Heart of Wood

"Heart of Wood" is the fifth episode in the ninth season of Doctor Who, set in 13th century England. It sees the return of the Cybermen, as well as a empathic wooden counterpart.

Synopsis
"I call it the Wooden Man!" - Geoffrey Montefar

The Doctor and Billy arrive in 13th century England where they discover the new and marvellous Geoffrey Montefar, who has invented a “wooden man”, which appears to be a primitive Cyberman made of wood and other parts. The Doctor seems puzzled, and fears that the Cybermen are once again at work. However when the wooden Cyberman awakes it appears empathic and expresses human emotions, due to the fact of the era and it does not contain an altered brain. When the Doctor questions Montefar on his work, the French man shows him a blueprint he “found in the forests”. The Doctor soon discovers that a Cyberman travelled back in time and delivered the blueprint to Montefar, but misunderstood that the era was not the 21st century. Soon the true Cybermen arrive, and the wooden Cyberman fights alongside the Doctor, until he catches afire due to the superior kin’s lasers. The Doctor repairs him with Montefar by upgrading him to a steel model, and the Cyberman confronts the Controller. When the Controller pleads with the primitive Cyberman that is the same kin, the steel Cyberman disagrees, and kills the Cyber Controller. After the Cybermen are defeated, the Cyberman pleads with the Doctor to destroy him, and the Time Lord ruefully obliges. As they leave he laments to Billy that the Cybermen are not supposed to be empathic, and that today a new race was made and destroyed.

The New Cyberman
The Wooden Cyberman was created by renowned French worksmith Geoffrey Montefar, who found blueprints, secretly left by the Cyber Controller. The Cybermen failed in their calculations, presuming that the era was the 21st century, when in fact it was the 13th. However Montefar still constructs the Cyberman using wood and other items, and presents it across Europe as part of his business plan. Lords and barons supposedly pay large sums to see the automaton, but the Doctor senses something is amidst. The Wooden Cyberman, called Type I by the modern Cyberman and Wood Man by the medieval people, is very different to his kin, he possesses human emotion, despite not being produced from a human. When the Cybermen arrive to claim him, the Wooden Cyberman rebels against them and fends them off, until he is wounded by their superior gunfire. Montefar and the Doctor repair him with advanced steel body, and he sets about defeating the Cybermen. After the Cybermen have been defeated, the Wooden Cyberman asks the Doctor to destroy him, and he ruefully obliges.