Doctor Who: 8 Things We Know About The Next Three Episodes
5. The Doctor And The Pinks
What makes The Caretaker different from your standard light-hearted Doctor Who adventure is that it will be when Claras double life comes crashing down around her ears and when the Doctor finally meets Danny Pink. And its not going to be pretty. As expected, the Doctor will not be happy with Danny when he finds out about his past as a soldier. Roberts commented to Doctor Who Magazine that he and Steven Moffat (who has co-written the episode with him) were concerned that the Doctors dislike of Danny might be going too far but ultimately left it unchanged. Though the odds are that Dannys not going to be too fond of the Doctor. At the very least, the trailer shows that the experience of meeting the Doctor will leave him pretty shaken up. As well as meeting Danny, the Doctor will also cross paths with his little sister Courtney while undercover at Coal Hill and get along much better with her; seeing a kindred spirit in her in that she has no social niceties. Presumably theyll end up taking shots at Claras appearance in unison. But regardless of just what brings them together, it clearly affects the Doctor a lot because...
JG Moore is a writer and filmmaker from the south of England. He also works as an editor and VFX artist, and has a BA in Media Production from the University Of Winchester.
