‘Doctor Who: Flux’ Recap – ‘Chapter Five: Survivors of the Flux’

Written by Shae Rufe   

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode 1305 of ‘Doctor Who’.
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What happens when the world as we know it is destroyed and everything hinges on an alien life form to save the known universe? The road to recovery is never an easy one and it just so happens that it’s even harder to recover a broken universe than anyone would have thought. Dan, Yaz, and Jericho are trapped in 1901 with no hope of getting out of it. There is little they can do except hunt down artifacts that reveal the exact date that the world ends. It takes them 3 years to truly make any head way, and the hope of getting rescued and back to their own respective times is dwindling.
 
Yaz has a recording from the Doctor, but even that offers little to no help. They travel far and wide and eventually find a helmet shaman who only offers one phrase to help them. “Fetch your Dog.” Well, they do leave a massive message for the Lupari, only the Lupari don’t have time travel so they can’t help. Speaking of help, Bel is on her way to track down the Ravagers siblings when her ship is recalled by the Lupari that kept trying to kidnap Dan. Small world (universe), maybe. The saddest bit is Vinder had just arrived on the planet Bel was going to. He even watches her ship speed off, not even knowing it’s her.

As for the Doctor, well, she’s no longer an Angel. The Angels let her out for just a moment, mostly because they find tormenting her funny. It’s an Ood who frees her, and well, we learn a lot. Turns out The Division did call her back, so to speak. Division even caused the Flux to essentially get rid of the Doctor. The problem is that they released the Doctor into that universe, and it was a mistake. Division created the Flux to wipe the universe out and start over with a new one. That’s right, even in Doctor Who the Multiverse is real, which we all knew, but still.
 
Seeing Division existing outside of two universes is insane. The head of Division also confirms that what the Master told the Doctor was indeed true. The Doctor was found as a child, near a worm hole, and her DNA was infused into that of all Gallifreyans, thus creating Time Lords. How does the head of Division know this? They would be Tecteun, the woman who found and raised the Doctor. And apparently erased her memories and locked them away in a fob watch before re-releasing her into the universe as we know and love.

The rest of the Flux is about to begin but there are bigger problems for Earth. One of which being a Sontaran invasion, which Yaz, Dan, and Jericho couldn’t stop. Tecteun offers to return the Doctor’s memories and even spare Earth, but the Doctor has to rejoin the Division. Or the Doctor can go back to Earth and die with the universe. The Doctor doesn’t like either option, not really. Stubborn as she is. Azure and Swarm show up just in time to kill Tecteun and now what will the Doctor do? With one episode left of the Flux there is so much still unanswered and in jeopardy that it’s hard to tell which way everything will go!

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