Full Circle

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“Theta!” I cheered, wrapping my arm around his. “80. Nice hat.”

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The Doctor: “Imagine you were dying. Imagine you were afraid and a long way from home and in terrible pain. Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, you looked up and saw the face of the devil himself. Hello, Dalek.”

DALEK: “Emergency. Emergency. Weapon system disabled. Emergency.”

(The Doctor opens up the top of the Dalek.)

The Doctor: “Hush, now. I need some information from your data core. Everything the Daleks know about the Silence.”

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The Doctor: “Gideon Vandaleur. Get him. Now.”

BARMAN: “Who says he’s here?”

(The Doctor drops the Dalek’s eyestalk onto the counter. A short while later, the Doctor is at a table reading Knitting for Girls when the cloaked figure sits down with him.)

The Doctor: “Father Gideon Vandaleur, former envoy of the Silence. My condolences.”

VANDALEUR: “Your what?”

The Doctor: “Gideon Vandaleur has been dead for six months.”

(The Doctor sonicks the figure, which is wearing the same style eyepatch as Madam Kovarian, and it goes rigid.)

The Doctor: “Can I speak to the Captain, please?”

(The small figure in the eye nods and runs.)

The Doctor: “Hello again, the Teselecta time-travelling shape-changing robot powered by miniaturised people. Never get bored of that. Long time since Berlin.”

CARTER: “Doctor, what have you done to our systems?”

The Doctor: “They’ll be fine if you behave. Now, this unit can disguise itself as anyone in the universe, so if you’re posing as Vandaleur, you’re investigating the Silence. Tell me about them.”

CARTER: “Tell you what?”

The Doctor: “One thing. Just one. Their weakest link.”

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The Doctor: “The crowd are getting restless. They know the Queen is your only legal move, except you’ve already moved it twelve times, which means there are now over four million volts running through it. That’s why they call it Live Chess. Even with the gauntlet you’ll never make it to Bishop Four alive.”

Gantok: “I am a dead man, unless you concede the game.”

The Doctor: “But I’m winning.”

Gantok: “Name your price.”

The Doctor: “Information.”

Gantok: “I work for the Silence. They would kill me.”

The Doctor: “They’re going to kill me too, very soon. I was just going to lie down and take it, but you know what? Before I go, I’d like to know why I have to die.”

Gantok: “Dorium Maldovar is the only one who can help you.”

The Doctor: “Dorium’s dead. The Monks beheaded him at Demon’s Run.”

Gantok: “I know. Concede the game, Doctor, and I’ll take you to him.”

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Gantok: “The Seventh Transept, where the Headless Monks keep the leftovers. Watch your step. There are traps everywhere.”

The Doctor: “I hate rats.”

Gantok: “There are no rats in the transept.”

The Doctor: “Oh, good.”

Gantok: “The skulls eat them.”

(The skulls on shelves turn to look at the visitors.)

Gantok: “The headless monks behead you alive, remember.”

The Doctor: “Why are some of them in boxes?”

(Nice boxes on pillars.)

Gantok: “Because some people are rich, and some people are left to rot. And Dorium Maldovar was always very rich.”

(The Doctor opens Dorium’s box. The blue head sneezes.)

The Doctor: “Thank you for bringing me, Gantok.”

Gantok: “My pleasure. It saves me the trouble of burying you. Nobody beats me at chess.”

(Gantok draws his weapon and moves forward, triggering a trap. He falls down into a pit of ravening skulls.)

The Doctor: “Gantok!”

(Gantok gets eaten, then the skulls turn their attention upwards. The Doctor sonics the pit closed again. Dorium opens his eyes.)

Dorium: “Hello? Is someone there? Ah, Doctor. Thank God it’s you. The Monks, they turned on me.”

The Doctor: “Well, I’m afraid they rather did, a bit.”

Dorium: “Give it to me straight, Doctor. How bad are my injuries?”

The Doctor: “Well-”

Dorium: “Ha, ha! Oh, your face.”

Dorium: “Oh, it’s not so bad, really, as long as they get your box the right way up. I got a media-chip fitted in my head years ago, and the Wi-Fi down here is excellent, so I keep myself entertained.”

The Doctor: “I need to know about the Silence.”

Dorium: “Oh. A religious order of great power and discretion. The sentinels of history, as they like to call themselves.”

The Doctor: “And they want me dead.”

Dorium: “No, not really. They just don’t want you to remain alive.”

The Doctor: “That’s okay, then. I was a bit worried for a minute there.”

Dorium: “You’re a man with a long and dangerous past, but your future is infinitely more terrifying. The Silence believe it must be averted.”

The Doctor: “You know, you could’ve told me all this the last time we met.”

Dorium: “It was a busy day and I got beheaded.”

The Doctor: “What’s so dangerous about my future?”

Dorium: “On the Fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no living creature can speak falsely, or fail to answer, a question will be asked. A question that must never, ever be answered.”

The Doctor: “Silence will fall when the question is asked.”

Dorium: “Silence must fall would be a better translation. The Silence are determined the question will never be answered. That the Doctor will never reach Trenzalore.”

The Doctor: “I don’t understand. What’s it got to do with me?”

Dorium: “The first question. The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight. Would you like to know what it is?”

The Doctor: “Yes.”

Dorium: “Are you sure? Very, very sure?”

The Doctor: “Of course.”

Dorium: “Then I shall tell you. But on your own head be it.”

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Dorium: “It’s not my fault. Put me back. Ow! I’ve fallen on my nose. Have you got wi-fi here? I’m bored already and my nose is hurting. We all have to die, Doctor, but you more than most. You do see that, don’t you? You know what the question is now. You do see that you have to die.  Doctor, please, open my hatch. I’ve got an awful headache. Which to be honest means more than it used to. It’s like some terrible weight pressing down on my-”

(The Doctor has put Dorium’s box down upside down.)

Dorium: “Oh. I see.”

The Doctor: “Why Lake Silencio? Why Utah?”

Dorium: “It’s a still point in time. Makes it easier to create a fixed point. And your death is a fixed point, Doctor. You can’t run away from this.”

The Doctor: “Been running all my life. Why should I stop?”

Dorium: “Because now you know what’s at stake. Why your life must end.”

The Doctor: “Not today.”

Dorium: “What’s the point in delaying? How long have you delayed already?”

(The Doctor makes a telephone call.)

The Doctor: “Been knocking about. A bit of a farewell tour. Things to do, people to see. There’s always more. I could invent a new colour, save the Dodo, join the Beatles. Hello, it’s me. Get him. Tell him, we’re going out and it’s all on me, except for the money and driving. I have got a time machine, Dorium. It’s all still going on. For me, it never stops. Liz the First is still waiting in a glade to elope with me. I could help Rose Tyler with her homework. I could go on all of Jack’s stag parties in one night.”

Dorium: “Time catches up with us all, Doctor.”

The Doctor: “Well, it has never laid a glove on me! Hello?”

NURSE: “Doctor, I’m so sorry. We didn’t know how to contact you. I’m afraid Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart passed away a few months ago. Doctor?”

The Doctor: “Yes. Yes, I-”

NURSE: “It was very peaceful. He talked a lot about you, if that’s any comfort. Always made us pour an extra brandy in case you came round one of these days.”

Dorium: “Doctor? What’s wrong?”

The Doctor: “Nothing. Nothing. It’s just.”

(He puts the phone down and takes the TARDIS blue envelopes from his pocket.)

The Doctor: “It’s time. It’s time.”

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VANDALEUR: “Surely you could deliver the messages yourself?”

The Doctor: “It would involve crossing my own time stream. Best not.”

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The Doctor: “Actually, thinking about it.”

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“You give it to me.” I said.

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“You can’t make me go.” Past Me said, staring right into the eyes. “You can’t.”

He nodded. “We know.”

“He can’t make me go either.” Terra snapped. “If he is in there, tell him he can’t make me go.”

The Doctor frowned. I took the comm, passing it to him. “She won’t go until she hears from you.”

The Doctor took the comm, and looked out at the viewscreen. “Terra, I know.”

She glared at us. Man, I had good scary eyes. “Don’t make me go.” She nearly whimpered.

“It won’t be real, you know that.” The Doctor explained.

Past Me shook her head. “It will still feel real.”

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I let out an air I didn’t know I had been holding in. “It was actually a relief to land on the couch.”

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“That’s their bus.”

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Amelia: “This is it, yeah? The right place?”

Rory: “Nowhere, middle of? Yeah, this it.”

The Doctor: “Howdy.”

(They turn to see the Doctor lying on the hood of a big American car.)

Amelia: “Doctor!”

“Terra!” Rory said, coming up to me for a hug.

The Doctor: “Ha, ha! It’s the Pond.”

Amelia: “Hey!”

“Nurseboy!” I cheered, hugging him tightly.

The Doctor: “Hello, Pond. Come here.”

Amelia: “So, someone’s been a busy boy then, eh?”

The Doctor: “Did you see me?”

Amelia: “Of course.”

The Doctor: “Stalker.”

Amelia: “Flirt.”

Rory: “Husband.”

The Doctor: “Rory the Roman! Ooo, come here.”

Rory: “Hey, nice hat.”

The Doctor: “I wear a Stetson now. Stetsons are cool.”

(Then someone shoots it off him.)

River: “Hello, sweetie.”

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River: “Right then, where are we? Have we done Easter Island yet?”

The Doctor: “Er, yes! I’ve got Easter Island.”

River: “They worshipped you there. Have you seen the statues?”

The Doctor: “Jim the fish.”

River: “Oh! Jim the fish. How is he?”

The Doctor: “Still building his dam.”

Rory: “Sorry, what are you two doing?”

Amelia: “They’re both time travellers, so they never meet in the right order. They’re syncing their diaries. So, what’s happening, then? Because you’ve been up to something.”

The Doctor: “I’ve been running, faster than I’ve ever run. And I’ve been running my whole life. Now, it’s time for me to stop. And tonight, I’m going to need you all with me.”

Amelia: “Okay. We’re here. What’s up?”

The Doctor: “A picnic. And then a trip. Somewhere different, somewhere brand new.”

Amelia: “Where?”

The Doctor: “Space, 1969.”

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The Doctor: “Salud!”

ALL: “Salud.”

Rory: “So, when are going to 1969?”

Amelia: “And since when do you drink wine?”

The Doctor: “I’m eleven hundred and three. I must’ve drunk it sometime.”

(He takes a swig from the bottle and spits it out.)

The Doctor: “Oh, why it’s horrid. I thought it would taste more like the gums.”

Amelia: “Eleven hundred and three? You were nine hundred and eight the last time we saw you.”

The Doctor: “And you’ve put on a couple of pounds. I wasn’t going to mention it.”

(A strange figure is silhouetted on the skyline.)

Amelia: “Who’s that?”

Rory: “Hmm? Who’s who?”

Amelia: “Sorry, what?”

Rory: “What did you see? You said you saw something.”

Amelia: “No, I didn’t.”

The Doctor: “Ah, the moon. Look at it. Of course, you lot did a lot more than look, didn’t you? Big, silvery thing in the sky. You couldn’t resist it. Quite right.”

Rory: “The moon landing was in 69. Is that where we’re going?”

The Doctor: “No. A lot more happens in 69 than anyone remembers. Human beings. I thought I’d never get done saving you.”

(A truck pulls up nearby and W Morgan Sheppard gets out. The Doctor waves to him.)

Amelia: “Who’s he?”

River: “Oh, my God.”

(A figure in a NASA spacesuit is standing up to its knees in the lake.)

The Doctor: “You all need to stay back. Whatever happens now, you do not interfere. Clear?”

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The Doctor: “Hello. It’s okay. I know it’s you.”

The Doctor: “Well, then. Here we are at last.”

River: “I can’t stop it. The suit’s in control.”

The Doctor: “You’re not supposed to. This has to happen.”

River: “Run.”

The Doctor: “I did run. Running brought me here.”

River: “I’m trying to fight it, but I can’t. It’s too strong.”

The Doctor: “I know. It’s okay. This is where I die. This is a fixed point. This must happen. This always happens. Don’t worry. You won’t even remember this. Look over there.”

River: “That’s me. How can I be there?”

The Doctor: “That’s you from the future, serving time for a murder you probably can’t remember. My murder.”

River: “Why would you do that? Make me watch?”

The Doctor: “So that you know this is inevitable. And you are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven.”

River: “Please, my love, please, please just run!”

The Doctor: “I can’t.”

River: “Time can be rewritten.”

The Doctor: “Don’t you dare. Goodbye, River.”

(The Doctor winks, then shuts his eyes. The astronaut suit zaps him multiple times but he doesn’t die this time.)

River: “Hello, Sweetie.”

The Doctor: “What have you done?”

River: “Well, I think I just drained my weapon systems.”

The Doctor: “But this is fixed. This is a fixed point in time.”

River: “Fixed points can be rewritten.”

The Doctor: “No, they can’t. Of course they can’t. Who told you that-”

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Someone knocked on the door. “Doctor? Terra?”

We both groaned. “What?” The Doctor groaned.

“He requested to see the soothsayer.”

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I rubbed his hand. The Doctor smiled.

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Churchill: “Leave us. Tick tock goes the clock, as the old song says. But they don’t, do they? The clocks never tick. Something has happened to time. That’s what you say. What you never stop saying. All of history is happening at once. But what does that mean? What happened? Explain to me in terms that I can understand what happened to time.”

The Doctor: “A woman.”

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Churchill: “This is absurd. Other worlds, carnivorous skulls, talking heads. I don’t know why I’m listening to you.”

The Doctor: “Because, in another reality, you and I are friends. And you sense that. Just as you sense there is something wrong with time.”

Churchill: “You mentioned a woman.”

The Doctor: “Yes. I’m getting to her.”

Churchill: “What’s she like? Attractive, I assume.”

The Doctor: “Hell, in high heels.”

Churchill: “Tell me more.”

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Churchill: “But what was the question? Why did it mean your death?”

The Doctor: “Suppose there was a man who knew a secret. A terrible, dangerous secret that must never be told. How would you erase that secret from the world? Destroy it forever, before it can be spoken.”

Churchill: “If I had to, I’d destroy the man.”

The Doctor: “And silence would fall. All the times I’ve heard those words, I never realised it was my silence, my death. The Doctor will fall. Why are we here?”

Churchill: “This, this is the Senate Room.”

The Doctor: “Why did we leave your office?”

Churchill: “Well, we wanted a stroll, didn’t we?”

The Doctor: “I think I’ve been running. Why do you have your revolver?”

Churchill: “Well, you’re dangerous company, Soothsayer.”

(There is a single tally mark on the Doctor’s arm.)

The Doctor: “Yes. I think I am.”

Churchill: “Resume your story.”

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Churchill: “Why would you do this?”

(The postman delivers the invitation to Rory and Amy. River gets hers, too.)

Churchill: “Of all the things you’ve told me, this I find hardest to believe. Why would you invite your friends to see your death?”

The Doctor: “I had to die. I didn’t have to die alone. Amy and Rory. The last Centurion and the Girl Who Waited. However dark it got, I’d turn around, and there they’d be. If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.”

Churchill: “And did you tell them this was going to happen?”

The Doctor: “It would help if you didn’t keep asking questions.”

(There are three tally marks on his arm now.)

The Doctor: “(sotto) We don’t have much time.”

Churchill: “And this woman you spoke of. Did you invite her?”

The Doctor: “Yes, she was there. River Song came twice.”

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Churchill: “Well? What happened?”

The Doctor: “Nothing.”

Churchill: “Nothing?”

The Doctor: “Nothing happened. And then it kept happening. Or, if you’d prefer, everything happened at once, and it won’t ever stop. Time is dying. It’s going to be five oh two in the afternoon for all eternity. A needle stuck on a record.”

Churchill: “A record? Good Lord, man, have you never heard of downloads?”

The Doctor: “Said Winston Churchill.”

Churchill: “Gunsmoke. That’s gunsmoke. Oh, I appear to have fired this.”

(The Doctor has a spear.) The Doctor: “We seem to be defending ourselves.”

Churchill: “I don’t understand.”

The Doctor: “The creatures that lead the Silence. Remarkable beings. They’re memory-proof.”

Churchill: “But what does that mean?”

The Doctor: “You can’t remember them. The moment you look away, you forget they were ever there.”

(Four tally marks on his arm.)

The Doctor: “Don’t panic. In small numbers, they’re not too difficult.”

(But his other arm is covered in marks. They are hanging from the ceiling in a big cluster. A grenade rolls in. The Doctor knocks Churchill down. Boom, and soldiers enter.)

SOLDIER: “Go! Go! Go! Keep the Silence in sight at all times, keep your eye drives active.”

Churchill: “Who the devil are you? Identify yourselves.”

Amelia: “Pond. Amelia Pond.”

The Doctor: “No! She’s on our side. It’s okay.”

(Amy is wearing an eyepatch.)

The Doctor: “No. No, Amy. Amy, why are you wearing that?”

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The Doctor: “Amy?”

Amelia: “Those stun guns aren’t fun. I’m sorry. I wanted to avoid a long conversation. You need to get up, though. We’ll be in Cairo shortly.”

The Doctor: “Amy Pond. Amelia Pond from Leadworth, please, listen to me. I know it seems impossible, but you know me. In another version of reality you and I were best friends. We, we travelled together. We had adventures. Amelia Pond, you grew up with a time rift in the wall of your bedroom. You can see what others can’t. You can remember things that never happened. And if you try, if you really, really try, you’ll be able to-”

(He is gesturing with a model TARDIS.)

The Doctor: “Oh.”

(And on the far wall are her sketches - Dalek, Silurian, vampire, pirate, Weeping Angel.)

The Doctor: “Oh.”

Amelia: “You look rubbish.”

The Doctor: “You look wonderful.”

Amelia: “So do you. But don’t worry, we’ll soon fix that.”

(She holds up a tweed jacket.)

The Doctor: “Oh, Geronimo.”

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(A little later, shaved and dressed.)

The Doctor: “Okay, you can turn round now. How do I look?”

Amelia: “Cool.”

The Doctor: “Really?”

Amelia: “No.”

The Doctor: “Cool office though. Why do you have an office?! Are you a special agent boss lady? What’s that mean? Not sure about the eye patch, though.”

Amelia: “It’s not an eye patch. Time’s gone wrong. Some of us noticed. There’s a whole team of us working on it, you’ll see.”

The Doctor: “And you’ve got an office on a train. That is so cool. Can I have an office? Never had an office before. Or a train. Or a train slash office.”

Amelia: “God, I’ve missed you!”

The Doctor: “Okay. Hugging and missing now. Where’s the Roman?”

Amelia: “You mean Rory.”

The Doctor: “Mmm.”

Amelia: “My husband Rory, yeah?”

(She gets a drawing from her desk.)

Amelia: “That’s him, isn’t it? I’ve no idea. I can’t find him, but I love him very much, don’t I?”

The Doctor: “Apparently.”

Amelia: “I have to keep doing this, writing and drawing things. It’s just it’s so hard to keep remembering.”

The Doctor: “Well, it’s not your fault. Time’s gone wrong. Do you remember why?”

Amelia: “The lakeside.”

The Doctor: “Lake Silencio, Utah. I died.”

Amelia: “But then you didn’t. See, I remember it twice, different ways.”

The Doctor: “Two different versions of the same event, both happening in the same moment. Time split wide open. Now look at it. All of history happening at once.”

Amelia: “But does it matter? I mean, can’t we just stay like this?”

The Doctor: “Time isn’t just frozen, it’s disintegrating. It will spread and spread and all of reality will simply fall apart.”

(A soldier enters. Guess who.)

Rory: “Ma’am? We’re about to arrive. Eye drives need to be activated as soon as we disembark.”

Amelia: “Good point. Thank you, Captain Williams.”

The Doctor: “Hello.”

Rory: “Hello, sir. Pleased to meet you.”

Amelia: “Captain Williams, best of the best. Couldn’t live without him.”

(The Doctor compares him to his sketch, and laughs. Rory leaves.)

The Doctor: “No.”

Amelia: “What is wrong?”

The Doctor: “Amy, you’ll find your Rory. You always do. But you have to really look.”

Amelia: “I am looking.”

The Doctor: “Oh, my Amelia Pond. You don’t always look hard enough.”

Amelia: “Why are you older? If time isn’t really passing, then how can you be ageing?”

The Doctor: “Time is still passing for me. Every explosion has an epicentre. I’m it. I’m what’s wrong.”

Amelia: “What’s wrong with you?”

The Doctor: “I’m still alive.”

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Rory: “You have to put it on, sir.”

The Doctor: “An eye patch. What for?”

Amelia: “It’s not an eye patch.”

Rory: “It’s an eye drive, sir. It communicates directly with the memory centres of the brain. Acts as external storage.”

Amelia: “Only thing that works on them. Because no living mind can remember these things.”

Rory: “The Silence.”

(Held in individual tanks filled with liquid.)

Rory: “We’ve captured over a hundred of them now, all held in this pyramid.”

The Doctor: “Yeah. I’ve encountered them before. Always wondered what they looked like.”

Amelia: “Well, put your eye drive on and you’ll retain the information, but only for as long as you’re wearing it.”

The Doctor: “The Silence have human servants. They all wear these.”

Amelia: “They’d have to.”

Rory: “This way.”

(The Doctor puts the eye drive on.)

Rory: “They seem to be noticing you.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, they would.”

Amelia: “So why aren’t the human race killing the Silence on sight any more?”

The Doctor: “That was another reality. What are the tanks for?”

Rory: “They can draw electricity from anything. It’s how they attack. The fluid insulates them. And I really don’t like the way they’re looking at you.”

The Doctor: “Me neither.”

Rory: “Ma’am, I’m sure it’s nothing, but I should really check this out. They haven’t been this active in a while. You two, upstairs. Check all the tank seals. Then the floors above. Get everyone checking.”

SOLDIER: “Sir.”

Rory: “You go ahead, Ma’am.”

Amelia: “Thank you, Captain Williams. Doctor, this way.”

The Doctor: “Captain Williams, nice fellow. What’s his first name?”

Amelia: “Captain. Just through here.”

The Doctor: “Just give us a moment. Just need to check something, Ma’am.”

(The Doctor goes back to Rory. Amy speaks into a hidden microphone on her lapel.)

Amelia: “We’re in. He’s on his way.”

The Doctor: “The loyal soldier, waiting to be noticed. Always the pattern. Why is that?”

Rory: “Sorry, sir?”

The Doctor: “Your boss, you should just ask her out. She likes you. She said so.”

Rory: “Really, sir. What did she say?”

The Doctor: “Oh, she just sort of generally indicated.”

Rory: “What exactly what did she say?”

The Doctor: “She said that you were a Mister Hottie-ness, and that she would like to go out with you for texting and scones.”

Rory: “You really haven’t done this before, have you?”

The Doctor: “No, I haven’t.”

Rory: “See you in a moment, sir.”

The Doctor: “Yes. Yes.”

Amelia: “Come on, Doctor. Time for you to meet some old friends.”

Rory: “Attention all personnel.”

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“Attention all personnel. Please check all assigned containment units.”

(A lady in a white coat is watching a screen.)

KENT: “You were right. Just his presence in the building caused the loop to extend by nearly four chronons.”

(The clock now reads 05:02:57, 58, 59.)

The Doctor: “Hi, honey. I’m home.”

River: “And what sort of time do you call this?”

Kovarian: “The death of time. The end of time. The end of us all. Oh, why couldn’t you just die?”

(She is tied to a chair.)

The Doctor: “Did my best, dear. I showed up. You just can’t get the psychopaths these days. Love what you’ve done with the pyramids. How did you score all this?”

River: “Hallucinogenic lipstick. Works wonders on President Kennedy. And Cleopatra was a real pushover.”

The Doctor: “I always thought so.”

River: “She mentioned you.”

The Doctor: “What did she say?”

River: “Put down that gun down.”

The Doctor: “Did you?”

River: “Eventually.”

Kovarian: “Oh, they’re flirting. Do I have to watch this?”

River: “It was such a basic mistake, wasn’t it, Madame Kovarian. Take a child, raise her into a perfect psychopath, introduce her to the Doctor. Who else was I going to fall in love with?”

The Doctor: “It’s not funny, River. Reality is fatally compromised. Tell me you understand that.”

River: “Dinner?”

The Doctor: “I don’t have the time. Nobody has the time, because as long I’m alive, time is dying. Because of you, River.”

River: “Because I refused to kill the man I love.”

The Doctor: “Oh, you love me, do you? Oh, that’s sweet of you. Isn’t that sweet. Come here, you.”

Amelia: “Get him!”

(Soldiers grab the Doctor.)

River: “I’m not a fool, sweetie. I know what happens if we touch.”

(The Doctor grabs River’s arm.)

River: “Get off me. Get him off me! Doctor, no. Let go! Please Doctor, let go!”

WOMAN: “It’s moving. Time’s moving!”

(05:03 and counting.)

River: “Get him off me! Doctor!”

The Doctor: “I’m sorry, River. It’s the only way.”

(They flash back to the lakeside, then the soldiers pull him off.)

River: “Cuff him.”

The Doctor: “Oh, why do you always have handcuffs? It’s the only way. We’re the opposite poles of the disruption. If we touch, we short out the differential. Time can begin again.”

River: “And I’ll be by a lakeside killing you.”

The Doctor: “And time won’t fall apart. The clocks will tick. Reality will continue. There isn’t another way.”

River: “I didn’t say there was, sweetie.”

(In the storage area, a Silence puts its hand onto the glass of its tank, and it begins to crack. Captain Williams notices liquid dripping through to a lower level.)

River: “There are so many theories about you and I, you know.”

The Doctor: “Idle gossip.”

River: “Archaeology.”

The Doctor: “Same thing.”

River: “Am I the woman who marries you, or the woman who murders you?”

The Doctor: “I don’t want to marry you.”

River: “I don’t want to murder you.”

(Amy feels a drop on her head.)

The Doctor: “This is no fun at all.”

River: “It isn’t, is it?”

Amelia: “Doctor, what’s that?”

The Doctor: “The pyramid above us. How many Silence do you have trapped inside it?”

Kovarian: “None. They’re not trapped. They never have been. They’ve been waiting for this, Doctor. For you.”

Rory: “They’re out! All of them.”

(And the soldiers are getting slaughtered. Rory bars the door.)

Rory: “No one gets in here! Ma’am, my men out there should be able to lock this down. We have them outnumbered.”

Kovarian: “And you’re wearing eye drives based on mine, I think. Oops.”

The Doctor: “What do you mean?”

(Electricity surges through Doctor Kent’s eye drive. She screams.)

The Doctor: “Help her! Help her!”

(Soldiers are being affected, too.)

Amelia: “She’s dead.”

(The Doctor’s eye drive tries to zap him.) The Doctor: “Eye drives off now. Remove them.”

(Amy takes the Doctor’s eye drive off him, but then her own powers up.)

Kovarian: “The Silence would never allow an advantage without taking one themselves. The effects will vary from person to person. Either death or debilitating agony. But they will take you all, one by one.”

(Madame Kovarian’s eye drive starts to zap.) Kovarian: “What are you doing? No, it’s me. Don’t be stupid. You need me. Stop it. Stop that!”

The Doctor: “We could stop this right now, you and I.”

Kovarian: “Get it off me.”

The Doctor: “Amy, tell her.”

Amelia: “We’ve been working on something. Just let us show you.”

The Doctor: “There’s no point. There’s nothing you can do. My time is up.”

Amelia: “We’re doing this for you!”

The Doctor: “Then people are dying for me. I won’t thank you for that, Amelia Pond.”

Kovarian: “Get it.”

River: “Just let us show you.”

Amelia: “Please. Captain Williams, how long do we have?”

Rory: “Er, a couple of minutes.”

River: “That’s enough. We’re going to the Receptor Room right at the top of the pyramid. I hope you’re ready for a climb.”

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Rory: “I’ll wait down here, Ma’am. Buy you as much time as I can.”

Amelia: “You have to take your eye drive off.”

Rory: “Can’t do that, Ma’am. Might forget what’s coming.”

Amelia: “But it could activate any second.”

Rory: “It has activated, Ma’am. But I’m of no use to you if I can’t remember. You have to go now, Ma’am.”

Amelia: “Yes.”

Rory: “Now!”

Amelia: “Yes, thank you, Captain Williams.”

(Amy leaves, taking one last look back. Rory fights the pain to keep his gun hand steady as three Silence break through the door.)

SILENCE: “Rory Williams, the man who dies and dies again. Die one last time and know she will never come back for you.”

(Amy lets loose a machine gun at them.) Amelia: “Come on, you. Up you get. You alright?” (She takes his eye drive off.)

Kovarian: “Amy, help me.” (Her eye drive is hanging off.)

Amelia: “You took my baby from me and hurt her. And now she’s all grown up and she’s fine, but I’ll never see my baby again.”

Kovarian: “But you’ll still save me, though. Because he would, and you’d never do anything to disappoint your precious Doctor, or Terra.”

Rory: “Ma’am, we have to go, now.”

Amelia: “The Doctor is very precious to me, you’re right. And so is Terra.”

“And Terra’s telling you to kill the lady before I do.” I ordered. The two women glanced over at me. I walked up to Kovarian, leaning down to look her in the eye as Amelia previously did. “I was there on the fields, ya know. I remember the exact date your chapter broke off, swearing to take down the Doctor and I yourselves.”

My eyes turned cold. Kovarian flinched at it. “My baby died too. Not on your crappy Trenzalore fields. He died just before the Doctor and I arrived. Ripped out of me and murdered.” I paused, kinda losing focus a bit as I remembered that day. “Never even saw his face. Heard his voice. Did he have my eyes, or his father’s? Which of us did he look like? Oh, those thoughts have haunted me for centuries.” I snorted, still a bit lost in memories. “Harry Idris Song. Man, he would’ve been a great kid.”

A hand touched my shoulder. I glanced up, seeing Amelia look at me with tears in her eyes.

“The Doctor is very precious to us.” I said. “He’s the only reason the man that killed my boy is still breathing.” I glanced at Kovarian, grinning madly. “Do you wanna know how he got me to stop, Kovy? Cause he was kind, and loving, and he gives a shit about every single person he sees.”

Kovarian actually looked a bit scared. Good. Hope she was.

Amelia took over. “But do you know what else he is, Madame Kovarian? Not here.”

(Amy puts Kovarian’s eye drive back in place.)

Amelia: “River Song didn’t get it all from you, sweetie.”

(Amy takes Rory’s arm and they leave as Kovarian starts screaming.)

Amelia: “So, you and me, we should get a drink some time.”

Rory: “Okay.”

Amelia: “And married.”

Rory: “Fine.”

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The Doctor: “What’s this? Oh, it’s as timey-wimey distress beacon. Who built this?”

River: “I’m the child of the TARDIS. I understand the physics.”

The Doctor: “But that’s all you’ve got, a distress beacon.”

River: “I’ve been sending out a message. A distress call. Outside the bubble of our time, the universe is still turning, and I’ve sent a message everywhere. To the future and the past, the beginning and the end of everything. The Doctor is dying. Please, please help.”

The Doctor: “River! River, this is ridiculous. That would mean nothing to anyone. It’s insane. Worse, it’s stupid. You embarrass me.”

Amelia: “We barricaded the door. We’ve got a few minutes. Just tell him. Just tell him, River.”

River: “Those reports of the sunspots and the solar flares. They’re wrong. There aren’t any. It’s not the sun, it’s you. The sky is full of a million, million voices saying yes, of course we’ll help. You’ve touched so many lives, saved so many people. Did you think when your time came, you’d really have to do more than just ask? You’ve decided that the universe is better off without you, but the universe doesn’t agree.”

The Doctor: “River, no one can help me. A fixed point has been altered. Time is disintegrating.”

River: “I can’t let you die.”

The Doctor: “But I have to die.”

River: “Shut up! I can’t let you die without knowing you are loved by so many, and so much, and by no one more than me.”

The Doctor: “River, you and I, we know what this means. We are ground zero of an explosion that will engulf all reality. Billions on billions will suffer and die.”

River: “I’ll suffer if I have to kill you.”

The Doctor: “More than every living thing in the universe?”

River: “Yes.”

The Doctor: “River, River, why do you had have to be this? Melody Pond, your daughter. I hope you’re both proud.”

Rory: “I’m not sure I completely understand.”

Amelia: “We got married and had a kid and that’s her.”

Rory: “Okay.”

I threw the cuffs to Amelia. The startled ginger caught them.

“How did you-”

“Magician’s never reveal secrets.” I said, walking up to the Doctor

The Doctor: “Amy, uncuff me now. Okay, I need a strip of cloth about a foot long. Anything will do. Never mind.”

(The Doctor takes off his bow tie.) The Doctor: “River, take one end of this. Wrap it around your hand, and hold it out to me.”

River: “What am I doing?

The Doctor: “As you’re told. Now, we’re in the middle of a combat zone, so we’ll have to do the quick version. Captain Williams, say I consent and gladly give.

Rory: “To what?”

The Doctor: “Just say it.”

“Please.” I asked.

Rory: “I consent and gladly give.”

The Doctor: “Need you to say it too, mother of the bride.”

River gaped. “What are you doing?!”

The Doctor got up from the seat. “River, if the universe stops existing, so does she! I love her so much, River. I won’t let her die because you were selfish.”

“It will break her heart if you die.” River stated. “She’s my wife! I won’t do that to her.”

I shook my head. “It’ll break my heart if he dies, because no one bothered to listen to him.”

The Doctor turned to me, smirking. Then he turned back to the eye-door. “River, please. We have to. I can’t let Terra die like that.”

I could see River’s understand yet pissed look. “Yet you will let her die of a broken heart?”

The Doctor sighed. “River, I love her so much that I will die for her. It’s because of me the Silence put that thing on her arm. It’s because of me she has almost died time and time again! It’s my fault that she has no more family! Everything wrong with her is because of me! This is the least I can do!”

Amelia: “I consent and gladly give.”

The Doctor: “Now River, I’m about to whisper something in your ear, and you have to remember it very, very carefully, and tell no one what I said.”

“Look into my eye.” He whispered.

I waved at River, a giddy smile on my face.

The Doctor: “I just told you my name. Now, there you go, River Song. Melody Pond. You’re the woman who married me. And wife, I have a request. This world is dying and it’s my fault, and I can’t bear it another day. Please, help me. There isn’t another way.”

River: “Then you may kiss the bride.”

The Doctor: “I’ll make it a good one.”

River: “You’d better.”

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The Doctor wrapped his arms around me, protectively. He kissed my forehead. “I meant every word.”

I grabbed his hand, kissing the knuckles. “I know.” I looked into his eyes. “Just know, what happened to me wasn’t your fault. I would’ve made the Silence angry with me anyways, part of my charm.” I kissed him. “And, you were wrong. I do have family.”

“No you-” He started to argue.

“I have Max, I have Ruby, I have the TARDIS.” I kissed him again. “And I have you.”

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Dorium: “Who’s carrying me? I demand to know. I’m a head, I have rights. I want my doors open this time. I demand that my doors are open.”

(The figure opens his door and turns to leave.)

Dorium: “Is it you? It is, isn’t it. It is you, I can sense it. But how did you do it? How could you possibly have escaped?”

The Doctor and I took off our hoods, turning back to the blue head.

The Doctor: “The Teselecta. A Doctor in a Doctor suit. History said I had to be on that beach.” The Doctor said. “So we dressed for the occasion.”

I smiled, holding his hand. “And I wasn’t about to leave his side.”

“Barely got singed in that boat.”

Dorium: “So you’re going to do this? Let them all think you’re dead?”

The Doctor: “It’s the only way, then they can all forget me. I got too big, Dorium. Too noisy. Time to step back into the shadows.”

Dorium: “And Doctor Song, in prison all her days?”

The Doctor: “Her days, yes. Her nights? Well, that’s between the three of us, eh?”

Dorium: “So many secrets, Doctor. I’ll help you keep them, of course.”

The Doctor: “Well, you’re not exactly going anywhere, are you?”

Dorium: “But you’re a fool nonetheless. It’s all still waiting for you. The fields of Trenzalore, the fall of the Eleventh, and the question.”

The Doctor: “Goodbye, Dorium.”

Dorium: “The first question. The question that must never be answered, hidden in plain sight. The question you’ve been running from all your life. Doctor who? Doctor who? Doctor Who.”

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I kissed his cheek.

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