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Who Goes There

- Dan Cziraky

This two-disc set collects the first six episodes of Series Eight (2014), introducing Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor. Deep Breath is the post-regeneration episode and sees the Doctor and companion Clara Oswald (Coleman) end up in Victorian London after the TARDIS is swallowed by an enormous Tyrannosaurus Rex. In steps the Paternostra Gang: Silurian warrior Madam Vastra (McIntosh), her human wife Jenny Flint (Catrin Stewart), and the Sontaran warrior/ nurse Strax (Dan Starkey). Together, they attempt to tend to both the dinosaur in the Thames River and the regenerated Doctor's erratic behavior. When the dinosaur suddenly is destroyed via spontaneous combustion, and Madame Vastra realizes there have been similar murders reported in the newspapers, the Doctor is back on the case. By the episode's end, the threat of ancient robots cobbling spare parts from humans and hiding their crimes by incinerating the bodies has been thwarted, and the Doctor has settled into his new personality. At first, Clara isn't sure she wants to continue traveling with the Doctor, but she receives a surprise phone call from the Eleventh Doctor (Smith), just prior to his regeneration, urging her to stay by his side. Into the Dalek is a lark on Fantastic Voyage as the Doctor, Clara, and a team of soldiers are miniaturized and inserted into a battle-damaged Dalek (whom the Doctor nicknames "Rusty") that has turned "good." The Dalek's interior is revealed to be just as deadly as its exterior, though, and when the fault is repaired, the "good" is eradicated—or is it? In