Into the Time Loop

## Source

**Into the Time Loop** is the third episode of the fifth series of *Doctor Who FanFilm*.

## Cast

* Dominic G. Martin as The Doctor
* Megan Shirley as Megan Williams
* Ben Walden as Tommy Benton
* Sarah Poyser as Nessa Williams

## Crew

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## Synopsis

Megan is experiencing a severe case of de ja vu, and soon realizes she is trapped in a time loop. With her friends being unable to remember the events, Megan must work out the time loop mystery and stop an impending doom. Again.

## Plot

At 10:40 am, Megan awakens and starts her day. Nessa forces Megan to finish cleaning the garage and wishes to share disconcerting news, but it gets abruptly interrupted and postponed. After Megan enlists Tommy's help, he asks her on a date, but she is averse to relationships and leaves the room. Tommy shows interest in a grandfather clock, a relict with ambiguous origins, only for a Clockwork robot to suddenly appear, overpowering him with a blade affixed to its hand. Megan returns to find Tommy gone and his broom unattended as the clock's fragmented dial door leaks a string of blood.

Worried for Tommy's safety, Megan consults the Purple Doctor, who announces on successfully fixing the TARDIS, with the final component of the time controller, and begins locating Tommy, to no avail, but detects power emitting from Megan's house, while she notices the component excessively culminating illumination. Insisting to leave, he starts the TARDIS, inadvertently overloading the component to explode. The grandfather clock strikes 11, exactly when the enormous radiance proceeds on a rampage, disintegrating him and Megan and causing Earth to be engulfed by a vortex.

At 10:40 am, Megan reawakens the next morning, as she begins experiencing events repeating exactly as yesterday. After she realizes that this is the same day, the Doctor deduces that she is stuck in a time loop and the only one affected. He attempts to isolate the loop by steering the TARDIS from Earth, but that day's loop ends with the same destructive rampage. In one loop, when attacking Tommy, Clockwork tells him he wants "parts". Megan calls the Doctor to the house to investigate the power and he detects a time anomaly and examines the broken clock ticking, realizing that Clockwork is the assailant. Clockwork confronts the two, explaining that Tommy has been "used" for more parts of an unknown cause before fatally slicing her at the end of that day's loop.

Megan spends numerous loops trying to circumvent Clockwork from killing herself and any of his other targets, Tommy and the Doctor, but all their fates are proven inevitable. Gradually growing desperate, she confides her situation to Ness, who encourages her to break the cycle. She carefully enters the grandfather clock and discovers that it's a TARDIS composed of the remains of Clockwork's targets from previous loops and the loop is caused by the time controller.

After the realization, Megan starts to be more sensitive to Ness, who finally confides that she has been immensely suffering. She goes to end the loop by striking the time controller down with a sledgehammer and prevents the rampage permanently at the cost of jeopardizing the Doctor's repairs to the TARDIS. Despite her actions, she convinces the Doctor to trust her to rescue Tommy from Clockwork.

Clockwork explains that he desires to use his TARDIS to return to 17th-century France after arriving here from a rupture in the time continuum that originated from an unspecified, forthcoming event. Clockwork opts to kill the Doctor for the final part before the Doctor temporarily incapacitates him in order to inspect his TARDIS. Before Clockwork rehabilitates, Megan, in that day's loop, decides to ask Tommy on a date first, but with no guaranteed relationship. Clockwork confronts the Doctor and tells him "All of time is fracturing; the crisis is coming". The Doctor swaps his damaged time controller with Clockwork's, ensuring that he will be stuck in his own loop for eternity.

While the three settle down to order Chinese food, Tommy says he wished "everyday could be like this", promoting Megan to inwardly roll her eyes.