Doctor Who The Flux: 10 Huge Questions After The Halloween Apocalypse
5. What Do We Know About The Division?
In The Timeless Children we learnt that one of the Doctor’s forgotten lives was recruited by the Division – an under the radar Time Lord agency that could break the rule of non-intervention in extreme circumstances. The truth was hidden and fictionalised in the Matrix with the story of Brendan. The Ruth Doctor tried to get away from serving the Division by using the chameleon arc and transforming herself into a human.
We don’t yet know exactly when or why the Doctor’s memories were altered, and her history as a Division operative is shrouded in mystery, but the organisation is the one thing the Doctor might be able to use to lead her to the truth.
What is unclear is why Carvanista is the only operative the Doctor has been able to track down. The Doctor’s ability to travel backwards and forwards in time makes this even more unlikely. It was previously assumed that the Division was just staffed by Time Lords, but now it appears to be a multi-species agency – assuming Carvanista is who he says he is.
What the audience knows is that the Doctor is wrong, there
are other Division operatives and the chances are she will be meeting some of
them. Though the two guarding Swarm are killed, it means that others may be out
there, possibly including Vinder. We can expect the Doctor to finally get some
useful information from one of them at some point this series.