Paradise Ending Explained: Who Killed Wildcat and What’s Next for Season 2?

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Mundy Flynn will be acknowledged. In the first full trailer for Doctor Who’s next series (number 15 or season two, depending on how you’re counting), we see Varada Sethu’s new companion Belinda Chandra looking puzzled at a picture of herself on the TARDIS scanner.

She’s right to look puzzled, because the picture is of Mundy Flynn, the ordained Anglican marine character Sethu played in a series 14 episode. (And because Doctor Who loves an Easter Egg, when Belinda correctly identifies the TARDIS as a time machine later on in the trailer, the Doctor responds with “Boom!” – the name of that very episode.)

“There’s something already connecting us,” says the Doctor in voiceover as we see a clip of Flynn introducing herself. Evidently. And we’re about to find out what that is, starting from Saturday April 12, with new episodes available from 8am on BBC iPlayer followed by a BBC One broadcast that evening in the UK, and streaming from 12:00 am PST in the US and around the world on Disney+.

Here’s the first full trailer:

With glimpses of multiple new episodes, locations, monsters, and guest stars plus the return of familiar faces from UNIT’s Kate Lethbridge Stewart and Mel Bush to Anita Dobson’s Mrs Flood and Millie Gibson’s Ruby Sunday, here are a few of the trailer’s major talking points.

Belinda “the Nurse” Chandra

Judging by the nondescript contemporary bedroom in which Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) wakes up in the first seconds of the trailer, the new companion is another human from roughly, now. What though, is behind the flashing lights that have roused her from her IKEA bed in the middle of the night?

We see Belinda later fiddling with what looks like a saline drip and responding to the Doctor’s customary introduction that his name is “Just the Doctor” with the line, “Alright then, I’m called the Nurse.” Is she another medical companion to follow in Martha Jones’ footsteps?

She seems to be a reluctant companion, at least to begin with, telling the Doctor, “I am not one of your adventures” and demanding that he take her home, which he promises to do, albeit “the long way around”. But mysterious forces are stopping that from happening…

New Monsters

While the Doctor’s voiceover reminds us of the recurring theme that “there are forces beyond this universe” and vast creatures looking down on us, we see UNIT boss Kate Lethbridge Stewart walking along what looks like a high-security UNIT corridor as a slimy monster contained in one of its cells slams against the viewing window. Shudder.

At 0:16, a leggy skeleton dinosaur-ish creature towers above some rooftops, followed by a silhouetted spiny creature at 1:18 that’s seen reaching a bony hand onto the shoulder of guest star Jonah Hauer King as Ruby Sunday explains, “It wants you scared… Because it likes the taste.” At 1:34, there’s a giant spider creature that’s more robotic-looking than a Racnoss, but just as likely to haunt children’s nightmares.

Add to that the already-revealed “Mr Ring-a-Ding”, a 1950s cartoon character who steps out of the screen and into the real world, plus, at 1:07, a ghostly mask that could well come from episode five, which is thought to guest-star Rose Ayling-Ellis and is being touted by showrunner Russell T Davies as the scariest episode they’ve ever made.

Space Eurovision

If they’ve timed this just right, then the Eurovision-themed episode (rumoured to have been written by new screenwriter Juno Dawson), which guest-stars TV presenter Rylan Clark will air on the same day as the actual contest this year on Saturday May 17. In the trailer, Clark is seen standing alongside a feline co-host played by French actor Julie Dray, and welcoming a huge crowd to “the Interstellar Song Contest”, in the audience of which is a certain someone…

Mrs Flood Returns

“I love a good show,” says Anita Dobson’s mysterious recurring character Mrs Flood in the crowd of the Eurovision episode. Probably just a fun night out for the girl, nothing malevolent or Doctor’s granddaughter-ish or Masterly to see here (?).

Speaking of returning formidable women, it looks as though Mel Bush (Bonnie Langford) has shaken off last series’ Sutekh possession and has dropped the ritualistic robes for a nice cardigan in her trailer appearance, in which she looks absolutely bloo