RECAP OF SERIES 6
LONDON 5:02 PM, 22nd APRIL, 2011
EXT. LONDON, DAY
This is a very different London; a steampunk London. The buildings are the same, but instead of the Underground, there are elevated steam rails. Cars get about attached to hot air balloons with propellers.
MAN ON RADIO: And it's another beautiful day in London. There are reports of sunspot activity and solar flares causing interference across all radio signals so apologies for that.
EXT. LONDON, HYDE PARK, DAY
Children are laughing and playing as adults read the paper. One girl is given a sandwich by her mother. Above them, pterodactyls fly, shrieking.
GIRL: Guys, look! (points at pterodactyls)
The pterodactyls swoop down towards the people who run for cover. They pass a sign that reads "Pterodactyls are Vermin. Do Not Feed."
EXT. LONDON STREET, DAY
A Roman chariot waits for the light to turn green. A newspaper vendor is selling the Londinum Cotide. The headline reads "w*r of the Roses Enters Second Year". A TV in a shop window is playing a morning show interview with CHARLES DICKENS.
MALE INTERVIEWER: So do you think you can top last year's Christmas Special?
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: And can you tell us anything about it?
DICKENS: Well, all I can say now is that it involves ghosts, and the past, the present and future, all at the same time...
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Oh, we love a ghost story.
They all fake laugh. On a different channel, MERIDETH VIERA is announcing news headlines.
VIERA: Crowds lined the Mall today as Holy Roman Emperor, Winston Churchill, returned to the Buckingham Senate on his personal mammoth...
INT. SENATE, CHURCHILL'S OFFICE, DAY
CHURCHILL is at his desk being examined by his doctor, the Silurian MALOKEH.
MALOKEH: Not too many late nights in Gaul, I hope.
CHURCHILL: Just the one. I had an argument with Cleopatra. Dreadful woman. Excellent dancer.
Two male slaves(?)in traditional Roman garb and fanning CHURCHILL with large feathers.
MALOKEH: I can tell from your blood pressure.
CHURCHILL: (looks at clock) What time do you have, doctor?
MALOKEH: (checks pocket watch) Two minutes past five, Caesar.
CHURCHILL: It's always two minutes past five. Day or night, it's always two minutes past five in the afternoon. Why is that?
MALOKEH: Because that is the time, Caesar.
CHURCHILL: And the date. Always the 22nd of April. Does it not bother you?
MALOKEH: The date and the time have always been the same, Caesar. Why should it start bothering me now?
CHURCHILL: I want to see the Soothsayer. Where is he?
MALOKEH: In the tower. Where you threw him the last time.
CHURCHILL: Get him!
INT. SENATE, CORRIDOR, DAY
Two Roman soldiers escort the soothsayer who was in chains. The soothsayer is also dressed in a tunic and sandals.
INT. SENATE, CHURCHILL'S OFFICE, DAY
The soldiers force the soothsayer to his knees in front of CHURCHILL'S desk.
CHURCHILL: Leave us!
The soldiers leave. The soothsayer keeps his head down.
CHURCHILL: Tick tock goes the clock, as the old song says. But they don't, do they? The clocks never tick. Something has happened to time. That's what you say. What you never STOP saying. All of history is happening at once. But what does that mean? What happened? Explain to me in terms that I can understand. What happened to time?
The soothsayer looks up and we see it is the DOCTOR. His hair is longer and he has a beard.
DOCTOR: A woman.
Matt Smith
Karen Gillan
Arthur Darvill
DOCTOR WHO
"The Wedding of River Song"
By Steven Moffat
Producer
Marcus Wilson
Director
Jeremy Webb
EARLIER…
INT. SHIP
We see a shadowy, out-of-focus figure approaching through a viewer that keeps cutting out with static. He is wearing the Stetson.
DOCTOR: (V.O.) Imagine you were dying. Imagine you were afraid and a long way from home and in terrible pain.
The figure comes closer and looks up. It is the DOCTOR.
DOCTOR: Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, you looked up... and saw the face of the devil himself. Hello, Dalek.
The DALEK is on its side, small fires burning around it.
DALEK: Emergency, emergency, w*apon system disabled, emergency! Emergency! Emergency!
The DOCTOR uses the sonic to remove the casing lid.
DOCTOR: Hush now, I need some information from your data core. Everything the Daleks know about the Silence!
The sonic opens the data core.
EXT. THE DOCKS OF CALISTO B, NIGHT
A hooded figure walks the dark alleyways. The DOCTOR watches from behind a building.
INT. BAR
The DOCTOR enters the bar and walks straight up to the bartender, a red-skinned alien behind a grate.
DOCTOR: Gideon Vandaleur. Get him. Now.
BARTENDER: Who says he's here?
The DOCTOR puts the Dalek eyestalk down on the counter. The BARTENDER scurries off. The DOCTOR waits at a table, flipping through a copy of "Knitting for Girls". The hooded figure he had been watching sits down and lowers his hood. The man is wearing an eye patch.
DOCTOR: Father Gideon Vandaleur. Former envoy of the Silence. My condolences.
VANDALEUR: Your what?
DOCTOR: Gideon Vandaleur has been dead for six months.
The DOCTOR uses the sonic on VANDALEUR who winces. The DOCTOR then aims the sonic at VANDALEUR'S eye. Inside is a soldier.
DOCTOR: Can I speak to the Captain, please?
The soldier runs off.
INT. TESELECTA, BRIDGE
We see CARTER, the captain from the DOCTOR'S last meeting with the Teselecta. There are sparks flying from the DOCTOR'S use of the sonic on them.
DOCTOR: (on monitor)
Hello again! The Teselecta, time-travelling shape-changing robot, powered by miniaturised people. Never get bored of that! Long time since Berlin.
CARTER: Doctor! What have you done to our systems?
DOCTOR: (on monitor)
They'll be fine, if you behave. Now this unit can disguise itself as anyone in the universe so if you're posing as Vandaleur, you're investigating the Silence... Tell me about them.
CARTER: Tell you what?
DOCTOR: (on monitor)
One thing. Just one. Their weakest link.
INT. LIVE CHESS ARENA
The DOCTOR is sitting opposite a Viking with an eye patch. Between them is a table bearing a chess set. One of the pieces is charged with electricity. A crowd cheers them on from above. The Viking hesitates moving the charged piece.
DOCTOR: The crowd are getting restless! They know the Queen is your only legal move. Except you've already moved it 12 times, which means there are now over four million volts running through it.
The Viking looks up at the crowd who yell for him to make a move.
DOCTOR: That's why they call it live chess. Even with the gauntlet you'll never make it to bishop four alive.
VIKING: I am a dead man. Unless you concede the game.
DOCTOR: But I'm winning.
VIKING: Name your price.
DOCTOR: Information.
VIKING: I work for the Silence. They would k*ll me.
DOCTOR: They're going to k*ll me too, very soon. I was just going to lie down and take it, but you know what? Before I go, I'd like to know why I have to die.
VIKING: Dorium Maldovar is the only one who can help you.
DOCTOR: Dorium's dead. The Monks beheaded him at Demons Run.
VIKING: I know. Concede the game, Doctor... and I'll take you to him.
The Doctor concedes and the crowd groans.
INT. SEVENTH TRANSCEPT
The VIKING leads the way through and underground tunnel, torch in his hand. The DOCTOR walks a step behind. There are skulls on every available surface.
VIKING: The Seventh Transept. Where the Headless Monks keep the leftovers. Watch your step, there are traps everywhere.
There is the sound of something scurrying across the floor.
DOCTOR: Eww! I hate rats.
VIKING: There are no rats in the transept.
DOCTOR: Oh, good.
VIKING: The skulls eat them.
The skulls on the shelves turn to watch their progress.
VIKING: The headless monks behead you alive, remember?
The tunnel opens into a room. There are pedestals in the center with wood boxes resting on top.
DOCTOR: Why are some of them in boxes?
VIKING: Because some people are rich and some people are left to rot. Dorium Maldovar was always very rich.
As the VIKING puts the torch into a sconce, the DOCTOR uses the sonic to scan a beautifully decorated box. After he hears the latch unlock, the DOCTOR slides the door open and peers at DORIUM'S head. DORIUM coughs.
DOCTOR: Thank you for bringing me, Gantok.
GANTOK: My pleasure. (aims a g*n at the DOCTOR) It saves me the trouble of burying you. Nobody beats me at chess!
The DOCTOR sees that GANTOK is about to step on a trap but the Viking steps on it before he can speak. GANTOK falls through the trapdoor in the floor with a scream.
DOCTOR: (rushes over) Gantok!
The DOCTOR looks down into the pit and sees GANTOK surrounded by skulls as they att*ck and he is subsumed. The skulls then turn and look up at the DOCTOR. Shocked, he pulls back and uses the sonic to close the trap. The door slamming shut wakes DORIUM.
DORIUM: Hello? Is someone there? (the DOCTOR walks over) Ah, Doctor! Thank God it's you. The Monks, they turned on me.
DOCTOR: Well...I'm afraid they rather did a bit.
DORIUM: Give it to me straight, Doctor! How bad are my injuries?
DOCTOR: Well...
DORIUM: (laughs) Oh, your face!
INT. SENATE, CHURCHILL'S OFFICE, DAY
CHURCHILL: This is absurd! Other worlds, carnivorous skulls, talking heads. I don't know why I'm listening to you.
The DOCTOR is now sitting at a table.
DOCTOR: Because in another reality, you and I are friends. And you sense that. Just as you sense there is something wrong with time.
CHURCHILL: You mentioned a woman...
DOCTOR: Yes. I'm getting to her.
CHURCHILL: What's she like? Attractive, I assume.
DOCTOR: Hell. In high heels.
CHURCHILL: Tell me more.
INT. SEVENTH TRANSCEPT
DORIUM: Oh, it's not so bad really, as long as they get your box the right way up. I got a media-chip fitted in my head years ago, and the wi-fi down here is excellent. So I keep myself entertained.
DOCTOR: I need to know about the Silence.
DORIUM: Oh. A religious order of great power and discretion. The sentinels of history, as they like to call themselves.
DOCTOR: And they want me dead.
DORIUM: No, not really. They just don't want you to remain alive.
DOCTOR: That's OK. I was worried for a minute there.
DORIUM: You're a man with a long and dangerous past. But your future is infinitely more terrifying. The Silence believe it must be averted.
DOCTOR: You know you could've told me all this, the last time we met.
DORIUM: It was a busy day and I got beheaded.
DOCTOR: What's so dangerous about my future?
DORIUM: On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no living creature could speak falsely, or fail to answer, a question will be asked. A question that must never, ever be answered.
The DOCTOR pulls out a small notebook and reads it.
DOCTOR: Silence will fall when the question is asked...
DORIUM: Silence MUST fall would be a better translation. The Silence are determined the question will never be answered. That the Doctor will NEVER reach Trenzalore.
DOCTOR: I don't understand? What's it got to do with me?
DORIUM: The first question. The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight. Would you like to know what it is?
DOCTOR: Yes!
DORIUM: Are you sure? (the skulls turn) Very, very sure?
DOCTOR: (swallows) Of course.
DORIUM: Then I shall tell you. But on your own head be it. (laughs)
INT. TARDIS
The DOCTOR enters, carrying DORIUM'S box.
DORIUM: (muffled)
It's not my fault! Put me back.
The DOCTOR puts the box down on the seat by the console before going to work the controls.
DORIUM: (muffled)
Ow! I've fallen on my nose.
On the monitor, the DOCTOR pulls up the date and time of his death.
DORIUM: (muffled)
Have you got wi-fi here? I'm bored already and my nose is hurting! We all have to die, Doctor... But you more than most. You do see that, don't you? You know what the question is now, you do see that you have to die!
INT. SENATE, SENATE ROOM, DAY
The DOCTOR and CHURCHILL enter the large room.
CHURCHILL: But what was the question? Why did it mean your death?
DOCTOR: Suppose there was a man who knew a secret. A terrible, dangerous secret that must never be told. How would you erase that secret from the world? Destroy it forever, before it can be spoken?
CHURCHILL: If I had to, I'd destroy the man.
DOCTOR: And silence would fall. All the times I've heard those words, I never realised...it was my silence. My death. The Doctor will fall. (looks around) Why are we here?
CHURCHILL: This?! This is the Senate Room.
DOCTOR: But why did we leave your office?
CHURCHILL: Well, we wanted a stroll, didn't we? (looks at revolver in his hand)
DOCTOR: I think I've been running. Why do you have your revolver?
CHURCHILL: Well... You're dangerous company, Soothsayer.
The DOCTOR looks at his left arm and sees a black line.
DOCTOR: Yes. I think I am.
CHURCHILL: Resume your story.
INT. TARDIS
DORIUM: (muffled)
Doctor, please open my hatch, I've got an awful headache...
The DOCTOR makes an angry, frustrated motion towards the box, almost like he wants to pick it up and throw it across the room.
DORIUM: (muffled)
Which to be honest means more than it used to.
The DOCTOR opens the box to reveal DORIUM upside-down.
DORIUM: It's like some terrible weight pressing down on my...(opens eyes) Oh, I see!
DOCTOR: Why Lake Silencio? Why Utah?
DORIUM: It's a still point in time. Makes it easier to create a fixed point. And your death is a fixed point, Doctor.
DOCTOR: Been running all my life. Why should I stop?
DORIUM: You can't run away from this. Because now you know what's at stake. Why your life ends.
DOCTOR: Not today. (dials the console phone)
DORIUM: What's the point in delaying? How long have you delayed already?
DOCTOR: Been knocking about. Bit of a farewell tour. Things to do, people to see, there's always more. I could invent a new colour, save the Dodo, join the Beatles! (into phone) Hello, it's me. Get him! Tell him, we're going out and it's all on me, except for the money and driving. (to DORIUM) I've got a time machine, Dorium... it's all still going on. For me, it never stops. Liz the First is waiting in a glade to elope with me. I could help Rose Tyler with her homework, I could go on all of Jack's stag parties in one night.
DORIUM: Time catches up with us all!
DOCTOR: Well, it has never laid a glove on me! (into phone) Hello?
INT. NURSING HOME, DAY
A NURSE is on the phone.
NURSE: Doctor, I'm so sorry, we didn't know how to contact you. I'm afraid Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart passed away a few months ago.
INT. TARDIS
NURSE: (over phone)
Doctor?
DOCTOR: Yes. Yes, I...
NURSE: (over phone)
It was very peaceful. He talked a lot about you, if that's any comfort. Always made us pour an extra brandy in case you came round one of these days.
DORIUM: Doctor? What's wrong?
DOCTOR: Nothing. Nothing. It's just...
The DOCTOR hangs up phone and sighs deeply. He then reaches into one of the pockets in his coat and pulls out the blue envelopes.
DOCTOR: It's time. It's time.
INT. BAR
The DOCTOR puts the envelopes on the table in front of the Teselecta, still in the shape of VANDELEUR.
VANDALEUR: Surely you could deliver the
INT. TESELECTA, BRIDGE
CARTER: messages yourself.
INT. BAR
DOCTOR: It would involve crossing my own time stream... best not.
INT. TESELECTA, BRIDGE
CARTER: According to our files, this is the end for you.
INT. BAR
VANDALEUR: Your final journey.
INT. TESELECTA, BRIDGE
CARTER: We'll deliver your messages. You can depend on us.
DOCTOR: (on monitor)
Thank you.
INT. BAR
The DOCTOR heads for the door and VANDELEUR stands.
VANDALEUR: Doctor, whatever you think of the Teselecta, we are champions of law and order, just as you have always been.
INT. TESELECTA, BRIDGE
CARTER: Is there nothing else we can do?
INT. BAR
The DOCTOR lowers his head and walks out the door.
INT. WILLIAMS HOUSE
AMY opens the door for the postman who gives her a blue envelope.
CHURCHILL: (V.O.) Why would you do this?
INT. SENATE, SENATE ROOM, DAY
The DOCTOR looks at CHURCHILL.
INT. WILLIAMS HOUSE
AMY opens the envelope.
CHURCHILL: (V.O.) Of all the things you've told me, this I find hardest to believe.
INT. STORMCAGE
RIVER opens her envelope.
CHURCHILL: (V.O.) Why would you invite your friends to see your death?
INT. SENATE, SENATE ROOM, DAY
DOCTOR: I had to die. I didn't have to die alone.
FLASHBACK TO "The Impossible Astronaut"
EXT. MONUMENT VALLEY, UTAH, DAY
AMY and RORY turn around and we see the DOCTOR lying on the hood of a red 1960s station wagon.
AMY: Doctor!
DOCTOR: Ha-ha! It's the Ponds! (gets off the car and hugs them)
DOCTOR: (V.O.) Amy and Rory. The last Centurion and the girl who waited. However dark it got, I'd turn around, and there they'd be.
INT. SENATE, SENATE ROOM, DAY
DOCTOR: If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.
CHURCHILL: And did you tell them this was going to happen?
DOCTOR: It would help if you didn't keep asking questions. (looks at his arm and sees two more tally marks)(whispers) We don't have much time.
FLASHBACK TO "The Impossible Astronaut"
EXT. MONUMENT VALLEY, UTAH, DAY
A g*n fires and the Stetson is blown off the DOCTOR'S head. The three of them turn around and see a figure silhouetted against the sun. The figure moves slightly and we see it is RIVER.
CHURCHILL: (V.O.) And this woman you spoke of. Did you invite her?
RIVER: (blows on the muzzle) Hello, sweetie.
DOCTOR: (V.O.) Yes, she was there.
EXT. SHORE OF LAKE SILENCIO, UTAH, DAY
The DOCTOR is stretched out on a large picnic blanket. AMY, RORY and RIVER are sitting around the edges.
DOCTOR: (V.O.) River Song came twice.
DOCTOR: (pours wine into RIVER'S glass) Napoleon gave me this bottle. Well, I say gave...Threw. (toasts) Salut!
ALL: Salut!
RORY: So when are we going to 1969?
DOCTOR: (V.O.) Everything was in place. I only had to do one more thing. I only had to die.
The DOCTOR stands and holds up a hand in a wave. RORY and RIVER stand.
RIVER: Oh, my God!
AMY stands and looks with the others as an astronaut stands in the lake
DOCTOR: You all need to stay back. Whatever happens now, you do not interfere. Clear? (walks to astronaut)
RORY: That's an astronaut. That's an Apollo astronaut in the lake. Look.
The DOCTOR stands in front of the astronaut on the beach. The astronaut opens its visor and we see it's RIVER.
DOCTOR: Well, then. Here we are at last.
RIVER: I can't stop it. The suit's in control.
DOCTOR: You're not supposed to. This has to happen.
RIVER: Run!
DOCTOR: I did run. Running brought me here.
RIVER: I tried to fight it, but I can't, it's too strong.
DOCTOR: I know. It's OK. This is where I die. This is a fixed point, this must happen, this always happens. Don't worry... You won't even remember this. Look over there. (looks in the direction of the others)
RIVER: (looks over and sobs) That's me. How can I be there?
DOCTOR: That's you from the future. Serving time for a m*rder you probably can't remember. My m*rder.
RIVER: Why would you do that? Make me watch?
DOCTOR: So that you know this is inevitable. And you are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven.
RIVER: (the arm of the suit rises) Please, my love. Please, please just run!
DOCTOR: I can't.
RIVER: Time can be rewritten.
DOCTOR: Don't you dare. Goodbye, River.
RIVER shakes her head and sobs. The DOCTOR closes his eyes, accepting his fate. There are five sonic g*nshots and the DOCTOR jerks with each one. Realizing he's still alive, the DOCTOR cracks open one eye.
RIVER: Hello, Sweetie.
DOCTOR: What have you done?!
RIVER: Well... I think I just drained my w*apon systems.
DOCTOR: But this is fixed. This is a fixed point in time.
RIVER: Fixed points can be rewritten.
DOCTOR: No, they can't, of course they can't, who told you?!
There is a flash of light as time changes.
INT. SENATE, SENATE ROOM, DAY
The DOCTOR is on the opposite end of the room from CHURCHILL.
CHURCHILL: Well? What happened?
DOCTOR: Nothing.
CHURCHILL: Nothing? (walks to the DOCTOR)
DOCTOR: Nothing happened. And then it kept happening. Or, if you prefer, everything happened, at once, and it won't ever stop. Time is dying. It's going to be 5:02 in the afternoon for all eternity. A needle stuck on a record.
CHURCHILL: A record? Good Lord, man, have you never heard of downloads?
DOCTOR: Said Winston Churchill.
CHURCHILL: (sniffs) Gunsmoke. That's gunsmoke! (lifts g*n) I appear to have fired this.
DOCTOR: (is holding a pike) We seem to be defending ourselves.
CHURCHILL: I don't understand.
DOCTOR: The creatures that lead the Silence. Remarkable beings...they're memory-proof.
CHURCHILL: But what does that mean?
They start to back out of the room.
DOCTOR: You can't remember them. The moment you look away, you forget they were ever there. (looks at arm and sees another mark) Don't panic. In small numbers, they're not too difficult.
As the DOCTOR changes his grip on the pike, he sees that his right arm is covered in tally marks. The DOCTOR and CHURCHILL look up slowly and see the SILENTS hanging from the ceiling like bats. A cylindrical device is thrown into the room and rolls across the floor, beeping.
DOCTOR: Go!
The DOCTOR makes a run for it, knocking CHURCHILL to the floor. The b*mb goes off—it's a flash-bang. The DOCTOR is knocked to the floor by the concussion of the blast. Armed soldiers burst into the room.
SOLDIER: Go! Go! Keep the Silents in sight at all times, keep your eye drives active.
The soldiers keep their g*ns aimed at the ceiling and a woman wearing a black suit saunters into the room.
CHURCHILL: Who the devil are you?! Identify yourselves!
The DOCTOR squints through the smoke at the woman as she moves closer.
AMY: Pond. Amelia Pond.
The DOCTOR laughs and CHURCHILL aims his g*n at her.
DOCTOR: No! (pushes the g*n down) She's on our side, it's OK.
AMY walks closer and the DOCTOR sees she is wearing an eye patch.
DOCTOR: No! No, Amy, Amy. Why are you wearing that?
AMY fires her g*n and the DOCTOR falls back onto the floor.
INT. ORIENT EXPRESS, AMY'S OFFICE
The DOCTOR comes to and sees a ceiling fan lazily spinning. He's resting on a couch.
MAN ON RADIO: The Government has again apologised for extensive radio interference caused by solar flare and sun spot activity.
The DOCTOR'S eyes move from the ceiling and focus on AMY as she leans in the doorway.
DOCTOR: Amy?
AMY: Those stun g*ns aren't fun, I'm sorry. I wanted to avoid a long conversation. You need to get up though, we'll be in Cairo shortly.
DOCTOR: Amy Pond! Amelia Pond from Leadworth, please, listen to me. (pulls himself into a sitting position) I know it seems impossible, but you know me. In another version of reality you and I were best friends. We, we travelled together, we had adventures... (tries to stand but needs the wall for support) Amelia Pond! You grew up with a time rift in the wall of your bedroom. You can see what others can't, you can remember things that never happened.
As he's been talking, we see drawings hanging on the walls from AMY'S adventures. The DOCTOR doesn't notice. He picks up a small crafted TARDIS without realizing.
DOCTOR: And if you try, if you really, really try, you'll be able to...
AMY looks at the TARDIS in his hand and the DOCTOR finally sees it.
DOCTOR: Oh. Oh! (sees the drawings) Oh...
AMY: You look rubbish.
DOCTOR: You look wonderful. (tosses the TARDIS at her)
AMY: So do you. (puts down TARDIS) But don't worry. We'll soon fix that. (holds up tweed jacket with shirt and bowtie)
DOCTOR: Oh!
AMY laughs as she gives him the clothes.
DOCTOR: Geronimo!
The DOCTOR has now changed into his familiar outfit and has shaved. AMY is sitting at her desk.
DOCTOR: OK, you can turn round now. How do I look?
AMY: Cool.
DOCTOR: Really?!
AMY: No.
DOCTOR: Cool office though. Why do you have an office?! Are you a special agent boss lady? Not sure about the eye patch.
AMY: It's not an eye patch. Time's gone wrong. Some of us noticed. There's a whole team of us working on it... You'll see.
DOCTOR: And you've got an office on a train, that is so cool. Can I have an office? Never had an office before! Or a train. Or a train slash office.
AMY: (runs over and hugs him) God, I've missed you!
DOCTOR: OK, hugging and missing now. (breaks hug) Where's the Roman?
AMY: You mean Rory!
DOCTOR: Mmm.
AMY: My husband Rory, yeah? (holds up a sketch) That's him, isn't it? I've no idea, I can't find him. I love him very much, don't I?
DOCTOR: (looks at the sketch) Apparently.
AMY: I have to keep doing this. I have to keep writing and drawing things. It's just so hard to keep remembering... (leans against the desk)
DOCTOR: It's not your fault, time's gone wrong. Do you remember why?
AMY: The lakeside.
DOCTOR: Lake Silencio, Utah. I d*ed.
AMY: But then you didn't. I remember it twice, different ways.
DOCTOR: Two different versions of the same event, both happening in the same moment. Time split wide open. Now look at it. (points out window) All of history happening at once.
AMY: Does it matter? I mean can't we just stay like this?
DOCTOR: Time isn't just frozen. It's disintegrating. It will spread and spread and all of reality will simply fall apart.
There is a knock on the door and a soldier leans in, also wearing an eye patch. It is RORY. The DOCTOR grins at seeing him.
RORY: Ma'am, we're about to arrive. Eye drives need to be activated as soon as we disembark.
AMY: Good point. Thank you, Captain Williams.
DOCTOR: Hello.
RORY: Hello, sir. Pleased to meet you.
AMY: Captain Williams, best of the best, couldn't live without him.
As RORY turns and walks away, the DOCTOR holds up AMY'S sketch and laughs.
DOCTOR: No. (makes a face at the likeness)
AMY: What is wrong?
DOCTOR: (puts down sketch) Amy... You'll find your Rory, you always do. But you have to really look.
AMY: I am looking.
DOCTOR: Oh, my Amelia Pond. (takes her head in his hands) You don't always look hard enough.
AMY: Why are you older? If time isn't really passing, then how can you be ageing?
DOCTOR: Time's still passing for me. (walks away) Every expl*si*n has an epicentre. I'm it... I'm what's wrong.
AMY: What's wrong with you?
DOCTOR: (closes his eyes and shakes his head before turning around) I'm still alive.
EXT. GREAT PYRAMID, EVENING
The train rides a trestle that takes it directly into the pyramid. Painted on the side is a large American flag with "Area 52" underneath it. On top is a spire.
INT. GREAT PYRAMID, EVENING
RORY leads the way down the narrow stairs. The DOCTOR is holding his eye patch with distaste. AMY follows behind.
RORY: You have to put it on, sir.
DOCTOR: An eye patch. What for?
AMY: It's not an eye patch.
RORY: It's an eye drive, sir. It communicates directly with the memory centres of the brain, acts as external storage.
AMY: Only thing that works on them. Because no living mind can remember these things.
The soldiers that were waiting at the base of the stairs fall in behind them.
INT. GREAT PYRAMID, CONTAINMENT ROOM, EVENING
Inside the room are containment chambers in which the Silents are suspended in fluid.
RORY: The Silents. We've captured over 100 of them now, all held in this Pyramid.
The DOCTOR walks up to one of the chambers.
DOCTOR: Yeah. I've encountered them before. Always wondered what they looked like.
The SILENT in the chamber tilts its head at the DOCTOR.
AMY: Put your eye drive on and, you'll retain the information. But only as long as you're wearing it.
DOCTOR: (looks at AMY) The Silents have human servants. They all wear these.
AMY: They'd have to.
RORY: This way.
As they walk through the room, the Silents watch the DOCTOR. The DOCTOR puts on the patch.
RORY: They seem to be noticing you.
DOCTOR: Yeah. They would.
AMY: So why aren't the human race k*lling them on sight any more?
DOCTOR: That was a whole other reality. What are the tanks for?
RORY: They can draw electricity from anything, it's how they att*ck. The fluid insulates them. And I don't like how the way they're looking at you.
DOCTOR: Me neither.
RORY: (to AMY) Ma'am, I'm sure it's nothing, but I should check it out. They haven't been this active in a while. (to soldiers) You two, upstairs, check all the t*nk seals. Then the floors above, get everyone checking.
SOLDIERS: Sir! (leave)
RORY: You go ahead, Ma'am.
AMY: Thank you, Captain Williams. Doctor, this way.
RORY goes to check the tanks as AMY and the DOCTOR continue on.
DOCTOR: Captain Williams, nice fella. What's his first name?
AMY: Captain. Just through here.
DOCTOR: Just give us a moment, just need to... check something... Ma'am. (gives her a light salute)
As the DOCTOR turns back, AMY speaks into a comms unit in her lapel.
AMY: We're in. He's on his way.
The DOCTOR walks up to RORY who is checking the seals on the tanks.
DOCTOR: The loyal soldier, waiting to be noticed, always the pattern, why is that?
RORY: Sorry, sir?
DOCTOR: Your boss, you should just ask her out, she likes you. She said so.
RORY: Really, sir. What did she say?
DOCTOR: Ah, she just sort of generally indicated.
RORY: What exactly what did she say?
DOCTOR: She said that you were a Mr Hottie... ness. And that she would like to go out with you for... texting and scones.
RORY: You really haven't done this before, have you?
DOCTOR: No, I haven't.
RORY: (pause) See you in a moment, sir.
DOCTOR: Yes. (pats him on the shoulder) Yes. (rejoins AMY)
AMY: Come on, Doctor. Time for you to meet some old friends.
RORY: (speaker) Attention, all personnel.
INT. GREAT PYRAMID, KING'S CHAMBER, EVENING
The DOCTOR and AMY walk into a large open chamber that is acting as the nerve center for the project.
RORY: (over speaker)
Attention, all personnel. Please check all assigned containment units.
A female doctor, KENT, is speaking to the woman in charge.
KENT: You were right. Just his presence in the building caused the loop to extend by nearly four chronons.
A digital clock now reads 5:02:57. The seconds keep changing.
DOCTOR: Hi, honey. I'm home.
The woman turns around and we see it is RIVER.
RIVER: And what sort of time do you call this?
RIVER walks away to reveal KOVARIAN bound to a chair.
KOVARIAN: The death of time. The end of time. The end of us all. Oh, why couldn't you just die?
DOCTOR: Did me best, dear. I showed up. (walks around the chamber) You just can't get the psychopaths these days. Love what you've done with the pyramids. How did you swing all this?
RIVER: Hallucinogenic lipstick. Works wonders on President Kennedy. And Cleopatra was a real pushover.
DOCTOR: I always thought so.
RIVER: She mentioned you.
DOCTOR: What did she say?
RIVER: Put down that g*n.
DOCTOR: Did you?
RIVER: Eventually.
KOVARIAN: They're flirting! Do I have to watch this?
RIVER: It was such a basic mistake, wasn't it, Madame Kovarian? Take a child, raise her into a perfect psychopath, introduce her to the Doctor. Who else was I going to fall in love with?
DOCTOR: It's not funny, River. Reality is fatally compromised. Tell me you understand that.
RIVER: Dinner?
DOCTOR: I don't have the time. Nobody has the time, because as long I'm alive, time is dying. Because of you, River.
RIVER: Because I refused to k*ll the man I love.
DOCTOR: Oh, you love me, do you? Oh, that's sweet of you! (starts walking towards RIVER) Isn't that sweet?
AMY: Get him!
DOCTOR: C'mere you!
Soldiers pull the DOCTOR away from RIVER.
RIVER: I'm not a fool, sweetie. I know what happens if we touch.
With a quick smile at the soldiers, the DOCTOR lunges at RIVER and grabs her wrist.
RIVER: Get off me, get him off me!
AMY: Doctor, no, let go! Please Doctor let go!!
The clock moves to 5:03.
KENT: It's moving. Time's moving!
RIVER: Get him off me!
AMY: Doctor!
DOCTOR: I'm sorry, River, it's the only way!
For a brief moment, they are back at Lake Silencio. The soldiers pull the DOCTOR away. RIVER rubs her wrist.
RIVER: Cuff him.
DOCTOR: Oh, why do you always have handcuffs?
The soldiers handcuff the DOCTOR'S hands behind his back.
DOCTOR: It's the only way. We're the opposite poles of the disruption. If we touch, we short out the differential, time can begin.
RIVER: And I'll be by a lakeside, k*lling you.
DOCTOR: And time won't fall apart. Reality will continue. There isn't another way.
RIVER: I didn't say there was, sweetie.
INT. GREAT PYRAMID, CONTAINMENT ROOM, EVENING
One of the Silents waits for the soldiers to pass by before pressing its hand to the glass. It cracks at its fingertips. RORY comes by to check the seals and sees water dripping from the ceiling. What he doesn't see is water coming down the stairs.
INT. GREAT PYRAMID, KING'S CHAMBER, EVENING
RIVER: There are so many theories about you and I, you know.
DOCTOR: Idle gossip.
RIVER: Archaeology.
DOCTOR: Same thing.
RIVER: (walks up to him) Am I the woman who marries you, or the woman who murders you?
DOCTOR: Oh! I don't want to marry you.
RIVER: I don't want to m*rder you.
AMY feels something drip on her head.
DOCTOR: This is no fun at all.
RIVER: It isn't, is it?
AMY: (looking up) Doctor... What's that?
They look up at the ceiling and see a line of water dripping down.
INT. GREAT PYRAMID, CONTAINMENT ROOM, EVENING
As RORY watches, another Silent presses its hand against the glass and it cracks. Yet another creeps down the stairs behind him.
INT. GREAT PYRAMID, KING'S CHAMBER, EVENING
DOCTOR: The pyramid above us. How many Silents do you have trapped inside it?
KOVARIAN: None. They're not trapped, they never have been. They've been waiting for this, Doctor... For you.
RORY bursts into the room.
RORY: They're out! All of them.
INT. GREAT PYRAMID, CONTAINMENT ROOM, EVENING
The soldiers try to hold back the Silents but the aliens begin electrocuting them. g*nf*re has no effect.
INT. GREAT PYRAMID, KING'S CHAMBER, EVENING
A thick plank of wood is placed horizontally across the doors.
SOLDIER: No-one gets in here!
RORY: Ma'am, my men out there, should be able to lock this down we have them outnumbered.
KOVARIAN: And you're wearing eye drives based on mine, I think. Oops!
DOCTOR: What do you mean?
KENT screams as her eyes drive becomes electrified. She falls to the floor.
DOCTOR: Help her! Help her!
As AMY runs over to KENT, RORY helps a soldier whose eye drive has malfunctioned.
AMY: She's dead.
INT. GREAT PYRAMID, CONTAINMENT ROOM, EVENING
Between the Silents and the electrified eye drives, the soldiers are falling quickly.
INT. GREAT PYRAMID, KING'S CHAMBER, EVENING
The DOCTOR groans as his eye drive goes live.
DOCTOR: Eye pads off, now, remove them!
AMY pulls the DOCTOR'S patch off just before hers goes haywire.
KOVARIAN: The Silence would never allow an advantage, without taking one themselves. The effects will vary from person to person... either death or debilitating agony. But they will take you all, one by one.
RIVER goes to AMY to help take her patch off.
KOVARIAN: (patch buzzes) What are you doing? No, it's me... Don't be stupid, you need me. Stop it, stop that!
DOCTOR: (to RIVER) We could stop this right now, you and I.
KOVARIAN: Get it off me!
DOCTOR: Amy, tell her!
AMY: We've been working on something. Just let us show you.
DOCTOR: That's my point. There's nothing you can do. My time is up.
AMY: We're doing this for you!
DOCTOR: Then people are dying for me. I won't thank you for that, Amelia Pond.
KOVARIAN: (straining) Get it...
RIVER: Just let us show you!
AMY: Please.
The DOCTOR shakes his head.
AMY: (turns to RORY) Captain Williams, how long do we have?
RORY: A couple of minutes.
The aliens ram the door.
RIVER: That's enough. We're going to the Receptor Room right at the top of the pyramid. I hope you're ready for a climb.
RIVER leads the DOCTOR out of the room. AMY goes to follow.
RORY: I'll wait down here, ma'am, buy you as much time as I can.
AMY: You have to take your eye drive off.
RORY: Can't do that, Ma'am. Might forget what's coming.
AMY: But it could activate any second.
RORY aims his g*n at the door.
RORY: It has activated, Ma'am.
AMY sees RORY fist clenched and shaking at his side.
RORY: But I'm no use to you if I can't remember. (uses second hand to steady the first) You have to go NOW, Ma'am.
AMY: Yes. Yes, thank you, Captain Williams. (leaves)
As RORY fights off the effects of the eye drive, AMY pauses and looks back at him before continuing out. The door bursts open, the bar of wood shattering. RORY gives in to the pain as the SILENTS enter the room. On his knees, RORY shouts in pain.
SILENT: Rory Williams the man who dies and dies again. (the electricity builds) Die one last time and know she will never come back for you.
AMY returns with a machine g*n and opens fire on the SILENTS, k*lling them. RORY groans.
AMY: (helps RORY up) Come on, you... up you get! You all right? (pulls off his patch)
AMY and RORY start to leave. KOVARIAN calls to AMY, her eye patch halfway off.
KOVARIAN: Amy... help me.
AMY: (walks over) You took my baby from me. And hurt her. And now she's all grown up and she's fine, but I'll never see my baby again.
KOVARIAN: But you'll still save me though. Because HE would, and you'd never do anything to disappoint your precious Doctor.
RORY: Ma'am, we have to go... now!
AMY: The Doctor is very precious to me, you're right. But do you know what else he is, Madame Kovarian? Not here. (puts KOVARIAN'S eye patch back) River Song didn't get it all from you... sweetie.
AMY loops her arm through that of a puzzled RORY and leads him from the room as KOVARIAN screams.
AMY: So, you and me, we should get a drink some time.
RORY: OK.
AMY: And married.
RORY: Fine.
INT. GREAT PYRAMID, CORRIDORS, EVENING
The Silents continue to battle the soldiers.
EXT. GREAT PYRAMID, BEACON, EVENING
RIVER and the DOCTOR arrive at the top of the pyramid.
DOCTOR: What's this? Oh, it's a timey-wimey distress beacon. Who built this?
RIVER: I'm the child of the TARDIS, I understand the physics.
DOCTOR: Yes, but that's all you've got - a distress beacon!
RIVER: I've been sending out a message, a distress call. Outside the bubble of our time, the universe is still turning, and I've sent a message everywhere, to the future and the past, the beginning and the end of everything. "The Doctor is dying, please, please help".
DOCTOR: River, River, this is ridiculous. That would mean nothing to anyone, it's insane. Worse, it's stupid! You embarrass me.
AMY and RORY arrive.
AMY: We barricaded the door, we've got a few minutes…just tell him. Just tell him, River.
RIVER: Those reports of the sun spots and the solar flares. They're wrong, there aren't any. It's not the sun, it's you, the sky is full of a million, million voices, saying yes, of course we'll help. You've touched so many lives, saved so many people. Did you think, when your time came, you'd really have to do more than just ask? You've decided that the universe is better off without you, but the universe doesn't agree.
DOCTOR: River, no-one can help me. A fixed point has been altered, time is disintegrating.
RIVER: I can't let you die.
DOCTOR: But I have to die.
RIVER: Shut up! I can't let you die without knowing you are loved by so many, and so much. And by no-one more than me.
DOCTOR: River, you and I, we know what this means. We are ground zero of an expl*si*n that will engulf all reality. Billions on billions will suffer and die.
RIVER: I'll suffer if I have to k*ll you.
DOCTOR: More than every living thing in the universe?!
RIVER: Yes.
DOCTOR: River, River, why do you had have to be this. Melody Pond... (looks at AMY and RORY) your daughter. I hope you're both proud. (turns his back on them)
RORY: I'm not sure I completely understand...
AMY: We got married, and had a kid, that's her.
RORY: OK.
DOCTOR: Amy, uncuff me, now.
With a look at RIVER, AMY goes over and uncuffs the DOCTOR. The DOCTOR takes a deep breath and turns around, rubbing his hands.
DOCTOR: OK. I need a strip of cloth, about a foot long. Anything will do. Never mind. (unties bowtie) River, take one end of this, wrap it around your hand, and hold it out to me.
RIVER: What am I doing?
They both wrap an end of the tie around their hands.
DOCTOR: As you're told. Now, we're in the middle of a combat zone, so we'll have to do the quick version. Captain Williams, say "I consent and gladly give".
RORY: To what?
DOCTOR: Just say it. Please.
RORY: I consent and gladly give.
DOCTOR: Need you to say it too, mother of the bride.
AMY: I consent and gladly give.
DOCTOR: Now, River, I'm about to whisper something in your ear, and you have to remember it very, very carefully and tell no-one what I said.
The DOCTOR whispers in RIVER'S ear and she reacts as if she's just be told something wonderful, the secret of the ages.
DOCTOR: I just told you my name. Now there you go, River Song. Melody Pond. You're the woman who married me. And wife, I have a request. This world is dying, and it's my fault, and I can't bear it another day. Please, help me. There isn't another way.
RIVER: Then you may kiss the bride.
DOCTOR: I'll make it a good one.
RIVER: You better.
They kiss and time begins to move once more.
EXT. SHORE OF LAKE SILENCIO, UTAH, DAY
RIVER cries as she sh**t the DOCTOR. AMY, runs towards him but RORY and FURTURE RIVER stop her. AMY cries over the DOCTOR'S body. The DOCTOR'S body burns on the funeral boat.
DOCTOR: (V.O.) And you are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven.
EXT. LONDON, DAY
The steam trains, the hot air balloons and the pterodactyls disappear.
EXT. SPACE
As we view the Earth, we hear another verse of the rhyme.
GIRL:
Tick tock goes the clock
He gave all he could give her
Tick tock goes the clock,
Now prison waits for River.
EXT. WILLIAMS BACK GARDEN, NIGHT
AMY is sitting at a table, a blanket wrapped about her shoulders. On the table is a bottle of wine and two glasses. There is a flash of light and crackle of electricity but AMY doesn't even blink.
AMY: Heard there was a freak meteor shower two miles away... So I got us a bottle.
RIVER: Thank you, dear. (picks up the bottle and pours a glass)
AMY: So where are we?
RIVER: I just climbed out of the Byzantium. You were there. So young, (sits) didn't have a clue who I was... You're funny like that. Where are you?
AMY: The Doctor's dead. (sips wine)
RIVER: How are you doing?
AMY: How do you think?
RIVER: Well, I don't know unless you tell me.
AMY: I k*lled someone. Madame Kovarian, in cold blood.
RIVER: In an aborted time-line, in a world that never was...
AMY: Yeah, well, I can remember it, so it happened, so I did it. What does that make me now? I need to talk to the Doctor, but I can't now, can I?
RIVER: (sets down glass) If you could talk to him, would it make a difference?
AMY: But he's dead, so I can't.
RIVER: Oh, mother...of course he isn't. (puts hand on AMY'S leg)
AMY: Not for you, I suppose, you're seeing the younger versions of him, running around, having adventures.
RIVER: Yeah, I am...but that's not what I mean.
AMY: Then what do you mean?
RIVER: OK. I'm going to tell you what I probably shouldn't. The Doctor's last secret. Don't you want to know what he whispered in my ear?
AMY: He whispered his name.
RIVER: Not his name, no.
AMY: Yes, it was. He said it was.
RIVER: Rule One?
AMY: The Doctor lies.
RIVER: So do I... all the time, I have to, spoilers. Pretending I don't know you're my mother. Pretending I didn't recognize the space suit in Florida.
AMY: What did he whisper in your ear?
RIVER: Oh, that man, he's always one step ahead of everyone. Always a plan.
AMY: River, what did he tell you? River!
RIVER laughs.
INT. WILLIAMS HOUSE, NIGHT
RORY comes home and removes his messenger bag. He looks outside as he hears AMY squeal and sees AMY and RIVER hugging. He goes outside.
EXT. WILLIAMS BACK GARDEN, NIGHT
RORY: Hey?
AMY: (hugs RORY) He's not dead, he's not dead!
RORY: Are you sure, River? Are you really, properly sure?
RIVER: Of course I'm sure. I'm his wife!
AMY: Yes! And I'm his... mother-in-law.
RIVER: Father dear, I think Mummy might need another drink.
RORY: Yes. Yes.
INT. SEVENTH TRANSCEPT
A hooded figure is carrying DORIUM'S box solemnly back to its pedestal.
DORIUM: (muffled)
Who's carrying me? I demand to know...I'm a head, I have rights! I want my doors open this time.
The figure places the box gently back in its spot.
DORIUM: (muffled)
I demand that my doors are open.
The figure slides the box open and walks away.
DORIUM: Is it you?! It is, isn't it?
The figure stops and slowly turns around.
DORIUM: It IS you, I can sense it. But how did you do it? How could you possibly have escaped?!
FLASHBACK
INT. TESELECTA, BRIDGE
CARTER: Is there nothing else we can do?
INT. BAR
The DOCTOR lowers his head and walks out the door but darts back in.
DOCTOR: Actually, thinking about it...
EXT. GREAT PYRAMID, BEACON, EVENING
The DOCTOR whispers in RIVER'S ear.
DOCTOR: Look into my eye.
RIVER looks into the DOCTOR'S eye only to see the DOCTOR and the TARDIS. The DOCTOR inside shushes her.
INT. SEVENTH TRANSCEPT
The DOCTOR drops the hooded cloak to the floor. DORIUM is stunned.
DOCTOR: The Teselecta. A Doctor in a Doctor-Suit. (walks back to DORIUM) Time said I had to be on that beach so I dressed for the occasion barely got singed in that boat.
DORIUM: So you're going to do this, let them all think you're dead?
DOCTOR: It's the only way. Then they can all forget me. I got too big, Dorium, too noisy...time to step back into the shadows.
DORIUM: And Dr Song? In prison all her days?
DOCTOR: Her days, yes. Her nights... Well, that's between her and me, eh?
DORIUM: So many secrets, Doctor. I'll help you keep them, of course...
DOCTOR: Well, you're not exactly going anywhere, are you?
DORIUM: But you're a fool nonetheless. It's all still waiting for you... the fields of Trenzalore, the fall of the Eleventh. And the question!
DOCTOR: (mock salute) Goodbye, Dorium. (turns away and walks down tunnel)
DORIUM: The first question! The question that must never be answered, hidden in plain sight. The question you've been running from all your life. Doctor who? Doctor who? Doc... tor... WHO?!
06x13 - The Wedding of River Song
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Time and Space traveling adventures of a Gallifreyan Time Lord only known as "the Doctor" and his companions.
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