman gods of war)
Even when she tries to be better, 13 causes more pain. Look at what her mercy has wrought – Tim cycles through the faces he’s hunted on the stolen worlds since they last met
Tim isn’t just stealing the planets, he’s using them as batteries to strengthen the psychic field. The Fortress is designed to channel and focus the field. It can project the field of terror and despair onto the planets he wishes to conquer, wrecking any organised response or rebellion. With each new planet he collects, the weapon grows stronger. Tim is weaponizing grief.
Yaz finds 13 and snaps her out of it. 13 uses the Sonic (it finally works!) to scramble Tim’s connection to the Fortress. He’s briefly exposed to Ranskoor’s psychic field, stunned by the stolen planets’ pain.
Recovered, Tim channels the Ux’s power through the Fortress to create and puppeteer copies of himself that emerge from the walls, Freddy Kreuger-style. These Silhouettes attack the Fighters.
The Silhouettes are made of the Fortress’ obsidian-like material, with the faces of Tim’s prey – from the stolen planets, the same species as the Fighters. Tim is weaponizing their grief.
Tim’s original ‘mime’ face is reserved for him, not the Silhouettes
The Silhouettes break up Ryan and the Fighters’ argument. The Elder Ux arrives to steal Wife away and the Silhouettes chase the intruders out.
After hearing the rear guard’s tragic backstories and watching one lose his mind to the psychic field, Graham steals a gun and escapes in the chaos. On his own, believing Ryan’s still trapped.

13, Yaz and Ryan regroup with the Rear Guard
They realise Graham has escaped. 13 reveals she planted a tracer on him ‘just in case’. Ryan and Yaz don’t love this.
Ryan wants to find Graham, but 13 insists she needs the TARDIS: Ryan goes back to it (his piloting skill becoming useful) while she and Yaz go to stop the Ux stealing Earth.

Graham, sneaking past the Silhouettes, sees the Ux bring Wife to Tim. A tragic reunion– there’s barely any of Tim left, look at what he lost to save her. Graham has an opportunity to shoot Tim from his hiding place, but he stops when he hears Tim explain his plan to his wife.
Now she’s safe and his greatest threats/resources are taken care of, Tim plans to rapidly expand his Empire. No more hiding in the shadows as a legend.
Wife is horrified- she wants to escape and raise their child together, away from the cruel Stenza traditions or Tim’s poisonous dream, but Tim is too far gone. His Empire can’t be compromised.
He sends her and the Ux to prep the Fortress to target Earth. Graham slips out of his hiding place and has a moment of conflict before deciding to save the planets.
He sneaks straight into Tim’s Wife, who slipped away from the Ux
She recognises him and offers to show Graham the stolen planets (which the Ux showed her on their way to see Tim). Graham agrees, not revealing his intention to kill Tim.

The World-Stealer targeting Earth is more threatening because S11 showed the consequences of losing your planet, Cut to Yaz’s family as the beam hits
13 and Yaz appeal to the Ux. The Child is enthusiastic and trusting, the Elder dogmatic and close-minded. This is inspired by Alien X from Ben 10: Alien Force, a massively powerful being who took forever to do anything because you had to get two opposite personalities to agree on any action it took:

Tim has painted 13 as a malicious trickster, and the Elder Ux says she’s just as manipulative as she accuses him of being. 13 doubts herself after Tim’s speech. Yaz must step up..
Ryan arrives with the TARDIS. 13 entrusts him to find Graham
Extending the TARDIS’ dematerialisation field over the stolen worlds was set up in When the Whales Came
When 13 and Yaz remove their psychic protection to stop the weapon, Ranskoor scrambles their brains.
13, with all her memories, is hit worse and flees in terror. Yaz, fighting her own resurfacing memories of childhood trauma- chases her down and reminds her who she is, reaffirming the identity established in S11. 13 mentally links them to stay sane– 13’s childhood neglected on Gallifrey, a flash of the Time War, mix with Yaz’s childhood being bullied. Yaz finally gets answers to the questions she’s been asking about 13’s past

Tim detects Graham stealing back the planets and, seeing Wife there, investigates himself.
Tim arrives, wearing Grace’s face. Graham is livid and tells Wife how Grace died.
Tim vs Wife - a terrifying confrontation. She asks what happened to his honour, if he killed Grace in cold blood.
Ryan arrives just in time. He doesn’t have the dexterity to fight Tim but prioritises saving Wife.
Graham saves Ryan from Tim. Big emotional moment- I thought you were gone!. Moment of truth, Graham’s about to kill Tim– the staging mirrors Grace’s death, with Graham as Tim. Ryan tries to talk him down, touching on his own non-violence arc from The Ghost Monument to Kerblam! to Rosa.
Graham shoots the machinery connecting Tim to his Fortress. Without its protection, Tim is exposed to the psychic vortex and incapacitated by the pain he’s caused
This disables the Silhouettes

As the planets are returned home the psychic field gradually dissipates, saving the Fighters under attack.
Returning the planets gives S11’s side-characters closure like the 50th with Galifrey
Graham and Ryan take Tim to the Fighters. Now the Ux have abandoned him, he’s nothing but a broken shell. He’ll stand trial
The Ux leave Ranskoor to begin a new pilgrimage and see the universe instead of listening to its echoes, giving 13’s closing ‘travel hopefully’ speech more narrative weight.
Wife leaves with the Ux to build a new life raising her child
The fate of the Stenza Homeworld will be picked up in S12
S11 has reinforced how much family and support means to 13, so Yaz saying “I’ve always liked fam” means more because it means she understands 13 as a person
Post-credits scene: 13 goes back to save Charlie from Kerblam! in the moment before he exploded. Unlike the rest of S11’s post-credits scenes, the whole Fam is here- finally a united front, 13 is starting to let them in. She’s more sure of herself, making up for a mistake.

RESOLUTION - 75 mins

In the original Ryan’s dad was separated from the main plot. He bogged the pacing.
Move the argument where Ryan lays down the law to the beginning of the episode; Ryan has finally agreed to talk after ignoring Aaron’s calls all series.
At Graham’s encouragement, Aaron tags along to the dig site to reach out on Ryan’s terms. He interacts with all of Team TARDIS.

Swap the archeologists for a female O, played by Ruth Wilson, calling 13. In the weeks she walked the Earth before 11x1, 13 met O and she helped her.
Use the dig site to expand on the Daleks’ impact on humanity after visiting Earth dozens of times. Wall paintings show the Shell as a Divine war chariot, and the mutant as a Cthulhu-like God. O tells us their legend
O tells the Fam about the Doctor’s history with the Daleks (trying to damage their bond), contrasting S11, where everything was new

Aaron is the one who finds/is hijacked by the Scout.
Aaron leaves abruptly to protect Ryan, but Ryan thinks he’s running again.
To increase the Daleks’ impact on Team TARDIS and new viewers, 13 calls them “my Stenza”
Graham realises why 13 stopped him killing Tim in S11, and gains new respect for her

13 travels to the battle that divided the Dalek to learn how primitive humans beat it, so she can use that in the present.
When they arrive the past-Scout sends out the feedback loop that disables 13’s navigation systems (as in the original). The TARDIS is flung back to the present and Yaz is left stranded on the battlefield
Yaz gets sword and shield action moments as she dodges between the 3 human factions trying to stop the Dalek
Primitive humans beating a Dalek diminishes it. Yaz meets the Fugitive Doctor, blending in in period disguise. The Fugitive picks Yaz out as not from this Earth instantly, and Yaz

Yaz discovers she can connect to 13 telepathically, a consequence of their bonding on Ranskoor Av Kolos- she gets a brief mental impression off of 8 and finally identifies him
13, Ryan and Graham must choose who to save- Aaron or Yaz. The Dalek was beaten in the past. It could still win in the present. 13 prioritises, the Dalek bringing out the pragmatist in her.

When UNIT dissolved private corporations bought up their alien tech. The facility storing the Dalek shell is owned by the modern incarnation of the Dalek-worshipping cult (their logo is the symbol in the wall paintings).
Don’t bury another gay. The cult welcomes and exults the Dalek - only for it to kill them all..
The company has collected scraps of Dalek models from invasions across history
The Scout’s reassembled shell is a Frankenstein’s monster of different designs (classic 60s, Imperial, Special Weapons, Time War, Supreme, Progenitor) welded together. Rebuilding itself parallels Regeneration
This Scout now represents every Dalek the Doctor has ever fought. 13 must defend her new friends from the ghost of the Time War and let go of her violent past/the Messiahanic persona (i.e. the wall paintings and warlock-myth) that RTD and Moffat built
When 13 confronts it, she rubs the fact she saved Gallifrey from the Daleks in its face

Aaron’s connection with Ryan empowers him to rebel against the Scout. His time linked to it gives him insight into its plan and how to beat it
Destroy the Dalek by separating its sections - but don’t front-rush it. Intercut this with Yaz and the Alliance destroying the Scout in the past
Ryan is possessed by the Scout after they destroy its shell, not Aaron. Aaron risking his life to save Ryan from the Supernova and asking him to hold on is proof of his commitment to him. At the last second Graham is there, and together they pull Ryan to safety
Ryan doesn’t immediately forgive Aaron, but he’s willing to give him a second chance - an arc for series 12.

With the Scout destroyed and its interference lifted, 13 returns for Yaz. She sees 8 from across the battlefield, they lock eyes and she slams the door

13 worries learning about her past with the Daleks will change how the Fam sees her. Make explicit that she’s avoided places she’s been before because she wants a fresh start

Ryan and Graham are getting along fine, they’ve avenged Grace’s murder and now Ryan is talking to his Dad. 13 worries everyone has outgrown her.
Yaz comforts 13 - she doesn’t need to save their lives for them to want to travel with her - it’s their job to save her. They’re here because they care about her. (think the ‘Not just mates. Family’ scene at the end of Fugitive of the Judoon)

Michael Cudlitz = Epzo

Phoebe Waller-Bridge = Angstrom

Ian McShane = Ghost Monument trilliomare

Harvey Guillern = The Good Doctors patient

Shohreh Aghdashloo - The Good Doctors General

Lin Manuel Miranda = When the Whales Came

Richard Madden = second Stenza

Finn Jones = Charlie

Charles Dance = Tim Sr

Ti’ana Miller = Mrs Shaw

Ruth Wilson = O

Jim Rash = Kerblam! Exec

DIALOGUE IDEAS

(I like the idea of 13 talking like a motivational cat poster- she spouts pithy one-liners about hope and optimism because that’s the kind of person she’s trying to be. It comes from a genuine place, but sometimes it feels like she’s reading off a bumper sticker. As things get tough Team TARDIS call her out on it.)

R: Ice cream is cheaper than therapy.

Y: You can’t solve every problem with Ice cream.

R: I can try. Now shut up and eat your feelings.

Y: Thanks.

13: Don’t try to be clever, it makes everyone very uncomfortable.

13: Don’t be silly - a wall’d provide much better quality conversation

13: All I need to know is that one of us is right and the other one is you.

13; I’m sorry, did the middle of my sentence interrupt the beginning of yours?

13: There’s no need to repeat yourself, I ignored you just fine the first time.

I disagree

13: That’s OK, I can’t force you to be right.

You ignored me!

13: My survival instincts kicked in. ‘Boredom’ would be a terrible thing to have on your tombstone.

13: I’m so clever, sometimes I can’t even keep up with myself.

R: You’re talking to yourself again

13: Well, sometimes even I need expert advice.

13: Problem with … is you don’t know about the teeth ‘til your well into the mouth

13: I’m a creator, a thinker, forger of dreams - or, as my friends’d tell you, an idiot.

13: Y’know what they say. A dream a day keeps reality away.

13: This stage of my journey through the universe is called the mid-life anything goes

13: Because I’m currently unsupervised, and that should make you very, very worried.

13: Fear isn’t a choice. What you do with it is.

13: Scared is the natural state. If life doesn’t scare you you’re not doing it right.

G [about 13’s speeches]: d’you think she practices in the mirror?

R: Reckon she’s got a buncha flash cards stashed in those pockets.

13: To travel is to be proven wrong, constantly. Sometimes even about yourself.

13: The more you see, the more you know you haven’t

13: I don’t wander. Not anymore. Wandering is distraction. Movement, that’s purpose. Travel is fulfillment.

13: Come on. Let’s do some ‘you shouldn’t be doing this’ type-stuff

13: So what? Make them notice you. Exist loudly.

13: I like spaceships. I like anywhere that isn’t a proper place. The in-betweens.

13: I did not come this far only to come this far.

13: We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.

13: I love being me. It annoys all the right people.

13: The two most important days of your life are the day you’re born, and the day you find out why.

13 [Waiting to try on her new shoes]: It’s not time yet. I’ve gotta wait, and give them their proper moment. Best foot forward. Good boots take you good places.

13: if you can’t convince them, confuse them.

13: The human body is 90% water. You’re basically just cucumbers with anxiety.

13: Things generally don’t go away until they teach us what we need to know.

13: If we were meant to stay in one place we’d have rocks instead of feet.

13: Only the shallow know themselves.

13: Better an oops than a what if.

13: I’ve learnt so much from my mistakes. Why not make a few more?

13: Bubbles. There’s not really an angry way to say ‘bubbles’

13: Go on. Underestimate me. That’ll be fun.

13: Time is precious. Waste it wisely.

13: Sometimes you’ve gotta play the fool to fool the fools who think they’re fooling you.

13: Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

13: Never let school get in the way of learning, Ryan.

Jamie-Lee O’Donnell (Derry Girls): Angstrom

T’iana Miller: Wife

Richard Madden (GoT, Bodyguard): 2nd Stenza

Witchfinders Girl

Witchfinders Lady

Michael Cudlitz (The Walking Dead): Epzo

Finn Jones (Iron Fist): Charlie

Tom Ellis (Lucifer): Nurse

Shohreh Aghdashloo (The Expanse): General

Harvey Guillen (What We Do in the Shadows): Pregnant Man