Doctor Who Series 12: 10 Huge Questions After Fugitive Of The Judoon

10. Will We Be Seeing More Of Captain Jack?

John Barrowman had long been pushing for a return to the show. Overlooked for the 50th anniversary by Steven Moffat, who created his iconic character, he must have wondered if this day would ever come. His comeback, nearly ten years after his last appearance, could not have been more out of the blue.

In a huge ‘what just happened’ moment to rival the space-frog in series 11 and even the Master in Spyfall, Captain Jack almost highjacks the plot by scooping Graham and then Yaz and Ryan out of Gloucester. These scenes are so completely detached from the story that if we didn’t love the character so much, we’d be complaining.

He left as abruptly as he arrived, unable to give Graham and co the full message. The set-up deliberately makes us think that by the end of the episode he will get to meet his first female Doctor, but that encounter is postponed. Maybe not soon, as Jack himself concedes (the producer’s effort to manage expectations?), but he will surely be back - it’s just a question of when.

Now the Jack is out of the box, it would be no surprise to see reports of Barrowman openly filming for series 13. But a word of caution is in order. The Doctor links him to both Ruth and the Master as examples of her past colliding with her present. Perhaps before more Jack, we could be seeing other one-off cameos recorded in secret – River Song, Kate Stewart, Rose Tyler anyone?