The Comings and Goings of the Agency (TV story)

*"Aw man, this headquarters is so cool! I mean, look at all this technology! I'm in heaven."
"What, the TARDIS wasn't enough for you?"
"OK, yeah, the TARDIS is cool, for sure. But come on, this is on another level! You sure I can't take any home with me?"*
―Luna Feng and the Seventeenth Doctor

***The Comings and Goings of the Agency*** was the third episode of Series 18 of *Doctor Who*. It was the first part of a two-part story, followed by *Chain Reaction*.

## Synopsis

Revir Ctharcourt. An infamous member of the Red Cult, arrested by the Judoon at the Grand Scarlet Hotel and transferred to a high security prison.

And now she has escaped.

Mera Rakhal. A high-ranking official of the Tosan government, arrested by the Judoon in an American town on an insignificant planet and transferred to a high security prison.

And now she has escaped.

When a series of calculated attacks on Vallaly all take place simultaneously, the timing couldn’t have been worse for the leader of the Temporal Intelligence Agency; Kylita Strali. Already struggling to deal with an Agency plagued with infighting due to a quasi-faction devoted to traitor Marno Catiry’s ideology having broken off from the organisation, Kylita is forced to call in the Doctor for the sake of assisting the already rapidly overstretched Agency rescue civilians caught up in the blast and somehow locate the culprits.

But deceit is the name of the game that Revir and Mera play and the moment rewarded to them for carrying out the attacks is being used to strike the Agency’s headquarters when it’s currently at its most vulnerable - heading deep underground into its long-since-forgotten chambers to uncover something that has been hidden for so many years. However, it remains to be seen if the Doctor, Taylor and Luna have the nerve to follow them into the dark and face the horrors that have manifested following years of abandonment and neglect...

## Cast

* The Doctor - Dev Patel
* Taylor Bennett - Adelayo Adedayo
* Luna Feng - Jessica Henwick
* Kylita Strali - Cobie Smulders
* Revir Ctharcourt - Natasha Lyonne
* Mera Rakhal - Liz White

## Crew

* Writer - Natalie Robyn
* Director - Nida Manzoor

## Continuity

* The Doctor meets Kylita again - she asks how the new people with the Doctor are, noting that there used to be three of them. (TV: *Containment Breach*)
* Knowing the Doctor can change his appearance, Kylita jokingly asks if Taylor and Luna are really Teddy and Amy-Mae who have also changed their appearances. (TV: *The Fallen War*, *No Cause for Concern*, *Spiders and Fireworks*)
* When the Doctor meets Revir for the first time, she admits that she was part of the Red Cult who raided the Grand Scarlet Hotel. (TV: *Memorial Flashbacks*)
* He also recognises Mera from the business with the Judoon. (TV: *Delusions of Reality*)
* Revir and Mera free the Agency's most dangerous and high-profile prisoner from his containment cell. (TV: *Containment Breach*)

## Story Notes

 **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*