[S11E9] Where Do We Go From Here

But Daryl still has a soft spot for Leah. He tells her that if they drop their weapons, she and the other two can leave. Carver has to stay. With little choice in the matter, Leah complies and the three hurry off. Maggie kneels down in front of Carver and then looks over at Elijah, laying painfully on the ground where Carver once again almost killed him.

[S11E9] Where Do We Go From Here

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Once upon a time, before there was time, all the parts of the universe were there. But they couldn't assemble because there was also a consciousness. Called "the Solitract" by the Doctor's Fifth Granny (she apparently had seven), this mythical creature, a universe-sized conciousness, is described as a disease. A better way of explaining it is a being with a psyche massive enough to hold the pieces of the universe apart. Once it was removed from our universe to its own plane, the molecules came together, matter joined with energy and the world as we know it was born.

The story begins as a bit of Scandinavian noir, not unlike Netflix's recent series The Rain. Team Upon landing in Norway, TARDIS, discovered a boarded-up house with a terrified little girl inside. Hanne (Eleanor Wallwork) is blind and alone. Her father, Erik (Christian Rubeck), went out one day and never came back. Her mother Trine has been dead for months, Erik moved them out here after her death because he needed to get away from the memories. Hanne believes her father was abducted by a monster in the woods. She waits at the house for his eventual return, boarded up in fear every time she hears the monster roar, not long before sundown.

But while the terror noises may be coming from outside the house, it's inside where the Doctor discovers that things are terribly wrong. There's a mirror into a alien, cavelike system, and a portal to another universe, inside Erik's bedroom. She, Yaz, and Graham go to explore it, while Ryan is forced to stay behind and look after Hanne, even though she doesn't like him. (He assumed that, just like his own father, Hanne's dad has abandoned her here, an idea that the girl fiercely resents.) But Ryan might be on to something about Erik, as the next time the monster roars, he starts tracing the sound... and realizes it's just a couple of speakers Erik set in the woods, and a timed recording. It's a cruel trick to keep the blind girl inside while Erik is gone, presumably into the mirror.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and her pals have wound up in a maze-like system of caves, stuck in the dark with no idea where they are going. Luckily, or perhaps not, they run into a creature who introduces himself as Ribbons of the Seven Stomachs (Kevin Eldon). He explains they are in an "Anti-zone" a place, as the Doctor explains, that acts as a sort of buffer zone when two worlds attempt to touch which aren't supposed to. It's a barrier keeping the real world safe from what should be directly on the other side of the mirror.

Ribbons has a lantern, and also claims to have seen Erik crossing through the Anti-zone, promising to take them to where Erik went for the trade of the Doctor's sonic. He never gets the sonic though, as the group is set upon by gigantic flesh-eating moths, who wind up attacking the greedy Ribbons and leaving him a skeleton.

The Doctor might have been able to be the Solitract's friend, perhaps, if the universe was different. But it's not. As much as the Doctor would love to live in a world where her BFF is a universe-sized being, and show this creature all the beauty of the stars and time, she's too much for the Solitract Plane to handle. The Solitract must let her go. 041b061a72