Warning: SPOILERS for the Doctor Who episode “Fortunate Day” are forward!
After months of Jonah Hauer-King’s function in Doctor Who being shrouded in secrecy, we lastly realized the reality within the newest episode to premiere to Disney+ subscription holders. Though initially offered as Ruby Sunday’s new boyfriend, Hauer-King’s Conrad Clark was really a self-centered anti-UNIT activist spreading disinformation. Whereas it was left ambiguous on the finish of “Fortunate Day” if Conrad would return later in Season 2 (a.okay.a the fifteenth season in Doctor Who’s revival period), Millie Gibson, who performs Ruby, has confirmed we’ll see him once more within the finale, and I’m wanting ahead to this rematch.
Gibson shared this data whereas showing on BBC’s The One Present (by way of Collider), teasing that Conrad’s battle with Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor is much from over on the 2025 TV schedule. As she acknowledged:
I can say that Jonah comes again – the battle shouldn’t be received. He comes again and Russell [T Davies] has written an incredible script, as at all times. I come again as effectively and I am reunited with the Doctor and Belinda, performed by Varada Sethu.
To be honest, it’s not like this reveal comes totally out of nowhere. After The Doctor and Conrad had their massive showdown aboard the TARDIS, the previous despatched the latter again to his jail cell. With The Doctor having simply instructed Conrad that he would die behind bars on the age of 49 when his coronary heart gave out, it appeared like there was nothing extra to be performed with the character. Then alongside got here Anita Dobson’s mysterious Mrs. Flood to free Conrad from his cell.
That was greater than sufficient of a tease of his eventual return, however I’m nonetheless glad that Millie Gibson shared that The Little Mermaid’s Jonah Hauer-King will probably be again within the Season 2 finale, titled “The Actuality Battle.” It is smart, as that’s additionally when Gibson will return as Ruby Sunday. Doctor Who Season 2 has seen The Doctor touring with new companion Belinda Chandra, and whereas we did get a flashback in “Fortunate Day” of when Ruby was nonetheless touring with the Time Lord, I’m desirous to see her reunited along with his present self. The Doctor who chewed out Conrad was from some extent in his timeline earlier than he met Belinda.
“The Actuality Battle” drops on the finish of the month, and I’m curious to learn the way Conrad Clark elements into Mrs. Flood’s plans. After being launched in “The Church on Ruby Street” and showing sporadically in Doctor Who Season 1, Anita Dobson’s character has appeared in each Season 2 episode thus far throughout totally different cut-off dates and house. She’s giving off fairly the sinister vibe, and recruiting somebody like Conrad, who expressed no regret for his actions in “Fortunate Day,” is just going to be hassle.
We’re now on the midway level with Doctor Who Season 2, so maintain checking again with CinemaBlend within the weeks forward for updates on the Fifteenth Doctor and his allies and enemies. Whether or not or not the present will proceed after that is still to be seen, hopefully Ncuti Gatwa’s new gig strengthens the possibilities for Season 3.
