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Overview

First aired

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Written by

Catherine Tregenna

Directed by

Ed Bazalgette

Runtime

45 minutes

Story Type

Companion-Lite

Time Travel

Past

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Amnesia, Consequences

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Me

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Earth

UK Viewers

6.11 million

Appreciation Index

81

Synopsis

Adventuring on his own for a while, the Doctor seeks out an artefact of great power that could spell disaster in the wrong hands: the Eyes of Hades.

However, he soon comes face to face with consequences of one of his past acts of compassion, when he meets an immortal he created, who has now lost all hope with a heart filled with centuries of pain.

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ASHILDR: Do you ever think or care what happens after you’ve flown away? I live in the world you leave behind, because you abandoned me to it.

DOCTOR: Why should I be responsible for you?

ASHILDR: You made me immortal.

DOCTOR: I saved your life. I didn’t know that your heart would rust because I kept it beating. I didn’t think your conscience would need renewing, that the well of human kindness would run dry. I just wanted to save a terrified young woman’s life.

— The Woman Who Lived

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[Woodland]

(Night time. A coach and four is trotting along the track by the light of a full moon when a lone horseman moves into their path.)

COACHMAN: Whoa!

(The masked horseman rears his horse, who neighs. The coach passengers look out, the young lady leaning forward to emphasise her décolletage.)

HIGHWAYMAN: Stand and deliver!
COACHMAN: Do as he says. I've heard of this brigand. He's known as the Knightmare! Faster than Sam Swift the Quick, deadlier than Deadly Dupont.
HIGHWAYMAN: Dabbling lowpads the pair of 'em, with terrible pseudonyms to boot. Cash bags, jewels, the lot.
FANSHAWE: I will not be robbed by some lone, ranting cavalier!
HIGHWAYMAN: Who says I am alone?
(A pair of bright lights come on in the bushes. Lucie Fanshawe screams.
Meanwhile, also in the forest, the Doctor looks out of the TARDIS, then leaves it and starts up a gizmo with a compass on top.)
DOCTOR: Right.

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