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Kathryn Garivay
After losing Amy Pond and Rory Williams, the Eleventh Doctor has retired to Victorian England, where Strax, Jenny Flint, and Vastra assist him. The Doctor eventually meets Clara Oswald, and takes a liking to the young barmaid who leads a double life as a governess. At the same time, a sinister plot is unfolding; snowmen are randomly appearing around London, growing in size and power. All they need to take over the world is some human DNA in ice crystal form, and the frozen body of a drowned governess can give them just that.
Fifty years later, Walter Simeon is overseeing men as they carefully scrape snow from snowmen into glass jars. The jars are loaded into a carriage where they are driven to Walter Simeon's institute. Doctor Simeon carries one of the jars up to a large glass sphere filled with snow. He tells it that the last of the arrivals have been sampled. The same voice from the snowman speaks from within the sphere, saying the swarm is approaching, and that as humanity celebrates, it will end. It asks if the final piece is ready, and Simeon says it's in hand. The voice asks how he will keep his secrets from getting out from the men who helped him. Simeon says it's been taken care of, as he promised to feed them. Back at the work site, one of the men says that he doesn't see any food. Simeon says he does, and as the men look around, snowmen rise up. Simeon coldly says "I promised to feed you, but I didn't say who to."
Vastra, Strax and Jenny arrive, trapping the Ice Governess behind a force field. Strax then says Captain Latimer's office is a strategic place to make their stand and everyone hurries inside. After explaining Simeon's plan, which is to use the Ice Governess as a template to evolve the snowmen into an army of ice for Simeon to conquer Earth with, the Doctor orders everyone to stay in Latimer's office. However, Clara disobeys and kisses him in the hallway. After recovering from the surprise, the Doctor confronts Simeon at the front door. Simeon warns the Doctor that they have five minutes to give him the Ice Governess. The Doctor seizes an umbrella and uses his sonic screwdriver to deactivate the force field that trapped the Ice Governess. He and Clara sprint up the stairs towards the roof. At one point, Clara grabs the Doctor's hand and takes the lead, which the Doctor is unused to since he is usually the one who does the hand grabbing.
The Doctor uses the TARDIS to get Clara's body into Latimer's office where Strax uses alien technology to revive her. However, Clara's injuries are too severe, leaving her in a dying state. The Doctor asks Clara if she would travel with him and she agrees. He then storms out to face Simeon and his snowmen, brandishing a box which he claims contains the Ice Governess' shattered remains. He tells Simeon he'd "see [him] at the office", using the TARDIS to take himself and Vastra to Simeon's institute. Vastra wonders if the Doctor is making a bargain with the universe and the Doctor says that the universe owes him for all the times he has saved it, hoping that if he saves the world, the universe will allow Clara to live.
The Doctor has retired from saving people and uses his allies Vastra, Jenny, and Strax to keep people away from him while he lives in the clouds above Earth. In 1892, barmaid Clara Oswin Oswald follows the Doctor and the two of them are surrounded by snowmen created from snow with psychic properties. The Doctor realises that Clara's thoughts are creating the snowmen and ends the threat by instructing her to think of them melting.
The Doctor visits the Latimer family's pond. He realises that the Great Intelligence, the entity controlling a man called Dr Simeon since he was a boy and the snowmen, is using the old governess' body as a DNA blueprint to form an ice creature that will retain its form and not melt. While Clara puts Francesca to bed, the frozen body of the governess breaks into the house. The Doctor tries fleeing with Clara, but Clara is mortally wounded by the ice governess, which is also shattered before Simeon can get the blueprint.
The TARDIS on the cloud was achieved through a mix of fog on the studio floor and post-production special effects.[45] Director Saul Metzstein explained that it was difficult to achieve the desired look for the snowmen; the first ones he likened to Zippy from Rainbow which was too "cute" an appearance, and so the effects team created more menacing CGI faces.[47] Clara's introduction to the TARDIS introduced two novel effects for the show. The first was a single-shot camera tracking from a few feet away from the TARDIS to its interior, with the implication of the TARDIS's trans-dimensional nature shown to the audience.[45] In the following shot, the camera does a complete circle of the TARDIS console, an effect not seen since the early days of the show. Metzstein wanted to include this shot to further emphasize the "bigger on the inside than the outside" nature of the time machine.[47]
After losing Amy Pond and Rory Williams, the Eleventh Doctorhas retired to Victorian England, where Strax, Jenny Flint, andVastra assist him. The Doctor eventually meets Clara Oswald, and takes a liking to the young barmaid who leads a double life as a governess. At the same time, a sinister plot is unfolding; snowmen are randomly appearing around London, growing in size and power. All they need to take over the world is somehuman DNA in ice crystal form, and the frozen body of a drowned governess can give them just that.
(50 years later. The young boy is now a sour oldman watching men scraping bits of snow off snowmen with nasty toothygrins and into Kilner clip-top jars. He transports the jars back to theGI Institute and goes into a laboratory. There is a large globe on legsthree steps up on a dais, which also contains some snow. Electricitycrackles around the place.)
SIMEON: The last of the arrivals have been sampled.
SNOWMAN: The great swarm is approaching. As humanity celebrates, soshall it end. Will the final piece be ready?
SIMEON: It's in hand. I serve you in this, as in everything else.
(Walter Simeon spoons the snow from the jars into the globe.)
SNOWMAN: And do you keep my secrets, those men who helped us tonight?
SIMEON: It won't be a problem. I promised to feed them.
(Simeon stands on a balcony overlooking the yardfull of men.)
WORKER: Beg pardon, Doctor Simeon. It's been a long day. I don't seeany food here.
SIMEON: I do.
(Toothy snowmen rear up from the ground.)
WORKER: What is this?
SIMEON: I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to.
(A familiar looking young woman gathers emptytankards from the tables and takes the tray outside. There is a toothysnowman in the yard between the inn and the wash house. A man walkspast her.)
CLARA: Did you make this snowman?
DOCTOR: No.
CLARA: Well, who did? Because it wasn't there a second ago. It justappeared, from nowhere.
(The Doctor turns and comes back to examine it.)
DOCTOR: Maybe it's snow that fell before. Maybe it remembers how tomake snowmen.
CLARA: What, snow that can remember? That's silly.
DOCTOR: What's wrong with silly?
CLARA: Nothing. Still talking to you, ain't I?
DOCTOR: What's your name?
CLARA: Clara.
DOCTOR: Nice name. Clara. You should definitely keep it. Goodbye!
(Clara follows him around the corner.)
CLARA: Oi! Where are you going? I thought we was just gettingacquainted.
DOCTOR: Those were the days.
(The Doctor leaves. Clara starts to return to the inn, then changes hermind and runs after his brougham carriage. It's not a hansom becausethe driver is in front, not behind.)
(Simeon is being watched by a manservant withelectronic binoculars. Nearby, the Doctor's carriage is rocking.)
STRAX: They've taken samples from snowmen all over London. What do yousuppose they're doing in there?
(The manservant is a Sontaran.)
DOCTOR: This snow is new. Possibly alien. When you find something brandnew in the world, something you've never seen before, what's the nextthing you look for?
STRAX: A grenade.
DOCTOR: A profit. That's Victorian values for you.
STRAX: I suggest a full frontal assault with automated laser monkeys,scalpel mines and acid.
DOCTOR: Why?
STRAX: Couldn't we at least investigate?
DOCTOR: It's none of our business.
STRAX: Sir, permission to express my opposition to your current apathy?
DOCTOR: Permission granted.
CLARA [OC]: Let me out!
STRAX: Sir, I am opposed to your current apathy.
CLARA [OC]: Let me out!
DOCTOR: Thank you, Strax. And if ever I'm in need of advice from apsychotic potato dwarf, you'll certainly be the first to know.
STRAX: But if the snow is new and alien, shouldn't we be making someattempt to destroy it? Be reasonable.
CLARA [OC] Let me out!
DOCTOR: It is not our problem. Over a thousand years of saving theuniverse, Strax, you know the one thing I learned? The universe doesn'tcare.
CLARA [OC]: In this cab. Oi, Doctor! Let me out! Are you listening tome?
DOCTOR: Now, we have a problem of our own to worry about.
CLARA [OC]: Let me out!
(A short time later, Strax is under the carriage.)
DOCTOR: Well, can you see it?
STRAX: I think I can hear it.
(Clara giggles.)
DOCTOR: Oi, don't try to run away. Stay where you are.
CLARA: Why would I run? I know what's going to happen next and it'sfunny.
DOCTOR: What's funny?
CLARA: Well, your little pal, for a start. He's an ugly little fella,isn't he?
DOCTOR: Maybe. He gave his life for a friend of mine once.
CLARA: Then how come he's alive?
DOCTOR: Another friend of mine brought him back. I'm not sure all hisbrains made the return trip!
CLARA: Neither am I.
STRAX: I can see it.
DOCTOR: Ooo! Can you reach it? Have you got it?
STRAX: Got what, sir?
CLARA: Because these are the gauntlets, aren't they?
STRAX: Sir, emergency! I think I've been run over by a cab.
(The Doctor uses the gauntlets to get hold of a large white worm.)
DOCTOR: There you go. One touch and you lose about an hour of yourmemory. Let it bite you and you could lose decades.
(He puts it into a jar.)
DOCTOR: And you're still not trying to run.
CLARA: I don't understand how the snowman built itself. I'll run onceyou've explained.
DOCTOR: Clara who?
CLARA: Doctor who?
DOCTOR: Oh, dangerous question.
CLARA: What's wrong with dangerous?
(A snowman appears.)
DOCTOR: The snow emits a low level telepathic field.
CLARA: My snowman.
DOCTOR: It seems to reflect people's thoughts and memories and becauseit's unusual, somehow it carries a previous shape and
CLARA: No, Doctor. My snowman.
DOCTOR: Ah! Interesting. Well, were you thinking about it?
CLARA: Yes.
(Another one appears, then others.)
DOCTOR: Well, stop. Clara, stop thinking about the snowmen!
(The nearest snowman breaths snowflakes at them.)
DOCTOR: Get down! Clara, listen to me. The snow's feeding off yourthoughts.
CLARA: I don't understand.
DOCTOR: You're caught in their telepathic field. They're mirroring you.The more you think about the snowmen, the more they appear. Imaginethem melting. Picture it. Picture them melted!
(They get splashed with icy water. The snowmen are gone.)
DOCTOR: Well, very good. Very, very good. Ha!
CLARA: Is that going to happen again?
DOCTOR: Well, if it does, you know what to do about it.
CLARA: Unless I forget.
(The Doctor puts Clara into the carriage.)
DOCTOR: Don't come looking for me. Forget about me. You understand?
CLARA: What about the snow? Shouldn't we be warning people?
DOCTOR: Not my problem. Merry Christmas. Take her back where we foundher.
STRAX: Sir.
(Strax drives on, but Clara has already got out of the carriage. Shefollows the Doctor to -)