Trust Me On This!

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***Trust Me On This!*** is the thirteenth episode of the fifty-seventh season of Doctor Who. It was the season finale of Season 57, and introduced viewers to the new doctor, along with teasing the next.

## Sypnosis

The Weeping Angels, Daleks, and Cybermen are ready to build a temple that will ZAP the universe into oblivion...except them. But with their code, they won't be able to decide on one, and instead everyone will slowly boil until they are melted, when the universe explodes. Can the Time Lords, Time Ladies, and Companions of The Doctor stop this before it even happens?

## Plot

### PART ONE: The Power of the Doctor

The Fifteenth Doctor suffers a violent seizure, beginning to regenerate. Terrified, Laurie, Ashley and Danica huddle in the corner of the TARDIS. The Master had just regenerated minutes before, him and The Doctor seem to be linked together. The Regeneration process is waiting for a minor tumble or scrape, any injury could kill the Doctor. As she twitches, she falls backwards on the controls of the TARDIS. Ashley and Laurie catch her before she injures herself. Danica realizes that an injury on the Doctor's knee has dissapeared. Danica turns and sees Ashley bound up the stairs, Ashley asks The Doctor where the toilet is. A series of complicated instructions including "past the macaroon dispenser" and "a route through the lagono" deluge Ashley with directions. Ashley then leaves, and The Doctor begins walking after her. Laurie asked where she was going, and the Doctor explained she was heading to the Zero Room to try and slow the process of regeneration, as "she wants more time".

On the planet Ranskoor av Kolos, in the year 4500 A.D., the Cybermen, Daleks, Weeping Angels and Sontarans have teamed up. They are going to build a magnificent and gargantuan laser, which is so powerful that it can destroy a planet in a few minutes. They are going to use it to destroy Gallifrey, but a laser that powerful would be obvious. They are going to make a temple around it to conceal their laser, named the Haureyn Temple. The Sontarans accept the allegiance, the Weeping Angels do not move even when the other three are looking at them, showing they accept the condition. The Daleks accept the allies for the current moment, and the Cybermen have already started to construct the temple. The Queen Angel, Angel Summer, operates one of the Cybermen's ships, which is going to clear an area on the surface of the planet to build the temple. Elsewhere inside the ship, Cybermen are working on molding the clay for the bricks, using molten titanium steel to mix in. They also add uranium cables inside the bricks to help power the Haureyn laser

Back in The Doctor's TARDIS, Laurie and Danica are learning about regeneration from the Fifteenth Doctor, but do not understand it. Suddenly, the TARDIS begins to shake, Laurie and Danica desperately grab the railing. Inside the TARDIS lagoon, Ashley is struggling to walk in the mud, when she hears Danica yelling for her. She manages to climb a vine and pull herself out.

In the Console Room, the Seventh Doctor suddenly steps out of his TARDIS with Ace and Bernice Summerfield. They have come to warn the Fifteenth Doctor about the Haureyn Temple, and tell them that they need all the help they can get, because the laser is more powerful than they realize and it could destroy the entire universe. The Fifteenth Doctor realizes this too, and she and the Seventh Doctor call upon the other Doctors, and in turn the First Doctor notifies the War Council of Gallifrey. Instantly, the Fifteenth Doctor sets course for Ranskoor av Kolos.

Inside the First Doctor's TARDIS, Dodo is watching the scanner as the Doctor and Steven chat. The TARDIS starts to shake and the Doctor opens the front doors of the TARDIS with an air bubble around them to check what is occuring. He spots hundreds of Dalek, Cybermen and Sontaran ships headed to Ranskoor av Kolos. Some of the Daleks levitate and try to get to the TARDIS, and attempt to exterminate the Doctor. Steven pulls the Doctor away from the door as a laser flies towards Dodo, whom ducks. The Doctor calls for urgent and immediate assistance from anyone to help them, and the Third Rani picks up his signal. The First Doctor tries to land his TARDIS at Ranskoor av Kolos, and learns from his next self that him getting there is their first hope, as everyone else is farther from the planet and would take longer to get there.

### PART TWO: THE BATTLE OF RANSKOOR AV KOLOS

Ashley has now came back to the console room of The Doctor's TARDIS, and meets the Seventh Doctor right as he is meeting. Ace questions if she is going to ever leave the Doctor, and Ashley wonders the same thing since she does not see Ace in the TARDIS currently.

Back on the planet Ranskoor Av Kolos, the laser is nearly completed, and the scaffolding work for the church and temple is mostly complete. Nearby, Sontarans and Daleks roam the perimiter to block invaders as the Angels work on the statues around the church.

The First Doctor's TARDIS lands on Ranskoor Av Kolos, with Steven and Dodo, whom exit the TARDIS. The First Doctor is extremely worried and tells Dodo to stay near the TARDIS and watch the statues carefully, and not to blink. She stays by the TARDIS, observing the weeping angels, stopping the construction of the temple. However, a Dalek tells her to halt and not move, and she turns around to see its' gun pointed at her. She notices the angels move closer towards her, and scream. Suddenly, the Fifteenth Doctor's TARDIS lands nearby, creating a gust of wind. The First Doctor and Steven Taylor are blown underneath a pipe and pieces of barbed-wire, getting injured and stuck. Some of the Sontarans are alerted and start marching over.

The Dalek who is holding Dodo hostage is blown away and Dodo holds onto the door handle of the TARDIS, managing to hold onto it despite her hat being blown away. She begins to lose grip as more and more TARDISES land, making more wind, until they finally stop. The Daleks and Sontarans move to attack, and the Time Lords exit their TARDISES, many using weapons or time machines to send them back. The Master uses his minaturizer to shrink a group of the Daleks, but has to duck when a Sontaran laser nearly hits him.

Immediatley, Zenla stabs a weeping angel who was in progress of moving, and some of the other time lords begin bombing the temple. However, Mike Bolter had been grabbed by a Cyberman and thrown to the ground, injuring him. By the time he had gotten up, a pillar which had been blown up fell on his chest. Romana runs to help him along with the Fourteenth Doctor rush to save him, a sinkhole forms around him. The Fourteenth Doctor uses her sonic screwdriver to stop the sinkhole, giving Romana enough time to pull him out. Nearby, the First Doctor and Steven Taylor, who are still trapped under the barbed wire, are saved by Ace. Meanwhile, an explosion occurs nearby, and the Third Doctor rushes to the scene, with Mike Yates and John Benton following him. Leela had saved the other people in the area of the explosion in time, including Ace, who shatters a weeping angel with a pickaxe. John Grainer leaves his sister Gillian and watches Ace shoot Daleks with a laser gun. As Ace rips off a Cyberman's head, John falls unconscious from having such delight at watching Ace do this. Gillian shakes her head his idiocy and feelings, but suddenly sees John falling and about to hit his head on a rock. She yells, and runs to catch him.

Zoe Heriot and Tegan Jovanka, who are wounded, are escorted to safety by Grace Holloway. They are taken to the 'baptismal' of the Haureyn Temple, which is an enclosed space far from destruction, with five foot tall half-walls, which is a good place to hide. Grace Holloway leaves, running up to a Dalek and shooting at it, as Tegan and Zoe hide in the baptismal, taking off their bulletproof vests, hats, shoes and armor. Zoe realizes how badly injured Tegan is, with a slash across her chest. Zoe leaves to find help, leaving Tegan alone in the room, bleeding.

John and Gillian are now in the attic and John has a bandaged head, he comes to and asked why he was in the Attic of the temple, which was the medical bay, and Gillian showed him a picture of the back of his head--when he passed out he had hit a rock and began bleeding, so that's why Gillian took him upstairs. Gillian leaves John alone.

Meanwhile, a Time Lady named Zozo, asks a Dalek if Susan Campbell would be spared from death due to her elderly, weak age. The Dalek responded by exterminating Zozo, causing her to scream and start her eighth Regeneration. Meanwhile, Rassilion arrives with a menagerie of guards, whom shoot down the fourth extraction group of Daleks completely into ashes with a rocket launcher. Meanwhile, the First Doctor is resting in a small courtyard made of TARDISes, because there is Regeneration energy coming from Susan's hand, as she is regenerating from old age. She did not come with the First Doctor, instead in her own TARDIS, some thousand years after leaving her grandfather. He tells her to keep calm as the golden veins course up her other wrist and hand. However, a cyberman manages to wiggle it's way in between the courtyard and nearly deletes Susan, but only blows a rock into the air, falling on Susan and severely injuring her, causing her to become unconscious. Meanwhile, a timelord, The Director, has grabbed something out of his TARDIS--Kamelion Mark II. He uses it to trick the Cybermen into approaching, pretending it is a Cyber-Leader, and he lures them into his TARDIS. Quickly, he changes the interior of his TARDIS and drops them into a hole, and then throws them out into the vaccuum of space. Meanwhile, The Master, grabs the Time Destructor, and immediatley vaporizes hundreds of Cybermen, along with his miniaturizer shrinking the Sontarans. Cyber-Emily turns into the Cyber-Leader and kicks The Master off of a ledge, but Zenla saves him. Landinia Fersa, Emma Armandio, and John Benton form a conveyor trap that throws many Weeping Angels off of a mountain ledge of the planet, crushing a timelord accidentally, causing the fifth regeneration of Ryhodia

The Delgado incarnation of the Master suffers a heart attack in his old age while cornered by Weeping Angels, and de-generates into a rotten corpse.

Meanwhile, in the baptismal, Tegan is beginning to pass out, but hears a footstep and jolts back into consciousness. Above her are two dangling feet and a dress from a statue - a Weeping Angel. More specifically, Angel-Summer. Tegan weakly stands up. However, Tegan suddenly loses vision of the angel when a Cyberman, who just approached, covers her eyes, and Angel-Summer grabs hold of Tegan. Tegan screams in shock and sees Summer's stony hands wrapped around her shoulders. Her neck and shoulders turn to stone, and, screaming, her chest and legs start to turn to stone too. She screams in pain as her arms and neck fade to grey and then it courses into her mouth, leaving her stuck. She's turning into an angel. She whimpers in pain as a bulge appears on the back of her dress and her hands fade to grey.

The Fifth Doctor hears her screaming. Nyssa follows him through the sand and to the backdoor of the temple. He tells her to wait there. The Fifth Doctor runs to find Tegan almost completely an angel aside from her wings not grown fully and feet still not grey. He yells for them to stop turning Tegan into an angel and hear him out. They stop, and listen for a bit. He explains that he will spare their lives and take them away from the destruction if they will save Tegan. Angel-Summer and the Cyberman hesitate, so the Doctor shoots the Cyberman, but Angel Summer ducks. She continues to turn Tegan into an angel. The Doctor turns back to Angel-Tegan, who is pointing at Angel-Summer, who she is staring at. This gives the Time Lords an idea. If they can get Angel-Tegan to stare at the other angels, they can defeat them. Meanwhile, The Daleks have been taken out of their shells and tortured by The Director, and he kills The Daleks by sending them into a flaming pit of molten lava. The Sixth Doctor asks him how he's done this. They then watch the Sontaran ships and hear an announcement from their commander that they are making a strategic retreat. The injured Time Lords cheer.

### PART THREE: TRUST ME ON THIS

Meanwhile, The Haureyn Temple is little more than rubble and burnt wooden framework, and shattered windows, but there are still Weeping Angels, Daleks, and hundreds of others remaining. One Time Lord, called The Inventor, is headed to smash another angel, but gets his neck snapped by one of the other angels, who is promptly destroyed by The Rani. The Inventor regenerates, and is taken to his TARDIS by the Tenth Doctor. Another cyberman wades through the sand as The Seventh Doctor beats her down with a club bat. Ace jumps onto a cyberman and smashes their head in with her fists, The cybermen retreat. Angel Summer seeks refuge in the nursery where the baby angels (cherubs). The Tremas Master comes in and hits the babies, smashing them.

As the others are distracted, the Fifteenth Doctor leads a brigade with Laurie, Danica, Ashley, the Brigadier, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot. She theorizes that while the angels, Daleks and Time Lords are fighting, they can go and destroy the laser. Jamie and the Brigadier agree, but the others are not so sure. Zoe's theory is that the angels will have forseen this coming, and even if they don't, the Daleks will. She tells them to "trust me on this!". They grab flamethrowers and landmines from Bessie, and upon Jamie's signal of blowing a bagpipe, they all storm into the temple to destroy it. Eventually Ashley is pinned to one of the walls by an angel, and Danica won't leave her alone with it, and the two stay together. Laurie, Zoe, Jamie and Alistair follow the Doctor to the laser room, where a few remaining Cybermen have took refuge with the Daleks and Angels. The Daleks come up to Jamie, but the Doctor uses her sonic screwdriver to destroy the Dalek.

She notices the Angels are seconds from firing the laser, and yells in desperation. Right then the angels snap the neck of another Time Lord. Angered, the Doctor yells a speech to them about how many more lives they want, and if they want another life, than to take her. She climbs onto the laser and yells at Laurie and the Brigadier to trust her on this. The angels fire the laser, but it does not go past the Doctor. The energy of itself firing through the immortal time lord cause the laser machine to explode itself, fall, break, and take the rest of the Haureyn Temple with it as it blows itself to bits. The Brigadier, Laurie, Jamie and Zoe rush out, grabbing Danica and Ashley from the fleeing Angels and escape the temple in time to watch it collapse to the ground into an explosion of flames. After it collapses, it is revealed that all the remaining Daleks, Angels, Sontarans and Cybermen were inside, and it destroyed them.

Nearby, panic is heard. Everyone rushes over into the refuge behind the TARDISes, to find Susan beginning to regenerate. As she does, the First Doctor quickly explains regeneration to Steven, Dodo, and Jamie. They help the newly regenerated Susan to the TARDIS. However, the Fifteenth Doctor is missing. All other Time Lords should have regenerated and came back now. Susan finds her, burning alive under some rubble, pinned by a statue. They assist her up. She is scalded and burned, steam hissing. She tells everyone to trust her on the fact that she will be fine, stumbling outside of the ruins. Before she can get to her TARDIS, the Fifth Doctor asks for help, as Tegan was turned into an angel. The Fifteenth Doctor states that it shouldn't be right, that she should have turned back upon the death of the Queen Angel. They turn to see that the Brigadier has been restrained by the Queen Angel, and the angel responds that if anybody moves his neck will be snapped. The hundreds of Time Lords all rebut that there is no possible way the Angel could move, as they are all watching it. The Fifteenth Doctor tells the Queen Angel to trust her on the fact that the Angel race is dead, and there is nothing they can do to fix it. The Eighth Doctor tells the angel to kill itself. Before anyone can act, the Master miniaturizes the Angel. Everyone turns around as Tegan collapses, reverted from Angel form. The Fifth Doctor hugs her and takes her, Nyssa, and Turlough back to his TARDIS. The Director also returns to his TARDIS, along with the Fourth and Ninth Doctors. The First Doctor asks the Fifteenth Doctor if they will always keep seeing this much death. She tells him that she can't answer that, but what she does know is that they will always be The Doctor. Content, the First Doctor returns to his TARDIS, and takes off. Most of the other TARDISes are gone now too. Ashley, Danica and Laurie wave goodbye to Zoe, the Brigadier and Jamie, as they enter the TARDIS with the Fifteenth Doctor.

The Fifteenth Doctor, weak, burnt and charred, bleeding from the hands, takes off the TARDIS. It lightly sparks as steam hisses from the console. She steps back, and once again tells her companions to trust her on the fact that she will be fine. She hallucinates her First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth incarnations and is told that the story never ends and that she must regenerate. Her next incarnation tells her that the future is in safe hands. After seeing the Brigadier, Jamie, Susan, Turlough, Raine, Anders, and Emma, Dr. Loomis, Graham and Landinia in hallucinations telling her to never stop saving people, the light of regeneration energy starts to spread up her body. As her TARDIS leaves the planet's atmosphere, she regenerates into an explosive ball of golden energy. Danica, Ashley and Laurie huddle in the corner as the bright light consumes the TARDIS, which starts to explode. They can hardly watch as the heat and bright light from the regeneration into the Doctor's next incarnation blinds them.

## Crew

Showrunner - Chris Chibnall, Thomas Brock

Writer - Thomas Brock

Director - Jack Poster

Producer - Nicholas Briggs

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## Cast

* Fifteenth Doctor - Rakhee Thakrar
* The Master - Charles Dance, Sacha Dhawan, Mark Gatiss, Christopher Eccleston
* Susan Campbell - Carole Ann Ford, Millie Bobby Brown
* Laurie Strode - Jamie Lee Curtis
* Danica Sullivan - Lola Flanery
* Ashley McEwan - Ruby Rose Turner
* Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
* Ace McShane - Sophie Aldred
* First Doctor - Stephen Noonan
* Second Doctor - Reece Shearsmith
* Sixth Doctor - Will Ferrel
* Seventh Doctor - Martin Freeman
* The Rani - Michelle Gomez
* Cybermen and Daleks - Nicholas Briggs
* Weeping Angels - Various actresses

## Story Notes

### Deleted Scenes

* "Discussing the LGBTQ+" Scene
	+ Ace, the Fifteenth Doctor, Landinia, Ashley, Danica, Tegan, Turlough, Jamie, the Second Doctor, and Zoe huddle in the basement of the Haureyn temple and discuss their feelings on the LGBTQ+, where the Second Doctor and Jamie eventually revealed their relationship and Turlough and Landinia both revealed each of them had a crush on their respective Doctor. After learning this, the Fifteenth Doctor rebutts she is not ready for dating.
	+ The scene was removed due to its' nature and awkward placement. It was removed after filming, but is still available in HD on YouTube.
* "John follows Ace" Scene
	+ There was meant to be a scene where John followed Ace around the destruction, but the writer eventually decided it was better to leave out of the script.
* "Gillian and Millie" Scene
	+ Millie Malencia was supposed to appear talking to Gillian about John's antics, and Millie would reveal more of her backstory. However, nobody was ever considered for the role of Millie and it was removed before filming.

* "The Fifteen Doctors" Scene
	+ All of the Doctors were meant to have a squabble between who was the best incarnation, but was removed for pacing. It is still availible in HD on YouTube.

### Filming Locations

Temporary sets (sound stage), Colosseum, Parthenon, CGI