He’s not human, he explains; setting off the land mine wouldn’t simply kill him, it could wipe out half the planet. “I’m a fancy space-time occasion,” the Physician tells Mundy, enamel gritted and bared, warning her of his terrifying potential. “I’ll shatter this foolish little battlefield of yours into mud.”
Over the many years, the Physician’s human look has been the downfall of many an adversary. It’s a reasonably normal “Physician Who” formulation: Aliens fail to appreciate that the Physician is a two-hearted Time Lord and underestimate him till he outsmarts and destroys them. The present’s longstanding villains — the Daleks, the Cybermen — are so feared by the Physician and beloved by followers as a result of they know what he’s able to, and find out how to play the Physician at his personal sport.
On Kastarian 3, the drama continues. Whereas trying to deflect the ambulance, Ruby finally ends up getting shot herself, and the Physician responds with the pained gasp of a wounded animal. However when the ambulance tries to call her subsequent of kin, it, too, falters. As within the final episode, snow falls, similar to on the night time that Ruby was deserted as a child — although this time, it hangs within the air on Kastarian 3.
The one option to save all of them, the Physician tells Mundy, is for her military to give up. For the primary time, we see the capability of Gatwa’s Physician for rage. “There’s no one else right here. You declared battle on an empty planet,” he rants, including that the military’s troopers didn’t discover they had been alone as a result of they had been placated by religion: “The magic phrase that retains you by no means having to assume for your self,” the Physician says.
However the land mine’s clock is ticking down, leaving little room for Mundy (or viewers at dwelling) to seethe on the Physician’s jab at faith. The Physician breaks via the A.I. to the actual John, however the system glitches and the mine glows inexperienced, solely this time with inexperienced Xs symbolizing a parting “kiss kiss” message between John and his daughter.
It’s a satisfying ending, and Moffat walks again among the episode’s critique of spiritual warfare when the Physician admits that simply because he doesn’t like religion, it “doesn’t imply I don’t want it.”
