Above The Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) meets the five pillars of the New Dalek Paradigm.
Below The all-white Supreme Dalek.
Amy Pond doesn’t remember the Daleks, even though they recently invaded Earth and everyone saw it. The cracks in the universe are swallowing certain events, including, it seems, those of The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End (2008). The Daleks will address this concern further down the line – but for now, they’re going to make a fresh start. A battle-weary Dalek ship, having fallen back through time, has found the last surviving example of thousands of Dalek progenitor devices. The progenitor “contains pure Dalek DNA” and seems to date back to the Time War or even earlier, because these Daleks are unable to activate it; having been created from DNA that wasn’t originally Dalek, the progenitor doesn’t recognise them. (The Doctor seems to suggest these Daleks are survivors from The Stolen Earth, but those were generated from Davros’ own cells, so perhaps they’re actually the “impure” human-based Daleks from Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways, 2005.) To open the progenitor, the Daleks have come up with a plan.
Right Winston’s secret weapon joins Bracewell (Bill Paterson), Churchill (Ian McNeice), the Doctor and Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) in the Whitehall bunker.
Positioning their ship near Earth during the Second World War, the Daleks have sent along two of their number with a humanoid robot, named Professor Edwin Bracewell. Like the Daleks’ humanoid duplicates in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), Bracewell isn’t fully controlled by the Daleks, but unlike them he isn’t aware he’s not human. (The Doctor notes that Bracewell’s memories are “someone else’s stolen thoughts”, implying there may have been an original Bracewell whom the Daleks copied.) Bracewell believes he invented the Daleks and presents them to the British government – painted green, with a Union Flag on their casings – as weapons in the war effort.