Doctor Who 9.4 "Before the Flood" Review

                                                
The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) walks us through the TARDIS talking about Beethoven and how someone comes along and gets him to sign his name to all his sheet music, who then goes on to use it and he becomes Beethoven.  He talks about the Bootstrap Paradox (see below) and to "go ahead and Google it."   (Which presumably we all did and will do.)  Then playing Beethoven's Fifth on his electric guitar.

Clara (Jenna Coleman) is on the base with Lunn (Zaqi Ismail) and Cass (Sophie Stone) as they watch the Doctor still outside.  Lunn asks if Clara's been in these situations before and he doesn't know what he should say to her.  What would she say.  She tells him that everything's going to be all right and the Doctor will come back for her.  He asks if she believes that and she does.  Cass works out the Doctor outside is saying their names, Moran, Pritchard, Prentis, O'Donnell, Clara .

Back in time in the village, the Doctor says they're back in Scotland in the '80's and a Soviet training camp, as he licks his finger and holds it in the wind to tell them that.  O'Donnell (Morven Christie) used to be in Military Intelligence and she was fired for dangling a colleague out the window.  He asks how you do that.  They head to the spaceship which is already there and it holds a DB, the Doctor explains the ship is a hearse.  The message is already on the wall too.  Prentis (Paul Kaye) approaches and he hands them out his cards.  He's from another planet but he's found his way here to use the entire planet.  The Doctor throwing his card away like last ep.  He doesn't need a card, as he says later on to Bennett, he's "a dead man walking."  Watch out for O'Donell look away when there's aloud thumping sound, for later.  When they return to the TARDIS and he converses with Clara via her phone. She tells him he's here and that he's saying something different. She then shows the Doctor to the Doctor (which is what I said, couldn't she have used the phone camera before.)  The Doctor notices his sleeve is torn at the shoulder.

He wants to talk with the doctor and she places the phone on the cabinet.  The Doctor looks at him after he's let the ghost out of the Faraday cage.  The Doctor remarking how it's nice to speak with someone like him.  Clara asks if he can go back in time and change the future but it will cause other things to change.  The Doctor tells them to head to the cage but she won't be able to use the phone, so she should leave it outside and watch for his contacting her.

They head  back to the ship after the conversation, but O'Donnell doesn't want to stay behind as he asks her to and also Bennett (Arsher Ali) does too, cos he's protecting her.  If you hadn't already realized it, he's got feelings for her.  She tells the Doctor she's not staying cos that's what got her fired from the base. When they get to the ship, they find the Fisher King (Neil Fingleton) gone and then hear loud thumping.  They need to get back to the TARDIS now.  I now they always leave the TARDIS in one place after they land, but why don't they use it to get around more often, even if it's short distances. Guess the Doctor would say, where's the fun in that.  They split up and O'Donnell hides and the Doctor and Bennett run into a room.  He puts a chair up against the door and the Doctor looks at him strangely.  The Fisher King walks past them and then the walking sound stops.  O'Donnell comes out of her hiding place and stands with her back to the camera.  Obviously he's going to come out behind her.  The Doctor and Bennett get to her, but it's too late.  Bennett confronts him saying he knew this would happen and this was just his experiment.  He knows the order of the names and he asks who's next.  That would be Clara.   Benetta saying he's going to save her now but he couldn't save O'Donnell.  He let her die.

Heading back to the TARDIS they leave but the TARDIS doesn't go anywhere.  Coming out the Doctor finds they're still here and then hears them outside by the other TARDIS, there's two of them.  Which means they've only gone back in time half an hour.  Bennett wants to warn O'Donnell but he tells him they can't and they need to stay out of sight.  Even Prentis is alive and they return to the scene where they met him before.   They hide behind some bins and Bennett thinks Prentss should know about his death.  The Doctor pulls Bennett back and stops him from going, as they fall behind the bins.  When they reemerge, the Doctor has a torn shoulder in his sleeve.  The Doctor says they don't have a right to warn him.   Bennett tells him he's going to save Clara now, which the Doctor will do, he's not saving himself, cos he's already a dead man walking.

The Doctor heads into a building where there's the statis pod and also the Fisher King.  How did he know where to look?  The pod is beginning the countdown to open.  He tells him how he's a Time Lord and they showed their teeth and began killing, except for the Doctor, he can see their deaths and he wanted to change things.  The Doctor tells him they can't go back in time cos of the ripple effect and change things.  Any little thing could have a huge ramification.  The Fisher King is stealing their souls and turning them into ghosts.  He replies it's to get his armada here and fight.  The Doctor tells him he's not guilty of using time but of destroying people and their souls.  Using them as electromagnetic pathways.  The statis pod opens and the Doctor appears in the TARDIS mentioning a safety protocol, before the TARDIS leaves and heads to the base.

Back at the base, O'Donnell appears and she walks towards them.  Then spots the phone and takes it. Er, how'd she pick it up then, assuming the phone isn't metal but plastic, even if it has metallic components, we saw last ep, they had to specifically touch the metal part.  Clara then tells them that Lunn can get the phone back cos he didn't see the message in the ship and it's not imprinted in his synaptic brainwaves.  That's why Pritchard didn't kill him.  (As I said in the last ep review.)
He leaves and Cass wants to go and search for him.  Clara convinces her it will be okay but then says if they're going they're going together.

Lunn encounters the others and they stare at him but he's able to walk past them back to the other room, where he find the phone, but gets locked in.  As Clara and Cass try to find him, they get separated and Clara slaps  her head saying she's a fool.  Moran comes after Cass with an axe (with a wooden handle, he's not exactly holding the metal part of it) and drags it along the floor making an awful lot of noise.  She doesn't hear it, but then puts her hand to the floor and feels the vibrations. Moran strikes with the axe, but she makes a run for it.  SO if Clara was next, how come MOran came after Cass before anyone could get Clara.   Meeting up with Clara they get Lunn out and then they head for he cage when the ghosts return.  They enter the room with the statis pod which is about to open.

The Fisher King heads back to the ship after the Doctor convinced him that there's no message on the wall.  He goes inside and sees that the message is still there and he's been tricked.  He lied, of course he did, which is what I said.  Love saying that line, "I'm the Doctor and I lie."  Becoming eponymous with Doctor Eleven (at least for me it was.)  Opening up the box with the power cells inside, one is missing.  (Now we know where the missing power cell went last ep and why no one could find it, the Doctor already took it for flooding the village this ep.)  This one the Doctor's placed outside and is aimed towards the dam, which breaks and water runs out, drowning the Fisher King.  The statis pod opens and the Doctor emerges from it wearing his shades. The ghosts hear the Fisher King calling and they walk to the cage where they're locked in.

There, see the Doctor was just a hologram as I mentioned last ep.  If they could have one for Clara of course they could have one for him.  The giveaway here, or the clue was the Doctor's torn coat. which means he tore it in the future and then came back with this plan of his.  UNIT will leave the cage in outerspace where it can't interfere with the earth's magnetic field and the ghosts will eventually fade. The Doctor uses the sonic , er, shades to wipe the message from their memories.  He'll do Bennett's later as he looks at O'Donnell in the cage.  Clara tells him not to give up and to go on and live.  As she's done after Danny.  There are endless possibilities in the galaxy.  Bennett tells Lunn to give Cass a message saying how much Lunn loves her.  To tell her before it's too late, which he does and she kisses him.

The Doctor says that they all will die one day and then explains about Beethoven and how he wrote all that music and was Beethoven.  So he went back in time and set all the events in motion, with the missing power cell, the message in the ship and lying to the Fisher King, as well as the hologram and being in the statis pod.  But he couldn't save anyone else who was already dead, even if he knew they were going to die.
Though it wasn't hard to guess (as in last week's ep that the Doctor was a hologram.  It was just a way for the Doctor to communicate between Clara and also for him to fool the Fisher King and stop the signals.  The Fisher King was voiced by Peter Serafinowicz and Corey Taylor did the scream.

He refers to the Bootstrap Paradox and if you knew what that meant beforehand (or even not) you'd know just what the Doctor was up to.  The Bootstrap Paradox being a way for someone to go back in time to begin an event in the past, which eventually causes something to happen in the future.  This is what he meant when he said he went back in time and took Beethoven's manuscripts.  Since in the past he discovers Beethoven wouldn't write music.  So the Doctor copied his music and then later in time he listens to his music and decides he wants to go back in time and meet the composer.  Who (no pun) then wrote the Fifth Symphony?  The Doctor or Beethoven?

The Bootstrap Paradox was based on a book by Robert Heinlen, called By His Bootstraps. In which a writer goes back in time and writes a book by copying each line of it.  He then finds he was the actual author of it.  But did he really write it?

Anyway, O'Donnell mentions Harold Saxon and then also the Minister of War which makes the Doctor all ears and we wonder why?  Anyway as he tells Bennett Clara is next in line and that's why he has to save her, above all.  Bennett adding that's why he'll change history and help her. It's like that's some sort of foreshadowing to something that may happen to Clara later on, it did sound that way.  Also the Fisher King is the one who has not only meddled in time, but more seriously he has played with matters of life and death.  Then there's the FisherKking telling the Doctor he is "one man lost in time."  A reference to Gallifrey and its re-emergence perhaps.  But he is a time traveller anyway,  Once again we had more messing around with the timey wimey.  So much for the Doctor telling Clara and the Fisher King that he can't alter time and what's happened as it could lead to a massive alteration somewhere.

Eye Candy 1.5 "IRL" Review

                                          
Hamish (Eric Sheffer Stevens) from Reconnoitre (okay I spelled it the French way, ha) decides to throw a party to show the Virtual Killer that New Yorkers aren't afraid of him. Lindy (Victoria Justice) thinks it'll be a good idea for them to grant him a licence so that they can monitor who comes and goes, thinking the killer may show up.  Choosing Sophia's (Kiersey Clemons) club, IRL, as the venue.  Elsewhere, Tommy (Casey Jon Deidrick) gets home to find his apartment cleared out of all his furniture and belongings, including his dog. There's a man there who says there was an online ad telling people to come and take everything.  Remember him for later.  Tommy rushes down to the pound after tracking his dog and he would've been put down in 96 hours, but he hasn't been there that long.  The man shows him the file which says, "Bubonic."  Apparently, Bubonic is a hacker the NYPD has been after and it's his one year anniversary, since it's been a year since he struck. Catherine (Melanis Nicholls-King) tells Tommy he should've told her he's been in touch with him.

Connor (John Garet Stoker) goes on a date with Oliver (Parker Pogue) and they attend a dining in the dark place.  Connor takes a potty break, checking himself out in the mirror before he goes in (ha) and there's a woman with a loud, freaky laugh at the restaurant, which gets Oliver a reprieve from being killed, as she's had her throat slit and her tongue placed on a plate on the table.  If it wasn't for her, he'd be dead by now.  That's what I said, she should've got it cos of her imperfect, irritating laugh.

Lindy spots Jake (Ryan Cooper) at the club, but she doesn't want to talk to him cos she's the reason he was arrested.  Sophia thinks she should tell him about Ben before he finds out he was arrested cos of her.  Oliver turns up at the party even though Connor thinks he wouldn't after what happened last night.  Sophia is also adamant the undercover cops shouldn't wear polyester.  As the party gets underway, the video screen's taken over and there's a virtual lockdown of the club.  A voice on the screen sets up a game and for each activity that is highlighted they do, they can win up to a million dollars.  Including kissing your neighbour for $250,  Connor decides against it cos he doesn't want their first kiss to be about money.

Then things like licking the sole of a shoe, punching someone, cutting off a finger.  Which quickly gets out of control.  Tommy gets a message to meet him outside before the lockdown of the club and he gets beaten up by someone who claims he's been seeing his girlfriend behind his back, showing him a photoshopped picture, which he doesn't accept isn't really Tommy.  Tommy lies beaten on the ground and is visited by a man in one of those Venetian doctor masks.

Lindy needs to get out of there and find Tommy and Sophia suggests the boiler room window.  She realizes they're dealing with Bubonic, the world's greatest hacker, who went bad.  In the boiler room Jake is knocked out and handcuffed to a pipe near a bomb.  George (Harvey Guillen) says the bomb is most likely connected to the temperature of the boiler room and also the money being won which will trigger it off.  They need to reverse the game and get all the money back.

Hamish also tries to hire Lindy to get his money back which has been stolen and is being used for the game.  She says she's not for hire.  She needs the phone which Bubonic (Peter Mark Kendall) has and she tracks him with George's help to the boiler room.  She can have the phone or she can catch him, it's her choice.  She prefers to take the phone and he also tells her she's being used by the police and they've kept information from her.  She was arrested by the police and she hanged herself the next morning in her cell by a shoelace.  She manages to give the details from the phone to George and he gets the money total back to one million.  So much for doing stupid things like actually cutting off a finger.

Lindy tells Jake about Ben and he asks if she wants to make $250 and they kiss, but they'll just be friends.  Tommy sees them together.  Oliver forgets his phone inside and goes back to get it, only to find a noose around his neck and is hoisted up.  Connor doesn't find him.  Hamish meets with Bubonic in the alley and he was behind the game, Bubonic owes him now.  So in this ep we get away from the Virtual Killer for a bit until he strikes again at the end.  It had to be him didn't it when he strung up Oliver.  It wasn't Bubonic copying what was happened to the woman he loved.  Seems everyone's lost someone they care about in this but have different ways of getting over it.  Bubonic was Charlie the man in Tommy's apartment at the beginning, but he doesn't know what he looks like, he was right under his nose and that's what I say about the Virtual Killer.  To me it seems it's someone they know, or Lindy knows.

Obviously Lindy and Tommy will get together when they realize their feelings for one another, but I keep coming back to Ben as the killer for some reason, well reasons I've explained before.  Just wondering why Tommy hasn't been targeted by the Virtual Killer yet, or is he biding his time.  This episode was an improvement on the last one, which was a bit low key.

IRL means 'In Real Life'.

Downton Abbey Series 6 Episode 3 Review

Wedding fever is in the air and Mrs Hughes (Phyliss Logan) thinks she'll just wear one of her own dresses, which Mrs Patmore (Lesley Nichol) thinks is very drab for a wedding but it'll have to do. Mrs Patmore orders one from a catalogue.  Cora (Elizabet McGovern) has a word with Mrs Hughes much to Mary's (Michelle Dockery) chagrin about settling the venue for the reception once and for all.  Mary thinking Carson (Jim Carter) should have it in one of the halls since he's been in service at Downton for so many years.  That was snobbish of her, yet she accuses Cora of being snobbish, which is far from right.  Mrs Hughes would prefer somewhere like the school since it's their day and she doesn't want to be here.  Cora understands that since this is where she works and of course she'd want the reception somewhere else and not be reminded of here.  Carson overhears Mary telling Cora about being snobbish.  Isobel (Penelope Wilton) hopes they'll be invited to the wedding.

There's still problems and arguments galore surrounding the hospital merging with the Royal Yorkshire and the Dowager (Maggie Smith) thinks Cora can be persuaded to her line of thinking. However she thinks the merger is a good idea especially after she visits the hospital and has luncheon there too, which the Dowager thinks is a betrayal and Isobel accuses Dr Clarkson (David Robb) of not wanting to go ahead since he's in a position of authority here and she calls him "the king."  Which he doesn't take too kindly to.

The dress arrives but it isn't much better than the one Mrs Hughes was going to wear, it looked better in the catalogue.  There's not much they can do about it and Anna (Joanne Froggatt) mentions it to Mary, who thinks she can wear one of Cora's embroidered coats over it, but no one asks Cora.  Mary also asks Anna if she's pregnant but it's too early for her to tell.  Saying that it's not Bates's (Brendan Coyle) fault then. Mary adding as soon as three months are over they'll pop down to London and she can get her business done.  Anna acting coy over half the things Mary says.

Edith (Laura Carmichael) has to go to London again having more problems with the editor and she'll stay at the flat instead of with Rosamund.  Even if no one will see it as proper she says she's almost middle aged now anyway.  Edith meets Bertie Pelham (Harry Hadden-Paton) there and they met last year.  More filming of Downton at legal London, by Lincoln's Inn and outside the bookshop, known as Wildy and Sons on Carey Street. They added an underground sign outside for good measure.  He asks Edith for a drink later before he heads home and she accepts.  When she gets back to the office she gets fed up of the editor refusing to listen to her and sacks him.  Now she has to get the magazine to the printers herself by 4am. Telling him she can't have a drink, why didn't she just phone him. Bertie comes along and helps her cos he was going to ask her to dinner anyway.  They get the magazine out and he tells her she makes him feel needed and appreciative.  Edith feels she needs a purpose and this job gives her a purpose, but she won't be taking this over just yet.  She'll get a caretaker editor for the time being.  Of course Mary isn't so impressed when she shows Robert the stills/proofs of the magazine, cos Miss Snooty Pants turns her nose up at everything, especially anything to do with Edith.

Mary's got a letter from Branson (Alan Leech) who had a dream about walking by the trees at Downtown and waking up in tears.  He misses home and she says she'll write him later after the wedding, talk about lazy.  Cora returns home from the awful meeting where she's badgered by the Dowager for taking sides with Isobel again and rushes up before Mary tells her the others are up in her room.  Cora loses her temper at them saying someone should've told her, feeling like the scavengers are rifling through her clothes.  Anna, Mrs Patmore and Mrs Hughes leave.  Anna tells Mary about what happened and Mary tries to fix it in her meddling way.  She tells Cora she told them they could borrow a coat, but it would've been courteous if she had asked her first.

Cora gives Mrs Hughes a coat and apologizes since she was angry about something else and took her anger out on them.  Which Mrs Patmore says they've all done.  Baxter (Raquel Cassidy) fixes the coat for her.  Daisy (Sophie McShera) gets high hopes for Mr Mason (Paul Copley) taking over the Drewe farm and she thinks that's what Cora meant when she said she has a plan.  So she confronts Cora about it thinking that's what's going to happen and Mr Mason will be able to take it over.  Jumping the gun as usual, she still hasn't learnt her lesson and doesn't keep her mouth shut.  Molesley (Kevin Doyle) telling her she mustn't get carried away yet.

Thomas (Rob James-Collier) is determined to find another position before he's sacked, but why are Robert (Hugh Bonneville) and Carson so set on firing him anyway.  It's not like they don't have enough room for him.  He's also angry that the others have poisoned Andy (Michael Fox) against him, when he told him about the position at Downton and he just wants to be his friend, which he was, until they said otherwise.  Baxter tells him to tell Andy that.

Thomas applies for an interview at Dryden Park which Robert used to attend with the family years ago.  Living up to its name, it was kind of dry.  The place is empty now with only a few staff so Thomas can't see why it was still advertized as being prestigious.  Even if royalty had been there in   the past, that's not the present.  Sir Michael (Ronald Pickup) wants someone who's clearly all in favour of royalty and Thomas hasn't thought about it.  It's not the right place for him.  Spratt (Jeremy Swift) is hiding a secret which Denker (Sue Johnston) finds out about, in Great Expectations fashion, he's been hiding his nephew who's on the run from prison.  She tells him she'll keep his secret but obviously that'll come at a price.

The day of the wedding arrives and manages to go off without a hitch. The Dowager finds Dr Clarkson might be changing his mind about the merger being a good thing for the local hospital, which the Dowager isn't pleased about.  She thinks that a peer like Lord Merton (Douglas Reith) changing his mind and being in favour of reform, is like a turkey wanting Christmas.  The school teacher thinks Molesley missed his calling as a teacher since he's all for "education opening up a gate" for all possibilities.  Daisy blabs to Mr Mason about the farm before anything's been decided and before Cora gets to put him right, Branson returns.  He's home now and he had to go to Boston to realize that this is his home, if they'll have him.  Of course they will since they want Sibby around.

More fairly routine things happening here and nothing to get too excited about.  There really isn't much to enjoy this last series and it feels like stories were just being made up as they went along to get through the final series.  Still we got some funny lines like Mrs Hughes wanting a proper breakfast table for the wedding, with solid food, not these posh nibbly canapes getting stuck in teeth. Much to Mary's surprise and being put in her place when she tells her people still do the sit-down wedding breakfast tables bit.

Doctor Who 9.3 "Under The Lake" Review

                                                   
In an underwater mining facility known as The Drum, (oil drum?) in Scotland, the crew has taken on board a spacecraft or some sort of ship which looks alien.  They see a man with a hat in period attire who also has hollow eyes.  Just before they can find out what it is, Captain Moran (Colin McFarlane) is killed.  He then later appears to them as some sort of an apparition with his eyes hollowed out which they call a 'ghost.'

The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) arrive but he tells her the TARDIS isn't happy being here, though he can't yet work out why.  She wants adventure and asks if they can go back to the place where the creatures with the long necks celebrate new year for two centuries.  So if we did that here, that'd mean no more work! A holiday everyday. Ha.  She wants him to high five her, but he leaves her hanging even when she asks him, "don't leave me hanging!" They encounter the ghosts in the corridor and must seek shelter.  However the Doctor remarks upon how cool they are and how they're not hurting them, until much later.  Apparently these ghost can handle metal objects and use them as weapons. Remarking, "hello, did you want to show us this."  Inside the ship he notices markings which he can't work out and the TARDIS can't translate them.

Once again Steven Moffat delves into the subject of ghosts and the afterlife to an extent as he did in 8.4 Listen last series.  The Doctor talks of how when they die they return in some form and maybe even having killing tendencies than when they were alive.  He'd want to ask questions like what it's like on the other side.  That there is no end after death.  Also similar to Danny when he died and he allowed that boy to come back.  Clara is over Danny as the Doctor tells her she needs a new relationship and that's what humans do.  They're always writing about it in songs, or getting tattoos. The TARDIS wants to leave this place and he says it's cos of the ghosts and that's why she didn't want to be here. So he applies the handbrake to stop her from leaving.  Also Clara is ready to go back out there.   The Doctor says he's seen all this before and Clara remarks how he just "poo-pooed the ghost theory."

The crew opens up the cage for them, which we  later learn is a Faraday Cage for radiation leaks, incase there's one on the base.  He shows them his card, and Pritchard (Steven Robertson) notices he's with UNIT.  He then hands the Doctor his own card, he's with Vector Petroleum.  Which the Doctor takes and comically throws down on the floor.  He's just into money and later when they examine the craft the Doctor finds a power cell missing.  None of them took it, but Pritchard thinks it could be worth something.

One of the crew is deaf, Cass (Sophie Stone) and needs a translator/signer, Lunn (Zaqi Ismail)  Though not being horrible, but half the time she doesn't even look at him when he's signing for her, too busy looking at the Doctor or the screen.  But she's in charge and why don't any of the other crew tell the Doctor what's happened.  They see them as ghosts as they have no other explanation for it and they only come out at night.  So when the computer tells them it's day, they can all come out of the cage.  They have to simulate day and night modes as they're so far below the surface.  The Doctor tells them he's sorry for their loss after Clara prompts him with the cards.  Seems he needs those to express his emotions.

The computer manages to turn day mode back into night before it's time which sends them into a tizzy and they must gather what they need and return to the age.  With O'Donnell (Morven Christie) trying to fix the mode back to day.  Pritchard returns from outside after looking for the missing powercell and is drowned in the locked chamber.  His ghost then returns and Bennett (Arsher Ail) thinks it's really him when Clara sees him floating outside.  If there was a man overboard, wouldn't it be too late to rescue him anyway, clearly he had no signs of life.  Pritchard picks up the chair by its metal legs and is about to throw it when day is re-activated.  The frozen statis chamber emerges which they surmize contains the pilot and when he was inide the ship, he's written those symbols They're co ordinates and they're like magnets sending out magnetic pulses so the message is imprinted in their minds.

The Doctor comes up with the plan of getting the ghosts into the chamber whereby he uses Lunn, Clara and Bennett as bait.  They have to follow his directions and hide in the airlocks before the ghosts see which direction they head in.  Which backfires since they split into two groups and Pritchard follows Lunn into the chamber.  He picks up the wrench and appears to whisper something to him, before leaving him alive.  Why did O'Donnell just open the door back to let him out.  They manage to catch them in the cage after they see Clara inside to lure them in, but it's obvious she's a hologram.  The Doctor using his shades again tries to see what they're saying from outside but he can't.

Cass manages to work out, the dark, the sword, the forsaken and temple, by lip reading them."  He enters the cage but they can't  hurt him as they don't have any weapons.  He then realizes the words are actually co ordinates to Orion's belt and earth is the fourth planet thus they need another victim so they can enhance their signal.  The Doctor works out the ghosts were manipulated by someone else. So the village was flooded by water and they find the missing church, the temple.  There's a breach and the base is being flooded.  The Doctor thinks they can escape in the TARDIS.  However he and Clara get separated.  But he promises to come back for her after taking the others to safety.  He's going back in time to see what happened and to prevent the flood.

Clara is stuck with Lunn who asks if he'll return.  Of course he wouldn't leave her behind.  Clara sees someone walking towards them outside and sees it's the Doctor, who is now dead and a walking ghost.  Suppose that was inevitable with all this talk of the Doctor dying.

Clara actually high-fiving the Doctor this time round through the glass, as they're separated. Probably best quote: "surely just being around me makes you clever by osmosis."  As for Pritchard not harming Lunn was it cos he didn't enter the ship and why Cass told him to stay out.  O'Donnell is another fan of the Doctor's.  The Doctor asks the TARDIS, "what's wrong, you're not happy, why aren't you happy.  Why have you brought us here?"  If she was afraid of the ghosts and didn't like being here as he says when they're inside the TARDIS, then why did she bring them here?

Back to one of those eps where the foe is kind of cryptic and they don't know what's going on or why, but seem to find the answers, comically or otherwise.  The real cliffhanger of this ep is what happens to the Doctor, unless he's not really the Doctor but a hologram, as Clara was...we had the Waters of Mars (timely for back then, seeing as water is discovered on Mars) and now we get the lake and what's under it.

Actually liked some of his other index cards, written by Clara of course, including: "I completely understand why it was difficult to not get captured."  "No one ins going to get eaten, vapourized, exterminated, upgraded, possessed, mortally wounded, turned to jelly.  We'll all get out of this unharmed."  [unless you're the Doctor, added by me.]  "After two weeks of Peter Andre's Mysterious Girl [clearly not a reference to Clara] I was begging for the brush of death's merciful hand." Ironically he may just get exactly that.  Other references included Shirley Bassy and his behaviour after seeing her and also someone turning up with a peanut allergy he needs to know about right now.

CSI "Immortality" Final Episode Review

                                                 
Time to draw the final curtain on a show that most of us would've grown old with, but one that set the bar for forensics and criminalistics the world over.  SO the 'old' gang was back, except for Nick (George Eads) seems they didn't want him back just cos he left at the end of Season 15.  Okay I'm assuming that's why, maybe he didn't want to return, but he could've had a small part, like perhaps bailing Grissom (William Petersen) out of his little predicament when he was arrested for allegedly shark poaching and for trespassing on the poacher's boat.  Cos correct me if I'm wrong, but Nicky was in San Diego, yes! The show wasn't the without him!

The action starts when a man enters Catherine's (Marg Helgenberger) casino, the Eclipse and is wired with a bomb.  He asks the teller for change of a penny and then he proceeds to press the button. Clearly he was getting orders from someone else as he put his finger to the earpiece.  The team arrive and DB (Ted Danson) tells Sara (Jorga Fox) that she can take lead since she's going for the directorship when he leaves.  Which wasn't really spelled out that clearly or at all.  Catherine's also been called and so she arrives but Sara wants her to stay out of it cos there's an obvious conflict of interest.   Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) is also working at the casino now.  Catherine speaks with Romina (Alexandra Barreto) who was with the bomber moments before and he asked her to accompany him to the window when he found out she she has children, or so it appears.  She tells Catherine her daughters' names, Maria and Helena and then dies.

                                     
Sara speaks with the bomber's widow, Aisha Karmima  - when in doubt for names, always go for the most obvious with Aisha! (Yasmine Aker) who happens to be Muslim and wears a Hijab.  She tells Sara how she came to America to escape being stoned for being a woman and for no reason at all.  That she met him and they fell in love, so he converted.  However she doesn't see him as a terrorist, but rather her husband.  Also that he was a gambling addict and things got worse when his therapist quit.  Sara apologizes for offending her, she didn't mean to, but she knows full well the sort of abuse women suffer the world over, irrespective of religion.

Ecklie (Mark Vann) wants Grissom on the case cos Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) found a gold box flying out from the bomber's jacket in the security footage and she asks Greg (Eric Szmanda) and Hodges (Wallace Langham) if anyone found it.  Greg said he saw it and Hodges shows her the false pocket sewn into his jacket which is where the box was kept.  The box has the initial 'LHK' which belong to Lady Heather (Melinda Clarke).  Sure any old excuse to bring her back.  Sara tells Ecklie she and Greg can handle it, they've dealt with her before, but he insists Grissom could get more results from her.  She reluctantly gives him Grissom's number.  Harbour Patrolman Scinta (Michael Beach) is told to release Grissom and he now sails the oceans in search of poachers and is into conservation big time.

Grissom passes a new girl in forensics who's just got made Grade 1 and he doesn't recognize her.  She mentions chocolate coloured grasshoppers and this was referring to the Pilot and Holly Gribbs, also a newbie who was killed at a CS.  Apparently turns out she's Lyndsey (Katie Stevens) Catherine's daughter and Catherine later asks him to help her out in the lab with analyzing the suitcase that's later left outside and she brings it in.  When they think it was a bomb.  Grissom's more content with drawing whales though. That's what he's into now and you have to ask if she didn't tell him who Lyndsey was, would Grissom have really bothered to help anyone else.  Probably not.

A woman at a school play leaves her seat and heads towards the stage.  She has a bomb strapped to her and stands in front of the stage.  Finally a man gets her out of the way and see the bomb, you mean no one saw that flashing red light where she was sitting.  She hesitates and says she'll burn in hell for what she's going to do.  The bomb disposal expert, Anthony Hurst (Jason Gerhardt) is sent in and he tries to talk her down and to disarm the bomb, but he's not able to tell if the voice on the other end is male or female.  Instead she says time's up and detonates.  No one is able to find Heather, as Grissom and Sara head to her house.  They haven't said a word at all in the car and she says they're both professionals and can act that way.  Grissom thought he was talking to her.  The door's open and inside they find blood on the floor.

The blood doesn't match Heather and it's male.  Grissom finds her and brings her in and she asks if she's a suspect.  Sara, Morgan, Catherine and DB question her and Grissom tells them to go easy on her.  She provokes Sara as she tells her Grissom has been defending her, taking what he taught them about following the evidence and turning that around and thinks she's being framed and Sara has to leave the room when she accuses her of being jealous.  Catherine tells her not to show her emotions to Heather cos she's a woman and if she knows Sara still loves Grissom and so will Heather.  Who insists she isn't the mastermind behind the bombings and isn't controlling them.  Grissom works out the gold box and the pin also found is a key to Heather's red room in the dungeon.  (Apparently Grissom's safe word was 'stop'.)  Funny scene when Greg explains to DB who Heather is and how she knew Grissom, not in a sexual way, but intellectual.   Greg's awkward moment.

Heather gives up her list of clients and she closed her practice after her grand daughter was run over and killed.  There are 13 suspects and Sara narrows down the list since the DNA was male.  Heather further narrows it down to 5 suspects since some of them have died.  Sara takes DNA swabs from them and my most obvious suspect was the one who made no bones about being Heather's first client, Dalton Betton (Doug Hutchison).  Had to be him, why else would he brag about being the first. However none of their DNA matches the blood.  Grissom asks Henry (Jon Wellner) how much he weighs, around 160lbs, cos he's going to blow him up, so out in the desert he attaches a bomb to a dummy and then they see the blast pattern is the same as the one in the casino.  He also knows that only part of the C4 was used and they wonder where the rest of it could be.  Henry looked rather shocked!

Lyndsey wheels in a suitcase from outside as it has Grissom's name on the tag thinking he left his luggage behind.  That really didn't look like the type of suitcase he'd be using.  Catherine shouts "bomb."  However turns out there's a DB inside.  Doc (Robert David Hall) analyzes the body and finds what David (David Berman) calls a micro SD card.  Then they have him say what SD stands for, as if no one would know.  On there they see a message from the bomber who's tried to disguise himself with a digital pattern.  DB decides to undo the pixels on the image and see if he can get the ID.  He manages to get an ear and then he notices the picture also has a whorl of a fingerprint and he attempts to match it.

He processes the suitcase with Lyndsey, teaching her rhyming poems and she notices the 'X' sticker on the case, which spells out co ordinates to a warehouse, where Gissom heads to with Mitch (Larry Mitchell)  and prefers to go in alone.  Here he finds a cadaver.  Doc tells him it's a synthetic one so doctors don't have to use real dead bodies, but both he and Grissom prefer the real ones.  Doc manages to get stung on his hand and Grissom manages to catch the bee.  It's a queen bee which has been deserted by its colony.  Sara wants to help him and they head out to Mount Charleston.
Here they paint the bees different colours and see if they come back home from different sections of the mountain and test the for the presence of the human.  DB gets a match and Catherine says he's one of the client's Sara interviewed.  As Grissom also finally gets a match on the location from the bee coloured red.

Catherine heads to his apartment building as Grissom heads to the cabin.  In the car park, they find the car alarms going off in five cars.  Catherine pops the boot and finds a bomb inside set to go off in five minutes.  Greg and Morgan find the same in the other cars.  Catherine says they're wired simultaneously and they have to diffuse them at the same time.  They can't wait for the bomb squad as the apartment's also heavily populated.  She tells this to Grissom too.  The suspect, client number 1, Dalton, which didn't come as a shock at all comes out strapped to a bomb and says either they will die or his friends will die.  He has cancer and as Grissom explains if he had stem cell surgery his DNA would be altered and it'd be like being two different people.  He's angry that Grissom came along and took Heather's heart.  He tells him she never loved him and Heather was never intimate with her clients.  Thus Sara learns nothing happened between him and Heather, which kind of reassures her, but then Grissom wasn't her client.  Catherine tells them they need to cut the red wire but Morgan gets nervous and drops the clippers.  Catherine managing to shout out, "I love you" as they're all in this together.  Managing to cut the wires they diffuse the bomb and Morgan is a nervous wreck, needing to be hugged by Greg and Catherine.

Grissom knows about being in control but Dalton doesn't have any power and he manages to take the trigger from him.  Seems he was a coward after all and could only get those people to kill themselves.
The other funny line here was with Grissom in his first scene, when he talks about the shark fins and "jumping the shark."  Which really CSI never did!  Also pondering the name DB when he's about to be introduced to him and saying that his brains have been replaced by mushrooms.  Catherine breaking the news of their mother's death to the girls and then possibly going to look after them, as she tells DB if Sara decides against the directorship, she'd like to take it over and come home.  Cos it's Vegas and Lyndsey's here too.  Sara gets the directorship and Grissom is happy for her.  She tells him it's all changed, she didn't want to stay in Vegas but has and he didn't want to leave but did.  Not much of a goodbye there from them.

Grissom tapes Heather's final statement  and he tells her how Sara's been everything to him, including his friend and how she helped him with his crosswords.  Yet they two of them couldn't talk about their feelings when they were right there together. We know why.  Lyndsey comes in with Heather's tape and tells her she saw the interrogation and Sara should watch the end.  That was shortlived, no sooner had Sara sat behind that desk, that she leaves it.  Guessing Catherine got the job then, but why didn't we see what happened with Morgan and Greg.  Would've liked to have seem more of Greg since he's been there a long time too and he had very little to do here.  He'll hang around at the lab of course, but it would'be been good to see him featured more.

Db leaves and he takes Finn's belongings with him, saying wherever he goes, she goes, as he heads east this time.  This was the only time she was mentioned, but she was recovering from the last season no doubt.  You know I didn't even notice she wasn't in the opening credits.  The show was more baout the original cast though and I didn't much like her character anyway.

Thus it ends, as Sara and Grissom sail off into the sunset together.  Glad they did finally get them together since Sara went through plenty after their divorce and it wasn't something she really wanted. Also that she can now see that not all marriages and partnerships have to be like her mother and father's.  The end of an era!

Eye Candy 1.4 "YOLO" Review

                                           
A group of teens go missing when partying on a party bus.  One of them, Max (Danny Flaherty) seems to be an outsider and is found outside the bus covered in bruises.  The other five are nowhere to be seen.  Lindy (Victoria Justice) looks at the bracelet which reads, 'we will find her.'  She's come in to see Tommy (Casey Deidrick)  but Catherine (Melanie Nicholls-King) thinks Lindy could help them out by looking at their social media pages, since Lindy volunteered to do so.  The pages show their timeline and what they did on the bus, as well as texts between Max and Amy (Taylor Rose).  Max is found and brought in for questioning but he refuses to speak.  Lindy thinks she can speak with him cos she's not 'one of them'.  Also giving him back his phone.  She tells him to try a sling shot: one third cola and two thirds coffee.  She's only helping them out with their cyber units and tells him about her missing sister.  He's an only child so it doesn't look like his parents will miss him.   Catherine wants Tommy to work with Lindy and he has a few ground rules, like he's the cop and she has to listen to the cop, cos the cop is always right.

She plants spyware in his phone and when Tommy questions him again, after Amy's DB is found, he thinks they're accusing him as Lindy insists he should know.  He walks out saying she is one of them. As for the spyware Tommy says she can't do that but Catherine says what they don't see, they don't know.  He's protective of her and only wants to make sure she does the right thing.  There's a Go-Pro camera attached to Amy's wrist and Lindy notices it was on the bus, so the driver, Jarek (Pasha Pellosie) was recording them and uploading the images.

They find everything that they did on the bus, which was filmed by Max as well and they saw him as an outsider and nothing but a loser.  They visit a psychic who's brought onto the bus and she tells them things about themselves, which Amy paid her to do.  Also warning her to stay away from the water.  She tells Tommy that she's paid to say things sometimes, but other times she's not, but he won't believe her.  The card inside the camera is wet, but manages to dry it out and retrieve a video from it. They also learn of The Stowaway, an urban legend and Lindy mentions how the story's been on the Internet.  The video footage shows them on a boat and Amy being afraid as she's being stalked. She then falls into the water.
They think Jarek's involved cos he's vanished and they manage to track him down.  He says he was attacked by the Stowaway and then they find a file's been uploaded to his computer.
Amy paid the psychic but she and Max made up the whole story of the Stowaway to fool their friends.

On the ship Max pretended to be the Stowaway and she pretended to be chased by him and fearing for her life.  They locate the ship and rescue the four teens.  Each one of them tells how Max is just someone they didn't talk to, but borrowed a pen from, or that he's a loser and a nobody.  Lindy tells Max it wasn't his fault that Amy died, it was an accident, she tripped and fell overboard at night.  He's to blame cos he came up with the idea.  He locks himself in the boiler room and turns on the gas. Tommy takes the map from the wall and they find the room, but he refuses to come out and wants to end it all.  Lindy plays a message from Amy saying how she loves him and Tommy tells him if he kills himself he'll lose Amy's memory forever and no one will remember her.  Infact Lindy MacGyvers' the wires from the speaker in the ship to that of her phone, so he can hear Amy's voice. Okay you know me by now, I had to get that 'MacGyverism' in!  Ha.

Lindy was worried about Tony, cos it's obvious there's a spark there (no pun re the explosion on the ship! ha).  That was obvious since ep 1 he had feelings for her.
The psychic tells Tommy that he has feelings for her and should tell her, but he doesn't want to cos he probably thinks he'll betray Ben's memory.  He asks the psychic about Sarah when he shows her photo to her and all she can say is that she's alive.  Lindy is also called by Jake but doesn't take his call, she doesn't know if she wants to see him again.  Yeah she gets him arrested and then ignores him afterwards.

Think this was the weakest ep so far as it just explores general teen themes, you know partying, acting out, their angst and issues with each other and not accepting those they don't see as being perfect or popular, pretty much like the virtual serial killer. Then it also shows how wrong they can be with Max and Amy spending six weeks together in rehab.  She was there for weight loss problems and he was there for depression and attempted suicide, but they got close, so he wouldn't kill her. Lindy also saying her parents sent Sarah to a clinic for six weeks.  I actually prefer watching the killer at least those eps are more interesting than watching teens acting out thinking they're better than everyone else.

The title meaning: you only live once.

Downton Abbey Series 6 Episode 2 Review

A letter arrives from Rose in New York and Mary (Michelle Dockery) thinks Rose may be pregnant since she's coming down in August.  Edith (Laura Carmichael) adding she puts two and two together and comes up 53.  Mr Finch comes to Downton, looking for the agent and Mary surprises him that it's her.  She aims to put the prize pigs from the Drew farm into the show and decides they should have a visit since George insists on seeing the pigs and she thinks Marigold should also go.  Edith doesn't want her to cos she'll be in London dealing with the sexist, sniping editor.  Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) suggests she will take her.  Really it's as if everyone in Downton is under Mary's thumb and as if she runs the place.  To add insult to injury she also gets in between Carson (Jim Carter) and Mrs Hughes (Phylis Logan) telling him he should have the wedding here in one of the halls, after Robert (Hugh Bonneville) suggests they should hold the reception in the servant's quarters and they could jazz it up!  Yes, the servants quarters.  It's no wonder Mrs Hughes has a bee in her bonnet, it's her wedding day and everyone wants to tell her where she should hold it.  She also tells Carson she doesn't feel she should have it at Downton since they work here and aren't really a part of it.

Mary insists they should use the hall as Carson's been here for so long and it wouldn't be right.  He doesn't want it in a school or anywhere else and since they don't have any family, Downton's as good a place as any!  And on it went.  No resolution to this since Mary decides she'll have words with Mrs Hughes and she'll deal with it.  Mary the cause of yet further trouble, as Mrs Drewe Emma Lowndes) arrives at the farm when they're there with the children and can't leave Marigold alone.  Mary thinks there's nothing wrong with that but Cora and Drewe (Andrew Scarborough)  know she needs to let go.

Mary also tells Anna (Joanne Froggatt) she will help her with her pregnancy woes and takes her to see Dr Ryder (Richard Teverson)  who helped her.  He manages to diagnose the problem ad tells Anna when she's pregnant and reaches twelve weeks he'll come and carry out the procedure at her home, which will involve the cervix being sewn with a large stitch.  She cheers up after that when she returns home and Bates (Brendan Coyle) thinks the trip to London did her good after she'd been moping around.  He tells her they could adopt but she calls him "tribal" and that he won't be happy unless he has his own children and she's right as he doesn't disagree with her.  Bates's line to Anna, when eh catches her crying, "you're married, that means you never have to cry alone."  She must've felt reassured after that.  Especially as Mrs Hughes tells Carson she wants one day to herself cos they'll be doing things his way for the next 30 years.  Hmm, wonder what she was implying when she uttered, "things."  Hope that wan't talk from last episode about the wedding night and thereafter! Innuendo alert, Ha.

Thomas (Rob James-Collier) still wonders about the job position and when they'll get notice of who will be fired.  Seems Carson has the boot in for him, since he says he'll be given notice and in the meantime he searches for another job.  Which he finds isn't easy and applies for a position as 'assistant butler' in Ripon.  The interview doesn't go too well and after getting time off from Carson, who seems happy he's looking for alternatives, the interviewer doesn't seem too happy with him. They invented the job and it involves doing a bit of this and a bit of that, valeting, chauffeuring and whatever else needs doing.  He also tells Thomas to drop his high and mighty notions and isn't interested that he's been doing the job for 15 years (not to mention his time in the war.  The less said about that the better.)

Seems everyone is ignoring Thomas and especially Andy (Michael Fox) who feels he's capable of doing everything by himself, like winding the clocks, his last job, to Carson asking him to help with the tea when the others go to the show.  Carson telling Thomas he won't be needed.  Andy is also ignoring Thomas for some reason.  Maybe his reputation proceeds him, as he doesn't let him come for a walk with him too.  Baxter (Raquel Cassidy) is the only one who tells him not to give up hope and at least he'll be given time to find another position.  But why did they need Andy anyway, he's not really doing anything Thomas can't do and he's an extra hand to pay.  It appears Mrs Patmore (Lesley Nicol) also gets the wrong end of the stick, thinking that Thomas is chasing him to get involved with him and he tells her she couldn't be more wrong.  As was that interviewer asking him why he's not married yet.  Thomas making excuses about working hard and he adds that he's married.  

Daisy (Sophie McShera) wants to help Mason (Paul Copley) retain the tenancy but Cora is adamant Henderson will do what he wants and no one cam make him change his mind.  Cora allows her to speak to her and then Cora comes up with an idea which she'll try, it may work.  Molesley (Kevin Doyle) gets some past exam papers for Daisy to look at and if she passes her exams she'll be in a better position to help Mason.

Edith has problems with the editor back in London and can't believe he is so stubborn.  Rosamund (Samanatha Bond) tells her to come back after lunch and try again, but he's set in his ways.  Edith tells her she's also worried about Marigold and Mary taking her to the farm, who like Robert thinks she should just come clean and tell her.  Why didn't Edith just bring Marigold with her.  Robert wonders why she doesn't just tell Mary about her, but she knows Mary will put her down.  They're both getting the same train back from London.  At the show, Mary seems to impress everyone with her pig knowledge and Drewe brings Mrs Drewe, which was a stupid idea cos he knows the family will be there.  In a moment where everyone loses concentration, Marigold walks off and is taken by Mrs Drewe.  Drewe knows she's taken her, back to the farm and won't hurt her, but Robert knows it's for the best if he leaves the tenancy.  Mason probably can take it over now.  See all cos of Mary again, Drewe has to leave the farm.  Guess she'll make a big deal out of that too when she finds out.

Elsewhere we still have the Dowager (Maggie Smith) and Dr Clarkson (David Robb) taking sides against Merton, (Douglas Reith) Cora and Isobel (Penelope Wilton) over the hospital merger.  As Isobel knows it will bring in vital equipment and machines, but the Dowager thinks the level of care will suffer.  Robert seems to agree with the Dowager, but Cora doesn't and everyone's still at loggerheads.  Merton is still lamenting over Isobel not accepting his proposal.

Downton really seems to be clutching at straws for its final series, there doesn't seem to be that fire and oomph from past series which made this show so likable and watchable the world over.  Seems with change in the world, has come change in the show as a sign of the times.  As there's less need for hired help, the less there is to watch as the aristocracy reaches its end.  It could have been a little more exciting instead of just focusing on the family's problems and Mary appears to be the centre of it all.  Like her insufferable line to Anna when she tells her she won't have to pay for the doctor, since she's kept her secrets including having to take Pa

muk out in the "dead of night."  Which can all get repetitious.  Why use the phrase "dead" here, seems he's just become one laughing stock in the household, after she had her way with him.  Let's see where it finally leads us.

Doctor Who 9.2 "The Witch's Familiar" Review

                                               
The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) has a plan up his sleeve as he watches Davros (Julian Bleach) hooked up in the infirmary.  Which he needs to survive, he soon plans an escape with Davros demanding to know what he's doing.  Then all you hear is Davros shouting that the Doctor's escaped, as we see Davros wheeling around as a dot on a map.  The Daleks exclaiming they must get him to the infirmary.

We find Missy (Michelle Gomez) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) out in the desert, with Clara dangling upside down, so where'd you get the rope Missy.  She sharpening a stick as she needs to hunt for food.  But Clara's tied up cos she might not find any.  Clara asks how they got here and Missy tells her to picture the Doctor surrounded by androids chasing him, what does he do, he takes the android's own energy and uses a transporter ring.  Falling into a pit of vampire monkeys.  Then he transports himself.  That's what the two of them did using the energy from the exterminator beam and transporting themselves into the desert.  At the planet, the door opens and we see the Doctor sitting on Davros' wheelchair.  Obviously that would be him.  He wheels in and says, "admit it, you've all had this nightmare.  Anyone for Dodgems?"

Missy knows they have to get back in and rescue the Doctor and the only way to do so is through the sewers.  The Daleks don't expel waste in that way as she prods the slimy matter inside the sewers with the stick and you hear the Dalek's scream.  Their sewer is also the Dalek graveyard, as she explains their word for sewer is the same as graveyard.  She manages to get Clara to look into the observation eye and they see an intruder, then sending down a Dalek to catch her.  But Missy uses the decayed Dalek slime to overrun the Dalek.  Then gets Clara to get inside it.  Telling her to say "I love you" which comes out as "exterminate" in Dalek speech.  She then says her name but it doesn't come out as Clara and she makes her get emotional which fires the gun, but also makes it exterminate.  She has to think what to do to operate the Dalek.

I suppose now is as good a time as any to interject here and ask what happened to Clara on the planet when we first met her in 7.1 Asylum of the Daleks and she was a Dalek and all that stuff with the souffle girl.  Was anyone satisfied that we didn't really have a proper ending to all that and get all the answers to "the impossible girl."  Not to my satisfaction anyway.

The Doctor leaves the wheelchair in a certain spot and the Daleks find they can't exterminate him. However Davros, lying on the ground complete with his screw thingy visible; sends Colony Sarf to retrieve his chair and he uses his snake 'agents' to wrap around the Doctor.  Bringing Davros back his chair and he Doctor is a prisoner once more.  They have a conversation about how the Doctor stole a TARDIS and ran from Gallifrey and he tells him he's not a Doctor. The Doctor says there's no such thing as a Doctor.  I'm just a bloke in a box telling stories."  Davros reaffirming he's a Time Lord. How he's compassionate and he helps people through that compassion.  The Doctor came cos Davros is sick and he asked him.  Compassion will be his downfall he tells the Doctor.  Also telling Davros he brought back his people and Gallifrey is out there, but even he doesn't know where it is.  He sees Davros has his confession box and also his sunglasses, which he reaches for and finds there's no scratch on them.  But he doesn't take the confession box.
Once again we get the Doctor flashing to Davros as a boy who asks for help.

Missy pretends to be a Doctor as the Dalek Clara takes her back to the Dalek base and she greets the red Supreme Dalek by whispering it's her favourite.  She tells the Dalek she has two hearts and the Dalek recognizes she's a Time lord, she's a woman now and can upgrade.  "The bitch is back," she adds.  Hmm, see the Beeb left that in!

Davros tells the Doctor that he's dying and asks him to come closer again so he can observe him with his own eyes, which he manages to open.  The Doctor is fooled into believing that he's really dying, or so we think.  "I am dying Doctor."
Doctor: "You keep saying that and you keep not dying."

He also tells the Doctor to look at the cables  he was hooked up to, cos we know that Sarf is in there somewhere.  Davros wishes he could see the sunrise for himself and the Doctor enables him to do that but he doesn't open his eyes now, oh it was such a struggle was it.  He asks if he is a good man, Doctor?  He then proceeds to give Davros his regeneration energy and that's what Davros intended all along.  This will regenerate the Daleks and they will be more powerful.  The Doctor can't stop it but Missy is on hand to destroy the connection.  Something the Doctor expected all along.  It seems the Daleks are flawed in their design as they have respect for Davros, intertwined with compassion and perhaps mercy.  Also they talk of Dalek hybrids.

Apparently when the Daleks say 'exterminate' they're just reloading, according to Missy.  The Doctor sees the Daleks from the sewer oozing in and bringing the planet down and the Daleks along with it. The Doctor and Missy make a run for it after he's rescued and he wants to know where Clara is. Missy tells him she's dead as Clara stands before him in the Dalek shell.  Missy tells him to kill it as Clara tries to tell him it's her, but it comes out as "I am a Dalek."  Which then turns to, "mercy."  The Doctor finds it strange that the  notion of mercy should find itself into the Dalek DNA.  As Clara keeps repeating mercy.  He tells it to open up but she doesn't know how.  She needs to think it and it will open.  Didn't Missy tell her she needs to think when she operates the Dalek.  He tells Missy to run.

Outside they see the planet being destroyed by the 'dead' Daleks.  Oh and the TARDIS is also back since he says it never really was destroyed.  As he and Clara escape in it.  The Doctor heads back to the planet where he rescues the boy.  He shoots at the Hand mines instead.

Perish the thought that Missy would ever have become soft as she tried to get the Doctor to kill Clara and that's as cruel and evil as you can get.  Oh and the Sonic, well he came up with new hardware and turned that into Sonic sunglasses!  "I'm over screwdrivers, they spoil the line of your jacket.  These days I'm all about wearable technology."  Ah but the sonic was a classic!  Who wants a pair of shades?

This second part was all about mercy though and a concept that found its way into the Daleks.  Davros is far from meeting his end as he takes what he told the Doctor about his own compassion being his downfall and uses that to his advantage.  There was still life in the old crafty codger yet with his ability to deceive even whilst dying and playing on the Doctor's compassion, in contrast to the boy genuinely asking for help, which was a nice touch.  Then the boy asking if the Doctor is the enemy?  As for the Doctor with the gun and toting it around, would he really have fired at the Dalek and killed it, or even killed the boy, it's all about compassion as we learn and it's obvious no matter how dark he got he wouldn't kill.  Also the Clara/Dalek if it was going to kill him, wouldn't have stood by so long and waited for the Doctor to kill it.

Funny line has to be when the Doctor finds himself back with Davros in his chair and he tells the Doctor, it's "the only other chair on Skaro."  Where'd that come from then?  Ha.  Also what was this about Missy mentioning a daughter, when she brings out the brooch to pierce the Dalek's shell in the sewer.  Not to mention the line of the present for the Doctor, canned.   If Clara was Missy's familiar, you know the bitch's er, the witch's familiar, then who was The Magician's apprentice last ep, Davros?