The Eye of Torment ( comic story ) Plot . Part one . On the " Pollyanna " , Sandy Tanaka and Florence Dell chat over coffee . Sandy has been receiving mysterious messages , although Florence is sceptical . The two find a stowaway : Clara Oswald . Clara is taken to " the boss " , the quadrillionaire Rudy Zoom , the man behind " the greatest adventure in the history of mankind " to sail through the hydrogen oceans of the sun . Harriet Wilcox and Georgia Butler are working when Alice Dubrovnik appears to shout at Harriet for tapping into her energy feed . As they argue , Georgia sees a black hand pressing against the window from outside . Her head is suddenly filled with humiliating moments and regrets from her past . Crying and believing that she deserves to die , Georgia opens the airlock . Harriet instictively pushes Alice out of the way and is vaporised by the super - heated plasma . The door shuts behind Alice as she falls , and she breaks a tendon in her leg . As she limps away , the door opens to reveal a smiling black figure . Tentacles extend towards her , and she is pulled to the ground . She cries out for help , and sees a pair of feet before her . The Doctor levels his sonic screwdriver and delivers a cold warning to the creature . Part two . Twenty minutes earlier , the Doctor and Clara arrive on the Pollyana . The Doctor moves on ahead , ignorant to Clara ' s absence , and becomes greatly excited upon realising where they have landed . As he stares out of the window at the sun , a black figure moves towards him . It begins to remind him of his failures , and he reaches out towards it . He manages to shut it out and sees that it has entered the ship elsewhere . After finding Alice , the Doctor shuts the doors on the creature and runs , carrying her over his shoulder . He again shuts the creature behind them . Alice expresses regret over Harriet dying to save her , but the Doctor is more concerned about how many creatures there are . Zoom takes Clara to the flight deck . Alice makes contact , informing them of Harriet and Georgia ' s deaths and the creature on board the ship . Panicked , she demands that they abort the expedition . Zoom dismisses the idea , but the Doctor takes over and advises that they shut their plasma intakes and look for bio - forms . The creature forces the doors open and the Doctor again picks up Alice and runs . Florence confronts him at gunpoint , thinking that he has Alice as a hostage . The creature moves around the corner and grabs Florence by the ankle , pulling her towards it until she is consumed . Falling through a black void , she is reminded of the deaths of her comrades and feels that she should have died with them . The creature suddenly splits in two . The copy looks exactly like Florence . Alice whispers her name in horror , and the creature gives a chilling reply : " WAS THAT " " HER NAME " Part three . The Doctor attempts to reach out to Florence , but the creatures inform him that they drank her mind and ate her form . They then try to drag two other officers towards them , but are forced to retreat when the Doctor fires at the pipes and showers them with liquid nitrogen . He then flees with the officers and Alice , who takes him to see her invention , the Graviton Inverter . On the flight deck , Captain Dhawan is alerted to at least five thousand creatures approaching the ship on an intercept course around eight minutes away . Zoom is excited by the discovery of a new alien species , but Sandy looks at them in fear , recounting the Apollonians ' prophecy that if the body of the sun is ever violated , the Eye of Torment will open . The creatures make contact , and possess an officer . She opens the plasma intakes , but Sandy stops her and swiftly shuts them down . Clara orders the others not to look at the creatures and to switch off the screen . Sandy then shows her the looped signal that she ' s been picking up , and Clara uses the power of the TARDIS to translate it . A hologram of an alien appears . It doesn ' t give its name , but tells them of how it created a fabric to drain guilt and regret from people in order to give them peace . He made the fabric into a cloak and called it the Umbra . However , the Umbra evolved and became intelligent , and rather than helping people it devoured their minds and used their bodies as a means of multiplying . Eventually , the alien ' s entire species was wiped out , and it trapped the Umbra in the young star that would become the sun . The ship suddenly rocks violently as the Umbra swarm the ship . They coalesce and form a pool . Their number makes the sun look like an eye ; the Eye of Torment opens . . . Part four . The Umbra request to enter via a psychic broadcast , and as the Doctor points out , at least two of them are on the ship right now . Alice theorises that the scientist who brought the Umbra into the Eye did so by using self - loathing as bait , which the Doctor realises makes solving things " a lot simpler " . The central lift has been activated , and as the override is down , it cannot be turned off ; the Umbra will arrive in four minutes . Despite protest , Rudy believes he can reason with the creatures , though the others maintain that they should be killed . Using a plasma chamber , the Doctor travels outside the ship to make " the final link " . However , the Umbra grab the Doctor before he can do so . Clara , meanwhile , attempts to escape the Umbra via the Zoomtube fire escape ; this is not successful , but Sandy fends off the Umbra grabbing Clara with more liquid nitrogen . Zoom and the women begin a trip to auxiliary control , allowing them to navigate with the back - up systems . Clara tells Zoom that he was right all along - he can reason with the Umbra . He happily marches off to the aliens , who begin to consume his thoughts ; however , egotistical Zoom does not have a single regretful or otherwise negative thought about himself . This dissolves the Umbra attacking him . Meanwhile outside the ship , the Doctor at last manages to make the final link . This inverts the gravity to a specific degree , allowing the heat to be inverted as well ; the Umbra are all frozen to death . Back inside the ship , the Doctor praises Clara ' s idea for Zoom to meet the Umbra ; it was the only chance for victory . He comments that Clara is beginning to think like himself . . . External links . " to be added "