TEXT: [INT. TARDIS] The Doctor: Take a punt. Clara: Right. The Doctor: Your choice. Wherever, whenever, anywhere in time and space. Clara: Well, there is something, someone that I've always wanted to meet. But I know what you'll say. The Doctor: Try me. Clara: You'll say he's made up, that there is no such thing. The Doctor: Go on. Clara: It's. It's Robin Hood. The Doctor: Robin Hood. Clara: Yeah. I love that story. I've always loved it, ever since I was little. The Doctor: Robin Hood, the heroic outlaw, who robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Clara: Yeah. The Doctor: He's made up. There's no such thing. Clara: Ah, you see? The Doctor: Old-fashioned heroes only exist in old-fashioned story books, Clara. Clara: And what about you? The Doctor: Me? Clara: Yeah, you. You stop bad things happening every minute of every day. That sounds pretty heroic to me. The Doctor: Just passing the time. Hey, what about Mars? Clara: What?! The Doctor: The Ice Warrior Hives. Clara: You said it was my choice. The Doctor: Or the Tumescent Arrows of the Half-Light. Those girls can hold their drink. Clara: Doctor. The Doctor: And fracture fifteen different levels of reality simultaneously. I think I've got a Polaroid somewhere. Clara: Doctor! My choice. Robin Hood. Show me. The Doctor: Very well. [CLARA GASPS EXCITEDLY] The Doctor: Earth. England. Sherwood Forest. 1190AD. Ish. But you'll only be disappointed. [SCENE_BREAK] [River] [BIRDSONG] The Doctor: No damsels in distress, no pretty castles, no such thing as Robin Hood. Robin: You called? Very, very nicely done with the box, sir. I saw a Turk perform something very similar at Nottingham Fayre. Robin: It's a trick with mirrors, no doubt? The Doctor: A trick? Robin
SUMMARY:
The Doctor and Clara meet the outlaw Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest . The Doctor wins a duel against Robin by knocking him into a river. Robin takes part in an archery contest against the Sheriff of Nottingham . The Doctor challenges Robin before blowing up the target. The Doctor allows the Sheriff's robot knights to capture him, Robin and Clara so he can learn more about the Sheriff's plans. The Doctor and Clara discover the Sheriff has been trying to repair a crashed spaceship and intends to repair its circuitry with the countryside's gold, so that he can take over the world. However, there is not enough gold to make orbit, and the damage to the engines would destroy half of England. Robin defeats the Sheriff in a duel by knocking him into a gold vat. Since Robin's arm is injured (and the Doctor cheated during the archery contest), the Doctor, Clara, and Robin work together to fire the golden arrow from the contest into the ship, which then climbs into orbit where it detonates harmlessly. The Doctor admits that Robin will be remembered as a legend rather than as a man, and finds Maid Marian for him before departing.