Hello everyone. I am actually new to this forum so I want to post something that may or may not have already been mentioned.
First I’ll mention that I did enjoy this episode, though it wasn’t my favorite. The end where Clara just lets The Doctor have it was pretty intense–probably the most emotionally driven scene in this series so far.
Now to get to what I do want to mention. In the episode of “Time Heist”, The Doctor briefly mentions the woman in the shop. The only other time the woman in the shop is mentioned, was by Clara in the beginning of the last series episode, “The Bells of Saint John”. There are probably a couple of theories floating around as to who it might be. I first thought of Rose since she worked in a shop when we first met her. However, that might not work since she is in alternate reality and is working for alternate reality Torchwood, if I’m not mistaken. Then there is Martha, who in the episode “Blink”, briefly mentioned that she had to get a job in a shop since she thought she might have to be stuck there. However, that might not work either since, of’ course, this was in the past and Martha did make it back to her time. That now leaves us with none other than Sally Sparrow. She was in the episode “Blink” as well (one of my favorite eposides btw). At the end of the episode, you see that her and her friends brother run a shop together. You actually never see The Doctor give her his number. Also Clara never makes it clear how she got it either since she was quite dismissive about it. However, evidence would suggest that she could be it. The type of shop she owned was for antiquarian books and rare dvds. The book that you saw in The Bells of Saint John episode, was called Summer Falls, which of course, was written by Amy Pond (or Amelia Williams). We also know that the Doctor uses DVD’s for communication and transport. Maybe overtime she had figured something else out about the DVD’s she owned. I know that there may be a lot of holes but there are some links there that allow me to believe this. I would like to see her again because she was from my favorite episode and I believe she could have made a great companion as well.
