# Doctor Who (reboot) S08E08 -- Mummy on the Orient Express (boxed spoilers until aired)

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> [@Do parents have the right to chose their offsprings genetics?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-parents-have-the-right-to-chose-their-offsprings-genetics/90822/15):
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> The Doctor lies to Captain Quell about being a mystery shopper and lies about his opinion of the breakfast bar.

To be fair, he just held up his psychic paper and told Quell that he was what he feared most. It was Quell that inferred “mystery shopper”.

And it certainly wasn’t established in the episode that the breakfast bar wasn’t, in actuality, horriffic.

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