The Doctor tells him not to fire on the Ice Warrior, only to have a shot fired at his feet the soldier was talking to him.īack at St Luke's University, Nardole tries getting the TARDIS to go back to Mars. A British soldier arrives from the lift, brandishing a rifle. Giving the ritual greeting to show his respect, the Doctor introduces himself, stating he was an honorary guardian of the Tythonian hive. The Doctor raises his hand and orders it to halt the warrior complies. He is surprised by the appearance on an Ice Warrior, which proceeds to march quickly towards him. The Doctor, elsewhere, is pondering on what to do. Hearing the TARDIS leave, the Doctor begins to worry.īill, in the meantime, is surprised by a strange, robot-like being that arrives out of a lift however, its revealed a human is inside of it when he removes the helmet. However, right as Nardole passes the console to head down for supplies, the TARDIS brakes suddenly come undone and the TARDIS vanishes back to St Luke's University with a panicky Nardole inside. The Doctor sends Nardole back to the TARDIS to find some rope and climbing equipment. Suddenly, she falls down a hole in the cavern into a lower area. Bill additionally states spooky caverns remind her of The Thing, confusing the Doctor again she tells him he'd like it, too, because everybody dies.
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The Doctor tells her that he'll put it on his movie list. The Doctor and Bill take off their helmets, with Bill wondering how there can be oxygen underground the Doctor states Martians were clever.Īs they explore, Bill wonders if the message is due to someone messing with time like in The Terminator she tells the Doctor he'd like the film because it has killer robots. The Doctor snaps back that a lack of caution "equals basic death" in frustrated tone. They then turn to see Nardole has already taken off his helmet "fire equals air" Nardole states. However, the Doctor stops her, wishing to be careful. Seeing a flickering light ahead, they follow it to find a campfire, Taking it as a sign they can breathe down there, Bill immediately concludes that there must be air, and prepares to remove her helmet. Nardole tracks life signs below the surface, so they park the TARDIS below ground.Įxiting in sleek black spacesuits, the Doctor, Bill and Nardole explore a cavern. Bill asks if there were humans on Mars in Victorian times, to which the Doctor says there isn't supposed to be. Having tracked the message's formation back to 1881, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to Mars to find out how it happened. The picture is a bunch of rocks spelling out the message "God save the Queen." An image from Valkyrie starts coming on the monitor, as the fuzzy image clears up, the Doctor cracks an ecstatic smile while the crew, Bill and Nardole are confused. The Doctor tells her no he was the first human male on the moon. Bill sees a picture on the wall, asking if its Neil Armstrong - the first man on the moon. Using the psychic paper, the Doctor convinces them that the chief gave them permission to go where they please. The Doctor tells them that it's a field trip for "the kids".
To the crew's surprise, the Twelfth Doctor, Bill and Nardole are in the control room with them. Equipped with a new camera capable of see through the ice, NASA hopes to get new pictures of the Martian landscape. NASA, 2017, the new space probe Valkyrie is arriving at a pole on Mars. On arrival, they find Victorian soldiers embroiled in a conflict with one of Mars’s ancient species. When NASA discovers a message reading GOD SAVE THE QUEEN under the ice on Mars's surface, the Twelfth Doctor, Nardole, and Bill travel to the Red Planet to investigate.
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A large part of the series arc revolved around guarding the vault to make sure that she did not escape in this story, Nardole allows Missy to pilot the TARDIS to Mars to save the Doctor and Bill. Narratively, this episode saw Missy out of her vault for the first time since her imprisonment. It again saw the Doctor attempting to mediate conflict between humans and an alien species. The episode also saw the return of two actors from classic Doctor Who: Ysanne Churchman, reprising the role of Alpha Centauri for the first time since the 1974 story The Monster of Peladon, and Anthony Calf, who last appeared on televised Doctor Who as Charles in the 1982 serial, The Visitation. This episode was notable for introducing the first female Ice Warrior on-screen, the Ice Queen Iraxxa, 50 years after the species were introduced in 1967's The Ice Warriors.ĭespite previous stories establishing that the Ice Warriors are from Mars, Empress of Mars marks the first televised adventure in which the Ice Warriors are seen on Mars.
Empress of Mars was the ninth episode of series 10 of Doctor Who.