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Piano music plays from within as the Doctor enters to have dinner with the prisoner inside. The group escapes the house before it collapses in on itself.īack at the university, the Doctor offers to take over watch of the vault from Nardole. Being able to control the Dryads, Eliza takes the Landlord into a hug, over his objections, and thanks the Doctor before having the Dryads consume them, while also reconstituting all of Bill's friends. Eliza is dismayed to find she has been 'living' for so long without an actual life outside the house. Since then, the Landlord has controlled the Dryads to keep Eliza well while signing on new tenants to become the Dryads' source of nourishment. When they heard a high-pitched sound from her music box, they awoke and started turning Eliza to wood to stave off her illness. As a boy, he had brought his terminally-ill mother some dormant Dryads he found, unaware of their power. The Doctor determines that the Landlord is actually Eliza's son, a memory long forgotten. The Doctor and Bill converge on the tower, finding Eliza's body is now made completely of wood. The Landlord arrives and admits that he needs the Dryads to keep his daughter Eliza alive in the tower.Įliza, on display at a Doctor Who exhibition The Doctor and Harry soon find evidence that every twenty years, a new set of students have been brought to the house to feed the Dryads.

They are responsible for drawing the others into the woodwork prior to consuming them.

The Doctor discovers the house's woodwork infested with insect-like creatures he calls Dryads. Bill and Shireen see Pavel half-absorbed in the wall, and the Landlord appears, striking a tuning fork which causes Pavel to disappear completely. All the exits from the house are sealed tight, preventing any of them from leaving and separating the remaining ones. As night falls, the knocking noises grow, and Bill's friends start to disappear. The Landlord, however, evades the question and leaves. Suspicious of him, the Doctor tests him by asking who the Prime Minister is and names several, including Harriet Jones. Later, the Landlord mysteriously appears, ostensibly to check on the students.

The Doctor inserts himself among Bill's friends by posing as her grandfather, to Bill's consternation, and is troubled by the numerous noises the house makes. Bill gets the Twelfth Doctor to help with her move. 'Knock Knock' received mixed to positive reviews from critics, receiving criticism regarding the strength of the writing, but praise on the quality of the performances in the story, particularly Suchet's.īill Potts ( Pearl Mackie) and her friends rent a house to live in after a recommendation from its landlord, played by guest star David Suchet, but the Doctor ( Peter Capaldi) notices something wrong with the house when the floor and the walls creak and creatures come crawling out of the wood.īill and five students (Shireen, Pavel, Harry, Felicity and Paul), seeking to room together, take an offer by an elderly Landlord for a large mansion at very low cost, as long as they do not enter the tower. It was written by Mike Bartlett and was broadcast on on BBC One.

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' Knock Knock' is the fourth episode of the tenth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)