Yesterday I wrote a post pondering what Clara said to the Doctor when they were in the cloister in the episode titled Hell Bent. My theory is that she admitted to the Doctor that she gave birth to Danny Pink's child and gave it up for adoption. I then shared my theory with a friend and she had another theory, this time about Rigsy's baby, and she has kindly allowed me to share her theory here.
Remember Rigsy? He is the man we first met in Flatliner who called Clara in Face The Raven because he had a countdown tattoo on the back of his neck. At some point in the past Clara gave him the cell phone number for the TARDIS and that is the number that he called.
Let's think about that for a moment. I'm fairly certain that the Doctor's private number isn't something that he wants shared, and yet, Clara shared it. And the person she shared it with is someone we've only seen once before, someone who didn't seem all that important. Why would Clara give the Doctor's phone number to a casual acquaintance? Or, was Rigsy an important person in Clara's life?
The opening scene of Face The Raven showed Clara and the Doctor in the TARDIS when the phone rang. Clara answered it to find Rigsy, her friend, and she chastised him for using the phone by saying that she gave him this number for emergency use only. Here is a video of the scene.
Why did Clara care enough about Rigsy to give him the Doctor's phone number for emergencies? That seems odd, especially since we know that Rigsy is a bit player in the world of Doctor Who. Did Danny Pink even have this number?
Well, what if the reason Clara gave the number to Rigsy was because she gave her baby to him and his wife to raise? That would certainly be a good reason for giving him the phone number to the TARDIS.
The baby, whose name is Lucy, was shown for just a brief period of time. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a video of the time the trio spent in the nursery with Lucy but I do have the episode on my DVR. I watched this scene to see how Clara responded to the baby.
The first thing that struck me was that the baby is obviously not 100% black. Rigsy is, so we are left to assume that his wife is white. But, what if the baby is of mixed races because she is the child of Clara (white) and Danny Pink (black)?
Clara fussed over how beautiful Lucy is, but that was about it, except for one thing. The Doctor got a bit noisy, which prompted Clara and Rigsy to immediately shush him at the same time. I could be reading more into this than is meant, but could Clara's reaction be caused by maternal instincts for her own child?
Of course, this could just be a pipe dream on my part (I've already admitted to being a fan of Clara and Danny as a couple), and it doesn't explain why Orson Pink has Danny's last name. Lucy is a girl and wouldn't likely have the last name unless Clara specifically asked Rigsy to keep the last name. But if Clara is trying to keep Lucy's heritage a secret, this seems unlikely.
I want to go back to the moment between Clara and the Doctor when they were in the cloister. I previously theorized that she confided to the Doctor that she gave birth to a child and gave him (her?) up for adoption. What if she told the Doctor that the "new human" Lucy (as the Doctor called her) was really Clara's? That's something worth pondering...
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