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"Heaven Sent" is the eleventh and penultimate episode of the ninth series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', and the second episode of the three-part finale of this series. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 28 November 2015. It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Rachel Talalay. In the episode, the Doctor (Peter Capaldi), in the wake of Clara Oswald's (Jenna Coleman) death, has been teleported to a strange waterlocked castle, and is there pursued by a shrouded creature that is trying to kill him. The episode was critically acclaimed, and considered one of the strongest episodes of the new series and of the overall show, with attention given to Capaldi's acting, Moffat's writing, and Talalay's direction. ==Plot== Following the events of "Face the Raven", the Doctor is teleported into a glass chamber located in a structure resembling a large castle operated by clockwork gears. He says to the entity that put him there, assuming that they are listening, that he knows the distance that the teleporter is capable of sending him and he plans to wait until the stars come out and work out his location. Upon investigating the surrounding corridors, he finds a series of screens scattered around the castle. The screens relay the vision of the Veil, a cloaked creature which is slowly and constantly stalking the Doctor around the building. The Doctor quickly concludes the castle, elements within it, and the Veil are nightmares pulled from his memories designed to frighten him for some purpose. The Veil chases the Doctor to a dead end. Admitting that he sees no way to escape death, the Doctor confesses that he is afraid to die, leading the creature to stop. The entire castle structure rotates and reconfigures in response, opening an exit at the end of the corridor that the Doctor was trapped in, beyond which is a bedroom with an ancient, faded portrait of Clara Oswald. The Veil follows the Doctor into the room, forcing him to leap out the window to escape. During his leap, the Doctor has an inner monologue, determining how he will survive the fall by imagining himself aboard the TARDIS answering questions written on a chalkboard from an otherwise-silent Clara. The Doctor lands in an ocean surrounding the castle, finding that the seabed is littered with thousands of skulls. The Doctor returns to the castle, finding a room with a fireplace where exact copies of his clothes are drying. He swaps his wet clothes for the dried copies, leaving his old clothes drying in the same fashion as the copies he found. Entering a courtyard of the castle, the Doctor finds a fresh grave and a spade, concluding that he is meant to dig the grave up. While digging, the castle's local sun sets and the Doctor notices that the constellations do not match any location within the range of the teleporter that brought him to the castle. After digging deep enough, the Doctor finds a stone with the message "I am in 12". The Veil then reappears and corners the Doctor once again within the grave. The Doctor experiences another inner monologue within the TARDIS, where he remembers his earlier escape where the Veil stopped after he told the truth and realises that the creature is designed to extract confessions from him. The Doctor admits that he originally left Gallifrey because he was afraid rather than bored. The Veil once again stops, allowing the Doctor to escape. The Doctor searches the castle for Room 12, following the clue from the grave, however he cannot find any door labelled as such. During his search, the Doctor finds that the rooms of the castle are constantly resetting themselves, as rooms that he revisits have any changes he has made reverted by the time he returns. Returning to the teleporter room where he first arrived, he finds a skull next to the word "bird" written into some sand. Inspecting the stars again, the Doctor muses that 7,000 years must have passed since he was teleported, even though the teleporter did not transport him through time. The Doctor places the skull from the teleporter chamber on the castle ramparts, where it falls into the sea and joins the others on the seabed. Upon finally tracking down Room 12, the Doctor finds that the door leads to another dead end and realises that he will need to confess to the Veil again to change the castle's configuration and open the way beyond. The Doctor confronts the Veil again, confessing that he knows the identity of the Hybrid, a being prophesied by the Time Lords to be created from the mixing of two warrior races, and where to find it. This opens the route through Door 12, revealing a large wall made of Azbantium, a crystalline substance 400 times tougher than diamond. The Doctor realises that the message "bird" found in the teleporter room was a reference to "The Shepherd Boy" by the Brothers Grimm, featuring a bird which slowly weathers away a mountain with its beak. With the Veil approaching, the Doctor again has an inner monologue in the TARDIS, where he admits that Clara's death and piecing together the scale and nature of the trap have damaged his will to continue. This time, Clara addresses him, telling him to get over her death and to keep going. The Doctor begins to punch the Azbantium wall, until the Veil touches his skin and burns him, disabling his regeneration process. The Doctor claws his way back to the teleporter chamber. As each chamber resets after the Doctor leaves, the teleporter chamber has been reset to its state before he initially arrived and thus carries a copy of him as he was at the conclusion of "Face the Raven". The Doctor recognises that he has been in a recurring cycle for over 7,000 years, beginning with him emerging from the teleporter and ending with him sacrificing himself to provide the power needed to activate the teleporter and create a new copy of his younger self to restart the cycle. The old copy of the Doctor writes "bird" on the floor before disintegrating, leaving only his skull behind. The cycle continues for over two billion years, with the Doctor wearing away part of the Azbantium wall each time before the Veil touches him. Eventually, he breaks through the wall and sunlight pours in, causing the Veil to disintegrate before it can touch the Doctor. The Doctor steps out from a portal into a desert landscape overlooking the Citadel on Gallifrey. The hole behind him closes, revealing that the castle was located within his Confession Dial. A small child then approaches the Doctor, who tells the boy to go to the city and let the Time Lords know that he has arrived, having "taken the long way around." The Doctor, assuming that whoever placed him into the trap can still hear him, then proclaims "The Hybrid, destined to conquer Gallifrey and stand in its ruins, is me." 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「Heaven Sent (Doctor Who)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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