Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi’s 12 Best Performances As The Twelfth Doctor

The ultimate confrontation. Much like Batman and The Joker in The Dark Knight, here we have The Doctor and his deadliest nemesis since time immemorial: Davros. Except instead of smashing the latter's head against a table, the Doctor extracts Davros from his life support "dodgem" and takes it for a cheeky spin that antagonises the Daleks. Well, when in Skaro.

The Twelfth Doctor can come across as flippant - however unintentional - when manipulating others. So if there's such thing as karma, then it couldn't of happened at a worse place with the worst of all enemy.

It would of added greater impact and surprise had we not known of Davros' entrapment plan in the first place. The "smelly old uncle" plays, to quote another evil genius, the Doctor like a harp from hell. Davros knows the Doctor will never cause a mass genocide of his murderous metallic children. He turns the Doctor's noble strength of compassion and utilises it as the Time Lord's weakness.

But then again, throughout their two hearts to heart there seemed to be a flicker of Davros the innocent, little lost boy on the battlefield. Maybe, just maybe, the Doctor had helped him be at some sort of peace before dying. More importantly, he can die knowing he made a decent one-liner.

In the end, Davros returns to tyrannical type. But the Doctor manages to cause some positive ripples in time by imbuing Davros with one redeeming feature: mercy.

Capaldi is sincere and sardonic whilst Julian Bleach is masterfully underhand as the dastardly Davros.