The Doctor of Myddfai

About the show

In a totalitarian future, the Doctor tells a child the legend of a shepherd whose wife returned to a lake after he struck her three times, leaving healing powers to his descendants. A spreading disease afflicts anyone struck in the rain. The Doctor warns the Ruler, who suppresses the story; during a confrontation in the rain, the Doctor strikes and infects him. The Ruler seeks a cure at the lake, but the Doctor refuses. The sick crowd tramples the Doctor to death, and the Child orders the Ruler into the lake before becoming the new Doctor of Myddfai.