(looks to figure) He's the one who broke the promise. But her grave can't be here. CLARA hurries after him. CLARA: (walks into the parlor with the tea) "The Doctor has a secret he will take to the grave. CLARA: Doctor, explain. DOCTOR'S TIMELINE
The Great INTELLIGENCE appears throughout the DOCTOR'S timeline, witnessing moments of the First, Second, Third and Fourth incarnations. His every victory reversed. INTELLIGENCE: The Doctor's life is an open wound. It is the DOCTOR in his first incarnation. Jenny. Like... echoes. RIVER: Madame Vastra! RIVER: Professor River Song. Speak soon!" THE DOCTOR: Apparently... by breaking into my own tomb! THE DOCTOR: But not in the name of the Doctor. THE DOCTOR: I have to save Vastra and Strax. THE DOCTOR: There is a time to live and a time to sleep. THE DOCTOR: Trenzalore. The DOCTOR and CLARA arrive and he steps in front of his friends, facing the Great INTELLIGENCE as it turns around. They used to call it a size leak, all the bigger-on-the-inside starts leaking to the outside. VASTRA: Simeon is attacking his entire timeline - he's dying all at once. Valuable information. We're going to need a conference call. What is his name? When I say that's the TARDIS, I don't mean it looks like the TARDIS - I mean it actually is the TARDIS.
Plan: A: an imprisoned murderer; Q: Who told Madame Vastra that the Doctor's secret would be taken to his grave? A: a soporific; Q: What does Madame Vastra use to bring herself, Jenny and Strax to a conference call in their dreams? A: a letter; Q: What does Madame Vastra send to Clara to include her in the conference call? A: River Song; Q: Who explains that Madame Vastra misunderstood the message? A: Vastra's group; Q: Who do the Whispermen kidnap? A: Clara awakens; Q: Who informs the Doctor of the prophecy? A: the prophecy; Q: What does Clara tell the Doctor is unfolding? A: the Silence; Q: Who predicted the Doctor's death? A: a dying, monolithic TARDIS; Q: Where is the Doctor's resting place? A: his true name; Q: What does the Great Intelligence demand the Doctor speak to unlock the TARDIS? A: his entire timeline; Q: What does the TARDIS house? A: the Doctor's life; Q: The Great Intelligence scatters itself throughout what? A: defeats; Q: What does the Great Intelligence rewrite all of the Doctor's victories into? A: two; Q: How many echoes of herself does Clara become? A: his own timeline; Q: Where does the Doctor go to rescue Clara? A: a previously unseen incarnation; Q: What does Clara discover about the Doctor? A: the promise; Q: What did the Doctor break that goes along with the title The Doctor? Summary: Madame Vastra is told by an imprisoned murderer that the Doctor's secret will be taken to his grave. She uses a soporific to bring herself, Jenny and Strax to a conference call in their dreams; she sends a letter to Clara to include her. River Song attends, and explains Vastra misunderstood the message; it is his grave that has been discovered. The Whispermen kidnap Vastra's group, while Clara awakens and informs the Doctor, making him realise the prophecy the Silence predicted is unfolding. At Trenzalore, the Doctor's resting place is a dying, monolithic TARDIS. Inside, the Great Intelligence waits for them; it demands the Doctor speak his true name to unlock the TARDIS. When the Doctor refuses, River speaks it instead. The Doctor explains that the TARDIS houses his entire timeline. The Great Intelligence steps into it and scatters itself throughout the Doctor's life, to rewrite all his victories into defeats. Clara follows after it, becoming two of the echoes of herself that the Doctor met. The Doctor enters his own timeline to rescue Clara, after she discovers a previously unseen incarnation of the Doctor that apparently broke the promise that goes alongside the title The Doctor.