Out of all the episdoes in this series this is the one, that left me wondering the most.

Arriving on the Welsh coast, the Doctor steps on a circle made of string and vanishes. Ruby left on her own unable to get into the TARDIS, sees only a woman who keeps here distance, any anyone who speaks to the woman her runs away never speaks to Ruby again.

Its a 'Doctorlite' story, and these episodes are where the actor playing the Doctor is busy elsewhere, and they're some of the best, and possibly some of the worst (depending on your point of view) that the series produces.

As Ruby make her way back home we see the woman out side the train, always 73 yards away. Its memorable and quite scary.

Its quite distressing to see Ruby's mother disown her after talking to 'the woman' and you really feel for for her. Kate Stewart makes an appearince, and its nice to have her back, though briefly, and is of no help. I do thnk about what if the Doctor wasn't present what would the companion do, how would they solve the problem - or maybe what would I do. This episode shows us that.

I didn't even misss the Doctor! He's only there for a couple of munites and the beginning and end, and the time goes so quickly.

Its not without its flaws, one of the scenes that irritates me most is when Ruby goes into the local pub and asks to pay using her phone, which the woman behind the bar seems confussed by. The first thoughts are maybe its a few years earlier before the technology was invented, No. Turns out its just the locals being morons. Again a few minutes later Ruby obvisously somewhat scared and shaken tells of the circle she found, they then wind her up, really unpleasent, and it just wouldn't happen.

Its the ending that gets me, during the episode Ruby thinks she know what she's got to do, but after doing it the episode carries on. It isn't much of a spoiler, we know the Doctor will be back and everthing will be reset. But there are questions. What the 'woman' says to people isn't important, nothing you say would make everybody react the same, it more like the intent. Again the woman seemed to be trying to say something, but again not so important. For me, with everything reset and undone, what exactly was the point of it all? Anything Ruby achieved didn't happen. Aside from that a pretty good episode.