Starring
Greg Austin – Charlie
Fady Elsayed – Ram
Sophie Hopkins – April
Vivian Oparah – Tanya
Katherine Kelly – Miss Quill
Others
Peter Capaldi – The Doctor
Jordan Renzo – Matteusz
Ben Peel – Coach Dawson
Shannon Murray – Jackie
Aaron Neil – Varun
Natasha Gordon – Vivian
Anna Shaffer – Rachel
Paul Marc Davis – Corakinus
Nigel Betts – Mr Armitage
Pooja Shah – Miss Shah
Alex Leak – Kevin
Laura June Hudson – Mrs Linderhof
Santam Bhogal – Counter Clerk
Ellie James – Student 1
Moses Adejimi – Student 2
Assay Hagos – Student 3
Shalisha James-Davis – Student 4
Production
Directed by Ed Bazalgette
Written by Patrick Ness
Script editor Emma Genders
Produced by Derek Ritchie
Executive producer(s) Brian Minchin
Steven Moffat
Patrick Ness
Incidental music composer Blair Mowat
Series Series 1
Length 50 minutes
Originally broadcast 22 October 2016
April (Sophie Hopkins), a student at Coal Hill Academy, asks Tanya (Vivian Oparah) to help with the decorating for the prom. Tanya has to decline, so April asks Charlie (Greg Austin) to be her date. He rejects her, to the amusement of Ram (Fady Elsayed). The four all attend class with Miss Quill (Katherine Kelly), a blunt and sharp woman. April hands out fliers after school for help with the decorating the prom hall; after speaking to April, Charlie decides that he will ask a male student, Matteusz, to the prom.
Ram attends football practice, and watches as a separate shadow attaches to the shadow of another player. Tanya decides to help out with the prom decorations, before she is chased away by another shadow, and returns home to her strict mother. Charlie lives with Miss Quill, and he questions her about a missing student and whether she killed him. She recalls giving the student her gun, and the student exploded into smoke after firing off a shot.
The headmaster leaves a key with April so that she can decorate the hall. Ram video chats with Tanya, and watches as she is attacked by a shadow alien, while April's hand is trapped by a shadow. Quill demands that April uses her gun to shoot the monster, but Charlie stops her. The shot glances the alien, Corakinus, resulting in him sharing April's heart after his own is displaced. Charlie reveals that he is an alien, and was a prince. His people were at war with the Quill, and "Miss Quill" was the leader of the opposition. She was captured and forced to serve and protect Charlie. Rhodia was attacked by Corakinus's people, the Shadow Kin, who wiped out all but Charlie and Miss Quill, who were rescued by the Doctor.
At the prom, Matteusz cheers April up by inviting her to dance with him and Charlie. Tanya is able to attend, while Ram attends with his date, Rachel (Anna Shaffer). April experiences pains from being linked to Corakinus, and Corakinus appears and kills Rachel, severs Ram's leg, and crushes Quill's gun. The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) arrives to rescue them. Corakinus states that he is here for the Cabinet of Souls, the resting place for Charlie's people after they die; the Kin believe it to be a weapon. Charlie says that the Cabinet is empty. Tanya, with assistance from the Doctor, turns on the gym's flood lights to eliminate the shadows that give the Kin substance.
Ram slams Corakinus back into the rift, and the Doctor closes the breach. The Doctor gives Ram a prosthetic leg from the TARDIS, and charges the five students and Quill to safeguard the school against alien attacks. Whilst Tanya helps Ram deal with his stress, Quill muses that she would have used the Cabinet of Souls to wipe out the Shadow Kin, however Charlie disagrees. Charlie looks into the Cabinet of Souls, revealing that it's not empty, and reassures his people with his presence.
For Tonight We Might Die (Class)