<Tr> <Th> 270 </Th> <Td> 6 </Td> <Td> "Extremis" </Td> <Td> Daniel Nettheim </Td> <Td> Steven Moffat </Td> <Td> 20 May 2017 (2017 - 05 - 20) </Td> <Td> 5.53 </Td> <Td> 82 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> A long time ago, the Doctor is sent to execute Missy, only to have Nardole interrupt on the behest of River Song . The Doctor refuses to kill Missy, instead opting to imprison and guard her for 1000 years . In the present, the Pope comes to the Doctor, asking to help translate a text called "Veritas". Everyone who has read it has committed suicide, and the Doctor, Nardole, and Bill are brought to the Vatican to investigate . While there, Bill and Nardole discover a portal which leads them to the Pentagon . They find the portals being projected lead to different locations all over the world . The Doctor temporarily restores his sight using Time Lord technology, but is ambushed by aliens . Nardole realizes the projectors are not projecting portals, but the whole world . His realization causes him to dematerialize . Bill finds the Doctor, who tells her the world is a simulation, and Veritas contains the proof . Bill then disappears due to the alien's intervention, the Doctor realizing this is a test to see if they can conquer the Earth . However, the simulation is too exact, as his sonic sunglasses still work perfectly, and the virtual Doctor sends his information to the real Doctor warning of the coming invasion . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 271 </Th> <Td> 7 </Td> <Td> "The Pyramid at the End of the World" </Td> <Td> Daniel Nettheim </Td> <Td> Peter Harness and Steven Moffat </Td> <Td> 27 May 2017 (2017 - 05 - 27) </Td> <Td> 5.79 </Td> <Td> 82 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> The Doctor is called in by the Secretary - General of the U.N. after a pyramid mysteriously appears on the strategic border of the Russian, Chinese and U.S. armies . It is revealed the Monks are responsible for the pyramid and that they have forseen a disaster through their simulations, offering an opportunity to save humanity if they consent to their rule . Elsewhere in a biochemical lab, a scientist accidentally misreads the levels of chemicals in an experiment releasing deadly biochemical bacteria . The Secretary - General offers his consent, but is killed when he is viewed to be acting out of fear . The Doctor surmises that the disaster was unrelated to war, but may be biochemical . After the Doctor and Nardole locate the lab, Nardole collapses following exposure to the bacteria whilst waiting in the TARDIS . The Doctor with the assistance of Erica, a lab worker, surmises the only way to stop it would be to destroy the lab . He becomes stuck on the side of a manual lock however, due to his blindness . Bill makes a deal with the Monks to restore the Doctor's sight despite his protests . He manages to escape but at the expense of handing the planet over to the Monks . </Td> </Tr>

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