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Oluwakemi Nina Sosanya Listen ⓘ (born 6 June 1969) is an English stage, television, film, and radio actress, and narrator. She is most notable for her roles in Teachers, W1A, and Last Tango in Halifax.
"Fear Her" is the eleventh episode of the second series of the British science-fiction series Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 24 June 2006. It was written by Matthew Graham and directed by Euros Lyn. The episode takes place in London on the day of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
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was the eleventh episode of series 2 of Doctor Who.
The episode saw a return to the year 2012, not seen since Dalek in series one, this time focusing on the Olympic Games as a backdrop to the events of the story, which (a first in the show) directly explored the impact of child abuse through the character Chloe Webber. Tardisode 11 served as its prologue.
In London in 2012, the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler set off to see the Olympics, only to find terror in the most ordinary place.
Two kids, Dale Hicks and Tom, are playing football in Tom's yard on Dame Kelly Holmes Close. Elderly Maeve Griffiths walks by and tells them to get inside quickly, prompting Tom's dad to exit the house and demand to know why she's disturbing the kids. Maeve tells the father that 'it" likes seeing them play. Watching from her first floor room across the street is a little girl. She begins drawing Dale with coloured pencils. As Maeve and the father keep arguing, Dale suddenly vanishes. Elsewhere, the girl has finished her drawing of Dale, which comes to life and screams in horror: she's trapped him inside her picture!
Some time later, the TARDIS materialises on the day of the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. On the street, concern is divided between preparation for the Games, as the torchbearer will pass by on the final leg to the stadium, and the continued disappearance of children. A Car breaks down on the street and Rose lends a hand in pushing the vehicle until it restarts and the driver continues on his way. A council worker, Kel, states this has been happening all week.
The Doctor, in the meantime, has traced residual energy to the spot Dale vanished. Putting his hand over the spot, he notes it 'tickles". Tom's father exits the house, hostilely demanding the Doctor explain himself, drawing a crowd and Rose. The Doctor yells for silence and pulls out the Psychic Paper, introducing himself and Rose as inspectors. After learning from Maeve about an unknown entity at work, the Doctor and Rose investigate.
In her room, the girl sees her picture of Dale scowling in anger at her. She tells him that she tried to cheer him up by giving him a friend - a ginger cat. However, he's still unhappy, just like all the other kids in her drawings. After making a mistake in her next drawing, the girl furiously scribbles over it...
Wandering down one of the neighbourhood streets, Rose hears a noise from one of the garages and decides to investigate. As she opens the door, a fuzzy Scribble creature flies out, hitting Rose square in the face. Rose swats at it helplessly. The Doctor arrives and deactivates it with the sonic screwdriver. He deduces from the residual energy and the carbon of the scribble that the problem is alien in origin. Rose tells him about the little girl she saw watching them, and they theorise that she might be connected to the disappearances.
The Doctor and Rose pass themselves as representatives of Child Services to Trish Webber, hoping to be of help to her daughter Chloe. Trish explains that Chloe is very much a secluded and quiet child, due to her horrible father, who became abusive towards them when he was drunk. Rose heads upstairs to Chloe's room, but finds that she isn't in; seeing all the scowls from the pictures, Rose checks Chloe's closet. However, this is a poor choice as drawn on the wall is a demonic picture of Chloe's father. When the Doctor comes into the room with Trish and Chloe, Rose tells him of the pictures and he decides that he needs to look inside Chloe's subconscious to find answers.
Uncredited Cast
•Dale Hicks - Jaxon Hembry •Tom - Jack Palmer •Council Workers - Jamie Roberts, Matthew Doman •Young Mum - Becky Moore •Baby - Chelsea Thomas •Postman - Von Pearce •Nervy Man - Ian Hilditch •Bag Lady - Camala Daver •Jane McKillen - Gabrielle Evans •Danny Edwards - Leon Gregory •Voice of The Dad - Paul McFadden •Mrs. McKillen - Karen Hulse
Individuals
•The first three children taken are Danny Edwards, Jane McKillen and Dale Hicks. Their parents, Mr Edwards, Mrs McKillen and Mrs Hicks, greet them when they're restored. •Danny Fairweather carries the Olympic torch through Dame Kelly Holmes Close. •Lord Coe is mentioned. •The International Olympic Committee is mentioned.
The Doctor
•The Doctor lists three things necessary to travel the universe: wormhole refractors, a warp drive and a hand to hold.
People from the real world
•The Doctor tries to remember the name of the torch-lighter in 1948: "Mark? John? Mark? It's John Mark". •Shayne Ward's new album is advertised just next to where the Doctor parks the TARDIS.
•The story featured the first instance of a 2D-animated segment, in the form of the drawings made by Chloe which takes the object or person drawn out from reality and makes them come alive on her paper drawings.
•This episode was originally lined up for the next season. When a script by Stephen Fry called The 1920s fell through, it was hastily moved in to fill the slot.
•This episode is one of the few stories in the show where there is no true villain. The Isolus was not abducting people out of malice, but simply due to being lonely and wanting a friend. However, it could be argued that the drawing of Chloe’s father is considered to be the true main villain of the episode.
•This is the first televised Doctor Who story to deal with actual child abuse, although there is a possible allusion to the subject in The Empty Child.
•This is the first episode, since The Doctor Dances to have no casualties at all for the entire run time.
•Working titles for this episode included Chloe Webber Destroys the Earth and You're a Bad Girl, Chloe Webber. Russell T Davies rejected both titles for being too long.
•The Doctor materialises the TARDIS facing a wall, in this case, the side of a rubbish bin. The Eighth Doctor previously materialised facing a wall in a broom cupboard. (AUDIO: The Starship of Theseus)
•The Doctor uses telepathy. (TV: The Sensorites, Terror of the Zygons, The Hand of Fear, The Girl in the Fireplace)
•The Doctor knows the Isolus is lonely due to him having had a lonely childhood, and therefore being able to sense it. (TV: The Empty Child, The Girl in the Fireplace)
•The Doctor previously had a foreboding sensation in his hands during his first incarnation. (TV: The War Machines)
•The Doctor cites his confrontation with the Sisters of Plenitude as the reason why he is no longer a "cat person". (TV: New Earth)
•During his eleventh incarnation, the Doctor would visit the 2012 Olympic Games once again in the company of Amy Pond. (TV: Good as Gold) He had previously visited 2012 on at least one occasion during or prior to his sixth incarnation (AUDIO: The Raincloud Man) as well as during his seventh, (AUDIO: Frozen Time) eighth (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon) and ninth incarnations. (TV: Dalek)
•This story was released on a vanilla DVD (a DVD release containing no extra features) with Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.
•It was also released as part of the Series 2 DVD box set.
Dec 16, 2006 · Much of the tension derived from the scenario relies on Nina Sosanya’s reactions. Sosanya’s a great actress (see the BBC’s recent spin on Much Ado About Nothing , also with Billie Piper or Russell T Davies’ Casanova , also with David Tennant), but seems a tad off here and I’m not even sure she totally believes in Agbaje’s performance.
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Dec 15, 2006 · Fear Her: Directed by Euros Lyn. With David Tennant, Billie Piper, Nina Sosanya, Abisola Agbaje. When children vanish into thin air in 2012 London, the Doctor and Rose find the answers in a seemingly ordinary household and a girl whose drawings can come to life.
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