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"The Witch's Familiar" is the second episode of the ninth series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 26 September 2015. It is written by Steven Moffat and directed by Hettie MacDonald. It is the second part of the story, following "The Magician's Apprentice". In the pair of episodes, alien time traveller the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) battles his old enemies the Daleks and attempts to save his companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman). Julian Bleach reprised his role as Davros and Michelle Gomez reprised her role as Missy, the current incarnation of the Master.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Doctor Who: Michelle Gomez to return as Missy in series 9 )〕 Several different designs of the Daleks from across the series' history reappear in the episode, alongside their creator, Davros, and their home planet, Skaro. ==Plot== After being seemingly killed by the Daleks at the climax of "The Magician's Apprentice", Clara finds herself outside the Dalek city with Missy. Missy explains how they managed to escape: using energy fired from the Daleks' weapons to teleport themselves away via their vortex manipulators (which they'd used to find the Doctor in the previous episode), destroying the devices in the process. Missy illustrates the method by relating a previous instance in which the Doctor performed the same trickery. Meanwhile, the Doctor, not believing Clara to be dead, forces Davros out of his life-support wheelchair and uses it to confront the Supreme Dalek, safe from Dalek firepower due to the wheelchair's force-field. He attempts to force the Daleks to find and return Clara to him, but they insist that she's dead. The Doctor is surprised by Colony Sarff, who appears in snake form from Davros' chair and forces the Doctor into unconsciousness. Back inside the city, Missy and Clara enter a Dalek 'sewer', a graveyard for decaying, insane, and undying Dalek mutants. Missy uses Clara to lure and destroy a Dalek for its casing. She then forces Clara into the telepathically controlled casing in order to trick their way back into the main city. Missy directs Clara to make various statements and finds that if Clara attempts to say her name, the Dalek system translates it to "I am a Dalek", and other attempts by Clara to express herself are translated as "Exterminate". The Doctor wakes up back in the infirmary. Davros reveals the life-support cables surrounding it are connected to every Dalek on Skaro, which also keeps him alive. He tries to tempt the Doctor into destroying every Dalek using the cables, but the Doctor refuses. The Doctor reveals he came to Davros, not out of shame, but out of compassion for his sickness. After the Doctor also admits that Gallifrey has returned, Davros expresses his congratulations, claiming that every being should have a place to belong. He then opens his natural eyes and seeks moral guidance from the Doctor over whether creating the Daleks was right. The two even share a joke about the Doctor's poor medical skills. After Davros wishes to see Skaro's sun rise one last time, the Doctor rewires the life-support system, but finds that not even every Dalek in the city is enough to keep Davros alive for long. He then releases a small amount of Time Lord regeneration power into the cables to restore some of Davros' health. In doing so, however, he falls victim to Davros' real plan: the regeneration energy is instead transmitted into every Dalek on Skaro. This increases their power and begins creating hybrid creatures. After breaking back into the city and abandoning Clara, Missy appears and saves the Doctor from the life-support system, killing Colony Sarff in the process. The Doctor then reveals to Davros that he understood his plan a while back and allowed it, as Davros hadn't foreseen the consequences. In reaching every Dalek on the planet, the regeneration energy simultaneously revitalises the decaying Daleks in the sewers, who break through the city's surface and attack the functional Daleks in revenge. Upon fleeing, the Doctor and Missy run into Clara, still inside the Dalek casing. Missy lies to the Doctor, telling him that Clara was murdered by the Dalek in front of him and insists that he kill it in retaliation. Clara attempts to tell the Doctor who she is, but the speech system still translates her words into "I am a Dalek". But, when the Dalek/Clara pleads for mercy, the Doctor becomes puzzled – Daleks shouldn't have a concept of mercy. He directs the "Dalek" to open its casing, and Clara is released. The Doctor simply orders Missy to run. As she does, she is confronted by a group of Daleks and states that she's just had "a very clever idea". After summoning the TARDIS back to them – which had avoided destruction through its Hostile Action Dispersal System (HADS) – with his new 'sonic sunglasses', the Doctor and Clara watch from afar as the city is destroyed. The Doctor wonders again why the Dalek asked for mercy. He then realises what he has to do. Using the TARDIS, he returns to the young Davros stranded in the battlefield and shoots the 'hand mines' surrounding him using a Dalek gun. When the boy asks him which side he's fighting for, the Doctor takes him away from the battlefield, declaring that it doesn't matter what side he's on, so long as there is always mercy. 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「The Witch's Familiar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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