Doctor Who 10: 7 Big Questions About The Pyramid At The End Of The World
1. Why Has The Doctor Forgotten About Missy?
Perhaps the biggest mystery of all given how Extremis ended
is the Doctor’s total blanking of Missy. Last week, stood outside the vault, he
confessed his blindness to Missy, suggesting that he needed her help in saving
the Earth from the Monks. The Doctor was up for the fight, but this week, he’s
locked himself away in his TARDIS, reverting to his guitar playing
contemplative state as he foreshadows his own death and pontificates about the
end of the world.
The Doctor is hardly given a choice about leaving Missy behind in the vault. She’s still a secret as far as everybody else except Nardole are concerned, and his TARDIS is forcibly extracted from his office (this time the windows are removed). Given Nardole’s insistence that the Doctor keep his promise, he can hardly give a presidential order to his cyborg friend to go and fetch her. But it’s odd that the Doctor doesn’t even mention Missy, especially when he’s trapped inside the lab.
It's possible that like Bill, the Doctor is caught between protecting the Earth and his Time Lord friend, but it would have been helpful to have had this confirmed by a line or two. As it stands, whilst locked in the vault, Missy remains the one person on the planet unknown to the monks and without doubt this will have a major bearing on how the situation is resolved in The Lie of the Land.
Missy returns in style next week in what promises to be another mind-bender with the trailer suggesting that the Doctor is now working for the monks. The edited highlights imply that with Nardole’s help, Bill lets Missy out of the vault and is then instructed to shoot the Doctor to restore the messed up timeline. Will Missy really keep her own promise to be good? Or is this all a set up to get her out of the vault in the first place? Next week, all will be revealed.