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"Under the Lake" is the third episode of the ninth series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 3 October 2015. It is the first part of a two-part story, the second of which is "Before the Flood"; both are written by Toby Whithouse and directed by Daniel O'Hara. The two episodes are set in different time periods – "Under the Lake" takes place in 2119 and "Before the Flood" is set in an earlier time, initially described by Brian Minchin as being "a few hundred years before episode three" but later revealed to be 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 )〕〔The town 'Before the Flood' is set in got flooded in the 1980s, as stated in the pre-credits scene of this episode.〕 It is set in an underwater mining facility called the Drum, where alien time traveller the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and his companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) arrive three days after the crew have unearthed an empty black spaceship. The crew members then start dying, and the survivors find themselves faced with an army of hollow-eyed homicidal ghosts. In the form of Prentis, played by Paul Kaye, this episode sees a return for the Tivolians, a race last seen in the 2011 episode "The God Complex", also written by Toby Whithouse. ==Plot== In 2119 at an underwater base on Earth, a joint-military-industrial team discover an alien vessel among the ruins of a long-submerged town. Bringing the vessel aboard with remote drones, they find it empty, one of its two power cells missing, and four strange glyphs carved into the stark white wall. Suddenly, the ship's engine comes to life, and team's commander Moran is killed when pushing another out of the way of the exhaust. Later, the remaining team encounter Moran and an alien being dressed as a mortician, both ghost-like in appearance and silently chanting words at the team before they attack them. The Doctor and Clara arrive a few days later via the TARDIS, finding the alien ship and the glyphs, but no trace of the crew. The ghosts attempt to attack them, and in their escape, they find the rest of the team hiding in the base's Faraday cage, as the ghosts cannot cross its walls. Acting commander Cass, a deaf women that speaks through her translator Lunn, explains the situation to the new arrivals. The Doctor recognises the alien ghost as a Tivolian, a cowardly race that would never confront others. The base's automated systems switch the environment from "night" to "day" cycles, causing the ghosts to disperse. In the command centre, the Doctor, initially dismissive of the idea of ghosts, becomes excited about the possibilities. Suddenly, the base's systems revert to "night" mode, triggered by the ghosts. Before they can restore the "day" cycle, Pritchard, the operation's corporate representative, is killed by the ghosts, and soon appears as a third one. Cass calls for a rescue submarine, but learns one has already been sent; the Doctor overrides the command and sends back the incoming sub, believing the ghosts had made the call for the submarine for a nefarious purpose. The Doctor proposes a plan to capture the ghosts in the Faraday cage using holographic projections sent by his sonic sunglasses. Once trapped, Cass finds she can lip-read what the ghosts are chanting: the repeated phrase "the dark, the sword, the forsaken, the temple". The Doctor recognises these as galactic coordinates to lead some entity to Earth, and realises that the ghosts are looking to create more of themselves to boost the strength of the signal of those coordinates; only those that have looked at the glyphs are susceptible to being harmed by the ghosts. He asks technicians O'Donnell and Bennett to use the remote drones to reexamine the sunken town, and within its church, they find a stasis chamber that had been carried by the ship. The chamber is brought onto the base but cannot be opened. Without further leads, the Doctor proposes to go back in time to learn the origin of the signal. Just then, the ghosts override the base's systems, opening external hatches to flood part of the base that would prevent the group from accessing the command centre or the TARDIS. They race to beat automatic flood doors, but Clara, Cass, and Lunn fall behind and are trapped on the far side of the base. The Doctor is unable to travel to Clara using his TARDIS because it refuses to be near the ghosts but he promises that he will return for Clara, and takes O'Donnell and Bennett to the TARDIS. After the TARDIS departs, Clara, Cass and Lunn witness a new ghost outside the base's window: that of the Doctor. 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「Under the Lake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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