And here's The End of Time Part 1 (a Christmas episode the weekend after Christmas, that counts right?)

The next part should be up within a week hopefully

Enjoy

The group watched the screen waiting for the newest video's title to appear in hopes that it may give clues to what the new video would be about. After the last video they were hoping that it would be a nicer, less stressful event but knowing the Doctor's adventures that wasn't likely.

"The End of Time?" Amy read the title out loud as it appeared, face scrunched up in thought for what it could be referencing.

"Do you think that's talking about when the Tardis broke? Or when River went against the fixed point at Lake Silencio?" Rory contemplated, offering ideas. Both seemed reasonable ideas as time had seemed to break or end during both events.

The Doctor shook her head, "I don't think so. I don't know why but I don't think so. Neither of those would make sense after the last video we just watched. Most of them have had some link when things get tense." What she didn't voice was that she had her own suspicions about the video contents. She had a feeling the only video that would make sense would be her regeneration, but she wasn't going to reveal her suspicions until it was confirmed and even then, maybe not even then.

River raised an eyebrow at the Doctor, seemingly sensing that she knew more than what she was saying. "Guess we'll just have to watch and see." And with that they turned to the screen to see how the video would start.

A narration if heard declaring that it is said in the final days of Earth, everyone had bad dreams, and all gathered to celebrate a pagan rite to banish the cold and dark, but they all forgot. They all forgot the war and insanity from their nightmare, bar one.

While the majority of the people in the room were focussed on the words spoken, suddenly feeling weary about what this video was going to be about because this wasn't sounding promising. The Doctor, however, was scowling at the screen very aware of who was narrating this mess. She'd been right about the video's contents unfortunately.

She risked a glance at the Master, knowing he would be the only one to recognise the voice and also likely guess what this video would be about. Based on the dark look that crossed over his face he had in fact recognised it. His own eyes met the Doctor's before she could look away and a silent agreement passed between the two of them. There was a lot that had happened between the two of them in this video, but in the end, they had a common enemy in Rassilon.

It's Christmas and Wilf hears an evil laugh in his head

"Grandad?" Donna asked bewildered by Wilf's appearance. She turned to stare down the Doctor, expecting answers.

The Doctor smiled fondly, "Wilf helped me out a lot during this mess. This video is set shortly after the last." A few people shared concerned glances, if it was set after the last video than the Doctor likely wasn't in the best mindset. At least they'd had Wilf to help them, most that knew him couldn't help but feel excited to see the man interact more with the Doctor. Donna was just curious, especially as she knew how much her grandad loved everything space.

It's the Master laughing as Wilf walks down the street past a Salvation Army and playing Christmas carols

Rose and Mickey eyed the band wearily, thinking back to their Christmas just after the Doctor had regenerated into Pinstripes. Martha and Jack shared a worried glance, recognising the Master's laugh. His was going to go very badly if the Master showed up. It was always bad when the Master was around but even worse when the Doctor was in such an unstable mental state, the pair glanced concerned at the Doctor whose eyes didn't leave the screen.

Wilf goes into a nearby church where a choir is rehearsing. He notices a strange blue rectangle in the stained-glass window and a woman dressed in white approaches him, making him jump

"Of course, Wilf manages to find the church with the Tardis in the stained glass." Jack grinned, happy that Wilf seemed to be somewhere safe for the moment. He wasn't liking the direction this video was going already, he kept glancing between the Master and the Doctor, having a sneaking suggestion what this video was going to be about.

The Master, however, was focussed on the woman that had appeared next to Wilf. His head snapped around to face the Doctor, "Is that ...?"

The Doctor nodded; her own expression unreadable as she watched the woman on screen. It made sense that she'd appeared to Wilf beforehand from what he'd mentioned but she hadn't actually seen her herself until near the end.

"Is that who? You know her Doc?" Graham asked the Doctor cautiously. It was always dangerous asking the Doctor about mysterious people as you never knew how much of an answer you'd get or how happy an answer it would be, but he was too curious for his own good.

"Yes, I know her." The Doctor sighed, glancing briefly at Graham before glancing across the rest of the room. "As for who she is, that's more complicated." A classical non-answer answer from the Doctor then.

The woman tells Wilf they call it the Legend of the Blue Box

"Of course, they do." Rose shook her head but couldn't hide the fond smile.

Wilf says he's never been before as he's not one for churches. The woman explains it was a convent back in the thirteen hundreds and it was said a demon fell from the sky and a man in a blue box, the sainted physician, smote the demon before vanishing

"Classic. Any more details you're willing to share Doctor?" Bill grinned, she was always amazed at how easily people changed the story to fit their narrative and understandings. People from the covenant in the thirteen hundreds would never be able to understand the 'demon' had likely been an alien so they went with a story they could understand.

"Maybe later, Bill." The Doctor smiled teasingly, honestly, she could barely remember said incident it had been so long ago.

Wilf calls it a coincidence

"Or fate." Amy snorted, not really believing her own words.

The woman says people say there is no such thing as a coincidence and perhaps he's coming back, Wilf says it would make his Christmas

The Doctor smiled sadly; the Christmas hadn't had the nice ending Wilf likely had desired but things rarely ever ended up the way one expected.

The woman vanishes and Wilf hears the laughter again

"Doubt it will be a good Christmas with him around." Martha muttered darkly, glaring at the Master who only smirked back smug and proud of himself. Mickey curled an arm around Martha's shoulders; more to hold her back from lunging at the Master than anything else. The Doctor grimaced, no one was going to be happy when they found out about the Master's plan.

The Tardis materialises in the snowy landscape of the Ood Sphere. The Doctor steps out wearing a stetson and lei to see Ood Sigma waiting for him

"The Ood?" Donna turned to the Doctor with a raised eyebrow. Those that had bad encounters with the species were a bit wary about how causal the Doctor looked on screen.

"The Ood." The Doctor nodded back decisively as if that was supposed to mean something.

The Doctor says he was summoned and mostly rambles about his travels, getting into trouble mentioning he got married to Queen Bess which was a mistake and other fun, he then asks what Ood Sigma wants

There were a few snickers from the group at the comment about Queen Elizabeth the first, all knowing the story surrounding that know and knowing the Doctor on screen didn't know as much as they were suggesting they did.

River and Jack shared knowing looks; the Doctor was behaving oddly. In a way that they only did when they were in a self-destructive or avoiding mood; clearly there was far more going on than they knew so far. River had only seen this kind of behaviour from the Doctor from around Lake Silencio which only increased hr concern over this video's contents.

The Master raised a knowing eye at the Doctor which she promptly ignored.

Sigma tells him he shouldn't have delayed and the Doctor argues the last time he was there he was told his song would end soon and he wasn't rushing for that

That killed the mood in the room very quickly, all eyes darting nervously to the Doctor who tore her own eyes away from the screen to offer some reassuring smiles to the group. This video was going to be bad in several ways, but they didn't need to worry yet.

Sigma says to come with him and the Doctor says he better lock the Tardis first. He uses a remote key which causes the door to lock and light flash as it beeps, he tries to make a joke about it but Ood Sigma doesn't laugh. He asks how old Ood Sigma is now

"We've talked about this Doctor. It's not funny if you have to explain the joke." Ryan groaned, shaking his head. The Doctor just grinned at him.

The Doctor looks over the Ood city calling it splendid and asks how long it took to achieve – a hundred years

"That's stunning." Yaz muttered, amazed at the sight of the alien city.

"That's far too quickly." River shook her head, turning to look at the Doctor for answers, all she got was a frown and nod to the screen.

The Doctor says that is a problem as it is too fast, not just the city but their ability to reach him all the way back in the twenty first century. Their species has been accelerated beyond normal. Sigma says the mind of the Ood is troubles as they have bad dreams every night

"I'm going to go out on a limb here and say these aren't your normal kind of bad dreams." Mickey sighed, already knowing the answer - they were never that lucky.

The Ood council sit in a circle in an ice cave. The elder speaks of returning, always returning, he is returning but too late he has come

The Master and the Doctor share an unusually serious look, having a silent conversation simply through their eyes rather than an actual conversation through their mental link. Both were thinking the same; the Ood had meant the Master, but they'd also been talking about Rassilon and Gallifrey.

The rest of the group was serious and silent for once, noticing the looks the Time Lords shared and slowly starting to connect the few puzzle pieces they'd been provided so far and they weren't painting a pretty picture.

Sigma tells the Doctor to sit with the elder and share the dreaming, the Doctor does with an awkward hello

"You're so awkward." Bill shook her head but didn't bother to hide her grin, it was always good to see parts of her Doctor in their other faces.

The Ood all repeatedly declare he will join

"I think they want you to join." Nardole muttered, earning a few snorts of amusement from the group.

"What gave you that idea Nardole?" The Doctor snarked with a grin.

The Doctor links hands with the Ood and sees the Master's laughing face, the elder says he comes to them every night and people across the universe dream of him now

"As they should." The Master lounged in his chair, ever the smug cat.

"I'm glad I can't remember those nightmares." Martha muttered quietly, glaring fiercely at the Master which only seemed to egg him on. Mickey squeezed her shoulder comfortingly, reading between the lines and knowing that Martha already had plenty of nightmares based on the Master.

The Doctor declares the man is dead

"He never is." The Doctor shook her head with a sigh, but she couldn't bring herself to sound as disappointed as she probably should, sounding more annoyed or fond based on the dubious looks the rest of the room were giving her. She purposely didn't look at the Master, she didn't want to give him that pleasure, especially with everything coming up in this video (she had been rather desperate as Pinstripes back then after all).

The Elder says there is more as events are shaping and changing the now, and there is a man

Everyone ignored the Master's grumbles about not being a man, all on edge with how the video seemed to be taking a turn already and no one wanted to indulge/encourage the mad Time Lord.

They see the Noble's house and the Doctor asks if Wilfred and Donna are safe

The group all smiled fondly about the Doctor's first thought being Wilf and Donna, Donna giving him an approving/appreciative nod. It was nice to know that even after she left the Doctor still thought about her family enough, and was concerned about Wilf so much, although she would be happier if they weren't in danger in the first place.

The Elder declares he shouldn't have delayed as things are converging on Earth and the king is in his counting house

"Apparently, they can't just say what's going on, they have to use riddles. Typical." Clara sighed, she knew she should expect it at this point, it was rare for them to ever just get a straight answer.

The Doctor is given an image of a black man and his daughter but he doesn't know who they are. The Elder says there is another, lost and forgotten and they see a woman in a cage – the Master's wife

"I'm sorry, his what?!" Yaz declared, head whipping around to face the Doctor for an explanation. Several others did the same. Jack, Martha, and the Doctor shared a look.

"Who would agree to marry him?" Bill asked incredulous. The Doctor couldn't hide her amused snort at the comment from Bill, talking quickly in a (successful) attempt to cut the Master off before he could start an angry rant.

"Lucy was part of one of his previous ... schemes. She was also the one that ended up shooting him in the end." The Doctor explained briefly, not wanting to go into the whole mess with the Year the Never Was. No one had anything they could actually express in words in response to that explanation.

Sigma says they see much but understand little, asking who the woman in the cage is. The Doctor fails to explain and instead shows them some of the events from the Year that Never Happened explaining the Master pretended to be a human called Saxon who married Lucy and corrupted her to stand at his side when he conquered everything. After he reversed everything, Lucy remembered and the Master died – he held him and burnt the body

"It wouldn't be the first time." The Doctor muttered, referencing the number of times she had thought the Master had died during their life, only for him to show up later all smug with a new scheme. Every time she thought that was finally it, that he wouldn't be able to come back, only for him to show up again anyway. The Master had more lives than a cat and an ability to survive stronger than a cockroach.

"And it won't be the last." The Master's grin was practically feral as she turned to scowl at him.

The Elder says he didn't see and he's shown an image of a woman picking up the Master's signet ring, he realises part of him survived and he has to go

"Disappointing Doctor. Always missing the details." The Master mocked smugly. He'd prepared for most eventualities even though it had taken far more time than he would have wanted and not ended how he would have liked; still any chance to one up and mock the Doctor.

The Edler says something more is happening and the Master is only a small part of something bigger, something vast in the dark is stirring. Things once lost are moving through the veil and events form years back threaten the future, present and past

"That doesn't sound good." Rose grimaced; it was vague but far too ominous for her comfort.

The Doctor asks what they mean and the Elder says the darkness heralds one thing – then end of time itself. The Doctor runs out to the Tardis

"Very ominous and very dramatic." Jack summarised. "Very worrying." He was glancing at the Doctor hoping that somehow, he'd be able to read something from her expressions and put the last few puzzle pieces together. He had an idea of what had happened around the Master's return but had very little idea as to what this larger threat seemed to be about, but (as usual) it didn't sound very friendly.

"That's putting it lightly." The Doctor muttered with a depreciative snort. It only served to increase the tension in the room and the group's worry.

Elsewhere in a prison, Lucy Saxon is taken from her cell and escorted to meet another woman. The woman introduces herself as the new Governor and the old one had an unfortunate accident that took time tp arrange. She commends Lucy on her silence and remarks the trial was held in secret with no one knowing who Harold Saxon was. She says to make her kneel as some of them never lost faith, and they were prepared for this moment – tonight he returns

"They're crazy." Bill declared bluntly, almost disbelieving. She didn't need to know much of the details to know whatever these people wanted it was to do with the Master, and that was never a good thing.

"Unfortunately." The Doctor grumbled, she'd only arrived to see the aftermath of whatever they'd done, and she was half dreading, half interested in seeing how exactly they'd brought him back.

Another woman (Miss Trefusis) holds out the Master's signet ring as Lucy gasps. Elsewhere Wilf looks out the kitchen window at the storm and the woman in white briefly appears on TV in the other room

The group all gave the Doctor curious looks as she shared a knowing glance with the Master, they were all undeniably curious to know the identity of the woman in white, especially with the way the pair of Time Lords were reacting. No one dared voice the question though.

The Governor declares as it was written in the Secret Book of Saxon, these are Potions of Life

The Doctor gave the Master an exasperated (if a little bit fond) look, "Really? What is it with you?" The almost religious resurrection/cult like group was very reminiscent of some of their older interactions, long before she'd met anyone else in the room. Some days she couldn't help but miss those old days, when their relationship was still complicated but somehow also simpler, before the bad blood became so bad, they could barely see each other straight because of it. The knowing look the Master gave her said he knew exactly what she was thinking, and she glanced away in shame.

Blue liquid is poured over the signet ring in a bowl

"What are they doing?" Rose asked, nervous to hear the answer she was already suspecting.

"Something very stupid and dangerous." The Doctor answered, with a grimace at the screen. She didn't like how much knowledge the Master had left behind as his backup plan, although she really should have expected something from the mad Time Lord. If there was one thing (well technically two things) that she knew about him, it was he always had a backup plan (how well they went varied), and he never died.

Lucy tries to warn them that they don't know what they're doing

"They really don't." Martha grimaced, unable to stop glancing between the screen, the Doctor and Jack. It was one thing to see the Master in the room and on screen; it was another thing to see the Master who had made her life hell and tortured her family for a year, and she wasn't sure how she was going to cope. Mickey squeezed her shoulder, offering a comforting smile when she glanced up to meet his eyes. At least she had Mikey, and her friends around her this time, they were safe.

Miss Trefusis steps towards Lucy and takes a print of Lucy's lips as the Governor explains as his wife, she bore his imprint and the final biometrical signature will act as a catalyst

"How can she still have any trace of his 'biometrical signature' after so long? How long has it been?" Clara asked, confused.

"I'm just surprised someone actually wanted to kiss him. Or that he kissed anyone, he always seems too disturbed by the idea of humans to let them actually touch him like that." Donna snorted, earing a sneering glare from the Master and a small grin from the Doctor.

"To answer your question, Clara, it's been about a year, maybe a bit longer. A Time Lords signature is a distinctive thing, hard to mask even after a short time like that." The Doctor answered, purposely not mentioning Donna's comments to avoid the inevitable fight.

Lucy shouts they can't bring him back

"She's changed her tune." Jack muttered.

The Doctor elbowed him. Hard. "Leave her alone. She made some mistakes but she suffered just as much as us, she paid the price and then some. She didn't deserve what she went through." Jack put up his hands in surrender.

Miss Trefusis drops the imprint in the bowl and there is a big flash before a light beams up and out of the prison, Lucy begs them to stop before it is too late

"I think it is too late." Ryan muttered with a grimace.

The Governor declares they give themselves so Saxon can live and energy pours out of her and her acolytes

The group watched in silent shock as the group gave their energy to bring back the Master. They'd seen a lot of messed up things over their travels, but this certainly made the list. They couldn't understand how the group was so twisted up to actually want to bring back the Master, but there were always people like that around with crazy ideals and all too willing to go through with their mad plans.

Lucy says he lied to them and his name isn't Saxon. The Governor declare it was also written that his name is the Master. The Master (naked) begins to appear in the column of light

Several people immediately glanced away from the screen at the site of the naked Master appearing in the light. The tension in the room rose drastically as the Master finally returned.

The Master rambles insane about never dying and asks Lucy is if the widow kiss brought him back to life mockingly. Lucy declares he is killing them and the Master declares they are the first, and the drums are louder than ever before, and he's missed them

Martha and Jack shared a look, both thinking back to the Doctor's story of the drums during their brief time on the run from the Master's forces. The majority of the group was just grimacing at the screen, all far too aware of how mad the Master was. They hated what was happening on screen but didn't expect anything else from him (and weren't sure whether the group being willing or not made it better or worst).

Lucy declares no one knew him better than her and she knew he'd be back so she prepared too. She takes a small vial from a prison officer pretending to be an acolyte

Martha perked up; she knew that the Master came back but it was reassuring to know that someone had put up a fight against it, even if it was to no avail.

No one commented on the Master's scoff at lucy claiming to know him so well. She may have predicted and tried t stop his return, but she hardly knew him. Only the Doctor could claim that title.

The Master asks what she is doing, and Lucy says she was never bright but her family knew people who could calculate the opposite to his potion. The Master orders her to obey him and not

"She doesn't need to obey you! No one should obey you!" Martha snarled at the Master, who simply leaned back in his chair smug at gaining a reaction from Martha, enjoying the glares the rest of the group were sending his way. He didn't answer back though.

Lucy throws the vial at the Master as he protests causing an explosion, the Doctor runs out the Tardis to see the ruined shell of the prison

Graham whistled lowly, "That's no small explosion."

"Late as usually Doctor." Rory sighed, earning a small shrug from the Doctor. There wouldn't have been anything she could have done to stop it all even if she had arrived in time, and clearly, she hadn't been meant too.

In Naismith's study, a black woman enters the room to see an older black man staring at footage on his laptop. He declares they are in lick and to take a look at the footage of the prison that burnt down last night. They see a silhouette of a figure run out the flames, and Abigail (the woman) declares someone survived and asks if it was him. She says it would be a great Christmas present and Naismith (the man) says to leave it to him as her father

"Oh great, there's another group of crazies." Amy muttered, throwing her hands in the air dramatically with a sigh. The rest of the group seemed to share her exasperation. Donna had a confused look on her face, recognising the faces of the Naismith and Abigail for some reason but not able to place why.

They walk into the gate room – lit by a domed glass roof. Naismith declares help is at hand, Christmas is cancelled and to prepare the gate to the waiting staff. The archway begins to light up

"The gate?" Mickey raised an eyebrow in question. "That doesn't sound good."

"It isn't." The Doctor grimaced in not-answer, earning an eye roll from the majority of the group at the Doctor's typical lack of real answer to even the simple questions.

At the Noble's Wilf says he is going down to the Lion for Christmas drinks. When he leaves the house he gets out his phone and make a call, he declares they are mobilised and to rendezvous at thirteen hundred hours, over and out

"He's up to something." Jack grinned fondly. Donna was shaking her head fondly, unsurprised at her grandad's actions.

He flags down a minibus and tells the group to shake a leg, the driver and passengers applaud as he gets on, he asks if everyone is alright and who has the chocolates as off they go

"Love the priorities." Bill grinned, nodding approvingly.

Wilf describes the Doctor – tall and thin, brown or blue suit and long brown coat, sticky-up modern ish hair. And tells them to also look out for a police box like the old ones

The Doctor's face contorted, unable to decide whether she liked that description of her old face or not. Unconsciously her hand moved up to her own hair, even if it wasn't the same hair as it was back then.

The rest of the group was snickering quietly, all agreeing and enjoying the apt description of Pinstripes.

Minnie says she got locked inside one of them – August bank holiday 1962. Wilf asks if she was misbehaving and Minnie says she absolutely was

"I like her." Amy grinned.

"You would." Rory sighed, exasperated.

Wilf gets them all to listen as it is important they find it, asking them to phone everyone and cover the city – including contacts in a Bridge club and simialr. Winston asks who the Doctor is but Wilf says he can't tell them that but asks them if they've been having bad dreams they can't remember as that's why they need him

"Wilf's on the case." Martha smiled fondly, glad that someone was doing something.

"How's he going to find the Doctor through a Bridge Club?" Yaz asked a bit doubtful, usually finding the Doctor was a very difficult task and not something you just achieved casually.

The Doctor smiled, "Oh you should never doubt the power of Wilf."

At a derelict site a piece of wood burns in an old oil can, and a charity burger van sits outside an abandoned warehouse. The server – Sarah – talks to a pair (Tommo and Ginger) about what they want on their burgers

The group blinks a bit at the sudden change of scene, unsure why this derelict site is relevant to anything at the minute. There was so much happening in the video so far but this seemingly had no link to the story unfolding.

A figure in a hoodie walks to the van as the group at the van talk about a Christmas broadcast tomorrow from President Obama who's promised to end the recession. Tommo and Ginger walk away and Sarah turns to the figure which is the Master wanting everything as he is so hungry

The group flinched, realising the mystery hoodie man was in fact the Master and that was why they were being shown this. The tension rose, with the Master around (especially this Master and in this state) whatever was going to happen was not going to be good.

Tommo and Ginger are by the brazier, eating before the Master drops down from the sky an sits behind them. He declares he is starving ad devours the burger too quickly for a human

"That's ... disturbing." Clara muttered with a grimace. From the group's expressions they also agreed.

Tommo says you don't want to eat it all at once as you want to make it last as long as you can

Several people grimaced for other reasons at Tommo's words, recognising that their life really wasn't going well if they had learned that lesson. And if their life wasn't bad enough it was about to get worse due to the Master's presence.

The Master says he wants more and Tommo says they better go before Ginger says he looks like Harold Saxon – the one that went mad

Jack and Martha grimaced, mixed between glad that was all everyone else could remember about Harold Saxon, but it always made it difficult to explain anything about that Year, and sometime to connect to people who hadn't gone through that kind of trauma.

The Master declares he can't hide anywhere, the master of disguise stuck looking like the old Prime Mister. He can see him, smell him. He then rambles about the Doctor and stopping the filthy smell

"Smell him?" River raised an eyebrow at the Doctor expectantly.

The Doctor shrugged, "It's complicated." River raised her eyebrow higher. "I'll explain later." She added on, knowing that it wasn't something that River was going to let go.

Tommo tries to get Ginger to go but the Master is still talking, saying he's splitting his sides. His skeleton appears and disappears several times

"Well, that's not right." Nardole blinked.

"What was that?!" Rose exclaimed.

The Doctor considered the question for a moment before answering, "The resurrection was messed up, not quite complete so it had consequences. Hence the hunger and skeleton." She gestured to the screen. Rose accepted that answer but still looked disturbed.

The Master declares himself the funniest thing in the world

"You are very much ... not." Ryan muttered quietly, unheard by the majority of the room.

Tommo and Ginger run for the burger van shouting in Sarah to help them but both Sarah and her assistant are skeletons in clothes

"What the hell did you do to them!?" Martha snarled, leaning forward in her seat to glare at the Master, her knuckles white as she clenched her hands int fists. Mickey was squeezing her shoulder tightly in an attempt to ground her but he was also glaring at the Master (alongside the rest of the group).

"I was hungry." The Master smiled manically, like a cat that had trapped a mouse in its trap. The glares didn't let up but no one chased the answers any further, dreading the answers.

The Master declares it dinnertime as he leaps into the sky and swoops down on the men who briefly scream

The group all grimaced, knowing the horrid fate of those poor men but unable to do something about anything. The feeling of uselessness an almost permanent consequences of watching these videos in this room.

Later, the Doctor stands on a cliff and sniffs deeply. The Master does the same, picking up an iron bar and hitting an oil drum in the four-beat rhythm. The Doctor hears and runs towards the Master who leaps into the air upon seeing him, the Doctor chases. The Master waits on a pile of girders and his skeleton again briefly flashes

Bill glanced between both the Master and the Doctor several times before shaking her head, "You're both ridiculous."

"What do you mean by that?" The Doctor looked offended, unsure why she was being attacked like this.

"Just ridiculous." Bill shook her head, unable and unwilling to answer the Doctor.

The Doctor asks to help as he's burning up his own life force

"Of course, the first thing you do is offer to help him." Jack muttered, eyes dark as she didn't meet the Doctor's eyes, instead glaring at the Master who looked annoyingly smug. The Doctor frowned at him but didn't say anything.

They run again but Wilf appears in the Doctor's path with the rest of his group – the Silver Cloak – close behind

"He found you." Rory blinked, surprised at Wilf's sudden appearance.

"Grandad's stubborn and determined. The Doctor had no chance." Donna grinned proudly.

Wilf declares he's a sight for sore eyes as the Doctor shouts for him to get out his way

The Doctor winced at their immediate dismissal of the Wilf, he's been desperately looking for her to help and she'd been so focussed on the Master, she'd just immediately gone to ignore him. To be fair to her, the Master was dangerous and if she could have stopped them, she would have dealt with some of the problems of that mess, but it wasn't to be.

The Master is gone. The others arrive as Winston asks if they found him. Minnie declares the Silver Cloak worked based on a lot of phone connections

"The whole crews here." Graham grinned, every time he saw and heard more about Wilf the surer he got that he would get along well with the other man.

The Doctor asks if Wilf told them who he was as he promised. Wilf just said he was a Doctor, and declares it an honour to see him again, saluting

"Oh Wilf." The Doctor sighed fondly.

Minnie comments on his good looks and gets a photo with him while the Doctor's just suffering as he's busy. Minnie give the Doctor's bottom a squeeze

The group burst out into loud laughter, the tension draining away temporarily in favour at laughing at the Doctor's misfortune. They could escape deadly traps but not an old lady.

The minibus drops the Doctor and Wild off in a street before driving away with the rest of the Silver Cloak. Wilf takes him to a café as the Doctor asks why that one is so important

"Wilf knows something." Mickey said, noticing how determined the man seemed. It would be great if Wilf knew something and they could piece together what was actually happening with the supposed 'end of time'.

Wilf declares they had some good times between ATMOS, the planets in the sky etc but he keeps seeing things, a face at night

"I have so many questions." Yaz muttered, every time someone mentioned some other adventure they hadn't seen she just got more and more curious.

The Doctor asks who he is

"I thought he was Wilf?" Nardole asked, bewildered by the Doctor's random question, as were many in the room.

"Not what I meant Nardole." The Doctor sighed but didn't offer anything else leaving them to watch if the wanted answers (as was often the way).

He's Wilf. The Doctor argues people have waited hundreds of years to find him but Wilf managed it in a few hours

The Doctor couldn't help but shoot both River and Jack looks, they'd both spent a lot of time searching for her and yet Wilf had found her (several times) with very little effort.

Wilf declares he's lucky. The Doctor says it is something more as they keep meeting. Wilf asks why he is so important and the Doctor agrees why him, before adding he' going to die

"You can't just say things like that out of the random Doctor!" Amy berated as several people spluttered at the sudden declaration from the Doctor. They'd all suspected it, after the last video and then the Doctor's brief visit to the Ood but it was another for the Doctor to just declare it to poor Wilf.

Wilf says so is he one day, the Doctor tells him to not dare

"He's not allowed too." The Doctor smiled fondly, she really needed to go visit Wilf soon.

Wilf says he'll try not to. The Doctor says he was told a prophecy that he will knock four times

"The Master." Jack muttered, shooting the Doctor a knowing look. Of course, the Master with his drums and knocking would be worrying the Doctor with a prophecy about dying after four knocks (not that he didn't always worry the Doctor).

"That's what I thought." The Doctor nodded quietly. Jack raised an eyebrow at that, that didn't sound like a yes. Maybe for once the Master wasn't (entirely) to blame.

Wilf mentions how he said his people can change his whole body before. The Doctor agrees but says it is still death, and regeneration feels like death, a new man walks away but he's dead

The Doctor scoffed, glaring at her past self on screen. "So dramatic." Back then she'd been so scared of dying and now she had considered not regenerating, things had certainly changed dramatically in a (relatively) short time (minus the years in the confession dial). Her comment seemed to calm the nerves of a few people who'd been unsettled by her on screen comment about regeneration, thankfully.

Wilf spots Donna outside in the street

Donna blinked at the sight of herself on screen, not having expected it although now that she thought about it, it would explain her grandad's weird behaviour and she did have vague memories of being around there. She was too focussed on herself on screen to notice the sad look the Doctor gave her.

Wilf apologises but asks if the Doctor can't make her better, saying he's so clever and to get her memory back and go and say hello. The Doctor says if she remembers her mind will burn and she'll die

"Unless the Tardis interferes to show us movies of our lives apparently." Donna snorted, using the Doctor's famed technique of using humour to hide her pain. The Doctor gave her such a sad look, one she couldn't help but compare to a lost puppy that knew it had done something wrong and was now begging for forgiveness.

They hear the Doctor speaking to the traffic warden about her car, and the Doctor says she hasn't changed

"What does that mean, Martian?!" Donna protested, eyes narrowed and arms crossed.

The Doctor held her hands up quickly in surrender, "Nothing, nothing." She tried to placate the annoyed red-head but her fond smile seemed to be ruining her attempts. Martha was laughing quietly (attempting and failing to hide her own grin behind a hand), glad to see her old friend still the same even without the memories of the Doctor.

Wilf agrees and then points out Shaun Temple who Donna is engaged to, marrying in the spring

"He looks nice." Martha smiled at Donna, glad to see she was moving on with her life. Donna's fond smile at the sight of her husband said everything without the need for words.

The Doctor asks if she'll be called Noble-Temple as it sounds like a tourist spot

"That's Temple-Noble to you, Spaceman!" Donna protested again. The Doctor grinned and waved to the screen.

Wilf corrects him to Temple-Noble. The Doctor asks if she is happy, and if Shaun is nice. Wilf declares him sweet albeit a dreamer, and they're both on minimum wage so they can only afford a little flat. Wilf adds sometimes he sees her and she looks so sad but can't remember why

Donna frowned at the screen, now that she had her memories back, she could think back to those moments and realised what had triggered her during them. She could only hope the Doctor would be able to solve her issue now or that the Tardis's interference would last outside this room. She enjoyed her life with Shaun, but she didn't feel quite complete without those missing memories. She really wanted those memories back, to have the chance to spend time with friends like Martha again, to be able to remember her adventures across time and space, both the good and the bad. The worst thing was she didn't know what was going to happen after they finished watching these videos, none of them did,

Wilf says she's making do and the Doctor says they all are. Wilf asks how he is and who he is travelling with. The Doctor admits he's alone and thought it would be better but it went wrong and cuts himself off as he starts crying

The group's heads whipped round to the Doctor in the room; it was rare for the Doctor to cry so openly like that, let alone in a public space or around others. It said volumes about how much the Doctor trusted Wilf and also about the state of their mental health. This video wasn't going to go well if the Doctor was already in a terrible mental state and now the Master was involved, and they still had very little clue what this 'gate' was or how it was linked to the supposed 'end of time'.

The Doctor let out a deep breath, curling in on herself a bit and grounding herself via River's hand in hers. This video was going to be hard for several reasons.

Wilf apologises but the Doctor just says Merry Christmas

"You can never have a normal, happy Christmas, can you?" Amy muttered, frowning.

The Doctor says to look at them

"Two old men. Former soldiers dealing with life after leaving the battlefield. Grandfathers." The Doctor muttered to herself, she could see parts of herself in Wilf sometimes, but Wilf was better than she could ever be.

Wilf says he needs Donna, and she'd make him laugh again. Donna and Shaun drive away

"You need someone Doctor, you always need friends." River murmured softly, leaning in close to her wife as she squeezed her hand. The Doctor swallowed, knowing exactly how true that was, and yet every time she whisked some young person away to see all of time and space, they came back older and with trauma, and that was only if they came back at all.

The narrator is back, saying everyone took their places ready for the events, thinking of the future and what it would bring. And as the Earth turned to night and people slept, they knew the dawn would bring the final day

"I'm liking this narrator less and less." Bill grimaced, things were sounding less and less promising every time the narrator spoke up.

"He's wrong either way. The Earth didn't end in 2009." Ryan offered, possibly in an attempt to comfort the group who were getting more unnerved as the chaos continued to unfold.

No one noticed the intense look the two Time Lords exchanged.

In an abandoned warehouse that night, the Doctor walks to the Master who fires bolts of energy at him from his hands. The third one hits the Doctor stopping him and making him fall to his knees, the Master catches him before letting him fall to the ground

The group watched the 'fight' between the Time Lords. Several people gave the Master unnerved looks, feeling very glad that the Master could not shoot bolts of energy out of his hands normally. They turned to glares when they saw the Master hit the Doctor in the stomach and then let him fall to the floor.

MASTER: I had estates. Do you remember my father's land back home? Pastures of red grass, stretching far across the slopes of Mount Perdition. We used to run across those fields all day, calling up at the sky. Look at us now.

No one spoke a word as they got a rare mention of the Doctor and Master's time as children. It was very rare for either Time Lord to openly offer any information about their childhood, what Gallifrey was like when they were young or their families, essentially anything from before they left the first time. Yet, these videos had been giving them more insights into their early lives than they'd ever had before.

The Doctor asks how many people he's killed despite his elegant words

Martha nodded approvingly at the Doctor, glad that she wasn't getting distracted or focusing too much on her old friend rather than the monster he'd become. Martha would openly admit she'd never be able to understand the Doctor and Master's relationship, she doubted anyone ever would fully understand it.

The Master declares he is hungry and the Doctor explains his resurrection went wrong and he's killing himself. The Master rambles about all the food at Christmas

"That's incredibly disturbing." Clara grimaced; she was oddly glad she'd met the Missy version of the Master. At least she was more put together, mad in a different way at times and no less unpredictable and dangerous but not like this hoody-wearing maniac.

The Doctor demands he stops it repeatedly before suggesting he asks for the Master's help as something bigger is going on

"You're trying to team up with him!?" Mickey exclaimed, giving Martha's shoulder a squeeze in comfort; she couldn't be enjoying this.

The Doctor sighed, giving Mickey a knowing but unregretful look. "Whatever happening was serious and had to do with time. The Master was the only one who had the same understanding of time, and it was unlikely his resurrection was a coincidence." She gave a pointed glare at the Master, "And if he was with me, I was better placed to deal with anything he tried."

The Doctor says he's been told something is returning and the Master declares he is there, but the Doctor argues it is something more

"Hear that, Master? Everything doesn't revolve around you." Jack smirked at the Master. The Master glared back.

The Master declares it hurts as the Doctor says he was told it was the end of time. The Master continues saying the noise in his head hurts and it is stronger than ever before, asking if the Doctor can hear it

"No one else could." The Doctor offered an empathetic look at the Master, she'd never been sure what to think about the drums but this mess had proven they had been real the whole time and very much a purposeful choice by Rassilon.

"I don't need your pity, Doctor!" The Master spat at the Doctor; hackles raised as he sat up straighter in his armchair.

"It's not pity!" The Doctor protested but the Master only sneered more, unbelieving.

The Doctor apologises but the Master begs him to listen. The Doctor can't hear it, then they mind-meld and the Doctor finally hears the beats, pulling away

The room all glanced between the screen and the pair of Time Lords having an intense stare off in the room. This video was giving then new insights into their relationship and into the mental link the pair had mentioned briefly before. No one knew what to say.

The Doctor declares he heard it but there hasn't been a noise it was his insanity so what is inside his head. The Master celebrates it being real and flies off as the Doctor runs after him

"You didn't believe him?" Rose asked quietly.

The Doctor glanced at the Master briefly, he raised an eyebrow in question at the Doctor, also curious about the answer. "After so many years, I doubted him. We'd shared a mental link for centuries and I'd never heard it before. No one else had ever experienced something similar, I thought it was a part of his insanity."

"Are you calling me insane, Dear?" The Master asked, face now blank.

This time the Doctor didn't hesitate. "Yes."

"Good."

The Master declares that all the years, the Doctor thought him mad, but something is calling him and asks what it is repeatedly

"Nothing good." The Doctor muttered.

"Promising." River sighed, overhearing the Doctor's words.

A spotlight shines on the Master and SAS type soldiers come down on robes, grab the Master and inject him with something to knock him out. The Doctor protests but gets shot at as the Master is hoisted up into the helicopter s the Doctor shouts for them to let him go, he's then shot in the back

"I'm guessing those crazy people in the mansion?" Amy asked with a raised eyebrow. She was unable to hold back a wince at seeing the Doctor get shot in the back though.

"Got it in one." The Doctor grimaced, she wasn't particularly bothered by being shot, more annoyed than anything. It would hardly be the first time she'd been shot (by any stretch of imagination), and it had meant the Naismiths had gotten a head start (as had the Master) which had almost led to disaster.

At the Nobles' house, Wilf opens a present which is a book called 'Fighting the Future' by Joshua Naismith as Donna makes margaritas

The group smiled, enjoying the more peaceful moment between Donna and her family. It was a nice break from the tense atmosphere and danger mounting around the Doctor and Master, still it left them feeling a bit off kilter with the sudden change of scene.

Sylvia opens a present to find some clothing calling it beautiful before asking if Donna kept the receipt

"Ah, family Christmases." Martha snorted; some things didn't change.

Donna did before asking if Wilf like his book, saying he's been a misery since getting up. Wilf asks why she got it for him, but she doesn't know, she just saw it and thought of him, felt like he should have it

"Well, that makes a bit more sense, but it also doesn't. What's going on Spaceman?!" Donna turned around to glare at the Doctor with an expecting expression.

The Doctor smiled fondly, having expected Donna's questions. "The knowledge from the metacrisis is still there somewhere, just hidden to protect you. Something must have sneaked through, and you unconsciously picked up on it."

"Basically, you're just guessing." Donna summed up with a raised eyebrow. The Doctor shrugged.

"Isn't she always." River laughed, earning a pout from her wife, and laughs from the rest of the room.

At the Naismith's, the butler (Danes) removes the gag from the Master who is fastened to a large chair-like structure

"They're not taking chances with you." Bill blinked at the restraints on the Master. The Master gave a feral grin, which unnerved the Doctor. She couldn't figure out if he was thinking about how they did underestimate him or the Doctor's own turn in those restraints, neither made her feel very confident.

Naismith declares the Master is here due to his daughter's idea, Abigail chimes in she was right and the man they need is there so it will be wonderful

"They're completely insane." Rory shook his head in disbelief, he couldn't help but feel that he shouldn't even be surprised anymore and yet he always was.

Back at the Nobles' Wilf shushes the group as it is time for the Queen's speech, they all sit down ready as Wilf salutes the TV. The broadcast briefly shows the woman in white

"Doctor?" Yaz asked, turning slowly to look at the Doctor hoping for an answer for who the woman in white was. The Doctor pursed her lips and shook her head, she wasn't answering that one, at least not yet.

The woman declares events are moving faster than they thought, Wilf is confused and asks if anyone else can see it

"It was definitely just grandad." Donna muttered; she hadn't heard this the first time. In fact, she could barely remember much about this day but she had a feeling she'd find out why that is.

The others can't. The woman declares only Wilf can see her as he stands at the heart of coincidence. Wilf asks why and the woman declares he was an old soldier but too late as the war won and passed him by. Wilf argues he did his duty as the woman declares he never killed a man

"That's not a bad thing." The Doctor announced, eyes sad yet proud of Wilf.

WILF: No, I didn't. No, I did not, no, but, don't say that like it's shameful.

"You tell her grandad." Donna nodded proudly.

The woman declares he will have to take arms when the time comes. Wilf asks who she is, the woman ignored him saying to not tell the Doctor anything about this as his life could be saved if Wilf tells him nothing

The Doctor blinked at that. She hadn't known there'd been any chance of her not regenerating that day, not if she was to save Wilf (and it had never been an option to just let Wilf die).

Wilf goes into his bedroom and pulls out an old suitcase from his bed and unwraps his old service revolver. Something is thrown at the window and Wilf looks out to see the Doctor return to hid Tardis

"The Docs not going to like that." Jack whistled lowly, referring to the gun that Wilf carried, they all knew the Doctor had a big no-guns rule.

"I told you to stop calling me that!" The Doctor elbowed Jack in the side, annoyed.

"Hey! You let Silver Fox over there call you that!" Jack protested, waving to Graham in a purposely dramatic fashion.

"Graham's allowed. You're not!" The Doctor retorted.

River sighed, shaking her head (reluctantly fondly) at the pair of them, "Could you stop arguing like children so we can actually get on and watch this?"

"Yes ma'am."

"Yes, sweetie."

Outside the house, the Doctor shares he lost him as he was unconscious but he's still on Earth as he can smell him but he's far away

"Still confused by the whole smelling thing." Bill crinkled her nose up in confusion, unbale to decide on a word to describe her feelings on that idea.

Wilf says he can't park there as what is Donna sees it. The Doctor continues talking about Wilf being the only connection he can think of, and has he seen anything, anything odd or strange

"Well, he's run into you, so of course he's seen something odd." Amy grinned teasingly.

The Doctor rolled her eyes at her, "You know that's not what I meant."

"Do I?" Amy purposely annoyed the Doctor, earning a long sigh of suffering from her husband and daughter-in-law.

Wilf thinks of something but says it was nothing as the Doctor asks him to tell him

"It was probably something." Clara declared.

Wilf finally admits Donna was a bit strange and gave him a book by Joshua Naismith, he shows the Doctor the book. The Doctor realises that's the man he was shown by the Ood

"It's all starting to connect." Yaz perked up, eyes shining as they always did on an adventure and they found a lead.

"It is?" Ryan asked a bit bewildered.

"Things are becoming as clear as mud." Yaz nodded, earning a groan from Ryan and Graham.

WILF: By the what?
DOCTOR: By the Ood.
WILF: What's the Ood?
DOCTOR: They're just the Ood. But it's all part of the convergence. Maybe? It may be touching Donna's subconscious. Oh, she's still fighting for us, even now. The Doctor Donna.

Wilf asks by the what, and the Doctor says the Ood but can't explain them when Wilf asks. The Doctor realises the convergence is still touching Donna's subconscious and she's fighting for them even now, the Doctor Donna

"I think you're just confusing him more." Martha sighed but she couldn't help the fond smile from growing on her face. She felt a bit better with the Master temporarily out of the picture and under restraints, and the Doctor and Wilf working together and getting closer to figuring out what was actually going on.

Sylvia asks what he's up to, and then spots the Doctor. They exchange Christmas greetings before Sylvia says Donna can't see her

"So British! Polite enough to say merry Christmas before continuing with her demands for you to leave!" Jack laughed, earning annoyed glares from the British population of the room (aka everyone outside of the aliens).

They hear Donna and Slyvia shoos him away. Wilf goes with the Doctor even as Sylvia shouts at him not to

"He's certainly not listening." Mickey grinned.

The Doctor says Wilf can't come with him but Wilf argues he can't leave him with Sylvia as the pair make their escape

"Good argument." Rory conceded.

The Doctor declares that fair, and they dematerialise in the Tardis as Sylvia shouts at him. They're gone but Sylvia keeps shouting for Wilf to get back, Donna arrives and asks if she's shouting at thin air, Sylvia declares she is

The room burst out into laughter at that. Donna was cackling as she shook her head at her mother, "I thought she was mad! Shouting at air like that, honestly! Of course, the Doctor's to blame."

"Oi! It was just as much Wilf's fault." The Doctor protested but was barely heard over everyone's laughter (her own included).

In the Tardis, the Doctor declares he can track Naismith, and asks if Wilf likes it. Wilf said he thought it be cleaner

"Good on you, Wilf!" Jack grinned proud of the old man.

The Doctor is insulted and jokes he should take him home now. Wilf asks if it is a time machine why they can't go back to yesterday and catch the man he's chasing. The Doctor explains he can't go back in his own timeline and has to stay relative to the Master, asking if Wilf understands – he doesn't

"You rarely do. Best thing to do is just nod along and pretend you do." Rose snorted, she was by no means stupid but the Doctor was fond of overcomplicating things and using made-up words or overly fancy scientific terms to make everything sound far more complicated than it was. She thought it made the Doctor feel smarter.

The Doctor welcomes him aboard. Back in the gate room, the Nasimiths enter followed by the Master in a strait-jacket, Naismith demands an demonstration and electricity surges across the gate

"What is that thing?" Graham asked confused.

"I'm going to make an educated guess and say that's the gate." Clara spoke up, gaining a nod from the Doctor.

The Master declares it isn't from Earth, Naismith declares the Master isn't either which is a great combination

"So, they're not completely ignorant. Just very stupid." Bill nodded with lips pulled tight, that was never a good thing. People who thought they were smart always tended to underestimate the danger thinking they had it under control.

Rossiter interrupts asking if they can check the basement as they are getting fluctuations on the power cords, when given permission, he asks Miss Addams to being the calibration statistics and the pair of scientists leave

"They're up to something." River decided, something feeling not quite right about the pair of scientists. She was also combing through her mental records to try and place what the gate was or could be yet she kept coming up blank which was frustrating her.

In the basement, Rossiter asks who the Master is, scared he'll find out and what kind of expert he is. Addams doesn't know, declaring the records say Harold Saxon was Prime Miniter of the country. She then says she's choking in this and apologises before pressing her wristwatch and transforming into a green skinned biped with spikes instead of hair

"She's a cactus!" Graham exclaimed shocked.

"They're Vincocci actually, and they find it very offended to be compared to cacti." The Doctor corrected, but a smile was tugging at her lips. "But yes, they look a lot like Earth cacti."

Addams declares it better as the people are so flat

"It's better than being ...spikey!" Donna shot back at the screen, feeling offended at the comment. She shot a glare at the Doctor who had started to snicker because she'd been talking to the screen. The Doctor stopped snickering pretty quickly after that.

Rossiter also transforms. He asks what they do as they were so close to it working. Addams says they are hijacking the project but if the visitor is a genius they can maybe use him, and Saxon might be just what they need

"I don't think he's what anyone needs." Martha scowled, she could see several ways everything could rapidly fall apart and she liked none of them, especially with the gate's purpose still undiscovered.

Back at the gate room, Naismith explains the gate was found in an old spaceship buried at the foot of Mount Snowdown, moved to Torchwood then when they fell, he acquired it

"It's always Torchwood." The Doctor sighed, she'd missed this explanation the first time around and been far too busy regenerating to find out more details afterwards.

"We weren't that bad." Jack protested, looking actually offended (and a touch sad at the reminder of Torchwood).

"Torchwood Three under your command wasn't the worst, but Torchwood one was terrible. You can't argue that point Jack." The Doctor glanced briefly at Rose and Mickey who had been around for the fall of Torchwood One.

Jack raised an eyebrow, "You know I'd almost think that was a compliment, Doctor." The Doctor rolled her eyes at that but let it go knowing that was Jack's way of accepting her apology and agreeing about Torchwood One.

The Master declares he likes him and Naismith thanks him before the Master adds he'd taste great

"Disturbing imagery." Yaz muttered to herself, Ryan, the only one to have heard her nodded along silently.

"I bet she's taking that thank you back." Mickey snorted.

Naismith gets the butler to get food for the Master, he rips into all the food brought in for him quickly

The group grimaced at that, not enjoying the sight of the Master tearing the chicken to pieces so easily. It all felt a bit like a disturbing metaphor and left them feeling unsettled for the contents of the rest of the video.

Naismith continues saying the gate came with it's own power supply – a nuclear bolt – and the power feeds through the gate where it encourages cellular regeneration. Miss Collins is introduced as the test subject, she had burns from an accident when young, but the gate mended her

"It heals people?" Amy raised an eyebrow at that. It all seemed too ... simple and un-weapon like for it to seem true. The Naismiths didn't seem like the kind to invest so much time, money and energy into a healing gate, not without an ulterior motive.

"A healing gate powered by nuclear power." Rory grimaced, "That doesn't seem safe."

"It's not." The Doctor answered (to which part she was referring – the gat not being for healing or not being safe no one knew).

"Great, really reassuring." Rory sighed, not really knowing what else he had expected.

The Master asks what they want it for. Naismith declares they calculated it could be used to restore the body forever and has given it the title the Immortality Gate as he wants his daughter to never die, his gift for her – immortality

"And there's the ulterior motive." Rose sighed.

"Immortality? Of course, it is, what is it with humans and immortality?" Nardole muttered mostly to himself.

Jack snorted, "Trust me, it's not all that it's cracked up to be." The Doctor couldn't help but wince at that reminder of Jack's condition.

Abigail explains her name means bringer of joy (kinda wrongly – father's joy technically). The Tardis materialises in the stable block and the Master smells it declaring they better get to work, and does using the computer keyboard

"Not telling your masters that their security's been breached?" Martha sneered at the Master, purposely trying to get under his skin to calm herself (she knew it was wrong but couldn't bring herself to regret it because it was the Master, and if anyone deserved it, he did).

The Master smirked back, leaning back in his seat, purposely not rising to her bait (although if anyone looked closely, they'd see his fingers twitching). "Oh, but then that would mess with my plans. The Doctor always brings chaos with them after all, and chaos is just what I need in moments like that." The Doctor grimaced at the thought that she'd unknowingly played right into the Master's hands.

In the stables, Wilf is stunned they've really moved. The Doctor says he should stay there, Wilf hearteningly disagrees

"Grandad's too stubborn for that." Donna snorted.

"Runs in the family."

"Oi! Spaceman!"

The Doctor points the key at the Tardis which disappears, explaining he put it a second out of sync to stop the Master finding it, saying it is the last thing they need

The Master raised an eyebrow at the Doctor for that one, not willing to admit out loud that it had been a clever play on the Doctor's half, she was smug enough about it as it was.

Wilf and the Doctor hides from a patrol as they cross the grounds, Wilf says the book declared him a billionaire and he has his own private army

"Of course, he does." Clara sighed, "Why are all the crazy ones rich?" No one had an answer for her.

The Doctor finds a small door in an archway. In the gate room, Rossiter is back in human form and declares they are getting good results, Addams, still in the basement talking to Rossiter, declares the man a miracle as the systems are slotting back into place

"I doubt they'll be saying that long." Graham said.

Yaz nodded thoughtfully, "Does beg the question of what they want the gate for though." She looked hopefully at the Doctor for answers. The Doctor only smiled fondly before waving to the screen.

The Doctor and Wilf find Addams in the basement, saying hello. The Doctor warns her to not call security or he'll tell them she'd wearing a shimmer. He says he thinks she doesn't want people to know she's wearing a shimmer – using the word at every opportunity he can

"You like the word 'shimmer', don't you?" River sighed at her wife fondly, fixing her with a knowing look.

In response the Doctor only had one word (and a wide grin). "Shimmer!"

Addams pretends to not know what a shimmer is. The Doctor points his sonic at her and she turns green again. Wilf declares she's a cactus

"Fair reaction." Rory snorted, several people in the group chuckling at Wilf's reaction to the aliens. To be fair to the older man, he was a lot less used to weird things and aliens then the group in the room were.

Rossiter tries to contact Miss Addams and when she doesn't answer goes to see her. Naismith suggests they take a break until Boxing Day as he isn't a slave-driver, calling him Mr Saxon

"I doubt he's going to take that well." Jack muttered, meaning both the misnaming and the suggestion to stop working.

He declares his name is the Master, he's completed the work, presses enter and the lights dim as a wormhole appears in the gate

"That's really not good." Bill muttered; eyes wide as the gate activated. The whole room was on edge, all waiting for the storm they all knew was just about to hit (the Master however was leaning back in his chair all smug, and ready to relive his (brief) moments of glory, and the Doctor was just sighing, personally she wasn't excited to relive any of this).

Naismith is happy and gets his butler to restrain the Master, who protests as he repaired it. Naismith declares he isn't an idiot and to not let the Master near the gate

"No, you're definitely an idiot. Just not for that small thing." Rose decided with a grimace.

In the basement, the Doctor declares it's working and then asks what it is. Rossiter walks in and asks what they are doing there. The Doctor points his screwdriver at him without turning around, and announces shimmer

River shook her head fondly at her wife, glad to still see her smiling (even a little) as things got tenser.

Rossiter turns back to green as the Doctor asks what the Master, Saxon, Skeletor, whatever they call him is doing above them

"Skeletor?!" The Master sat up straight in his chair, shooting the Doctor an incredibly offended look even as the rest of the group burst out into loud laughter. The Doctor just laughed with them (unable to stop comparing the Master to an offended cat in her head).

The Master is locked in his strait jacket as Naismith declares his reputation is known and he expects traps, but everything he's done will be checked before anyone goes in the gate

"They're not stupid but they are idiots." Amy declared.

Rory just looked at silently for several minutes before sighing, "I hate how that made sense."

In the basement, Rossiter says he checked the readings and the gate is operational. The Doctor asks who he is, saying he met someone like him who was little, red and brilliant

The Doctor frowned, sad at the reminder of Bannakaffalatta, that was another adventure she had no desire to relive anytime soon (and it had also been a solo adventure on Christmas. Maybe Amy was onto something, Christmas never seemed to go well for her).

Addams corrects him to that being Zocci as Rossiter declares they are Vincocci, completely different

"Of course, of course. Red cacti are different to green cacti." Ryan nodded along, looking like he had no clue what he was saying.

Addams says the gate is Vincocci and they are the salvage team who got the signal when the humans reactivate it. They're waiting until it works to transport it to their ship

"Of course, it's theirs. That would explain why they're interested in it." Clara nodded, things starting to make more sense now. They were just glad that Addams and Rossiter didn't seem malevolent and were actually just helping the Doctor and Wilf (if a bit grumpily).

The Doctor asks what it does. Rossiter declares it a medical device to repair the body as the Doctor argues there has to be more as the Master is going to do something big. Wilf summarises it as a sickbed, which Addams agrees to vaguely

"Why's it so big then?" Nardole asked. The Doctor waved to the screen in answer with a grimace on her face, if only she's been just slightly quicker to put the pieces together. She ignored the smug and knowing look the Master was sending her.

Wilf asks why it is so big, which the Doctor backs up. Addams and Rossiter share it is designed to mend whole planets as it transmits a medical template across a whole population. The Doctor takes off running

"You've figured out the Master's plan." Martha said, no shred of doubt in her voice just dread and resignment.

"Unfortunately." The Doctor answered.

"It's nothing good." Another statement from Martha.

"When is it ever?"

In the gate room, Naismith declares it time for the President's broadcast, and they look to the News on TV which is introducing the broadcast and then the President appears

"Why are we getting the president's speech, I think the gate and the Master's plan is a bit more important." Rose queried, face worried (as was everyone's) as they desperately tried to work out the Master's plot. The only answer she got was the Doctor's grimace.

The Doctor runs into the gate room and shouts at them to turn the gate off, Danes calls for security to be ready as the Doctor shouts to not let the Master near the device whatever they do

"They're not going to listen to you, Doctor." Donna pointed out.

"I know, I know." The Doctor sighed, "I still had to try."

The Master declares that wasn't ever going to happen as he throws off his restraints and leaps into the gate. The Doctor shouts for them to deactivate it while the Master laughs

The group watched in horror as the Master escaped his bindings and ran into the gate; his plan, whatever it was, unfolding right in front of them and the Doctor too late to stop him. The Master in the room was practically giddy watching his past-self succeed (even for a while).

Naismith declares he is in his head, and the Master blasts energy at the Doctor who gets knocked down. Wilf calls for the Doctor saying there is a face

"Not good, not good at all." Bill muttered. Voicing the thoughts of the whole room as they watched the disaster evolve, all waiting for the final punch.

The Doctor asks what he can see – Wilf sees the Master. The News declares something is wrong as the Doctor tries to shut the gate off but fails as the Master locked it and calls the Doctor an idiot

The Doctor glared at the Master who only stuck his tongue out at her childishly, but uncaring in his triumph. He was far too smug for anyone's comfort, looking like the cat that had got the cream. Of course, the Doctor had to have tried, it wouldn't be the first time the Master had forgotten to do a simple as preventative measure like that before and they both knew it.

The Doctor shots for Wilf to get inside to get the technician out as the Doctor enters one side of the glass cubicle and Wilf swaps with the man in the other

The Doctor grimaced at the sight of what would later be her death room, that was twice they'd both gone into those chambers, and she sincerely hoped she didn't have to go in one again anytime soon. Dying by radiation poisoning wasn't pleasant (and she died by it more than once so she'd definitely know).

Wilf says he can't see him anymore and the Doctor explains it is radiations shielding. He asks Wilf to let him out which he does, locking himself in. The Master declares they have fifty seconds and the Doctor asks to what, but the Master just says he'll love it

"I doubt that." Jack grimaced, alternating between glaring darkly at the Master and watching the screen worriedly. He had a horrible feeling he knew what was about to happen.

Rossiter discovers he was hiding the codes and has extrapolated the gate's power a million times, but it isn't affecting him or Addams as the template is set for humans

"Of course, he has." Mickey grimaced, hand moving to hold Martha's hand and squeezing it tightly to offer them both comfort.

Wilf's phone rings and he answers to have Donna asks where he is. Wilf first pulled the revolver out of his pocket before the phone

"I don't remember this." Donna frowned confused. "I don't remember this at all."

"You wouldn't." The Doctor said tone serious and sad which only served to worry Donna more.

Donna says something is wrong with Sylvia and Shaun, Wilf asks about her, but she can't see anything else, but it is bad enough seeing Sylvia and Shaun

"Why did it not affect me, whatever it was?" Donna asked, shooting the Doctor a look saying 'you will answer me, this is not a choice'.

"The metacrisis protected you, just as it sent you the message about Naismith, you had just a touch of non-human in you for the gate to not affect you." The Doctor answered, knowing Donna well enough to know she meant every silent word in that look of hers and it was safer to answer her now than face her wrath.

Wilf's phone beeps to signal a waiting call from Winston. Winston says he can remover the face from his dreams, and everyone has the face in his head

"What's his plan?" Yaz muttered to herself, still just unable to connect the last dots on the Master's plan, why could everyone see his face? What did her gain out of it?

The Doctor asks if it is hypnotism or mind control but the Master declares that too easy, and they're all going to become him. Zero

"Become you?!" Martha exclaimed horrified by the thought. The rest of the group shared her horror but there was nothing they could do but watch the past unfold in front of their eyes.

Energy comes from the Master and the gate which spreads across the planet. Everyone's faces become blurred aside from Donna, Wilf, and the Doctor. The Doctor declares he can't have as Wilf asks what it is

"Bit slow there dear?" The Master smirked smugly at her. The Doctor glared back but didn't rise to the bait, satisfied that she had stopped him and unwilling to entertain him and prolong his victory as he clearly wanted.

Donna declares they've changed, and Sylvia and Shaun are now the Master

"Oh god." Donna muttered, hands up to her mouth in horror. She was suddenly feeling very glad she couldn't remember this.

Donna starts to remember some things from her adventures and shouts about her head and the pain

"Donna!" Martha exclaimed. Her head whipped around to face her friend in worry, all thoughts about the Master abandoned in favour of concern over the state of Donna.

Wilf tells the Doctor that Donna is starting to remember. Everyone's faces turn to the Master, Wilf asks what he's done, and the Master mocks them as the News-Master declares he is everyone in the world

The group let out a quiet breath in horror as the Master's plan revealed itself, and it was oh so much worse than anything they could have thought of. Everything seemed to be going wrong. The Master was everyone, Donna was in trouble, Wilf and the Doctor were trapped, no help was coming, and they still had this supposed 'end of time' to worry about.

The Master declares that while the human race has always been the Doctor's favourite, there is no longer a human race but the Master race

River gave the Master a searching look for a moment, long enough to unsettle him and wipe away the triumphant grin on his face. "What?" He snapped at her, not liking the silent judgement.

"You're jealous." River finally declared.

The Master spluttered in shocked protest as the rest of the room made the same connection as River had. "I am not!" The Master finally managed to cobble together words enough to verbally protest.

"Yes, you are." River answered calmly and confidently, before turning to her wife, and squeezing her hand in comfort (both for her benefit and if she made sure the Master was watching, then hey, that was just for her to know).

The Master continued to splutter; his good mood successfully ruined for the moment. He slunk back in his seat, practically putting to anyone that could read him well enough.

The narrator declares that on Christmas Day, the human race ceased to exist but the Master had no idea of his role in bigger events, as there was more than humanity's end

Both the Master and the Doctor scowled at that, both understanding all too well what Rassilon was nattering on about and hating it. The rest of the group however, was listening carefully awaiting the reveal of this 'end of time' and whoever this narrator was.

This was also the day that creation would change as the Time Lords return, the narrator continues. The Time Lords cheer for Gallifrey, victory and time itself alongside the narrator

"What?!" Several people exclaimed at once, their horror over the Master's plan being swiftly overtaken by their shock over the mention of Gallifrey. Their heads all whipped round to the Doctor awaiting answers as the screen went blank signalling the end of the video (for now).

"Gallifrey's involved?" Clara scowled, "Because things can't get any worse." The Doctor winced at that but couldn't find it in herself to quite disagree.

"Hold up." Bill put her hand in the air after a moment of silence, everyone taking a second to digest the fact that Gallifrey was now involved in the mess (despite it being seemingly impossible on the Doctor's timeline, but wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey as the Doctor liked to say). "Does that mean we were all the Master?"

The group grimaced at that, all coming to the same realisation as Bill announced it. The Doctor winced again but did answer, "Yes, everyone on Earth, excluding Donna, Wilf, myself, Jack, and any one non-human would have been turned into the Master."

There were several loud grumbles and disgusted mumbles at that idea, several people shivering in horror, an all very glad they couldn't remember it.

"Does anyone want a break?" The Doctor asked after a few quiet moments. Quite frankly she was hoping to delay the inevitable disaster that was going to be showing in the second part of the video, but she had no luck this time.

Martha spoke up for the group, "Honestly Doctor, I just want to watch and get this over with. We can have a break after the net video. I want to be happy that I'm myself again and not the Master." Nodding in understanding to that the Doctor leaned back in her seat a bit, carefully keeping her face blank to hide the grimace at the thought of all to come.

As she settled back, the screen tuned black and the words, 'End of Time Part 2', appeared. They were going straight back into the chaos.