Doctor Who will never be the same again after season 12 twist - digitalspy.com

Note: This article contains major spoilers for the second episode of Doctor Who season 12.

While Doctor Who's eleventh (new) season mixed things up by introducing a female lead, few could have predicted that season twelve would change the show in an even more fundamental way.

Even if we did have a TARDIS to hand, there would still be no going back from what we just learned in the second half of Spyfall — and it's got everything to do with what The Master revealed in the final moments of season twelve's opening two-parter:

"Everything you think you know is a lie."

These game-changing words previously made us wonder if this "lie" was linked somehow to The Timeless Child mystery set up last season... and this week's episode confirmed that to be true in even more startling ways than we could have predicted.

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The big moment arrives towards the end of Spyfall part two after The Master reveals that the planet Gallifrey has been "pulverised, burned, nuked... all of the above." Upon regaining access to her TARDIS, the Doctor visits her home world to see if her old friend was telling the truth, and unfortunately, he was.

Gallifrey is now essentially a burning pile of rubble, and there's no sign of life anywhere.

Devastated, the Doctor starts to head back home, but she's interrupted by a hologram left by The Master that's automatically set off by her presence.

In the recording, her arch-nemesis reveals that he's the one who destroyed the Time Lords, and the reason why must have come as a surprise to even the most hardcore Whovian:

"I had to make them pay for what I discovered. They lied to us. The founding fathers of Gallifrey. Everything we were told is a lie. We are not who we think, you or I."

The specifics of the Doctor's past and her time on Gallifrey are somewhat shrouded in mystery, but still, the news leaves her visibly shaken, much like viewers must have felt watching this unfold back home.

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But wait, there's more! The Master then goes on to explain the "lie" he referred to in the season-twelve premiere:

"The whole existence of our species is built on the lie of The Timeless Child. Do you see it? It's deep in all of our memories, our identity."

As The Master says these words, the Doctor flashes back to when clairvoyant monsters called The Remnants first freaked her out with mention of The Timeless Child last season.

Those creatures referred to the Child as something "hidden, even from yourself," and The Master echoes that idea here by implying that this mystery has been buried in the Doctor's subconscious all along.

At this point, The Master could have revealed at least a tad more information. After all, we've been waiting a long time to hear more on The Timeless Child, but as we all know by now, he's not exactly an agreeable sort, is he?

"I'd tell you more, but why would I make it easy for you? It wasn't for me."

After briefly dangling this enigma before us without any kind of resolution last season, showrunner Chris Chibnall has now made The Timeless Child a central component of the show.

But who is The Timeless Child? Could it be one of the two remaining Time Lords?

With every other member of her race now dead – not timelocked, not in a pocket universe, dead – it won't be easy for The Doctor to find the answers that she seeks. Everything that she's ever been told is a lie, which means that everything we've been told is a lie too, changing everything we thought we knew about the good Doctor and therefore the show as a whole.

Doctor Who returns on New Year's Day on BBC One in the UK and BBC America in the US.

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