Birthright of the Klucuin (TV story)

***Birthright of the Klucuin*** was the twelfth and penultimate episode of Series 5 of *Doctor Who*. It was the second part of a three-part finale, preceded by *Shattered Hope* and followed by *A Universe Apart*.

## Synopsis

Earth, 2020. To say that Sandra felt awful would be the understatement of the century. The last thing she can remember was the destruction of the planetary shield surrounding Gallifrey, and a wave of what the Doctor described as "pure, unfiltered time" taking the Gallifreyan forces by storm - Sandra included. Upon waking from what feels like the strongest hangover ever, she finds herself somewhere she never expected to be: back home, in Cardiff. But something is terribly wrong. For one thing, everything appears to be mirrored. For another, she shouldn't be moving down the street as though she were underwater, swimming through the air as the city shimmers around her. Trapped in a world so like and yet unlike her own, how will she manage when no one can seem to see or even physically interact with her? Can she find a way out of here, wherever here is? Would she be able to return to the Doctor even if she did, or would it be too late? And most importantly: why on earth is there a giant drill in the middle of the sky?

Karn. As the siege on Gallifrey continues, and the Klucuin converge on the Capitol, a team has been dispatched via TARDIS by the Celestial Intervention Agency to recruit the mystical Sisterhood of Karn to join the fray. For the Time Lords, this is an act of desperation unseen since the Time War, as tensions between these two factions are fraught at the best of times. Volunteering to lead the appeal is the Doctor, who hopes to find her old friend Ohila if she can. Together they could devise new strategies to contain and push back the Klucuin using the Sisterhood's knowledge of the ancient ways of magic, to which the Klucuin owe their elemental abilities. With Sandra lost, the burden of the past has begun to weigh on the Doctor's conscience again; but with Elias at her side again, she is sure that they can prevail if they put their minds to it. Right...?

Datysia, 5171. Kenossium has ordered a breakthrough attempt into the Klucuin's domain, and assigned Yasheia on the mission under the watchful eye of her council. For the Time Lords, this is a final chance to break through and destabilise the Klucuin's new universe in whatever way they can before it fully takes shape. For Yasheia, it means a chance at redemption - if indeed there is any redemption for what the damage she and her people had wrought. But when Klucuin begin to board the timeship, and massacre those on board, how long do they have left to get through and stop the madness at its source? And will any of them live to see it?

Atropos. The Time Lords' secret to controlling the Web of Time has been a matter of speculation for generations. But for the Klucuin, there was nothing secret about the temple, on the inconspicuously named planet Time. Having successfully bridged the gap from Gallifrey to Atropos by portal, the Klucuin stand ready to launch a secondary assault and replace the Eye of Harmony with the Shevek Cro'taq at time's centre. What the Klucuin didn't count on, however, was the Master, or the bond she had formed with the Shevek Cro'taq. And now it is down to her, and her alone, to buy as much time as she can in a battle of wills.

In the end though, this universe is the birthright of the Klucuin - and they will not rest until it is theirs.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Georgina Campbell
* Sandra Parry - Helena Bonham Carter
* Elias Danielsen - Lucas Till
* The Master - Ruth Wilson
* Yasheia - Elena Anaya
* Kenossium - Ming-Na Wen
* Keltar - Eka Darville
* Ohila - Claire Higgins
* Mouri - Chloe Williams, Antonia Shanice, Annette Sandles, Maty Carpenter

## Crew

* Writer - Logan Crimson
* Director - Rian Johnson

## Story Notes

 **The Specials** | Regular Episodes | *TBA* • *TBA* • *TBA* • *TBA* • *TBA*

 **Agency Master** | Television | *The Fall of an Agent* / *The Rise of an Agency*