Who were the other two people on the Ruth Doctor’s team? Deeper into the vortex But who were Yaz and Vinder there to represent? They surely weren’t at the events themselves. We saw last week that the Fugitive Doctor and Karnavista were two of the Division operatives who took part in the battle of Atropos. Lots of people on social media are suggesting that the identity of Bel and Vinder’s unborn child may be somebody we already know. This was the first Flux chapter where we didn’t see Joseph Williamson or his tunnels, and there was no sign of Barbara Flynn’s mysterious White Guardian Awsok either. I still think Tecteun will turn out to be a pre-mind wipe Master, the exploitative relationship between her and the Timeless Child setting the blueprint for the loving antagonism between Master and Doctor. This episode made it clear that the Division was still an active threat in the universe, which put paid to my previous theories. Photograph: BBC Studios Mysteries and questionsįrom revelations in The Timeless Children, I imagined the Division being some historical secret Time Lord organisation interfering in the galaxy that was long done and dusted. Prof Jericho (Kevin McNally), and the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker). Jericho’s EEG printing out another Angel was an original moment, and Claire hallucinating she had wings was a disturbingly surreal scene.īut they were at their creepiest when they used Prof Jericho’s voice against him – when they played on his insecurities, making him sound like some 1960s incel who explored the paranormal as a way of shutting himself off from the rejections of the real world.Ī star turn. The sequence in which Claire’s sketch reassembled itself and started to project an Angel, then the Doctor set the paper alight – morphing the Angel into a fire Angel and making the situation far more dangerous – was a great twist. They used nearly every trick we’ve seen before – dust in the eye, hiding in images, pursuing quarry through tunnels where they grow out of the very walls – with a couple of new moves thrown in. Not so much “base under seige” as “basement under seige”, we got a greatest hits of the Weeping Angels here. Photograph: James Pardon/BBC Studios Fear factor Thaddea Graham’s Bel with Blake Harrison as Namaca. I hope her tale is not done – she was absolutely compelling, and still remains stranded. Claire’s premonitions must have meant she recognised the Doctor, which was why she seemed so intriguingly knowledgable about Weeping Angels in chapter one. The interplay between her, the psychic, and Prof Eustacius Jericho (Kevin McNally), the scientist and war veteran, echoed Matt Smith’s 2013 haunted house episode Hide, only without the romantic undertow brought by Dougray Scott and Jessica Raine.
The supporting cast were exemplary, especially Annabel Scholey as Claire.
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And the chilling reaction of Poppy Polivnick’s young Peggy at the deaths of her elderly carers Gerald (Vincent Brimble) and Jean (Jemma Churchill) back in 1901 was one of the darkest moments of the series so far.
It was desperately sad that Peggy returned to her village after 66 years and was treated like a pariah for trying to warn everyone about what happened there when she was 10. It wasn’t just the central story of the Angels and the Division that shone, though.
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