Doctor Who Flux How The Master Can Kill The Doctor After The Timeless Child

Doctor Who: Flux – How The Master Can Kill The Doctor After The Timeless Child

Doctor Who: Flux’s finale hinted the Doctor, the Timeless Child, is functionally immortal – but that the Master could kill the Doctor in spite of it.

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Doctor Who Flux How The Master Can Kill The Doctor After The Timeless Child

This article contains spoilers for Doctor Who: Flux episode 6.

Doctor Who: Flux episode 6 has teased the possibility the Master could kill the Doctor once and for all, even though she is the Timeless Child. Current Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall’s run has rewritten the Doctor’s history and lore. Doctor Who season 12, episode 10 saw the Master reveal a sinister truth he had learned when raiding the Matrix, the repository of Time Lord knowledge on Gallifrey. He discovered the Doctor is not a Time Lord at all, but rather she is the Timeless Child, a being from another universe whose powers of regeneration led to her becoming the base genetic code for the entire Time Lord race.

Many viewers were taken aback at this revelation, not least because the Timeless Child retcon established the Doctor actually has an unlimited number of regenerations. Some viewers felt this turned the Doctor into something a little too godlike; immortal, invincible, apparently unkillable, able to live from the beginning of this universe to its end, and – given her multiversal origin – with the potential to outlive it by moving on to another universe. For all that’s the case, though, the dramatic ending of Doctor Who: Flux saw the avatar of Time itself warn the Doctor her death was imminent – and, apparently, a final death, with no regeneration this time. “Beware of the forces that mass against you,” Time told the Doctor, “and their Master.” It wasn’t exactly a subtle hint that the Master would return, with the means to kill the Doctor once and for all.

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There are two established ways of killing a Time Lord, preventing their regeneration. Given they work for Time Lords, they should be effective on the Timeless Child, as well. The first was revealed in the Matt Smith era, with season 6 focused on the Doctor’s imminent death at the hands of Doctor Who’s Professor River Song. As seen in “The Wedding of River Song,” additional killing blows struck during the regeneration process disrupt the process, resulting in death. Alternatively, the Peter Capaldi era established that the Doctor’s cells can be damaged to the point where regeneration becomes impossible; the Twelfth Doctor died countless times inside a Gallifreyan Confession Dial in “Heaven Sent,” although the process of death was agonizingly slow and took about a day and a half each time (the Doctor was later resurrected through other means).

The latter example is particularly instructive, because the Veil, the creature that killed the Doctor in “Heaven Sent,” was created to destroy a Time Lord’s ability to regenerate, and its properties clearly worked on the Doctor as well. The Master may well have knowledge of this incident – the Doctor Who’s Master has always loved raiding the Matrix, which is how he discovered the Timeless Child in the first place. That means he’s perfectly positioned to develop a weapon that could be used against the Doctor.

Time’s prophecy warns the Master will form an alliance against the Doctor. While it’s possible these will simply be pawns to keep the Doctor occupied, he may well have chosen allies for a reason; it’s possible they will help him develop the weapon he needs. In the past, the Master has had good reason to want the Doctor to stay alive. Historically, he’s been motivated more by a desire to demonstrate his superiority over his Time Lord rival than anything else. Now, though, he knows the Doctor is not just a Time Lord, and they can never be functional equals. The only way for the Master to demonstrate his dominance is to find a way to kill the Doctor – and Doctor Who: Flux seems to be suggesting he has a chance of achieving that goal.

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