Final Destination (TV story)

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 *You may be looking for the Series 10 episode, Final Destination.*

*"Give me a reason, give me a damned good reason as to why you have to go up there instead of me."
"Because the Raja's my responsibility! It was my mistake that led to this; I have to be the one to correct it."*
―Jayanna IX and the Seventeenth Doctor

***Final Destination*** was the seventeenth and final episode of Series 19 of *Doctor Who*.

This episode marked the final appearance of Jodie Comer as Jayanna IX as a regular cast member.

It was also the final chronological appearance of Dev Patel as the Seventeenth Doctor and introduced Richard Madden as the Eighteenth Doctor in its closing moments.

## Synopsis

After years and years of travelling together, anyone would be forgiving of the Doctor and Jayanna for assuming that it could, and would, never end. But the Doctor always has unfinished business and this time, it will come back to retaliate against him. Captivated by a magnificent supernova - the two's momentary bliss is interrupted by someone who knows the Doctor of old, someone who never finished his experiments, someone who has spent an eon on perfecting his endgame - the Raja.

It soon becomes apparent that he’s there for a very specific reason - to fuel that supernova for all of his brutal and amoral experiments - using the last energy remnants left behind from the merging of the Doctor and Jayanna’s TARDISes all those years ago...

As time presses on and the supernova grows ever more out of control, threatening to destroy the galaxy, both the Doctor and Jayanna begin to realise that their travels are coming to an end as one of them must make a stand, but that means entering a place where regeneration becomes no longer possible and certain death awaits...

## Cast

* The Doctor - Dev Patel
* Jayanna - Jodie Comer
* The Raja - Ariyon Bakare

And introducing Richard Madden as the Doctor

## Crew

* Writer - Natalie Robyn
* Director - Bryce Dallas Howard

## Continuity

* The Raja is using his hybrid research from the last time he met the Doctor and Jayanna to develop new ways of fuelling his supernova - he requires it for a new experiment. (TV: *Meeting at Zaggit Zagoo*)
* The Raja notices that both the Doctor and Jayanna's TARDISes carry unusual energy traces and decides to use it to fuel his supernova - which the Doctor and Jayanna realise must've come from the creation of Planet TARDIS. (TV: *Planet TARDIS*)
* The Doctor enters his TARDIS' Eye of Harmony again - where he and Jayanna have a confrontation with the Raja. (TV: *Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS*)
* The Raja's laboratory is destroyed and he is forced to flee with his experiments ruined once again. (TV: *Unnatural Selection*)
* The Doctor tells Jayanna that he would have no quarrels with dying now - maybe there would finally be peace. (TV: *Twice Upon a Time*)
* Regeneration energy has previously dealt severe damage to the Doctor's TARDIS, leaving it in disarray for the successor. (TV: *The End of Time*, *Twice Upon a Time*)
* The newly regenerated Doctor crash lands in the Yorkshire Moors, the TARDIS interior in ruins and climbs out, before collapsing in front of a farmer. (TV: *Monsters and Legends*)

## Story Notes

* The story also received an alternate cover featuring the Doctor and Jayanna silhouetted against the supernova.
* Though brief, this was the debut appearance of Richard Madden as the Eighteenth Doctor. His scene was written by the incoming showrunner Cal A. King.

 **Series 19** | Regular Episodes | *The Skithra Entitlement* • *Work Hard, Die Hard* • *Doctor Who and the Dalek Paradigm* / *Escape of the Paradigm* • *Out of Sight, Out of Mind* • *Whatever Happened to the Crew of the SS Dahlia?* • *Meeting at Zaggit Zagoo* • *Planet TARDIS* • *Glittering Spheres* • *Submerged* • *Mechanical Heart* • *Oh Hell, It's Tari* • *I Predict a Riot* • *Doctor Who and the Moonmen* / *I Am The Doctor* • *Cryptomnesia* • ***Final Destination***