'Doctor Who' Season 3 Episode 4 "Lucky Day" Recap

Jonah Hauer-King guest stars on this episode of Doctor Who, Lucky Day and what a guest appearance it has been. Hauer-King is really starting to make a name for himself in Hollywood and up next you can catch him in the remake of cult horror classic, I Know What You Did Last Summer. So how did he do in the beloved Doctor Who series?

This episode did not have too much Doctor Who in it, perhaps Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu were off filming a more heavier episode, so we got to catch up with Gatwa’s Doctor’s first companion, Ruby. Missed seeing her as she was a real treat the first season. Welcome back Ruby!

She is doing her best to live a normal life after battling aliens and reuniting with her birth mother and her boyfriend Conrad Clark (Jonah Hauer-King) is just the sweetest in the beginning. Those eyes, am I right? He met the Doctor and his new companion back when he was a boy and interviewed Ruby years later and the two started seeing each other. However, things aren’t vibing with the alien threat of the Shreek around. Ruby even gives Conrad an antidote to help keep the Shreek off his back. 

When Ruby and Conrad go away for the weekend that is when things heat up. Flickering lights cause worry but as Ruby tries to brush it off a woman runs in the pub shouting about the devil and Conrad admits he did not take the antidote. As the Shreek comes closer it is revealed that it was two of Conrad’s friends dressed up and Conrad set the whole thing up to expose UNIT and Ruby as liars. He completely turns into a villain but is hailed as a martyr. The government caves to the pressure from his organization and downgrades UNIT’s security clearance.

Conrad goes a step further and knocks out a security guard, takes his gun and heads to UNIT headquarters with a score to settle. He demands that everyone admit to lying so Kate releases a real Shreek and Conrad is attacked.

Ruby has decided she needs to live in a world without the Doctor and when we see Conrad next he is in a jail cell wounded by the Shreek. The Doctor visits him and lets him have it for his actions. Conrad, unphased, asks if he met Belinda yet (he was the man that told the Doctor of Belinda’s importance). The Doctor tells him he will die young in his cell and leaves but Mrs. Flood appears with keys and tells Conrad it is his lucky day.

Not good…

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