‘Doctor Who’: Jonah Hauer-King Talks Conrad’s Real Feelings for Ruby
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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Doctor Who Season 2 Episode 4 “Lucky Day.”]
Maybe Conrad (Jonah Hauer-King) was just too nice. It certainly seemed like Ruby (Millie Gibson) had not only found a boyfriend but one that she could be honest and talk about her adventures with the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) with in the latest episode of Doctor Who, only for it to turn out to all be a lie.
Instead, Conrad was using Ruby and aiming to expose the “lies” of UNIT regarding aliens, and Conrad still refused to believe the truth even when one, a Shreek, which had marked him as prey, took a bite out of his arm. Honestly? He deserved it for what he dared to say about Kate’s (Jemma Redgrave) father. But once locked up, he found himself brought briefly onto the TARDIS for a confrontation with the Doctor. There, we found out why the Doctor was looking for Belinda (Varada Sethu) at the beginning of the season: Conrad mentioned her, after encountering the two when he was a kid. That wasn’t all. As the episode ended, Mrs Flood (Anita Dobson) showed up at his cell with keys…
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