06x09 - River Runs Wild

[bunniefuu]

Howdy.

Hello, sweetie.

Oh, my God!

Stay back.

Whatever happens now,
you do not interfere.

Clear?

What's he doing?

Whatever that was,
it k*lled him in the middle
of his regeneration cycle.

His body was already dead.

What do we do, Rory?

Number one -
who did the Doctor trust the most?

This is cold. Even by your
standards, this is cold.

Doctor, I'm pregnant.

We are the Silence.

Hello. Who are you?

You're acting like we've never
done it before. We haven't.

Yo, ho, ho!

We can't tell him.

We are leaving the universe!
How can you leave the universe?

With enormous difficulty!

You're the TARDIS. Yes.

The Flesh... Doctor, leave it alone!

Trust me.

I'm the Doctor.

Given what we've learned,
I'll be as humane as I can.
You need to stand away!

Oh, no.

Where. Is. My. Wife?

This is the battle of Demon's Run.
The doctor's darkest hour.

He'll rise higher than ever before
and then fall so much further.

Amelia Pond!

Get your coat!

'Demon's run
when a good man goes to w*r,

'night will fall and drown the sun
when a good man goes to w*r.'

Protect the child!

A child is not a w*apon!
Oh, give us time. She can be.

'Friendship dies
and true love lies.'

AMY!

'Night will fall
and dark will rise.'

RORY!

RORY!

'When a good man goes to w*r.'

It's me.

I'm Melody.

I'm your daughter.

A beautiful summer's day in Cardiff.

The sun has got his hat on,
the birds are singing

and in the middle of a meadow...
there's a Mini?!

We're in a cornfield,
trying to work out what corn is.

Karen said, "Is it for the cattle?"
I said, "Is it for burgers?"

Arthur said it's sweetcorn.
It's corn.

No, but what does corn make?

What other properties
does it then go on to...?

They can't have all that
just sweetcorn.

All this corn,
peace and tranquillity

is about to be disrupted -
Doctor Who-stylee

Whoo-hoo!

It's good to be back.

It's really good to be back.

We had a reunion last night,
it's kind of weird.

We're in the middle of a cornfield

and I've been driving through it
in a mini at high speed, I must say.

So I had to hold on.

I wanted to have the map in
both hands and it be oversized

but I just couldn't.

It's that bumpy,
you're literally, like...

But I get to do loads of cool
stuff like this in this series.

So I was happy to do it.

Make sure this episode
of Confidential is not corny.

Make sure it's cream of the crop.

I said that,
you're going against the grain.

Oh! That's why they pay us a
medium-to-average wage.

Guys, right there, please.

One of the biggest challenges
was waiting for it to grow.

When Steven wrote this scene back
in February, everybody was like,

great, lovely scene.
Just one problem - no corn.

So we've had to wait until July
now for it to grow,
which is close to transmission.

There's summer when stuff grows and
winter when it doesn't. Who knew?!

Hang on... what's that bit?

That wasn't us!

Aaargh!

Cut there!

With the cornfield scene,
we wanted a big exciting moment

when all three characters
come back together

and I wanted to kick off
the story of Mels

without giving away
who she really is.

So, to make her grand entrance,
Mels picks some sort of fancy car.

What was it again, Prince?

Action!

You said he was funny.
You never said he was hot. Cut!

Me and Matt are going
on a road trip.

We're getting rid of Karen first.
Rehearsal, please.

She brings down our level of cool.

If I had an Aston Martin, it would
have an ejector seat and eject you!

Right! Let's roll!
A wee rehearsal, ladies and gents.

Yeah.

Here we go. And action!

That's me, out of time.

Mels! For God's sake!
I need to get out of here, now.

Anywhere in particular? Let's see.
You've got a time machine,
I've got a g*n.

What the hell, let's k*ll h*tler.

Cut there, thank you.

'As luck would have it, that's
exactly where they went next.'

We're in h*tler's office today.

And h*tler's here.

It doesn't happen every day.
Just standing right over there.

It's a bit weird.

It is one of the coolest sets
they've built.

Normally we'd do something like this
in a real place

but with the TARDIS embedding itself
in the wall they've built it.

It's one of the biggest sets
they've built for us.
It looks amazing.

What do you want?

We looked at photographs,
books and online. There's
many pictures of h*tler's study.

It's was a third bigger again
as this.

It gives the impression
of the study he had.

Who let you in here?

Do not call for help.
This room has been sound screened.

What the hell is that?

Having built such an opulent office,

the Doctor Who team
take the next logical step.

The net curtains
will be at the side, open,

so we can see the TARDIS
coming through the window

but we'll still get some whoosh,
when the glass comes in.

And I want specific bwccch,
rather than sound effect.

So, we built
one of the most beautiful...

larger sets that we've
ever had on Doctor Who

and then we ruined it by crashing
a TARDIS through the window.

That's Steven's fault.
It's not my fault!

I think it needs to come over
on that angle, more towards you,

so it's more in the hydrovane area.

We're trying to set the position
of the woofers.

It's absolutely critical
I get it on the right angle

because if it's slightly off,

it won't hit the window exactly
how I want it.

I've got to get it precise.

We've got one go.

These are my air cannons.
Or we call them air woofers.

We charge these pressure vessels
up with air,

a quick-acting valve,

so when I press the button
it opens the valve, bumping the air
through these barrels

because we put debris in there
and it helps blow it all out.

Come on!

Handing over to Danny for the window
blow! Here we go, nice and loud!

Three, two, one.

You sh*t it! You sh*t my TARDIS!

You sh*t the console!

OK, Danny, is it safe to come in?
One second.

Can't b*at a bit of real debris,
can you? I say so.

OK, can we... ? Yes, good, yes.

Very happy, obviously. Everything
went in the window as well.

You can see what I've done,
made a right mess.

I tend to do that everywhere I go
but, yes, very, very happy.

Wilkommen zu Berlin,
mein Damen und Herren

Only it isn't Berlin.

This being Doctor Who,
the heart of the n*zi w*r machine

is in fact in Swansea.

And she bursts open like this
and you fly back
when the light comes on.

So, whilst the crew
man the barricades,

the cast get ready
to film River's great escape.

River will run from this direction.
Soldier asks her what she's doing.

What are you doing here?
She's very slightly rude.

Gosh, the Third Reich's
a bit rubbish. sh**t her.

And then foils them by regenerating.

Tip for you all.

Never sh**t a girl
while she's regenerating.

I'm getting more and more cool stuff
to do, it's really fun.

I jump on a motorbike,

I get rid of a whole troop
of n*zi soldiers

with the force of my regeneration
and yes,

it's all happening this morning.

It's quite fun, all in a little
corner of "Berlin", Swansea!

Hi, Confo. Confo? Yes.
Yeah. It's quite good today.

We're outside for the first time
in a while and it's a nice day.

It feels like we're on holiday. Yes.
In Swansea.

We're thinking about going
to the beach.
River's regenerating at the moment,

so we thought we've got
a bit of time. Taking her time.

But we're worried we might look
weird in our dressing gowns.

You're worried you might look a
bit weird, I'm pretty cool with it.

We just need to find a blanket
and a bucket and spade. Oh.

Heil!

Heil!

Come on!

Apparently, all the girls are a bit
excited today

because there's a fit one,
a fit n*zi.

You've suddenly turned into
a schoolgirl. I know!

Oh, God, there's a fit n*zi...

Why are you doing a granny voice?

No, that's how you speak.
No, it isn't.

With the TARDIS
having made such an impression...

Look at this, Confidential.
Hey, guys.

That looks great. What a set.

..the crew quickly find the clues
to which party they've crashed.

OK, mark it?

There will be smoke billowing out of
this at the start of the scene.

And, action!

Everybody out! Don't breathe
the smoke, just get out. Get out.
Where are we?

I don't know what room,
I haven't memorised every room
in the Universe.

We are meant to come out
of the TARDIS

and not realise we're in
n*zi Germany.

I don't know if you've noticed
but there's great big signs
with swastikas.

Sorry, is this your office? Had
a sort of collision with my vehicle,

faults on both sides.
Let's say no more about...

it.

Maybe we're all just a bit hazy
from the smoke from the TARDIS.

Taking it a bit too far, Kaz.
That's how I've been playing it!

That's good. That's a good, yes.
Maybe the smoke's got to us so much.

Yes. It affects your eyes.

This box, what is it?

It's a police telephone box
from London, England.

That's right, Adolf.
The British are coming.

Having Adolf h*tler on set
was strange.

The make-up department
and costume department

did such a great job of making
Albert look like Adolf h*tler

that when he walked in
in his costume and the hair
and the little moustache,

into his office with the Eagles
and the swastikas and everything,

it was surreal, I think certainly.

I'm about to punch h*tler
in the face,

which is not something
that happens every day.

And action!

I didn't think I'd get to punch
h*tler in the face
when I got this job.

When I read it in the script,
I did go, that's probably the
coolest line I've ever been given.

He was going to k*ll me.
Shut up, h*tler!

Morning. My name's Crispin, I'm
stunt co-ordinator for Doctor Who.

Welcome to sunny Cardiff.

When the director asks me,

I find out what he wants to see and
what he wants to see in the sh*t.

I'll talk to him about it,
what's the best way?

If I can give him any help
on where to put the cameras

and how to achieve the maximum
benefit from that sh*t,
that's what I'll do.

This is Andy, who's the stunt
driver driving the Mini
for the fast, exterior sh*ts

where we never see
the fact that it's Rory driving.

I'm going to get Andy in the car,
he's going to talk to Arthur
when he's driving the car.

We'll walk up there and then pick
the line. Can we have the rehearsal
with Andy,

so we can come back and see the
framing? Yes.

Is that all right? Great.

And we're off, yes.

Off for a little play in the Mini
in the cornfield.

With Arthur, driving.

Who wouldn't want to drive around
a cornfield in a Mini, hey?

OK?

You're having far too much
fun there, I think, Arthur.

That is brilliant. That was amazing.
Really amazing.

Excellent, lunchtime.
I'm starving.

Yes, we're good now.

Is it running? Yes.

That was great, brilliant,
thank you.

Hang on, something's making a noise
that shouldn't do.

What's just happened is now we've
had the second car, the stunt car

which Andy was driving around the
cornfield, has gone over some pot
hole and it's broken the car.

So we've had to go and swap the
cars, put Andy in the other car

and carry on with those sh*ts.

Because we didn't have an engine

and it wasn't working, we got about
five people to push the car,

so we get that movement of the
camera through the corn and they can
always speed it up afterwards,

so we get the sh*t we need.

Can't use the car now
because Andy's broke it.
So there's nothing else for it.

Unbelievable!

This sh*t here we're going to have,

Arthur's been told he's got to
drive directly at the camera

and at the last minute, the camera
is going to pan up,

so the car goes underneath the
camera but it's going to look like

she's heading towards the camera. I
don't think she's aware of that yet.

Arthur, if you take it much further
along that path,

towards those trucks and then
you turn around, facing my line.

Roger. Move out the way, right?

Don't worry, I'll move out the way.

Action!

I almost had a heart att*ck!

All right?

Jesus! No swearing.

Oh, goodness gracious me!

Very, very good job.

My face was like this. I thought
I was going to go into it.

Well done, perfect.

Ladies and gentlemen,
that is a wrap on series six,
thank you very much.

Here we are, end of the day.
It's finally wrapped, :

and it all went very good,
good stuff today, busy, busy day,

especially this afternoon.

We had so much stuff to do
but it was really good.

Arthur did a great job and Andy did
a fantastic job, so really pleased.

, take two, A camera.

Marker.

Just look at me. Hey, hold on.

I used to dream about you. Those
stories Amy used to tell me.

What stories? Tell me what stories.

Vampires in Venice, that's a belter.

We're filming the part where I,
Mels,

die and regenerate into River Song,
which is quite mad.

When I was little,
I was going to marry you.

Good idea, let's get married. You
stay alive and I'll marry you, deal?

Cross your heart and hope
to die? Yes, of course. Twice.

I looked at the first doctor,
his regeneration,

where it was just him on the floor
and his face changed

to Matt changing and every character
does it differently.

So I'm a bit, still confused about
how I'm actually going to do it.

That moment where she regenerates
into River and we suddenly work out
what's going on,

it's a huge revelation for us
and for everyone at home.

Mels, when we first meet her, is
a lifelong friend of Amy and Rory.

Hi, Mels. Hi, Rory.

But in those flashback scenes, she's
the tearaway and they look after
her - scolding her, telling her off

and Amy's being positively
maternal with her.

You can't keep doing this.

Given that Amy is a tearaway
herself, she's hypocritical.

She's always looking after this
little girl.

When it turns out that little girl,
all along, was her daughter,

she realises in a strange,
twisted, Doctor Who-y way,

she's sort of raised her after all.

OK, explain what is happening,
please. Mels. Short for...

Melody.
Yeah. I named my daughter after her.

You named your daughter...

after your daughter.

Mels,
who has been Amy's childhood friend,

is in fact Melody Pond,

and Melody Pond, then,

regenerates into River Song.

You're Melody?

But if she's Melody, she's also...

Oh, shut up, Dad.
I'm focusing on a dress size.

Cut there, lovely!

'It turns out Mels is River,'

She regenerates, she becomes Alex
Kingston and we realise this is it,

this, from River Song's point of
view, is her first meeting
with the Doctor.

And that story is now beginning.

I've never been regenerated before.
It's about time.

It's quite a privilege, isn't it?

It is quite a privilege, I suppose.
Everybody has to have
their own version of it.

But I just remembered,
all I could think about was

when I was giving birth,
you're in such...

This was my reference as well.

You're in such agony, real agony,

but the moment that the baby is out,
you're fine.

So once it goes,
it's a real static...

Arrgh! The power of it. OK?
Fantastic stuff.

Every regeneration,

what you're trying to do is turn
one person into another person.

You get the camera and the sh*t
set up with the first person,

and you sh**t their performance.

So Nina, who plays Mels,
was giving it everything she'd got,

the power and intensity of it
which goes on afterwards.

And then you tape roll while you
take that person out of the sh*t,

and you bring the other person,
who in this case was Alex Kingston,

you bring her in
and you put her in the same place.

And she does the same thing.

And then it's all pieced together
afterwards.

Right. Let's see, then.

h, it's all going on down there,
isn't it?

'She's almost like a snake
who's shed a skin, or, I guess,'

like one of the Time Lords,

who sheds a skin
and becomes somebody else.

She's suddenly learning to live
in this new body, new look,

new personality, even.

Look at that! Everything changes!

Oh, but I love it.

I'm all sort of... mature.

I think one of the great fun...
to write and perform

is somebody who's just regenerated,
checking out their new body.

If you've got Alex Kingston as River
Song checking out her new curves,

it was just an irresistible comedy
moment to see that all begin.

It's her, all right.

Melody Pond.

The woman who kills the Doctor.

She's been programmed
and brainwashed to be the woman
who kills the Doctor.

So the first thing she wants to do
when she sees him is k*ll him.

That's what she was brought up
and reared to be.

She has been kidnapped
and through all of her life,

up until this moment,
she has basically been conditioned,

a little bit sort of like a sleeper,

she has been conditioned
to k*ll the Doctor.

'The child, then,
what do you think?' What is she?

Hope.

Hope in this endless, bitter w*r.

What w*r? Against who?

Against you.

Doctor.

This moment, in this new persona,

the time has come
for her to try and k*ll him.

I was trained and conditioned
for one purpose.

I was born to k*ll the Doctor.
Demon's Run. Remember?

This is what they were building.

My bespoke psychopath.

I'm all yours, sweetie. Only River
Song gets to call me that.

And who's River Song?
An old friend of mine. Stupid name.

The only time River kisses
is when she wants something.

And she usually has
her hallucinogenic lipstick on.

But in this episode, yes,
she kisses him

because she's poisoning him.

I'm all yours, sweetie.

Kiss kiss.

'This is the start of her story.'

Where she gets the blue book from,
we realise it's the Doctor.

Why she becomes an archaeologist

cos it's the only decent way
she can think of to find the Doctor.

So it's the beginning, the start,
it's the beginning of the River.

, take one, A camera.
And action!

Can you ride a motorbike?

I expect so.
It's that sort of day.

It was very cool to have
proper World w*r Two motorbikes

from the period on Doctor Who.

They looked fantastic, everyone
was really excited about it.

And Arthur, especially,
when he got on that bike,
it was very hard to get him off!

'I think we totally made his day.'

It's just, like...

It's just really exciting.

I had a dream of having
an old German motorbike, for years.

Did you? Yeah, I really want one.

But I obviously can't ride one.
So now, you know, I'm this close.

Vroom!

Thank you very much,
end rehearsal there.

I will be. But not quite there.

But I'm not quite there.

Apparently because I'm actually not
capable of riding one,

I'm not allowed to ride it.

I'm quite looking forward to seeing
you on the back. Oh, no, don't!

I've just gone on the bike
for the first time.

Apparently Andy,
who was riding the bike,
is the world champion at bikes.

Shows how much Karen knows about...

So, um, yeah, I felt quite safe
with him riding it.

But you've been kicked off?
But I've been kicked off.

Kicked well and truly off.
And now they've put Steph,
my stunt double, in to do it.

To achieve the look of authentic
s Berlin,

the production team
sourced some vintage vehicles.

I provide a number of vehicles,

I've got a number of German,
American, World w*r Two vehicles.

I've got a private collection

and I was asked to provide
two motorbikes and a truck.

These are copies
of a German BMW R .

This is actually, really,
a civilian motorbike

pressed into Wehrmacht, German army,
service during the Second World w*r.

The things to look out for
on World w*r Two era bikes,

this sort of classic design.

The clutch and brake levers like
this, the shape of the front shroud
over front shock absorbers.

Details like that, for anoraks
like me, are quite interesting.

I was playing one of the Germans
who turns into a Teselecta,

and I had to be very robotic

and then turn into the bike,
like a Transformer.

And then I had to roar off,
so I did that.

But the bike doesn't have
any brakes, at all.

And I was heading straight
for the boxes,

so I had to use the engine
to slow me down

and slowly turn
and get through that gap.

Maybe if that was an actor,
it could have hit the box.

That's why we have stuntmen,
for little things like that.

Earlier this year,
Doctor Who Confidential

and BBC Learning
launched the best competition ever.

A chance for schoolchildren
across Britain

to write their very own episode
of Doctor Who.

I would like you
to write a story about me.

We're going to be learning about
how to write scripts for Doctor Who.

One of the hardest things
about writing Doctor Who

is writing the Doctor. He's a man
with an extraordinary mind

and we've all just got
ordinary minds.

He's got to be so fast,
so clever and so funny.

And completely mad.

If it wins,
you'll get to see it filmed

before it's broadcast
on British television!

It's a writer's job
to give me the sense of the world

that I'm inhabiting,
the creatures that I see,

the atmosphere that the writer
wants to create.

If that's on the page,
actually it's quite easy.

Amy and Rory were on hand with extra
challenges to help the children
create their adventure.

I'd love you to write
one of my adventures for me,

pretending to be me, for my blog.
Totally as me.

I tried getting Rory to do it
but he said no, very brave of him.

The Doctor offered to do some
but it was all written in maths,

then he got distracted and started
designing himself a hat.

Hello there, my name is Amy Pond.

I'm only
but since my th birthday,

I knew my life would not be easy.

Most important of all,
is that if I am wearing a hat,

it is most definitely cool.

Ah! Right then.
Before we land, the Doctor says

he needs a model building
of what's outside.

That's brilliant.

Over , entries were received

and then a shortlist was created
by a team of script editors.

There are rules, obviously. Urgh!

Rules, eh? Somewhere in...

There's plenty of practical reasons
why we put limitations on it,

being a three-minute script

and having one monster
and one character.

It's the limitations
real writers work with.

Then the Doctor Who producers
and controller of BBC Learning
chose the winner.

What I liked about this,
it's actually a simple story.

They are all very good though.

The dialogue in particular
was great. They really seem
to get the Doctor's character.

Again, a nice little
time-travel twist there.

So, every single one had a vote,

but the winner is
Death Is The Only Answer. Yes.

We have, in fact,
won the competition.

It was a tough call
among the last few, really tough.

I think any of them could have won.
Each of them got votes.

It was a good result.
Every single one got a vote.

Matt Smith will be very, very happy

that he'll get to play
opposite Einstein.

But who is going to play Einstein?

Well, watch next week's Confidential
to find out.

I didn't do that.
I'm sure I didn't do that.

The Temple of Peace in Cardiff.

A place of calm,
a place of serenity.

A place of...

Nazis?

I don't want anyone eating
the food.

We don't have many repeats.

So don't eat it
unless told to do so.

We always film here
in the Temple of Peace.

This is where I filmed my very first
Doctor Who experience

when I was in an old episode
called The Fires Of Pompeii.

I played a soothsayer.
And we filmed in here.

It has come,
as foretold in the prophecy.

The box, the blue box.

It felt like
we had travelled in time,

that we actually were back there
in Berlin in the s.

The location looked fantastic,
the dining tables looked amazing,

the crowd just were brilliant.

Some might think it's difficult

to corral this many actors

but we have a cr*ck team of ADs

who have it all worked out
very carefully.

You can hear them
briefing everybody.

Bring you just round to
these two seats, please.

And, of course,

there's only one lady who could
break up the n*zi's party.

Mein Damen un Herren.

I don't have a thing to wear.

Take off your clothes.

Cut there.

Lovely.

It feels pretty kick-ass.
What a great entrance,

coming in with
two great machine-g*ns like that.

It's fabulous.

Today I am playing a Teselecta -
a robot version of Amy.

And, um, it's really fun,
I'm really enjoying it.

I hope that it's different to Amy
as she normally is, I think it is.

It's quite... No unnecessary
movements, no blinking, no emotions.

Playing a robot...
I think we're rehearsing.
I'll be back. I'll be back.

Two, three, four, take two.

So, after Karen terminated
our interview,

Confidential went inside the most
massive of miniaturised sets.

Welcome to the top gantry
of the Teselecta,

which leads to the iris behind me.

Michael and his team
have done a fantastic job here,

they've followed the brief
to create a fantastical structure

which was inspired by the Large
Hadron Supercollider in Switzerland.

It's one of these great things
that you can take elements of

and put into the bigger painting
the Mill are going to do for us.

You can look every way on set

and you don't really know
where you are.

It feels like a bigger structure.

Shades to , peaking at .

Standard density.
He's sweating a bit so compensate.

The iris behind me
is based on the human eye.

There's a mechanical version of that

and Michael set the challenge
of creating a practical iris,

so we can see the iris
open and close

and give a great lighting effect.

It's a challenge
but they've done a great job.

We have a lot to do this afternoon.

We've got to get it finished
because they need this location,

and if we don't, we're in trouble
because we can't come back here.

It will cost lots of money.
So wish us luck, Confidential.

We're nearing the end of the
sequence at the Temple of Peace.

We got some really good stuff.

We're just gearing up
to sh**t the sequence

where River gives her
regeneration energy

to the Doctor to save his life.

It's quite an emotional sequence,

so the cast are getting really
stuck into it.

Did you say she k*lled the Doctor?

The Doctor?

Doctor Who?

You're dying?

And you stop to change?

Oh, you should always waste time
when you don't have any.

Time is not the boss of you -
rule .

Thank you very much.

Rule , if you're going to die,
you might as well do it in style.

'He's back in his top hat and tails.
What have we got then?

'We've got a bow-tie...'

It's an winged collar.

You have a nice starched shirt,
some golden pearl studs.

These are my favourite bit,
actually.

That's where all the money went.

The trousers, the spats?
Are they spats?

They're not spats, they're
patent leather evening shoes.

Patent leather evening shoes. Some
pearl, are they pearl cufflinks?

Pearl.
And this is sort of like card.

The reason I'm not wearing the
jacket is we're doing a rehearsal

and I'm on the floor,
so I took it off to keep it clean,

put it on a table
into a glass of grape juice.

What do we do?

This is me.

This is me actually talking,
what do we do?

Just stop...

She is your daughter,
just stop them.

How?

Just do it!

Argh!

Please.

'It was difficult for Matt'

throwing himself on the floor,

and the steps were very
uncomfortable for him to lie on.

I think he probably bruised
his back

but he's really professional
about it and did a fantastic job

and never let the fact he was
banging his knees and collapsing,

he never let the physical pain
of it get in the way

of his brilliant performance
through that whole sequence,

which was fantastic.

Yes, a tough day today,

but it's always exciting.

It's been quite hot in there and
I've had to do a lot of dying acting

which is tiring because you have to
be quite tense and taught.

But I've enjoyed it,
as I do every day.

It's Doctor Who.

You still care.

That scene is a huge
turning point forever,

because in the dining room,
over the period of that ten minutes,

she goes from an assassin who has
basically achieved her mission

and k*lled her target, her victim,

and she goes from that to deciding
to sacrifice her immortality

to save the very man
that she's spent her whole life

being programmed to k*ll.

I need to talk to your daughter.

What she's giving up
are all her future regenerations.

Because she knows, in the end,

if you are told that yourself,

"That man you just k*lled
will become the love of your life,"

you think, can I spend my life
knowing this man,

who I'll fall in love every time I
see him, is the man I have k*lled?

Find River Song...

and tell her something from me.

Tell her what?

This man is dying in front of her
and she knows somehow

that he is more important to her
than she really understands.

She then is shown
a Teselecta of herself.

Show me River Song.

And she realises,
from seeing this image of herself,

who she really is and what
the Doctor really means to her.

River takes matters
into her own hands and says,
"I'll bring him back."

It is predestined.

She thinks, "That's my man
and I believe it.

"I believe it's true."

What are you doing?

Just tell me, the Doctor,

is he worth it?

Yes. Yes.

He is.

And she then makes somewhat
of a sacrifice

in order to keep him alive.

For a moment, the Doctor is there
with a lady Time Lord who loves him.

For a brief moment,
then it all goes wrong,
but that's relationships for you.