06x03 - Breaking the Silence

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Who and what are you?
Silence, Doctor.

We are The Silence.

The Silence has been heard.

And it's left the Doctor
Who crew fleeing...

frozen...

and fallen.

Confidential takes you on
a journey from the States...

That one over there looks
like a kind of Citadel.

To the stars.

That's one small step for man...

As the team battle the most
mind-bending monster ever imagined.

They edit themselves out of your
memory as soon as you look away.

The exact second you're not looking at them, you
can't remember anything. What a monster! Look at them!

I think that these are
the scariest monsters ever.

Whoa. Argh!

Welcome to the desert.

The Doctor Who crew are still in Utah,

setting up to film the
dramatic opening of episode two.

We've got a race through the desert,

Amy's sh*t, Rory's sh*t,
River jumps off a building

and the Doctor is trapped in
a cube he can't escape from.

The beginning of Episode Two, I
think, is the most exciting opening

for an episode that we've had.

It just kind of bursts onto the screen.

Amy's running for her
life in the desert.

We'll see if we can get
the timing a little tighter.

We're setting up a sh*t where Karen
will run down the hill towards us.

Then we have a car in hot pursuit.

We're going to sh**t up against the sun.

We're in the desert and
is going to feel dangerous.

♪ Cos I've always stayed too long

♪ Long enough for
something to go wrong... ♪

First sh*t of the day.

I'm feeling pretty out of breath, as you can see.
Yeah, it was basically just running for my life.

It's the altitude which is why
I'm out of breath. So, that's why.

It's not me being unfit at all!

♪ I got my peeps standing with
me shouting pull up your socks

♪ Cos we just broke the law
and now we're running from cops

♪ I got my lip bust fighting
Now there's blood on my top

♪ And I'm still out looking
for a party, somewhere to stop

♪ I got my peeps them telling
me They know where it's at

♪ So I pull out notes
And jump straight into a cab

♪ I'm on my way to where I'm
going Thinking I need more Jack

♪ But that probably ain't The
brightest idea I've ever had. ♪

That was such a fun scene to sh**t.
It was all like, "Miss Pond, Canton."

Canton. Miss Pond.

Is that a body bag? Yes, it
is. It's empty. How about that?

So he's gone to the dark side but then,
as it turns out, he actually hasn't.

But just dramatically I
think it was really fun

'that he's bad for that scene.'

Bag her up, boys.

Mark Sheppard, who plays Canton, frequently
is bad in American television programmes,

so I think it's quite
good that it happens.

We found Amy Pond. She had
strange markings on her arm.

Do you know what they are?

Why don't you ask her?

I was very keen on the idea of the
Doctor being locked up in Area .

I didn't know the A went all the
way up here. Area , we needed to keep

the scale of the whole piece.
This is a massive episode

and so we found this massive
hangar to put the Doctor in.

Area was really in a
large old hangar at St Athens,

the RAF station near here.
And it was a wonderful place.

A big circular roof. And
it was enormously long

and very empty and a lot of
good, shiny concrete floor.

We just used the emptiness as a virtue

and we put the strange room that
was being built in the middle.

They're putting me in a straitjacket.
I've gone mental with it all.

Absolutely bonkers!

We haven't seen the Doctor with a
beard for a very, very long time.

I think Tom Baker had one for
an episode. An old white beard.

I just had some meatballs for lunch.
And my beard was full of meatballs.

I think it's fun. It says "passage of time"
and Matt looked absolutely great in a beard.

It makes me really want to play a baddy, having
the beard. And being in a straitjacket. Ow!

I wouldn't guarantee you won't
get it back again at some point.

With the Doctor on lockdown,
Canton heads to Cardiff Bay

to corner his next catch. HE MOUTHS

It's all go, isn't it? It's
all exciting here in Cardiff.

Getting ready for stunts.

♪ These girls fall
like dominoes Dominoes

♪ These girls fall like
dominoes Dominoes, dominoes... ♪

You're in a street,
somewhere in downtown Cardiff.

Ultimately it's going to look like
somewhere very, very different.

Episode two starts with River in
some sort of strange office building

and she's being chased by the FBI.

It's over.

Rather than be arrested, she
decides to jump off the building.

You're coming with us, Dr Song.
There's no way out this time.

There's always a way out.

This is the final bit where you actually reveal
that we're on top of a skyscraper in New York.

I wanted all this blowing
plastic to be billowing away,

and behind it you'll
see this green screen

and we'll replace the New York skyline.

So, outside of it, you should
see the Empire State Building

and the bay beyond, and
it should look amazing.

You know, and all the wind feels very
physical and just feels very high up.

Tea. The great things about British production
is tea. Can't get tea on any sets in America.

, take one. Action!

You were invaded a long
time ago. America's occupied.

You're coming with us, Dr Song.
There's no way out this time.

There's always a way out.

♪ These girls fall like dominoes

♪ These girls fall like
dominoes Dominoes, dominoes... ♪

Cut!

I fell on to do just some matting,

but the stunt girl actually
fell off and actually

only needed to do it once because
she did it perfectly, thank goodness!

This is by far the darkest Doctor
Who episodes that I've done.

And possibly have seen of the series.

I love the darker episodes like Blink. It's always
a chance to get into more dangerous territory.

The child...

She must be cared for. That's important.

That's what they said.
That's what who said?

The main thing is making it intriguing.
As long as you're interested in it

and you feel like
you're in an eerie space,

but your interest is drawn into the story and
you're pulled along constantly by what is happening,

what is going to happen, what's
going on. As long as you keep

the interest in the story, you
can get through the darkness.

Who and what are you?

Silence, Doctor.

We are The Silence.

And the darkness at
the heart of the story

is provided by the
spine-chilling Silence.

♪ In this white wave, I am sinking

♪ In this silence

♪ In this white wave

♪ In this silence I believe

♪ I have seen you in this white wave

♪ You are silent

♪ You are breathing In this
white wave I am free... ♪

One of the challenges of this episode was introducing
The Silence. People have talked about them,

We've heard their voices before
in the Tardis. We know they were

at the heart of the cracks
in time in the last series,

the centre of the last series.

Obviously, last series, we
had quite major plot arcs.

The seeds were planted for the
Silence in episode one, actually.

It's what the first monster ever says.

Silence, Doctor. Silence will fall.

Knowing Steven Moffat's writing,
there's always some sort of pay-off.

I thought, "This is going to be a
big one." It seemed quite prominent.

Silence? We ran from
The Silence. The Silence.

I thought there was more to be mined
from it. I thought it was more fun

cos I always feel it's quite
good that a story should,

it's television, so it
should never quite end.

You're satisfied, you
find out the expl*si*n,

what was going to be in the Pandorica - the Doctor
himself - but there was still one thing for him,

still a thr*at out there for him.

It just pulls you into the next story.

I think they're going to be
one of the scariest enemies

that Doctor Who has ever had.

They edit themselves out of your
memory as soon as you look away.

The second you're not looking,
you can't remember anything.

I just think the idea of
ones that can erase themselves

from your memory so that as you
turn to watch the television,

you can't be sure there wasn't one
actually standing behind you a second ago,

I think that's special and
different. I hope, I think it is.

Nice. They're amazing!
They're amazing! Look at you!

Whoa! One of my favourite monsters,
definitely. Isn't that fantastic?

Oh, my God. What's it like
to breathe in one of these?

Rubbish. I won't keep you. Wow,
they're so brilliant. Oh, man.

Great monster. What a monster.
What a monster. Look at them. Whoa!

I wanted to suggest we've all got
a latent memory of The Silence,

all that we have all seen them many times but
we've forgotten them but they've imprinted.

So the painting The Scream
is a bit like the Silent,

our notion of what aliens might
look like is a bit like the Silent.

We knew that they'd have
this kind of Scream look,

and that was a really hard thing

to try and translate
into a physical alien.

Basically, when you're challenged like that, you just
hand it over to Millennium Effects and Neil Gorton,

who came up and really fleshed out the painting
into this grotesque image, and I realised that

when I saw the kind of screaming
face that Neil had painted,

which was amazing and very haunting,
very sort of pallid in tone.

I loved the kind of texture of the
sunken eyes and this sort of hanging jaw.

I knew that they immediately
looked creepy and kind of repulsive.

Any Doctor Who monster that you're putting that
prosthetic on their heads effectively blinds them.

Just a fraction more there.

They're pretty helpless, really. They need
two people guiding them around at any one time.

There's a person dealing with
the head prosthetic itself,

making it move with the brain
pumps that we've got in there.

There's Make-up and Costume
as well, helping them.

We've also got a choreographer in as well
because we wanted the three guys to move at once,

and we had to have a
scary way of moving,

a kind of sinister look so
they could, just in the way

that they stood there and
moved their heads very slightly,

that you'd get a sort of
eerie sense of intelligence and

kind of that they'd invoke a sense
of fear in the way they stood.

That is hideous!

Can you actually see anything?
Look at your sinister walk!

Normally I'm taller than the
monsters, but now I'm like, "Urgh!"

So they're just more intimidating
and just hideous looking.

That's... I think this
is the scariest monster.

The man who played one of The
Silence, was really amazing.

He's so tall, he's like foot
or something. He was fantastic.

As soon as he got on to set, he
was he was reading in the lines.

He won't actually do the
voice, but he was so into it.

He was like, "OK, what do you need
me to do?" And he was like, "Amelia!"

Your mind is weak. You
have been here many days.

No, I can't have been.
Now you will flee.

No. Get off me, get off me. No! No!

Cut.

He was just great with all the
movement, cos he's a dancer anyway.

We have got to get you doing the
dance, all three of you together. Hey!

Do a funky robot, go on.

They remind me of a
Karen Gillan. Oh, my God!

Before she lost it
all. Karen Gillan!

My head is nowhere near that bulbous.

It is quite sort of cone-y. All
right, it's round, I'll give you that.

Like the moon.

Hello, hello, good morning. How
are you? Good morning, Confidential.

Today we have a very busy day

because we've only got one day left
on the schedule to sh**t everything.

Of course, we haven't finished
all the scenes that we sh**t

along the way, so we've got
a ton of stuff to pick up.

It's going to be a very busy day,
and hopefully we'll get it all.

We're about to go onto this stage
over here, doing some pick ups

for episode one and two.
The set's right here.

My role as director of photography
is to put the lights up on the scene.

I'm sort of in charge of
the entire camera department,

so it's to do with the
sh*ts, the angles we choose,

but primarily it's about the lighting.

A tiny bit higher. Make it full spot.

I work with the director first of all.

We come together and find out
what kind of sh*ts we want to do.

Just that? And it should
be a slider one, yeah?

We need to get this going up and down.

I then delegate, so I
have a lighting department

and I have a camera department that
I have to divide up and give jobs to.

I have a camera operator, and he works
with the grip and his camera assistants.

I tell him what to do and he does it!

On the lighting side, I have a gaffer.

Behind that thing there, just
give me like a beam going across.

Yeah, warehouse is first.

He has a team of sparks.
They'll do the electrical work,

putting up the lights
in the right places,

putting them on the
stands, running the power

and making sure that's all
safe and done in a good way.

In the next half hour, we are
about to do this warehouse pick up.

We're doing the bit where River Song
is climbing into the tunnel underground.

This is built best to match
where we sh*t in the warehouse.

Hopefully, when you see the
sequence, it's going to look like

she walks round the corner, jumps down a
hole and it's part of the same sequence.

Shout if you get in trouble. Don't
worry, I'm quite the screamer.

Stefan. Yes? A bit further forward?

Yes, please. Could I have
another four feet, please?

So this is a scene from episode one,

where Canton is taken
to the White House.

We're sh**ting a limousine
over the streets of Washington.

Of course, it costs a
lot to go to Washington

so we're just going to do it here and we're
going to shake some lights about and hopefully

it looks like it's driving down a
street with a car coming behind it.

Can we wrap some black down here, on
the actual tube? The light looks great.

But I am seeing the...

Actually, I'm just trying stuff out. If it
works, it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't.

So let's just rig it up so
that it swings past the front.

We've got a few things going on here
to make it look like the car is moving.

First of all, I rigged
lights at the back.

That is cool.

You have a sense of there's
a car following them around.

Even though this car isn't important, it gives
you the effect that they're on the street.

I understand you have a problem
with authority. Thank you.

It's not a compliment, son.

Then, above them, I rig the
light that swings around.

Switch it on there. And now go.

That's supposed to be a street light
moving past the car at great speed,

so that's going to swing past
and switch off and switch on

so it looks like a new street
light coming past all the time.

A bit of a swing at
the end, but you know.

We just today came up with a
good idea that we could have water

rippling along the window to give the sense
of speed as you're going down the street.

To sh**t this in Washington would cost a
fortune, and also really hard to achieve.

It's a big, big number, and this is
actually a lot cheaper and simpler to do.

Cut! Cut!

Good. Very good. It worked
out better than I thought.

It looks really cool. Hopefully
the audience at home will buy it

and think that we went to Washington
and sh*t this in the streets.

You were my second choice for
this, Mr Delaware. 'That's OK.'

You're my second choice
for president, Mr Nixon.

You should have a look at next
door. We're setting up a pick-up sh*t

for the little space girl.

In a minute, they're going to put
a little girl in this seat over here

and they're going to size her down.

Because the spacesuit is a full man-size and
the little girl wouldn't be able to walk inside.

It's supposed to be a
robotic thing doing it.

So now we're getting
the little girl's head

and then putting it inside.

What we need to do is match
the lighting that she was having

when she was inside and what we've done

is we've got art department to
build this little contraption,

which looks like the
light she had on inside.

And this goes underneath her
head, and she has the same kind

of space light that she had
when she was in the spacesuit.

Please help me.

Help me.

Please!

We've finally come to the end
of the day. It's been hectic.

We had a lot to do.

I don't think I have ever had a
day like this on Doctor Who before

but we managed to finish
it all so I'm really pleased

and I hope it all looks well on screen.

Back in the US of A, the Doctor
Who crew are working "dam" hard

in another breathtaking location,

the Glen Canyon, to get those
final American sh*ts in the can.

Steph? When he comes
back in, drift in sooner

so you're closer to him, so the move
in is only just a small drift in.

I think that the scale
and ambition of this series

is just huge, and to be
able to go to a location

where it's all there for
you and it is just massive...

Again, we just wanted images
and places on that screen

that you don't normally see in Doctor
Who, to actually make it feel different.

We'd always dreamed that
those scenes would give

the first two episodes of the
new series a new look, a new feel,

and when we first saw those
sweeping, sweeping sh*ts,

it was just really exciting, wasn't it?

Yeah. That's where you saw how that scale would
make the stories feel bigger and more cinematic.

If you run up to me... You
look and we'll look with him.

There's a sh*t where I look down

and I could see Marcus,

the producer, just
going, "Oh, don't, don't."

Because I kept running up to it.

Could you get a message
through to Arthur

to give me a good four-b*at look
ever the edge, if he doesn't mind?

And tell him not to
throw himself at the wall.

It doesn't matter at this distance.
I'd hate to be filming his death.

Action! Action!

You don't have use your
imagination very much to act

in a situation like that.

It's all there for you. You just
look over that big sweeping drop.

It was a nice way to finish our
stuff that we did in America.

What are you waiting for?
I'm waiting for you to run.

It'd look better if I sh*t
you while you're running.

Then again...

looks aren't everything.

OK, cut there. That's a wrap,
everybody. Well done. Well done.

That's good stuff.
It's a wrap in America.

It is a wrap on Dr Who in
America! Woo! Thank you.

'We're here at the Glen Canyon Dam.

'We've just sh*t Rory's scene
where he's caught by Canton

'and, yes, it's gone really well.
We've just finished doing it.

It's been the last scene
of our American sh**t

and this basically wraps
us for our time over here,

which has been fantastic.

After wrap, the crew get the
chance to review the footage

from their American adventure.

Here we go.

Look at that!

It's really awesome.

That is...

Oh, the... Oh, that is cool!

That's a trailer in itself. Yeah.

'Coming to America has definitely given us
something we couldn't recreate in Cardiff.'

They're iconic locations that
people will recognise from movies.

And you just look at those
locations, you look at the light,

you look at the environment
and you know you are in America.

And that's just fabulous
to have in Doctor Who.

The few days after they were
sh**ting things, Steven, Piers and I

were just annoying the
post-production supervisor

by phoning up every ten minutes, saying,

"Are the rushes in yet? Can we watch it?"
But obviously, because they were in America,

there was a delay in
us getting everything,

so we were biting our nails for about two days and
then when they came through, we just sat back and went,

"Hurray
- this is going to be brilliant."

I did not really know what
it was going to be like

and I think Toby and Steph and everyone

in the American crew were
great at making it happen.

Yeah, the American crew were really,
really nice and very, very good.

Hi, guys.

They were really interested in the show.

They wanted to see episodes. They
wanted to read the full scripts.

They really wanted to get
to grips with Doctor Who.

It's been interesting because,
in terms of the industry,

there are a lot of similarities,
but there are certain differences,

and different phrases for the
same things. It's been quite fun,

us learning about them,
them learning about us.

It's worked out really well.

But before heading home,
Arthur and I... Hello.

Took the opportunity to explore
this amazing corner of the universe.

Yeah, having come all the way
from little old Wales to Utah,

we had to take a tour around
the breathtaking Monument Valley.

So, welcome to our tour. Yeah.

Jump on board.

After you. Oh, thanks.
Chivalry. Well, sorry...

Hi, Darvill. Oh... Hi.

I'm really excited about
this. Are you? Yeah. So am I.

Right, where's my seatbelt?

'So, with seatbelt firmly
attached...' 'Stay safe, kids.'

'we headed for the hills.'

This is really exciting.

Look at where we are.

It doesn't quite seem real. No.

This landscape
- I've never seen anything like it.

I've never seen anything
like it. It does...

I sound like I'm slightly
underwhelmed by it

but actually I'm overwhelmed
by the whole thing.

It's just huge. Everything is huge.

And you can see for miles.

Look at that! Ha-ha!

This place is open. We could go there.

What is it? It's a jewellery shop. Oh!

Calm down. Calm down.

Stop!

We were so excited to have episodes set in America
and to actually come here and film over here.

Because they could have...
Just done the green screen.

They could have mocked it up in Cardiff.

It's not quite the same, though, is it?
You don't get the scale of this. Yeah.

It's just going to add that "wow"
factor, I think, to the episode.

'We got our first taste of "wow" factor

'when we stopped off at a little spot

'called the Sentinel
Mesa to take in the view.'

Wow.

That one over there looks like a
kind of citadel or like a castle.

In fact, that's one looks like a kind of
giant palace or some crazy alien fortress.

'Monument Valley is a series
of amazing natural hills,

'formed over millions
of years and coloured red

'by the iron oxide exposed in
their weathered salt stone.'

'You're reading Wikipedia, aren't you?' 'No, Karen
- I know these things.' 'Oh.'

Think about how many years it took to form
these. It's like... And they're untouched.

There are these roads here,
but it's completely untouched.

There is literally
nothing for miles here.

'Once we were done there, we were back on the road
- a really bumpy road.'

That is really deep!

Oh, my goodness. We're
really close to the edge!

Oh, dear!

Don't fall out!

Get a sh*t of the "W"
for "Who." Oh, yeah.

The "W" for "Wooo!" Yeah.

Right, I'm going to fake it.

Take it or leave it, right.

OK.

Oh, get a sh*t of the...

LAUGHTER

I can't!

That is Karen pretending to notice
something for the first time.

That's what happens
in filming, sometimes.

She noticed it a little while ago.

Yeah, and now I have
to redo it and I can't.

She messed it up. OK, all right.

Oh, you should get a
sh*t of the "W" for "Who!"

Oh, it's really natural!

OK, right. Three, two, one...

Oh, look at that! You should
get a sh*t of the "W!" Shut up!

'As well as the fantastic stone letterings, there's
a series of naturally occurring stone arches.'

'We were taken to one of the most
spectacular of these, the Ear Of The Wind.'

Wow. We're at the Ear Of The Wind.

The Ear Of The Wind.

Which is unbelievable.

That is really cool.

Oh, wow.

Oh, look at that! That's amazing.

That looks really sort of mystical.

I'm going to run.

Silly.

Thank you so much for bringing
us here. This is amazing.

'Standing in the shadow of this natural wonder,
there was only one word that came to mind.'

Confidential!

All right, I'm going to go for
it. Shout into the Ear Of The Wind.

I'm going to shout into
that ear of wind. Right.

Hello, Confidential!

Wow.

'As if that wasn't enough, we were shown the Native
American wall drawings which surround the ear.'

'There were aliens, a bicycle, a monkey.

'Actually, I'd better let
our Navajo guide explain.'

This could be a figure of a man. Yeah.

Represent...clans. Yeah.

Member different clans.

Just here could be one
of the important person.

This one? Like a shaman. Oh, right.

This one here? Yes.

See, I was looking at it as if that
was the head and it was upside down.

No, that's the head, right here. Yeah.

See the hands coming down, and the feet.

And the line that connects this. Yeah,
what do the lines mean? To the zigzag line.

These people, they were
very ingenious people. Yeah.

'We also had the chance to
see how the Navajo used to live

'and explore their traditional
homes, called a hogan.'

When you first enter a home,

a greeting, you say, "Ya'at'eeh."

Ya'at'eeh? Ya'at'eeh. Ya'at'eeh.

'In the hogan, we met Susie, who
keeps the Navajo traditions alive.'

This lady here, her name is Susie.
She's cleaning up the sheep wool.

Everything that she
does is done manually.

There's no machinery.

Shearing, carding, spending.

Here's a sample right here.

So this is the finished thing. Yes.

'Our tour of the valley
was coming to an end

'so leaving enough time for
us to scare the locals...'

HELP!

SOUND ECHOES

Really freaky.

I'd never want to hear that
if I was just strolling around.

SORRY!

'We stopped off to reflect on
our time in Monument Valley.'

We're at the end of our day.

It's been a really
strange day but amazing.

Yeah, it's just so incredible.

And meeting the people, it's a
completely different pace of life.

A completely amazing way of life
that we can get this snapshot of.

That's been really cool.

Back on home soil.

The children's orphanage is
about to petrify the Pond.

♪ Words like v*olence

♪ Break the silence

♪ Can't you understand
Oh, my little girl?

♪ All I ever wanted

♪ All I ever needed

♪ Is here in my arms

♪ Words are very

♪ Unnecessary

♪ They can only do harm. ♪

See the craziness in those eyes?

My office is this way.

Today we are filming a scene
with Dr Renfrew, me and Canton.

Basically we are discovering
this old orphanage

and there's writing all over the walls

and it's horrible cos
it looks like blood.

It's the kids, yeah? They do that?

Yes, the children. It must be.

Yes.

We're discovering this is the place we've
been looking for. And it's all very creepy.

The effects on this are really good.

We've got a massive rain machine outside
to make it look like a storm's going on.

And loads of flashes for lightning
and it really adds to the atmosphere.

This place is an old, disused children's
home and apparently a nun d*ed here.

Honestly!

We nearly didn't come to this place.

I understood Gray's Park
Hall was closed in '.

The children's home that's meant
to be an orphanage in Florida

and um, we did find a gaunt big
place and I'd seen in books pictures

of a place called Troy House
and so it was rather perfect.

In style it was not inappropriate. It could
have been some strange mansion in Florida,

with a few palm trees
outside it was very good.

And a lovely pair of gates, which we then
put a metal top to saying, "Orphanage".

The inside was very desolate
with a most wonderful staircase

which is both elegant and rather gaunt.

It's . No, '. We closed in .

The atmosphere in that place added
something to the scene, definitely.

Um, but I guess that always happens.

You read it on paper and practice
your lines and you get there

and start to feel it.

With that place, you really did
feel something creepy and odd.

I just pulled the haunted house lever.

I loved that sequence, one
of the scariest we've done.

It is haunted house. And
you weren't expecting that.

You've had a big desert,
Area , now a haunted house.

It's now... No.

This house actually feels haunted.

So occasionally when you see real
bats flying around it's really batty

and you walk around and the
place feels deeply weird.

I won't tell you more about
the bats. So, back to the bats.

First of all, when I
first came in, I was like,

"Oh, no, there's not going
to be real bats in here."

And then the lighting guys made
a fake bat out of two black gloves

and invisible string and started flying
it around and it was above my head.

It was one of the scariest things. So,
a funny little anecdote for you. Bye!

Now, for eagle-eyed viewers,
a familiar-looking spaceship

makes a reappearance.

This is the first time we come
back onto the Silence base ship

which people should recognise
from the episode called The Lodger.

What?!

What?

Steven wanted to suggest
that spaceship in that episode

was also one of The Silence
as well to tie up a loose end.

It's nice to see bits
of plot click together

so you see an abandoned
spaceship and you'll probably,

if you're a viewer, thinking,
"What about that spaceship?"

"They forgot to tell us more about
it." There it is. We haven't forgotten.

So we bought the set back
but I wanted to adapt it,

make it feel more evil
and the bad guy base.

It's alien and feels serious
and scary in some way.

We'll strap Amy into this chair here

and have a bright light coming down and
that's where The Silence have been keeping her.

Stop, get off me! No!

My throne, it's great. There are some
lights underneath and a hole in it

so it feels like an elaborate toilet.

And to break The Silence, the Doctor uses one
of the most incredible moments in human history.

Now then, a bit of history for you.
Aren't you proud? Because you helped!

Do you know how many people are watching
right now, live on the telly? Half a billion.

Every single one of them at some
point in their lives will look back

at this man taking that very first step

and they will never, ever forget it.

But how, exactly, did mankind
make this giant leap to the moon?

The Apollo space programme was
the pinnacle of human endeavour.

Started in response to the
Soviet Sputnik satellite programme

then kicked on by Kennedy.

We choose to go to the moon in
this decade and do the other things,

not because they're easy,
but because they're hard.

The space race dominated
the imagination of people

around the world and
still fascinates us today.

NASA's attempt to put man on the moon

was the culmination of years of
scientific endeavour and triumph.

And, as the years rolled on,

and the test flights roared
across the skies, NASA got closer

and closer to their goal until,
in , they launched Apollo .

The successful moon orbit

and subsequent test flights of the lunar
landing module meant, on th July ,

an estimated million people
gathered at Cape Canaveral in Florida

to watch Neil Armstrong, Buzz
Aldrin and Michael Collins

board the flight that would
write their names in the stars.

A worldwide audience of half a billion of
followed the rocket take off on a mission

that would change mankind forever.

♪ Round, round, get
around I get around... ♪

Supported by the staff
at mission control,

the moon lander called the Eagle
separated from the command module

and descended towards
the surface of the moon.

For one moment the world stood still.

If anything went wrong,

these American heroes would
be helplessly stranded.

Eventually, with the ground millimetres
away, Neil Armstrong wrestled

with the landing controls to glide
the Eagle safely to the surface.

The Eagle has landed. We
copy you on the ground.

We've got a bunch of
guys about to turn blue.

We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.

The moon landing had been achieved.

The highest television audience
ever recorded sat in rapture.

As they waited for humanity to take
its first steps onto a heavenly body.

At am GMT, Neil Armstrong
descended the ladder

and said the words that
would become immortal.

It's one small step for man...

One giant leap for mankind.

He had done it. They had done
it. Man was walking on the moon.

And as the world was watching,
a new chapter of human history

was relayed to the waiting
masses on television...

with the help of a
post-hypnotic suggestion.

What do you mean, you don't remember it?

The moon landing is such
a famous piece of footage

and to say that was the way the
Doctor chased The Silence from Earth.

If you're going to send a subliminal
message in one piece of footage

you would put it in
the middle of that clip.

'One giant leap for mankind...'

And one whacking great kick up
the backside for The Silence!

You just raised an
army against yourself.

Everybody has seen that
footage. Everyone alive.

Very few things you can say that of.

So, The Silence has been silenced.

But there are still a
few things to clear up.

At the end of episode two, we
are left with a few questions.

Such as what is going on with
Amy? Is she pregnant, is she not?

What is going to happen to the Doctor?

Because we've seen him
die. Who's k*lled him?

There's a huge question
at the end of episode two,

which is going to play on everyone's
minds for the whole of the first run

which is who the little
girl in the spacesuit is.

Why is she regenerating?

And why there's a photo
of Amy in her bedroom.

How can that be me?

Who is River Song and what part
does she play in the Doctor's future?

Will we get to the heart
of that relationship?

You're going to learn some very
critical information about River.

You know what they say. There's
a first time for everything.

And a last time.