Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E09 Cold Blood Cracked

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It is the most important day in the history of Earth: the dawn of a new age of harmony or the start of its final war.

The Doctor must face his most difficult challenge yet. It is a battle in which he cannot take sides and a day when nobody must die...

And he does quite well- after he and Amy are reunited, he brokers discussions between Eldane (the Silurian leader) and Nasreen Choudry. Humanity is on the brink of a new era of peace and love and justice, even though both species have been having some teething troubles! It's all going to be just fine and dandy!

Er, until it's revealed to everybody that Ambrose killed their bargaining chip. And she's set the drill to destroy the colony if she doesn't get her family back. Restac does not react as Ambrose expected, first demanding Ambrose be executed, then all the humans and anyone standing near them.

The Doctor leads the others back to the laboratory, where he and Eldane devise a plan to destroy the drill, and force the warriors back into their hibernation units, to wake in a thousand years when humanity might be ready. Tony stays behind because he needs the Silurians to cure his poisoning. Nasreen stays behind to be with Tony. The Doctor leads all the other humans into the TARDIS.

So. All is well, right? Of course it's all oka--oh no. The crack in the universe is here. And it's big enough for the Doctor to stick his hand in. He grabs something! It's in a hanky, he doesn't know what it is yet. And it'll be a while before we find out, since Restac reappears, Lizard Gun at the ready, forcing a hasty duck into the TARDIS (good thing they weren't just a few seconds slower getting there).

Restac dies, due to Emergency Protocol Poisoning, which doesn't affect the good guys, who are in their sleeping chambers like good Lizard People. The TARDIS crew run back to Wales, say their goodbyes, and encourage Eliot's parents to make him the best human being to live. Amy spots Future Amy across a field, and an oddly wistful-looking Doctor rushes her into the TARDIS.

Hey, now's a pretty good time to look at the thing from the cra--Oh Crap. It's a shard of the TARDIS.

Roll the credits, quick!!

The second part of a two-parter, following on from "The Hungry Earth".

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