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Can Russell T. Davies do what the TARDIS has been struggling to do all season and stick the landing?
Theres a lot of pressure to provide a satisfying payoff after all the setup last week.
No wonder this episode hits the ground running.
The TARDISs perception filter gave the Susans a real past each time.
Earth is dying multiple simultaneous deaths.
UNIT and all of the child labor on its staff are gone.
Kate Lethbridge-Stewart uses her last breaths to implore the Doctor to send this monster back into hell.
Her cryptic final words are, Im so sorry it ends like this.
I had such plans.
Loose objects fall onto the floor, and a fire breaks out.
In this case, the ropes hook functions as a molecular bond.
He inadvertently became a harbinger of the god of death just because he thought it was fun to travel.
Their encounter reveals that even among the few survivors left in the universe, memory and facts are dying.
The woman cant even recall what city shes in.
as one of the seasons funniest out-of-context quotes.
The screen points Ruby to Roger ap Gwilliam.
If Rubys mom was alive, thered be a record.
The Memory TARDIS presents him with a whistle, and they arrive at the Department of Health in 2046.
I dont understand, Ruby says.
But her train of thought is interrupted by Melanie, who has transformed into one of Sutekhs red-eyed servants.
She throws the end to the Doctor, and they pull with the power of one intelligent glove each.
Apparently, bringing death to a dead universe means bringing it back to life PEMDAS, I guess?
Everyone who died in this episode wakes up.
(That clever boy!
Even last weeks victims, like Colonel Chidozie, return.
Elsewhere in the universe, the kind woman is reunited with her baby.
If Sutekh represents death, the Doctor reasons that he surely represents life.
Yet thats where Sutekh has won.
You turned me into this, the Doctor says.
I am the one that brings death.
And hes not just referring to the fact that his travels spawned deadly Susans.
Its against their code, Four replied.
Thats been the Doctors strategy with other villains like the Chuldurs.
He couldnt bring himself to kill; he wanted to be better than his foes.
But now, hes able to release Sutekh from the rope and watch him burn up.
His moral code seems to have changed.
Meanwhile, Sutekhs role as death personified arguably also evolved.
UNITs newest recruit, Susan Triad, is proof that he created life that could outlast his dusty murders.
Back in UNIT HQ, weve got one final mystery to solve.
He just loves that the most important person in the universe was ordinary.
The VHS tape reveals that Rubys mother was pointing at a lamppost, a signpost for Ruby Road.
However, Ruby ignores him and introduces herself to her mother in a coffee shop.
The Doctor realizes before Ruby does that shes not going to keep traveling with him.
But he promises hell see her again because shes changed him.
Hes able to admit that it was a mistake that he never tried to find Susan.
I talk about family in a way that I never did before.
Its because of you, he says.
You have made my life bigger and better.
He doesnt let himself cry until Ruby is out of the TARDIS.
Rubys moms hug her as they watch the TARDIS disappear.
Flood tells us that little Ruby Sunday got a happy ending.
Shes standing on the roof holding an umbrella and briefcase, once again looking directly into the camera.
Are her white outfit and ring clues about her identity, or is she just stylish?
Flood knows we might be wondering what happens to the Doctor next.
Uh, what could be more absolutely terrifying than the god of death?
Guess well have to wait until next season to find out.
Cultural appropriation, the Doctor quips.
Its a nice way to acknowledge some critiques that might come from modern viewers of the 1975 serial.
I hope theres a support group for the hundreds of Susans on Earth.
Kate and Ibrahim hold hands after coming back to life.
Does that mean theyre a couple now?
Didnt expect that the future UNIT spinoff Ive been manifesting might have a workplace romance!
At this point, I have no idea who Mrs. Could she be the meta-fictional character Iris Wildthyme?
As far as I know, she might as well be Mary Poppins.
Maybe thats why she had the umbrella!
