'Doctor Who' Season 12, Episode 7 Recap: "Can You Hear Me?"

This week's Doctor Who begins in 1380, Aleppo, and Tahira (Aruhan Galieva) is rushing home. But the hospital where she lives it beset by alien creatures. She's tried to warn Maryam (Sirine Saba), but no one believes her, until its too late. Meanwhile, the Doctor has taken her fam home to present-day Sheffield for a 24-hour visit home. But as soon as her friends disembark, a figure appears in the dark (Ian Gelder). (Torchwood fans, you recognize him.) He dematerializes almost instantly, just as the TARDIS flashes up a warning about Aleppo. Figuring she's got time to nip off and see, and be back by tomorrow lunchtime for the pickup, the Doctor takes off.

The Doctor: I've got plans crashing through m brain all the time. You want a plan? Come to me. Identifying which plan's going to work? That's the tricky bit.

Yaz heads home for lunch with her sister, Sonya. Ryan pops round to see his buddy Tibo (Buom Tihngang), only to discover his mate's gotten right paranoid since they last saw each other. And Graham heads over for a spot of cards with his mates, but as he deals out the cards, visions of the Time Vortex, planets, and a woman (Clare-Hope Ashitey) crying, flood his brain. She whispers: "This is what he did to me. Help me." And he's not the only one seeing things. Tibo's been having nightmares, someone in the dark is watching him. He's seen a man around the neighborhood, watching him from street corners, who has even appeared in his flat.