The Apocalypse: Silent Skies



The Silent Skies is the penultimate part of the Apocalypse Story Arc in series 8.

Plot
The episode picks up where the previous left off, The Doctor has been frozen in a split second by Mr. X and Harvey is the only one to save her.

Meanwhile, in the bubble world, the Doctor encounters Ffion's believed to be dead mother, who informs the Doctor that she was healed when she weakened Mr. X's system by lowering his confidence in Marvin, who turns out to be an android built by Mr. X to keep his conscience happy.

Ffion and David, along with Dr. Masters Jr and his father, break out of the lock down and find themselves in Mr. X's laboratory, along with a trapped Harvey and a weeping, infected child. Ffion begins screaming at Marvin in anger, telling him that he could've destroyed the universe, this lowers Mr. X's confidence in his android and the child's strength returns.

In the bubble universe, The Doctor and Nancy find the remains of her TARDIS and manage to piece it back together, escaping the bubble universe, when they arrive at Mr. X's the labatory, things begin to take a change for the best.