TAKING THE FORM OF THE LATE DR WALTER Simeon, the Great Intelligence uses its Whisper Men to kidnap the Doctor’s friends from 1893. Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint and Strax are taken to Trenzalore in the far future. The Intelligence has discovered that this planet is the site of the Doctor’s tomb, the place where he will eventually die in the current timeline after a long and terrible battle.
Simeon provides the Doctor’s companion Clara Oswald with a message to pass on: “His friends are lost forever more unless he goes to Trenzalore.” Along with Clara, the Doctor crosses his own timeline and travels to Trenzalore in the TARDIS, fully aware that he is walking into a trap laid by the Intelligence. Pursued by Whisper Men and assisted by a psychic echo of River Song, they make their way to the Doctor’s tomb, where the TARDIS belonging to his dead future self now resembles an enormous monument.
Reunited with Vastra, Jenny and Strax, the Doctor and Clara enter the derelict TARDIS control room with Simeon and the Whisper Men. In place of the central console they find a writhing tangle of light beams representing every day of the Doctor’s personal timeline, including the ones he has yet to live. The Intelligence reveals its intention to enter the Doctor’s time stream and rewrite his entire history, turning every one of his victories into defeats and poisoning all of his friendships.
“What kind of idiot would try to steal a faulty TARDIS?” Fabian
Simeon steps into the light and within moments the Doctor’s timeline has been corrupted: whole star systems disappear, the Doctor’s friends are erased one by one, and the Doctor himself is racked by agonising pain. Clara realises she must follow Simeon into the time stream to put everything right again – even if it means being fractured into a million versions of herself and scattered throughout space and time. One of her journeys takes her to the planet Gallifrey, where she encounters the First Doctor and his granddaughter as they prepare to steal a TARDIS...