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was the eleventh and penultimate episode of series 9 of Doctor Who.
The episode shows the Doctor dealing with and grieving over the death of Clara Oswald, whom he lost to the Quantum Shade in the previous episode. The vast majority of the episode includes just the Doctor by himself with no other characters present, save the veiled figure that menaces him throughout. Jenna Coleman appears only as a manifestation of Clara in the Doctor's imagination. The Doctor's TARDIS is also absent from this episode, except again in the Doctor's imagination.
The episode is notable for a number of truths conceded by the Doctor, with him being inside his own confession dial. It is also notable for showing the Doctor finally finding his way back to Gallifrey since he found out that it was not in fact destroyed in the Time War, but instead placed in a pocket universe.
This story takes place over an outstandingly long period of time, seeing the Doctor stuck in a recursive cycle during which he repeatedly perishes and comes back to life. In the following episode, Hell Bent, it is estimated that this cycle lasts for four and a half billion years, leaving it with one of the single-longest uninterrupted time spans of any given adventure in Doctor Who history.
As if the death of his best friend wasn't enough, the Doctor's situation has only gotten worse. What initially started as an attempt to help clear someone of a false murder charge has evolved into to something much worse.
Now trapped in an old rusty castle in the middle of an ocean, the Time Lord is being stalked by a mysterious creature that only pauses when he gives up his deepest secrets. What does this thing want? And can the Doctor escape and find his way back home?
As gears turn inside the walls of a castle, a mysterious figure, with blood on his hands, makes his way into a room with a teleporter. He flips a switch and collapses to the ground, his body fading away into dust, as the teleporter activates, materialising the Doctor inside its chamber. The Doctor steps out of the teleporter, looking around the room. He bends down to grasp some of the sand on the ground, the memory of Clara's death still fresh in his mind. He then threatens the ones responsible for bringing him there, promising to never stop until he finds them.
The Doctor steps out of the teleporter room and into a circular corridor, filled with windows and a monitor. Looking out one of the windows, he sees that he's inside the central tower of a castle. He speaks out to whoever captured him, again, mentioning that the technology in the teleporter means he can only have been moved a maximum of one light year from where he was before, and he knows that he hasn't travelled in time, so all he has to do is wait until nightfall, and then he'll be able to use the stars to figure out where he is.
Walking down the corridor, he finds a spade, covered in dirt, leaning against one of the walls. He starts shouting again, trying to get the kidnappers to come out and face him. At that moment, the monitor in the corridor activates, showing the Doctor himself on the screen. Seeing that the image is being projected from something outside one of the windows, the Doctor runs over to said window and looks outside. He sees a hooded figure in another window, looking right at him. It is from this figure that the footage on the monitor is coming from. The Doctor backs away from the window in fright, watching as the figure turns and moves away.
Looking at the monitor, the Doctor watches as the image moves down a corridor. The Doctor finds the particular corridor, and sure enough, the figure is coming towards him. The Doctor runs down another corridor to a door but finds the door locked. He turns back in time to see the figure enter the hallway and realises he's seen this creature before. He turns back to the door and uses an old trick he knew when he was younger, to form a psychic link with the door, getting it to unlock.
He opens the door, only to find a wall. He turns back to see the figure coming closer and closer to him. Unfortunately, he can't see a way out of this situation. As the figure reaches for him, the Doctor admits that he is scared of dying, and the figure freezes. The Doctor wonders if this is because of something he said. He notices that even the flies that were buzzing around the figure have also frozen in place.
A noise causes him to step over to the window. He watches as the sections of the castle begin to revolve, rearranging themselves. He turns back to the door to see the wall slide open. Running through the new opening, the Doctor finds himself in a bedroom.
•Azbantium is a material 400 times harder than diamond. The Doctor punches it for four and a half billion years to get through to a portal to Gallifrey.
•Copies of the Doctor find themselves 7000, 12000, 600000, 1200000, 2000000, 20000000, 52000000, "nearly" and "well over" 1000000000, and 2000000000 years into the future.
•Whilst the episode was promoted by various news outlets as a one-hander, the presence of an imagined Clara and the Veil, and the appearance of the young boy at the end of the episode, technically go against this; however, the bulk of the storyline was carried by the Doctor alone with him having all but one line of dialogue. The 2013 mini-episode Clara and the TARDIS remains the only true televised one-hander produced to date. The Companion Chronicle The Stealers from Saiph is the only other one-hander•The Doctor's story that he tells in the beginning, is written on a wall in the old castle. Only certain parts are missing.
•While imagining talking to Clara, the Doctor breaks the fourth wall, looks at the camera and says "I'm nothing without an audience".
•The Doctor imagines he's in the TARDIS with Clara, who writes responses on the blackboards, whenever he needs to think about a scenario. This is quite similar to the "mind palace" from Sherlock, a show created and written by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss; Sherlock would review facts and even talk to mental constructs of people he knows when working out a case/problem.
•In the TV special The Ultimate Time Lord, Steven Moffat had described the Doctor as "an adrenaline junkie. He will toss himself out a window and figure out what to do on the way down." The Doctor does this very thing in the episode. Moffat also joked that "hopeful [as well] if [the Doctor] had a bacon sandwich, he'd finish it on the way down"
•Each and every one of the skulls in the episode were modelled from Peter Capaldi's own skull. The effects team reverse-engineered the shape of his skull from a lifecast that was taken to create the "ghost Doctor" prosthetics for Under the Lake/Before the Flood.
•Jenna Coleman's name has been removed from the opening credits, making this the first regular episode of the revived series to only credit one actor during the title sequence. To make up for the extra time required, Peter Capaldi's name is held on screen for a couple of seconds before moving away, also a first. In keeping with this, in the closing credits, the name of the actor playing the Doctor is seen on screen by itself for the first time, with the companion actress' credit moved to the second screen.
•The Doctor declares to his captors, "the Doctor will see you now". (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
•The Doctor remembers Clara's death and how she told him not to take revenge, as well as telling the reason she got killed; he also refers to the fact she died in agony. (TV: Face the Raven)
•The Doctor refers to a skull which he finds as his "predecessor," not knowing how correct he is in that reference. The Tremas Master had previously referred to a skeleton in the Death Zone on Gallifrey in the same way. (TV: The Five Doctors)
•The Doctor retreats into an imaginary version of the TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Pyramid of Sutekh)
•The Doctor says people should know better than to trap him. The Eleventh Doctor warned the Weeping Angels about the same. (TV: The Time of Angels)
•The Doctor retreats to the lower level of the mental recreation of the TARDIS console room when he becomes emotional, and sits in almost exactly the same place as the Eleventh Doctor did when faced with an enforced journey to Trenzalore. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
DVD & Blu-ray releases
•Heaven Sent was released as part of the Series 9, Part Two DVD and Blu-ray boxsets in region 1/A on 26 January 2016, in region 2/B on 4 January 2016 and in region 4/B on 13 January 2016, •It was later released as part of the Complete Ninth Series DVD and Blu-ray boxsets in region 1/A on 5 April 2016, in region 2/B on 7 March 2016 and in region 4/B on 9 March 2016.
Digital releases
•In the United Kingdom, this story is available on BBC iPlayer.
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Apr 19, 2021 · The Doctor is trapped in a chamber by a creature that only stops when he tells the truth. He has to relive the same day for 4.5 billion years to escape and find his way to Gallifrey.
"Heaven Sent" is the eleventh and penultimate episode of the ninth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 28 November 2015. It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Rachel Talalay.
HEAVEN-SENT meaning: 1. If someone or something is heaven-sent, he, she, or it arrives or happens, usually unexpectedly…. Learn more.
Mar 27, 2008 · Heaven Sent Lyrics: Sent from heaven / Sent from heaven / Now you can wait your whole life wondering / When it's gonna come or where it's been / You may have got your heart broken a few times...
Nov 28, 2015 · Heaven Sent: Directed by Rachel Talalay. With Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Jami Reid-Quarrell. Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives.
