Doctor Who The Flux: 10 Huge Questions After The Halloween Apocalypse
8. What Does Azure Want With Dan's Friend?
Karvanista might not be the only one after Dan in this
episode. The big bad, the mysterious Swarm has resurrected his sister Azure and
the first thing we see her do is kidnap Dan’s friend, Diane. Of course, it
could be coincidental that Di just happens to be taken whilst waiting to meet
Dan as arranged, but when Azure says ‘we are going to have fun with you’, the
chances are that it is related. Swarm knows the Doctor and this could be a way
to get to her indirectly.
On the other hand, perhaps it is significant that Diane works at the museum of Liverpool. Could there be an artefact there that Swarm wants, or might her knowledge of the city’s history be what they are after, tying in to the scenes set in the past?
Azure is just as mysterious as her brother, but there are some intriguing similarities in the glimpses we’ve had of her storyline with the fugitive Doctor. Like Ruth, she is living in ignorance of her true alien identity until she is genetically restored to her true self. Could she have been under some kind of protection scheme run by the division, or was she hiding from them like Ruth?
A closer link to our Doctor could be alluded to when she uses a hammer to smash the alien tracker since we also see the Doctor wielding a hammer on the TARDIS. Whoever she is, Rochenda Sandall is a fantastic actor and it would be a waste not to see her again without the prosthetics in flashback scenes.