History Recap / DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek

* TookALevelInBadass: The Daleks are even more dangerous than usual in this episode. They emerge as a very organized killing force in the cover of darkness, menacingly inching forward and easily mowing down both soldiers and even ''themselves'' with terrifying ease.

* YearOutsideHourInside: When the Doctor returns to Clara with the coffee he said he'd get [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath last episode]], she reveals he has been gone for three weeks. She then returns from this week's adventure in around 30 seconds, [[InstantCostumeChange to the confusion of Danny Pink]].

The Doctor, Clara, Journey and a small platoon of soldiers are shrunk down to miniscule size, and carefully placed inside the belly of the beast. The Doctor'll have to face dangerous machinery, killer antibodies and his own increasingly-murky morality, but if he gets it right, he could change the Daleks forever . . .

* YouKnowTooMuch: The commander of the Aristotle is grateful to the Doctor for saving Journey Blue, but then orders him shot in case he's a Dalek spy. Fortunately they need a doctor.

* YouKnowTooMuch: The commander of the hidden Resistance spaceship is grateful to the Doctor for saving Journey Blue, then condemns him to death. Fortunately they need a doctor.

* YearOutsideHourInside: When the Doctor returns to Clara with the coffee he said he'd get [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath last episode]], she reveals he has been gone for three weeks.

** Gretchen gets on the Doctor's case for making light of Ross's death, though the Doctor just takes it in stride.

* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Watching the birth of a star is what started his HeelFaceTurn.

* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Watching the birth of a star is what started his HeelFaceTurn.

The one where the Doctor gets coffee.

It's a Dalek! And a good one at that - broken enough to have developed a conscience, and to reject the Dalek way of life entirely. Apart from that, though, it appears to be physically sick. The Doctor thinks he can help, but first he has to dash back to Coal Hill School and grab Clara. She's having a rather better day, having met dashing ex-soldier and now-teacher Danny Pink, but the Doctor has a job for her. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath (And coffee, finally).]]

** Like his last three incarnations, the Twelfth Doctor is a firm believer of this, and it is a fact certainly helped by the lousy first impression Journey and her compatriots make. He even rejects Journey as a companion based solely on the fact that she's a soldier. Given the multitude of companions who've served in uniform (Ben, The Brigadier, Benton, Yates, Harry Sullivan, etc.), this is a definite shift.

--> '''Journey:''' Is Ross here?\\
'''The Doctor:''' He's somewhere on the top layer ''(points to liquefied flesh)'' if you want to say a few words.
* BookEnds: Clara responding twice to the Doctor's question: "I don't know." Note Rusty's opinion on the matter: The Doctor is ''not'' a good man, but rather a fellow monster [[TerrorHero who is aligned with good.]]

-->'''The Doctor:''' This is Clara. She's not my assistant, some other word.
-->'''Clara:''' I'm his carer.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Yeah, my carer. She cares so I don't have to.

** Several nods to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks "Genesis of the Daleks"]]. Possibly most noticeable is the re-creation of the iconic image of the Doctor holding the two wires in front of him questioning the morality of touching those two wires together.

--->'''Rusty:''' [[AC: ''I'' am not a "good Dalek". '''[[NoYou You]]''' are a good Dalek.]]

** When the Doctor acts more like a madman than a reliable ally, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone someone has to cautiously vouch for the Doctor's sanity when a wary soldier is around who doubts his ability to protect them and thinks he can't be trusted.]]

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Rusty starts out as a standard OmnicidalManiac Dalek, then has an epiphany about the beauty of life after the inhibitors inside the Dalekanium transport shell are damaged, and becoming in the process the first "good Dalek". Then it's revealed that his "good" side was just due to its faulty wiring, and it reverts back to a standard Dalek after the Doctor fixes it. However, at the end of the episode, the Doctor and Clara restore the suppressed memories, which changes him to an entity equally as violent as before, only exterminating Daleks now.

-->'''The Doctor''': Aha! A bolt-hole!\\
'''Clara''': ''[To Journey]'' He'll get us out of here, the problem is not killing him before he can.\\
'''The Doctor''': A ''bolt-hole''. Actually a ''hole'' for a ''bolt''. [[DontExplainTheJoke Does nobody get that]]?\\
'''Clara''': There's also the [[{{Pun}} puns]].

* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: The Doctor attempts to kick-start Rusty's conscience by having Clara reboot the memory of the star being born then linking Rusty's mind to his own to demonstrate beauty. While this has the intended effect at first, Rusty soon sees the Doctor's memories of the Daleks and feels his hatred for them, instead causing Rusty to become as virulently anti-Dalek as he once was of everything else.

** After Rusty turns on the other Daleks, one of them is shown leaking fluid in RuleOfSymbolism version.

* SinisterSilhouettes: All of the Daleks that force their entry into the ''Aristotle'' from the Dalek mother ship start moving down a dark hallway. The only features that can be clearly made out of their casings are the glow of their cold, unfeeling eyestalk lenses and their flashing headlamps as they chant, "[[AC:EX-TER-MIN-ATE!]]" and "[[AC:SEEK! LOCATE! DESTROY!]]"

** The episode starts with a very ''Franchise/StarWars''-like space dogfight and it includes a scene where the Daleks dock with the rebel starship, [[Film/ANewHope blast down the door they docked with, and start picking off the soldiers inside]].

** The episode starts with a very ''Franchise/StarWars''-like space dogfight and it includes a scene where the Daleks dock with the rebel starship, [[Film/StarWarsANewHope blast down the door they docked with, and start picking off the soldiers inside]].

** The episode starts with a very Franchise/StarWars-like space dogfight and it includes a scene where the Daleks dock with the rebel starship, [[StarWarsANewHope blast down the door they docked with, and start picking off the soldiers inside]].

Journey Blue's having quite the bad day -- her brother's dead, and her ship's fleeing through an asteroid belt with a Dalek cruiser in hot pursuit. Luckily, as her own ship explodes another instantly materalises around her -- it's the TARDIS, with the Doctor at the console! He takes her back to the ''Aristotle'', a battleship clinging to the back of an asteroid staffed by rebels against the Daleks' many regimes. They're none too impressed with the intruder, but the Doctor manages to talk himself down from being shot dead with a little help from Journey. Besides, he's a doctor, and the rebels have a patient for him...

The Doctor, Clara, Journey and a small platoon of soldiers are shrunk down to miniscule size, and carefully placed inside the belly of the beast. The Doctor'll have to face dangerous machinery, killer antibodies and his own increasingly-murky morality, but if he gets it right, he could change the Daleks forever...

%%* BadassBeard: Colonel Morgan Blue.

'''The Doctor:''' He's somewhere on the top layer (points to liquefied flesh) if you want to say a few words.

** Several nods to [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks}} "Genesis of the Daleks"]]. Possibly most noticeable is the re-creation of the iconic image of the Doctor holding the two wires in front of him questioning the morality of touching those two wires together.

** The Doctor's attempt to reprogram "Rusty" into being benign is reminiscent of [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks}} "The Evil of The Daleks"]].

** There are visual references to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks "Resurrection of the Daleks"]] during the mass Dalek attack on the spacecraft, especially in the scene where they blast in through the airlock.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: One of Danny's students decides to be a an ass and ask if he killed anyone as a soldier. When he asks Danny if he killed anyone who ''wasn't'' a soldier... Cue SingleTear. The student promptly puts a cork in it, [[DudeNotFunny knowing he went too far]].
* DirtForcefield: As soon as everyone's left the pool of protein, they become completely dry with not so much as a hair out of place. It's justified in that they went through the Dalek's decontamination tubes off screen.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater Nobody guards]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven the dead.]]"

'''Clara''': [To Journey] He'll get us out of here, the problem is not killing him before he can.\\

* LiteralMetaphor: When Clara asks what to do with a moral Dalek, the Doctor says he needs to "get into its head." Cue the FantasticVoyagePlot...

* OhCrap: When the Doctor is coaxing Rusty to be good again, and the Dalek is beholding the universe the way the Doctor sees it... until Rusty sees the Doctor's ''hatred'' for the Daleks.

* RevealShot: After TheTeaser where the Doctor is captured by soldiers, we return to one of them chewing out his squad... only it turns out to be Mr. Pink and the Coal Hill School cadet squad.
* SheatheYourSword:

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The "[[AC:Exterminate... Doctor!]]" line of the teasers is never heard in the episode.

** "[[AC:I see into your soul, Doctor. I see beauty, I see divinity, I see... ''hatred''.]]"
** "Am I a good man?" "I ... don't know."

* SinisterSilhouettes: All of the Daleks that force their entry into the ''Aristotle'' from the Dalek mother ship start moving down a dark hallway. The only features that can be clearly made out of their casings are the glow of their cold, unfeeling eyestalk lenses and their flashing headlamps as they chant, "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!" and "SEEK! LOCATE! DESTROY!"

** A suppressed memory of Rusty's shows the Daleks [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd shooting down the]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Valiant]]'' during the Reality Bomb crisis.
*** Shots of exploding Daleks and the destruction of the Crucible are also shown.

** Like his last three incarnations, the Twelfth Doctor is a firm believer of this, and it is a fact certainly helped by the lousy first impression Journey and her compatriots make. He even rejects Journey as a companion based solely on the fact that she's a soldier. Given the multitude of companions who've served in uniform (Ben, The Brigadier, Benton, Yates, Harry Sullivan, etc.. ), this is a definite shift.

Journey Blue's having quite the bad day - her brother's dead, and her ship's fleeing through an asteroid belt with a Dalek cruiser in hot pursuit. Luckily, as her own ship explodes another instantly materalises around her -- it's the TARDIS, with the Doctor at the console! He takes her back to the ''Aristotle'', a battleship clinging to the back of an asteroid staffed by rebels against the Daleks' many regimes. They're none too impressed with the intruder, but the Doctor manages to talk himself down from being shot dead with a little help from Journey. Besides, he's a doctor, and the rebels have a patient for him...

Journey Blue's having quite the bad day - her brother's dead, and her ship's fleeing through an asteroid belt with a Dalek cruiser in hot pursuit. Luckily, as her own ship explodes another instantly materalises around her - it's the TARDIS, with the Doctor at the console! He takes her back to the ''Aristotle'', a battleship clinging to the back of an asteroid staffed by rebels against the Daleks' many regimes. They're none too impressed with the intruder, but the Doctor manages to talk himself down from being shot dead with a little help from Journey. Besides, he's a doctor, and the rebels have a patient for him...

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The episode revolves around averting this trope about the Daleks. It is possible for one of them to turn good without caveats like "ingesting human DNA" or "going crazy due to breaking a time lock".

** Like his last three incarnations, the Twelfth Doctor is a firm believer of this and it is a fact certainly helped by the lousy first impression Journey and her compatriots make. He even rejects Journey as a companion based solely on the fact that she's a soldier. Given the multitude of companions who've served in uniform (Ben, The Brigadier, Benton, Yates, Harry Sullivan, etc.. ), this is a definite shift.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion:

* AscendedMeme: The Doctor refers to the broken Dalek as "Rusty", which was the FanNickname for the Last Dalek in "Dalek".

* AwesomeMccoolname: Journey Blue wouldn't be out of place as a [[Film/PacificRim Jaeger]] designation. It's also not a bad ad-hoc description of the TARDIS.

* BittersweetEnding: The Dalek fleet is stopped and the possiblity that they could all HeelFaceTurn is confirmed but at the cost of many lives on ''Aristotle''.

'''Doctor:''' He's somewhere on the top layer (points to liquefied flesh) if you want to say a few words.

* CallBack: The Doctor says he wasn't really the Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks until he went to Skaro]], lampshading his CharacterizationMarchesOn in "An Unearthly Child" before his character became established as a fighter against evil.
* CharacterDevelopment: [[{{DiscussedTrope}} Discussed.]] between Clara and The Doctor. While Clara is not sure if the Doctor is a good man, she's sure that he's trying, which is the point.

** After the Doctor rescues Journey and drops her off, she exits the TARDIS and sees its non-indicative outer dimensions, remarking it's smaller on the outside. Clara's Victorian temporal duplicate made a similar comment, and the Doctor quips that the effect is more impressive if people see it in the other direction.
** Several nods to "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks}} Genesis of the Daleks]]". Possibly most noticeable is the re-creation of the iconic image of the Doctor holding the two wires in front of him questioning the morality of touching those two wires together.
** There are also a few from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek "Dalek"]], such as Rusty's parting quote but the context is quite different. Where the Dalek in "Dalek" was referring to the fact that Nine's rage and wish to destroy it made them NotSoDifferent, Rusty sees Twelve as a Dalek that happens to be "good".

** We see shots from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]" in the Doctor's memories of the Daleks, of the Reality Bomb and Daleks blowing up.
** The Doctor's attempt to reprogram "Rusty" into being benign are reminiscent of "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks}} The Evil of The Daleks]]".

** There are visual references to "Resurrection of the Daleks" during the mass Dalek attack on the spacecraft, especially in the scene where they blast in through the airlock.

** The Doctor does something to piss off his companion or a friendly associate and gets an ArmorPiercingSlap, making him the fourth incarnation in a row to get himself slapped. But unlike the times it has been PlayedForLaughs, this slap ''is'' justified.

** Clara climbs up through a shaft and the Doctor, beneath her, makes a comment about her body, just like Toby did with Rose in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]]. Toby's comment to Rose was flattering in a naughty way, however, compared to the Doctor's unflattering one in response to Clara's own anticipation of a good look of her [[ShesGotLegs hips]]. Go further back, and it reflects an exchange between the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E2TheArkInSpace The Ark in Space]]", also the second full episode with a newly introduced Doctor.
** In another homage to the Third Doctor era, the Doctor and his companion are shrunk down into an alien machine with hostile things waiting inside. Think [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters "Carnival of Monsters"]], but with a Dalek instead of a miniscope. Also [[DoctorWhoS15E2TheInvisibleEnemy "The Invisible Enemy"]] when the Doctor and his companion were cloned and shrunken to enter his own body.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks This is the second time, that the Doctor within the first life of a regeneration cycle, in their respective second stories, ends up dealing with Daleks and heavy radiation.]]

** "Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath" ended with the Doctor being told to fetch some coffee. He finally gets the job done (albeit after having left Clara behind in Glasgow and disappearing for three weeks).
** The Doctor accidentally left a companion behind in Scotland once before as revealed in "Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion".
** Rusty being turned against the Daleks works similar to Dalek Caan's HeelFaceTurn in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]". Caan turned against his fellow Daleks because he he saw through all time and space, witnessing the true horror of his actions. Rusty is turned against the Daleks through a combination of their atrocities and the Doctor's hatred of them as expressed through his memories.

** The Doctor speculates that if he can turn one Dalek, he can neutralise them all, and possibly even retire from adventuring (since his moniker is defined by being the Daleks' opposite). Unsurprisingly, this plan fails: the 'reformed' Dalek merely shifts his crosshairs from humans to Daleks.

* GoodCounterpart: Rusty becomes a "good Dalek" in that he isn't an OmnicidalManiac anymore. He doesn't think so and instead calls the Doctor a "good Dalek". In other words, a heroic monster.

* {{Headdesk}}: Danny does this after thinking he's spoilt his chances with Clara. The actor ended up sporting a noticeable bump on his forehead because he had to actually bang his head quite hard against the desk for multiple takes[[note]]they tried cushioning his head with a packet of tissues but it kept on getting stuck to his make-up[[/note]].

* IdiotBall: The Doctor insists after Rusty is "Fixed" that there are no good Daleks despite having seen two of them himself, Dalek Sec and Dalek Caan. Possibly justified by lingering post-regeneration memory lapses.

* InstantCostumeChange: Pink is surprised that Clara has somehow changed her clothes right after leaving him a few moments ago. According to the Doctor, it's only been 30 seconds after she had left with him.

-->'''Dalek''': I am not a good Dalek. ''You'' are a good Dalek.

* RedemptionPromotion: Smaller-scale, because it's not like Daleks aren't a threat, but the "good" Rusty demolishes the rest of his evil Dalek attack squad once he turns on them, damaged or not.

* RevealShot: After TheTeaser where the Doctor is captured by soldiers, we return to one of them chewing out his squad... only it turns out to be Mr Pink and the Coal Hill School cadet squad.

-->'''Doctor:''' A soldier takes orders.\\

'''Doctor:''' A Dalek's a better soldier than you will ever be. You can't win this way!

** At one point the Dalek states that [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Resistance is futile!"]]

* SpiritualSequel: The structure of this story follows a similar one to "Genesis of the Daleks" and "Dalek": The Doctor is prodded into action by an organisation which seeks to pacify the Daleks, and, in the process, he confronts his prejudices over whether Daleks can be redeemed. Meanwhile, a lone Dalek survivor is recovered by humans who are experimenting on it for their own purposes. Upon being 'fixed', the Dalek goes on a rampage through the facility until an encounter with the Doctor's companion triggers an epiphany. The episode also has much in common with the Second Doctor serial "The Evil of the Daleks", wherein The Doctor succeeded in pacifying three Daleks (and more later) by reprogramming them, similarly to what he attempts here.

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The "Exterminate... Doctor!" line of the teasers is never heard in the episode.

** "I see into your soul, Doctor. I see beauty, I see divinity, I see... ''hatred''."

** "I am not a good Dalek. ''You'' are a good Dalek."

->"''A Dalek so damaged, it's turned good. Its morality's malfunctioned. How can I resist?"''
-->--'''The Doctor'''

->'''Clara''': You asked me if you were a good man. And the answer is, I don't know. But I think you try to be. And I think that's probably the point.

* SpotOfTea: Explicitly offered by Missy to Gretchen upon her arrival.