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The Ambiguous Force was the twelfth and final episode of Series 25 of Doctor Who.
Synopsis[]
The Doctor goes to visit Georgia Tennant, but finds that her husband, David Tennant, has gone missing! Where has he disappeared too? What is with Georgia's coincidental life? And most of all, who is the mysterious narrator who speaks events to us...
Plot[]
The Doctor goes to Georgia Tennant's house, where she mistakes him for the real Simon Don, until she enters the TARDIS. She makes tea and they have a chat. She tells the Doctor that her husband (David Tennant) has gone missing, and has been so for nearly a day, and is not answering any of his phone calls. The Doctor, with all the things that have happened to him recently, thinks this must be the work of aliens. Georgia says that if there were aliens in this world today, then [the humans] would most likely know. The Doctor tells her that the aliens might have superb cloaking technology. He says "What if everyone who has ever gone missing and never been found, has been kidnapped, by an alien force, hidden beyond the sky.". He says "All those stories from people, about being abducted and probed, by aliens. Well they're not stories, [Looks at Viewers] they happened. The people that escaped, or were saved. Lived to tell the tale.".
The Doctor uses the TARDIS to detect an alien spaceship in space, and detects one. The aliens onboard the spaceship see that they have been detected, and one alien asks the other to bring up the ones that detected them. Georgia tells the Doctor that she does not want to get involved in this adventure, and goes outside the TARDIS, but when the Doctor looks outside, he sees that Georgia is not there. He goes outside, and is teleported onboard a room with four doors in the spaceship. Georgia is also in the room. The Doctor sonics open a door, and him and Georgia walk through a few alien corridors. They hear voices in the distance, and go to check it out. They open the door to the room where the voices going "Cook him! Cook him!" are coming from, and they encounter the Epnoshi, a race of aliens that orbit planets anonymously and kidnap people from them, using them as food. They also do not go by individual names. They resemble the alien bodies found in Roswell, Area 51. The Doctor has apparently met them before in his universe. They are holding David Tennant captive and are planning to eat him for dinner. The Doctor does not recgonise David due to his longer hair, beard, and scottish accent.
Back at the Tennant household, Peter Davison notices that his daughter is missing, and that the TARDIS is outside, so he decides to go and look for her in it. The doors are able to open for him due to the TARDIS trusting him. He dosen't like how the Doctor has redecorated the TARDIS, so he asks the TARDIS to change the desktop to the old Fifth Doctor's one, and it does that. He remembers how to fly it from his days as the Doctor, and he flys it to find the Doctor and Georgia Moffett.
Back on the ship, the Epnosh Leader senses coincidence on Georgia, which he longs to solve. He shows her photos of her, and certain eyes in certain other people in the photos, and the vicar in Georgia's wedding video (the only video where the eyes are present). Back in the TARDIS, Peter ends up in a Caveman "Hospital", where he says "Doctor, I've come to save-" before being cut off, as he realises the Doctor is not in the room. The Cavemen then start chanting "Doc-tor!" and the Fifth Doctor realises he has accidentally introduced the word "Doctor" into the world. He scolds the TARDIS for being so unreliable even today. He then ends up in the time of the Dinosaurs, where he is chased by a T-Rex.
The Epnosh ship then gets it's engines destroyed by an external force, who fires a blast of cloaked temporal energy at it, which sends it back in time about 65 000,000 years ago, where it supposedly becomes the very thing that destroys the Dinosaurs. The Doctor, David and Georgia run away from the Epnoshi down a corridor, and as they run, Georgia says "Why am I just getting the sensation that I've seen those eyes before?" and David says "Yeah, me too!" as they continue to run, and an explosion comes from the ceiling which distracts them, and the spaceship's gravity fails, causing them to fall and run across the wall. On earth, Peter sees something in the sky falling to earth. He grabs some binoculars from a mysterious mostly-unseen person, and sees it is the Epnosh ship. He gets bad Deja Vu of Earthshock.
He uses the TARDIS to fly straight into the ship, and help the Doctor, Georgia and David escape in the TARDIS. The Doctor and David are saved in the TARDIS by Peter, but Georgia is taken away by the Epnosh Leader. Just as the TARDIS dematerialises, David notices Georgia is not with them. Georgia wakes up on the falling ship, next to the unconscious Epnosh Leader. She runs out of the room, and then spots the real meteor that destroys the Dinosaurs, on a course for collision with the Epnosh ship. The Doctor, David Tennant and Peter Davison, then go back and materialise the TARDIS between the meteor and the ship, and it falls onto the ship's hull. The Doctor then sets it to dematerialise with anything it touches. David says it doesn't have that feature, but the Doctor says "It does now!". The TARDIS then dematerialises, along with the ship, and everything on it, before the meteor hits the earth.
The ship lands sideways on a cliff on an alien planet at dawn. David rushes to save Georgia from the Epnoshi, but as soon as he gets to her, the Epnosh Leader puts her in a body-bag and takes her away. David cannot jump down the inverted doorway without dying, and he asks the Doctor to help save her. The Doctor says that he and Davison will look for survivors, and David needs to be the Doctor and save Georgia, as the Doctor was just "one of [his] universal counterparts". David objects to this, but the Doctor shows him his old Tenth Doctor suit and coat. David says there's no time, but the Doctor says that the cliff goes for miles, and the Epnosh Leader wouldn't've gotten anywhere by now. David puts his suit and coat on, and the Doctor uses a reprogrammed Epnosh foodcutter to cut David's hair, so he looks like the Tenth Doctor again, and he does his Tenth Doctor voice again. The Doctor says "So go on, what was it you said, Let's go in French?" and David says "Allons-y!" and runs out of the ship and goes to confront the Epnosh Leader.
The Epnosh Leader attacks him, but he dodges. He trips over his coat, but rolls out of the way of the attacking Epnosh, and takes his coat off. The Epnosh Leader and David both fall down the cliff, but David hangs on with his feet, grabbing the Epnosh Leader by the legs. David faces the cliff, and the Epnosh faces the other way. The Epnosh asks David to drop him, because he is a hero in a TV Show, and [the Epnosh is] the villain. David tells the Epnosh that heroes don't have to kill the enemies. They only have to defeat them. The Epnosh then notices that David has been swinging the whole time, and David says it was to "gain some momentum". David swings the Epnosh Leader to his right, and he hangs on a "rock icicle" hanging from the cliff. David then falls, but grabs two bits of the mountain and pulls himself up.
The Epnosh Leader asks David to help him, but David tells the Epnosh that he can climb up himself. The Epnosh starts climbing up, and David gets unconscious Georgia out from the body-bag. The Epnosh Leader gets up and opens the bag, only to find no Georgia. He screams "Nooooooo!" as David carries Georgia away in his arms. He gets back to the TARDIS, and Georgia wakes up. The Doctor is asked what he will do with the rest of the Epnoshi orbiting Earth. The Doctor says that people will continue to go missing, and never come back.
David then says that adventure is something else to add to Georgia's coincidence list. Georgia asks why. David reminds her that they were in an animated series of Doctor Who episodes together that dealt with the Roswell crash and an alien from it, and they were just on a ship with aliens on it that both resembled the ones found in Area 51. Georgia says that "the real question" is, how come that ship was so much bigger than the one that crashed in Roswell. The Doctor says that different ships are different sizes. The TARDIS then arrive back on earth, but the Doctor and Co find themselves not at the Tennant household, but at the BBC broadcasting house! The Doctor then has an idea.
At nightfall, he constructs a meeting between the Writers of Doctor Who (RTD, Chibs, Gatiss etc.) and tells them how they're not controlling his life. As he does this, Peter is having a chat in the staff room, and the Tennants are exploring the place. The Tennants find themselves in the BBC broadcasting control room, where the workers are mysteriously gone. They then see a mysterious unscheduled transmission ready to be transmitted. They watch it, and Georgia is shocked by it. As the Doctor gets out of the room, he is blocked by Mark Gatiss, who says that the Doctor was right - with him. He didn't write Sleep No More, he copied it. He then sneezes, and his mouth and nose come off, turning into dust. The Doctor realises that Gatiss is a Sandman.
Gatiss says he has been one since Series 9, explaining why the Morpheus process was included in episode Sleep No More. Gatiss tells the Doctor that he is the Mark Gatiss from the Doctor's universe, or rather, he is in his form. He said that the Mark Gatiss of his world was a willing volunteer for Morpheus. He says that he grew around Mark Gatiss when he was trying to go to sleep in his bed, meaning Mark Gatiss is his host, and therefore his favourite form. As Gatiss was aboard the Le Verrier station when the Doctor took down the grav-shields, he crumbled away, and somehow found himself in this world in 2014, and he kidnapped the "real" Mark Gatiss, but didn't eat him, for the reason he puts as "Why would [he] want to eat [himself]?". He put the entire story of "Sleep No More" on tv, albeit slightly abridged (such as different actors and a slightly different story), but it failed to transform the world into Sandmen due to Gatiss having missed something.
Gatiss was then thrown into the future, and the real Mark Gatiss was freed. This explains why Gatiss never wrote a sequel to Sleep No More for Series 10. ("Why bother make the same story? Not many people watched it until the end. You might as well have made a better story." "Well it's better having people know the creature that they are going to become. Plus it saved me thought time.") Gatiss tells the Doctor that the Sandmen were brought back in the show because Gatiss put something in the Morpheus infection to make one human the King Sandman. The person that was picked got over-obsessed with the Sandmen and became the current showrunner, going so far as to retell Sleep No More on TV, therefore creating the Sandmen, meaning they were made out of a paradox. Gatiss says that this means the Doctor's theory he told the Doctor Who writers was wrong. The Doctor tells Gatiss that what he did just brought the Sandmen back in Doctor Who, and the Sandmen were still created from his world. Gatiss tells the Doctor that he has a point.
Gatiss then says that he is going to broadcast Sleep No More again though, this time much shorter, so he broke into the transmission control room and put the recording on ("At least one person will watch it, and get infected, and the Sandmen will spread, and eventually, everyone will be a Sandman, led by me, and we will take over the universe!"), but realises he needed to "real-ise" the transmission first (which is what he missed last time), so he was on his way to the transmitter tower to do that, but was called to the writers room. He thought it was just a bit of stalling, until he saw the Doctor there! He then transforms into a Sandman again and attacks the Doctor, but since he can't see what he ate, he accidentally ate the Doctor's clothes instead, which the Doctor quickly took off, saying it's lucky his clothes were filled with jelly babies. Gatiss thought he had eaten the Doctor, and so walked to the tower.
As Gatiss was going down another corridor, he is met by David and Georgia, the latter of which runs away, recognising Gatiss. David Tennant is delighted to see him, but Gatiss remembers seeing a picture of him among all the other Doctors. He grabs David's arms and pushes him against a wall, before transforming into a Sandman. Georgia then comes with a chair and smashes it into Gatiss's top half, disintegrating him fully. David says "Exposure of the internals to air makes the entire body disintegrate! I bet there's a scientific explanation for that.". The Doctor and Peter then come from around the corner, and the four of them start quickly talking about how to defeat Gatiss now he is dust. Gatiss then slithers to the lift as dust and reforms when he gets there. The Doctor says that he is going to the transmitter. Peter suggests that the TARDIS Crew take the stairs.
Gatiss gets to the roof of the BBC, and the TARDIS Crew get there via stairs. The Doctor confronts Gatiss, and Georgia gets a broom from a passing old cleaning lady, and hits Gatiss over the head with it. He turns into sand, and lands on the old lady. He starts reforming on top of it, and reforms as the old lady! He then reforms back into Mark Gatiss, saying "Don't worry about the old bat, she had no family or friends, and pretty much lived on this roof.". He asks the Doctor how he survived, and the Doctor lies that Time Lords can't be eaten by Sandmen. Gatiss then knocks him out by hitting his left temple with his right arm. He then runs to the tower, as the transmission was starting soon, and Peter and Georgia run after him. Gatiss gets on the tower's ladder and starts climbing up the tower.
Peter tells Georgia to stay down here, and he climbs up after Gatiss. When they both get to the top of the tower, Peter confronts Gatiss. He then grabs on to him and threatens to jump down with him. Gatiss says that he will survive, and Peter would not, but Peter has a plan that he secretly tells the audience ("If he lands on top of me, then he will reform on top of me, and take my form, just like that old woman earlier."). Georgia knows what her father is planning, and gets the sonic screwdriver from the Doctor's pocket, and uses it to destroy the transmitter. Gatiss is mad at this, but Peter pushes him off the tower, and he lands at the bottom in a pile of dust. He then reforms, and Georgia tells him to follow her.
Gatiss chases her, and she does the international hand sign for "stairs" to David, and he knows what she means, and runs towards the stairwell. Georgia sonics open the lift, and detaches the barrel, making it fall down. She throws the sonic to David and jumps down the lift shaft, and Gatiss dives down after her. David runs down the stairwell and into a corridor, as Georgia falls down the lift shaft and grabs onto a ledge, as Gatiss falls down after her. David sonics open the lift and grabs her and pulls her into the corridor, and Gatiss falls down past her and hits the bottom of the lift shaft. Georgia asks David how he knew which lift she was in, and David tells her that that question is unnecessary. Off-screen, the Doctor puts Gatiss into a glass box and sends him off in a van, saying that he will return and throw him out into space later. As the TARDIS team watch him be driven off, Georgia asks the Doctor why he didn't use the sonic to just detach the lift barrel as Gatiss went up, and the Doctor says that it would've gotten him "noticed" outside of his TV Show, and he didn't want that to happen. He says "But thanks to you Georgia Tennant," [Friendly punch] "I think I got ourselves too noticed!".
The Doctor is next seen in a room in the Tennant household, where he is looking at a photo that he saw on the Epnosh ship, however, the mysterious eyes are gone from a certain man. He looks at more, and all the mysterious eyes are gone. He does not seem surprised by this through, and neither do Georgia or David. The Doctor is next seen coming out of the front door of the Tennant household, followed by the Tennants and Davison (The Doctor has possibly given them a device that creates a wormhole, for their own spin-off series!), and he says goodbye to them, and goes off in his TARDIS.
As the Narrator says, the Doctor then does a multitude of things in this universe for 3 weeks (such as saving young Robert Holmes from a car, restarting the Doctor Who fan show, saving Ben Cook and Clive Swift from an unseen killer robot, and doing multiple videos with Doctor Who YouTubers), so if you ever spot a blue police box, or see a certain man with a beard and funny hat, then you never know... ("Oh, and in case you were wondering, the Doctor did go back for Gatiss, and threw him out into space."). The Narrator then says that he is done narrating, and that they will have to wait till next series to find out who he is, and he stands up, but then sees that two men have broken in. They claim the "abandoned building" to be theirs, and not for people in dress-up. The Narrator tries to convince them something, but they shoot him, and he falls to the floor. He then starts regenerating!
The Doctor is then seen visiting Sydney Newman as he is dying, and Sydney tells the Doctor that it has been [however many] years since he last saw him with that face. He then asks the Doctor how long it has been for [the Doctor] since they last met. The Doctor says it has been 3 Weeks. Sydney says "Three Weeks?! Have you forgotten where you are?". The Doctor then remembers that he is in a parallel universe, and that he should have not been able to use the TARDIS, as it would be like "putting petrol in a diesel engine". Sydney tells the Doctor that he has learned so much about the Doctor in his years, through Doctor Who. He unfortunately knows that the show is now not going to continue. The Doctor shows him a vision of the future, and Sydney is happy that the show continues, and says that he is glad that the last face he saw before dying was the face of the man that changed his life for the better. He then dies.
The Doctor walks back to the TARDIS, and goes to the end of this universe to go through the wormhole back to N-Space, thinking of Sydney, and John. He then starts questioning things that have come to him during this story (Who created BEM? What's with the mysterious eyes in Georgia's photos, and did they manipulate her life somehow? Who sent the Epnosh ship back in time?! Who handed Peter Davison those Binoculars in the Cretaceous period?! How did Mark Gatiss get to our world?! And who left Sydney directions to come to me?!). The TARDIS then stops, and the Doctor goes out to find himself in a heavenly place! An angel greets him, and introduces himself as "Gabriel". The Doctor says "What?!".