Doctor Who The Flux: 10 Huge Questions After The Halloween Apocalypse
6. Who is Claire and How Does She Know The Doctor?
Claire’s story will become clear in the episode featuring
the Weeping Angels. In that part of the story we will discover why she is
meeting the Doctor and Yaz out of order. The ability of the angels to send
people back in time might be a red herring in that respect. Here, she knows who
they are and what she must do to survive, but fails nonetheless.
What is most intriguing about Claire is her line about ‘taking the long way home’. It calls to mind both the 11th Doctor’s words at the end of The Day of the Doctor and Clara’s words when she travels with Me to delay returning to the point of her death (Hell Bent). In any other context it wouldn’t be an unusual choice of words, although the fact Claire felt it necessary to avoid the quickest route because of Halloween is odd without any further explanation.
It’s unlikely to be an older version of Clara (despite the similarities with the shoulder bag), since she can no longer age beyond the fixed point of her death, however many adventures she has with Me. What might be significant is that Clara was groomed by Missy to be a companion of the Doctor.
Given that the Master was instrumental in the Doctor learning about the Timeless Child, his hand might still be at work as she actively tries to uncover her forgotten past. Could he be using other companions and would-be companions against the Doctor again?