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 On the [[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E03 Planet of the Ood|Oodsphere]], the Doctor steps out of the TARDIS wearing a cowboy hat and a ring of flowers around his neck. He decided to take a nice long vacation after [[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E16 The Waters of Mars|his nervous breakdown]]. After he relates his vacation to Ood Sigma—including a short-lived ''marriage'' [[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E02 The Shakespeare Code|to Queen Bess]]—he locks the TARDIS ("like a car", remote starter and all) and takes a good look at the Ood's capital. After being told it's only been a century since he was last here, he realizes it's been way too soon for the Ood to be well-coordinated enough to [[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E16 The Waters of Mars|send a message back in time]]. Even worse, the Ood have been having nightmares. Ood Sigma brings the Doctor to a group of Ood, and he shares in their psychic link, showing him images of the Master laughing, Wilf, two complete strangers, Lucy Saxon in prison, and the Master's ring [[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E13 Last of the Time Lords|being picked up by a woman]]. After a warning that the Master's return is only part of a greater plan and the revelation that "time is bleeding", the Doctor [[Oh Crap|freaks out]], runs back to the TARDIS at full speed, and heads back to the 21st century.
-Meanwhile, Lucy Saxon is collected from prison by the mysterious woman who took the Master's ring, only to reveal that the Master [[Xanatos Gambit|set up an elaborate scheme]] to ensure his [[Back From the Dead|return from the dead]]. By combining the Master's ring, some Potions of [[Applied Phlebotinum]], and a DNA sample from Lucy, the Master begins to come back [[Fan Service|quite naked]]. Lucy reveals that she's set up her own plan to prevent the Master from coming back and that she had her family connections make a potion to counter the effects of the Master's [[Applied Phlebotinum]]. She hurls it at him while his body is still forming. [[Heroic Sacrifice|The prison explodes]]. The Doctor arrives too late to prevent anything. Cut to the two strangers from the Doctor's visions, a rich man and a younger woman: they're delighted to see the Master may have come back, and they begin setting up some [[Applied Phlebotinum]] of their own.
+Meanwhile, Lucy Saxon is collected from prison by the mysterious woman who took the Master's ring, only to reveal that the Master [[Xanatos Gambit|set up an elaborate scheme]] to ensure his [[Back from the Dead|return from the dead]]. By combining the Master's ring, some Potions of [[Applied Phlebotinum]], and a DNA sample from Lucy, the Master begins to come back [[Fan Service|quite naked]]. Lucy reveals that she's set up her own plan to prevent the Master from coming back and that she had her family connections make a potion to counter the effects of the Master's [[Applied Phlebotinum]]. She hurls it at him while his body is still forming. [[Heroic Sacrifice|The prison explodes]]. The Doctor arrives too late to prevent anything. Cut to the two strangers from the Doctor's visions, a rich man and a younger woman: they're delighted to see the Master may have come back, and they begin setting up some [[Applied Phlebotinum]] of their own.
 Wilf, at the end of his rope thanks to his nightmares, organizes a busload of senior citizens into a search party for the Doctor.
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 While all the restored humans in the mansion are running ''out'', Wilf runs ''in'', hoping to help the Doctor. Instead he notices one of Naismith's minions, trapped in a control booth that was part of the Immortality Gate, and which is designed so that there must always be one person inside. Wilf goes in, and lets the terrified minion go free.
-Back in the mansion, the Master moves onto Plan B: Unable to take over the Time Lord's bodies the same way he did the humans, he simply plans to celebrate the Time Lords' return and have them owe him one. The Doctor tells him that the Master wasn't there during the final days of the War. Apparently infused with a good dose of [[Warhammer 40000|GRIMDARK]], he tells him that Gallifrey not only had a host of leftover Daleks, but [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties]], [[Eldritch Abomination|the Nightmare Child]], and the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Could-Have-Been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-Weres]]; all about to break free and descend upon the Earth. The Master is a-ok with that scenario until the Doctor reminds him that even the Time Lords can't survive all of them at once.
+Back in the mansion, the Master moves onto Plan B: Unable to take over the Time Lord's bodies the same way he did the humans, he simply plans to celebrate the Time Lords' return and have them owe him one. The Doctor tells him that the Master wasn't there during the final days of the War. Apparently infused with a good dose of [[Warhammer 40,000|GRIMDARK]], he tells him that Gallifrey not only had a host of leftover Daleks, but [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties]], [[Eldritch Abomination|the Nightmare Child]], and the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Could-Have-Been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-Weres]]; all about to break free and descend upon the Earth. The Master is a-ok with that scenario until the Doctor reminds him that even the Time Lords can't survive all of them at once.
 The Lord President then explains his plan, if you could call it that. The Time Lords will destroy the Time Vortex itself, presumably causing something along the lines of [[Final Fantasy VIII|compressed time]] and wiping out all life in the universe while they [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|ascend to a higher plane of existence.]] Just then, the Doctor stands up, pointing his pistol at the Lord President. A [[Mexican Standoff]] of sorts takes place. The Master eggs the Doctor on, saying that if the Lord President were dead, Gallifrey could be his for the taking.
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 ** [[Acting for Two|Acting For Six Billion]]: Primarily through [[Chroma Key|chroma keys]] and a lot of costume changes.
 * {{spoiler|[[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: Rassilon's plot for the Time Lords in the last part of the Time War.}}
-* [[Back From the Dead]]: Guess who.
+* [[Back from the Dead]]: Guess who.
 * [[Badass]]: Several. The Doctor, The Master. The Lord President of the Time Lords. Even ''[[Badass Grandpa|Wilfred Mott]]''. Then again, he is a Palestine Mandate/Mideast Wars veteran.
 * [[Big Eater]]: The Master, since he [[Came Back Wrong]].
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 * [[Call Back]]:
 ** A VERY subtle one in the Captain Jack scene, but the song playing in the bar was performed by Tallulah in "Daleks In Manhattan"
-** The Master's Plan is in essence what would have happened if what happened in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E09 The Empty Child|The Empty Child]]/[[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E10 The Doctor Dances|The Doctor Dances]] was a deliberate act as opposed to [[AI Is a Crapshoot]] and also takes notes from Agent Smith's play book in The two [[The Matrix|Matrix sequels]].
+** The Master's Plan is in essence what would have happened if what happened in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E09 The Empty Child|The Empty Child]]/[[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E10 The Doctor Dances|The Doctor Dances]] was a deliberate act as opposed to [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]] and also takes notes from Agent Smith's play book in The two [[The Matrix|Matrix sequels]].
 ** The Master's last words to Lucy. '[[Catch Phrase|You will obey me!]]'
 ** A shout out by way of special effect. The effect used when the Immortality Gate and Rassilon transform humans into the Master Race and vice versa is a callback to the Doctor Who TV Movie. At one point in the movie, when the Master is attempting to take over the Doctor's remaining lives, his head begins shaking in a super-fast motion, interlaced with split-second cuts of the Doctor's head on the Master's body. The overall effect is almost identical, though somewhat less polished, than the one used in the 2009 specials.
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 {{quote|'''Doctor''': Hold on, she's not gonna be called "Noble-Temple"? That sounds like a tourist spot.
 '''Wilf''': No, it's Temple-Noble. }}
 * [[Meaningful Echo]]: The Master mockingly addresses Rassilon as "Mr. President, sir", calling back to [[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E12 The Sound of Drums|his identical appellation of President Winters.]]
 * [[Mood Whiplash]]:
 ** Last episode involved suicide and the Doctor's [[A God Am I|god complex]] being thrown into [[What Have I Become?|very sharp relief]]. This episode opens with a quick bit of ominousness then the Doctor showing up in a cowboy hat, shades, and a lei. We go from the Tenth Doctor's heartbreaking final line to a comic, pumping music opening with the Eleventh. To sum up, we go from David Tennant's tearful "I don't want to go!" to Matt Smith's hilarious discovery that he's "STILL NOT GINGER!"
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 ** [[Shock and Awe]]
 ** [[Super Strength]]
-*** However, he is [[Cast From Hit Points|burning up his]] [[Life Force]] by using them.
+*** However, he is [[Cast from Hit Points|burning up his]] [[Life Force]] by using them.
 * [[Take a Third Option]]: The Doctor has a stark choice: shoot the Master, or shoot the President.  {{spoiler|He shoots the machine linking them}}.
 * [[Tearful Smile]]: The Doctor has a particularly heartbreaking one when he goes to see Joan Redfern's great-granddaughter and she asks if, in the end, he was happy. He smiles, but he looks like he's about to cry.
 * [[Terrible Ticking]]: The Master's drumbeat.
-* [[Thanatos Gambit]]: Played straight, inverted ''and'' slightly averted ''[[Zig-Zagging Trope|at the same time]]'', being that the Master anticipated his death (hence his refusal to regenerate) in "Last of the Time Lords", and used his subordinates to imprison his wife, ({{spoiler|who murdered him}}), and took a biometric imprint from her to use as a catalyst for the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] used to ''[[Back From the Dead|resurrect him]]''. Except his wife came up with [[Xanatos Gambit|a plan of her own]], anticipating ''this scheme'', [[Heroic Sacrifice|and her sabotage which was a cost to her life]], meant the Master [[Came Back Wrong]], but his scheme otherwise successful.
+* [[Thanatos Gambit]]: Played straight, inverted ''and'' slightly averted ''[[Zig-Zagging Trope|at the same time]]'', being that the Master anticipated his death (hence his refusal to regenerate) in "Last of the Time Lords", and used his subordinates to imprison his wife, ({{spoiler|who murdered him}}), and took a biometric imprint from her to use as a catalyst for the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] used to ''[[Back from the Dead|resurrect him]]''. Except his wife came up with [[Xanatos Gambit|a plan of her own]], anticipating ''this scheme'', [[Heroic Sacrifice|and her sabotage which was a cost to her life]], meant the Master [[Came Back Wrong]], but his scheme otherwise successful.
 * [[Third-Act Stupidity]]: The Lord President. Telling the Master [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|he has outlived his usefulness?]] Risky, in itself. But telling him that ''before he actually '''has''' outlived his usefulness?'' He was just asking to get zapped.
 * [[Title Drop]]: "For Gallifrey! For victory! For the End of Time itself!"