Doctor Who Flux: 10 Huge Questions After Village Of The Angels

So the Division has gone from being a shadowy organisation far back in the Doctor’s distant past to an active organisation that has operatives everywhere. Which begs the question, has the Doctor encountered them before without knowing? Can we retcon the Division into numerous past episodes involving apparently lone wolf baddies?

Chris Chibnall made a conscious decision to resist any mention of the Time War that so dominated Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who, but surely the Division played a role in it, running all manner of covert missions. The writer will need to come up with a convincing in-universe reason why they have never been mentioned before. Their secretive nature is not enough because the Doctor herself was once a member and they will have made many shared enemies. The mind-wipe is not enough because there are plenty of moments where the Doctor could have broken through the conditioning – every time she regenerated for example.

So why are the Division only recalling the Doctor now? The simple answer is that she alone has the power to stop Swarm and Azure. Her connection to the Ravagers is clearly important and unique, but without the Division restoring her memories what use can she be?

Prior to Swarm’s escape, the Division wanted to sentence the Doctor to life imprisonment under the Judoon, and thanks to assistance from Captain Jack (Revolution of the Daleks), the Doctor is once again on the run. What’s the betting the Doctor agrees to help on condition they finally tell her the truth? All well and good until she finds out they are now also in the dark.