The primary two correct episodes (discounting the Christmas specials) of Physician Who season 14, starring Ncuti Gatwa because the Physician, have reached Disney Plus and BBC iPlayer, that means that viewers at the moment are in a position to dig deep and overanalyze all the things for clues about what’s to return. 

If there’s one factor that Whovians do very well, it’s trying beneath the floor to search out foreshadowing. This week, there’s one factor that’s received just a few followers speaking—The One Who Waits. This as-yet-unknown character was talked about throughout The Giggle, which aired again in December, however the moniker comes again up throughout this week’s second launched episode, The Satan’s Chord.

I’m going to hedge my bets and say that The One Who Waits isn’t a affirmation that Amy and Rory (the Physician’s companions from the time of the Eleventh Physician, portrayed by Matt Smith) are about to return. Sure, Rory was generally known as “the boy who waited”, which is a really related moniker, however not fairly the identical. 

Now that’s out of the way in which, there’s a concept floating round Twitter and different corners of the web concerning the identification of The One Who Waits. Buckle in as a result of this one is a little bit of a experience. 

Throughout The Satan’s Chord, throughout a dialogue with Ruby on a London rooftop, the Physician talks of his Granddaughter Susan, who he says is presently residing with a earlier model of himself on the opposite aspect of town. He additionally admits to Ruby that he presently doesn’t know what grew to become of Susan after the Genocide, which took the lives of all Time Lords besides himself. 

On the finish of The Satan’s Chord, earlier than we’re assaulted by a barely out-of-place track and dance quantity, the Physician breaks the fourth wall and winks on the digicam after saying, “There’s all the time a twist on the finish.” Nonetheless with me? Good.

Now, should you dig slightly deeper into the casting of this sequence, you’ll discover that there’s truly an actress referred to as Susan Twist within the forged, and that is the place issues begin to get actually attention-grabbing. Susan Twist has had a really quick cameo look in each single one in all Ncuti’s episodes thus far, one of many Christmas Specials with David Tennant, and, in accordance with the sneak peek clip that’s obtainable for the following episode, Increase, she’s in that one too.

I’ve raked by all the episodes thus far and pinpointed her character in all of them:

• Wild Blue Yonder 
  • Twist performs Mrs Merridew, who speaks to Isaac Newton earlier than he heads right down to the apple tree 
• The Church on Ruby Street 
  • She seems within the crowd on the pub the place Ruby is enjoying the keyboard, saying, “give it some welly!” earlier than asking for Gaudete, a Christmas carol from the sixteenth century, which might make sense if she was round on the time of Isaac Newton.
• House Infants
  • She performs Comms Officer Gina Scalzi, who seems on the monitor contained in the room the place Jocelyn is hiding
• The Satan’s Chord
  • Twist seems as one of many tea women in EMI Studios, which might later develop into Abbey Street Studios. She calls herself “Margaret Lockwood.”

In line with the forged checklist for Increase, which is written by Steven Moffat, Twist will seem once more, although her function is just referred to as “Ambulance”.

There are unconfirmed rumors that Twist will play an even bigger half in the way forward for the sequence, taking the additionally unconfirmed function of Susan Triad. She would be the head of an organization named Triad, which has already been name-dropped throughout the sixtieth anniversary particular, The Giggle when Mel Bush is trying to align the satellites. Bear in mind, that is an unconfirmed rumor, however I’m counting nothing out of risk.

So what’s the idea right here? Properly, we all know that The One Who Waits has some connection to each the Toymaker and Maestro, contemplating the obvious relation between the 2 and the truth that they each subject a warning to the Physician about The One Who Waits. It’s additionally been revealed, although within the Physician Who audiobooks fairly than the TV present, that the Toymaker has a sister who goes by the title of Hecuba.

Hecuba, in any other case generally known as “The Queen of Time”, would be capable to traverse by time so as to seem at any second, which might clarify why Twist’s characters by no means look as if they’ve aged, no matter what number of years previously or future she seems. It might make sense, then, to imagine that Hecuba, if that’s who this seems to be, has been ready a very long time to confront the Physician for no matter motive, probably in retaliation for what occurred to her brother. 

Whether or not or not this concept seems to be true stays to be seen, but it surely’s undoubtedly attention-grabbing to dive deep into Physician Who and discover the connections and even simply speculate. There’s no telling what might occur within the coming episodes, with Russell T Davies (who’s chargeable for writing the overwhelming majority of this season’s episodes) well-known for placing twists and turns in his writing.