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"Listen" is the fourth episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who'', first broadcast on BBC One on 13 September 2014. It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Douglas Mackinnon. In the episode, alien time traveller the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) attempts to track down a creature with the perfected ability to hide, while his companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) struggles with her relationship with her boyfriend Danny Pink (Samuel Anderson). "Listen" was originally watched by 4.81 million viewers in the UK and received critical acclaim for its script, direction and performances. ==Plot== Clara Oswald meets with fellow Coal Hill teacher Danny Pink for their first date at a restaurant. They mutually offend each other due to a lack of understanding regarding Danny's army career, and she decides to leave to avoid further confrontation. Clara returns home to find the Doctor waiting for her. The Doctor would like Clara's help to investigate why every living being in the universe, including himself, seems to have a dream about a hand reaching out from under their bed for them. He asks her to use the TARDIS' telepathic link to take the time machine back to her youth, but her errant thoughts on the failed date with Danny lead them to landing near a children's home in Gloucester in the 1990s. They find one of the children there is young Danny, at that time going by the name Rupert. Rupert is frightened by something he believes is under his bed. They witness a figure under the bed that scampers out the room when they look away. Though the Doctor suspects it is a fellow child teasing Rupert, he tells Rupert that he should use his fear to enable himself, allowing the adrenaline to overcome his obstacles and fears. Clara further suggests Rupert should place his toy soldiers around his bed for protection, unintentionally giving Rupert the idea of changing his name to Danny and joining the army when he identifies the lead soldier as "Dan the soldier man". With Rupert drifting off to sleep in his bed, the Doctor wipes his memory of the night's encounter. Inspired by this event, Clara asks the Doctor to return her to the restaurant shortly after she walked on Danny. She is able to apologise but inadvertently reveals her knowledge of Danny's past which he has not shared with her. Danny is offended and leaves. Clara sees a spacesuit-wearing figure step out of the TARDIS and beckon her. Inside, the figure is revealed to be Orson Pink, one of Danny's descendants from 100 years in the future. The Doctor explains that Orson is one of mankind's first time travelers but became stranded at the end of time, and the Doctor has recovered him. Orson proves his identity by speaking of stories told by his great-grandparents about time travel, and that he possesses one of Rupert's toy soldiers, an heirloom that he passes on to Clara as a worthy recipient. The Doctor takes them via TARDIS to Orson's ship at the end of time, as the Doctor believes the entity that represents his fear had followed Orson there, being the only life remaining in existence. They witness strange events that could be easily explained but the Doctor remains wary. The Doctor sends Orson and Clara to the TARDIS as he faces this entity, but Orson is forced to rescue him when the air containment seal is breached and the Doctor loses consciousness. Clara decides to use the TARDIS telepathic link to return them to her time. When the TARDIS lands, they are in a strange barn. Clara explores to find a child along by his bed, crying to himself. She tries to approach him, but is forced to hide under the bed when two adult figures enter the barn, observe the child, and agree that he will become a soldier, lacking the potential to become a Time Lord. Clara suddenly realises that the child is the Doctor, the TARDIS link having centered on him. When the figures leave, the child gets off the bed, but Clara grabs at his leg - recognising that she is the monster under the bed that the Doctor had feared. She is able to convince the child that he is dreaming, helps him return to bed, and provides similar advice that the Doctor had provided Rupert on empowering himself through his fear. She also promises him that he will return to this barn at the time of his greatest fear ("The Day of the Doctor"). With the child asleep, she returns to the TARDIS and has the now-conscious Doctor promise to not look outside as they depart. After returning Clara to Earth and Orson to his original time period, the Doctor seemingly rejects the notion of the entity's existence. Clara goes to Danny's home and they mutually apologise and share a kiss. 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「Listen (Doctor Who)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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