That seems to be exactly the plan! Gatiss gave an interview confirming that he has a sequel planned for future seasons. Though I'd be fine if they never came back to it- I'm just a sucker for Carpenter-esque ambiguous apocalypse endings in my horror fiction. Who'da thunk it.

And Pertwee got it a lot too. The Mutants, Colony in Space, The Silurians, the Sea Devils, Inferno- pretty much every other Third Doctor story ended with just him and his companion fleeing the total destruction of a mighty civilization. I've always liked the idea of the Doctor as a superhero living in a horror…

Gatiss has always been the most modest of the show's regular writers and his classic horror/pulp sensibilities keep clicking for me even if I get why they don't for others. He's the baseline, the boilerplate, the episodes between the big exciting interesting stuff and that's not a showy place to be but he always…

What is the court's stance on psychic empathy visions induced by conversations with cannibals? Seems like a rock solid methodology to me.

As Price and Jimmy mentioned last week, Francis bites his victims. With a special set of snaggle-toothed dentures he had made (though the FBI doesn't know about the dentures). Hence, Tooth Fairy.