Lies of Heaven (TV story)

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*"Before we go in... it's a long while since either of us saw the other. So I don't know what the inside's gonna be like right now, just... prepare to curb your enthusiasm. Just in case."*
―The Seventeenth Doctor to Teddy and Amy-Mae just before they enter the TARDIS

***Lies of Heaven*** was the fourteenth and final episode of Series 16 of *Doctor Who*.

## Synopsis

Sickened by the Time Lords' treatment of the Doctor and knowing he's still alive, the old Cardinal of Gallifrey, Jayanna leaves the planet once more in search of him. He finds the Doctor back where he started, on the planet of Tosan and they prepare to storm Earth in a desperate attempt to get the Doctor his TARDIS back.

But Jayanna is playing a dangerous game.

For without the Doctor's intervention, Earth has been overrun by beings of the night, drawn there by Gallifreyan promises that the planet is ripe for the taking. And taken it, they have. There's no war to be had here, however, because all resistance is crushed and humanity refuses to rebel. But anyone would surely be mistaken to assume that the Doctor and co will let this go without a fight...

## Cast

* The Doctor - Dev Patel
* Teddy - Omari Douglas
* Amy-Mae - Mary Elizabeth Winstead
* Jayanna - Rahul Kohli
* Mosdra - Lenora Crichlow
* Sixteenth Doctor - Celia Imrie (flashback)
* Kesavix - Logan Lerman (flashback)

## Crew

* Writer - Natalie Robyn
* Director - Ben Wheatley

## Continuity

* The Doctor returns to Tosan, annoyed by the lack of answers he's been getting and decides returning there might be the best shot he has at finding some since it was there where he woke up after regeneration and having left so soon last time. (TV: *On Foreign Shores*)
* Jayanna explains how he rescued the Doctor from certain death, using an external shield to stop her from burning up - however, there had been enough trauma to force a regeneration, but the Doctor had fallen out of the Time Vortex before Jayanna could do anything. (TV: *Blood On Their Hands*)
* He also talks about how he tried to catch up with the Doctor, but a broken TARDIS resulted in him always being late. (TV: *Frozen Whimpers*, *The Box of Many Tricks*, *Delusions of Reality*, *The Spartan Solution*)
* The Adnosina had blocked Mars because the Time Lords warned them of the Doctor's tendencies to fraternise with Ice Warriors, which by Amy-Mae, has proven them right. (TV: *Frozen Whimpers*)
* As the Adnosina attempt to flee through time, the Doctor remembers the planet shielding that Spartan possessed and realised that it must've ended up on Jupiter following this event. (TV: *The Spartan Solution*)
* The Doctor finds his TARDIS in the vault of the Adnosina mothership, them having taken it after the Time Lords had sent it to Earth in the hopes that it would be buried and just die. (TV: *Blood On Their Hands*)

## Story Notes

* The story also received an alternate cover featuring the Doctor with his companions, Teddy and Amy-Mae, as well as Jayanna, superimposed over his head.
* The Adnosina did not always have a name - and were originally only named "the Beings of the Night".
* Looking back on the series as a whole, Robyn wishes that there had been more of a point to the vortex manipulator travels and that the Doctor, Teddy and Amy-Mae had been actively searching for a way to get the TARDIS beyond "just randomly arriving and seeing if perhaps there's clues." However, she likes the idea of it essentially being a sum-up of the show in general; even without a TARDIS, the Doctor cannot help getting involved and helping out.
* The original title for this story, *Gallifreyan Lies of Heaven*, had been a title suggestion from Robyn for producer Logan Crimson to use for one of the episodes in his Series 3 finale, which ultimately became *Heaven's Deception*. Crimson had not been a fan of the title - believing it to be too wordy - but Robyn liked it so much, she kept it for her own episode. This titbit is poked fun at with this episode's Confidential, titled *Heaven's Deception*.
	+ Ironically, however, both *Gallifreyan Lies of Heaven* and *Heaven's Deception* were changed at the last minute in production to *Lies of Heaven* and *To Serve in Heaven* respectively. This makes the Confidential title an incredibly niche in-joke between the showrunners.

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