Doctor Who: Series 9 Episode Titles And Plots Announced
10. Episode 3: Under The Lake
This episode title is the first of the "secret" titles to be revealed, and it's a corker. If the general theme of Series 9 is a grail-like quest, then the lake of the episode's name calls to mind the lake from which Excalibur was held aloft.
For this two-part story written by Toby Whithouse (the man who brought us School Reunion and several other good stories), Moffat teased this dialogue snippet from the Twelfth Doctor:
"It’s impossible! It’s evil! I hate it! It’s astonishing! I want to KISS IT TO DEATH."
Like most fans, I imagine, I was wondering which story that dialogue came from. It made me smile when I heard it in the series trailer. But, on with the story summary:
Under a lake, in the dripping gloom of an underwater base, stands a gleaming black space ship, recovered from the lake bed. Nothing is inside - but when the base crew start dying, they make a terrible discovery: ghosts are real! And their friends are refusing to stay dead! The Doctor and Clara arrive to find a base under siege from beyond the grave. But how can the dead be walking? What has brought them back? When the Doctor discovers the truth, it is more terrifying than any simple ghost story.
So, this is the underwater base story with the blank-eyed ghost-figures. Honestly, this story sounds simply great. I can't wait to see it!