Doctor Who: 10 Big Talking Points From The Magician's Apprentice

10. The Boy On The Battlefield Is Davros

One of the best kept secrets of the series opener was the return of Davros, creator of the Daleks. A couple of months ago, Peter Capaldi teased an image from the new series that showed the Doctor making a mistake that had cataclysmic repercussions. Well he certainly wasn't exaggerating.

After another Moffat-chilling creation, the hand mines trapped the boy, the Doctor appeared to save him, throwing across his sonic screwdriver and trying to convince him that he would survive. It was a thrilling opening, only topped the first of many shocks the episode had in store; the boy the Doctor had saved was his arch nemesis Davros. 

Suddenly this episode had nothing to do with Missy or the Daleks - they were just the icing on the cake. The Magician's Apprentice was a Davros story and it was all the better for it.