Several trailers, teasers and images were released for Doctor Who Season Two starring Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu and Millie Gibson. What follows is an image breakdown of the first episode.
The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) meets Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) and begins an epic quest to get her back to Earth. But a mysterious force is stopping their return and the time-traveling TARDIS team must face great dangers, bigger enemies and wider terrors than ever before.
The known cast for this episode are Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu and Evelyn Miller.
A nurse named Belinda Chandra arrives to work at a hospital. She is informed that a doctor is looking for her.
The Doctor saunters in to the hospital on a mission. He’s looking for a name but his attempt becomes folly.
After completing her shift, Belinda goes home and to bed. She is awakened by a noise and bright lights.
A giant robot busts through the wall of Belinda’s home. She is abducted and taken inside a rocketship, barely having time to grab her coat. The Doctor arrives only to watch the spaceship take off.
Holding a Star Certificate, Belinda unwillingly travels to her destination with the Doctor in hot pursuit in the TARDIS.
Her destination is an alien planet populated by robots and by humans in modest uniforms. There is a large room with an empty seat on a raised platform. Who is meant to sit in this seat of power?
The Doctor arrives.
The Doctor dons the uniform of the planet’s human residents and meets Belinda.
There is a conflict.
The Doctor must help resolve the conflict. The robots retrieve the TARDIS. Belinda enters the TARDIS for the first time.
Belinda demands to be returned home. The Doctor sets out to find a way to do that but, due to unknown circumstances, he may get her home “the long way round.” He informs Belinda that their lives are somehow linked. Belinda is somehow a dead ringer for Mundy Flynn, an Anglican Marine the Doctor met on Kastarion 3 — but Belinda is not the same woman.
There are some notable commonalities in the images from this episode. The alien planet somewhat resembles Skaro, the home world of the Daleks. There are flying saucers in addition to rocketships. The skeletons of the the human characters become visible as they are disintegrated in the same way that Daleks exterminate with their gunsticks. It is not yet known if these are coincidences.
Doctor Who Season Two will officially launch with Episode One on Saturday 12 April at 8am on BBC iPlayer and later that day on BBC One in the UK. Those outside of the UK can watch Doctor Who Season Two on Disney+ where available simultaneously starting at 3am ET/12am PT. The remaining seven episodes of the series will transmit on subsequent Saturdays.