Episode 5: ‘Time Heist’
Air date: Saturday 20 September 2014, 7.30pm.
Written by Steve Thompson and Steven Moffat.
Directed by Douglas Mackinnon.
Guest cast: Keeley Hawes as Ms Delphox, Jonathan Bailey, Pippa Bennett-Warner as Saibra, Mark Ebulue as a guard, Trevor Sellers as Mr Porrima.
Official synopsis: “The Doctor turns bank robber when he is given a task he cannot refuse – to steal from the most dangerous bank in the cosmos. With the help of a beautiful shape-shifter and cyber-augmented gamer, the Doctor and Clara must fight their way past deadly security and come face to face with the fearsome Teller: a creature of terrifying power that can detect guilt…”
Douglas Mackinnon: “There’s a real time travel twist to it that’s quite amazing – it starts with the TARDIS in Clara’s flat, and the TARDIS phone starts ringing – very few people have that number, so when he picks up the phone, that’s when the adventure begins.”
Douglas Mackinnon: “In traditional heist style, you get a gang together and each has a skill. One of the big things is, when the phone goes, they all arrive in this place and none of them can remember how they got there. They have to discover that as they travel, as they’ve involved in a bank raid but they don’t know what they’re trying to find.”
Steven Moffat: “The Bank of Karabraxos is the deadliest bank in the cosmos – only a fool or genius would tempt to rob it. Fortunately, for The Doctor, he’s both. But nothing even The Doctor has encountered can prepare them for the Teller: a creature of terrifying power that can detect guilt.”
Steven Moffat: “It’s like a heist movie done with Doctor Who.”
Keeley Hawes: “Ms Delphox is a great character and someone I’ve had a lot of fun playing.”
BBC: “The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald will come face to face with the mysterious Ms Delphox – a powerful out-of-this-world character with a dark secret – when they arrive on a strange and puzzling planet.”
Steven Moffat: “…[Keeley Hawes] achieves the greatest villainy yet attempted on Doctor Who: she plays a banker.”