Doctor Who: Series 9 Episode Titles And Plots Announced
1. Episode 12: Hell Bent
The season finale, written as we'd all expect by Steven Moffat, has been confirmed as "Hell Bent". My first thought was that the Tenth Doctor referred to Gallifrey and the Time War as "hell" in The End of Time, so... the Twelfth Doctor is Gallifrey Bent? That seems highly plausible.
Moffat also gave out an exchange of conversation from this story. The obvious reading of this dialogue is that Clara is leaving. But we've seen these fake-outs before - remember Rose saying "This is the story of how I died?" in Series 2's Doomsday? Oh, how showrunners like to mess with our emotions. Here's the dialogue in question, so you can make up your own minds:
“Is it a sad song?”
“Nothing’s sad till it’s over. Then everything is.”
“What’s it called?”
“I think it’s called Clara.”
“Tell me about her."
The plot summary also hints that Clara's going to die:
If you took everything from him, and betrayed him, and trapped him, and broke both his hearts... how far might the Doctor go? It is time, at last, for the Doctor's confession.
After all, what else would break his hearts? Well, that's what we're supposed to think, at any rate. More interesting than the never-ending back-and-forth over whether Jenna Coleman's Clara is being written out is the mention of the Doctor's "confession". What, exactly, does the Doctor need to confess? And can we wait three months to find out without exploding with frustration?
What theories do you have after reading the new plot summaries and quotes? Let us know in the Comments section!