Containment Breach (TV story)

*"Why is emergency lighting always red? It's like whoever set it that way has a weird sense of humour."
"Why? Cause it's like a common colour of blood or something?"
"Nah, just makes it hard to see properly. Now yellow, that's a nice and bright colour; can't fail to see where you're going in yellow lighting."*
―Kylita Strali and Amy-Mae after being split up from the rest of the group

***Containment Breach*** was the fourth episode of Series 17 of *Doctor Who*.

## Synopsis

To help his team of companions bond, the Doctor takes Teddy, Amy-Mae and Xavier to Vallaly, a busy and buzzing metropolis of the Alae Republic, a city that he coincidentally has not visited in quite some time. However, as the time travellers explore the city, a secret plot starts to take place.

Marno Catiry, a disgruntled employee of the Republic’s Temporal Intelligence Agency, is about to unleash hell by releasing all the high-profile prisoners the agency was holding directly into its headquarters. Not only that, but Marno has also cultivated his own squad of rogue agents; highly trained soldiers and scientists who are armed to the teeth and ready to fight anyone that they deem to be traitors.

The Doctor and co rush in to help, but the agency is soon thrown into lockdown as TIA agents are being picked off one by one; not only by the escaped prisoners, but also by Marno’s personal squad who seem desperate at preventing the agency from containing the breach. Teaming up with surviving agents to locate Marno who has conveniently gone missing, can the four work together effectively as a team to stop the prisoners escaping the facility and laying waste to the city outside?

Let the countdown begin.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Dev Patel
* Teddy - Omari Douglas
* Amy-Mae - Mary Elizabeth Winstead
* Xavier - Dylan Sprayberry
* Marno Catiry - Lucian Msamati
* Kylita Strali - Cobie Smulders
* Jurzell Tamnol - Ajjaz Awad
* Straron Goretti - Mark Goldthorp

## Crew

* Writer - Natalie Robyn
* Director - Cilla Ware

## Continuity

* The Doctor notes that he hasn't visited the Alae Republic in what he calls "too long." (TV: *Spiders and Fireworks*)
* Kylita acknowledges that the Doctor has helped out the Republic numerous times, looking different each time. She references the giant spiders, (TV: *Spiders and Fireworks*) "the Squid", (TV: *No Cause for Concern*) and the Battle of Vallaly. (TV: *The Fallen War*)
* Noticing an elevator on its own at the end of a long corridor after being forced to split up from the others, Amy-Mae asks Kylita what's down there; she tells her that it's where they keep their most high-profile prisoner, but assures her that they're quite safe. (TV: *Chain Reaction*)

## Story Notes

* This episode replaced another episode by Robyn called *Timeless Bounty*. The episode would've continued on from *Chaos Theory*, with the Doctor following Xavier after he fled Esubeen following the Dalek and Cyberman attack, trying to keep him safe from a bounty hunter hired by the Nikta. However, this was scrapped after Robyn thought it wasted too much time and was essentially filler, so *The Patchwork Planet* became Xavier's first proper TARDIS trip instead after joining in *Chaos Theory*.
* Robyn is ultimately not a massive fan of the title *Containment Breach* - believing it to be a bit too generic, but admits that there wasn't any real alternative.

 **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*