Fresh from the death of his companion, the Doctor is teleported to a strange island prison with a monster always on view as it slowly searches the castle for him, waiting to catch and kill him. The Doctor can escape by telling a truth - confessing his secrets one by one as it seems, but some of his secrets he prefers to keep very close. Exploring each room, he soon learns that the rooms revert to their original state after he leaves them and they never change. He can buy himself eighty-two minutes to eat, sleep and explore the castle, searching for room twelve and looking for a way out by luring the monster to one side of the castle and then sprinting to the other.
But there are things that just don't add up. Clothes all dry and waiting for him after he dives out of a window into the water below, a buried piece of wood with a clue on it, skulls littering the bottom of the sea and the stars are all wrong. The Doctor eventually finds his TARDIS but a twenty foot wall of TARDIS material, harder than diamond, stands in the way. Beginning to break it down with his fist rather than give up that last secret, the monster comes up and kills the Doctor. Because Time Lords take so long to die, he crawls back to the teleport room and burns himself up to send down a new copy, beginning the process all over again.
When two billion years pass, the wall is finally weakened and the Doctor escapes, stepping out onto a world he thought he would never see again and telling that last great secret to his confession dial, nestled safely in his hand. He was heaven sent and is now hell bent on destruction.
This was a surprisingly pretty cool episode and had a wonderful twist at the end. I can't wait for the final episode now!
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