The Doctor: On a recycled space shuttle. Blow them up? High tide everywhere at once. The Doctor: So then you came up here to rescue them with your bombs? The Doctor: Meaning, Clara, that the moon, this little planetoid that's been tagging along beside you for a hundred million years, which gives you light at night and seas to sail on, is in the process of falling to bits. Captain? Clara: Courtney. She was his first. And it's going to be decided here and now. [SCENE_BREAK]
[ Moon ]
The Doctor: What is killing the moon? Are they like cockroaches? Lundvik: Where have they come from? Lundvik: Will he? Clara: Courtney! The Doctor: The moon isn't breaking apart. The moon is hatching. The Doctor: The moon's an egg. Just getting ready to be born. The Doctor: A hundred nuclear bombs set off right where we are, right on top of a living, vulnerable creature? It is destroying the Earth. Clara: Hello, Earth. We have a terrible decision to make. We have to decide together. The chick flies away and the eggshell disintegrates. The Doctor: And it does all that because one day in the year 2049, when it had stopped thinking about going to the stars, something occurred that make it look up, not down. It laid a new egg. The Doctor: That's what we call a new moon. First woman on the moon, saved the Earth from itself, and, rather bizarrely, she becomes the President of the United States.
Plan: A: The Doctor; Q: Who takes Clara and Courtney on a trip? A: her student; Q: Who is Courtney? A: 2049; Q: In what year do Clara and Courtney arrive on a Space Shuttle to the Moon? A: one hundred nuclear bombs; Q: How many nuclear bombs did the Doctor take to the Moon? A: the Moon's higher gravity; Q: What does the Doctor notice when he arrives at the Moon? A: a suicide mission; Q: What is Captain Lundvik's team doing to blow up the Moon? A: humanity's existence; Q: What was threatened by a sudden mass high tide? A: Miners; Q: Who is found entombed in spider webs? A: the miners' photographs; Q: What does the Doctor notice that the Moon is starting to break apart? A: the group; Q: What does a spider-like being attack? A: Earth; Q: Where do Clara and Courtney watch the creature hatch and the shell disintegrate? A: Earth's population; Q: Who decides the fate of the creature? A: Clara intervenes; Q: Who stops the bombs' countdown? A: a new Moon; Q: What does the creature lay a new egg as? A: his decision; Q: What does Clara say the Doctor should have made about the creature? A: Danny; Q: Who comforts Clara after she confronts the Doctor? Summary: The Doctor takes Clara and her student Courtney on a trip. They arrive in 2049 on a Space Shuttle to the Moon with one hundred nuclear bombs . Noting the Moon's higher gravity and meeting Captain Lundvik, the Doctor questions her, where he's told that her team are on a suicide mission to blow up the Moon. A sudden mass high tide had threatened humanity's existence. Miners are found entombed in spider webs. The Doctor notices from the miners' photographs that the Moon is starting to break apart. A spider-like being attacks the group. The Doctor determines that the Moon is an egg, with the creature inside ready to hatch. The Doctor abandons them, forcing Lundvik, Clara, and Courtney to decide the fate of the creature. They let Earth's population decide; people of Earth vote to destroy the creature. Clara intervenes and stops the bombs' countdown, and the Doctor rescues them from the Moon. From Earth, they watch the creature hatch and the shell disintegrate, with the creature laying a new egg as a new Moon. Clara confronts the Doctor, claiming that it was his decision to make too. She leaves the Doctor, to be comforted by Danny.