

Meanwhile, Bill, in communication with the Doctor, joins the military leaders as they offer to surrender. Inside the TARDIS, Nardole collapses unconscious. The TARDIS arrives, but the Doctor sends Nardole back for his safety, unaware that he has been contaminated.
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Through a series of inconsequential events, two scientists have accidentally created a super-bacterium capable of breaking down all living organisms, and it is about to be vented into the atmosphere. Bill stays behind as the Doctor and Nardole travel in the TARDIS to the lab. He and Nardole find several laboratories performing bacterial work and briefly override their internal camera systems to determine which one the Monks are watching. The Doctor realises the Monks are misdirecting them to believe a military disaster is imminent, and instead suspects the threat is biological. The Secretary-General offers his consent, but the Monks disintegrate him, saying he gave it out of fear, not "love". The Doctor warns that this consent would have unknown but everlasting consequences. They offer humanity their help to stop a pending cataclysmic disaster, but only if they "consent". Using the computer running their simulations (" Extremis"), the Monks show that the Earth will become lifeless within a year. The Doctor, Bill, and Nardole soon join the leaders as they negotiate with the Monks. The Doctor has the military leaders use coordinated attacks on the Monks, as a show of strength, but the Monks easily deflect them. The Monks who occupy the pyramid cause every clock in the world to display a time counting down to midnight in the manner of the Doomsday Clock. The Doctor is still blind (" Oxygen"), a secret he is keeping from Bill. The Secretary-General of the United Nations recruits the Twelfth Doctor, as President of Earth, to help. ( August 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī five-thousand year old pyramid appears overnight in a disputed area of Turmezistan between American, Russian, and Chinese forces. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This episode's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. It is the second of three loosely connected episodes called "The Monks Trilogy". The Doctor ( Peter Capaldi) investigates how a pyramid appeared in Turmezistan overnight and confronts an ancient enemy ready to destroy humanity.


"The Pyramid at the End of the World" received generally positive reviews from television critics. It was written by Peter Harness and Steven Moffat and broadcast on on BBC One. " The Pyramid at the End of the World" is the seventh episode of the tenth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present) Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo – Penny (uncredited).
