Plot Sleep No More (Doctor Who)

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the sandmen, shown @ doctor experience.


they take safety in lab filled large pods, , discover rassmussen. explains testing next iteration of morpheus, device uses electrical impulses brain compress month s worth of sleep few minutes, when sandmen appeared , devoured rest of crew. chopra notes morpheus controversial , has refused use it. doctor suspects morpheus , sandmen connected, latter formed rheum. sandmen flood room , appear consume rassmussen; others escape when fluctuation in station s gravity shielding temporarily disintegrates sandmen.


chopra, deep-ando, , 474 killed during escape. in safety, doctor monitors sandmen , realises blind , receiving type of video signal, views through sonic sunglasses. video shows various points-of-view of chopra, , doctor confirms sandmen being controlled morpheus signal.


they make way ship rassmussen alive, trapping them in room sandman. rassmussen plans use ship return triton , release morpheus there. doctor engineers escape , forces gravity shielding fail while nagata kills rassmussen, sending station , ship neptune. doctor comments situation seems contrived them have been in real danger before leave in tardis.


aboard ship, rassmussen reveals viewer sandman, being affected gravity well. before disintegrating, rassmussen explains wanted assure video viewer watching seen others, glitches contain morpheus signal , allow spread.


continuity

when debating clara naming creatures, doctor mutters s silurians on again , referring old adversary first appeared in doctor , silurians.


according writer mark gatiss, doctor s mention of great catastrophe befell humankind referring collision between earth , sun described in season 21 serial frontios.


outside references

the title in reference shakespeare play, macbeth: sleep no more! macbeth murder sleep doctor quotes during episode.


clara asks if morpheus machine named after morpheus, god of dreams. morpheus hologram uses term in arms of morpheus , phrase meaning in deep sleep.


the morpheus machine theme song, mr. sandman , popularized group chordettes among others in 1954.


those chopra refuse compress sleep via morpheus process referred rips —a reference short story rip van winkle washington irving.








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