Doctor Who
S22E13
· Revelation of the Daleks Part 2

Natasha and Grigory trapped then exterminated

Natasha and Grigory, chained prisoners in the Incubation Room, sense a fleeting chance for escape but find the door sealed shut. Grigory’s idle commentary about a grenade underscores their helplessness—any escape attempt is impossible inside the claustrophobic chamber. Before their doomed hopes can solidify, a hovering Dalek materializes and executes them in a sudden, mechanical slaughter. Their violent extermination catalyzes the room’s hidden systems, triggering an explosive implosion that destroys the chamber and the tyrant’s sinister designs within it. Their brief rebellion becomes a bloody footnote in Davros’s failed technology’s catastrophic end.

Plot Beats

The narrative micro-steps within this event

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Natasha suggests escaping, but Grigory hesitates, discussing the possibility of using a grenade.

urgency to hesitation

Natasha reiterates the need to escape, but it's too late as the door is locked and a Dalek kills them.

urgency to fatalism

A Dalek explodes after killing Natasha and Grigory.

Who Was There

Characters present in this moment

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Supreme Dalek Commander
Supreme Commander
 primary

Emotionless and purely functional, acting in accordance with its programming to eliminate threats

The Dalek Supreme materializes in the chamber without warning, hovering ominously above the prisoners before exterminating them in a single, mechanical act. Its presence is abrupt and absolute, embodying the regime’s ruthless enforcement.

Goals in this moment
  • • Enforce Dalek authority by eliminating prisoners
  • • Maintain control by demonstrating power
Active beliefs
  • • That all life outside Dalek mandate is expendable
  • • That order and control are paramount
Character traits
Ruthless Precise Inexorable Mechanical
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Grigory
primary

Anxious and resigned, oscillating between fleeting hope and despair as he recognizes the futility of escape

Grigory, a prisoner and medic, nervously remarks about the grenade’s absence while trapped alongside Natasha. His practical observation betrays helplessness and futility, and he exhibits visible stress through nervous commentary before the Dalek’s intervention.

Goals in this moment
  • • Find a means of escape
  • • Survive the immediate threat
Active beliefs
  • • That tools or external help would solve their predicament
  • • That the Daleks or their regime have absolute control
Character traits
Nervous Practically minded Self-deprecating Helpless in final moments
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Natasha Stengos
primary

Frustrated but determined initially, shifting to fearful resignation when faced with the Dalek’s sudden appearance

Natasha, a prisoner chained in the Incubation Room, makes desperate pleas for escape, repeating her urgency despite the locked door. Her defiance is overt but powerless in the face of mechanized tyranny, her tone escalating from pleading to command.

Goals in this moment
  • • Escape the chamber
  • • Survive the immediate threat
Active beliefs
  • • That escape is achievable through sheer will
  • • That resistance is necessary even in impossible situations
Character traits
Desperate Defiant Focused on escape Resigned in final moments
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Objects Involved

Significant items in this scene

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Andalucían Hacienda Ice House Trapdoor and Rungs

The locked door of the Incubation Room serves as an impassable barrier, trapping Natasha and Grigory within the chamber. Its failure to open underscores the prisoners’ helplessness despite their desperate situation.

Before: Sealed shut with no visible means of opening
After: Unchanged, though its irrelevance becomes total after the …
Before: Sealed shut with no visible means of opening
After: Unchanged, though its irrelevance becomes total after the room’s destruction

Location Details

Places and their significance in this event

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Davros's Hybrid Incubation Chamber

The Incubation Room functions as a claustrophobic prison for Natasha and Grigory, its confined space amplifying their desperation and making escape seem momentarily possible only to cruelly deny it. Its hidden systems respond to violence with catastrophic implosion.

Atmosphere Oppressive with a sense of suffocating inevitability, the air thick with unspoken terror and mechanical …
Function Inescapable confinement chamber where prisoners await execution
Symbolism Embodies the inescapable reach of Dalek control and the hubris of corrupt scientific ambition
Access Restricted to authorized personnel only, with no natural means of egress for prisoners
Reinforced walls curved around rows of incubation tanks Dull emergency lighting casting dangerous shadows

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Key Dialogue

"NATASHA: Let's get out of here."
"GRIGORY: If only we had a grenade, we could deal with. It's gone. It can't be far. We would have heard it leave, wouldn't we?"
"NATASHA: Let's get out of here."