The Doctor and Clara are captured by Viking warriors.

In the Viking village, the Doctor and Clara meet Ashildr.

Clara asks Ashildr to use what’s left of the sonic shades to free her from her shackles.

The Doctor looks up to the space warriors’ ship, where Clara has been taken.

Odin insists he has no reason to fear Clara.

Ashildr challenges Odin and his warriors to a battle.

“How many people here have actually held a sword in battle?”

The Doctor has a plan and it’s a doozy… But is everyone convinced?

The Mire’s faces are revealed when they lose their helmets.

Ashildr, the creator of a story to save a town.

Ashildr uses one of the Mire’s helmets to show them a story they’ll never forget.

The Doctor and Clara hide as Odin and the Mire come face-to-face with a false reality.

The Mire retreat and leave Odin to face the villagers alone.

The Doctor with Ashildr’s monstrosity – the puppet that helped save the village.

…And realises there is a way he can save Ashildr.

The villagers celebrate as Ashildr is revived.

Clara gives Odin a sneak preview of the recording of the Mire’s humiliating retreat.

The Doctor recalls a moment from his tenth incarnation…

Ashildr has saved the village but lost her life.

Synopsis:

Captured by Vikings, the Doctor and Clara must help protect their village from Space Warriors from the future: the Mire. Outnumbered and outgunned, their fate seems inevitable. So why is the Doctor preoccupied with a single Viking girl?  

“The Girl Who Died” was written by Jamie Mathieson (Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline), directed by Ed Bazalgette (Poldark) and produced by Derek Ritchie (Before the Flood).

‘Doctor Who’ Series 9 airs Saturdays on BBC America at 9pm.