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Show Notes
“There’s some lovely filth over here, Dennis,” is a line not spoken in this episode, but perhaps it should be.
Simon and Eugene discuss the Witchfinders.
Episode Synopsis:
Doc and the Gang arrive in Lancashire just in time for the dunking of an old woman, an accused witch, and despite the Doctor warning her gang not to interfere with history, once again her companions…. Oh, wait, this time the Doctor interferes, but it is too late. The old women has drowned. #Sad But at least she wasn’t a witch.
At first, the Doctor passes herself off as King James’ Witchfinder General to Becka Savage, the local landlord, but then, in one of those awkward moments, King James turns up and it appears her cover is blown, but King James accepts the story with one minor correction: Obviously as a woman, the Doctor can only be the WitchFinder General’s assistant. Graham is taken to be the Witchfinder General. Luckily, King James doesn’t appear to know the people he has appointed to office.
The Doctor discovers that Becka has been purging the village of suspected witches for months and her fervor is unabated. King James is equally as fervent and they set out to save the entire village’s souls, even if it means killing them all.
Yas discovers that the women who have been killed have been resurrected as Mud Zombies – animated corpses, filled with alien mud.
As the Doctor’s investigations bring her increasingly in conflict with Becka, she finds herself accused of witchcraft. Finally, the gang must wield torches and go on a hunt to end the menace that threatens to fill the world with mud.