The crew of an underwater mining base are under siege from ghostly figures after recovering an alien spacecraft.
The Doctor and Clara arrive to help but are separated. After the Doctor takes the TARDIS back in time to effect a rescue, Clara spots a new ghost floating outside the window: the Doctor himself. Is the Time Lord doomed?
Old school scares
If the opening two-parter was a nod to old Davros/Dalek stories gone by, then Under the Lake sets its stall out to provide old school scares in the form of a base-under-siege adventure.
The writer/director team of Toby Whithouse and Daniel O’Hara, past collaborators on Whithouse’s series Being Human, work well together to produce a taut, claustrophobic atmosphere which ramps up… Read the full story