The finale of the 14th season of Doctor Who originally had a lot more Susan twists in the end

This last part happened in the first 60^th anniversary special, “The Star Beast,” in which the Doctor recited those three words to bring back Donna Noble’s memories of her time in the TARDIS. But the other part? Anyone who has seen episode seven, “The Legend of Ruby Sunday,” the first half of the two-part season 14 finale, will know that it did not feature a 1940s American coffee bar. So what happened to that opening?

According to a new interview with actress Susan Twist in DWM 605it was part of a deleted opening title sequence for the episode, which would have featured three additional cameos for Twist.

The working title “Chrysalis” refers to Kate Lethbridge-Stewart’s (as it turns out, accurate) theory that tech giant Susan Triad in Twist might be an unwitting vessel from which evil emerges. In her first draft, the episode began not in UNIT Tower, but in the USA.

“Susan would have played a nanny in Pennsylvania in 1946, pushing a stroller through a park past Albert Einstein and the singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson,” explains DWM. “In the next scene, the woman is the one waiting: a blue-skinned waitress – 100% Sloogma – who serves the Doctor and Ruby in an alien diner.”

After a conversation in the Sloogma dialect, the Doctor and Ruby meet the woman again, this time as a human astronaut who addresses a colony of giant ants on an alien world and brings them greetings from the “Earth Empire of Emperor Horatio”.

Finally, a scene was shown on the screen in which the Doctor, at UNIT headquarters, recaps the woman’s appearances in the series so far and provides insights into some of her off-screen adventures (“On the planet Sloog she is a Slooma, on the planet Varsitay she is a Griffin, on the Fivefold Configuration she is a Bleet…”).