Warning: SPOILERS for the Physician Who episode “Fortunate Day” are forward!
After months of Jonah Hauer-King’s function in Physician Who being shrouded in secrecy, we lastly discovered 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 truly 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.ok.a the fifteenth season in Physician 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 info whereas showing on BBC’s The One Present (by way of Collider), teasing that Conrad’s battle with Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Physician is much from over on the 2025 TV schedule. As she said:
I can say that Jonah comes again – the battle just isn’t received. He comes again and Russell [T Davies] has written an incredible script, as all the time. I come again as nicely and I am reunited with the Physician and Belinda, performed by Varada Sethu.
To be honest, it’s not like this reveal comes solely out of nowhere. After The Physician and Conrad had their large showdown aboard the TARDIS, the previous despatched the latter again to his jail cell. With The Physician having simply advised 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 completed 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 might be again within the Season 2 finale, titled “The Actuality Conflict.” It is sensible, as that’s additionally when Gibson will return as Ruby Sunday. Physician Who Season 2 has seen The Physician 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 Physician who chewed out Conrad was from a degree in his timeline earlier than he met Belinda.
“The Actuality Conflict” 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 Physician Who Season 1, Anita Dobson’s character has appeared in each Season 2 episode to date throughout completely different closing 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 simply going to be hassle.
We’re now on the midway level with Physician Who Season 2, so hold checking again with CinemaBlend within the weeks forward for updates on the Fifteenth Physician 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.