A Universe Apart (TV story)

### Featuring:

Sandra, Elias, Ercole, Scarlett, Caleb, Andrea, Kenossium, Keltar, Ohila, Fourteenth Doctor, the Wells Master

### Main setting:

Alternate Ajra Prime
Alternate Brazil, Earth
Alternate Antarctica, Earth
Across Earth
Archaic Space

## Release details

### *Confidential*:

*My Dear Doctor*

***A Universe Apart*** was the thirteenth and final episode of Series 5 of *Doctor Who*. It was the third and final part of a three-part story, preceded by *Shattered Hope* and *Birthright of the Klucuin*.

## Synopsis

Ajra Prime, year unknown. It’s the one-year anniversary of Theta and Koschei’s marriage, and today they're celebrating in whimsical style! Having booked days off at the university at which they both teach, with Theta being a history teacher of everything that never happened and never will happen, and Koschei being a science teacher of the pure elemental power which governs the entire universe, this delightful duo will be jetting off into the sunset and through the local black hole to arrive at a mysterious destination. A destination still unknown to them at this point, but nevertheless promises to be a fun time for them both!

Earth, year unknown. Elias Danielsen is arrested for the fifth time for trying, this time in Brazil, to prove time and time again that time is indeed real and not actually a fictional concept created solely by dreamers. It's not like it's a crime to say it, but does he have to be so loud? People can quite literally hear him on the other side of the solar system! His partner in crime, Sandra Parry, is rebelling against the system ten thousand firebursts and seventy airhops away in the Commonwealth of Antarctica, like protests are somehow going to stop physics from doing what it wants. Everyone knows what happened to the last insurrection a hundred minutes ago. It was just a fact that one's spirit and control over the elements of the universe is what shapes and determines their reality; and that it also just so happens that the Klucuin were created from that raw, primeval elemental energy, in a way unmatched by any human being or, indeed, any other race in the universe. It's not as though the Klucuin were benevolent rulers, but a simple twist of reality, and people tend to lose their ability to question the status quo - everyone, it would seem, except them somehow...

Archaic space, year definitely unknown. Koschei's head is splitting open - both literally and metaphysically of course - flooding with memories from a life she always felt like she lived before but could never quite pinpoint where from. Is this what insanity feels like? She never thought it would be so painful.

She knows what the truth is now. She doesn't know how she came to realise it yet, but she knows. She must find Elias and Sandra on the other side of the universe, find where the Klucuin hide, and destroy this Shevek Cro'taq for good; restore the universe to what her memories said it used to be like, how it should be like, back in the good old days where everything was proper and spacetime behaved itself. A time before everything ran on magic, and when elements referred to the identification of atomic nuclei rather than the manifestation of one's spiritual self.

But how can she even think about going through with this, when it means to save the cosmos, she must also lose Theta...?

## Cast

* Theta Sigma / The Doctor - Georgina Campbell
* Sandra Parry - Helena Bonham Carter
* Elias Danielsen - Lucas Till
* Koschei / The Master - Ruth Wilson
* Theodore Brasett - TBA
* Ercole di Albrisis - TBA
* Scarlett - TBA
* Zamir - TBA
* Caleb Danielsen - Joe Alwyn
* Andrea Danielsen - Julia Garner
* Kenossium - Ming-Na Wen
* Keltar - Eka Darville
* Ohila - Claire Higgins

## Crew

* Writer - Logan Crimson
* Director - Rian Johnson

## Story Notes

* Although the altered universe was always going to be a factor in this episode, it was producer Natalie Robyn who pushed for the Doctor and the Master to be a couple in the new universe. Crimson was originally unconvinced, but a draft of the story including them being a couple presented to him by Robyn ultimately managed to change his mind.
* As an extension of this, the working title under that draft was *My Dear Doctor*, as a parallel to *My Dear Master* - but that was eventually changed, under the feeling that it was too small scale. The title was used for the Confidential episode instead.

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