Friday, September 28, 2012
The Angels Take Manhattan, Doctor Who
Amy's lines of dialogue are in Red, Rory's are in orange, The Doctor is in blue, and River Song is in purple.
All other speech is in Italics. I refer to the Doctor, as 11. Amy and Rory are the Ponds, and the Pond Williams,
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Well the weeping Angels are back, but this time they are in Manhattan. Remember the Daleks in Manhattan? That was not one of the better episodes. Lets hope Moffat does better in NYC than RDS
(Malchera's note. My PC crashed as I was watching the show. The first part of my notes were lost and so what remains, is what I transcribed after I reset my PC. What is recorded is the last 15 minutes)
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New York city of a million stories half of them are true the other half just haven't happened yet. A voice narrates over the keys of an old typewriter
( We see the NYC Skyline the empire state building, which is presumably now Dalek free) Statues the man said living statues that moved in the dark
The camera shifts to a grand New York townhouse. Its night and its raining hard
``So will you take the case Mr Garner?'' There is a letter on the table addressed to a Julius Grayle, a sum of money in dollars, is dropped next to the letter.
Sure why not, the narrator replies. ( A man dressed as a film noir P.I, The actor looks like McNulty from The Wire)
Because you don't believe me.... Says a fat man, in a suit middle aged, white hair-Mike McShane
For 25 dollars a day, plus expenses I'll believe any dam thing you like, answers Garner
But you don't believe that statues can move!(The fat man begins, to smile ) and your right Mr Garner they can't of course they can't ( The fat man, moves to the window, and open the curtains)When your looking ( outside there is a view of a statue a mother and child)
Goodbye Mr Grayle, the PI-Garner walks out of the house, escorted by one of Grayle's heavies. Grayle watches Garner leave, and returns to looking out his window, we see the rain again, and that one of the statues has moved
The address Grayle gave me was an apartment block near battery park. He said it was where the statues lived. (More NYC views, The Empire state building, Lady Liberty )I asked him while he didn't go look himself, he didn't answer
Grayle was the scariest guy I knew if something scared him, I kind of wanted to shake its hand.
Garner walks up to the apartment, at Winter Quay, we see the name in neon lights. He scopes the building out, an old woman, looks at him from a window on his left, another woman a few years younger watches him also, and a girl playing peekaboo, completes the scene
As Garner enters the apartment we see one of the weeping angels, its mouth open full of angry teeth..
Hello Hello, Garner enters into the foyer of the apartment building, checker-board title floor. The elevator descends to the lobby, to collect the PI. Garner boards the lift, not noticing the weeping angel behind him
Garner having left the elevator, walks down the corridor apartments, every now and then, red carpet and flickering lights, Garner's eyes are caught by the name under 702, Garner
The PI opens the door to apartment 702, Hello, anyone home?, he knocks and enters, Garner checks a wallet on the table, it has an investigators license in the name of S Garner.. There is rasping from inside
Hello
Garner sees an old man, in his pajamas, in bed
Who are you?
There coming for you...there going to send you back
Whose coming? Back where?
Back in time
I'm you... I'M YOU.. The man leans forward and we see its Garner, decrepit and aged
Garner backs out of apartment fast, he catches sight of the Angel, coming down one end of the corridor, and another following him, Garner draws his pistol
Garner gets to the stairs, two more angels there, there teeth bared. Garner runs up the stairs, as he runs, we see someone typing, Garner makes it to the rooftop, he scans the skyline behind him, there is A stone mouth open with angry teeth...
The typist has finished the title. ``The Dying Detective''
Garner turns around and see The Statue of Liberty- possessed by a Weeping Angel
You've got to be kidding me !
Opening credits
Sting's Englishman in New York, plays over the skyline of NYC
(That must have cost the BBC a pretty penny- I wonder if it is still on the DVD's)
New York growled at my window, but I was ready for it.. my stocking seams were straight my lipstick was combat ready and I was packing cleavage which could fell an ox at 20 feet
Doctor your doing it again...
(11 and Red, are sitting on a rock in the middle of central park. Amy is wearing glasses. She is reading the New York Record(er) Which has the title. Detroit Lions win the Superbowl. ( For readers outside North America think reading Coventry city win the Premiership)
Doctor your doing it again...
(11 and Red, are sitting on a rock in the middle of central park. Amy is wearing glasses. She is reading the New York Record(er) Which has the title. Detroit Lions win the Superbowl. ( For readers outside North America think reading Coventry city win the Premiership)
Also the Detroit Lions are Magnum P.I's favorite team
I'm reading! Out loud! Please could you not? ( Something that grinds my gears too, my mother constantly does this)There's something different about you isn't there... the doctor tells Amy
Whats the book? Rory who is sitting lower down the rock. Its a big rock.
Melody Malone She's a private detective in old town New York
She's got ice in heart and a kiss on her lips and a vulnerable side she keeps well hidden (Amy is not impressed by the Doctor's choice of book)
Oh you've read it
You read it out loud and then went yowzah
Only you could fancy someone in a book ( Rory's statement is very odd. Considering 50 shades of grey is topping the best seller lists. ) I'm just reading I just like the cover
Amy turns around. Let me see the cover
No No I'm busy Its your hair, the Doctor sniffs Amy Is it your hair?
Shut up its the glasses. The Scot tells the Time Lord I'm wearing reading glasses now, on my nose see
I don't like them, I make your eyes look lines
No actually sorry
There fine...carry on
Okay I am going to get some more coffee, who wants some more coffee? me
Rory do I have noticeable lines on my eyes now?
Yes No
You didn't look
I noticed them earlier didn't notice them, I specifically remember not noticing
You walk among fire pits centurion
Do I come over there? You can if you like
Well we have company
I'll get a babysitter It is so humiliating when you do that
coffee?
coffee
Rory goes off in search of coffees
Can I have a go (The Doctor borrows Amy's glasses)
Oh actually that is much better That is exciting
Read to me
I thought you didn't like my reading aloud
Shut up and read me a story Just don't go Yowzah. The Doctor chuckles and rips the last page out of his book. He places it in the picnic hamper I hope its not a library copy
Why did you do that?
Oh I always rip out the last page of a book Then it doesn't have to end I hate endings. ..
The Doctor begins to read..
As I crossed the street I saw the thing guy but he didn't see me I guess that's how it began
Rory has fetched the coffee's he crossed the street. I think the top end of fifth avenue -grand army plaza. He is walking through central park coffee's in hand
Rory hears laughter childish laughter behind him, the Husband of Amy looks around , and continues to walk towards the bridge/tunnel in Central park, we have all seen. There is a statue on a fountain behind him, the statue is a weeping angel The laughter follows Rory into the shadows
(Imagine the tunnel in Fall, )
We return to the Dr and Amy. Amy is playing pooh sticks on the central park bridge
I followed the skinny guy for two more blocks before he turned and I could ask exactly what he was doing here He looked a little scared so I gave him, my best smile and my bluest eyes
Beware the Yowzah do not at this point yowse Amy scolds the Doctor
The Doctor is silent he has read on, Amy asks the Doctor What did the skinny guy say?
He said, I just went to get coffee's for the Doctor and Amy
Hello River
We see River Song smiling under a fedora
Hello Dad
Where am I.. How the hell did I get here?
I haven't the faintest idea But you'll probably want to put your hands up
A man points a gun at Rory's back, Another man . African American, Who we saw working for Grayle earlier, asks River song Melody Malone?
Your Melody? asks her father
A car screeches up, Get in advises the Heavy
In present day New York, Amy asks the Doctor, What's River doing in a book, Whats Rory doing in a book
He went to get coffee pay attention. (The two TARDISeers, are crossing the street in Times square)
Now the Doctor and Amy are walking by the Bridge, this is quite a walk, from Central park to Times square, across the bridge is quite far. I hope Amy, was not in heels) Amy has asked how Rory ended up in a book. I don't know we are in New York
The Doctor and Amy arrive at their home from home and safely in the Tardis
Where did you get this book?
It was in my Jacket answers 11 How did it get there
How does anything get there, I've given up asking Amy is scanning the book
Date Date, does she mention the date When is this happening
Yes hang on
April 3rd 1938 ( seems ill omened
We return to pre war, post prohibition days
You didn't come here in the Tardis obviously
Why?
You couldn't have
The scene returns to the Doc and the Redhead
Could'nt have what does she mean couldn't have
The city is full of time distortions it would be impossible to land the Tardis here. Rory looking out the window, can see Grand central station. (Has he gone back on himself? He was walking out of central park surely?)
Like trying to land a plane in a blizzard, even I couldn't do it
Even who couldn't do it... Back in the TARDIS
Don't you too fall out she's only in a book
The Doctor mutters how 1938 will be easy .... He turns a switch on the control, There is a small explosion on the TARDIS console. We see warning messages on the Doctors viewer, and the TARDIS fails to materialise in the NYC sky, opposite the Brooklyn Bridge
Its that it...
1938 we just bounced off it . 11 is a bit shaken by events.
How did you get here Rory asks his wee girl
Vortex manipulator , Professor song shows her father, her toy. Its worn on the wrist. Less Bulky then a TARDIS, a motorbike through traffic ... You?
Not sure, her father half whispers
As Rory and River are driven past a building they are watched by the Weeping Angels
We return to the Doctor and Amy who, have landed the TARDIS in a Graveyard
The weeping angels
, it makes sense
What
Thats what happend to Rory that's what the Angels do Its there preferred form of attack
11 is working on the TARDIS, as he speaks to Amy. The Scot is reading the Melody Malone novel They zap you back in time. Let you live to death
Amy points out the Doctor and her, have a Time Machine, Lets go and get him ( Rory) We've tried that if you noticed. And we are back where we started in 2012.
But we did;t start in a graveyard, what are we doing here
Dunno probably causally linked somehow... Doesn't matter ( The Doctor opens, the TARDIS and sprays a fire extinguisher into the TARDIS, extractor fans on!
We'll we're going to get there somehow we're in the rest of the book
Page 43 your going to break something
I'm what?
Why do you have to break mine... I asked the Doctor He frowned and said because Amy read it in a book and now I have no choice.
Stop no Stop, 11 dashes over to Amy and grabs the book... You can't read ahead you mustn't and you can't do that I've already been reading it Just the stuff that's happening now, in parallel with us that's as far as we go
It could help us find Rory
If you read ahead and you find that Rory dies? This isn't any old future Amy its ours
Once we know what's coming its fixed. I'm going to break something because you told me I'm going to do it. No choice now.( Bleak view of Time travel)
Time can be rewritten
Once you've read it. Once we know what's coming its written in stone. ( 1)
As the Doctor takes Amy by the hand and leads her into the Tardis, the camera lingers on a Tombstone
In loving memory of RORY ARTHUR WILLIAMS
Back in 1938. Rory and River are frogged marched into Grayle's Townhouse. River catches sight of a Chinese vase. Early Chin dynasty I'd say
Correct are you an archaeologist as well as a detective asks Grayle, from the top of his staircase.
( Would an American not say Anthropologist. I studied anthropology in the University of North Carolina)
Back in the TARDIS The Dr, compares reaching NYC in '38 to...Landing an Airplane in a blizzard.
If I am out by a nanosecond, the engines will phase and I'll shatter the planet.
I need landing lights
Landing lights, (I would make passes at Amy in glasses)
A signal to lock on to, what did she say early what dynasty?
Early chin, just as you say. Confirms Grayle Your very well informed
And your very afraid that's an awful lot of locks for one door
River I'm translating. Rory see's the words Rapture of summer appear on a Chinese Pot. I'ts a gift of the TARDIS it hangs around.
This one put him somewhere uncomfortable. Grayle tells, his henchmen Paying attention to Rory Williams, for the first time
The Babies sir?
Yes why not.. Grayle smiles Give him to the babies
Rory is grabbed and hurled down the stairs into a cellar, by Grayles man
The lights are out, you last longer with these. The Hooldum throws Rory a pack of matches
What do you care
its funnier
The Door closes on Rory and we here laughter the giggling of young angels
China 221 BC
A potters shop,
Ahh hello yes... The Doctor is with Amy, special commission from the Emperor and flashes the Chin dynasty Artisan, his psychic paper. While back in NYC, River is being entertained by Grayle, she see's the word Yowzah appear on the Pot.
As Grayle removes her coat, and reveals her cleavage River having seen the message exclaims, Hello sweetie.. Let see crime boss with a collecting fetish Whatever you don't want anyone else to see has got to be your favourite or possibly your Girl friend. ( River pulls apart a curtain, in Grayle's study)
It reveals a weeping angel
So Girlfriend then
What are you doing? ( River is entering something onto her vortex manipulator) Oh you know texting a boy
Yowzah.. Is the message recieved on the TARDIS
Landing Lights We have a signal locking on.
Back in Old New York, Grayle comments on the statue. These things are all over people don't seem to notice. It never moves while your looking
Oh I know how they work, replies Professor Song, whilst looking deep into the Angels eyes
So I understand Melody Malone. The detective who investigates angels
Badly damaged
I want to know if it could feel pain
You realise its screaming the others can hear Is that why you need all the locks? River turns away from the chained angel to address Grayle directly
Grayle flicks a switch. The lights go out and when the lights are returned. The Angel has caught River in it's stony grasp
Your going to tell me all about these creatures and your going to do it quickly
The lights go dark again
In the cellar, Rory strikes a match.
Hello someone there, Rory can hear laughter and something scurrying. He gets up, letting the match burn.
Rory walks over to see three statues of babies, in the centre of the floor. The match burns Rory's fingers, and it goes dark
Rory lights another match, and see's that the statues have moved towards him, from there previous position. Rory scared lurches back, dropping a match, and striking another. The Angels, are now chasing him
Rory can hear the scurrying and the laughter of the baby angels, and something behind him, something larger
Come on come on, Rory lights one match, and a baby angel waits behind him, ready to blow the flame out
Back upstairs, River is still a captive The angels are predators. There deadly, what do you want with them?
I'm a collector Grayle replies. What collector could resist these? I'm only Human!
That's exactly what their thinking
Whats that? What's happening is it an Earthquake?
We can hear the noise of the TARDIS, above Grayle's home we see a flash of bright blue electricity The TARDIS control room, shakes Amy and the Doctor
You bad boy you could burn New York
It means Mr Grayle just you wait till my husband gets home
Just a moment final checks.
Since when
The Doctor flattens his hair, and straightens his tie in a mirror A mirror made by Rolls Royce in England
The Doctor and Amy emerge in Grayle's staircase. Amy runs up the stairs and calls after her man. Rory? Rory?
Grayle has been rendered unconscious by the materialisation of the TARDIS. Rory? 11 catches sight of his woman
Sorry I'm late honey. Traffic was hell
River giggles.. The Dr examines Grayle, Shock he'll be fine
Not if I can get loose
The Doctor approaches river and the Angel, He straightens his hair again.
So where are you now Dr Song?... Hows Prison
Oh I was pardoned ages ago and its Professor Pond to you
Pond? Turns out the person I killed never existed in the first place Apparently there's no record of him Its almost as if someone's gone about deleting himself from every database in the universe.
You said I got too big, says the Dr touching River's nose And now no one's ever heard of you didn't you used to be somebody?
Weren't you the women who killed the Doctor?
Doctor who? 11 scans, the Angel with his sonic, she's holding you very tight (Genius)
well at least she didn't send me back in time I doubt she's strong enough
well I need a hand back Which is it going to be, are you going to break my wrist or hers? Oh no really?
Behind the two regenerates. Amy enters the room
Why do you have to break mine?
Because Amy read it in a book Now I have no choice
Turning to Amy the Timelord You see?
Well what book? Your book, 11 reaches for the paper back in his pocket Which you haven't written yet so we can't read
I see I don't like the cover much
But if Rivers going to write that book she'd make it useful yeah, the mother of the woman trapped by the alien, interjects I'l certainly try, oh we can't read ahead its too dangerous
I know but there must be something we can look at
what a page of handy hints previews? spoiler free. 11 answers sarcastically
Chapter titles.. Red replies. She is a smart tall thing
The Doctor scans, the chapter titles, his eyes rest on THE ROMAN IN THE CELLAR
He's in the cellar..Gimme
The Doctor tosses Amy his sonic, and Amelia runs to rescue and reunite with her husband. 11 kisses, River and goes to follow Amy. Then he stops
Doctor? Doctor what is it, what's wrong? Tell me
11 is reading the chapter list Doctor? Doctor what is it? Tell me
We see the chapter title, the final chapter title
AMELIA'S LAST FAREWELL
Calm down, Calm Down
The Doctor throws a tantrum. A childish tantrum. NO
Talk to me
You get your wrist out. You get your wrist out without breaking it! The Timelord is really angry here
How?
I don't know just do it, change the future. The Doctor yells, and storms off.
Rory?
Amy has made it down stairs to the basement of Grayles house. Where we last saw her husband. She is equipped with sonic screwdriver and torch. Looking for her husband, she catches sight of three statues. Babies on the cellar floor
No their angels! Baby angels!
The Doctor and Amy, see a trail of spent matches, on the basement floor. Did they get Rory? the Pond asks
Where is he... did they take him?
Yes I think so yes. Answered the Raggedy Man. ( You must know that reference)
Hearing the baby weeping angels, giggle and scurry about the floor, the Doctor and Amy beat a hasty retreat upstairs
The statue of Liberty sets our location, Rory is downtown. Just outside Winter Quay
Back at Grayles. The Doctor paces outside the TARDIS, as Amelia talks to him on the stairs
So is this what's going to happen? We just keep chasing him back in time, and they ( The Weeping angels keep pulling him further back)
River comes into the hall. She is scanning on handheld computer. He isn't back in time I am reading a displacement but there are no temporal markers He's been moved in space, not in time and its not that far from here by the look of it
You got out
So where is he? Red asks annoyed
Rory walks up the same stairs, as the PI did earlier. Nurse Williams walks into the same building, We return to the Doctor and the other companions
Come on come on where is he?
If it was that easy I'd get you to do it
How did you get your wrist out without breaking it
You asked I did Replies the mature woman with great cleevage
You just changed the future
Its called marriage honey!
River tells the Doctor and Amy that Rory is not far, there is a car outside. The Doctor asks her to show me,
River writhes in pain. Her wrist is broken. She had lied
Rory gets on the same elevator, as the PI did earlier, he looks down the same corridor, into the Angels lair
Its okay when all those numbers on both units get to zero, that's when we've got a lock okay, thats how we find Rory Why did you lie to me?
When ones in love with an ageless God Who insists on the face of a twelve year old, One does ones best to hide the damage ( So the Doctor has a choice. At least sub or meta consciously in his next regeneration's appearance , interesting. Also River is human now She ages and bleeds. )
It must hurt... come here
Yes, the wrist is pretty bad too
The Doctor, applies gold regeneration energy to River's wrist
Stop it stop it ( The gold regeneration energy heals River) There you are how's that?
Credits
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Oh my God. This was a powerful episode. Really put the audience and the characters through the wringer. The last of the ponds. We will never see them again. This is the first time, someone has created Fixed time. Since I think the Waters of Mars.
The Doctor is shown in a much darker a light. Remember the Gods, are immortal and often capricious You must hide your ageing from them. In the beginning of the episode, we see beautiful Amy, worry about the lines over her eyes. River hides the wound she got breaking free from the Angel. We see the Doctor as the child, here. Older then the Ponds by multiples of there age, but acting like a child. Throwing a tantrum when he see's Amy's fate. Shouting at the Ponds, and crying, as Amy leaves him, for Rory. In the end, Amy chooses a marriage, she chooses her husband over her raggedy man. Its funny, aside from Sarah Jane, and the Brigadier Amy is the character we have seen Age the most of the series. We have seen the young beautiful redhead, in middle age, and childhood. We even see her in a school uniform, in Lets kill Hitler.
Been a while since we have seen Mike McShane, remember when him and Tony slattery made Saturday evenings,
http://doctorwhotimevortex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/mike-mcshane-joins-doctor-who-cast.html
Why mention the worst, Amy Pond episodes, Saving the Space Whale-The Beast below and the Pirates. Why not fight vampires in Venice? My favorite Amy episode ``The Girl who waited ''was left out. I
I'm reading! Out loud! Please could you not? ( Something that grinds my gears too, my mother constantly does this)There's something different about you isn't there... the doctor tells Amy
Whats the book? Rory who is sitting lower down the rock. Its a big rock.
Melody Malone She's a private detective in old town New York
She's got ice in heart and a kiss on her lips and a vulnerable side she keeps well hidden (Amy is not impressed by the Doctor's choice of book)
Oh you've read it
You read it out loud and then went yowzah
Only you could fancy someone in a book ( Rory's statement is very odd. Considering 50 shades of grey is topping the best seller lists. ) I'm just reading I just like the cover
Amy turns around. Let me see the cover
No No I'm busy Its your hair, the Doctor sniffs Amy Is it your hair?
Shut up its the glasses. The Scot tells the Time Lord I'm wearing reading glasses now, on my nose see
I don't like them, I make your eyes look lines
No actually sorry
There fine...carry on
Okay I am going to get some more coffee, who wants some more coffee? me
Rory do I have noticeable lines on my eyes now?
Yes No
You didn't look
I noticed them earlier didn't notice them, I specifically remember not noticing
You walk among fire pits centurion
Do I come over there? You can if you like
Well we have company
I'll get a babysitter It is so humiliating when you do that
coffee?
coffee
Rory goes off in search of coffees
Can I have a go (The Doctor borrows Amy's glasses)
Oh actually that is much better That is exciting
Read to me
I thought you didn't like my reading aloud
Shut up and read me a story Just don't go Yowzah. The Doctor chuckles and rips the last page out of his book. He places it in the picnic hamper I hope its not a library copy
Why did you do that?
Oh I always rip out the last page of a book Then it doesn't have to end I hate endings. ..
The Doctor begins to read..
As I crossed the street I saw the thing guy but he didn't see me I guess that's how it began
Rory has fetched the coffee's he crossed the street. I think the top end of fifth avenue -grand army plaza. He is walking through central park coffee's in hand
Rory hears laughter childish laughter behind him, the Husband of Amy looks around , and continues to walk towards the bridge/tunnel in Central park, we have all seen. There is a statue on a fountain behind him, the statue is a weeping angel The laughter follows Rory into the shadows
(Imagine the tunnel in Fall, )
We return to the Dr and Amy. Amy is playing pooh sticks on the central park bridge
I followed the skinny guy for two more blocks before he turned and I could ask exactly what he was doing here He looked a little scared so I gave him, my best smile and my bluest eyes
Beware the Yowzah do not at this point yowse Amy scolds the Doctor
The Doctor is silent he has read on, Amy asks the Doctor What did the skinny guy say?
He said, I just went to get coffee's for the Doctor and Amy
Hello River
We see River Song smiling under a fedora
Hello Dad
Where am I.. How the hell did I get here?
I haven't the faintest idea But you'll probably want to put your hands up
A man points a gun at Rory's back, Another man . African American, Who we saw working for Grayle earlier, asks River song Melody Malone?
Your Melody? asks her father
A car screeches up, Get in advises the Heavy
In present day New York, Amy asks the Doctor, What's River doing in a book, Whats Rory doing in a book
He went to get coffee pay attention. (The two TARDISeers, are crossing the street in Times square)
Now the Doctor and Amy are walking by the Bridge, this is quite a walk, from Central park to Times square, across the bridge is quite far. I hope Amy, was not in heels) Amy has asked how Rory ended up in a book. I don't know we are in New York
The Doctor and Amy arrive at their home from home and safely in the Tardis
Where did you get this book?
It was in my Jacket answers 11 How did it get there
How does anything get there, I've given up asking Amy is scanning the book
Date Date, does she mention the date When is this happening
Yes hang on
April 3rd 1938 ( seems ill omened
We return to pre war, post prohibition days
You didn't come here in the Tardis obviously
Why?
You couldn't have
The scene returns to the Doc and the Redhead
Could'nt have what does she mean couldn't have
The city is full of time distortions it would be impossible to land the Tardis here. Rory looking out the window, can see Grand central station. (Has he gone back on himself? He was walking out of central park surely?)
Like trying to land a plane in a blizzard, even I couldn't do it
Even who couldn't do it... Back in the TARDIS
Don't you too fall out she's only in a book
The Doctor mutters how 1938 will be easy .... He turns a switch on the control, There is a small explosion on the TARDIS console. We see warning messages on the Doctors viewer, and the TARDIS fails to materialise in the NYC sky, opposite the Brooklyn Bridge
Its that it...
1938 we just bounced off it . 11 is a bit shaken by events.
How did you get here Rory asks his wee girl
Vortex manipulator , Professor song shows her father, her toy. Its worn on the wrist. Less Bulky then a TARDIS, a motorbike through traffic ... You?
Not sure, her father half whispers
As Rory and River are driven past a building they are watched by the Weeping Angels
We return to the Doctor and Amy who, have landed the TARDIS in a Graveyard
The weeping angels
, it makes sense
What
Thats what happend to Rory that's what the Angels do Its there preferred form of attack
11 is working on the TARDIS, as he speaks to Amy. The Scot is reading the Melody Malone novel They zap you back in time. Let you live to death
Amy points out the Doctor and her, have a Time Machine, Lets go and get him ( Rory) We've tried that if you noticed. And we are back where we started in 2012.
But we did;t start in a graveyard, what are we doing here
Dunno probably causally linked somehow... Doesn't matter ( The Doctor opens, the TARDIS and sprays a fire extinguisher into the TARDIS, extractor fans on!
We'll we're going to get there somehow we're in the rest of the book
Page 43 your going to break something
I'm what?
Why do you have to break mine... I asked the Doctor He frowned and said because Amy read it in a book and now I have no choice.
Stop no Stop, 11 dashes over to Amy and grabs the book... You can't read ahead you mustn't and you can't do that I've already been reading it Just the stuff that's happening now, in parallel with us that's as far as we go
It could help us find Rory
If you read ahead and you find that Rory dies? This isn't any old future Amy its ours
Once we know what's coming its fixed. I'm going to break something because you told me I'm going to do it. No choice now.( Bleak view of Time travel)
Time can be rewritten
Once you've read it. Once we know what's coming its written in stone. ( 1)
As the Doctor takes Amy by the hand and leads her into the Tardis, the camera lingers on a Tombstone
In loving memory of RORY ARTHUR WILLIAMS
Back in 1938. Rory and River are frogged marched into Grayle's Townhouse. River catches sight of a Chinese vase. Early Chin dynasty I'd say
Correct are you an archaeologist as well as a detective asks Grayle, from the top of his staircase.
( Would an American not say Anthropologist. I studied anthropology in the University of North Carolina)
Back in the TARDIS The Dr, compares reaching NYC in '38 to...Landing an Airplane in a blizzard.
If I am out by a nanosecond, the engines will phase and I'll shatter the planet.
I need landing lights
Landing lights, (I would make passes at Amy in glasses)
A signal to lock on to, what did she say early what dynasty?
Early chin, just as you say. Confirms Grayle Your very well informed
And your very afraid that's an awful lot of locks for one door
River I'm translating. Rory see's the words Rapture of summer appear on a Chinese Pot. I'ts a gift of the TARDIS it hangs around.
This one put him somewhere uncomfortable. Grayle tells, his henchmen Paying attention to Rory Williams, for the first time
The Babies sir?
Yes why not.. Grayle smiles Give him to the babies
Rory is grabbed and hurled down the stairs into a cellar, by Grayles man
The lights are out, you last longer with these. The Hooldum throws Rory a pack of matches
What do you care
its funnier
The Door closes on Rory and we here laughter the giggling of young angels
China 221 BC
A potters shop,
Ahh hello yes... The Doctor is with Amy, special commission from the Emperor and flashes the Chin dynasty Artisan, his psychic paper. While back in NYC, River is being entertained by Grayle, she see's the word Yowzah appear on the Pot.
As Grayle removes her coat, and reveals her cleavage River having seen the message exclaims, Hello sweetie.. Let see crime boss with a collecting fetish Whatever you don't want anyone else to see has got to be your favourite or possibly your Girl friend. ( River pulls apart a curtain, in Grayle's study)
It reveals a weeping angel
So Girlfriend then
What are you doing? ( River is entering something onto her vortex manipulator) Oh you know texting a boy
Yowzah.. Is the message recieved on the TARDIS
Landing Lights We have a signal locking on.
Back in Old New York, Grayle comments on the statue. These things are all over people don't seem to notice. It never moves while your looking
Oh I know how they work, replies Professor Song, whilst looking deep into the Angels eyes
So I understand Melody Malone. The detective who investigates angels
Badly damaged
I want to know if it could feel pain
You realise its screaming the others can hear Is that why you need all the locks? River turns away from the chained angel to address Grayle directly
Grayle flicks a switch. The lights go out and when the lights are returned. The Angel has caught River in it's stony grasp
Your going to tell me all about these creatures and your going to do it quickly
The lights go dark again
In the cellar, Rory strikes a match.
Hello someone there, Rory can hear laughter and something scurrying. He gets up, letting the match burn.
Rory walks over to see three statues of babies, in the centre of the floor. The match burns Rory's fingers, and it goes dark
Rory lights another match, and see's that the statues have moved towards him, from there previous position. Rory scared lurches back, dropping a match, and striking another. The Angels, are now chasing him
Rory can hear the scurrying and the laughter of the baby angels, and something behind him, something larger
Come on come on, Rory lights one match, and a baby angel waits behind him, ready to blow the flame out
Back upstairs, River is still a captive The angels are predators. There deadly, what do you want with them?
I'm a collector Grayle replies. What collector could resist these? I'm only Human!
That's exactly what their thinking
Whats that? What's happening is it an Earthquake?
We can hear the noise of the TARDIS, above Grayle's home we see a flash of bright blue electricity The TARDIS control room, shakes Amy and the Doctor
You bad boy you could burn New York
It means Mr Grayle just you wait till my husband gets home
Just a moment final checks.
Since when
The Doctor flattens his hair, and straightens his tie in a mirror A mirror made by Rolls Royce in England
The Doctor and Amy emerge in Grayle's staircase. Amy runs up the stairs and calls after her man. Rory? Rory?
Grayle has been rendered unconscious by the materialisation of the TARDIS. Rory? 11 catches sight of his woman
Sorry I'm late honey. Traffic was hell
River giggles.. The Dr examines Grayle, Shock he'll be fine
Not if I can get loose
The Doctor approaches river and the Angel, He straightens his hair again.
So where are you now Dr Song?... Hows Prison
Oh I was pardoned ages ago and its Professor Pond to you
Pond? Turns out the person I killed never existed in the first place Apparently there's no record of him Its almost as if someone's gone about deleting himself from every database in the universe.
You said I got too big, says the Dr touching River's nose And now no one's ever heard of you didn't you used to be somebody?
Weren't you the women who killed the Doctor?
Doctor who? 11 scans, the Angel with his sonic, she's holding you very tight (Genius)
well at least she didn't send me back in time I doubt she's strong enough
well I need a hand back Which is it going to be, are you going to break my wrist or hers? Oh no really?
Behind the two regenerates. Amy enters the room
Why do you have to break mine?
Because Amy read it in a book Now I have no choice
Turning to Amy the Timelord You see?
Well what book? Your book, 11 reaches for the paper back in his pocket Which you haven't written yet so we can't read
I see I don't like the cover much
But if Rivers going to write that book she'd make it useful yeah, the mother of the woman trapped by the alien, interjects I'l certainly try, oh we can't read ahead its too dangerous
I know but there must be something we can look at
what a page of handy hints previews? spoiler free. 11 answers sarcastically
Chapter titles.. Red replies. She is a smart tall thing
The Doctor scans, the chapter titles, his eyes rest on THE ROMAN IN THE CELLAR
He's in the cellar..Gimme
The Doctor tosses Amy his sonic, and Amelia runs to rescue and reunite with her husband. 11 kisses, River and goes to follow Amy. Then he stops
Doctor? Doctor what is it, what's wrong? Tell me
11 is reading the chapter list Doctor? Doctor what is it? Tell me
We see the chapter title, the final chapter title
AMELIA'S LAST FAREWELL
Calm down, Calm Down
The Doctor throws a tantrum. A childish tantrum. NO
Talk to me
You get your wrist out. You get your wrist out without breaking it! The Timelord is really angry here
How?
I don't know just do it, change the future. The Doctor yells, and storms off.
Rory?
Amy has made it down stairs to the basement of Grayles house. Where we last saw her husband. She is equipped with sonic screwdriver and torch. Looking for her husband, she catches sight of three statues. Babies on the cellar floor
No their angels! Baby angels!
The Doctor and Amy, see a trail of spent matches, on the basement floor. Did they get Rory? the Pond asks
Where is he... did they take him?
Yes I think so yes. Answered the Raggedy Man. ( You must know that reference)
Hearing the baby weeping angels, giggle and scurry about the floor, the Doctor and Amy beat a hasty retreat upstairs
The statue of Liberty sets our location, Rory is downtown. Just outside Winter Quay
Back at Grayles. The Doctor paces outside the TARDIS, as Amelia talks to him on the stairs
So is this what's going to happen? We just keep chasing him back in time, and they ( The Weeping angels keep pulling him further back)
River comes into the hall. She is scanning on handheld computer. He isn't back in time I am reading a displacement but there are no temporal markers He's been moved in space, not in time and its not that far from here by the look of it
You got out
So where is he? Red asks annoyed
Rory walks up the same stairs, as the PI did earlier. Nurse Williams walks into the same building, We return to the Doctor and the other companions
Come on come on where is he?
If it was that easy I'd get you to do it
How did you get your wrist out without breaking it
You asked I did Replies the mature woman with great cleevage
You just changed the future
Its called marriage honey!
River tells the Doctor and Amy that Rory is not far, there is a car outside. The Doctor asks her to show me,
River writhes in pain. Her wrist is broken. She had lied
Rory gets on the same elevator, as the PI did earlier, he looks down the same corridor, into the Angels lair
Its okay when all those numbers on both units get to zero, that's when we've got a lock okay, thats how we find Rory Why did you lie to me?
When ones in love with an ageless God Who insists on the face of a twelve year old, One does ones best to hide the damage ( So the Doctor has a choice. At least sub or meta consciously in his next regeneration's appearance , interesting. Also River is human now She ages and bleeds. )
It must hurt... come here
Yes, the wrist is pretty bad too
The Doctor, applies gold regeneration energy to River's wrist
Stop it stop it ( The gold regeneration energy heals River) There you are how's that?
Well let see shall we( River slaps the Doctor hard, Amy gasps and the Doctor is left speechless)
That was a stupid waste of regeneration energy...Nothing is gained by you being a .. sentimental idiot Oh You embrass me.. River storms off
River,
Tell you what stick to the science part, is the Doctor's Mother in Law's advice. She follows her daughter outside of Mr Grayle's house, into the street.
Okay why did you lie? Never let him see you damaged ( River is more or less Human now, compare her here with Lets Kill Hitler, where she jumps from windows, and asborbs bullets)
Never ever let him see you age He doesn't like endings.
There you are The Doctor has been looking at River's portable computer He's at a place called Winter Quay The car yes? let's go...
The Doctor, River and Amy head of down town after Rory As the camera lingers on the statues the mother and her son.
There you are The Doctor has been looking at River's portable computer He's at a place called Winter Quay The car yes? let's go...
The Doctor, River and Amy head of down town after Rory As the camera lingers on the statues the mother and her son.
Grayle is awakened from the shock, his house is a ruin. Newspapers spread on the floor. The statues follow him...
We get a sense of Deja vu, as Rory goes up the elevator and comes into the same corridor. The same doors leading off to each apartment, the same red carpet, the spring door of the elevator. But at the end of the corridor an Angel stands ready to pounce. Why would they send him here? River asks, the Doctor why not zap him time, like they normally do.
Winter quay.
Rory Amy followed by her Son in law and Daughter has entered the apartment building at Winter quat, She is is looking for her husband he’s close
Rory Amy followed by her Son in law and Daughter has entered the apartment building at Winter quat, She is is looking for her husband he’s close
Rory? Amy, calls after her husband close
Amy,the Ponds are reunited and embrace
Amy,the Ponds are reunited and embrace
Doctor look at this Why is it smiling? River asks about the statue of a weeping angel, at the end of the corridor. The Doctor notices a sign on the door next to them Amy Rory get out of here..don't look and don't touch.. as he and River barge in the door marked R WILLIAMS
Whose that..
We see an old man alone in bed.. reaching and coughing
Whose that..
We see an old man alone in bed.. reaching and coughing
Amy please Amy please please
Rory ?Amy walks over to the old man, in bed, and takes him by the hand. The Doctor is looking away.
Rory looks on at himself, He’s you. Rory turns away, The Old Rory says his wife's name and holding her hand ,Rory breathes his last.
Someone please tell me what is going on? The Nurse wants a diagnosis from the Doctor
I’m sorry Rory but you just died...
The Typewriter spells out the legend death at Winter Quay
The place is policed by Angels every time you try to escape you get zapped back in time
So this place belongs to the angels they built it? The Timelord explains to Amelia that the weeping angels when they bring people back through time they creates time energy and that is what the angels feed on. Normally its a one of a hit and run, if they could keep hold of there victims feed of there time energy over and over again. This place is a farm. A battery farm, How many angels in new york? the Dr asks his wife
Its like they've taken over every statue in the city replies Professor Song The Angels take Manhatten, because they can They've never had a food source like this the city that never sleeps What was that? ( There is shunting and banging off screen)
So this place belongs to the angels they built it? The Timelord explains to Amelia that the weeping angels when they bring people back through time they creates time energy and that is what the angels feed on. Normally its a one of a hit and run, if they could keep hold of there victims feed of there time energy over and over again. This place is a farm. A battery farm, How many angels in new york? the Dr asks his wife
Its like they've taken over every statue in the city replies Professor Song The Angels take Manhatten, because they can They've never had a food source like this the city that never sleeps What was that? ( There is shunting and banging off screen)
I don’t know but I think there coming for you
What does that mean? what's going to happen to me? What is physically going to happen?
What does that mean? what's going to happen to me? What is physically going to happen?
The angels will come for you, send you back in time to this very spot Thirty Forty years ago and you will live out the rest of your life in that room Until you die in that bed
And will Amy be there?
No
How do you know demands Red Because he was so pleased to see you again
Okay well they have't taken me yet.. Mr Williams, states brings his hands together. What if I just run? What if I just get the hell out of here.. than that ...
How do you know demands Red Because he was so pleased to see you again
Okay well they have't taken me yet.. Mr Williams, states brings his hands together. What if I just run? What if I just get the hell out of here.. than that ...
Its already happened Rory You've just witnessed your own future
He's right River disagrees, No He isn't 11 rebuts If Rory got out, it would create a paradox
What is that?, Amy asks about the crashing
This is the angel's food source The paradox poisons the well It could kill them all This whole place would literally unhappen
It would be almost impossible
He's right River disagrees, No He isn't 11 rebuts If Rory got out, it would create a paradox
What is that?, Amy asks about the crashing
This is the angel's food source The paradox poisons the well It could kill them all This whole place would literally unhappen
It would be almost impossible
Loving the almost...River points out there is a chance. A slim chance, but it could be done
But to create a paradox like that takes almost unimaginable power
I wotn't let them take him, Amy takes her husband hand
But to create a paradox like that takes almost unimaginable power
I wotn't let them take him, Amy takes her husband hand
Whatever that thing is its getting closer
Rory even if you got out, you'd have to keep running for the rest of your life
They would be chasing you forever.. The last Lord of Time, warns the Last of the Centurions. There will be no escape for Rory from the Angels. Well then better get started, Amy adds She opens, the door, and spies an Angel dead ahead. Pardon the term Husband run! Amelia tells Rory
River I'm not sure this can work, the Doctor confesses, as he draws his sonic
River I'm not sure this can work, the Doctor confesses, as he draws his sonic
Husband shut up her Amy's Daughter tells her spouse. As they confront the two angels. It goes dark and the Angels raise their hands to strike
The Ponds made it to the stairs where an angel blocks their path, Up What good's up ? Better than down
Any ideas? River begs as she and the Doc are surrounded by Angels, Run!
Rory has fled onto the roof of the building
The Statue of liberty possessed by the weeping Angel, with those huge teeth, lurk and leer behind Rory
The Doctor and River make it out to the stairs. An Angel below them Okay fire escape
The Doctor and River make it out to the stairs. An Angel below them Okay fire escape
I always wanted to visit the statue of Liberty I guess she got impatient
The Statue of Liberty is possesed by a huge weeping Angel, it surrounds the Ponds on the roof, same as Garner was trapped.
Keep your eyes on that, Rory commands
is there a way down
Er no But there's a way out
is there a way down
Er no But there's a way out
What are you doing
Rory gets up onto the ledge of the building himself, an Amy are on a NYC skyscraper. Amy has her back to her beloved, to cover the huge weeping Angel menacing them
Rory what are you doing? Rory stop it you;ll die!
Yeah twice in the same building in the same night Who else could do that Rory has climbed up to the ledge of the building, the side walk 10 storeys clear below Just come down please, Amy pleads
This is what I need to do This will work If I die now, its a paradox right a paradox kills the Angels Tell me I'm wrong? Go on please because I am really scared Great The one time you can’t manage it
Rory leans a little too far back on the ledge and steadies himself Amy I’m goin to need a little help here
Just stop it
Just think it through this will work This will kill the Angels.
It will kill you to
Will it? River said this place will be erased from time, never existed If it never existed What did I fall off?
Just think it through this will work This will kill the Angels.
It will kill you to
Will it? River said this place will be erased from time, never existed If it never existed What did I fall off?
You think you'll just come back to life
When don;t I ?
Rory
What else is there Dying of old age down stairs never seeing you again?
When don;t I ?
Rory
What else is there Dying of old age down stairs never seeing you again?
Amy please if you love me,than trust me and push
I can’t You have to! Could you if it was me Could you do it
To save you I could do anything
Amy cries, she is so beautiful. Amy climbs on the ledge next to her Husband, the weeping Angels, behind her, death in front of her
Prove it... Amy has climbed up beside Rory on to the ledge and l
Shut up
You said you'd come back to life Money where your mouth is time
Amy.. Shut up Together or not at all
Amy.. Shut up Together or not at all
What the hell are you doing? Shouts, screams begs the Doctor, he and River have got up onto the roof of the syscraper, and the Doctor has seen his companions.
Creating the future, its called marriage.
The Ponds staring into each others eyes jump, they jump off the roof, they fall to their deaths They embrace as they fall. Amy Amy Amy!
River looking away sees it first Doctor, what's happening? There is a light swirling to the Time lord, and River's flank.
The paradox its working the paradox is working
Light, White light, and we see a stone Angel Rory beat the angels.
Light, White light, and we see a stone Angel Rory beat the angels.
Where are we? Rory and his wife emerge in a graveyard, in broad sunshine
Back where we started replies 11 You collapsed the time line the paradox worked Were back where we belong
What in a graveyard?
Back where we started replies 11 You collapsed the time line the paradox worked Were back where we belong
What in a graveyard?
This happened last time Why always here. (Is this a reference The Ponds have woken up in the Graveyard.(I presume its that one you see outside NYC as you drive in. It seems to be huge, borders the freeway to JFK)
Does it matter we got lucky, we could have blown NY off the planet ... can't take the TARDIS back there The timelines are too scrambled... Oh I could have lost you both
Don’t ever do that again What did we do? We fixed it we solved the problem
I was talking to myself The Doctor hugs Amy and Rory and kisses there heads. The Ponds laugh, the Dr runs off to the TARDIS, which River exits,
It could do with a repaint... She tells her hubby
It could do with a repaint... She tells her hubby
I've been busy! Does the bulb on top need changing? I just changed it
So Rory and Amy then
Yes I know I know
I'm just saying River protests
Yes I know I know
I'm just saying River protests
There going to get terribly bored hanging round here all day
Doctor Rory shouts Next time can we just go to the pub I want to go to the pub right now. Are there video games there I love Video games!
Right family outing then. 11, and River walk into the Tardis, Amy is about to follow, and Rory turns arround he has seen something he calls his wife back to look
There a grave stone here for someone with the same name as me
What..
Rory vanishes, he vanishes, Amelia Pond screams Doctor!!! Doctor
Doctor Rory shouts Next time can we just go to the pub I want to go to the pub right now. Are there video games there I love Video games!
Right family outing then. 11, and River walk into the Tardis, Amy is about to follow, and Rory turns arround he has seen something he calls his wife back to look
There a grave stone here for someone with the same name as me
What..
Rory vanishes, he vanishes, Amelia Pond screams Doctor!!! Doctor
An Angel remains impassive where Rory once stood
Where the hell did that come from?
A survivor very week but keep your eyes on. The Doctor scans it
Wheres Rory?
The Doctor sees the Gravestone and reads the name I’m sorry Amelia I'm so sorry
Wheres Rory?
The Doctor sees the Gravestone and reads the name I’m sorry Amelia I'm so sorry
No No, we can just go and get him in the TARDIS One more paradox
Would rip New York apart
Its not true I don;t believe you
Would rip New York apart
Its not true I don;t believe you
Mother its true First time river calls Amy mother in the episode
Amy walks towards the Angel, tears heavy in her eyes That gravestone theres room for one more name isn't there...
What are you talking about, back away from the angel come back to the TARDIS we'll figure something out The Angel would it send me back to the same time, to him?
Nobody knows
But its my best shot yeah..
No
Doctor shup up Yes yes it is
Amy walks towards the Angel, tears heavy in her eyes That gravestone theres room for one more name isn't there...
What are you talking about, back away from the angel come back to the TARDIS we'll figure something out The Angel would it send me back to the same time, to him?
Nobody knows
But its my best shot yeah..
No
Doctor shup up Yes yes it is
I just have to blink
No
No
It'll be fine I know it will I’ll be with him, like I should be Me and Rory together
Melody
Stop it, just stop it.. (River is called by her birth name, and takes her mothers hand. We see the tombstone of Rory Williams )
Stop it, just stop it.. (River is called by her birth name, and takes her mothers hand. We see the tombstone of Rory Williams )
You look after him and you be a good girl, and you look after him
You are creating fixed time I will never be able to see you again..
I’ll be fine
Amy please... Just come back into the TARDIS
Come along Pond please
Raggedy man Goodbye!
Amy blinks and leaves the Doctor forever
NO
NO
Upon the gravestone under the name of Rory Williams, 82, is his beloved wife. Amelia Williams, 87.(She outlived her man by five years I hope she was not too lonely)
The Doctor, weeping at her graveyard.
River at the controls, of the Tardis. River they were your parents
Sorry I didn’t even think
Doesn't matter Of course it matters
What matters is this Doctor don’t travel alone
Travel with me then. But not all the time
One psychopath per TARDIS don't you think. Okay this book, I've got to write Melody Malone I presume I send it to Amy to get it published
Yes yes
I’ll tell her to write an afterword
For you
Maybe you’ll listen to her....
The last page
The Doctor leaves the TARDIS and we see the Doctor running through central park. 11 arrives at the central ridge where he and Amy had been playing Pooh sticks before
Afterword.... By Amelia Williams - ( Oh she settled for Williams, not Pond) We hear from decades in the past a voice we love
Hello old friend ( Babylon five reference Mr Moffat?) and here we are you and me, on the last page By the time you read these words Rory and I will be long gone. So know that we lived well and where very happy
Above all else Know that we will love you always
Sometimes, I do worry about you though I think once we're gone you won't be coming back here for a while, and you might be alone Which you should never be
Don't be alone Doctor, and do one moe thing for me
There a little girl waiting in the Garden, she's going to wait a long while
So she's going to need a lot of hope
So she's going to need a lot of hope
Go to her Tell her a story tell her if she's patient the days are coming which she'll never forget
And tell her she'll go to sea and fight pirates
Fall in love with a man who'll wait 2000 years to keep her safe
Give hope to the greatest painter who ever lived
And save a whale in outer space...Tell her this is the story of Amelia pond
And this is how it ends.
Credits
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Oh my God. This was a powerful episode. Really put the audience and the characters through the wringer. The last of the ponds. We will never see them again. This is the first time, someone has created Fixed time. Since I think the Waters of Mars.
The Doctor is shown in a much darker a light. Remember the Gods, are immortal and often capricious You must hide your ageing from them. In the beginning of the episode, we see beautiful Amy, worry about the lines over her eyes. River hides the wound she got breaking free from the Angel. We see the Doctor as the child, here. Older then the Ponds by multiples of there age, but acting like a child. Throwing a tantrum when he see's Amy's fate. Shouting at the Ponds, and crying, as Amy leaves him, for Rory. In the end, Amy chooses a marriage, she chooses her husband over her raggedy man. Its funny, aside from Sarah Jane, and the Brigadier Amy is the character we have seen Age the most of the series. We have seen the young beautiful redhead, in middle age, and childhood. We even see her in a school uniform, in Lets kill Hitler.
Been a while since we have seen Mike McShane, remember when him and Tony slattery made Saturday evenings,
http://doctorwhotimevortex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/mike-mcshane-joins-doctor-who-cast.html
Why mention the worst, Amy Pond episodes, Saving the Space Whale-The Beast below and the Pirates. Why not fight vampires in Venice? My favorite Amy episode ``The Girl who waited ''was left out. I
love the aristea scene as Amy fights the robot in that episode
The Doctor's prediction comes true. The Angels, weak as they were chased Rory.
The Pond's a Nurse and a Kissagram, grappling with the laws of time. Rory grasping the only way to win, to spare himself, he lives out his life, in NYC without his wife. Contrast this with the Two time travellers the Doctor and River, bickering over the state of the TARDIS, two ordinary people who should have been safe at home in bed in leadworth, at the mercy of Aliens. Two beings from the future, sniping over chores
And we see the Doctor standing over the grave of a companion. That is a first. Remember the events of's Amy's choice. The Old, man, watches the young so pretty girl die
I will miss Amy. (1) However does this mean, that the events of her life were written in stone, because 11 goes and tell Amy her story.
The Doctor's prediction comes true. The Angels, weak as they were chased Rory.
The Pond's a Nurse and a Kissagram, grappling with the laws of time. Rory grasping the only way to win, to spare himself, he lives out his life, in NYC without his wife. Contrast this with the Two time travellers the Doctor and River, bickering over the state of the TARDIS, two ordinary people who should have been safe at home in bed in leadworth, at the mercy of Aliens. Two beings from the future, sniping over chores
And we see the Doctor standing over the grave of a companion. That is a first. Remember the events of's Amy's choice. The Old, man, watches the young so pretty girl die
I will miss Amy. (1) However does this mean, that the events of her life were written in stone, because 11 goes and tell Amy her story.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Doctor Who, The Power of Three
The Doctor will be referred to as 11,
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We see the Earth, against the stars and the galaxies, and we hear the voice of Amelia Pond Life with the Doctor was like this.
We are treated to a flash of various Doctor Who episodes, featuring the Ponds - The Eleventh Hour A Good Man goes to War..The Victory of the Daleks .. the Hungry Earth..
An opticians leaves a message on their answerphone, while Rory and Amy go through their fridge. The Dairy products have gone sour
We’ve run out of washing tablets. Says Mr. Williams, and casts a box away
We return to find Rory and Amy sitting in the garden.. We have two lives real life and Doctor life, except real life doesn’t get much of a look in
What do we do?
Choose..
We hear the whir of the TARDIS
Not today though! Exclaims Amy to her husband, who answers in the negative affirmative nahh not today!
Every time we flew away with the Doctor we became part of his life, but he never stood still long enough to become part of ours
(Another flash of episodes. The Big Bang, dinosaurs on a space ship, Night Terrors, the wedding of River song)
Except once
(The Ponds are asleep, and the camera pans around their room)
The year of the slow invasion, the time the Doctor came to stay
A black cube materialises out of thin air, and lands on the table near the sleeping Pond’s bed
(Credits)
Ding dong.. The Doorbell of the Pond’s town house rings
Its’ Rory’s father Brian, who we last saw, in the penultimate episode
Dinosaurs on a spaceship Dad its half past 6 in the morning, his son begins what are you doing lying around? Mr Williams senior demands of Rory and his pretty daughter in law. Brian is brandishing a Box, a black cube
what are they, ?
Nobody knows! There everywhere!
Where have they come from… wait…. Doctor?
Invasion of the very small cubes. We see the Doctor sitting on top of a climbing frame, he studies a cube through a monocle
Then BBC news footage is used as a framing device.. World leaders are appealing for calm… The global appearance of billions of small cubes…Despite official warnings
Professor Brian Cox does a cameo he says there certainly not random space debris, there too perfectly formed for that .. are they extra terrestrial in origin ? well you have to ask a better man than answers the other good Doctor
In side the Tardis, The Doctor describes the Cubes.
Twitter!- Moffat does not remember it kindly
I recommend we treat this as a hostile incursion Kate wants to gather up all the cubes, and store them centrally in a secure facility . It would however take massive international co operation Which for the moment is not possible
The cubes arrived in plain sight in vast quantities as the sun rose ( The sun was not rising on the other side of the world Doctor) Maybe they wanted to be seen noticed. More then that They want to be observed, so we observe them, stay with them round the clock, ( The Doctor has a cube in his hand and picks it up and tosses it in the air)Watch the cubes day and night record absolutely everything about them
4 days nothing ( We see the Doctor sitting upside down, head to the floor on the Pond’s couch)
Not a single change in any cube anywhere
4 days I am still in your lounge. You were the one who wanted to observe them The Doctor thought that the Cubes would do something, not just sit there while everyone eats endless cereal
(Finally someone has said it, constantly eating cereal is gross)
You said we had to be patient
Yes you you not me..I hate being patient patience is for wimps
The Doctor have got up, and stormed about comes back down, I can’t live like this don’t make me. I need to be busy
Fine be busy Amy yells we’ll watch the cubes
Montage shows 11, staining the Pond’s fence, with wood stain, playing keepy uppy with a soccer ball, according to the Dr he does nearly a million We see the Time lord hoovering and working on a car
That’s better nothing like a bit of activity to pass the time, how long was I gone? About an hour Cant’ do it The Doctor vaunts over the settee and gets into the TARDIS
Brian your still here ( Rory’s dad is sitting in the TARDIS)
You told me to watch the cubes four days ago Doesn’t time fly when your alone with your thoughts You can’t just leave Doctor,
Quick jaunt restore sanity come if you like
Brian tells the Doctor his son and daughter in law, can;t just go off like that
Can’t you asks the Timelord
I’ve got my job oh yes the universe is waiting but you have a little job to do
Its not little its important to me Look what you do isn’t all there is
(Rory’s dad looks at the Doctor)
Never said it was..Alright Fine.. I’ll be back soon, monitor the cubes ( The Doctor is a bit upset, and surprised by Rory’s reaction) Call me I’ll have the TARDIS set to every Earth’s newsfeed. The Ponds, leave the Tardis
BBC news insert, end of a week of cubic theories but no answers. The ticker across the bottom of the newsclip asks invasion or marketing campaign?
October
Amy is at a party with Rory. I’m so pleased for you too, its about time you made an honest woman of her
The bride asks Amy about Bridesmaids.. (No not, the recent motion picture)I’m so totally there whatever you need
Rory is in his hospital pushing a trolley and talking with a Doctor. Everyone here loves you the nurses. The Doctors your a life saver mate… But there are months where we don’t see you We can’t do without you. I want you to go fulltime
Full time.. blimey !
The scene returns to the Pond’s home. They are in bed. Its 10 50pm
I said yes
I committed to being a bridesmaid Months in advance like I know I am going to be here
The Doctors God knows where the cubes aren’t doing anything could real life just get started
I like it.so do I
Brian’s log day 67 you can’t call it that Brian’s log Brian’s log day 67 cube was quiet all night .. cube was quiet all day as per previously no movement no change in measurements
You stay up and watch it all the time Brian replies he records the cube at night, watches the footage on fast forward and emails it off to U.N.I.T
MY middle name is diligence..
Wow I can’t wait to see day 68
don’t mock my log I’m doing what the Doctor asked
Its Christmas.. Slade are playing in Rory’s hospital
Mr Ryan please… again. Mr Ryan has stuck his foot in his toilet. In the corner a mixed race girl sits quietly playing with a cube. Her eyes flash blue
Patient is reading a Len Deighton work. An old man, he is waiting for a prescription
Two male nurses, enter the room. Wearing face masks. The Old man, tells them he is fine, and does not need anything. Along with the little girl.. they surround the patient..The Old man noticing that something is wrong pulls a mask from one of the nurses face. The nurses don’t have mouths, they are Alien and hostile.
The cube at the end of the old man’s bed flashes blue and we see him being bundled off down the corridor by the alien nurses
There are Cubes everywhere. We see one set of cubes piled up at a computer used to keep post it notes. Someone has set up a golf game with three cubes on an office floor. Keeping papers down on a photocopier. A cube used to hold up coffee mugs on a coffee machine, and in bins
June
The ponds are having a barbeque. Brian is at the grill. His daughter in law is on the phone Hey Doctor its me So the UN have declared the cubes provisionally safe whatever that means Banky’s and Damien Hirst have denied involvement The cubes there just here .. Whats its been 9 months. People are just taking them for granted We got o Laura's wedding it was great she’s here tonight .. its our wedding anniversary we thought you might have dropped by ..I left you messages
A bunch of flowers enters the Garden from the house
I know Happy anniversary Come with me and bring your husband.
26th of June 1890. The Doctor takes Amy and Rory to the recently opened Savoy. Rory and Amy have changed into Victorian era clothing. as an anniversary present. Dinner bed and breakast
Rory kisses the Doctor. However all is not well.
Bit of a shock Zygon ship under the savoy half the staff imposters
still its all fixed now
Thought we were going home. The Doctor Rory, and Amy run into an old fashioned bed chamber, they are being chased. They all hide under the bed
It wasn't;t my fault
It was totally your fault
Somebody was talking and I just said yes.. To wedding vows you just married Henry 8th on our wedding anniversary
The Doctor sneezes… Sorry
June again… The Ponds have a cake, The Doctor applauds The Ponds arrive back at there anniversary party. No one has noticed. Except Brian
How long where they away?..I don’t know what your talking about Brian Because there wearing totally different clothes from earlier
7 weeks. I got side tracked a lot
What happened to the other people who travelled with you? Amy’s father in law and Rory’s dad asks the Doctor
Some left me, somewhere left behind, and some not many but some died.. not them, not them Brian never them
can I stay here with you and Rory keep and eye on the cube ( Amy examines a cube) I thought it would drive you mad I’ll be better at it this time I… miss you
Brian’s log day 361 850 pm and there is no movement .. and I am cream crackered ( This is rhyming slang for knackered. Exhausted) Brian nods off to sleep
I sent you out to sell as many cubes as you could in 24 hours and look at it you’ve made a right hash of it. Well Craig your fired
(The Ponds and the Doctor are watching the BBC apprentice )
If I had a restaurant this would be all I’d serve
Yeah right you running a restaurant
I’ve run restaurants.. who do you think invented the Yorkshire pudding
You didn’t
Pudding yet savoury sound familiar
The cube spins.. in front of a sleeping Brian. It wakes him up
Do it again!
Meanwhile Rory is cleaning the kitchen .Amy comes in from the garden and congratulates her husband civilisations saved, surfaces wiped … The Ponds kiss
Where's the Doctor
On the WII again, I’m going for a bath Rory returns to his dishes, but the cube behind him lifts its lid and flashes a blue light
The Doctor is in the Pond’s lounge. He is playing Tennis on the WII, Jumping over the settee second set Doctor Oh if Fred Perry could see me know.. He’d probably ask for his shorts back
Amy is in the master bedroom. (Not the masters bedroom) The cube draws her attention, she touches it. Little spikes shoot out its top, pinpricks enough to draw her blood. Then the cube flashes into life, and we see the rhyming of her heartbeat.
In the Kitchen Rory’s cube lifts it lid, and turns on it light, changing sides, each time, and taking the nurse away from his dishes.
Third set decider out the way dear.. I’m trying to
The bright black Cube next to the Doctor hovers in front of him
Whatever you are,, this planet these people are precious to me and I will defend them to my last breath. The Doctor frowns, is that all you can do hover? I had a a metal dog that could do that The cube opens and the Doctor says oh that's clever what's that
cube shoots at the doctor… chases him about the room, under the couch and out the door. Then the cube interfaces and scans the TV, bringing up lots of information about Earth You really have woken up
Doctor,, Rory calls the Timelord and tells him the cubes are alive
The cube upstairs just swiped me and took my pulse
Mine fired lazer bolts and now its surfing the net
Brian lets himself in. Your never going to believe this my cube just moved it rattled
Rory’s phone rings. Rory mate I’m desperate for help people are saying they been attacked by the cubes. ( Its the Doctor at Rory’s work) Its going to be a long night.
Okay I’m on my way
The strange little girl, who carried off the old man, Observes the conservation clutching a flashing cube,
I have to get to work they need all the help they can get
Brian offers to come to work to help Rory
Take your dad to work night brilliant are you going to be alright here.
Red kisses her husband keep away from cubes . What are you grinning about. The Doctor has been looking at something we’re wanted at the tower of London
Amy and Rory are driven to the tower. A Yeoman of the guard salutes.
Every cube across the world activated at the same moment, explains Kate
You sent me a message to my pyschic paper, you know what I’m almost impressed. A secret base beneath the tower, hope were not here because we know to much Yes I’ve got officers trained in beheading Also ravens of death I like her
Kate takes the Doctor and Amy up some stairs into a laboratory where several cubes are under observation The cubes are behind glass. Some cubes respond to proximity… some create mood swings
er whats this one
Try the door, Amy opens the door, and the cube blasts her with the Birdie song. The last Timelord places his fingers in his ears, and Kate explains the horror of the situation on a loop. Kate then brings the Doctor over to a control panel. This is the latest
Oh dear says the Doctor systems breach at the Pentagon…China.. every African nation…middle East Kate tells the Doctor she has Governments screaming for information and no idea what to tell them
I’m lost doctor we all are.
Don’t despair Kate..Your Dad never did
Kate Stewart…Heading up UNIT changing the way they work. how could you not be? Why did you drop Lethbridge?
I didn’t want any favours though he guided me..even to the end Science leads he always told me Said he learned that from an old friend. The Doctor smiles
We don’t let him down, we don’t let this planet down
They’ve stopped the cubes around the world they’s just stopped the technician with glasses tell Kate. Amy and the Doctor
Active for 47 minutes and then they just die?
Not dead dormant maybe,
Than why shut down
don;t know I need time to think, I need some air.. who has an underground base? Terrible ventilation.
(The Doctor scowls walks off, and is followed by Amy, they end up sitting facing the south bank of the river thames)
The moment they arrived I should have made sure they were collected and burned. That is what I should have done
How? No body would have listened
Your thinking of stopping aren’t you.. You and Rory
I mean we haven’t made a decision
Your considering it Maybe… I don’t know. We don’t know I mean our lives have changed so much There was a time, there were years when I could’nt live without you When just the whole real life thing would drive me crazy But since you dropped us back here, since you gave us this house we built a life
They pull at each other.. Because they pull at me, and the traveling is starting to feel like running away I’m not running away Oh come on look at you four days in a lounge and you go crazy
But this just one corner of one country of one continent of one planet that's a corner of a galaxy that's a corner of a universe that's forever growing and shrinking creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond and there is so much so much to see Amy ..because it goes so fast. I’m not running away from things I’m running to them before they flare and fade forever
Our lives won’t run the same.. they can’t
One day soon maybe you’ll stop I’ve know for a while
Then why do you keep coming back for us ( annoyed tone from Amy)
Because you were the first the first face this face saw and you were seared onto my hearts Amelia Pond and always will be. I’m running to you and Rory before you fade from me.
Don;t be nice to me I don’t want you to be nice to me
Yeah you do pond You always get what you want
(The Doctor looks up alert)
Got what they wanted Errg. The Cubes that’s why they stopped. Come on The Doc, and Amy return to Kate under the tower
Kate before they shut down, they scanned everything. … they made a complete assessment of planet Earth and its inhabitants
( The lights go off)
That's what the surge of activity was…
Problem with the power (The Doctor scans with his sonic) Not possible we got back ups, Kate says clutching her torch
and then wham..
The Doctor Amy and Kate run into the cube room. Something catches Amy’s eye. Its a cube, with the number seven on it.
Why do they all say seven
What so important about 7? seven wonders of the world, seven streams of the river ota Seven sides of a cube. A cube has six sides. Not if you count the inside. (7 of 9)
The cubes across the world all go from 7 to 6
It has to be a countdown… We have to God knows what will happen if it hits zero The Doctor tells Kate to get the message out, use anything from News channels to websites to Radio to text messages people have to know that the cubes are dangerous
Why is this starting now ?The cubes arrived months ago Amy points out, why wait this long?
Because there clever.. Allow People to bring the cubes into the lives and the cubes go about unnoticed but quietly recording everything.. Humans the great early adopters and then wham. Profile every inch of Earth’s existence
Then discover how best to attack us
Get that information out anyway you can
The Doctor goes to the monitor to work on something
Every cube was activated there must be signals energy fluctuations on a massive scale There must be some trace
We need to think of all the variables all the possibitles go go go
THIS IS A NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT, The government advises members of the public dispose of all cubes.. The BBC news reader states. If there are cubes inside your house remove them immediately
A cube counts down from 5 to 4
We are back at Rory’s hospital Get them out of the building away from here as far as you can.. After telling this to a Nurse, Rory spies his father holding an IV
Dad could you get a me a box of tape for dressings it’s just the cupboard round the corner Yes boss.. The other Mr Wiliam’s replies
Brian seems to be in a corridor that goes on for infinity with nothing distinguishing one end from the other
The two male nurses rush past with there trolley. They almost hit Brian. Sorry, excuse me I’m looking for the supplies cupboard I said I’m looking for the supplies cupboard Mr WIlliam’s senior calls after the two male nurses we saw earlier.
Elsewhere in the hospital cube flashes 3, on the girls knee
Rory is looking for his Father..
Hey dad.hey. Rory chases the two male nurses,with the the trolley, The two alien nurses get into the lift. At the end of the corridor
The lift is supposed to be closed off, and shut down there are stickers saying do not use. Rory enters the lift and looks at the wall. Something draws him towards it. Mr Pond-Williams, steps through a portal and onto a Spaceship above the earth. Rory steps onto the bridge of the space ship
Back at the Tower, Amy is telling the Doctor he doesn’t have to do this. She’s right you don’t have to be in there we can do this remotely His scientific adviser tells him (Kate)
Remotely isn’t my style See you after, the Doctor kisses Amy
The Doctor gets into a Small observation room, with a window identical to the room, we saw the cube that played the Birdie song in, earlier. 11, plays with the cube, and smiles at the Redhead
The cube in the room, and across the world. The cubes in cafes, and in the office where they were used as a golf game countdown from 2 to 1 . The girl in the hospital looks on, holding her cube
The cubes hit zero
The cube in front of the Time lord opens
Geronimo! As Kate and Amy look on, The Doctor looks inside the cube
There is nothing in here. The Doctor responds to Amy’s question That's good its not bombs its not aliens
Why why is there nothing inside it doesn’t make any sense? The Doctor gets up and paces about the observation room, he leaves the observation room
On a monitor we see people across the world. Walking up and down the street. Glasses is it safe, asks the Doctor Is it the same all around the world… There empty were safe ? asks Kate
N no no, we’re very far from safe every action from the cubes has been deliberate, why draw attention to the cubes if they don’t contain anything?
Doctor look!
There cc TV feeds from across the world, says the Techie
People on the screen collapse in the street
People are dying, I want information on how people are being affected demands Kate, as she watches people keel over on the pavements
The cubes brought people close together the Doctor speculates and then collapses holding his chest. The cubes had asborbed the power from the powercut, and then released it at the nearest human they could find 7 seconds later. The heart is an organ powered by electircal current and the Doctor has two, one of which has stopped
Short-circuited. The Doctor insists pounding on the Techies chest how to destroy humanity go for the heart!
Crikey moses ( The Doctor mentions the founders of Christianity and Judaism)
Kate tells, the Doctor that the scan he has set in motion has found the places where the electrical surge was sent from 7 of them, all across the world, the Time lord notes. 7 stations 7 minutes why is that important? AHHHHHHH How do you people only manage one heart, ( The Doctor cries out in pain) It is pitful.
Amy rolls her eyes (Yes that is speech in my opinion)
The wormhole bridging two dimensions.. 7 of them hitched onto this planet …but wheres the closest one? Glasses zoom in
The computer scan, homes in on a building somewhere in London
Thats the hospital where Rory works Dad…Dad.. Rory wanders down the corridor after his father, Get away from him
The Doctor, Amy and Kate are at the hospital. How many deaths have been recorded, asks 11? We don’t know we think it could be a third of the population. To Kates reply the Doctor tells Kate she must get the story out, The world needs her leadership right now. The Doctor almost falls, under the strain of one heart. Amy asks him how much longer he will last How much longer I need to locate the wormhole portal, says the Lord of Time. The Doctor scans his surroundings with the sonic screwdriver. Hello Hello
The Doctor’s screwdriver has detected an odd reading from the mixed race little girl, You are giving off some very strange signals, the Dr says as the little girls eyes glow blue and then her face.
Outlier droid monitoring everything, if I shut her down… I can I can’t move. The Doctor collapses as his heart weakens, he falls to the floor Alright desperate measures says the redhead grabbing a defib unit What no no no, that won’t work I’m a Time Lord!
Amy unbuttons the Doctors shirt, and attaches the paddles of the defibulator
Welcome back lefty ! The Doctor is up on his feet and dancing two hearts Back in the game… never do that to me again..
The Doctor and Amy, trace the signal through the sonic, to a Portal to another dimension in a good’s life
The energy signals converge here does seem a bit cramped though. The Doctor steps into the lift, and is followed by the Redhead, the Doctor touches the side of the lift, and sees the distortion in space time. Through the looking glass Amelia
Amy lights up the screen with her smile The Dr and Amy, join the Williams on a space ship
where are ,? were in orbit. One dimension to the left
Amy notices her husband on a table, Rory! The Doctor passes her some smelling salts outlawed in several galaxies.Rory is woken up, and there is a flash… Wow.
Get them out, says the Doctor to his Companion..We see an Alien face. The Ponds, have revived their father and father in law
So many of them, crawling the planet, seeping into every corner the alien states.. Brian stares at the aliens, as his son and daughter in law, pull him away on a hospital trolley
The alien teleports across the room, to face a control screen
Its not possible..The Timelord whispers. I thought the Shakri were a myth. A myth to keep the young of Galifrey in their place.
The Shakri answers the last of Galifrey. The Shakri exist in all of time and none. We travel alone and together. The Seven!
The Shakri craft connected to Earth, through seven portals and seven minutes ..but why?
Serving the word of the Tally
Why the cubes, why earth?
Not earth, humanity, the Shakri will halt the human plague before the spread
Erase humanity before it colonises space
Wht thought the cubes were an invasion, the start of war
The human contagion only must be eliminated .
Who are you calling a contagion? (The Ponds have returned at this point)Oi! Didn’t I tell you two to go?
What is this tally anyway? Some people call it judgement day or the reckoning. Don’t you know? I’ve never wanted to find out
Before the closure there is the Tally, The Shakri serve the Tally
Pest controllers of the universe thats how the tales went
That's some seriously weird bed time story
You can talk wolf in your Grandmothers nightdress facing the Shakri the Doctor speaks So here you are depositing slug pellets. So humans will collect them hoping to find something beautiful inside. Because that's what they are..not pests or plague creatures of hope forever building and reaching. Making mistakes of course every life form does But But they learn, and they striver for greater and they achieve it
You want a tally put there achievements against there failing through the end of time (Doc rejoins the ponds)
I will back humanity against the Shakri ever time
The Tally must be met ...the second wave will be released . He's going to release more cubes to kill more people, is the explanation the Dr gives, when Amy asks what the Shakri meant.
Our best hope now is each other. On Earth we see, Kate on the phone to the secretary general of the U.N
The human plague breeding and fighing and when cornered there rage to destroy. The Shakri tells the TARDIS team Your too late Doctor, the tally shall be met.. The Shakri disapears
He's gone?
He was never really here, just the ships automated interface like a talking propaganda poster... I can stop the second wave... The Doctor scans the Shakri interface with his sonic. I can disconnect all the portals .. drifting in the darks space... ah but.
The Doctor wants to fix the situation, one third of the population have collapsed with cardiac failure. Between the two of the Ponds, suggest restarting those stopped hearts, as Amy did in the hospital
The Shakri used the cubes to stop peoples hearts we're going to use them to turn them back on again. Bingo
Will that work? Creatures of hope, says the Dr and starts to scan. A scanning of the sonic, sets the cubes, into life. Don't let me down cubes your working for me now, scolds 11
Oh dear all those cubes there is going to be terrible wave of energy ricocheting around here any second
Run Team TARDIS runs
I’m going to miss this
All over the world, people who had collapsed recover.. A full UNIT secret office, watches the BBC news report confirming all is well again under the sun
You really are as remarkable as Dad said... Thank you. (Kate kisses the Doctor)
Oi A kiss from a Lethbridge Stewart, that is new!
Oh I'm late for dinner, the Doctor goes to shake Kate hand, makes a face touches his nose with his hand and gets into his car. He salutes her goodbye
The Doctor is having dinner with the Ponds-Williams all of them. They are laughing. I better get going says 11 things to do worlds to save swings.... to swing on..
I know, you both have lives beautiful messy lives,,, I understand says the Time Lord
Actually it you they can't give up says Brian and I don’t think they should. go with him, go save every world you can find
Who else has that chance ?
life will still be here
You could come Brian
somebody's got to water the plants just bring them back safe
So that was the year of the slow invasion..when the Earth got cubed and the Doctor came to stay It was also when we realised something the Shakri never understood what cubed actually means....
The power of three! The Doctor and the Ponds, enter the TARDIS
CREDITS
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Have we seen the last of the Shakri? They seem to big and too powerful to be one episode villains
This must be the first episode of the Pond's/11 adventures that has real world ratifications. We see UNIT, everything before this, say the events of Leadworth in the the 11 hour, could be explained away by he crack, in Amy's wall, the silence et al
Would you let Rory's dad wonder about a hospital unsupervised? What if he steals drugs, what about legal liability
Nice to see a Lethbridge stewart though, will we see a young Winfred Bambera?
Amy is in red
.Rory is in orange
The Doctor is in blue,
other speech is in italics
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We see the Earth, against the stars and the galaxies, and we hear the voice of Amelia Pond Life with the Doctor was like this.
We are treated to a flash of various Doctor Who episodes, featuring the Ponds - The Eleventh Hour A Good Man goes to War..The Victory of the Daleks .. the Hungry Earth..
An opticians leaves a message on their answerphone, while Rory and Amy go through their fridge. The Dairy products have gone sour
We’ve run out of washing tablets. Says Mr. Williams, and casts a box away
We return to find Rory and Amy sitting in the garden.. We have two lives real life and Doctor life, except real life doesn’t get much of a look in
What do we do?
Choose..
We hear the whir of the TARDIS
Not today though! Exclaims Amy to her husband, who answers in the negative affirmative nahh not today!
Every time we flew away with the Doctor we became part of his life, but he never stood still long enough to become part of ours
(Another flash of episodes. The Big Bang, dinosaurs on a space ship, Night Terrors, the wedding of River song)
Except once
(The Ponds are asleep, and the camera pans around their room)
The year of the slow invasion, the time the Doctor came to stay
A black cube materialises out of thin air, and lands on the table near the sleeping Pond’s bed
(Credits)
Ding dong.. The Doorbell of the Pond’s town house rings
Its’ Rory’s father Brian, who we last saw, in the penultimate episode
Dinosaurs on a spaceship Dad its half past 6 in the morning, his son begins what are you doing lying around? Mr Williams senior demands of Rory and his pretty daughter in law. Brian is brandishing a Box, a black cube
what are they, ?
Nobody knows! There everywhere!
Where have they come from… wait…. Doctor?
Invasion of the very small cubes. We see the Doctor sitting on top of a climbing frame, he studies a cube through a monocle
Then BBC news footage is used as a framing device.. World leaders are appealing for calm… The global appearance of billions of small cubes…Despite official warnings
Professor Brian Cox does a cameo he says there certainly not random space debris, there too perfectly formed for that .. are they extra terrestrial in origin ? well you have to ask a better man than answers the other good Doctor
In side the Tardis, The Doctor describes the Cubes.
There all absolutely identical, not a single molecules difference, no blemishes
The Father of Rory speculates on them. What if there bombs billions of tiny bombs or Transport capsules maybe with a mini robot inside. Or deadly hard drives or alien eggs..or messages needing decoding or there all parts of a bigger whole, jigsaw that need fitting together
Very thorough Brian, 11 is impressed stay here watch these the Time lord hands Brian his cube
The ponds are about to step out of the TARDIS,
Very thorough Brian, 11 is impressed stay here watch these the Time lord hands Brian his cube
The ponds are about to step out of the TARDIS,
Amy asks.. is this an alien invasion because that what it feels like
Her husband asks if there are life forms in every cube. I
don’t know 11 replies. ( The Doc is carrying piping on his back)
And I really don’t like not knowing Right I need to use your kitchen as a lab. (The Ponds-Williams have stepped out of the TARDIS following the Dr, they are all carrying bits of pieces I presume for the Doctors experiments)
Cook up some cubes see what happens Rory looks quickly at his phone.
Right I’m due at work
You got a job?
You got a job?
Of course I got a job, nurse Williams replies indignant
What do you think, we do when your not here?
I imagine mostly kissing
I imagine mostly kissing
replies the Alien
I write travel articles for a magazine and Rory heals the sick, his wife replies..
Rory’s shift will start in an hour and he want’s to know where is scrubs are?
A Black Jeep, with Black windows drives up the street, we can hear the radio coms, of the driver Target unconfirmed… may be hostile, voices on radios approaching source now. Men in body armour and carrying guns, walk up to the Pond’s town house
The Doctor is talking to Amy, The Ponds with there house and their jobs… The journalist and the nurse.. a long way from Leadworth
We think its been ten years not for you, or for Earth, but for us The Doctor is being helped by Amy, as he scans a cube 10 years older 10 years of you..on and off Look at you now all grown up!
The Soldiers storm the house. Trap 1 Kitchen secured, Trap 2 Kitchen secured
A Black Jeep, with Black windows drives up the street, we can hear the radio coms, of the driver Target unconfirmed… may be hostile, voices on radios approaching source now. Men in body armour and carrying guns, walk up to the Pond’s town house
The Doctor is talking to Amy, The Ponds with there house and their jobs… The journalist and the nurse.. a long way from Leadworth
We think its been ten years not for you, or for Earth, but for us The Doctor is being helped by Amy, as he scans a cube 10 years older 10 years of you..on and off Look at you now all grown up!
The Soldiers storm the house. Trap 1 Kitchen secured, Trap 2 Kitchen secured
There are soldiers all over my house, and I'm in my pants. Mr Williams Jnr complains my whole life I’ve dreamed of saying that
A woman older then the Ponds, enters the house.
A woman older then the Ponds, enters the house.
Sorry about the raucous entrance… spike in energy reading in view of the last 24 hours we had to check it out
Hello Kate Stewart head of scientific research UNIT… and with dress sense like that. Kate takes something from her pocket, and it scans for two hearts, you must be the Doctor
The Doctor salutes.. I’d hoped it be you
Since when did science run the military. Since me… UNITS been adapting Well I dragged them along kicking and screaming which made it sound more fun then it actually was
What do we know about these cubes?
Far less than we need to.. Unit have run a series of tests on the cubes including heating them and freezing them to 200 degrees Celsius simulating submerging them to a depth of 5 miles dropping one from 10 000 feet in a helicopter and driving there best tank over one. There very impressive
I don’t want them impressive I want them vulnerable with a nice Achilles heel. The Doctor complains, We don’t know how they got here. What there made of or why there here. All around the world people are taking the cubes home Like Ipads that dropped out of the sky Kate Stewart continues Observing that the cubes have been photographed, posted on flickr and YouTube, within three hours the cubes had a thousand separate twitter accounts
Hello Kate Stewart head of scientific research UNIT… and with dress sense like that. Kate takes something from her pocket, and it scans for two hearts, you must be the Doctor
The Doctor salutes.. I’d hoped it be you
Since when did science run the military. Since me… UNITS been adapting Well I dragged them along kicking and screaming which made it sound more fun then it actually was
What do we know about these cubes?
Far less than we need to.. Unit have run a series of tests on the cubes including heating them and freezing them to 200 degrees Celsius simulating submerging them to a depth of 5 miles dropping one from 10 000 feet in a helicopter and driving there best tank over one. There very impressive
I don’t want them impressive I want them vulnerable with a nice Achilles heel. The Doctor complains, We don’t know how they got here. What there made of or why there here. All around the world people are taking the cubes home Like Ipads that dropped out of the sky Kate Stewart continues Observing that the cubes have been photographed, posted on flickr and YouTube, within three hours the cubes had a thousand separate twitter accounts
Flikr is what IG is now, in 2009
Twitter!- Moffat does not remember it kindly
I recommend we treat this as a hostile incursion Kate wants to gather up all the cubes, and store them centrally in a secure facility . It would however take massive international co operation Which for the moment is not possible
The cubes arrived in plain sight in vast quantities as the sun rose ( The sun was not rising on the other side of the world Doctor) Maybe they wanted to be seen noticed. More then that They want to be observed, so we observe them, stay with them round the clock, ( The Doctor has a cube in his hand and picks it up and tosses it in the air)Watch the cubes day and night record absolutely everything about them
4 days nothing ( We see the Doctor sitting upside down, head to the floor on the Pond’s couch)
Not a single change in any cube anywhere
4 days I am still in your lounge. You were the one who wanted to observe them The Doctor thought that the Cubes would do something, not just sit there while everyone eats endless cereal
(Finally someone has said it, constantly eating cereal is gross)
You said we had to be patient
Yes you you not me..I hate being patient patience is for wimps
The Doctor have got up, and stormed about comes back down, I can’t live like this don’t make me. I need to be busy
Fine be busy Amy yells we’ll watch the cubes
Montage shows 11, staining the Pond’s fence, with wood stain, playing keepy uppy with a soccer ball, according to the Dr he does nearly a million We see the Time lord hoovering and working on a car
That’s better nothing like a bit of activity to pass the time, how long was I gone? About an hour Cant’ do it The Doctor vaunts over the settee and gets into the TARDIS
Brian your still here ( Rory’s dad is sitting in the TARDIS)
You told me to watch the cubes four days ago Doesn’t time fly when your alone with your thoughts You can’t just leave Doctor,
Quick jaunt restore sanity come if you like
Brian tells the Doctor his son and daughter in law, can;t just go off like that
Can’t you asks the Timelord
I’ve got my job oh yes the universe is waiting but you have a little job to do
Its not little its important to me Look what you do isn’t all there is
(Rory’s dad looks at the Doctor)
Never said it was..Alright Fine.. I’ll be back soon, monitor the cubes ( The Doctor is a bit upset, and surprised by Rory’s reaction) Call me I’ll have the TARDIS set to every Earth’s newsfeed. The Ponds, leave the Tardis
BBC news insert, end of a week of cubic theories but no answers. The ticker across the bottom of the newsclip asks invasion or marketing campaign?
October
Amy is at a party with Rory. I’m so pleased for you too, its about time you made an honest woman of her
The bride asks Amy about Bridesmaids.. (No not, the recent motion picture)I’m so totally there whatever you need
Rory is in his hospital pushing a trolley and talking with a Doctor. Everyone here loves you the nurses. The Doctors your a life saver mate… But there are months where we don’t see you We can’t do without you. I want you to go fulltime
Full time.. blimey !
The scene returns to the Pond’s home. They are in bed. Its 10 50pm
I said yes
I committed to being a bridesmaid Months in advance like I know I am going to be here
The Doctors God knows where the cubes aren’t doing anything could real life just get started
I like it.so do I
Brian’s log day 67 you can’t call it that Brian’s log Brian’s log day 67 cube was quiet all night .. cube was quiet all day as per previously no movement no change in measurements
You stay up and watch it all the time Brian replies he records the cube at night, watches the footage on fast forward and emails it off to U.N.I.T
MY middle name is diligence..
Wow I can’t wait to see day 68
don’t mock my log I’m doing what the Doctor asked
Its Christmas.. Slade are playing in Rory’s hospital
Mr Ryan please… again. Mr Ryan has stuck his foot in his toilet. In the corner a mixed race girl sits quietly playing with a cube. Her eyes flash blue
Patient is reading a Len Deighton work. An old man, he is waiting for a prescription
Two male nurses, enter the room. Wearing face masks. The Old man, tells them he is fine, and does not need anything. Along with the little girl.. they surround the patient..The Old man noticing that something is wrong pulls a mask from one of the nurses face. The nurses don’t have mouths, they are Alien and hostile.
The cube at the end of the old man’s bed flashes blue and we see him being bundled off down the corridor by the alien nurses
There are Cubes everywhere. We see one set of cubes piled up at a computer used to keep post it notes. Someone has set up a golf game with three cubes on an office floor. Keeping papers down on a photocopier. A cube used to hold up coffee mugs on a coffee machine, and in bins
June
The ponds are having a barbeque. Brian is at the grill. His daughter in law is on the phone Hey Doctor its me So the UN have declared the cubes provisionally safe whatever that means Banky’s and Damien Hirst have denied involvement The cubes there just here .. Whats its been 9 months. People are just taking them for granted We got o Laura's wedding it was great she’s here tonight .. its our wedding anniversary we thought you might have dropped by ..I left you messages
A bunch of flowers enters the Garden from the house
I know Happy anniversary Come with me and bring your husband.
26th of June 1890. The Doctor takes Amy and Rory to the recently opened Savoy. Rory and Amy have changed into Victorian era clothing. as an anniversary present. Dinner bed and breakast
Rory kisses the Doctor. However all is not well.
Bit of a shock Zygon ship under the savoy half the staff imposters
still its all fixed now
Thought we were going home. The Doctor Rory, and Amy run into an old fashioned bed chamber, they are being chased. They all hide under the bed
It wasn't;t my fault
It was totally your fault
Somebody was talking and I just said yes.. To wedding vows you just married Henry 8th on our wedding anniversary
The Doctor sneezes… Sorry
June again… The Ponds have a cake, The Doctor applauds The Ponds arrive back at there anniversary party. No one has noticed. Except Brian
How long where they away?..I don’t know what your talking about Brian Because there wearing totally different clothes from earlier
7 weeks. I got side tracked a lot
What happened to the other people who travelled with you? Amy’s father in law and Rory’s dad asks the Doctor
Some left me, somewhere left behind, and some not many but some died.. not them, not them Brian never them
can I stay here with you and Rory keep and eye on the cube ( Amy examines a cube) I thought it would drive you mad I’ll be better at it this time I… miss you
Brian’s log day 361 850 pm and there is no movement .. and I am cream crackered ( This is rhyming slang for knackered. Exhausted) Brian nods off to sleep
I sent you out to sell as many cubes as you could in 24 hours and look at it you’ve made a right hash of it. Well Craig your fired
(The Ponds and the Doctor are watching the BBC apprentice )
If I had a restaurant this would be all I’d serve
Yeah right you running a restaurant
I’ve run restaurants.. who do you think invented the Yorkshire pudding
You didn’t
Pudding yet savoury sound familiar
The cube spins.. in front of a sleeping Brian. It wakes him up
Do it again!
Meanwhile Rory is cleaning the kitchen .Amy comes in from the garden and congratulates her husband civilisations saved, surfaces wiped … The Ponds kiss
Where's the Doctor
On the WII again, I’m going for a bath Rory returns to his dishes, but the cube behind him lifts its lid and flashes a blue light
The Doctor is in the Pond’s lounge. He is playing Tennis on the WII, Jumping over the settee second set Doctor Oh if Fred Perry could see me know.. He’d probably ask for his shorts back
Amy is in the master bedroom. (Not the masters bedroom) The cube draws her attention, she touches it. Little spikes shoot out its top, pinpricks enough to draw her blood. Then the cube flashes into life, and we see the rhyming of her heartbeat.
In the Kitchen Rory’s cube lifts it lid, and turns on it light, changing sides, each time, and taking the nurse away from his dishes.
Third set decider out the way dear.. I’m trying to
The bright black Cube next to the Doctor hovers in front of him
Whatever you are,, this planet these people are precious to me and I will defend them to my last breath. The Doctor frowns, is that all you can do hover? I had a a metal dog that could do that The cube opens and the Doctor says oh that's clever what's that
cube shoots at the doctor… chases him about the room, under the couch and out the door. Then the cube interfaces and scans the TV, bringing up lots of information about Earth You really have woken up
Doctor,, Rory calls the Timelord and tells him the cubes are alive
The cube upstairs just swiped me and took my pulse
Mine fired lazer bolts and now its surfing the net
Brian lets himself in. Your never going to believe this my cube just moved it rattled
Rory’s phone rings. Rory mate I’m desperate for help people are saying they been attacked by the cubes. ( Its the Doctor at Rory’s work) Its going to be a long night.
Okay I’m on my way
The strange little girl, who carried off the old man, Observes the conservation clutching a flashing cube,
I have to get to work they need all the help they can get
Brian offers to come to work to help Rory
Take your dad to work night brilliant are you going to be alright here.
Red kisses her husband keep away from cubes . What are you grinning about. The Doctor has been looking at something we’re wanted at the tower of London
Amy and Rory are driven to the tower. A Yeoman of the guard salutes.
Every cube across the world activated at the same moment, explains Kate
You sent me a message to my pyschic paper, you know what I’m almost impressed. A secret base beneath the tower, hope were not here because we know to much Yes I’ve got officers trained in beheading Also ravens of death I like her
Kate takes the Doctor and Amy up some stairs into a laboratory where several cubes are under observation The cubes are behind glass. Some cubes respond to proximity… some create mood swings
er whats this one
Try the door, Amy opens the door, and the cube blasts her with the Birdie song. The last Timelord places his fingers in his ears, and Kate explains the horror of the situation on a loop. Kate then brings the Doctor over to a control panel. This is the latest
Oh dear says the Doctor systems breach at the Pentagon…China.. every African nation…middle East Kate tells the Doctor she has Governments screaming for information and no idea what to tell them
I’m lost doctor we all are.
Don’t despair Kate..Your Dad never did
Kate Stewart…Heading up UNIT changing the way they work. how could you not be? Why did you drop Lethbridge?
I didn’t want any favours though he guided me..even to the end Science leads he always told me Said he learned that from an old friend. The Doctor smiles
We don’t let him down, we don’t let this planet down
They’ve stopped the cubes around the world they’s just stopped the technician with glasses tell Kate. Amy and the Doctor
Active for 47 minutes and then they just die?
Not dead dormant maybe,
Than why shut down
don;t know I need time to think, I need some air.. who has an underground base? Terrible ventilation.
(The Doctor scowls walks off, and is followed by Amy, they end up sitting facing the south bank of the river thames)
The moment they arrived I should have made sure they were collected and burned. That is what I should have done
How? No body would have listened
Your thinking of stopping aren’t you.. You and Rory
I mean we haven’t made a decision
Your considering it Maybe… I don’t know. We don’t know I mean our lives have changed so much There was a time, there were years when I could’nt live without you When just the whole real life thing would drive me crazy But since you dropped us back here, since you gave us this house we built a life
They pull at each other.. Because they pull at me, and the traveling is starting to feel like running away I’m not running away Oh come on look at you four days in a lounge and you go crazy
But this just one corner of one country of one continent of one planet that's a corner of a galaxy that's a corner of a universe that's forever growing and shrinking creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond and there is so much so much to see Amy ..because it goes so fast. I’m not running away from things I’m running to them before they flare and fade forever
Our lives won’t run the same.. they can’t
One day soon maybe you’ll stop I’ve know for a while
Then why do you keep coming back for us ( annoyed tone from Amy)
Because you were the first the first face this face saw and you were seared onto my hearts Amelia Pond and always will be. I’m running to you and Rory before you fade from me.
Don;t be nice to me I don’t want you to be nice to me
Yeah you do pond You always get what you want
(The Doctor looks up alert)
Got what they wanted Errg. The Cubes that’s why they stopped. Come on The Doc, and Amy return to Kate under the tower
Kate before they shut down, they scanned everything. … they made a complete assessment of planet Earth and its inhabitants
( The lights go off)
That's what the surge of activity was…
Problem with the power (The Doctor scans with his sonic) Not possible we got back ups, Kate says clutching her torch
and then wham..
The Doctor Amy and Kate run into the cube room. Something catches Amy’s eye. Its a cube, with the number seven on it.
Why do they all say seven
What so important about 7? seven wonders of the world, seven streams of the river ota Seven sides of a cube. A cube has six sides. Not if you count the inside. (7 of 9)
The cubes across the world all go from 7 to 6
It has to be a countdown… We have to God knows what will happen if it hits zero The Doctor tells Kate to get the message out, use anything from News channels to websites to Radio to text messages people have to know that the cubes are dangerous
Why is this starting now ?The cubes arrived months ago Amy points out, why wait this long?
Because there clever.. Allow People to bring the cubes into the lives and the cubes go about unnoticed but quietly recording everything.. Humans the great early adopters and then wham. Profile every inch of Earth’s existence
Then discover how best to attack us
Get that information out anyway you can
The Doctor goes to the monitor to work on something
Every cube was activated there must be signals energy fluctuations on a massive scale There must be some trace
We need to think of all the variables all the possibitles go go go
THIS IS A NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT, The government advises members of the public dispose of all cubes.. The BBC news reader states. If there are cubes inside your house remove them immediately
A cube counts down from 5 to 4
We are back at Rory’s hospital Get them out of the building away from here as far as you can.. After telling this to a Nurse, Rory spies his father holding an IV
Dad could you get a me a box of tape for dressings it’s just the cupboard round the corner Yes boss.. The other Mr Wiliam’s replies
Brian seems to be in a corridor that goes on for infinity with nothing distinguishing one end from the other
The two male nurses rush past with there trolley. They almost hit Brian. Sorry, excuse me I’m looking for the supplies cupboard I said I’m looking for the supplies cupboard Mr WIlliam’s senior calls after the two male nurses we saw earlier.
Elsewhere in the hospital cube flashes 3, on the girls knee
Rory is looking for his Father..
Hey dad.hey. Rory chases the two male nurses,with the the trolley, The two alien nurses get into the lift. At the end of the corridor
The lift is supposed to be closed off, and shut down there are stickers saying do not use. Rory enters the lift and looks at the wall. Something draws him towards it. Mr Pond-Williams, steps through a portal and onto a Spaceship above the earth. Rory steps onto the bridge of the space ship
Back at the Tower, Amy is telling the Doctor he doesn’t have to do this. She’s right you don’t have to be in there we can do this remotely His scientific adviser tells him (Kate)
Remotely isn’t my style See you after, the Doctor kisses Amy
The Doctor gets into a Small observation room, with a window identical to the room, we saw the cube that played the Birdie song in, earlier. 11, plays with the cube, and smiles at the Redhead
The cube in the room, and across the world. The cubes in cafes, and in the office where they were used as a golf game countdown from 2 to 1 . The girl in the hospital looks on, holding her cube
The cubes hit zero
The cube in front of the Time lord opens
Geronimo! As Kate and Amy look on, The Doctor looks inside the cube
There is nothing in here. The Doctor responds to Amy’s question That's good its not bombs its not aliens
Why why is there nothing inside it doesn’t make any sense? The Doctor gets up and paces about the observation room, he leaves the observation room
On a monitor we see people across the world. Walking up and down the street. Glasses is it safe, asks the Doctor Is it the same all around the world… There empty were safe ? asks Kate
N no no, we’re very far from safe every action from the cubes has been deliberate, why draw attention to the cubes if they don’t contain anything?
Doctor look!
There cc TV feeds from across the world, says the Techie
People on the screen collapse in the street
People are dying, I want information on how people are being affected demands Kate, as she watches people keel over on the pavements
The cubes brought people close together the Doctor speculates and then collapses holding his chest. The cubes had asborbed the power from the powercut, and then released it at the nearest human they could find 7 seconds later. The heart is an organ powered by electircal current and the Doctor has two, one of which has stopped
Short-circuited. The Doctor insists pounding on the Techies chest how to destroy humanity go for the heart!
Crikey moses ( The Doctor mentions the founders of Christianity and Judaism)
Kate tells, the Doctor that the scan he has set in motion has found the places where the electrical surge was sent from 7 of them, all across the world, the Time lord notes. 7 stations 7 minutes why is that important? AHHHHHHH How do you people only manage one heart, ( The Doctor cries out in pain) It is pitful.
Amy rolls her eyes (Yes that is speech in my opinion)
The wormhole bridging two dimensions.. 7 of them hitched onto this planet …but wheres the closest one? Glasses zoom in
The computer scan, homes in on a building somewhere in London
Thats the hospital where Rory works Dad…Dad.. Rory wanders down the corridor after his father, Get away from him
The Doctor, Amy and Kate are at the hospital. How many deaths have been recorded, asks 11? We don’t know we think it could be a third of the population. To Kates reply the Doctor tells Kate she must get the story out, The world needs her leadership right now. The Doctor almost falls, under the strain of one heart. Amy asks him how much longer he will last How much longer I need to locate the wormhole portal, says the Lord of Time. The Doctor scans his surroundings with the sonic screwdriver. Hello Hello
The Doctor’s screwdriver has detected an odd reading from the mixed race little girl, You are giving off some very strange signals, the Dr says as the little girls eyes glow blue and then her face.
Outlier droid monitoring everything, if I shut her down… I can I can’t move. The Doctor collapses as his heart weakens, he falls to the floor Alright desperate measures says the redhead grabbing a defib unit What no no no, that won’t work I’m a Time Lord!
Amy unbuttons the Doctors shirt, and attaches the paddles of the defibulator
Welcome back lefty ! The Doctor is up on his feet and dancing two hearts Back in the game… never do that to me again..
The Doctor and Amy, trace the signal through the sonic, to a Portal to another dimension in a good’s life
The energy signals converge here does seem a bit cramped though. The Doctor steps into the lift, and is followed by the Redhead, the Doctor touches the side of the lift, and sees the distortion in space time. Through the looking glass Amelia
Amy lights up the screen with her smile The Dr and Amy, join the Williams on a space ship
where are ,? were in orbit. One dimension to the left
Amy notices her husband on a table, Rory! The Doctor passes her some smelling salts outlawed in several galaxies.Rory is woken up, and there is a flash… Wow.
Get them out, says the Doctor to his Companion..We see an Alien face. The Ponds, have revived their father and father in law
So many of them, crawling the planet, seeping into every corner the alien states.. Brian stares at the aliens, as his son and daughter in law, pull him away on a hospital trolley
The alien teleports across the room, to face a control screen
Its not possible..The Timelord whispers. I thought the Shakri were a myth. A myth to keep the young of Galifrey in their place.
The Shakri answers the last of Galifrey. The Shakri exist in all of time and none. We travel alone and together. The Seven!
The Shakri craft connected to Earth, through seven portals and seven minutes ..but why?
Serving the word of the Tally
Why the cubes, why earth?
Not earth, humanity, the Shakri will halt the human plague before the spread
Erase humanity before it colonises space
Wht thought the cubes were an invasion, the start of war
The human contagion only must be eliminated .
Who are you calling a contagion? (The Ponds have returned at this point)Oi! Didn’t I tell you two to go?
What is this tally anyway? Some people call it judgement day or the reckoning. Don’t you know? I’ve never wanted to find out
Before the closure there is the Tally, The Shakri serve the Tally
Pest controllers of the universe thats how the tales went
That's some seriously weird bed time story
You can talk wolf in your Grandmothers nightdress facing the Shakri the Doctor speaks So here you are depositing slug pellets. So humans will collect them hoping to find something beautiful inside. Because that's what they are..not pests or plague creatures of hope forever building and reaching. Making mistakes of course every life form does But But they learn, and they striver for greater and they achieve it
You want a tally put there achievements against there failing through the end of time (Doc rejoins the ponds)
I will back humanity against the Shakri ever time
The Tally must be met ...the second wave will be released . He's going to release more cubes to kill more people, is the explanation the Dr gives, when Amy asks what the Shakri meant.
Our best hope now is each other. On Earth we see, Kate on the phone to the secretary general of the U.N
The human plague breeding and fighing and when cornered there rage to destroy. The Shakri tells the TARDIS team Your too late Doctor, the tally shall be met.. The Shakri disapears
He's gone?
He was never really here, just the ships automated interface like a talking propaganda poster... I can stop the second wave... The Doctor scans the Shakri interface with his sonic. I can disconnect all the portals .. drifting in the darks space... ah but.
The Doctor wants to fix the situation, one third of the population have collapsed with cardiac failure. Between the two of the Ponds, suggest restarting those stopped hearts, as Amy did in the hospital
The Shakri used the cubes to stop peoples hearts we're going to use them to turn them back on again. Bingo
Will that work? Creatures of hope, says the Dr and starts to scan. A scanning of the sonic, sets the cubes, into life. Don't let me down cubes your working for me now, scolds 11
Oh dear all those cubes there is going to be terrible wave of energy ricocheting around here any second
Run Team TARDIS runs
I’m going to miss this
All over the world, people who had collapsed recover.. A full UNIT secret office, watches the BBC news report confirming all is well again under the sun
You really are as remarkable as Dad said... Thank you. (Kate kisses the Doctor)
Oi A kiss from a Lethbridge Stewart, that is new!
Oh I'm late for dinner, the Doctor goes to shake Kate hand, makes a face touches his nose with his hand and gets into his car. He salutes her goodbye
The Doctor is having dinner with the Ponds-Williams all of them. They are laughing. I better get going says 11 things to do worlds to save swings.... to swing on..
I know, you both have lives beautiful messy lives,,, I understand says the Time Lord
Actually it you they can't give up says Brian and I don’t think they should. go with him, go save every world you can find
Who else has that chance ?
life will still be here
You could come Brian
somebody's got to water the plants just bring them back safe
So that was the year of the slow invasion..when the Earth got cubed and the Doctor came to stay It was also when we realised something the Shakri never understood what cubed actually means....
The power of three! The Doctor and the Ponds, enter the TARDIS
CREDITS
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Have we seen the last of the Shakri? They seem to big and too powerful to be one episode villains
This must be the first episode of the Pond's/11 adventures that has real world ratifications. We see UNIT, everything before this, say the events of Leadworth in the the 11 hour, could be explained away by he crack, in Amy's wall, the silence et al
Would you let Rory's dad wonder about a hospital unsupervised? What if he steals drugs, what about legal liability
Nice to see a Lethbridge stewart though, will we see a young Winfred Bambera?
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