'Doctor Who' Season 12, Episode 5: "Fugitive of the Judoon"
This week's Doctor Who begins in Gloucester. Ruth Clayton (Jo Martin), a 44-year-old married woman, just woke up on her birthday. It's a typical workday for her, trying to convince tourists to take her tour, while the local barista, Allan (Michael Begley), tries to persuade her to go on a date. It's a bit odd, since she's married, but Allan has a whole dossier on her husband, Lee (Neil Stuke), claiming he's not who he says he is. Ruth laughs his sad attempts at courtship off. But today is about to prove Allan's on to something.
Doctor: A platoon of Judoon near the moon? They can't do that.
It is a platoon of Judoon, and they've arrived near the lagoon by the Cathedral, where Ruth stations herself every day. Their arrival on Earth signals the Doctor in the TARDIS, distracting her from her secret continuing quest to find the Master and ask him more questions about what happened to Gallifrey. But Space rhinos are a trigger-happy lot, and before the Doctor can even get there, the Judoon have killed Ruth's friend Marcia (Judith Street) for her knitting weapon, and are marking all the humans, as they search out "a fugitive."
