Dark Water Multiple Choice Quiz | The Series (2005-)

Answer: He is hit by a car

The episode opens with Clara declaring her love for Danny on the phone. When she says it, the line goes quiet. Clara assumes he's just being quiet because she had just told him, repeatedly, to "shut up, shut up, shut up" because she had something to say to him.

After a few more seconds of silence, a woman's voice is heard. She says that she found the phone on the ground after Danny was hit by a car while crossing the road. Clara drops her phone and rushes to the scene of the accident.

Answer: Seven

Clara arrives in the TARDIS, seemingly unaffected by Danny's death. She asks the Doctor to take them away, to fire up the TARDIS, and he asks why, knowing that there's usually a reason for her wanting to go away. While he is busy fiddling with some sort of electronic device at the console, Clara makes her way around the TARDIS, collecting the hidden keys to the time machine and asking to be taken to a volcano because she's "never seen an active volcano" and she's "never seen lava".

The scene shifts intermittently between the past (the pair in the TARDIS) and the present (the pair at the edge of a volcano). In the present, Clara is confronting the Doctor and threatening to destroy all seven of his TARDIS keys in the volcano if he doesn't go back in time and save Danny from death. The Doctor refuses, explaining that doing so would create a paradox loop: if he changes the chain of events that led to Clara threatening the Doctor, then those events which cause her to do so would never have occurred, leading to a disintegration of the timeline. Of course, none of this actually happens because the Doctor placed Clara into a dream-like state beforehand, making her think she's actually carrying out her plan to destroy the TARDIS keys when it was just a way for the Doctor to see how far she would go to save someone she loves.

Answer: Seb

Danny, not surprisingly, is confused at finding himself in a strange office. When he asks where he is, Danny pulls back the curtains on the window and sees an entire city before him, wrapped around the inside of a sphere. Seb, an "employee" of the Nethersphere, informs him that he is dead and that he's "in the Underworld, otherwise known as the Nethersphere ... it's where you go when you die." Danny begins breathing heavily while Seb offers him a bag to breathe into.

Answer: A mausoleum

Just like she did in "Listen", Clara interfaces directly with the TARDIS, placing her hands inside the console and focusing on Danny in her mind. The TARDIS takes off but because the Doctor had to disable the shields and the nav-com to do so, they've no idea where they are.

They step outside after landing and find themselves in a mausoleum, with fluid-filled tanks containing the skeletons of the deceased. The Doctor finds an introductory holo-video that tells them they are at a place called 3W.

Answer: False

The character we know as Missy welcomes the Doctor and Clara to 3W and states that she is, in fact, a "Mobile Intelligent Systems Interface" and a "multi-function, interactive welcome droid" (though the "welcome package" consisted of her rather forcefully kissing the Doctor, much to his and Clara's shock).

When the Doctor asks who maintains MISI, she calls for Dr. Chang, who takes them to an office to speak with "a particular dead person".

Answer: They have Steve Jobs

Seb takes Danny out to a balcony where he mentions that the Wi-Fi there is slightly better. Danny, puzzled, sees him using an iPad and wonders why they have Wi-Fi and iPads. Seb replies, "iPads... we have Steve Jobs."

Seb then asks Danny if he's ever killed anyone and if he has any bad memories or regrets. Danny starts having flashbacks of his time as a soldier and remembers shooting at something in a house. Seb tells him that they have a meeting lined up with someone, and a little boy appears behind the doors. Danny realises that this boy was in the house in the warzone.

Answer: It makes non-organic matter invisible

Dr. Chang explains to the Doctor that the bodies in the tanks are "encased in a support exoskeleton", which is only invisible because of the fluid inside the tank, dubbed "dark water". This water has a "specially-engineered refraction index" which allows the body to be seen while the exoskeleton remains invisible. Chang demonstrates by placing his arm inside a container of dark water, which makes his watch and his sleeve disappear, leaving only his arm visible.

Answer: "Don't cremate me"

Dr. Chang explains how 3W came about. Its founder took the static from a television signal and translated it with a "translation matrix of his own devising" and was convinced it was the voices of the dead. He managed to isolate a voice and decipher what it was saying.

It was three simple words: "Don't cremate me." Chang explains that the dead still remain conscious, linked to their body and able to feel everything that is happening to it. The cries of "Don't cremate me" suggest that the dead can still feel their bodies being burned and want desperately for that not to happen.

Answer: St. Paul's Cathedral

With the dark water draining from the tanks in the mausoleum, the inorganic exoskeletons are revealed. Each tank houses a Cyberman. Missy then reveals herself to be a Time Lord and the one that the Doctor "abandoned" and "left for dead". Eager to get away from Missy and her soon-to-be-active Cyberman army, the Doctor sonics his way through a door and finds himself in London, of all places, on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral.

Answer: The Master

As the Doctor frantically urges the citizens of London to escape from the oncoming army of Cybermen, Missy throws the Doctor (and, admittedly, us) one almighty curveball and reveals her true identity.

Missy is a new incarnation of the Master. Having regenerated into a female Time Lord (a Time Lady, if you will), a masculine-sounding name wouldn't have suited her, so instead she chose to go by the name of the Mistress and shortened it to Missy.