

She repeats the Doctor's advice on fear to the boy and sees him to sleep. When the adults leave, the boy tries to leave the bed, but Clara grabs his ankle, recognising she created this fear in the Doctor. She realises the boy is the Doctor and, consequently, that they are on Gallifrey. Clara goes to investigate, but hides under the boy's bed when two adults enter, speaking of the child being unfit to be a Time Lord. The TARDIS ends up in a barn, with a boy fitfully sleeping inside. Orson rescues him, and Clara uses the telepathic circuits to try to return home. An air seal ruptures and the Doctor falls unconscious. The Doctor returns to the ship in an attempt to observe the entity, while Clara and Orson wait in the TARDIS.

While using the telepathic circuits, the Doctor had found Orson, one of humanity's first time travel pilots, stranded in his ship at the end of the universe. She is beckoned back to the TARDIS by a space-suited figure called Orson Pink, who has the "Dan the soldier man" toy as an heirloom. In the present, Clara returns to apologise to Danny, but her familiarity with his past troubles him, and he leaves. Rupert is comforted and falls back asleep, and the Doctor scrambles his memory, giving Rupert dreams of being "Dan the soldier man", one of the toy soldiers. The Doctor suggests he use his fear to empower him, and Clara suggests he protect himself with his toy soldiers. Rupert is frightened by something under his bed spread. Young Danny's costume, and the figure under the bed, on display at the Doctor Who ExperienceĬlara uses the TARDIS' telepathic circuits to take her to her childhood, but her thoughts wander, and she lands the TARDIS at the children's home where Danny, then known as Rupert, grew up. At her flat, she finds the Twelfth Doctor, who wants her help to explore the idea of an entity with the perfect ability to hide, and how it may be tied to a childhood fear everyone has of a hand grabbing them from under one's bed. She walks out on the date, not wishing to aggravate the situation. "Listen" was watched by 7.01 million viewers in the UK and received critical acclaim for its script, direction and performances.Ĭlara, on a dinner date with Danny, gets into an argument about Danny's army career. In the episode, alien time traveller the Doctor ( Peter Capaldi) attempts to track down a creature with the perfected ability to hide, while his companion Clara ( Jenna Coleman) struggles with a date with former soldier Danny Pink ( Samuel Anderson). It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Douglas Mackinnon.

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" Listen" is the fourth episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 13 September 2014. List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present) Samuel Anderson – Danny Pink/Orson Pink.When we visited the #DoctorWho studios, we shot by the back of the Tardis because the front was already like this. *cries*- I Am Steve Rogers November 22, 2015 #Clara- Nicola Bryant 🇺🇦 🌻 November 21, 2015 on Saturday, as “Whovians” (plus “Doctor Who” alum Nicola Bryant) expressed their sadness about the episode. #DoctorWho trended on Twitter and Facebook after the show aired in the UK and U.S. Be a Doctor." #DoctorWho /fS8O49NcBN- Doctor Who on BBC America November 22, 2015Ĭlara had been the Doctor’s companion for nearly three years and had particularly good chemistry with Capaldi, as the 12th incarnation of the Doctor. She didn’t realize that it meant certain death for her, but as her fate became clear she told the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) not to let her death change him and faced her chilling demise (by a ghostly raven) with bravery.
