“Demons of the Punjab” Teasers Explained

Clint Hassell reveals the answers to last week’s hints and teasers for Series 11, episode 6 “Demons of the Pubjab.”

• 1. A stack of letters, a pressed flower, a broken watch
  These are the gifts that Nani Umbreen gives to Najia, Sonya, and Yaz, respectively.
• 2. “Don’t read the filthy bits.”
  Upon giving Najia a stack of letters written by her grandfather, Nani Umbreen instructs Najia, “Don’t read the filthy bits.”
• 3. Line most likely to spawn a Big Finish audio: “I have apologized for the death-eyed turtle army. Profusely.”
  – the Doctor, in response to Graham’s sarcastic comment, “Oh, like none of our other trips have ever been risky.”
• 4. Graham admits the real reason he’s continued to travel with the Doctor: to be *****ted.
  In jest, Graham tells the Doctor, “I only hang around here to be insulted.”
• 5. The Doctor again awards “points” . . . sorta.
  For realizing the group would be “demon hunting,” the Doctor awards Ryan a “gold star” . . . only to remember that she had previously been awarding “points.”
• 6. “Oil, water, tree bark, a sauce pan, nine containers, an old newspaper, a touch of ox spit, a chicken poo, and a biscuit.”
  While the Doctor presumably eats the biscuit (“I love biscuits!”), she uses the other items as part of an experiment to examine the contents of the Thijarian canister of glowing, purple dust.
• 7. Someone takes “a bit of a shine” to Graham.
  While retrieving the necessary ox spit, “the ox took a bit of a shine to” Graham.
• 8. Second best line: “I never did this when I was a man!”
  – the Doctor, fascinated by her new henna tattoos
  (The best line immediately followed: “My references to body and gender regeneration are all in jest.”)
• 9. Telepathic circuit! Transmat! Einstein!
  The Doctor uses the TARDIS telepathic circuit to scan Umbreen’s watch, in order to find her in spacetime. A transmat doorway teleports Ryan, the Doctor, and Prem from the forest to the Thijarian spaceship. The Doctor claims to have officiated Einstein’s wedding.
• 10. She’s not just pushing boundaries, she’s eliminating borders!
  At Umbreen and Prem’s wedding, the Doctor uses her sonic to knock down the rope barrier demarcating the border between India and Pakistan.
• 11. “Manish, will you let me f*** you?”
  In recognition of the sacrifices made by Manish to keep the community fed through the recent drought, Umbreen asks, “Manish, will you let me feed you?”

Hidden teasers:

• Less mo***er of the week, more mo***er of the week.
  Despite their appearance, the alien Thijarians were “less monster of the week, more mourner of the week.”
• The letters in bold spell “Clever. Also: confiscated” – – a phrase uttered by the Doctor as she encountered the Thijarians’ miniaturized transmat locks, in the forest.
• shopping, catching a movie, bowling
  Upon being teleported to the empty Thijarian spaceship, the Doctor lists “shopping, catching a movie, [and] bowling” as activities the missing aliens might be doing.