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"Before the Flood" is the fourth episode of the ninth series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It is written by Toby Whithouse and is directed by Daniel O'Hara. It was first broadcast on 10 October 2015. It is the second part of a two-part story – the first part being "Under the Lake" – featuring alien time traveller the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and his companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman). The first episode of the story is set after events in the second episode. "Under the Lake" is set in 2119 and "Before the Flood" is set in both 2119 and 139 years before, in 1980.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Doctor Who Series 9 Guide )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= More Details on Series 9's Four Episodes )〕 == Plot == The episode opens with the Doctor explaining the bootstrap paradox to the audience: a hypothetical time traveller decides to go back in time to meet Beethoven, whose music he admires. However, he discovers that Beethoven never actually existed. The time traveller then decides to publish Beethoven's music himself, essentially 'becoming' Beethoven. But, the Doctor asks, how did the music first originate, then? "Who really composed Beethoven's Fifth?" The episode then continues from the events of "Under the Lake." The Doctor arrives with Bennett and O'Donnell at the Army base in 1980, before it was flooded, on the day the spaceship landed. They encounter the Tivolian Prentis, still alive at this point, and find that the writing has not yet been carved into the wall. Prentis reveals that the spaceship is actually a hearse carrying a deceased conqueror called The Fisher King. Back in the future at the underwater base, Clara, Cass and Lunn realise that the Doctor's ghost is uttering a list of their names instead of coordinates. When the Doctor contacts Clara and is informed about his ghost, he is badly shaken by this certain knowledge of his future. Clara forcefully encourages him to try to change events, but the Doctor argues that he cannot and ultimately accepts the eventuality that he must die to keep events in motion. He tries to get information from his ghost, but instead it unlocks the Faraday cage, releasing the other ghosts. Back in 1980, the Fisher King is revealed to be alive, writing the words on the ship's wall, killing Prentis, and dragging the stasis chamber away before hunting down the Doctor's group. O'Donnell, Bennett and the Doctor run, but they get separated and O'Donnell is killed by the Fisher King. Bennett chastises the Doctor for allowing O'Donnell to die after the Doctor reveals that the list of names his ghost was repeating was the order in which the crew members will die. Since Clara will be next, the Doctor tells Bennett that he is attempting to save Clara, not himself. He tries to return to the future to achieve this, but the TARDIS won't let him leave – the Doctor is locked inside his own timestream – and instead goes half an hour back in time. The Doctor and Bennett observe the earlier events, unable to interact or interfere. O'Donnell's ghost appears in the future and steals Clara's phone, her only means of contacting the Doctor. Clara realises that, as Cass refused to allow Lunn into the ship, he never saw the writing on the wall. Therefore, the message is not encoded in his brain, and the ghosts won't attack him. Lunn leaves the cage and locates the phone, but the ghosts trap and lock him inside the main room. When Lunn fails to return, Clara agrees to accompany Cass to search for him. Leaving Bennett in the TARDIS, the Doctor confronts the Fisher King. The creature reveals that the ghosts he's created will signal his people to send an armada to conquer Earth. The Fisher King also taunts the Doctor's unwillingness to alter the future, but the Doctor chastises him for violating the souls of those who died simply for his own ends. The Doctor then tells the Fisher King he's erased the writing from the ship's wall, so no-one will die. The Fisher King goes back to the ship, only to find the writing still there. He realises the Doctor tricked him and has used one of the ship's power cells (shown as missing in the earlier episode) to destroy the dam wall, inundating the town with the Fisher King caught in the torrent. The TARDIS' security protocol activates with Bennett still inside, but the Doctor's whereabouts remain unknown as the town floods. After narrowly avoiding being killed by Moran's ghost, Clara and Cass regroup with Lunn in the hangar. As they arrive, the stasis chamber opens and the Doctor climbs out. The Fisher King is then heard roaring and the ghosts follow the sound, only to be trapped again inside the Faraday cage with the Doctor's ghost, revealed to be a hologram the Doctor controlled using his sonic glasses from inside the stasis chamber. The Doctor informs the survivors that UNIT will come to cut the Faraday cage from the base with the ghosts inside, and he erases the memory of the writing from everyone's minds. After being comforted by Clara over O'Donnell's death, Bennett convinces Lunn and Cass to admit their love for each other. The Doctor and Clara leave in the TARDIS. The Doctor tells Clara that the order the people would die after O'Donnell was entirely random, but placing Clara's name next gave him incentive to act. Clara asks the Doctor how he knew what to make his ghost's hologram say. He informs her that he only knew what he had to do because he found out through her telling him what it was already saying from the future and again asks the question: "Who composed Beethoven's Fifth?" – a bootstrap paradox – while also, given his wink to the camera, a reference to himself (The Doctor 'Who'), perhaps having composed Beethoven's music after all, potentially revealing to the audience that the story he told at the beginning of the episode was factual, and that the "nice chap, very intense" description may have been alluding to himself. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Before the Flood (Doctor Who)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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