The Man In The Mirror

## Source

**The Man In The Mirror** is the third episode of *Doctor Who: Guardian*.

## Cast

* Kieran M Jenkins as The Doctor
* Thomas Rainford as Barry Dalton
* Kieran Black as Tom
* Nicola Gill as Melissa Grant
* Steven Slatter as Mr Birtles
* Daniel J Clark as The Man
* Rex Duis as The Man (voice)
* Callum Swan as Jackson (voice)
* Christopher Thomson as Narrator

## Crew

* Sound team - Adam Grange
* Sound team - James Skates
* Location manager - Daniel Clark
* Location manager - Adam Grange
* Director of photography - Callum Trevitt
* Producer and assistant director - Daniel J Clark
* Editor and Digital effects - Callum Trevitt
* Executive producer - Daniel J Clark
* Executive producer - Kieran M Jenkins
* Executive producer - Callum Trevitt
* Director - Callum Trevitt
* Writer - Callum Trevitt
* Music - Various
* Music - Chris Hendry
* Music - Tristan Berry

## Plot

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Tom narrates as he intersects with the following events. At Earth in 2017, he finished participating in his professor’s lecture on an ordinary day. He endured a loss of the people, his mom and dad, who taught him to speak and possibly love. Up to his annoyance, he assures his gran that he finished his homework, soon biding her goodnight. Alone in a room, he looks at a photo of his late parents, weeping into a cry. His parents had failed to gather enough time to avoid undergoing a hit by a driver, who drove fast in the wrong way; his parents then became a “thing” on the news.

His gran is viewing a photo, interrupted by a flicker of light. She heads to the front door of where Tom is, suggesting he needs sleep for college. He hastily stops his crying, assuring his awareness of her suggestion. She dismisses him and leaves, telling him to eventually stay awake and ready. He puts the photo away and then begins to sleep. When she brushes her teeth, a man in a transparent tint appears on the premises before she began to sleep. She then shrieks.

Tom then walks with Melissa, who is perturbed about them potentially trespassing in someone’s private property, up to his disinterest. He brings up the topic of a text he sent to her regarding his nan. Questioned by her of what it meant, he provides a further explanation. Melissa suggests his gran visit a doctor as he remains unsure. He speculates his gran to be fragile after his grampa's demise. Melissa guesses his gran to be lonely, protested by Tom that she has him. She playfully adds that everyone has him, especially Ella. Questioned how she's aware of him and Ella, she remarks that he made it obvious. Asked how she can accomplish a certain procedure, she advises to "throw [himself] in the deep end and see if [he] float" regardless of if he would "drown", reciprocating what her aunt Jane told her. Instructing him further, she tells him to "swim" when he "floats", prompting him to act as her suggestion is futile. Except for his gran, he admits his isolation from others, up to her disbelief. Added by her on him having some acquaintances, he explains "they're not the sort of people I-" before he is interrupted by bullies, who tease him by suggesting that he is dating her. Discomfited, she leaves him alone urgently, planning to meet him later. Called for her, he realizes her departure, dismayed.

As explained by him to Barry Dalton, the Doctor will dispatch Barry to college for his first day as a student in order for him to inspect the strange signals, a big rift, he detected from the location, already enrolled him in some courses. He provides Barry with a phone to maintain contact. When Barry questioned why he is a student, the Doctor answers he will fathom the reason and begin to leave for a hair appointment at 3, intending on not being late. Barry arguably reminds of that he owns a time machine only for the Doctor to ignore his tone and head off. Barry became unappreciative of the tasks he did for the Doctor out of his displeasure.

After dancing, Barry found it painful, discrediting the Doctor for proclaiming the activity to be fun. Barry approaches and introduces himself as a new student to Tom. Concerned for Tom being alone, Barry asks if he is alright, answered that he is just waiting for a friend. However, Barry notes that he did not really answer properly, promoting Tom to claim he is alright. Barry answers a call from the Doctor, leaving Tom alone. Barry asks the Doctor why he is in dancing only for the Doctor to get sidetracked from exploring the potential of the major. Back into the relevant discussion, Barry deduces the school to be generally normal; nonetheless, the Doctor still claims there is a rift there. Hanged up, Barry checks on Tom, who is distressed. Tom shows him a message from his nan, saying "there's someone in our house. need help." Tom rushes to his house as Barry follows, exhausting them. Barry grew annoyed from Barry following.

Once they arrived, they find his nan alright, who is confused about why Tom is here. When Tom shows her the message, she claims that she did not transmit it, accentuating the question of who did. She declares her phone is upstairs, where notable sounds are emitted. She reveals her consideration of someone other than her and Tom living in the house. A bang is heard, checked out by the three. Claimed by her to reoccur, a ball rolled down the staircase, wondered of what moved it. She suggests they all sleep before turn insane. Tom recommends Barry to head home. However, Barry requests if he could stay here away from the dark outside, happily accepted by her to settle on the couch.

At night, Barry sleeps on the couch, awaken by a knock. He joins with Tom and his gran to answer the door. Barry and Tom are surprised to see Melissa, who knew Barry at his dance class. She is checking on Tom because she heard screaming. Tom and his nan believe he is being haunted, up to her disbelief. The lights flicker, alarming Melissa. This is proof to Barry that there is a ghost (called by Tom's nan as a "spirit") haunting them. Tom's nan suggests a certain resort despite being "rusty", trusted by the rest. They attempt to contact Tom's father Jackson, advised by Tom's nan to not panic and do not break the circle they are forming. Tom's nan reveals she summoned a spirit she initially believed to be good a night before Tom's parents got in a car crash. Her presumption of the spirit changed once she witnessed him in a mirror, while he was pointing at her. She then realized he was not pointing at her, indicating she is responsible for the death of Tom's parents, pointing him as the culprit. Barry tells them what the Doctor told him, saying a soul that makes someone goes to a different dimension and gets trapped. Since it is Barry's first time contacting the deceased, Tom's nan advises him to focus on what is happening tonight and to concentrate the energy into his hands.

When they all hold each other's hands, Tom's nan instructs them that only one will be in a trance and must report everything they see when traveling further into the dark world. Melissa and Barry are the ones who are transported into the dark world, while also appearing where they were before arrival, seeing themselves. Preparing them to venture into the dark world, Tom's nan instructs them to leave the house and to confirm they still hear her voice. Barry follows Melissa. Tom guesses the dark world is where the spirit lives. His nan explains to him outside a person's domain is camped by a spirit and that the doorway enlarges when sprits are tried to be contacted, learning that once she started doing it herself. She explains how a spirit grabs a hold of their subject until they acquire what they want, implying that the spirit haunting the house wants Tom, stunning him.

In the dark world, Melissa and Barry try to open a locked door in the house. To unlock it, she retrieves the key from the kitchen. Barry sees a bright red light from outside, confusing Tom's nan since it is night. The spirit appears in a mirror before disappearing. Barry hears something noticeable, but soon loses contact with Tom's nan. Melissa calls for help when the door closed, losing the ability to see. Melissa's distress became contagious to Barry as his nan reminds him not to cease the circle. Tom hears someone as his nan regrets what she did. A fifth voice is emulated from Melissa and Barry's mouths outside the dark world, repeating "he is coming". When Tom's nan calls for them to return to their bodies, the voice now repeats something else. Tom's nan assumes that the spirit is interfering with them once they enter the spirit world. They then repeatedly admit their craving for the bodies of flesh and blood. Tom's nan emphasizes Barry and Melissa's need to return since they exited their bodies too long.

Jackson appears to Tom and his nan, horrified by them. Jackson reveals he is actually Centacreed, who informs his death to occur thirty years ago and was contacted by her despite her not knowing her attempt is successful. Centacreed seeks a new host and life, wanting Tom. He wants him cause he obtained the gift of true loss, deeming Tom to be the perfect host. When Centacreed compares himself and Tom to be the same, Tom objects and figures out he killed his parents. Centacreed then admits to having once presumed Jackson to be the perfect host. His nan demands him to leave only for Centacreed to announce that Tom will die and that his world will end soon.

Centacreed reaches his hand for Tom to relive, which would have relieved Tom's pain. Agonizing, Centacreed was stopped by the real Jackson, who contacted his son and his nan; he informs his family that Centacreed is a demon who died many years ago, got stuck between this world and the next, and wants life. He encourages his family to not reenact Centacreed's mistakes from his life, telling them to live their lives freely away from the horrors. Unlike Centacreed, Jackson had moved on to the next life, becoming much more than life. The group breaks the circle as instructed by Jackson and leaves to watch. Jackson gives Centacreed a message to his friends from the spirit world, claiming that this land is protected. Before leaving, Jackson tells his family to remember him. Tom's nan thanks Jackson as Centacreed is defeated.

In the morning, Tom thanks Barry. His nan admits she will never summon spirits again. In spite of an expected happy ending to be due, Tom's depression worsens. Believes there was a better life awaiting him from the previous encounter with his father, Tom heads to a lake in the English countryside. He writes to his nan claiming that something was not her fault because his forthcoming action was made from his choice. He wants much more than what he has, biding her goodbye from what he wrote. His nan looks for Tom, apologized by the Doctor who approached her. The Doctor informs he closed the rift from her house between this world and the dark world. She discovers that he is the Doctor. The Doctor explains to her that the entity haunting her was not Jackson and speculates that it tricked her into assistance by deceiving her as her son. The Doctor reveals Tom is "there", sadly announcing his demise, shocking her. Tom's professor called Tom's nan about his concern for his missing assignments and absence from his lessons.

6 months later, Barry is at a shopping center. Melissa happens to be there and then leaves the place to meet him, disappointed at his six-month departure. When she needed someone, Barry was not there. Exasperated, she asks where he was. He claims the reason to be complicated. Not satisfied, she demands him to cease the excuses, finding that she is not taken seriously. He explains how he lose a track of life and time when sharing a life with the Doctor. When she asked what it meant, he tells her that Barry is a time traveler, not being able to explain further due to the complication. She asks where the Doctor is, answered by Barry that they are taking a break. She pointed she was here to search for something for Tom's nan, who is going through a "rough" Christmas. Responding to a family situation, she asks if she will see him again only to get answered maybe. Before she leaves, she wished him a merry Christmas as he did the same to her.