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ROBERT FAIRCLOUGH
ON GALLIFREY, A YOUNG BOY IS TRYING TO SLEEP IN a barn near the house where he lives. This is a self-imposed isolation: the child is ashamed of his crying, not wanting the other boys he lives with to hear his anguish over joining the Gallifreyan army. His misery is compounded by an adult who doesn’t consider him a suitable candidate for the Time Lord Academy.
In the TARDIS, the Doctor has become obsessed by the idea of invisible creatures that may haunt every living being in the universe. He is particularly intrigued by a dream recorded throughout human history, where people wake in the night and are grabbed by someone – or something – hiding under their beds. He persuades Clara Oswald to mentally link with the TARDIS so he can use her as a test subject to determine whether the dream is real.