Blue Fire House, Middle-of-Nowhere Street England. A small hotel where four mysterious strangers were drawn into, with amnesia riddling their brains. Amnesia, and fear. Fear of water. Fear of mirrors. Fear of cockroaches. Fear of being forgotten. An ancient fear that knows what you fear the most.
The Doctor makes a visit to the same hotel to try and help them, but for the first time ever. He's truly afraid.
And no, it's not the one with Matt Smith.
The House of Blue Fire contains examples of the following tropes:
- And I Must Scream: #12 ends up trapped in a mirror. And then vanishes into the dark inside it.
- Batman Gambit: The Doctor has the Kalarash think he's devised a way out. It's not a way out. It's her way in.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: #16 jumps out of a window rather than face his fear.
- Big "NO!": The Doctor lets one out when he realize he's (and #18) had been tricked into letting #12 alone.
- Call-Back: When the Doctor gets asked where The Master is he instantly caught off guard. He calms down when he hears it's just "The Master of the house" and not his old nemesis.
- The TARDIS is still black.
- Call-Forward: The TARDIS interiors are described as Cathedral like.
- The Doctor doesn't like being saluted.
- The Doctor mentions having been to a Curry restaurant fairly recently.
- Chaos Architecture
- Delaying Action: The Doctor towards the Kalarash in their final confrontation.
- Emotion Eater: The Kalarash.
- Ghostly Chill: #18 feels a chill of someone walking through her.
- Grand Theft Me: Mi'en Kalarash is planning to take over bodies. More specifically the Doctor's.
- Hedge Maze: There is one just outside the hotel grounds.
- Hell Hotel: A creepy, old, English lodge without any electricity.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Dr. Soames to Eve.
- I Know What You Fear: Weaponized. And the humans are trying to tame it.
- Indy Ploy:The Doctor: Of course I know what I'm doing! I just don't know what I'm doing five minutes from now!
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Everyone in the Blue House scenario is stripped of their personal memories, lacking any knowledge of their names or lives, but they still remember what their individual phobias are.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: #5 and #16.
- The Master
- Middle-of-Nowhere Street: The Blue Fire House is somewhere off the beaten track that nobody knows exactly where.
- Phlebotinum Analogy:Like a vampire? So when he's done feeding he'll discard us? Like empty burger boxes?
- Psychic Block Defense: The Doctor sets one up in Sally.
- The Reveal: At the end of part 2, the Hotel is shown to be something completely different than anybody though.
- Servile Snarker: Dr. Soames, who acts as a porter and receptionist to the Blue Fire House.
- Scary Jack-in-the-Box: For a Jump Scare.
- The Scully: #5 seems way less open for ideas of supernatural, just like Rachel.
- Sequel Hook: As everything is collapsing and scrambling to get into the TARDIS the Doctor quips to Sally:The Doctor: I don't suppose I could convince you to go AWOL?
- Shout-Out: #5 calls Dr. Soames "Lurch".
- Later on she says there won't be any Playstation 9's.
- Dr. Soames asks how they should get home. Click our heels together?
- When in a scenario where the subjects are on a plane, the in-flight movies mentioned include Die Hard 2 and Snakes on a Plane.
- Shrouded in Myth: The Mi'En Kalarash is an ancient Gallifreyan fairy tale, and he thought it wasn't even real.
- Speak of the Devil: Speaking of "The evil" inside The Blue Fire House will draw its attention to the four numbers.
- Sweet Tooth: The Doctor takes five sugars in his tea. When asked "Five!?" he adjusts the number to Six.
- Telepathy: Only in the domain of the Kalarash.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: #5 and #18, respectively.
- 20 Minutes into the Future: 2020.
- You Are Number 6: The guests of the hotel don't know their own names, so they refer to each other by their hotel number.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: Go out the door. What door? The door right behind you. See?
- Wham Line: WHERE AM I.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Everybody in the group is afraid of something.