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"Has everybody missed the obvious visual clue here?\n\nThe Doctor in this episode is wearing the 'minimal magician' buttoned up white shirt ensemble of season 8. Suggesting this story takes place diagetically BEFORE <i> Magician's Apprentice</i>.\n\nThe events of the following episodes (which going by the trailer and the mood of the Doctor will be harrowing) will result in him adopting the 'scruffy hoodie' outfit seen throughout season 9 so far.\n\nClara's reaction here to the Doctor producing the Confession Dial suggests this is the first time she's seen it.\n\nSo my suspicion which I've held since the first two parter is that this whole season will somehow be cyclic. Clara's already dead as far as the Doctor's concerned and has been all season. He will agonize for a whole episode in Heaven Sent and go back in time to try to prevent it in Hell Bent which is where we pick him up in Magician's Apprentice, in hiding.\n\nThe way he is so pleased to see her, the encharacteristic hug he gives her and the constant references to losing her and her death are also clues.\n\nThe question is, will the Doctor be able to rewrite time by 'curing' Clara of her reckless bravery before it kills her?"
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