Series 2 (DWP)

## Series 2 (2023)

**Series 2** of Doctor Who Perpendicular ran from March to May 2023. It starred Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, Billie Lourd as Nova McIntyre, Hayden Byerly as Nolan McIntyre, and David Bradley as the First Doctor (Episode 5-6), with Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor (Episode 8). The series opened with ‘*Swarm of Angels*’ and concluded with ‘*Reality of a Plutonian Empress*’. Scored ?/10 on average on IMDb. This series was showran by Desmond Jarvis.

### Overview

*‘The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) continues her perpendicular adventures with Nova (Billie Lourd) and Nolan (Hayden Byerly), starting with a swarm of Weeping Angels encompassing the planet, causing an eternal winter! Incursions with The Master, Zygons and the ethereal Xavier Wells leaves much to deal with. As well as paradoxes and dreams with former incarnations; the First Doctor (David Bradley) & Fugitive Doctor (Jo Martin). This incredible series is wrapped up with Nova unravelling a hidden power which puts her life on a new path.’*

### Production & Release

Series 2 was renewed in July 2022. Story writing began immediately with full production being completed by a month before release in March. During production, it was announced that this series would be produced in 1080p, a downgrade from Series 1’s 4K release. It was split across 3 monthly Parts with 4 Episodes in each.

### Main Plotline

The Thirteenth Doctor, Nova and Nolan's travels are interrupted by a crisis on Earth; in an attempt to trap them and the Time Agency on Earth, Vaxiel sent a swarm of Weeping Angels to block out the sun. The governments of Earth begin to declare emergencies as the team step in with the help of River, Cy and Ash. (TV: *Swarm of Angels*) The Time Agency works together to send The Doctor back to before the formation of Earth to engineer a paradox capable of wiping out the Angel swarm; sensing her defeat, Vaxiel strikes up a deal with The Master in Deep Space so that he steals The Doctor's regeneration energy for her own use. (TV: *The Eternal Winter*)

The team encounter The Master in Deep Space where he has been experimenting and torturing his own daughter in order to avoid regenerating into Missy, his next incarnation. With the help of the carer Janet, they almost put a stop to his plans, when he suddenly abducts her. (TV: *Curse of a Time Lady*) Following his trail, the team and Janet discover hundreds of lab-grown children, all harvested for their regenration energy and left to die on asteroids. They are able to foil his plan by infecting the regeneration cycles, forcing him to die whilst rescuing Yaz and Samuel in the process. With the children cared for, Janet returned home to care for 'The Curator', whilst unbeknownst to anyone, The Master began to regenerate. Affected by the infection, he is forced to regenerate into two brand new incarnations, puzzling them both significantly. (TV: *Descendants of the Master*)

Suddenly pulled into The Paradoxium, a freak event in time and space, the TARDIS team are brought face-to-face with the First Doctor, Polly and Ben in the Cathedral. Forced to face their timeline as it pours out in front of them, the Doctors have to work together to avoid being drained in the process. (TV: *Paradoxic Paradoxium*) As they get closer to the centre, the strength only increases as more memories, some even unknown to them, begin to surface. While Nolan gets acquianted with the other two, Nova continues a trend of feeling a sense of unease about her memories, as well as a sense of foreboding. The Doctors are able to free themselves from the Paradoxium when the First Doctor sacrifices himself, creating a massive paradox that forces the timeline to correct itself and everybody to come out safely and escape as the Cathedral collapses around them. (TV: *Paradox of the Doctor*)

The team encounter Xavier Wells, Orion and Venus in a seemingly idyllic English village where time has gone wrong. Elements of the past and future fade in and out as timezones mix, worsened by the arrival of the trio. The Doctor manages to figure out that the village is an extension of Xavier who is himself an Eternal, creating metaphysical versions of what he feels inside; Love is represented by Orion, friendship by Venus and the sheer confusion and noise is represented by the chaotic events taking place. After finding this out, Xavier takes hold of his full potential and energy ripples throughout the village; the Doctor tries her best to calm him down but he disappears in a flash and the team leave as the village ceases to exist. (TV: *Dream a Little Dream of Me*)

On the other side of the cosmos, Misty has signed up for Pluto's Dreamweaver program, wanting to get back in touch with his nostaligic experiences of Gallifrey back in the day; unknown to him, the Fugitive Doctor is working undercover to investigate the program. Misty decides to go rogue and removes the tether holding him to reality, forcing the Fugitive Doctor to go into the dream after him. They make it out together, but expose a crucial truth about the program: the Dreamweavers are harnessing the energy of an unconscious Xavier Wells. (TV: *Misty Eyed*) Further into their travels, Nova and Nolan elect to spend a day at an asteroid spa while the Doctor investigates Henrik's Department Store in Toronto. Along with content creator Cally who works at the store, she manages to sus out that a Zygon has been in hiding and posing as Cally's friend Seb. (TV: *A Zygon's Telltale*)

Nolan accidentally gets lost, abducted by thugs and taken to the Maldovarium mid-way through exploring a planet with the Doctor and his sister; to his surprise, Yaz and Samuel await him in the blue man's den. Since their last meeting, Yaz and Samuel formed the 'V Initiative' together, a taskforce dedicated to tracking and stopping the movements of Cortex Vaxiel. Nolan bonds with Samuel and confesses that he feels left behind by his other two TARDIS companions. Once he reunites with his sister later and tells her how he feels, her true powers begin to show as rage takes over and she causes damage to the TARDIS. Meanwhile, on the First Planet, Vaxiel has begun her next stage and is picking the best candidate to assist her. (TV: *The Outsider and the Escaped*)

Following her violent outburst, she is taken to UNIT so that she can be analysed by Kate and Osgood. The tests soon reveal that her DNA is Plutionian in origin; as the team process this revelation, Nolan shares a story about their combined upbringing in Boston that he had kept secret previously and Nova is forced to revisit her birth on Pluto. Elsewhere, Osgood confirms that the source of Nova's powers also matches that of two known entities to UNIT. (TV: *Secret of an Earth Girl*)