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"Sleep No More" is the ninth episode of the ninth series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 14 November 2015, and is the only stand-alone story of the ninth series.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Doctor Who: Sleep No More )〕 The episode is framed around the concept of found footage, and consists of recordings recovered from the wreckage of Le Verrier Space Station.〔 ==Plot== The episode opens ''in medias res'' as Gagan Rassmussen, the lead researcher on the Le Verrier Space Station in orbit around Neptune sometime in the 38th century, addresses a camera to record a message. Rassmussen warns the viewer not to watch this but explaining how the video, assembled from various recordings made over the last few hours, will help put together events leading to this point. Rassmussen continues to narrate through the episode as events are played out. Hours earlier, a rescue ship from Triton arrives at Le Verrier in response to a sudden absence of communications with the station, with four soldiers: Nagata, Chopra, Deep-Ando, and 474, a bio-engineered grunt of low intelligence. The station is found empty with no sign of the crew, however, they encounter Clara and the Doctor who use the Doctor's psychic paper to disguise themselves as engineer and stress assessors. The group are chased down by humanoid creatures made of a sand-like substance (later named "Sandmen" by Clara) that are impervious to the party's weapons. Deep-Ando is separated from the others as they take shelter. As the others try to contact him, Clara inadvertently is pulled into and sealed in a coffin-like pod from which the doctor manages to free her. Nagata identifies the pod as a harmless Morpheus sleep pod which is claimed to compress a whole month worth of sleep into a five-minute period, allowing everyone to work around the clock because "time is money". Chopra is the only one who refuses to use it, insisting the technology is horrible and unnatural. They find Morpheus' inventor, Rassmussen, hiding in another pod. Rasumussen explains that it works by sending an electronic signal to the brain, changing its chemistry. They were testing the next generation of Morpheus devices when the Sandmen appeared. The Doctor fears the pods are related to the Sandman creatures and theorizes that are formed from the dust that collects in the corner of the eye, and have consumed the crew from the station. Meanwhile, Deep-Ando, who was separated from the group, is killed while trying to escape a Sandman. As they continue through the station the station's gravity shields fail, pulling the station toward Neptune. Though the increased gravity causes the Sandmen to start to disintegrate, they manage to attack and kill Rassmussen in the chaos. The Doctor is able to restore the gravity shields, and before the Sandmen can react, Clara, Nagata and the Doctor, take shelter in a kitchen cold room. Chopra and 474, unable to contact the others, attempt to make it back to their rescue ship. 474 sacrifices herself〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Doctor Who Character Profiles - 474 )〕 to carry Chopra through a wall of fire caused when the gravity shields failed, while Chopra eventually makes it back but is also killed by a Sandman waiting on the ship. While hiding in the freezer, the Doctor realizes the Sandmen are blind, and the three of them escape. Finding a moment's respite, the Doctor discovers through his sonic sunglasses that a variety of video signals have been transmitted, and shows these to Clara and Nagata, all depicting recordings from their points of view, except that there are no cameras to have taken these. Noticing there are none from Chopra's point-of-view, he deduces they are a result of being subjected to Morpheus and that it is the sleep in the persons eyes transmitting the recordings. The sandman appear to be having their visual signal hijacked, causing their blindness. They return to the rescue ship to find Rassmussen there, along with a Morpheus pod he claims contains the first patient of the Morpheus process from five years prior. Rassmussen admits that his goal is to aid the Sandmen to leave the station and get to Triton, from which they can infect the rest of the solar system; the gravity shield failure was planned to allow him to send the pod to the rescue ship without attracting attention. Rassmussen attempts to lock the three in a part of the rescue ship with the patient, now a Sandman, but the Doctor engineers their escape, and Nagata shoots Rassmussen before he can launch the ship. The Doctor leads them to the TARDIS, realising that the events that have happened are too choreographed to seem like a real danger. As they are surrounded by Sandmen, the Doctor deactivates the gravity shields, causing the Sandmen to disintegrate, and the three escape into the TARDIS as the station plummets to Neptune. As the TARDIS departs, Rassmussen reveals in his narration that he had been a Sandman all this time; all the events of the past few hours were engineered to tell a story that would keep the viewer enticed to continue to watch the recordings in order to transmit the Morpheus signal (disguised as glitches) to them, thus assuring that the Sandman would spread to anyone that watched it, hence his duplicitous warning at the start. Rassmussen disintegrates into sand as the signal ends. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sleep No More (Doctor Who)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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