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I rolled my eyes. Stormcage.

“Biscuits.”  I groaned.

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(A guard answers a telephone.)

The guard: “Cell four two six. The Doctor? Do you mean Doctor Song?”

(River goes to the bars of her cell.)

River: “Give me that. Seriously, just give it to me. I’m entitled to phone calls.”

(The guard gives her the telephone.)

River: “Doctor?”

Churchill: “No, and neither are you. Where is he?”

River: “You’re phoning the Time Vortex. It doesn’t always work. But the TARDIS is smart. She’s re-routed the call. Talk quickly. This connection will last less than a minute.”

“There was a painting by Vincent van Gogh that I believe needs to be delivered to the Doctor immediately.” Churchill explained. “It’s title is ‘The Pandorica Opens’.”

The archeologist and I exchanged smiles.

The guard: “Doctor Song. Are you finished with that?”

(River returns the telephone with a smile.) River: “You’re new here, aren’t you?”

The guard: “First day.”

River: “Then I’m very sorry.”

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(Empty frames hang in the empty hallways. River finds the picture she is looking for and tears it out of its frame. She is halfway up a staircase when the lights come on.)

Liz: “This is the Royal Collection, and I’m the bloody Queen. What are you doing here?”

River: “It’s about the Doctor, Ma’am. You met him once, didn’t you? I know he came here.”

Liz: “The Doctor?”

River: “He’s in trouble. I need to find him.”

Liz: “Then why are you stealing a painting?”

River: “Look at it. I need to find the Doctor, and I need to show him this.”

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(River is at a nightclub table with a blue skinned man.)

Dorium: “Well now, word on the Belt is you’re looking for time travel.”

River: “Are you selling?”

(Dorium snaps his fingers and an alien brings a box.)

Dorium: “A vortex manipulator, fresh off the wrist of a handsome Time Agent.” (He opens the box and sighs.) Dorium: “I said off the wrist.”

(The alien takes the box away.)

Dorium: “Not cheap, Doctor Song. Have you brought me a pretty toy?”

(She takes off one of her earrings.)  River: “This is a Calisto Pulse. It can disarm micro-explosives from up to twenty feet.”

Dorium: “What kind of micro-explosives?”

River: “The kind I just put in your wine.”

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(The TARDIS materializes at the edge of a wood, on a hill.)

Amelia: “Right place?”

The Doctor: “Just followed the co-ordinates on the cliff face. Earth. Britain. one oh two am. No, pm. No, AD.”

(They are looking down on a Roman camp.)

Amelia: “That’s a Roman Legion.”

The Doctor: “Well, yeah. The Romans invaded Britain several times during this period.”

Amelia: “Oh, I know. My favorite topic at school. Invasion of the hot Italians. Yeah, I did get marked down for the title.”

(A soldier runs up and salutes.)

CLAUDIO: “Hail, Caesar!”

The Doctor: “Hi.”

CLAUDIO: “Welcome to Britain. We are honoured by your presence.”

The Doctor: “Well, you’re only human. Arise, Roman person.”

Amelia: “Why does he think you’re Caesar?”

(Claudio has a smear of lipstick on his face.)

CLAUDIO: “Cleopatra and the Goddess will see you now.”

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River: ““Hello, sweetie.”

“68.”

Amelia: “Terra, River. Hi.”

The Doctor: “You graffitied the oldest cliff face in the universe.”

River: “You wouldn’t answer your phone.”

(Her slaves leave and she offers the Doctor the rolled up painting.)

The Doctor: “What’s this?”

River: “It’s a painting. Your friend Vincent. One of his final works. He had visions, didn’t he? I thought you ought to know about this one.”

Amelia: “Doctor? Doctor, what is this?”

It is a version of Starry Night, with an exploding TARDIS in the middle.

Amelia: “Why is it exploding?”

River: “I assume it’s some kind of warning.”

Amelia: “What, something’s going to happen to the TARDIS?”

River: “It might not be that literal. Anyway, this is where he wanted you. Date and map reference on the door sign, see?”

The Doctor: “Does it have a title?”

River: “The Pandorica Opens.”

Amelia: “The Pandorica? What is it?”

River: “A box, a cage, a prison. It was built to contain the most feared thing in all the universe.”

The Doctor: “And it’s a fairy tale, a legend. It can’t be real.”

River: “If it is real, it’s here and it’s opening, and it’s got something to do with your TARDIS exploding. Hidden, obviously. Buried for centuries. You won’t find it on a map.”

The Doctor: “No, but if you buried the most dangerous thing in the universe, you’d want to remember where you put it.”

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(The riders arrive and run inside the circle. The Doctor and River start scanning the stones)

Amelia: “How come it’s not new?”

River: “Because it’s already old. It’s been here thousands of years. No one knows exactly how long.”

Amelia: “Okay, this Pandorica thing. Last time we saw you, you warned us about it, after we climbed out of the Byzantium.”

River: “Spoilers.”

Amelia: “No, but you told the Doctor you’d see him again when the Pandorica opens.”

River: “Maybe I did, but I haven’t yet. But I will have. Doctor, I’m picking up fry particles everywhere. Energy weapons discharged on this site.”

The Doctor: “If the Pandorica is here, it contains the mightiest warrior in history. Now, half the galaxy would want a piece of that. Maybe even fight over it. We need to get down there.”

(Night time. River places a device on each corner of the Altar stone.)

River: “Right then. Ready.”

(There is a sound of machinery moving, then the Altar stone moves aside to reveal a staircase down into the ground.)

The Doctor: “The Underhenge.”

(As they go down, a nearby severed Cyberman head twitches.)

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(The Doctor lights a handy torch with his sonic screwdriver. He lights another for River and they unbar a big door, then enter.)

The Doctor: “It’s a Pandorica.”

(It is a big square monument with a circular design on each face.)

River: “More than just a fairy tale.”

(The Doctor’s foot touches a Cyberman’s severed arm lying in the dust of the floor.)

The Doctor: “There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.”

Amelia: “How did it end up in there?”

The Doctor: “You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.”

River: “I hate good wizards in fairy tales. They always turn out to be him.”

Amelia: “So, it’s kind of like Pandora’s Box, then? Almost the same name.”

The Doctor: “Sorry, what?”

Amelia: “The story. Pandora’s Box, with all the worst things in the world in it. That was my favorite book when I was a kid. What’s wrong?”

The Doctor: “Your favorite school topic. Your favorite story. Never ignore a coincidence, unless you’re busy. In which case, always ignore a coincidence.”

River: “So can you open it?”

The Doctor: “Easily. Anyone can break into a prison. But I’d rather know what I’m going to find first.”

River: “You won’t have long to wait. It’s already opening. There are layers and layers of security protocols in there, and they’re being disabled one by one. Like it’s being unlocked from the inside.”

The Doctor: “How long do we have?”

River: “Hours at the most.”

The Doctor: “What kind of security?”

River: “Everything. Deadlocks, time stops, matter lines.”

The Doctor: “What could need all that?”

River: “What could get past all that?”

The Doctor: “Think of the fear that went into making this box. What could inspire that level of fear? Hello, you. Have we met?”

River: “So why would it start to open now?”

The Doctor: “No idea.”

Amelia: “Ahem, And how could Vincent have known about it? He won’t even be born for centuries.”

The Doctor: “The stones. These stones are great big transmitters, broadcasting a warning to everyone, everywhere, to every time zone. The Pandorica is opening.”

River: “Doctor, everyone everywhere?”

The Doctor: “Even poor Vincent heard it, in his dreams. But what’s in there? What could justify all this?”

River: “Doctor, everyone?”

The Doctor: “Anything that powerful, I’d know about it. Why don’t I know?”

River: “Doctor, you said everyone could hear it. So who else is coming?”

The Doctor: “Oh.”

Amelia: “Oh? Oh, what?”

River: “Okay. If it is basically a transmitter, we should be able to fold back the signal.”

The Doctor: “Doing it.”

(The Doctor goes around the bases of the Sarsen stones with his sonic screwdriver.)

Amelia: “Doing what?”

River: “Stonehenge is transmitting. It’s been transmitting for a while, so who heard?”

The Doctor: “Okay, should be feeding back to you now. River, what’s out there?”

River: “Give me a moment.”

The Doctor: “River, quickly. Anything?”

River: “Around this planet there are at least ten thousand starships.”

Amelia: “At least?”

River: “Ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, I don’t know. There’s too many readings.”

The Doctor: “What kind of starships?”

Dalek: “Maintaining orbit.”

Dalek 2: “I obey. Shield cover compromised on ion sectors.”

Amelia: “Daleks. Those are Daleks.”

Dalek: “Scan detects no temporal activity.”

Dalek 2: “Soft grid scan commencing.”

Dalek: “Reverse thrust for compensatory stabilization.”

River: “Daleks, Doctor.”

Dalek: “Launch preliminary armaments protocol.”

The Doctor: “Yes. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Dalek fleet, minimum twelve thousand battleships, armed to the teeth. Ah! But we’ve got suprise on our side. They’ll never expect three people to attack twelve thousand Dalek battleships. Because we’d be killed instantly. So it would be a fairly short surprise. Forget surprise.”

CYBERMAN: “Course correction proceeding.”

River: “Doctor, Cyberships.”

The Doctor: “No, Dalek ships. Listen to them. Those are Dalek ships.”

River: “Yes. Dalek ships and Cyberships.”

The Doctor: “Well, we need to start a fight, turn them on each other. I mean, that’s easy. It’s the Daleks. They’re so cross.”

River: “Sontaran. Four battlefleets.”

The Doctor: “Sontarans! Talk about cross, who stole all their handbags?”

River: “Terileptil. Slitheen, Chelonian, Nestene, Drahvin. Sycorax, Haemogoth, Zygon, Atraxi, Draconian. They’re all here for the Pandorica.”

The Doctor: “What are you? What could you possibly be?”

(Lots of spaceships are buzzing around in the sky.)

Amelia: “What do we do?”

River: “Doctor, listen to me. Everything that ever hated you is coming here tonight. You can’t win this. You can’t even fight it. Doctor, this once, just this one time, please, you have to run.”

The Doctor: “Run where?”

River: “Fight how?”

The Doctor: “The greatest military machine in the history of the universe.”

Amelia: “What is? The Daleks?”

The Doctor: “No. No, no, no, no, no. The Romans.”

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Amelia: “So what’s this got to do with the TARDIS?”

The Doctor: “Nothing, as far as I know.”

Amelia: “But Vincent’s painting. The TARDIS was exploding. Is that going to happen?”

The Doctor: “One problem at a time. There’s forcefield technology inside this box. If I can enhance the signal, I could extend it all over Stonehenge. Could buy us half an hour.”

Amelia: “What good is half an hour?”

The Doctor: “There are fruit flies live on Hoppledom Six that live for twenty minutes and they don’t even mate for life. There was going to be a point to that. I’ll get back to you.”

(Amelia takes the ring box from her pocket.) Amelia: “So, are you proposing to Terra?”

The Doctor: “I’m sorry?”

Amelia: “I found this in your pocket.”

The Doctor: “No. No, no, that’s er, a memory. A friend of mine. Someone I lost. Do you mind?”

Amelia: “It’s weird. I feel, I don’t know, something.”

The Doctor: “People fall out of the world sometimes, but they always leave traces. Little things we can’t quite account for. Faces in photographs, luggage, half eaten meals, rings. Nothing is ever forgotten, not completely. And if something can be remembered, it can come back.”

Amelia: “So, is this ring for Terra?”

The Doctor: “Remember that night you flew away with me?”

Amelia: “Of course I do.”

The Doctor: “And you asked me why I was taking you and I told you there wasn’t a reason. I was lying.”

“What, so you did have a reason?”

The Doctor: “Your house.”

Amelia: “My house.”

The Doctor: “It was too big. Too many empty rooms. Does it ever bother you, Amy, that your life doesn’t make any sense?”

(An energy weapon fires at them. It is the severed Cyberman arm. They hide behind the Pandorica.)

Amelia: “What was that?”

The Doctor: “Okay, I need a proper look. Got to draw its fire, give it a target.”

Amelia: “How?”

“You know sometimes I have really great ideas?”

“Yeah.”

“Sorry. Look at me, I’m a target!”

Amelia: “What is that?”

I leapt behind the Pandorica. “Cyberarm. Arm of a Cyberman.”

Amelia: “And what’s a Cyberman?”

The Doctor: “Oh, sort of part man, part robot. The organic part must have died out years ago. Now the robot part is looking for, well, fresh meat.”

Amelia: “What, us?”

The Doctor: “It’s just like being an organ donor, except you’re alive and sort of screaming. I need to get round behind it. Could you draw its fire?”

Amelia: “What, like you did?”

The Doctor: “You’ll be fine if you’re quick. It’s only got one arm, literally.”

(Amy runs, screaming. The Doctor pounces on the arm.)

The Doctor: “Come here!” (He manages to sonic it.)

Amelia: “Doctor?”

The Doctor: “Scrambled its circuits, but stay where you are, it could be bluffing.”

Amelia: “Bluffing? It’s an arm.”

The Doctor: “I said stay where you are!”

(Something creeps up behind Amy and lassoes her ankle.) Amelia: “Doctor?” (She is pulled to the floor.)

The Doctor: “Amy!”

(The Cyberarm gives the Doctor an electric shock, knocking him out.)

Amelia: “Doctor!”

(Amy is being attacked by the Cyberhead. She grabs it by the ears. It fizzles, then the mask pops open to reveal a skull, which falls out. Amy screams. The mask keeps snapping open and shut. She hits it against a Sarsen until it lets her go, then throws it to the floor. It crawls away.)

Amelia: “Doctor?”

(The Cyberhead fires a little dart into Amy’s neck.)

CYBERHEAD: “You will be assimilated.”

Amelia: “Yeah? You and whose body?”

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Amelia: “Doctor? Doctor?”

(A Roman short sword pierces the door, which swings open to reveal the Cyberman skewered to the wood.)

Amelia: “Who, who are you?”

(The Centurion removes his helmet.)

Rory: “Hello, Amy.” (Amy passes out.)

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Rory: “Whoa, whoa, whoa.”

I gaped at the Centurion. “Rory.”

Rory broke away from looking at his wife. He smiled sheepishly at me. “Terra.”

“Rory!” I cheered, smiling as I ran up and hugged him. “Rory Williams! You’re a Roman!”

Rory laughed, patting my back. “You always did call me your centurion nurse.” He ended the hug, stepping back. He put a firm hand on my shoulder. “I guess it was time for the universe to get it right.”

I laughed. “Terra is never wrong. The universe will go through a lot to make sure that happens.” I hugged him again. “Please, never do that to me again.”

Rory hugged me back just as tight. “I’ll try.”

I shut my eyes as tears threatened to come out. Rory dying had always been a thing that made Darcy and I laugh, it was like a drinking game. Now that I knew Rory, and cared about Rory, and became his freakin’ godmother I never wanted anything to ever hurt him again.

SOLDIER: “Sir, the man’s coming round.”

The Doctor: “Amy? Where’s Amy?”

Rory: “She’s fine, Doctor. Just unconscious.”

The Doctor: “Okay. Yes, she’s sedated, that’s all. Half an hour, she’ll be fine. Okay, Romans. Good. I was just wishing for Romans. Good old River. How many?”

Rory: “Fifty men up top, volunteers. What about that thing?”

The Doctor: “Fifty? You’re not exactly a legion.”

Rory: “Your friend was very persuasive, but it’s a tough sell.”

The Doctor: “Yes, I know that, Rory. I’m not exactly one to miss the obvious. But we need everything we can get. Okay, Cyberweapons. This is basically a sentry box, so headless wonder here was a sentry. Probably got himself duffed up by the locals. Never underestimate a Celt.”

Rory: “Doctor?”

The Doctor: “Hush, Rory. Thinking. Why leave a Cyberman on guard, unless it’s a Cyberthing in the box. But why would they lock up one of their own? Okay, no, not a Cyberthing, but what? What? No, I’m missing something obvious, Rory. Something big. Something right slap in front of me. I can feel it.”

Rory: “Yeah, I think you probably are.”

The Doctor: “I’ll get it in a minute.”

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The Doctor: “Hello again.”

Rory: “Hello.”

The Doctor: “How’ve you been?”

Rory: “Good. Yeah. Good. I mean, Roman.”

The Doctor: “Rory, I’m not trying to be rude, but you died.”

Rory: “Yeah, I know. I was there.”

The Doctor: “You died and then you were erased from time. You didn’t just die, you were never born at all. You never existed.”

Rory: “Erased? What does that mean?”

The Doctor: “How can you be here?”

Rory: “I don’t know. It’s kind of fuzzy.”

The Doctor: “Fuzzy?”

Rory: “Well, I died and turned into a Roman. It’s very distracting. Did she miss me?”

(Something shakes the ground.)

(The circular designs on the Pandorica are glowing green and moving like cog wheels.)

Rory: “What is it? What’s happening?”

The Doctor: “The final phase. It’s opening.”

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River: “You’re surrounded. Have you got a plan?”

The Doctor: “Yes. Now hurry up and get the TARDIS here. I need equipment. What are you? They’re all here, all of them, all for you. What could you possibly be?”

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The Doctor: “Sorry, sorry, dropped it. Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe. But bad news, everyone.”

(The Doctor appears on the Altar stone.)

The Doctor: “Because guess who? Ha! Listen, you lot, you’re all whizzing about. It’s really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute because I am talking! The question of the hour is, who’s got the Pandorica? Answer, I do. Next question. Who’s coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me. No plan, no backup, no weapons worth a damn. Oh, and something else. I don’t have anything to lose! So, if you’re sitting up there in your silly little spaceship, with all your silly little guns, and you’ve got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who’s standing in your way. Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, and then, do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first.”

(The spaceships retreat.)

The Doctor: “That’ll keep them squabbling for half an hour. Romans.”

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Rory: “They’re still out there. What do we do now?”

The Doctor: “If I can stop whatever’s in this box getting out, then they’ll go home.”

Rory: “Right.”

The Doctor: “Rory, I’m sorry. You’re going to have to be very brave now.”

(Amy walks past Rory.) Amelia: “Oh, my head.”

The Doctor: “Ah.”

Amelia: “Ah.”

The Doctor: “Just your basic knock-out drops. Get some fresh air, you’ll be fine.”

Amelia: “Is it safe up there?”

The Doctor: “Not remotely, but it’s fresh.”

Amelia: “Fine. Oh, you’re the guy, yeah? The one who did the swordy thing.”

Rory: “Yeah.”

Amelia: “Well, thanks for the swording. Nice swording.” (Amy heads out.)

Rory: “No problem. My men are up there. They’ll look after you.”

Amelia: “Good. Love a Roman.”

Rory: “She doesn’t remember me. How can she not remember me?”

The Doctor: “Because you never existed.”

The Doctor: “There are cracks. Cracks in time. There’s going to be a huge explosion in the future, on one particular day. And every other moment in history is cracking around it.”

Rory: “So how does that work? What kind of explosion? What exploded?”

The Doctor: “Doesn’t matter. The cracks are everywhere now. Get too close to them and you can fall right out of the universe.”

Rory: “So I fell through a crack and now I was never born?”

The Doctor: “Basically.”

Rory: “Well, how did I end up here?”

The Doctor: “I don’t know, you shouldn’t have. What happened? From your point of view, what physically happened?”

Rory: “I was in the cave, with you and Amy. I was dying, and then I was just here, a Roman soldier. A proper Roman. Head full of Roman stuff. A whole other life, just here like I’d woken up from a dream. I started to think it was a dream, you and Amy and Leadworth. And then today, in the camp, the men were talking about the visitors. The girl with the red hair. I thought you’d come back for me. But she can’t even remember me.”

The Doctor: “Oh, shut up.”

Rory: “What?”

(The Doctor throws the ring box to Rory.)  The Doctor: “Go get her.”

Rory: “But I don’t understand. Why am I here?”

The Doctor: “Because you are. The universe is big. It’s vast and complicated and ridiculous, and sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles, and that’s the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me. Now get upstairs. It’s Amy and she’s surrounded by Romans.” The Doctor pointed out. “Not sure history can take it.”

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The Doctor kissed me, making me smile.

“Sorry.” He whispered. “There’s a lot of Romans here. I don’t like them all staring.”

I smirked. “Manboy, they can stare all they like. I belong with you, and I Plan on keeping it that way.”

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The Doctor: “The TARDIS, where is it? Hurry up.”

River: “Don’t raise your voice, don’t look alarmed, just listen. They’re not real. They can’t be. They’re all right here in the story book. Those actual Romans. The ones I sent you, the ones you’re with right now. They’re all in a book in Amy’s house. A children’s picture book.”

The Doctor: “What are you even doing there?”

River: “It doesn’t matter. The TARDIS went wrong. Doctor, how is this possible?”

The Doctor: “Something’s using her memories. Amy’s memories.”

River: “But how?”

The Doctor: “You said something had been there.”

River: “Yes. There’s burn marks on the grass outside. Landing patterns.”

The Doctor: “If they’ve been to her house, they could have used her psychic residue. Structures can hold memories, that’s why houses have ghosts. They could’ve taken a snapshot of Amy’s memories. But why?”

River: “Doctor, who are those Romans?”

The Doctor: “Projections, or duplicates.”

River: “But they were helping us. My lipstick even worked.”

The Doctor: “They might think they’re real. The perfect disguise. They actually believe their own cover story, right until they’re activated.”

River: “Doctor, that Centurion.” “It’s a trap. It has to be. They used Amy to construct a scenario you’d believe, to get close to you.”

The Doctor: “Why? Who’d do that? What for? It doesn’t make sense.”

(Something goes Bang.)

The Doctor: “River? River? River, what’s happening?”

River: “I don’t know. It’s the engines. Doctor, there’s something wrong with the TARDIS, like something else is controlling it.”

The Doctor: “You’re flying it wrong.”

River: “I’m flying it perfectly. Terra taught me.”

The Doctor: “Where are you? What’s the date reading?”

“It’s the 26th of June, 2010.”

The Doctor: “You need to get out of there now. Any other time zone. Just go.”

River: “I can’t break free.”

The Doctor: “Well, then shut down the TARDIS. Shut down everything!”

River: “I can’t!”

River: “Someone else is flying it. An external force. I’ve lost control.”

The Doctor: “But how? Why?”

(A high pitched noise fills the chamber and the Romans slump over for a moment, then reactivate.)

The Doctor: “Listen to me, just land her anywhere. Emergency landing, now. There are cracks in time. I’ve seen them everywhere, and they’re getting wider. The TARDIS exploding is what causes them, but we can stop the cracks ever happening if you just land her.”

River: “It’s not safe.”

(The Pandorica starts to open. A brilliant white light floods out.)

The Doctor: “Well, now. Ready to come out, are we?”

River: “Doctor? I’m down. I’ve landed.”

The Doctor: “Okay, just walk out of the doors. If there’s no one inside, the TARDIS engines shut down automatically. Just get out of there.”

River: “I’m going.”

The Doctor: “Run!”

(The Roman’s fingers drop away from their hands to reveal weapons. They are Autons.)

River: “Doctor! Doctor, I can’t open the doors!”

(The Doctor sees the Autons.) The Doctor: “Amy!”

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The Doctor: “Plastic Romans. Duplicates, driven by the Nestene Consciousness, eh? Deep cover, but what for? What are you doing? What’s in there, eh? What’s coming out?”

(River hooks the TARDIS engines to the main door handles.)

MARCELLUS: “The Pandorica is ready.”

The Doctor: “What, do you mean it’s open?”

(The White allegedly Supreme new style Dalek trundles forward.)

WHITE: “You have been scanned, assessed, understood, Doctor.”

The Doctor: “Scanned? Scanned by what, a box?”

WHITE: “Your limits and capacities have been extrapolated.”

(Cybermen, Judoon and Sontarans beam down.)

STARK: “The Pandorica is ready.”

The Doctor: “Ready for what?”

WHITE: “Ready for you.”

“No!” I screamed, trying to yank myself off of the soldier’s grasp.

The Doctor: “You lot, working together. An alliance. How is that possible?”

WHITE: “The cracks in the skin of the universe.”

STARK: “All reality is threatened.”

CYBERLEADER: “All universes will be deleted.”

The Doctor: “What? And you’ve come to me for help?”

STARK: “No. We will save the universe from you!”

The Doctor: “From me?”

CYBERLEADER: “All projections correlate. All evidence concurs. The Doctor will destroy the universe.”

The Doctor: “No, no, no. You’ve got it wrong.”

CYBERLEADER: “The Pandorica was constructed to ensure the safety of the Alliance.”

WHITE: “A scenario was devised from the memories of your companion.”

STARK: “A trap the Doctor could not resist.”

WHITE: “The cracks in time are the work of the Doctor. It is confirmed.”

The Doctor: “No. no, no, not me, the TARDIS. And I’m not in the TARDIS, am I?”

WHITE: “Only the Doctor can pilot the TARDIS.”

The Doctor: “Please, listen to me!”

WHITE: “You will be prevented.”

The Doctor: “Total event collapse! Every sun will supernova at every moment in history. The whole universe will never have existed. Please, listen to me!”

CYBERLEADER: “Seal the Pandorica.”

The Doctor: “No! Please, listen to me! The TARDIS is exploding right now and I’m the only one who can stop it! Listen to me!”

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The Doctor: “How did you do that?”

Rory: “You gave me this.”

(The Doctor takes his screwdriver from his own pocket.) The Doctor: “No, I didn’t.”

Rory: “You did. Look at it.”

(The Doctor touches his screwdriver to Rory’s. They spark.)

The Doctor: “Temporal energy. Same screwdriver at different points in its own time stream. Which means it was me who gave it to you. Me from the future. I’ve got a future. That’s nice. That’s not.”

(The Daleks are fossilized.)

Rory: “Yeah. What are they?”

(Everyone who was in the chamber when the universe ended has been fossilized.)

The Doctor: “History has collapsed. Whole races have been deleted from existence. These are just like after-images. Echoes. Fossils in time. The footprints of the never-were.”

Rory: “Er, what does that mean?”

The Doctor: “Total event collapse. The universe literally never happened.”

Rory: “So, how can we be here? What’s keeping us safe?”

The Doctor: “Nothing. Eye of the storm, that’s all. We’re just the last light to go out. Amy. Where’s Amy?”

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Rory: “I killed her.”

The Doctor: “Oh, Rory.”

Rory: “Doctor, what am I?”

The Doctor: “You’re a Nestene duplicate. A lump of plastic with delusions of humanity.”

Rory: “But I’m Rory now. Whatever was happening, it’s stopped. I’m Rory.”

The Doctor: “That’s software talking.”

Rory: “Can you help her? Is there anything you can do?”

The Doctor: “Yeah, probably, if I had the time.”

Rory: “The time?”

The Doctor: “All of creation has just been wiped from the sky. Do you know how many lives now never happened? All the people who never lived? Your girlfriend isn’t more important than the whole universe.”

(Rory punches the Doctor.)

“Holy horseflies!”

Rory: “She is to me!”

The Doctor: “Welcome back, Rory Williams! Sorry. Had to be sure. Hell of a gun-arm you’re packing there. Right, we need to get her downstairs. And take that look off your plastic face. You’re getting married in the morning.”

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Rory: “So you’ve got a plan, then?”

The Doctor: “Bit of a plan, yeah. Memories are more powerful than you think, and Amy Pond is not an ordinary girl. Grew up with a time crack in her wall. The universe pouring through her dreams every night. The Nestenes took a memory print of her and got a bit more than they bargained for, like you. Not just your face, but your heart and your soul.”

(The Doctor mind-melds with Amy.)

The Doctor: “I’m leaving her a message for when she wakes up, so she knows what’s happening.”

(The Doctor seals Amy inside the Pandorica.)

Rory: “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing?”

The Doctor: “I’m saving her. This box is the ultimate prison. You can’t even escape by dying. It forces you to stay alive.”

Rory: “But she’s already dead.”

The Doctor: “Well, she’s mostly dead. The Pandorica can stasis-lock her that way. Now, all it needs is a scan of her living DNA and it’ll restore her.”

Rory: “Where’s it going to get that?”

The Doctor: “In about two thousand years.”

Rory: “She’s going to be in that box for two thousand years?”

The Doctor: “Yeah, but we’re taking a shortcut. River’s vortex manipulator. Rubbish way to time travel, but the universe is tiny now. We’ll be fine.”

Rory: “So hang on. The future’s still there, then. Our world.”

The Doctor: “A version of it. Not quite the one you know. Earth alone in the sky. Let’s go and have a look. You put your hand there. Don’t worry. Should be safe.”

Rory: “That’s not what I’m worried about.”

The Doctor: “She’ll be fine. Nothing can get into this box.”

Rory: “Well, you got in there.”

The Doctor: “Well, there’s only one of me. I counted.”

Rory: “This box needs a guard. I killed the last one.”

The Doctor: “No. Rory, no. Don’t even think about it.”

Rory: “She’ll be all alone.”

The Doctor: “She won’t feel it.”

Rory: “You bet she won’t.”

The Doctor: “Two thousand years, Rory. You won’t even sleep. you’d be conscious every second. It would drive you mad.”

Rory: “Will she be safer if I stay? Look me in the eye and tell me she wouldn’t be safer.”

The Doctor: “Rory, you-”

Rory: “Answer me!”

The Doctor: “Yes. Obviously.”

Rory: “Then how could I leave her?”

“Why do you have to be so human?” The Doctor asked.

Rory gave us both flat looks. “Because right now I’m not.” He put on his helmet. “And you would do the same for her.”

The Doctor: “Listen to me. This is the last bit of advice you’re going to get in a very long time. You’re living plastic, but you’re not immortal. I have no idea how long you’ll last. And you’re not indestructible. Stay away from heat and radio signals when they come along. You can’t heal, or repair yourself. Any damage is permanent. So, for God’s sake, however bored you get, stay out of-”

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The Doctor: “Trouble. Oh. Ah, two of you. Complicated.”

“Hello Mini Pond.” I smiled at Little Amelia.

Dalek: “Exterminate! Weapons systems restoring.”

The Doctor: “Come along, Ponds.”

Dalek: “Exterminate!”

(They run to a Middle Eastern montage where the Doctor takes the fez from a dummy.)

Amelia: “What are we doing?”

The Doctor: “Well, we are running into a dead end, where I’ll have a brilliant plan, that basically involves not being in one.”

Rory: “What’s going on?”

The Doctor: “Get out of here. Go! Just run!”

Dalek: “Drop the device!”

(The man only has a torch.)

The Doctor: “It’s not a weapon. Scan it. It’s not a weapon, and you don’t have the power to waste.”

Dalek: “Scans indicate intruder unarmed.”

(The man drops the torch. It is Rory in a museum guard uniform.) Rory: “Do you think?” (He shoots it with his Auton hand weapon.)

Dalek: “Vision impaired! Vision-” (The Dalek stops.)

Rory: “Amy!”

Amelia: “Rory.”

(Joyful reunion.)

Rory: “I’m sorry. I’m sorry, I couldn’t help it. It just happened.”

Amelia: “Oh, Shut up.”

(Amy kisses Rory.)

The Doctor: “Yeah, shut up, because we’ve got to go. Come on.”

Rory: “I waited. Two thousand years I waited for you.”

Amelia: “No, still shut up.”

The Doctor: “And break. And breathe. Well, somebody didn’t get out much for two thousand years.”

Amelia: “I’m thirsty. Can I get a drink?”

The Doctor: “Oh, it’s all mouths today, isn’t it. The light. The light from the Pandorica, it must have hit the Dalek.”

(The Dalek’s weapon starts to move.)  The Doctor: “Out! Out! Out!”

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The Doctor: “So, two thousand years. How did you do?”

Rory: “Kept out of trouble.”

The Doctor: “Oh. How?”

Rory: “Unsuccessfully. The mop! That’s how you looked all those years ago when you gave me the sonic.”

The Doctor: “Ah. Well, no time to lose, then.”

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The Doctor: “Oops, sorry.”

Amelia: “How can he do that? Is he magic?

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The Doctor: “Right, let’s go then. Wait! Now I don’t have the sonic. I just gave it Rory two thousand years ago.”

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The Doctor: “Right then.” (The Doctor retrieves his screwdriver.) The Doctor: “Off we go! No, hang on. How did you know to come here?”

(Amelia shows him the leaflet and the post-it note.)

The Doctor: “Ah, my handwriting. Okay.”

(He grabs a new leaflet and post-it note from the information desk and vanishes. He returns with the drink he took from Amelia earlier.)

The Doctor: “There you go. Drink up.”

Amelia: “What is that? How are you doing that?”

The Doctor: “Vortex manipulator. Cheap and nasty time travel. Very bad for you. I’m trying to give it up.”

Amelia: “Where are we going?”

The Doctor: “The roof.”

(A second Doctor appears further up the stairs, sans fez, and falls down them. His clothes are smoking.)

Rory: “Doctor, it’s you. How can it be you?”

Amelia: “Doctor, is that you?”

The Doctor: “Yeah, it’s me. Me from the future.”

(Future Doctor suddenly wakes up and whispers in the Doctor’s ear, then falls back again.)

Amelia: “Are you? I mean, is he, is he dead?”

The Doctor: “What? Dead? Yes, yes. Of course he’s dead. Right, I’ve got twelve minutes. That’s good.”

Amelia: “Twelve minutes to live? How is that good?”

The Doctor: “Oh, you can do loads in twelve minutes. Suck a mint, buy a sledge, have a fast bath. Come on, the roof.”

Rory: “We can’t leave you here dead.”

The Doctor: “Oh, good. Are you in charge now? So tell me, what are we going to do about Amelia?”

Amelia: “Where did she go?”

Rory: “Amelia?”

The Doctor: “There is no Amelia. From now on, there never was. History is still collapsing.”

Amelia: “But how can I still be here if she’s not?”

The Doctor: “You’re an anomaly. We all are. We’re all just hanging on at the eye of the storm. But the eye is closing, and if we don’t do something fast, reality will never have happened. Today, just dying is a result. Now, come on!”

Amelia: “He won’t die. Time can be rewritten. He’ll find a way. I know he will.”

The Doctor: “Move it. Come on!”

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Amelia: “What, it’s morning already? How did that happen?”

The Doctor: “History is shrinking. Is anybody listening to me? Universe is collapsing. We don’t have much time left.”

(uses sonic on a satellite dish)

Rory: “What are you doing?”

The Doctor: “Looking for the TARDIS.”

Rory: “But the TARDIS exploded.”

The Doctor: “Okay, then. I’m looking for an exploding TARDIS.”

(removes the dish from its mounting)

Amelia: “I don’t understand. So, the TARDIS blew up and took the universe with it. Why would it do that? How?”

The Doctor: “(stands on raised section of roof) Good question for another day. But for now... total event collapse means that every star in the universe never happened. Not one of them ever shone. So, if all the stars that ever were are gone, then what is that?” (points to a large ball of fire in the sky) “Like I said, I’m looking for an exploding TARDIS.”

Rory: “But that’s the sun.”

The Doctor: “Is it? Here’s the noise that sun is making right now.” (holds up the dish and amplifies the sound of the TARDIS with the sonic) “That’s my TARDIS burning up. That’s what’s been keeping the Earth warm.”

Rory: “Doctor, there’s something else. There’s a voice.”

The Doctor adjusts the settings of the screwdriver.

Amelia: “I can’t hear anything.”

Rory: “Trust the plastic.”

River: “I’m sorry, my loves.” (repeats)

Amelia: “Doctor, that’s River. How can she be up there?”

Rory: “It must be like a recording or something.”

The Doctor: “No, it’s not a recording. Of course, the emergency protocols... The TARDIS has sealed off the control room and put her into a time loop to save her. She is right at the heart of the explosion.”

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River: “I’m sorry, my loves.”

She looks back over her shoulder as the console explodes with a bright light. The sequence starts over again. The Doctor appears as she runs to the door.”

The Doctor: “Hi, honey. I’m home.”

River: “(looks at her watch) And what sort of time do you call this?”

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The Doctor reappears on the roof with River.

River: “Amy! And the plastic Centurion?”

The Doctor: “It’s okay, he’s on our side.”

River: “Really? I dated a Nestene duplicate once. Swappable head, it did keep things fresh. Right then, I have questions. But number one is this. What in the name of sanity have you got on your head?”

The Doctor: “It’s a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.”

“Man walks down the street in a hat like this, you know he ain’t afraid of anything.”

With a look from River, Amelia grabbed the fez from the Doctor’s head and throws it into the sky. River shoots it.

The Doctor: “Oh!”

Dalek: “Exterminate!”

The Dalek appears, levitating up the side of the building.

The Doctor: “Run, run, move, move. Go! Come on!”

The Doctor covers their retreat by holding up the satellite dish as a shield as the Dalek fires. They climb back through the stairwell.

The Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to seal the hatch. River has he gun aimed at it, just in case.

River: “Doctor, come on.”

The Doctor: “Shh. It’s moving away, finding another way in.” (climbs down ladder) “It needs to restore its power before it can attack again. Now, that means we’ve got exactly-” (checks watch) “four and a half minutes before it’s at lethal capacity.”

(continues down stairs)

Rory: “How do you know?”

The Doctor: “Because that’s when it’s due to kill me.”

River: “Kill you? What do you mean, kill you?”

The Doctor: “Oh, shut up, never mind. How can that Dalek even exist?”

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“It was erased from time and then it came back. How?”

Rory: “You said the light from the Pandorica...”

The Doctor: “It’s not a light, it’s a restoration field, but never mind. Call it a light. That light brought Amy back, but how could it bring back a Dalek when the Daleks have never existed?”

Amelia: “Okay, tell us.”

The Doctor: “When the TARDIS blew up, it caused a total event collapse. A time explosion. It blasted every atom in every moment of the universe. Except...”

Amelia: “Except inside the Pandorica.”

The Doctor: “The perfect prison. Inside it, perfectly preserved, a few billion atoms of the universe as it was. In theory, you could extrapolate the whole universe from a single one of them, like cloning a body from a single cell. And we’ve got the bumper family pack.”

Rory: “No, too fast, I’m not getting it.”

The Doctor: “The box contains a memory of the universe, and the light transmits the memory. And that’s how we’re going to do it.”

Amelia: “Do what?”

The Doctor: “Relight the fire. Reboot the universe. Come on!” (continues on)

Amelia and Rory exchange looks as River catches up to the Doctor.

River: “Doctor, you’re being completely ridiculous.”

River: “The Pandorica partially restored one Dalek. If it can’t even reboot a single life form properly, how will it reboot the whole of reality?”

The Doctor: “What if we give it a moment of infinite power? Transmit the light from the Pandorica to every particle of space and time simultaneously?”

River: “Well, that would be lovely, dear, but we can’t, because it’s completely impossible.”

The Doctor: “Ah, no, you see, it’s not.” (taps her on the forehead) “It’s almost completely impossible. One spark is all we need.”

River: “For what?”

The Doctor: “(whispers) Big Bang Two! Now listen...”

The Doctor is shot by the Dalek and falls to the floor. The Dalek trundles down the hall.

Dalek: “Exterminate! Exterminate!”

River kneels at the Doctor’s side as Rory takes Amelia out of the way.

Rory: “Get back. River, get back now!”

Dalek: “Exterminate! Rory fires at the Dalek and it is drained of energy again.”

River: “Doctor. Doctor, it’s me, River. Can you hear me? What is it? What do you need?”

Struggling, the Doctor activates the manipulator.

River: “Where did he go? Damn it, he could be anywhere.”

Amelia: “He went downstairs. Twelve minutes ago.”

River: “Show me!”

Amelia: “River, he died.”

Dalek: “Systems restoring! You will be exterminated!”

Rory: “We’ve got to move. That thing’s coming back to life.”

River: “You go to the Doctor. I’ll be right with you.”

Amelia and Rory leave.

“River.”

My wife turned to me, eyes cold. “Yes?”

“Don’t stop when it begs.”

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Rory: “How could he have moved? He was dead!” (runs down the stairs) “Doctor? Doctor!”

Amelia: “But he was dead! River joins them.”

River: “Who told you that?”

Amelia: “He did.”

River: “(walks calmly down stairs) Rule one. The Doctor lies.”

Amelia: “Where’s the Dalek?”

River: “It died.”

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Amelia: “Doctor!”

Rory: “Why did he tell us he was dead?”

Amelia: “We were a diversion. As long as the Dalek was chasing us, he could work down here.”

River: “Doctor, can you hear me? What were you doing?”

(The light from the TARDIS is getting brighter.)

Rory: “What’s happening?”

River: “Reality’s collapsing. It’s speeding up. Look at this room.”

Amelia: “Where’d everything go?”

River: “History’s being erased. Time’s running out. Doctor, what were you doing? Tell us. Doctor!”

The Doctor: “(sotto) Big Bang Two.”

Rory: “The Big Bang. That’s the beginning of the universe, right?”

Amelia: “What, and Big Bang Two is the bang that brings us back? Is that what you mean?”

River: “Oh.”

Amelia: “What?”

River: “The TARDIS is still burning. It’s exploding at every point in history. If you threw the Pandorica into the explosion, right into the heart of the fire.”

Amelia: “Then what?”

River: “Then let there be light. The light from the Pandorica would explode everywhere at once, just like he said.”

Amelia: “That would work? That would bring everything back?”

River: “A restoration field powered by an exploding TARDIS, happening at every moment in history. Oh, that’s brilliant. It might even work. He’s wired the vortex manipulator to the rest of the box.”

Amelia: “Why?”

River: “So he can take it with him. He’s going to fly the Pandorica into the heart of the explosion.”

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“Terra, I am sorry.” The Doctor said.

I kissed his cheek. “Doctor. Don’t say that.”

“You’re feeling it, aren’t you?” The Doctor said. I kept my face impassive, though I knew the pain was in my eyes. “All of it.”

I gave a curt nod.

“Feel what?” Amelia asked, confused.

“The Doctor and I have a bond.” I explained. The Doctor looking at me with sorrowful green eyes. “I’m feeling him die. I’ve been feeling it since we found him on the stairs.” Amelia and Rory gasped. “It’s like I’m turning cold on the inside.”

“Terra.” The Doctor sighed my name.

I reached into my bag, pulling out the velvet box. The one I had made so long ago...

I pushed it into his hands, making sure he had a firm grip on it. “This is your reason to make sure this works.”

The Doctor smiled. “What’s in it?”

“I’ll tell you when you’re older.”

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Amelia: “Hi.”

The Doctor: “Amy Pond. The girl who waited all night in your garden. Was it worth it?”

Amelia: “Shut up. Of course it was.”

The Doctor: “You asked me why I was taking you with me and I said, no reason. I was lying.”

Amelia: “It’s not important.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, it’s the most important thing left in the universe. It’s why I’m doing this. Amy, your house was too big. That big, empty house, and just you.”

Amelia: “And Aunt Sharon.”

The Doctor: “Where were your mum and dad? Where was everybody who lived in that big house?”

Amelia: “I lost my Mum and Dad.”

The Doctor: “How? What happened to them? Where did they go?”

Amelia: “I, I don’t-”

The Doctor: “It’s okay, it’s okay. Don’t panic, it’s not your fault.”

Amelia: “I don’t even remember.”

The Doctor: “There was a crack in time in the wall of your bedroom, and it’s been eating away at your life for a long time now. Amy Pond, all alone. The girl who didn’t make sense. How could I resist?”

Amelia: “How could I just forget?”

The Doctor: “Nothing is ever forgotten. Not really. But you have to try.”

River: “Doctor! It’s speeding up!”

(Amy puts the Doctor’s sonic screwdriver in his pocket.)

The Doctor: “There’s going to be a very big bang. Big Bang Two. Try and remember your family and they’ll be there.”

Amelia: “How can I remember them if they never existed?”

The Doctor: “Because you’re special. That crack in your wall, all that time, the universe pouring into your head. You brought Rory back. You can bring them back, too. You just remember and they’ll be there.”

Amelia: “You won’t.”

The Doctor: “You’ll have your family back. You won’t need your imaginary friend any more. Ha! Amy Pond crying over me, eh? Guess what?”

Amelia: “What?”

The Doctor: “Gotcha.”

River: “Back! Get back!”

(The Pandorica takes off. River gets a text message.)

River: “It’s from the Doctor.”

Amelia: “What does it say?”

River: “Geronimo.”

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I looked out at the wedding, looking into Amelia’s eyes.

The bride just stared back at me, looking so confused.

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Amelia: “Shut up, Dad!”

Rory: “Amy?”

AUGUSTUS: “Amelia?”

Amelia: “Sorry, but shut up, please. There’s someone missing. Someone important. Someone so, so important.”

Rory: “Amy, what’s wrong?”

Amelia: “Sorry. Sorry, everyone. But when I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend.”

TABETHA: “Oh no, not this again.”

Amelia: “The raggedy Doctor. My raggedy Doctor. But he wasn’t imaginary, he was real.”

TABETHA: “The psychiatrists we sent her to.”

Amelia: “I remember you. I remember! I brought the others back, I can bring you home, too. Raggedy Man, Fairy Godmother, I remember you, and you are late for my wedding!” Amelia yelled.

Amelia: “I found you. I found you in words, like you knew I would. That’s why you told me the story the brand new, ancient blue box.”

(A strong wind blows the balloons around.)

Amelia: “Oh, clever. Very clever.”

Rory: “Amy, what is it?”

Amelia: “Something old. Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue.”

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Rory: “It’s the Doctor. How did we forget the Doctor? I was plastic. He was the stripper at my stag. Long story.”

(Amy knocks on the TARDIS door.)

Amelia: “Okay, Doctor. Did I surprise you this time?”

The Doctor: “Er, yeah. Completely astonished. Never expected that. How lucky I happened to be wearing this old thing. Hello, everyone. I’m Amy’s imaginary friend.” The Doctor cheered. “But I came anyway.”

I walked to the TARDIS side. “And I’m Rory’s imaginary friend. Nice to meet ya.” I said.

The Doctor turned to me, smiling. “Terra!”

I smiled. The Doctor ran up to me, wrapping his arms around me. He spun me around, making me laugh. Then he kissed me, and I laughed.

Amelia: “You absolutely, definitely may kiss the bride.”

“Not if he wants to make to the reception.” I warned, lightly.

The Doctor: “Amelia, from now on I shall be leaving the kissing duties to the brand new Mister Pond.”

Rory: “No, I’m not Mister Pond. That’s not how it works.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, it is.”

Rory: “Yeah, it is.”

The Doctor: “Right then, everyone. I’ll move my box. You’re going to need the space. I only came for the dancing.”

I grabbed the door to the TARDIS. “I love to watch the Doctor dance.”

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I kissed him, holding onto his jacket. “Knew you’d be back.”

“Oh did you?” The Doctor laughed, kissing me.

I giggled, kissing him back. “You wouldn’t dare die on me.”

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“Doctor, might I invite you to the wedding reception this evening, as my guest?” I asked, holding out my hand.

The Doctor excitedly ran up to me, grabbing my hand. “I do believe I shall.”

The two of us grinned like idiots, running out onto the dance floor.

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Amelia: “You’re terrible. That is embarrassing!”

“We suck at dancing, Ponds!” I announced to them.

The Doctor: “That’s it. That’s good. Keep it loose.”

(The little children love him. And later, when the tempo is slowed for the smooch tunes like You Give Me Something by James Morrison, the Doctor watches Amy and Rory.)

The Doctor: “Two thousand years. The boy who waited. Good on you, mate.”

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River: “Thank you.”

The Doctor: “Are you married, River?”

River: “Are you asking?”

The Doctor: “Yes.”

River: “Yes.”

The Doctor: “No, hang on. Did you think I was asking you to marry me, or or or asking if you were married?”

River: “Yes.”

The Doctor: “No, but was that yes, or yes?”

“Yes.”

The Doctor: “River, who are you?”

River: “You’re going to find out very soon now. And I’m sorry, but that’s when everything changes.”

(River vanishes.)

The Doctor: “Nah.”

I laughed, hugging him. The Doctor patted my hands.

“You know, for the record, my answer is yes.”

The Doctor locked up. “To what?”

I smiled, almost evilly. “You should know which one, manboy.” I leaned into his ear. “Look in the box I gave you.”

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“It’s my name.” The Doctor said, shocked.

I nodded. “In Gallifreyan. I had the TARDIS help.”

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“Only if you say yes first.” The Doctor said, pulling something from his own pocket.

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Amelia: “Oi! Where are you off to? We haven’t even had a snog in the shrubbery yet.”

Rory: “Amy!”

Amelia: “Shut up. It’s my wedding.”

Rory: “Our wedding.”

The Doctor: “Sorry, you two. Shouldn’t have slipped away. Bit busy, you know?”

Rory: “You just saved the whole of space and time? Take the evening off. Maybe a bit of tomorrow.”

The Doctor: “Space and time isn’t safe yet. The TARDIS exploded for a reason. Something drew the TARDIS to this particular date, and blew it up. Why? And why now?”

(The phone starts ringing.)

The Doctor: “The Silence, whatever it is, is still out there, and I have to. Excuse me a moment.”

(He answers the telephone.)

The Doctor: “Hello? Oh, hello. I’m sorry, this is a very bad line. No, no, no, but that’s not possible. She was sealed into the seventh Obelisk. I was at the prayer meeting. Well, no, I get that it’s important. An Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express, in space. Give us a mo.” (to Amy and Rory) “Sorry, something’s come up. This will have to be goodbye.”

Amelia: “Yeah, I think it’s goodbye. Do you think it’s goodbye?”

Rory: “Definitely goodbye.”

(Amy goes to the door and shouts to Leadworth.)

Amelia: “Goodbye! Goodbye.”

The Doctor: “Don’t worry about a thing, your Majesty. We’re on our way.”

“Actually, I have one place I want to go first.” The Doctor smiled at me.