The Pyramid at the End of the World
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| Directed by | Daniel Nettheim | ||||
| Written by | Peter Harness and Steven Moffat | ||||
| Produced by | Peter Bennett | ||||
| Executive producer(s) | Steven Moffat Brian Minchin |
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| Incidental music composer | Murray Gold | ||||
| Series | Series 10 | ||||
| Length | 46 minutes | ||||
| Originally broadcast | 27 May 2017 | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Rotten Tomatoes (Tomatometer) | 85% |
| Rotten Tomatoes (Average Score) | 7.75 |
| The A.V. Club | B |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
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| TV Fanatic |  |
| IndieWire | B- |
| IGN | 8/10 |
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"The Pyramid at the End of the World" is the seventh episode of the tenth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is written by Peter Harness and Steven Moffat and was broadcast on 27 May 2017 on BBC One. "The Pyramid at the End of the World" received generally positive reviews from television critics.
The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) investigates how a pyramid appeared in Turmezistan overnight and confronts an ancient enemy ready to destroy humanity. It is the second of three loosely connected episodes called "The Monks Trilogy".
A five-thousand year old pyramid appears overnight in a disputed area of Turmezistan between American, Russian, and Chinese forces. The Secretary-General of the United Nations recruits the Doctor, as President of Earth, to help. The Doctor is still blind ("Oxygen"), a secret he is keeping from Bill.
The Monks who occupy the pyramid cause every clock in the world to display a time counting down to midnight in the manner of the Doomsday Clock. The Doctor has the military leaders use coordinated attacks on the Monks, as a show of strength, but the Monks easily deflect them. The Doctor, Bill, and Nardole soon join the leaders as they negotiate with the Monks. Using the computer running their simulations ("Extremis"), the Monks show that the Earth will become lifeless within a year. They offer humanity their help to stop a pending cataclysmic disaster, but only if they "consent". The Doctor warns that this consent would have unknown but everlasting consequences. The Secretary-General offers his consent, but the Monks disintegrate him, saying he gave it out of fear, not "love".
The Doctor realises the Monks are misdirecting them to believe a military disaster is imminent, and instead suspects the threat is biological. He and Nardole find several laboratories performing bacterial work and briefly override their internal camera systems to determine which one the Monks are watching. Bill stays behind as the Doctor and Nardole travel in the TARDIS to the lab.
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