(He sniffs the Doctor)
The Doctor: Back to the TARDIS. And we don't tell him. Bennett: And now we've got the writing. Bennett: Prentis. Bennett: That list your ghost was saying, that's the order in which people are going to die, isn't it? Bennett: The suspended animation chamber is still here, and the power cells for the engine. Clara: And saying the chamber will open? Enough to bring an armada. Like the one we made of you to lure the ghosts into the Faraday Cage. No, this is called "The Bootstrap Paradox". Not a word. O'Donnell: Just one sec, I've just got something in my boot...
O'Donnell: It's bigger on the inside, it's bigger on the inside, it's bigger on the inside. Prentis! Prentis: Remarkable. That the Doctor will save us. That's the ghost from the Drum. The Doctor: A hologram. The Doctor: Clara, now the ghosts are out, go to the Faraday Cage. The Doctor: Drag the cage into space, away from the Earth's magnetic field. The Doctor: I programmed my ghost to say them because that's what my ghost had said. The Doctor: It's the call of the Fisher King. The Doctor: So who sends the message? The Doctor: The Fisher King did it himself. The ghosts locked me in. The other ghosts are outside. They will die. This is the town before it flooded. This... is the Fisher King. You stopped the Fisher King from returning.
Plan: A: the Tivolian, Prentis; Q: Who is still alive in 1980? A: the writing; Q: What has not yet been scratched into the wall? A: Earth; Q: Where did Prentis land to bury the Fisher King? A: enslaver the Fisher King; Q: Who did Prentis want to bury? A: Clara; Q: Who tells the Doctor that the ghost is mouthing their names? A: the Doctor's ghost; Q: Who is mouthing the names of the Doctor, Bennett, and O'Donnell? A: the Doctor; Q: Who programmed the ghost to say the names? A: The ghost; Q: Who releases the others from the Faraday cage? A: a signal; Q: What do the ghosts created by the glyphs send that will draw an armada? A: an armada; Q: What does the Fisher King tell the Doctor the ghosts will send a signal that will draw? A: the chamber; Q: Where is the Fisher King drawn away from? A: the dam wall; Q: What does the Doctor destroy to flood the town? A: the town; Q: What does the Doctor flood in order to save Clara? A: The stasis chamber; Q: What opens in 2119 to reveal the Doctor inside? A: The hologram; Q: What lures the ghosts back into the Faraday cage? A: a bootstrap paradox; Q: What is the plot of the episode called? Summary: The Doctor, Bennett, and O'Donnell land in 1980. They discover that the Tivolian, Prentis, is still alive, the writing has not yet been scratched into the wall, and Prentis landed on Earth to bury his former enslaver the Fisher King. The Doctor contacts Clara in 2119, who tells him the Doctor's ghost is mouthing their names. The ghost releases the others from the Faraday cage. In 1980, the Fisher King awakes, killing Prentis and writing the glyphs on the wall. O'Donnell is killed, confirming the suspicion that the Doctor's ghost is saying the order in which they will die. Attempting to save Clara, the Doctor confronts the Fisher King. He tells the Doctor the ghosts created by the glyphs will send a signal that will draw an armada. The Fisher King is drawn away from the chamber, and the Doctor destroys the dam wall, flooding the town. The stasis chamber opens in 2119 to reveal the Doctor inside; his "ghost" is a hologram, programmed by the Doctor. The hologram lures the ghosts back inside the Faraday cage. The plot is a bootstrap paradox -the Doctor programmed the ghost to say the names because that is what the ghost's message said.