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It's implied that becoming a Wraith is a punishment meted out to those Matrix-bound personalities which Gallifreyan law, or perhaps the collective Matrix itself, had judged guilty of terrible crimes. The glimpse provided of one Wraith's screaming face suggests that they're in constant torment, little better off than the entwined alien invaders incorporated into the Matrix's data banks. Faced with the prospect of spending the whole of Time in such a state, the Wraiths covertly tapped into the Matrix's predictive abilities, and used them to identify a possible timeline leading to Gallifrey's - and hence, the Matrix's - destruction by the Moment. As the General himself pointed out in "Day", there's only one man in the universe who'd knowingly ''dare'' try to use the Moment, knowing it judges its wielder. So when young One sneaked into the Cloisters, the Wraiths scared him into leaving the planet specifically so that he could ''evolve into'' that exact man. It's only because the Moment tangled the Doctors' timelines too much for even the Matrix's prognostication that the Wraiths' attempt to ensure their own release into oblivion was dashed.

It's implied that becoming a Wraith is a punishment meted out to those Matrix-bound personalities which Gallifreyan law, or perhaps the collective Matrix itself, had judged guilty of terrible crimes. The glimpse provided of one Wraith's screaming face suggests that they're in constant torment, little better off than the entwined alien invaders incorporated into the Matrix's data banks. Faced with the prospect of spending the whole of Time in such a state, the Wraiths covertly tapped into the Matrix's predictive abilities, identified a possible timeline that would lead to Gallifrey's - and hence, the Matrix's - destruction by the Moment. As the General himself pointed out in "Day", there's only one man in the universe who'd knowingly ''dare'' try to use the Moment, knowing it judges its wielder. So when young One sneaked into the Cloisters, the Wraiths scared him into leaving the planet specifically so that he could ''evolve into'' that exact man. It's only because the Moment tangled the Doctors' timelines too much for even the Matrix's prognostication that the Wraiths' attempt to ensure their own oblivion was dashed.

A new twist on the Season 6B theory, in light on the introduction to the 'extraction chamber' in ''Hell Bent''. The JNT-era Time Lords (presumably the Celestial Investigation Agency) found themselves with the need to enlist the Doctor as their agent. But the current Doctor (Five, and later Six) would have been difficult, if not impossible, to control. So they use the extraction chamber to pull out of his timestream the Doctor at a vulnerable point in his life when he might have been more easily controllable - namely, in the moments just before his forced regeneration and exile on earth (which would sort off count as the moment before the Doctor's 'death' in a sense). They bring the Second Doctor forward to their 'relative present' and make their pitch - he gets to spend years (possibly centuries) adventuring in his current incarnation and in return he has to work as their operative. The Doctor agrees, knowing its as good a deal as he's likely to get under the circumstances. They outfit him with another TARDIS which is a replica of his complete with the faulty chameleon circuit (or maybe they just pull his TARDIS along with him) and set him loose on the universe. Along the way, the Doctor picks up an older Jamie and even Victoria and gets involved in ''The Five Doctors'' and ''The Two Doctors''. Also, the CIA did something to help him escape the 'time-looping' effect that 'extracted' people face and this explains how the Second Doctor steadily seemed to age as time went on. Eventually though, the Second Doctor is reinserted back into his timeline, in the moments before his regeneration and his memory may or may not have been wiped (or perhaps they were wiped as an effect of being re-inserted in his natural timestream). Though the Doctor probably regained those memories on some level eventually, especially after he encountered the 'extracted' Two in ''The Two Doctors''. It was because of his personal experience with the extraction chamber that the Doctor thought he could help Clara escape her fate - but it didn't work out that way (maybe because Clara was actually dead whereas the Doctor was only going to regenerate).

...the future incarnations of the Doctor and Master, now the White and Black Guardians of Time, will appear and sit down at the unused chess board and begin to play a game, throughout the entire history of the universe, stretched out forever in those final moments until the end...

The Doctor is said to have run away with the President's wife, but it turns out it actually was the President's daughter. The Doctor also ran away with his granddaughter, Susan. This two women are one and the same, which means that the Doctor would either be Rassilon's father, or Rassilon's father in law, since the father in law thing is less exciting, it must be he's Rassilon's father. This would also fit with an allusion to the aborted arc that was supposed to reveal the Doctor was something more than a mere Time Lord, back in the Classic Series. It's been mentioned that a few aspects of that master plan have been seen in the new series. Since it's clear they are not going to go with the Doctor being something more than a Time Lord (which in the aborted plan was supposed to lead to the Doctor being revealed as the third founder of Time Lord society and thus something else), him being Rassilon's father would be a proper shocking revelation without being too 'out there' in terms of the show's status quo. It could be that the current Doctor has not yet fathered Rassilon, which is why the President has no idea and the only reason the Doctor knows is because he recognized his granddaughter. He probably wanted to keep her away from Rassilon's influence and also keep Rassilon from finding out his parentage, after all the Doctor ran because he was afraid, and he may have been afraid of more than the Hybrid thing. This means that at some point in the future, the Doctor will travel back to Gallifrey's deep past and father one of the first Time Lords. Let's be honest, the Time Lords must have a couple members whose origins are not linear.

* Hate to say it, but it looks like we may never get to see Twelve going back to take part in the 13-TARDISes-over-Gallifrey scene. The events of "Heaven Sent"/"Hell Bent" strongly imply that it's already happened off-camera during series 8 or earlier in series 9, because [[spoiler: Rassilon is perfectly willing to order the Doctor's execution without any concern it might undo Gallifrey's survival]].

Clara's death went beyond just being the catalyst that brought the Doctor back to Gallifrey; there had to be more to it than that. However, considering the fact that she survived jumping into the Doctor's timeline and being splint into a million echoes, and only because the Doctor jumped back in after her... now you have a pretty good case for a fixed-point death. Clara had to die because it was a way of reconciling the damage done by the initial act. Even her echoes have died, a {{Foreshadowing}} of her final fate.

The Whoniverse will now host the amazing adventures of ... the Teacher.

Because why not

The Doctor was unable to cope with his grief all at once. By blocking his memories of Clara, he can recover from the trauma of the Confession Dial and regain his equillibrium. As he gets back to normal, his memories of Clara will start to sneak back in, when he's not paying attention. Little things, like something Clara told him, or a brief memory of her eyes or her smile, the sort of things that it's only natural to think of in passing. It'll be subtle enough to not be noticed, but it will give the Doctor a chance to miss her in tiny fragments instead of one big gulp of grief that would choke him. It might take centuries, but eventually he'll be able to remember her and smile.

We don't get to see their conversation, and later in the diner, the Doctor says Clara told him "something important", and Clara seems heartbroken that he doesn't remember. Also, the whole memories becoming songs thing seems to suggest this is true also. The conversation was also right after Clara learned the Doctor waited 4 1/2 billion years to save her, and he was willing to become the hybrid for her. It would also explain why the Doctor said one of them needed to go, since the Doctor doesn't do romance with his companions (for example, sending Rose away with Handy in Journey's End and going to get Rory after Amy tries to seduce him).

* The chameleon circuit is broken, and after some tie with two untrained users, it will probably be wonky and broken. This would also mean there wasn't a Gallefreyan Clara, just human Clara returning the [=TARDIS=] at just the right moment.

[[WMG: The [=TARDIS=] Clara and Ashildr/Me stole is the [=TARDIS=] that the returned Clara will recommend to the first Doctor in ''Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor'']]

** [[spoiler: All Jossed; she's the actual Clara, extracted from the instant before death by Time Lord technology.]]

During the Cloister Wars, the Matrix's defenses incorporated Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels and other attackers, becoming a synthesis of all these warrior races. The prophecy claiming that "the Hybrid will stand in the ruins of Gallifrey and destroy a billion hearts to heal its own" is just the Matrix announcing its AssimilationPlot.

** Keep in mind that the Doctor doesn't like to have to refer Ashildr as "Me", so it's odd that in the heat of the moment at the end of "Heaven Sent" he'd use that name. If anything, she might be the person who can ''talk the Hybrid down'' instead, with interviews with Steven Moffat suggesting she's the one person left who can see through the Doctor by the time of "Hell Bent"...

** The Time Lords have incredible technology; they just don't interfere with the universe unless they have to. They're able to remotely send a new set of regenerations through a crack in time in "The Time of the Doctor", but only after Clara coaxes them into it. The Doctor emulates that, to a degree, until "The Girl Who Died", wherein he decides to revive Ashildr, even though he knows it's a bad idea. Moffat has repeatedly demonstrated his penchant long-form storytelling; anything from his tenure could turn out to be a seeded plot point for "Hell Bent" that the audience can only recognize with hindsight, which fits in with the Doctor's plan -- and Missy's description of him -- from "The Witch's Familiar".

Basically, after the events of "End of Time", the Master (in his John Simm incarnation) somehow manages to defeat an already weakened Rassilon, or at least escape from him. Later, he managed to regenerate (maybe with help from Ohilia?) and either worked his way up into a position of authority as an influential Time Lord leader (by contributing to the rebuilding of Gallifrey after the Time War) or maybe stole the body of or regenerated into the form of an influential Time Lord leader. Eventually he becomes President. He's the one who broadcasts the 'Doctor Who' message through the crack and grants the Doctor his new regeneration cycle. He then hatches the plan to use Ashildr to lure the Doctor into a trap because he wants to find out about the Hybrid and knows that the Doctor might have answers.

After ''The End of Time'' he regenerate into Donald Sumpter to heal his wounds that The Master caused.

** [[spoiler: Jossed; Ashildr lives to the end of the universe the long way round. The Time Lord General regenerates because the Doctor shoots him as a distraction after asking him if he's got more of them left.]]

[[WMG: The Monster seen in the Promo for "Hell Bent"...]]

[[WMG: The Clara in "Hell Bent"...]]
* ...is one of her splinters. We may get a flashback to how she saved a Doctor, maybe 11th as this is the cafe from "The Impossible Astronaut". Or it may be that 11 will enter soon after 12 leaves. The episode will begin with the Doctor telling the events of the episode to her. Perhaps he remembers encountering this Clara when he was 11.

* ...the Doctor is imagining it.
* ...the Clara on Gallifrey, perhaps who told 1 which TARDIS to steal.
** [[spoiler: All Jossed; she's the actual Clara, extracted from her body at the instant before death by Time Lord technology.]]

During the Cloister Wars, the Matrix's defenses incorporated daleks, cybermen, weeping angels and other attackers, becoming a synthesis of all these warrior races. The prophecy claiming that "the Hybrid will stand in the ruins of Gallifrey and destroy a billion hearts to heal its own" is just the Matrix announcing its AssimilationPlot.

* It was ''him'' that was vainly banging on the dome of Orson Pink's refuge on the last planet in the universe, back during the events of "Listen".

* It was ''him'' that was vainly banging on the dome of Rupert Pink's refuge on the last planet in the universe, back during the events of "Listen".

** [[spoiler: All Jossed; she's the actual Clara, extracted from her body at the instant before death by Time Lord technology.]]

* [[spoiler: Confirmed that the Doctor was trying to save Clara with Time Lord technology, but not by making her a Time Lord. Ashildr speculates that Clara and the Doctor are ''jointly'' the Hybrid, but the issue is never really settled whether it's both of them, just the Doctor, or just Ashildr.]]

* ...the Clara on Gallifrey, perhaps who told 1 which TARDIS to steal.

After ''The End of Time'' he regenerate into to heal his wounds that The Master caused.

** If Mire technology was good enough to make someone a threat to the Time Lords, would the Doctor have been so smug about humiliating them in Ashildr's first episode? Also, the closed captions for "Heaven Sent" don't capitalize "me".

** If Mire technology was good enough to make someone a threat to the Time Lords, would the Doctor have been so smug about humiliating them in Ashildr's first episode? Also, the closed captions for "Heaven Sent" don't capitalize "Me".