“Doctor Who” Season 8 continues this weekend as The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) encounter one of the show’s oldest foes: The Daleks.
Showrunner Steven Moffat is co-writing the second episode of the season with Phil Ford, which is appropriately enough called “Into the Dalek.” BBC has also released a short synopsis of the episode, which hints at a potential game-changer for the Daleks.
“A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and only the Doctor can help them now… With the Doctor facing his greatest enemy, he needs Clara by his side. Confronted with a decision that could change the Daleks forever he is forced to examine his conscience. Will he find the answer to the question, ‘am I a good man?’”
This episode is also going to introduce Samuel Anderson (“Gavin & Stacey”) as Danny Pink, Clara’s new love interest and a potential new companion for the Doctor down the line. In the first of this week’s three preview scenes, Danny and Clara meet for the first time at Coal Hill School
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In the second preview clip, the Doctor brings Clara into his current crisis and they get a first hand look at a Dalek that is so badly damaged that it has become something… else.
And finally, the third clip focuses on a dark moment between the Doctor and Clara as neither of them can definitively answer the Doctor’s question about who he is.
“Doctor Who” Season 8 Episode 2 will premiere on BBC America on Saturday, August 30.
