But with series 13 apparently set to continue the arc<\/a>, it\u2019s time to delve back in with a quick recap. Remember Tecteun, the Boundary, The Division and Brendan the Guard? No? Well you soon will\u2026<\/p> The Doctor! Or rather, a much earlier version of her. As revealed by The Master (Sacha Dhawan) in The Timeless Children, the founding myths of Gallifrey were all lies. In reality, a traveller from Gallifrey called Tecteun discovered a young girl under a gateway, described as \u201ca boundary into another unknown dimension or universe.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s assumed that the young girl was \u201cthrown through, seemingly, from the other unknown realm,\u201d and Tecteun adopts the foundling and (after some other travels) ends up taking her back to Gallifrey.<\/p>\n But the child had some secrets to yield. After falling off a cliff while playing with a friend, the child regenerates into a new form \u2013 and upon seeing this, Tecteun becomes obsessed with understanding and replicating her ability. After many years (and regenerations for the child) she nails it, regenerating herself and eventually splicing this ability into every Gallifreyan, spawning the sub-species of Time Lords (they also, separately, discovered time travel).<\/p>\n Altogether, this means that the Doctor is the source code for every Time Lord in existence \u2013 the ability to regenerate wouldn\u2019t exist without her. But her wider past remains unknown, including where she\u2019s originally from or why she had the ability in the first place.<\/p>\n Also introduced in series 12, the Division are presented as a kind of Time Lord Black Ops unit, working behind-the-scenes to influence the universe despite the Time Lords\u2019 strict non-interference policy.<\/p>\n In Fugitive of the Judoon<\/a>, we meet one of their operatives (Ritu Arya\u2019s Gat) and learn that an earlier version of the Doctor (played by Jo Martin) used to work for them, before eventually going off-grid and hiding as a human to escape them.<\/p>\n Later, in the series 12 finale we see the Doctor joining the Division, a history hidden under disguised memories of a young Irish man (remember Brendan?) who devotes years of service to the cause of law and order before being subjected to a strange, painful memory-wiping procedure. The Master suggests these Brendan scenes were a kind of code sent to the Doctor by her adoptive parent Tecteun, and they might offer clues as to her true self.<\/p>\n More generally, it\u2019s implied the Division\u2019s methods are morally dubious and violent, and the group may have died out before the Doctor\u2019s \u201ccurrent\u201d series of regenerations began \u2013 but because they use time travel, there\u2019s no reason to think they couldn\u2019t still bother Jodie Whittaker\u2019s current incarnation as well.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not been shown directly, but the Timeless Children heavily implies that after years of working for The Division (and presumably some time after the life of the Jo Martin Doctor) the Doctor has her memory wiped and is forced back into the body of a child, knowing nothing of her life before that point.<\/p>\n This means that for the first time, the Doctor doesn\u2019t know her whole past, and in 2021 New Year\u2019s Special Revolution of the Daleks<\/a> she vows to investigate, finding out more about her former life and what she\u2019s ultimately responsible for.<\/p>\n As noted, clues were given in visions of an Irishman named Brendan (above) who joins the Guards (the Irish police service), only to be betrayed by his father and mentor and have his memories removed when he leaves his job.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been confirmed that the storyline will be picked up in series 13 (aka Doctor Who: Flux), and it raises all sorts of intriguing possibilities, as Whittaker\u2019s Doctor said herself during the Timeless Children.<\/p>\n \u201cWere you me all that time ago?\u201d she says to a projection of Jo Martin\u2019s earlier Doctor. \u201cWere all my memories of you erased?<\/p>\n \u201cHow many more of me are out there?\u201d<\/p>\n These questions, presumably, are what we\u2019ll see answered before Whittaker regenerates into a new Doctor in 2022. It\u2019s possible we\u2019ll see the return of Martin\u2019s Doctor, alongside other \u201clost\u201d incarnations (the so-called Morbius Doctors<\/a>, pictured, got a nod in the series 12 finale) as well as some big reveals about where the Doctor\u2019s actually from.<\/p>\n In other words, it\u2019s more or less the endgame for the Jodie Whittaker\/Chris Chibnall era of the show. Though how it fits in with the Flux, the Ravagers, the Weeping Angels and the Sontarans is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n Doctor Who: Flux airs on BBC One on Sundays. For more, check out our dedicated Sci-Fi<\/a> page or our full TV Guide<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Huw Fullerton Published: Sunday, 31 October 2021 at 12:00 am It\u2019s been a while since Doctor Who revealed the big twists of its Timeless Child storyline, and fans would be forgiven if they couldn\u2019t remember every detail so many months on from series 12 finale The Timeless Children. But with series 13 apparently set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6502,"template":"","categories":[5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/doctor-whos-timeless-child-story-a-recap.jpg",1000,666,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/doctor-whos-timeless-child-story-a-recap-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/doctor-whos-timeless-child-story-a-recap-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/doctor-whos-timeless-child-story-a-recap-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/doctor-whos-timeless-child-story-a-recap.jpg",800,533,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/doctor-whos-timeless-child-story-a-recap.jpg",1000,666,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/doctor-whos-timeless-child-story-a-recap.jpg",1000,666,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Huw Fullerton Published: Sunday, 31 October 2021 at 12:00 am It\u2019s been a while since Doctor Who revealed the big twists of its Timeless Child storyline, and fans would be forgiven if they couldn\u2019t remember every detail so many months on from series 12 finale The Timeless Children. But with series 13 apparently set…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/6501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Who is the Timeless Child?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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