Meanwhile...In 1580 in Venice

We open with this fine fellow looking to find a better life for his daughter.

This lady has some kind of...school for something that will somehow offer that.

He is a boat builder and the only hope Isabella has to rise up from this working class status is

this woman right here. She believes the children our future.

Isabella is his world! The Signora accepts her into the school. Oh. How nice.

Yay!

Signora instructs them to say goodbye. Time is a' tickin'. No time to lose! Time is running out

after all.

They were not prepared to be parted so quickly!

Dad is escorted out and Isabella is left all alone with the scary people.

Signora instructs her to step into the light.

She and her companion here circle around her like hungry wolves...or hungry something else's.

Vampires perhaps?

Whoa! Look at those teeth. Francesco likes her!

Isabella screams in terror as would I.

Cut to Rory screaming into a phone at a pub in present day England.

It's Rory's stag night, and he's leaving Amy messages telling her how much he loves her. I think

he might be a little bit drunk...and adorable. Adora-Drunk.

Just pointing it out that this is the third stag party/hen night I've noticed in the Whoniverse

where everybody is wearing matching outfits. In Torchwood there was the Dudes with Antlers in Day

One, and Gwen with her pink cowboy hats, and now Rory with his Team Rory/Amy shirt.

Is this just how it's done in the UK? Or Am I going to the wrong Bachelorette parties?

In any case, Rory has to go now because he's got a stripper cake ready to go!

Oh, well. THAT certainly must be a disappointment for these barking dudes. Maybe not the one in

the leather jacket.

Rory shakes his head in disbelief.

The Doctor looks around and finally spots Rory. He's thankful he hasn't jumped out of the wrong

cake (again) and tells the guys to let the stripper in and give her a sweater while they're at it.

This random dude cannot believe this shit.

so, the Doctor says he needs to have a talk about Amy, and Rory looks down at his shirt all

bashful-like and smitten.

Until the Doctor reveals that she tried to kiss him. That wipes the goofy smile of Rory's face

really fast.

This draws gasps from the whole crowd and the Doctor is not helping when he congratulates Rory for

snagging Amy, what with her amazing kissing skillz.

This Random Dude does not approve.

Well, the Doctor's embarrassed now that he's pretty much completely humiliated poor Rory at his own

stag party.

Later, the Doctor is below deck in the TARDIS explaining to Rory and Amy how the wonder and glory

of the universe in all it's awesome awesomeness can blind people to the really important things in

life...such as love...the stuff. I dunno...it seemed like Amy had cold feet before the glory and

the wonder of the universe came back into her life.

Basically, the Doctor doesn't really want to see Rory and Amy's relationship dissolve because Amy's

out there doing amazing things, such as getting puked up by a space whale, and Rory's stuck at

home...doing whatever he does now. Nursing the sick back to health or something boring like that.

So...the Doctor's going to send them on a date to wherever in time they want to go as long as it's

some place incredible.

The Doctor is all ready to impress Rory with his bigger on the inside box now, but Rory undercuts

him and deduces that there's another dimension involved before the Doctor can say it himself. He

is completely unimpressed since he's been reading up on all the latest theories since the P-Zero

incident, and basically looks like he's ready to murder the Doctor right where he stands.

The Doctor likes it when people are impressed though! "It's bigger on the inside!" is his

favorite phrase or something.

Instead of letting the two lovebirds figure out a place, the Doctor decides to send them somewhere

romantic. A place where goats roam the streets.

Venice! Tada!

The Doctor gives us a rundown of the history of Venice while they walk. The important thing to

bring away from this conversation is that Casanova owes the Doctor a chicken.

They are accosted by a man asking for their proof of residency and the Doctor flashes the psychic

paper at him

He's an alien checker...not the space alien kind (Though maybe he should be, all things

considered.) In any case he's there to make sure none of the foreigners bring the plague into

Venice. The Doctor thinks this is strange.

Amy has no problems playing along with the psychic paper as the Viscountess. Rory is confused as

hell and gives her the look of WTF?

The Alien catcher explains that the city is walled off because of Signora Calvieri. We can assume

we know who that is even though her name wasn't spoken in the intro.

And check out the sea-serpent on her crest.

Seems this Calvieri chick has come to Venice spreading the story of the plague ridden...rest of

the world and that is why the city is closed for business. The Doctor is still confused, because

there shouldn't be plague running rampant at this point in history.

They head off with the Alien catcher...Amy right behind the Doctor. Rory snags the Psychic paper

and is dismayed to find that he has been elected the Viscountess' Eunuch. Oh, dear.

Meanwhile at Signora Calvieri's school for creepy pale girls...

Our Intrepid explorers head to an area overlooking a canal...and incidentally the Calvieri school

where the girls and marching around the courtyard across the way.

Isabella's dad has come to rescue her!

But the Other girls rally around to his at him and knock him to the ground.

Francesco arrives on the scene looking as bat-like and skeevy as ever, to inform dad that his

daughter is gone forever now.

Amy turns to ask the Doctor what the deal is, but he's nowhere to be found. She hates that.

Rory just looks annoyed.

The Doctor catches up to Dad so he can ask what the big deal is with this Calvieri school.

Dad explains that there is an unspecified evil afoot, and that is why he was trying to get his

daughter out.

The Doctor is all up in it now. He's going to pay Signora a visit!

There she is, slurping down a goblet of something. She's staying hydrated.

Francesco arrives so he can put his head on Mummy's knee and pout about the Dad who tried to

rescue Isabella that afternoon. He doesn't want to wait for their undisclosed evil plan to unfold

any longer!

He wants to introduce the mysteriously converted girls to his brothers...whoever they are.

Signora is the one with the plan though. She's going to stick with it instead of unleashing

Francesco and the converted girls on the general population. He's sad because he wants to go on a

converting spree.

She would rather they come to her and beg to be taken rather then taking them by force. She's a

biatch like that I guess.

Francesco mopes in a corner.

Meanwhile, Amy and Rory are left to their own awkward devices. He wants to know what the hell

she's been up to.

Running through hallways terrified for her life basically.

Rory wants to know if she even missed him though. He can't look her in the eye right now, and she

gives him the ol' friendly arm-punch and tells him she knew she'd be back....Really, girl? An Arm-

Punch? Again, I volunteer for hug duty.

Rory is still Annoyed and angry with her and says the doctor was right and she has lost touch of

the little important things.

Amy doesn't want to talk about important things right now though. She wants to go on their date

and ignore any and all of their problems.

Rory caves almost instantly. He finally takes it in...that they are chillin' in Venice in the

1580's. Good times!

And Francesco creeps in the corner as they pass.

This unfortunate soul has come along at just the wrong time to offer just the wrong...person some

flowers.

He declines, but doubles back and catches her under the archway.

Meanwhile Rory is getting ready to snap more unbelievable things on his camera phone. (This is

when the coma patients were walking around! And this is when me and Amy vacationed in 1580!)

The screaming flower girl interrupts them though.

They catch Francesco in the act of sucking her blood!

He shows his teeth and runs away...Rory's first instinct: Check the girl...see if she's okay.

Turns out that she is.

Amy's first instinct on the other hand? Run after the creepy dude with sharp pointy fangs who

just bit someone on the neck.

She runs into a dead end though.

Where could Francesco be? Hmmmmm. I wonder.

Meanwhile, Dad is still trying to get in.

And the Doctor creeps in the back gate while the guards are distracted.

He immediately finds himself a mirror so he can adjust his bow-tie of awesome.

And check to see if he has something stuck in his teeth...but WAIT!

The girls creepily all at the same time ask who he is, and he just checks in the mirror to make

sure he's seeing their lack of reflection correctly.

He thinks it's awesome though if a little bit creepy.

These ladies do not care for compliments.

The Doctor wants to show them the Psychic paper to satisfy their inquiries as to who he is...but

he shows them his library card instead! (I guess he hasn't been back to that library in quite a

while.)

And he still identifies Rory by his most prominent feature instead of his name, because that is

who his psychic paper has run off with.

He's talks out his thoughts about their possibly being vampires and they just tell him to get out

before they tell on him.

The fangs come out.

He tries to get them to tell him their whole plan by...asking. This doesn't work; they just hiss

at him.

He is delighted though, because isn't this just delightful?

Amy and the Doctor meet back up later and do the "OMG! VAMPIRES! YAAAAAY!" Dance of squee.

Rory catches up with them and is not quite as enthused.

The Doctor and Amy start planning on how to foil the evil vampire plans... Rory thinks this is an

insane plan of action.

Back at Dad's house, they learn that the only way back into the Calvieri place is through the sewer

tunnel underneath.

Rory's over here on the barrels of discontent probably wondering what the hell happened to that

date he was promised.

Back over here in the plotting area of the room, Dad tells us about how the doors are locked from

the inside. Amy thinks they need an inside man, but the Doctor shoots her down instantly before she

can explain.

Amy is indignant that she didn't get to explain her brilliant plan, but the Doctor explains that

he's on the same wavelength this time and he's not gonna let her pose as a student at the school for

Vampires.

Rory is displeased with the whole proceeding on the basis of it being totally insane. Amy's like

-whatever dude- She's ready for some more adventurin' now fully recovered from her previous death

scare.

Rory begs her to listen to the Doctor if she's not going to listen to him. They both think "No"

right now.

Dad has an idea though!

Dress Rory in drag and make him be the inside man?

Unfortunately not. The Barrels of discontent are full of Gunpowder. Dad wants to blow shit up.

Rory sneaks away from the Barrels of discontent.

The Doctor doesn't want to do that though, and Dad gets frustrated. Amy gets smug because her

idea seems to be the best viable option.

Rory and the rabbit carcass are exasperated.

The Doctor contemplates it for a brief second, but reaffirms that no...Amy's not going to do that.

Rory is unamused.

Amy knows she's in though.

Aaaaand...the Doctor caves.

Rory cannot believe this shit.

Amy just doesn't think the Doctor can pass as her father. He's too young looking, and it would be

too weird for him to pose as her brother.

She proposes Fiancé.

*Scorned* again! Rory, of course, totally understandably likes this part of the plan least of

all.

Ahh, yes. Amy agrees that this plan is faulty. The Doctor can't be her fiancé ... because they

already know what he looks like.

Rory gets nominated to give her away to the vampires now... He is nonplussed, then nonplussed

some more when Amy decides that he gets to play the role of her brother and ruffles his hair.

Oh, Amy. *tsk*

Rory himself wonders how she came to this decision and Dad over here says that he thought the

Doctor was the fiancé for real...which the Doctor agrees is not helping this most awkward situation.

Brother, Fiancé...either way Rory is beside himself, because this whole entire business is totally

insane to him and getting insaner by the minute, because VAMPIRES???!

The Doctor says they can only hope that it's vampires. They are probably more easily staked than

the real menace that's behind the Calvieri school.

Say what, now?

But what could be worse than a vampire?? Oooooo.

So Rory finally concedes to the plan and they arrive at the school all bedecked in 1580's garb.

Rory is her brother and a gondola "driver".

Francesco seems to kind of recognize them though.

Rory babbles on about his face and Amy looking alike (because they're related now.) and Francesco

tells him to shut-up already. Signora Calvieri calls him an imbecile.

Dayum. This has GOT to be the worst date in the history of all dates ever.

Yeah, well she can call him an imbecile all she wants, but he's got refs from the king of Sweden!

Woo! Psychic paper, way to go! Now for Francesco's creepy seal of approval and we're all set!

Francesco approves! We're in!

They are parted as quickly as Isabella and her dad at the beginning of this episode. Amy calls

after Rory to tell "Uncle Doctor" she'll see him soon.

Amy assures him that she'll be fine and Francesco creeps

So, Amy heads off to her new life as a vampirette recruit. The other girls are creeping all

around and giggling creepily at her.

Amy introduces herself to one of the girls that share her new room.

It's Isabella!

Amy reveals herself and explains that she's here for the rescue mission, but she has to know

what's really going on.

So, the Vampires take her to a room with a blue light every night, strap her down and do

something...she doesn't know because she loses consciousness and wakes up in her room. Whatever it

is that they do, it makes sunlight painful to her.

Later, the boys are preparing to rescue Amy. Dad is paddling down the canal in Rory's stag

shirt...because he only has one outfit in his entire wardrobe and Rory had to borrow it.

Rory is still pretty angry that Amy's in perilous danger even though the Doctor assures him that

everything is going to be fine.

Meanwhile...Amy makes her way down to unlock the trap doors and let the boys inside.

Deep in the underground lair of the Vampire castle, with possible danger lurking around every

corner...Now is the time Rory wants to discuss that whole kissing thing that happened between Amy

and the Doctor.

The Doctor thinks he has horrible timing.

Mission Accomplished! Now we all go home?

Oh! Caught Red handed!

While Amy is inside getting capture, the Doctor is outside explaining to Rory why she kissed

him...because she was high on being alive and he was there. He figures if Rory had been there it

would have been him. Then the Doctor's light blows out and they're left in the dark.

The Steward had brought Amy to the blue room, which is actually a green room and the Signora knows

all about their little psychic paper tricks.

Back in the dungeon, Rory is a stepladder.

And Amy is nowhere to be found.

It's still pitch black, but not to fear! Rory has a pen-light.... Sorry to say, Rory, the

Doctor's is bigger.

The Signora questions Amy about who she is exactly, but Francesco thinks that is pointless. He

just wants to vampire her up and get it over with already.

Amy is really in a pickle now as they wheel out a machine, set up an IV and strap her to chair.

Signora isn't taking any prisoners here.

She sinks her teeth into Amy's neck.

Meanwhile, Rory is worried about his possibly not happening now wedding.

The Doctor opens up a coffin and finds a skeleton...which is what you usually find in a coffin.

The Doctor explains that they've been dehydrated.

So, while the Doctor and Rory are dilly-dallying over corpses, Amy's over here being exanguinated.

Francisco wants a bite too! Mummy says to go ahead and knock yourself out, kid.

Rory explains vampire lore to us: They drink blood and replace it with their own? Why,

yes...however, these bodies have had all their fluids drained, not just the blood. These ones did

not survive the process.

This, of course, does not make Rory feel any better about this adventure, or his missing

fiancée/Sister? He admonishes the Doctor, not for making people take risks...but for making them

want to impress him so much that they do it without thought.

Yep.

Rory continues to make the Doctor feel bad for being a danger to every one around him.

He doesn't have further time to contemplate it though, because the Vampirettes are here! The

Doctor waves them away with his giant torch and then they run!

Back at the buffet, Signora is explaining their evil plan to a barely conscious Amy... Drink the

blood, Replace it with their own, and become inhuman. Or Death.

Amy somehow still has the wherewithal to ask what happens if she doesn't happen to die. Signora

offers up 10,000 husbands waiting in the water. Good times.

Amy tells her that she's Kind of engaged, so that 10,000 husbands thing isn't going to work out

for her. Then she kicks the Signora right in the...

Francesco is quick to react. Nobody messes with his mama.

Ohh! Seems Amy has booted her right in the thing that makes her look like a human-mah-thingy.

This is what she really looks like!

She reverts back to human form and there's a loud racket coming from the hallway as Rory and the

Doctor make the loudest escape ever. She heads towards the noise with Francesco and Steward looks

pretty freaked out by what just happened.

Aaand...it's not the boys that come to rescue Amy! It's Isabella!

The Signora scoffs at the Doctor's clearly effective rescue mission.

They dart of down a side hall and the Signora calls for the house to be sealed.

As they head out Amy tells the Doctor what he thought all along...that they are really aliens

masquerading as vampires.

They think this news is good; Rory still thinks this is insanity.

Finally, they make it outside where it's sunny and Dad is waiting.

There will be no happy reunions though, because the sun burns Isabella's skin and before the

Doctor can make it back to throw a coat over her or something, the Vampirettes drag her back inside!

And the doors are now all electrified.

It's not enough of a shock for a new Doctor just yet though. He's still alive, even though Amy

feared that killed him.

:*(

Meanwhile, Isabella is being sentenced to walk the plank. She's under the impression that they're

going to try to drown her...but they're not. No. It's far worse than that.

There are things in this water...Carnivorous things apparently. And then this episode got a whole

lot darker than it started out.

Signora is mighty pleased with herself though, and she sends everybody away.

Francesco stays around to remind Mumsy not to fall in while she's human looking or his 'brothers'

are going to eat her too. We can all guess what it is that's in the pond now, right?

So, the Doctor is back and sitting on her throne when the Signora returns from that execution that

just happened.

She has the Doctor pegged as the owner of the psychic paper, because clearly it couldn't be Rory's since she think's he's a fool.

She also thinks the Doctor must be a refugee. Like Her.

He proposes a question for a question...then tells us all about the filter she's wearing that

makes her look like a human and that it's the reason they have no reflection. There isn't really a question involved yet until she gets impatient...then he just asks her why can they see the teeth then? She explains why...something to do with self preservation overriding the whatsits. Then he asks where Isabella is and she cuts him off because it's her turn.

She asks where he's from and when he tells her she says he should be put in a museum. As for why her people are refugees in the first place?

They ran from the silence.

Silence you say? The silence came from the cracks.

These cracks all behave differently and are different sizes. Some had other worlds inside...some

had silence...some had the end of everything. It seems these guys came through a crack and their

planet was lost behind them.

The Doctor deduces that their plan is to remake the Earth as their own planet and take it over.

Signora wrongly thinks the Doctor is going to side with her on this.

He just wants to know where Isabella is.

She flippantly tells the Doctor that she had to execute her for deserting, which is the totally

wrong thing to say if she really wanted to earn any sympathy at all for the plight of her species.

She still thinks they can form some kind of alliance though. He pretty much shoots her

down...after all she is a big fish and he eats fish with custard.

Yes, she now thinks it probably isn't such a good idea since she is a fish of action and he just

philosophizes all day long. He threatens to end it and sees himself out.

But one more thing before he goes...he's not going to help them, because the Signora didn't even

have the decency to remember the name of the poor girl she executed.

Now that the Doctor has paid her a visit, the Signora is ready to put her plan into motion...but

her thingy is on the fritz ever since Amy kicked it and she keeps turning back into a fish beetle.

Francesco's on edge now.

Back at the ranch, the Doctor is fixing up Amy's neck.

The Doctor has to think for a minute so he hushes Amy when she offers her opinion as to why the Fish people hate the sun.

No time to explain things to Rory either.

Dad still wants to blow shit up most of all, but the Doctor shushes him by proxy.

Let us rehash the evil plot:

Signora creates a bunch of fish-wives people to repopulate the species but then what's she going to do? They can't exactly live on land.

The Doctor remembers something she said earlier...that she would "Bend the Heavens" to save her species.

Sink Venice! He finally realizes that must be her plan all along. Seems like kind of a
hassle...what with the whole of the Earth's oceans and lakes and rivers being pretty wide open and devoid of humans living in them already.

Rory thinks there must be something amiss in this plan...what since you can't repopulate a race with just women... But these are fish people! We aren't taking into the account that they may be hermaphroditic...or maybe they spawn and Francesco's going to be a super busy guy fertilizing all those fish eggs.

Well...regardless of varying other fish breeding methods, it turns out that she does have more than one guy waiting in the wings...she has 10,000 of them. It's the females she's probably short on.

The Doctor isn't too fond of the idea of all the fishmen hanging out in the water just waiting for their new girlfriends.

Suddenly! A Noise! Rory thinks it may be vampires.

They're not vampires, silly! They're fish! From space! Space Fish!

Either way...it is them all floating outside the window being creepy and hissing.

The Doctor shines the light on them, Rory points out that they are now flying, so what the hell?

The Doctor sonics them and they are now fish people again.

They make their escape, and Dad takes over torch duties from the Doctor so they can go...and run over some chickens of unrest on the way out.

Dad goes back inside...but why? The Doctor tries to sonic him out, but it's not working.

He inches towards the barrels of discontent with alit candle...yeah. You know where this is going now. With his only daughter gone and a chance to rid the world of some of the creatures responsible...

This is the look of realization...then the Doctor runs away as fast as he can go.

Dad screams "We are Venetians!" at the fish and...

Kaboom! Goodbye, Dad. :*(

So back at school, Signora pushes a button and smoke goes up into the sky from the school building's tower, causing an instant thunderstorm.

Over here the Doctor realizes that the final phase has commenced.

Amy, of course, wants to foil the evil plot...Rory has totally had enough of this.

The Doctor sends her to her room without discussion. Young Lady!

Amy, not too fond of discipline, stomps away in an angry huff, and Rory thanks the Doctor.

There's Francesco, opening the gates and looking dapper and creepy. He takes his cape off and does

a swan dive into the canal.

The Doctor has come to stop the storm chair!

Signora has come to admire his perseverance in saving this city and then pokes him for abandoning

his own way back when. She's excited about her people rising up once again!

Not for long though, because the Doctor has some bad news. All the girls have been blown up.

She doesn't believe him at first and calls his bluff...this time there are no jammy dodgers though. He's telling the truth. Since her plan is all blown to hell now, the Doctor wonders if she might be interested in not destroying the city after all maybe? She just storms away and tells him to save it his own damn self.

Meanwhile, on the way back to the TARDIS...Rory and Amy meet up with an old friend.

It's Francesco!

Rory is still under the impression that Francesco is an actual vampire. It is a valiant effort

though.

He just plows on through the candlesticks and goes after Amy, who is up against a wall, while Rory

tries to attract his attention.

Rory throws out some insults, including calling Francesco a "Spongebob" which I guess goes to show

that Spongebob transcends all cultural and temporal boundaries. The only insult that does pique

Francesco's interest is when Rory calls his Mum Ugly.

Yes, folks. He may have just saved Amy with a "Your Mom" joke.

Naturally, our Mama's boy turns on Rory really quick, and Rory takes up the broomstick of valor to

defend himself.

He twirls the broom around in hopes of intimidation or...something. Francesco just looks at him

like he's off his nut.

The Chickens of Unrest flutter around then scatter as Francesco expertly whips around his blade of

actual metal that will cut you and make you bleed.

Rory does a pretty good job of parrying Francesco's blows with the stick in the middle of

somebody's stockings.

Ooo, too bad the broomstick of valor is no match for Francesco's impervious...uh skin and clothing.

Amy has a plan though! She needs Rory to lead Francesco over to her... but what to do now that the

broomstick has been lopped in half?

Rory ditches the stick and Francesco goes in for the kill, but gets caught in a sheet, which Rory

then wraps around him.

Rory trips on a cobblestone or his own feet on the way to Amy.

Francesco goes all Space!Fish on him.

But Amy has her compact out and focuses a beam of light right on him.

This instantly vaporizes him somehow. Let's not think about it too hard.

Amy pokes fun at Rory's vampire slaying skillz, then she kisses him finally.

Lives saved? Check. Kisses for the victors? Check. Help the Doctor Now????

Okay then.

Back at the school, the Doctor is trying to figure out how to stop this wicked looking storm from

sinking Venice.

Rory and Amy arrive on the scene!

The Doctor wants to know where this change of heart came from as Rory declares that they're not

going to leave him. No time to explain tough, because the storm is causing earthquakes.

It's not the Earthquakes they should worry about though...it's the tidal waves that they cause that

are the problem.

So...now that everyone is on team Doctor again. Rory and Amy's job is to destroy the chair command

hub by any means necessary...even whacking it with a stick. Hey! Rory's an expert at that!

Once they shut it down the power will be re-routed to the secondary hub, also the generator, maybe,

probably...then the Doctor can shut the storm off from there. Hmmm...I wonder where it could be?

The Doctor is up in the bell-tower now, losing his hearing.

Rory and Amy pull out wires at random.

It's a bird! It's a plane!...

It's the Doctor! Climbin' the spire like a boss.

Rory and Amy cheer him on to victory from the ground. The citizens of Venice are running around

in a screaming panic.

And the Doctor turns off the city-sinking storm of death and destruction machine by flicking a

toggle switch.

A TOGGLE SWITCH!

I don't know, but I think a toggle switch is probably the most anti-climactic way disabling a

doomsday device ever.

Good weather has been restored! City saved! All in a day's work!

Yay!

And the city rejoices!

Meanwhile, the Signora is over in the hatchery where her spawn live...her device still on the

fritz.

She discards her fancy frock and heads out to the plank. Ohhhhh. Dear.

The Doctor is on the scene. She thinks it wasn't such a bad thing to sacrifice one city to save

her species. That isn't the way things work though. He tells her she just needs to move on and

keep living, or whatever.

She wants to know if he can have that on his conscious...another dead species.

She tells him to remember them in his dreams aka. nightmares, and then jumps into the water with

her mask still on.

and is eaten by her OWN CHILDREN.

Later, the chickens of unrest go back to their daily business of overseeing the humans putting

their bread back in their baskets after the earthquake and rain...

The Doctor is excited about Rory and Amy finally getting married...Rory is happy about Rory and Amy

finally getting married.

One person doesn't seem too happy about it though.

Rory gets it. He's all *scorned* again and says they can just drop him back where they found him.

Whatevs. He can tell when he's not wanted.

Oh...but Amy thinks he should join them. How about it, Doctor?

Yeah! How about it? Rory actually seems excited about the prospect now.

The Doctor approves!

Yay! Amy goes to put the kettle on. Everybody's happy now, She's got her spaceship and her boys!

Rory tries to deny that they are her boys, but the Doctor puts him right, because he knows that

they are.

Oh, but wait! Before we can all retire to the TARDIS in good spirits, a silence befalls the...

well, the everywhere. The Doctor asks Rory what he hears but he's confused because there's nothing

to hear. Even the chickens of unrest cannot be heard.

We get the voiceover of the Signora from earlier on explaining about what her people saw in the

cracks and then the camera zooms in on the TARDIS keyhole...Hmmmmmm.

NEXT TIME!

Pregnant Amy?

Ponytail!Rory

And a geriatric mob!

We start where we left off. The Doctor has shot at the spaceship and set off an explosion...his team jumped and now...well now they are upside on the bottom of the ship. I'll spare you the technical details of how this happened.

Octavian notes that the Angels are becoming more and more like Angels by the second. Those guys are just eating up all the radiation from the ship. The army will be ready to go in about an hour.

Amy worries when the Doctor jumps into the porthole here, but it's not to worry. The Gravity orientates to the floor. SO, now we're in some kind of Escher like space, where Amy is right side up on the outside, but actually upside down and the Doctor is inside but sideways...

Nevermind, let's all hop in the ship where everybody is the same way up. It's giving me motion sickness just thinking about the logistics.

The Angels are coming! They have to keep on moving.

Some alarm bells go off and the corridor becomes sealed off in a "Death Trap Timebomb" (Sequel to Hot-Tub Time Machine?)

So, they're stuck, and the power fails. This was a short episode...

SOme kind of auxiliary lights come on, thankfully, but now there's a quartet of Angels inside with them.

Let's just assume that the people in charge keep telling the Clerics and Amy to keep their eyes on the Angels...because they do shout that at intermitten intervals. This would probably be a really boring recap if I mentioned every time.

This one is special though, because the Doctor reminds everybody -Not in the Eyes- Amy's a little perturbed, because she's been there and done that and so far she's been mind tricked into thinking she's a rock...so who knows what else can happen.

So the Doctor has rigged it so the Angels can't cause the lights to go out... There is one caveat though...in order to open the door he has to turn the lights out himself. Naturally, nobody thinks that's a particularly great idea right now...especially when we learn that they will be out for a fraction of a second or not. Basically, the Doctor doesn't know how long it will take exactly.

Octavian doesn't want to lose any more men though. He's lost three good ones already. River trusts the Doctor though, so it's going to be lights out.

The Doctor goes to work while Octavian threatens to tell the Doctor of her misdeeds, or whatever secret her past is hiding, if he loses any more men. River begrudgingly agrees.

They're going to watch the Doctor's back then. Octavian orders his troops to just keep firing into the dark once the lights go out.

The Doctor instructs Amy to turn the wheel 4 times when the lights go out...she says "Ten"
He repeats "Four" a bunch of times at her and she looks at him like he's crazy.

The lights go out on Ocatvians mark and the guns are ablaze!

The angels keep getting closer despite the hail of gunfire.

Through to the command room!

The Angles aren't far behind though. Octavian puts a lock on the door to hold them back for a little while. He thinks for ever, but no, the lock has only slowed them down a little bit.

They've got five minutes until they break through. Amy says "Nine" The Doctor wants to know what her deal is, but she doesn't remember saying anything.

All the doors are sealed and they're surrounded, but there seems to be some other mysterious way out behind this wall.

It's a forest! See, the people on the ship need oxygen to breath on interstellar voyages and what do trees expel? Right, so they installed an entire forest.

Amy's standing in Awe and wonder and then she says: "Eight"

What?

Continuing on! They are not really Trees though! They're TREEBORGS! They will assimilate you!

Alright, Treeborgs! It's an entire ecosystem right there in the middle of the ship with weather and everything.

The Doctor asks Amy if she's impressed yet. Of course she is, but she says "Seven" instead.

Clearly something is going wrong with Amy Pond. Even River takes notice now.

No time for that now. Angel!Bob calls up and relays a message from the angels. They want to know what the Doctor's master plan is. Now, Now...He should know better than to reveal the Master plan! Though he is sitting in the perfect chair for it. He needs a white cat on his lap to stroke while he's doing it too or something.

He doesn't divulge the plan! Good job. He says they're just "Hangin'" <--that is a direct quote.

Angel!Bob doesn't know not to reveal his secret plan though. Basically his is world domination. Y'know, regular bad guy stuff.

The Doctor amuses himself by getting the Angel to say "Comfy Chairs" though.

Amy giggles and says "Six"

The Doctor's had enough Chit-Chat though. He wants to know what's happening to Amy. The jist of it is that she's literally got "Angel Eyes" They are in her her eye!

Amy wants to know what the deal is because she's "Five" Yes, this counting is very worrying.

She's counting down but nobody knows why!

Angel!Bob is like -Haha, we'll get you all and the rest of the universe while we're at it!- The Doctor doesn't think the ship is powerful enough to fuel them for that kind of an undertaking. Angel!Bob says, think again!

Then there's some terrible squealing/screaming noises, which has everybody freaked the heck out. Angel!Bob tells them it's the angel equivalent of maniacal laughter or something.

They're laughing because the Doctor hasn't noticed. Hmmm, what could he be missing?

It's Cracky! Amy notes the resemblance to the one in her wall and we flash back to it for a moment.

Octavian doesn't want to stick around while the crack widens and causes a giant Crack-Quake on the spaceship here, so he runs off to the forest. Amy and River want to stay with the Doctor, but he tells them to get going while he takes a crack sample for analysis.

Well, it seems the Doctor has waited a little too long, and now he's surrounded on all sides by a bunch of Angels!

He goes over the Top of the console, but one of the Angels grabs hold of his jacket!

Over in the forest, Amy's not doing so well.

The Angels haven't killed him yet, which is odd. It seems they're distracted by the ever widening crack in the universe there. The Time energy can't feed them, it's not the right kind...so what's the deal?

He leaves the jacket behind while they're distracted.

Amy hits "Four" on the countdown and has to sit down.

Octavian doesn't want to stay there though. River's going to wait and give Amy a medical scan.

River gives a little speech about how they need to keep the Doctor alive long enough so he can save everybody else and if he's not dead then she's going to kill him...but he's right there listening to every word she said.

Amy wants to know what's wrong with her. River says she's fine, the Doctor says she's dying.

Seems River was just trying to make her feel better. She disapproves of the Doctor's straightforward approach, but he's never been one to lie to Amy on purpose anyway.

So Amy looked at an Angel for too long and now it's in her eye, there are angels surrounding them again. Seems they've lost interest in the crack to the End of the Universe.

So, the Angel is in Amy Ponds mind. The Doctor finally figures it out. Apparently, if you blink, you die, but if you don't blink you also die. Blink, Don't Blink, it's all the same result.

Amy says "Three"

He doesn't know what's with the counting though, so he gets on the radio to Angel!Bob who tells him it's just to make her afraid.

It's working.

And to top it all off, they're doing it for fun! This frustrates the Doctor so he wings the Radio at a treeborg.

Now Amy has got just seconds to live! They have to figure out a way to stop Amy's vision centers from seeing.

...The Doctor tells her to close her eyes, but she refuses.

The Doctor takes that as a good sign of the Angel inside being afraid. He convinces Amy to shut her eyes.

Her vital signs return to normal!

No time for joy though. We've got Angels on the way.

Meanwhile, Amy is still weak, and she can't open her eyes or she'll die.

So, Octavian wants to move on, but the Doctor's not having that. He wants the clerics to stand watch over Amy.

The Doctor and River are going to go save the day. River wants to know how that's going to happen, and the Doctor says he's going to do a "Thing" He doesn't know what that is yet though!

Octavian's okay with his clerics staying behind, but he's going to go on the the "Thing" Mission.

Well, it seems like Octavian is not in it for the Glory. He just doesn't want River Song left to her own devices.

And the Doctor asks if he's engaged to her...he says "In a manner of speaking" So, she's a criminal and they needed her expertise on the Angels, and Octavian is her handler? That is what I'm getting out of this.

Amy doesn't want to be left alone with the Clerics. Octavian shuts her down as being a handicap to them, but the Doctor sits down and tells her that he'll be back as soon as he can and she's safer there in one spot.

Amy doesn't want later, but the Doctor comes back to tell her that she has got to learn how to trust him.

He wants her to remember what he told her when she was seven. He doesn't tell her because it's important for her to remember what it is on her own, without his help. He leaves her with a kiss on the forehead.

And I will leave you to speculate about the incongruous item in this scene and what it means if anything. ;)

This Doctor catches up with the River and Octavian and she wants to know how a crack can be the "End of the Universe." The Doctor doesn't know. All he knows is that one day the crack will explode and rain down cracks everywhere. (Reality as they know it will not exist anymore.)

River wants to know how that is possible. The Doctor wants to know how she can kinda be engaged. She says she's a sucker for a man in uniform.

Octavian is not amused!

In fact he's so unamused that he flat out tells the Doctor she was in prison and he sprung her to help with this mission. She's here earning a pardon.

The Doctor doesn't seem to be too bothered by River's imprisonment. There are other things to worry about: like the date in time where this crack began. (26/06/2016 by the way) Amy's time.

Speaking of Amy, nothing's happening over in her neck of the woods...except the Angels are taking out the Treeborg!

So, the trees are going out and the Angels are advancing quickly.

Back with the Doctor, and Octavian is trying to find a way in to the main control room here. River is nagging at him to get along with it.

Something in what River said to Octavian triggers something in the Doctor's brain and he wonders what would happen if time really ran out.

Amy's getting a bit freaked out now, since the angels are getting closer and the clerics are preparing to shoot at them even though that never works.

Suddenly! A beam of light! The Cleric thinks the ship might be on fire but it's not. We know that's the crack that is crackifying the universe.

The Angels run away! That's good, I guess.

Amy wonders what the heck the most terrifying undefeatable creatures of the universe would have to run from.

This is Marco. The Other two are Phillip and Crispin. This is the Whoniverse after all, let's get to know them before they march off into certain doom.

Why do I say that? Because Marco here wants to go get a closer look at that crack that the frikkin' Angels are running away from.

Noo! Phillip and Crispin! Don't go into the light! Forget what they told you in bible boot camp!

Meanwhile, the Doctor is babbling his thoughts out loud: Why are there no ducks in the Pond? Why doesn't the Pond remember the Daleks? How can time run out?

Epiphany Time!

Marco explains to Amy how the crack has become like a giant curtain of energy that makes you want to hurl. I guess there were four guys, because there's another one hanging around.

He wants to know what could scare an Angel so much, and Amy is just desperate to see the light. She's even willing to risk her own life and open her eyes even though Marco pleads with her not to do that.

Amy recognizes her old cracky friend.

Marco has to shut her eyes for her, because she's so freaked out by the crack following her around time and space that she won't do it herself.

The Second to last cleric offers to go get a closer look, and Marco tells him to go on ahead, even though we haven't heard back from the other two guys yet. There were two other guys, right? I didn't make them up? Phillip and Crispin? You remember Phillip and Crispin?

No. Marco does not remember Phillip and Crispin, since Amy is asking the same question.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Octavian has broken on through to the other side. The Doctor is too busy making finger circles in the air to notice though. That Epiphany that we missed out on early?

"Time can be Unwritten."

Meanwhile, back at the crack party, Marco very slowly and patiently tries to explain to Amy that Phillip and Crispin never existed.

Amy tries to explain that they did exist, before Pedro went to investigate.

Marco doesn't remember Pedro now.

So, time has been erasing itself all right under the Doctor's nose. He's astounded.

Octavian wants to move ahead because of the Angels, y'know. The Doctor says -nevermind the Angels, Here's Crack!- It's far worse.

Not for Octavian.

So, Octavian is basically stuck. The Doctor Can't look away, or the Angel will kill him, but he has to look away if Octavian wants to get unstuck.

Over here nothing has changed. Amy and Marco are still arguing about the existence of the other clerics.

Now Marco wants to go have a look at the crack.

Naturally, Amy hits the protest button on that, but Marco's going to go anyway. He promises her two minutes and leaves her blind and alone with nothing but a spare communicator.

Meanwhile, Octavian is coming to grips with his inevitable doom.

Octavian only has one word of advice for the Doctor before he goes. Don't trust River Song. Upon request he tells the Doctor that she killed a man. A good man who was a hero to many... Who could it be?

The Doctor wants to know. Octavian won't tell him though, because he says the Doctor doesn't really want to know. Hmmmmmmm.

The Doctor is sad now because he has to leave Octavian to his fate. Octavian is okay though, because he knows he was courageous till the bitter end. The Doctor wishes he could have known him better.

Octavian says: "You knew me at my best" Awwww. Now I'm sad too. :(

So, the Doctor heads on into the control room where River is trying to resuscitate a teleport. The Doctor is in no mood for her to be fooling around with something that broken. He curtly informs her that Octavian is dead when she asks.

Meanwhile, Amy is all alone, since all the clerics are either dead or erased from existence. She calls out on the communicator in hopes that someone will hear her.

Eventually Marco actually answers her. He's all up in that crack, but he seems to be okay. Amy wants him to come back, and as soon as she says so he winks out of existence. Oops.

The Doctor calls her up soon after.

She explains to him about the clerics being monumentally stupid, and he explains to her how they wouldn't remember the other guys because the crack is actually time running out.

The Doctor wants her to come to him now. Amy wants to know how this is possible since she is effectively blind.

Well, the Doctor has rigged the communicator to point her in the right direction by sound. He tells her that she'd better get a move on or the crack is going to catch up to her.

Amy wants to know what will happen if it does catch up with her... The Doctor doesn't really want to answer that, but Amy's got to know.

She'll have never been born basically.

River over here proclaims that his plan is never going to work.

The Doctor is all arage now though because Amy's in terrible danger and he put her there basically. He screams at River to offer up a better idea if she's so damn smart.

Over in the woods, Amy and her Chucks try to do their best not to run afoul of any treeborg roots... Would Treeborg even need roots?

In the control room there are clanging noises...the Angels are upon them.

The Doctor sends a motion detector to Amy's device, because she's going to have to walk like she can see if she's going to avoid the angels. Yes. Amy also thinks this is an insane idea.

So, River wants to know how they stop the time energy from eating everything in sight.

The Doctor says they have to feed it some giant time event to shut it up just for a while. River knows where this is going when she asks what he has in mind.

Yes, he wants to throw himself into the crack. The Doctor yells at her some more because this hopeless situation seems to be making him even more grumpy-pants than he was at the beginning of the last episode.

Meanwhile, Angels are all around Amy.

These Angels are running from the crack though, and not interested in Amy. The Doctor tells her if she pretends like she can see them then their instincts to remain stony will kick in and do the rest.

Amy just stands there, because... C'mon! The Doctor has lost all patience with everybody now and yells at Amy and bangs his fist on the console.

Amy sobs her way through a maze of angels. That's third behind Corn and Hedges, but still well above mazes of death.

That answers that question. Amy trips on the rootborg and goes down just after she clears all the angels.

Amy has dropped the communicator and she can't find it! The Angels are little teapots.

Finally all that flailing about Amy is doing has captured its interest!

They come after Amy and just as she is about to be captured, there is a flash of light and she is teleported straight into River's arms safe and sound in the control room.

River gives him the old "I told you so"

Just when they think they can relax just a little bit, the rest of the power starts failing and setting off alarm bells.

This releases the shield that has been holding the Angels back, and there they are on the other side, just waiting.

Angel!Bob is here! He informs the Doctor that he needs to go on ahead and jump into the time field so that the Angels may live to take over the universe.

The Doctor wants to know why he would do such a thing.

Because it will save everybody else too.

River wants to throw herself in instead. The Doctor tells her that even all the angels would be better than her, so she should get a grip. Literally.

Haha! Angels! You have forgotten one thing when you drained the entire power supply from the whole ship.

The Ship is not right side up.

With the power out, the gravity fails and everything is reoriented towards the planet's ground.

River, Amy and the Doctor hang on for dear life.

The Angels plummet into the crack.

The crack's hunger is satisfied for now.

Later...after the Doctor and Co. somehow managed to climb back out of that artificial gravity free space ship...

Amy's cranky because she's bruised everywhere, so I bet a museum is looking pretty good right about now.

As to how Amy can see now...the Angels fell into the time field and ceased to exist, so the one in her eye just stopped existing too.

Amy wants to know how she remembers them though, since Marco didn't remember his team after they disappeared.

It's because being a time traveler changes the way she sees the universe. Yay!?

Yay!

As for the crack...that's still happening somewhere in time, but it's closed for here and now.

River...she's headed back to lock up I guess.

She hopes to have won a pardon.

But about that man you killed? A Good man you say?

Best man ever!!! Who could it be?

Sorry Doctor. No spoilers for you.

River says so long, until the Pandorica opens, which will be soon. The Doctor leans in and tells her it's only a fairy tale.

Amy says goodbye too.

The Doctor wants to know if he can trust River, but she doesn't think that's any fun.

And then she's tornados away to the ship waiting for her above.

So now what?

Penny for your thoughts, Doctor? He smiles to himself and says that Time can be Rewritten.

Back in the TARDIS, Amy is looking glum and wanting to go home.

The Doctor is ready to oblige, but she has to correct his impression and tell him that she doesn't want to go back for a permanent stay just yet...she just wants to show him her "stuff" That "stuff" that she's running from.

There it is!

This certainly is a surprising turn of events for the Doctor.

The Doctor wants to know why she left her ring behind.

Well, Duh! You don't take it with you when you run away from the guy you're going to marry.

AS for who that lucky dude is...the Doctor assumes that it might be Beefcake Jeff right off the bat.

Or that other candidate. He makes the universal hand signal for "Person with a prominent Schnoz"

Amy slaps him on the arm. Yes, it's Rory!

Are we entering bizarro land again? Because Amy seems to by hitting on the Doctor at this point...asking him if he comes here often to comfort poor girls on the night before their weddings after they almost die alone in the dark.

She had a lot of time to think about who she really wants there in the dark. Do you get it, Doctor? He has no idea what she's talking about, because he's totally not on the same crazy near death experience sharing wavelength as she is right now.

In fact, he so doesn't get it that she pretty much just throws her self on top of him until he does...and he pretty much freaks out.

He tries to scramble away from her but she's all over him like a reverse cougar.

She proposes a one night stand basically and lays a kiss right on him.

Somehow this making out up against the TARDIS has brought on another Epiphany. Everything is about Amy.

Apparently Miss Amelia Pond is the key to the entire Universe. Raaawwwwr!

Close up on the clock, which has the same date as when the Crack-Splosion is supposed to happen.

Next Time!

It's Rory!

It's Venice!

It's Vampires!

So, let's not pretend this week's big bad is some kind of mysterious thing of mystery like the last one. Y'know, since it was in the 'next week' preview, and also the title of this episode. I think we can be pretty ready for some Extermination to go down.

Well, we're opening up in the command room during some kind of battle. This particular operator is the focus. She says "If Wishes Were Kisses" to nobody in particular...perhaps somebody over the headset. I'm not sure. I looked this up by the way, because...is that a regular phrase that is used while coordinating plans in the middle of a blitz?

Some other woman bursts in with news of Squadron 41... This must be bad news, because according to our "Wishes" girl, that's "Reggie's" squadron. Uh, Oh. Too bad, he was just one squadron away from the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.

I didn't exactly catch what this woman said when she burst in, or what it means, but this is look of: "I'm Sorry for your loss" Way to start this episode off on a high note!

So Churchill comes in and he wants to know what the damage is. The bad guys are apparently out of range of normal weaponry but they have a "Secret Weapon"

Everybody nods in agreement, and a mini-dalek action figure gets pushed across the map.

The TARDIS materializes in some unoccupied room.

A red buzzer lights up in Churchill's office. Apparently it's a Doctor alert or something, because he looks pleased.

Did I say Unoccupied? I meant, full of guns. Welcome to Earth!

It's Churchill looking all grumpy behind the guns. I don't know if we're supposed to think he's not happy to see the Doctor because: A. He's the one who called and B. He just looked happy about it two seconds ago.

And the Doctor looks pretty happy to be there too!

The Doctor offers his hand, but Churchill just makes a give it here gesture instead. What is it that he wants.

The TARDIS key, of course! Hahaha. No.

Gosh. If only the Doctor was just passing out TARDIS keys willy-nilly. Think of the possibilities that kind of power could bring? Alas, Churchill wonders if he's going to have to take it by force.

The Doctor would like to see him try! Haha! Okay. Enough of this playful banter since the Doctor isn't ever going to just hand over the keys to the castle, and Churchill is totally not going to try because I doubt he's the real bad guy since that would be *spoiler* the Daleks.

Amy's just as excited about history as she was about the future, and as it turns out the TARDIS is about a month late. That was when Churchill actually called. (Also, Wishes girl is getting some requisitions signed. Just throwing that in because they keep showing her so she has to have something to do with something, right? Riiiiiiight? RIGHT?)

I guess her name is Bree . Churchill notes that she looks particularly distressed. That's nice that he noticed, but she plays it off like her boyfriend didn't just get shot down or something.

She shares a little smile with Amy, so she must be relevant to this plot. Surely.

Amy's fluttering around Churchill's shoulder now as he's declaring that they're going to give the next enemy wave the What For!

But first, to show something to the Doctor.

Up the Old Tyme lift, and Churchill puffs smoke right at the Doctor's face.

He prefaces the surprise reveal of the secret weapon with a speech about how their backs are up against the wall with the war at this point and they'll take any advantage they can get. Naturally, this has the Doctor suspicious.

This is Edwin Bracewell, and he's in charge of the "Ironsides" project.

A bomb goes off nearby. Yes. This is war by the way.

We've got balloons and everything.

Yeah. They're not so excited about this little excursion to the past anymore.

Eddie gives the order and the secret weapons fire on the incoming planes. They're LASERS. Well, that technology seems a little advanced for this day and age.

And it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

Well, Eddie looks pleased with himself.

But the Doctor has alarm bells going off in his head now, because that just isn't human.

The Doctor demands to know what that was. He has an idea, but it just can't be possible...

Uh, oh!

The Doctor asks the ironside/Dalek what it's doing there helping out Britain in WWII.

"I am your Soldier" It says.

Say what now? You don't want to exterminate anybody?

Naturally the Doctor is even more freaked out by this strange behavior than an actual Dalek on the rampage. He wants it to stop playing pretend.

Alas. This Dalek has no idea who the Doctor is.

Well, Eddie's going to clear things up. He calls it an Ironside.

The Doctor cannot believe this shit.

Eddie instructs this Ironside that he is to help the allied forces until the Nazis are defeated, and the Dalek is all -Yes, Sir!-

The Dalek is prompted for its primary objective, which is now: "To Win the War."

The Doctor is still not believing this, because he knows their primary objective is "Extermination" Everything about this is just wrong.

Back inside Churchill and The Doctor are having a for real argument this time:

Doctor: DALEKS!!!!
Churchill: IRONSIDES!!!!!!

They cannot agree on this.

Churchill is under the impression that Eddie was the sole genius creator of these things, and he won't hear a word to the contrary.

The Doctor screams No, no, no!!! in response to that, and Amy helpfully pipes in that maybe Eddie did make them because he's Scottish after all, which means he's totes a genius of course.

He shushes Amy and tries a different approach. Instead of yelling No and stamping his foot, he gets very serious and tries to explain what the Daleks really are, and that they must be up to some kind of shenanigans.

One of them has a little spy in on the proceedings while the Doctor tells the story.

Meanwhile, Churchill is pleased that they're hostile since he figures that will help him win the war. I guess the Doctor is underplaying the whole Menace to Society that the Daleks present.

He even has a poster ready to go! (I want one!)

The Doctor is done pleading his case now and instead just wants to know why Churchill bothered wasting his time if he wasn't going to listen anyway. Valid question, but I think we all know he would have wound up there anyway regardless.

Well, that was a month ago when he called and things have changed! He's all excited about the power that these things will bring and the advantage they will give him.

The Doctor's like: No! Exterminate!

Dang. There are Daleks all up in this joint!

Finally, the Doctor turns to Amy for help, but she's at a loss and doesn't know what he wants her to say.

He just wants her to tell Churchill about how evil the Daleks are since she's lived through an invasion. Amy, however, has never even heard of Daleks before, and that is impossible even for living in as small a town as she does. The plot thickens!

The Doctor Ponders what these Daleks have up their...uh...plungers

this time.

Amy doesn't know to be afraid of Daleks yet, so like an impetuous child, she just rolls on up to one and taps it on the shoulder, as the Doctor becomes dadly again and calls her by her entire first name.

The Dalek is still in benign mode though and it's all -How May I Help You? Would You like Fries with that?-

Amy just straight up asks it if it's a dangerous alien. It tells her again that he's just your average soldier workin' for his country. Then he's done with these useless questions because he has duties to perform. We are indeed, in bizarro world now.

There's another scene in which the Doctor tries to convince and Churchill's ignores him because he wants to win this war. He gives an impassioned speech about how terrible it is every day to be getting bombed and having his citizens dying out there in the streets.

This is way worse than the Luftwaffe though.

But the Doctor keeps on failing to make his point, because right now nothing seems worse than what is happening and Churchill doesn't know how much longer it can go on, even after the Doctor calls him a shining beacon of hope.

Churchill wants to use the Daleks and put a stop to it now. They are interrupted by a Dalek offering assistance and the Doctor gives him the Minute Finger.

The Doctor again tries to explain how bad the Daleks are, but Churchill has made up his mind.

Amy comes to find the Doctor once Churchill has stormed away and the all clear siren sounds. His first question to her is "What does hate look like." This has her back on her heels, because what kind of a question is that? Not a hi, how are you or anything?

Looks like this by the way.

The Doctor is going to prove it too! Later, in Eddie's office, a Dalek is offering him tea.

The Doctor shows up to admire his work, and Eddie says he's just doing his duty. Amy's in tow to cheer for Scotland being awesome.

The Doctor asks him where he gets all his brilliant ideas. Seems he just woke up one day and they were teeming in his head like little idea minnows.

He shows the Doctor Ideas on Gravity bubbles and interstellar flight. I'm sure this won't come into play later on in this episode. Nope. Not at all.

The Doctor wants to know if these were indeed Eddie's brain children, or if they're actually coming from the tea making Daleks here. Eddie insists that they're his and his alone.

The Doctor is very suspicious of this, and tells Eddie that the Daleks are death, whatever they're up to. Churchill chooses this moment to burst in and rain on his parade.

They are death. Death to the Nazis! Churchill has it all figured out already despite fifty bajillion million warnings already. I guess you don't have a face that people listen to, Doctor.

Aside: That machine behind him... it reminds me of the Shocky machine in the Return to Oz! Ooo, I need to hook up my VHS because I want to watch that bonanza of crazy again!

Basically the Doctor has had it up to his ears with nobody listening to his warnings and when the Dalek offers tea he becomes engraged and swipes the whole cup and saucer onto the floor. Everyone thinks he's gone insane.

He goes off, screaming at the Dalek and asking what it wants. It merely wants to win the war. It looks as confused as a Dalek can look when the Doctor asks it which war it's talking about. WWII, or the Dalek's war with everything and everybody ever.

In a last attempt at getting the Dalek to reveal its true nature, the Doctor thwacks it on the dome with a giant wrench.

Aaaand, the Doctor mercilesly pounds away at the Dalek while everybody around him pleads for him to stop with the crazy.

Amy is pretty much scared of this seemingly irrational and insane version of the Doctor, and Eddie hops around and "protests" (if he were on space UK he'd be in a giant mouth right about now.)

The Doctor tries to taunt the Dalek into exterminating him.

Amy steps in front of him and tries to stop him, because she doesn't want him to hurt himself or something. The Dalek keeps on insisting that it is merely a docile servant to the human race.

The Doctor runs down a breif history of the Doctor v. Daleks

He reiterates that he is the Doctor and they are the Daleks then gives the thing one last boot to the head.

The Dalek that just got beaten up confers with the other one and they replay the Doctor's "Testimony" So, they're Mormon now?

Well, this particular verbiage has got the Doctor even more on edge.

Uh, Oh! They have sent the Doctor's testimony up into their Dalek spaceship that his hanging out behind the moon.

Apparently this space egg has something to do with it.

The Doctor warns them all back as the Daleks chirp about the testimony being accepted, and Eddie calls in the Marines.

Oh, Shit!

Somehow they're all surprised that this just happened, even though this venerable space alien called the Doctor, who has saved the human race's butts on more than one occasion, has been hopping up and down and doing everything he could to tell them that... This is exactly what was going to happen for the entire first part of this episode.

Eddie is practically apopoleptic.

Eddie argues with the actual Dalek about whether or not it's a Dalek. He thinks it is impossible since he created them, but the Dalek is like -Think Again! Hah! Hah!- And De-hands him.

OMG! Eddie is an Android! (<--That is the name of my new band by the way)

The Daleks chant "Victory!" even though they haven't actually won anything yet.

And they teleport away.

Amy wants to know what the hell just happened. Seems like the Doctor has fallen right into their evil plungers.

The little flashy egg lights flash faster and faster, as does the music of impending doom.

Alright! Phase II. What is that now? I don't know but it has something to do with the Egg (aka. Premogenetor) I'm calling it Eggy.

The Doctor is all -testimony-testimony!-MY TESTIMONY- Amy trails along after him all excited for another adventure and totally not grasping the gravity of the situation. The Doctor tells her to stay here in the Blitz while he goes off to fight the Daleks. Because it's actually SAFER here during the Blitz. She's not happy about the prospect of getting bombed.

Amy wants to know what's next on the platter now that she's stuck in the past with Winston Churchill.

KBO he says. "Keep Buggering On"

Meanwhile the Doctor has found the Dalek ship.

Earth is catching up though. Bree comes by with news about a UFO! Just in time!

Well, Amy and Churchill are deffinitely going to start conspiring about how to help the Doctor now that they know where he is. Because of course he's on the UFO. Where else would he be?

Elsewhere a light flashes on and a member of the old gaurd (Literally) tells someone to shut it off. They can't have lights blazing when bombs are flying. It goes off. For now.

Up in the Spacship the final phase commences. Whatever that means.

There's the Doctor! He's ready for that Tea now.

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! Aha! It took 100 Screenshots, but we're finally out of bizarro-world.

But Wait! The Doctor has a TARDIS self-destruct button! No Extermination for you, Daleks.

The Daleks call his bluff. They are no fools.

The Doctor calls the Daleks calling his bluff. But don't scan it! That's cheating! The Daleks back off.

The Doctor tells the story of how these particular Daleks managed to fall back through time or something in this one last POS spaceship. Now they are crippled and on their last legs...err...tentacles? Wheels? Hovering Pepperpot Outer Shells?? Though they somehow managed to cobble together an entire frikkin' android that is awesome enough to trick people into believing it's a human genius.

Well, you see, they picked up Eggy over there, which is the past and their future and...stop me when this starts making sense.

But what is it FOR? Tell the laymen out there in the audience, please...

It contains pure Dalek DNA. Oh, shit. So that thing actually is kind of an egg? That sort of zaps all the snark out of my nickname doesn't it?

The Doctor still needs help understanding this master plan though, because if they got all the DNA to renew the Dalek race...why fool the humans down there by bulding Eddie and pretending to be all subsurvient?

But the Doctor comes to an epiphany quickly enough. These Daleks were too impure for Eggy, so it wouldn't work for them. The only way it would recognize them was for the Doctor to tell it that they are in fact for real Daleks. That was his testimony!

The plunger plunges the plungey thing.

The Doctor doesn't like this, so he threatens to blow them all up again.

The Daleks threaten to destroy London, but the Doctor knows they can't do that with this ship... The Daleks are like -haha! We don't need to. They'll do it for us!- Yes, we do have a sort of penchant for blowing eachother off the map.

They light London up like a Christmas tree. The Better for Nazis to see them with.

Amy knows this must be the Dalek's doing.

Churchill instructs John Cleese to turn off the lights already. They are sitting ducks!

Amy looks around at the war room in action, and notices Bree. Again. She's totally relevant to the plot, right?

Amy doesn't want to sit around on her thumbs while the Germans blow them away though.

Sudenly she has a brillaint brainstorm about how to fight the Daleks. Churchill is dubious.

Meanwhile, the Doctor still hasn't realized that the time for bluffing has passed.

Go Away, Doctor! Their great victory is not winning any sort of battle here on Earth, but by repopulating their species back in the past.

NONONONO!!! The Doctor sure does a lot of ineffectively shouting "NO" in this episode.

Some kind of buzzer sounds. The new Daleks are finished cooking!

Hey! It looks like the Daleks got a new marketing department, since the New Dalek Paradigm comes in your choice of colours! I want an orange one!

Well, the Doctor doesn't like this one bit.

Meanwhile, back in the lair...Churchill and Amy arrive just in time to stop Eddie from ending himself.

He just can't get over the fact that the Daleks made him and his life was a lie...even though he still has memories.

Frankley, M'Dear, Churchill doesn't give a damn about your extistential crisis, Eddie. You're either with us or against us, so Man up! We don't care if you're an adroid.

Amy wrests the gun from him and gives him a pep talk. It's do or die time. They need his special Dalek infused idea minnows to help the Doctor.

She thinks Missiles and the Hypersonic Gravity Whatzits might be a good jumping off point.

Churchill does that think where he thinks something is a silly idea until he thinks of the exact same idea himself seconds later.

Or Better yet, the could theoretically send something into space in a gravity bubble.

Meanwhile the Old drab, boring coloured Daleks are worshiping these shiny new surperior ones.

They agree. These old Daleks suck. Time for TOTAL OBLITERATION!

Yeah. Bet you didn't see that one coming, did you, guys? The Doctor wonders what they do to the ones that don't worship them.

They threaten extermination but the Doctor pulls out his ace again.

Once again, back in the war room, the only operative we're going to focus on is Bree, which means she must play a vital role in defeating the Daleks, right?

So, the bubbles are almost ready to go, and Eddie has rigged up a radio tuned to the "All Dalek, All the Time" frequency.

The White Dalek is seems to be the one in charge, and the Doctor kind of pokes fun at his paint job.

The Bubbles are ready.

Release the Bubbles, John Cleese!

Upstairs the Daleks and the Doctor are at an impasse.

Uh-Oh! They ran a scan. That's cheating! These new Daleks are just that much worse than the old ones. It turns out that the Doctor does not have a self-Destruct for the TARDIS.

It's a Jammy Dodger actually. (Which is a delicious shortbread biscuit (aka: Cookie) with, that's right--you guessed it, Jam in the middle.) He had it ready for the Dalek tea he was expecting on this trip.

Well, Extermination is avoided for now, because there is some shit flying towards them from earth which has the Daleks worried, because... how is that possible in the forties?

The Doctor is similarly perplexed at this wild turn of events.

The Daleks cannot believe this shit. They demand an explanation.

Somehow, the incoming projectiles get on the frequency that broadcasts directly to the speakers on the Dalek bridge here. The Doctor whoops in excitement. Way to kick some space ass, Churchill!

My. My. It seems as if the things they have rocketed into space in a space bubble are...fighter pilots! This one is Danny Boy.

Somehow, they are able to communicate back and forth and the Doctor instructs Danny Boy to take out the Dalek's Direct TV. I mean, satalite dish. It is the thing that is keeping the lights on.

The Daleks won't stand for this! They waste no time trying to exterminate the Doctor, but he's a squirrely fellow and narrowly makes his excape.

She wishes the boys good luck on destroying the dish.

They wait in anticipation for some good news, but alas. They have lost one of their own.

A lingering close up on Bree, and John Cleese informs us that the beam is still on.

Another man down, and not only that, but the dish also seems to have a forcefield of some sort.

The Doctor has to go in and disrupt the shields so Danny Boy can get a clear shot.

He shoots! He Scores!

Daleks go flying across the bridge.

Direct hit! Woowoo! There are cheers in the war room.

Meanwhile, London is bathed in darkness again and the old gaurd is releived.

No more Mr. Nice Doctor. Danny Boy is still out there and the Doctor orders him to Blow shit up. No more Daleks! Bye, Bye, Forever!

The Daleks tell him to call off the attack or Earth will perish.

Oh, but the Doctor knows he's bested them. They have no more aces up their plungers.

Edwin Bracewell is a bomb.

Noooooooooooooooo! We like Eddie!

The Doctor thinks they're bluffing and he eyerolls at their lack of bones.

Ah, but Eddie has an Oblivion COntinum in him. I can only assume that creates Oblivion, which is a game that never ends, so that sucks.

The Doctor's in a pickle because this is his best chance to rid the world of Daleks forever.

The Doctor has a choice: The Earth dies, or the Daleks live and become hard, better, faster, stronger (and more colourful)

The Doctor chooses Earth! He calls off Danny boy.

The Daleks scoff at the Doctor's compassion aka: Weakness according to them. They're going to detonate the Eddie anyway.

The Doctor runs into the lair and punches Eddie in the face without warning.

Eddie, understandably, can't believe he's a bomb too. It was bad enough when he found out he was an artificial intelligence.

In case you were wondering, an Oblivion Continum is like a Wormhole in your Soul... If it goes off the Earth will end up in another Dimension and who knows what that would bring. (Cheetah People?)

He opens up Eddie's chest panel.

Meanwhile the Daleks prepare to time jump in 30 units of Dalek measurement.

So, what now? He's got no wires to cut. He's all bomb. Just what he wants to hear right now. In other words: The Doctor has no clue, and Amy's not helping.

Churchill may have inadvertently stumbled upon the answer though when he tells the Doctor about Eddie sharing his memories with them only minutes before.

The Doctor wants Eddie to tell him all about his memories. Eddie does not think this is the time or place for that, but the Doctor wants him to prove he's really human.

The Daleks count down.

He came from a family of postmen.

The Doctor needs more than stories about the post office though. He needs something more potent. What about his parents?

Oh, they were cool, but they died, and the Doctor has to wring every emotion out of that. Eddie is upset, of course.

But he's still counting down.

The Doctor wants him to remember WWI, and the death and dying, but it seems like something is percolating in Amy's brainspace since this particular line of emotion doesn't seem to be working. What could be more powerful than sheer terror and utter despair?

FOr some reason the Bomb will not go off if Eddie can brove he's a real boy. The whole pain and suffering angle is still not doing the trick though.

The Doctor finishes his speech and Eddie gets another red triangle.

The Doctor is at a loss, but Amy has something up her sleeves. She asks Eddie if he's ever fancied someone he shouldn't.

Eddie's last triangle stops going red and it turns back to yellow. He doesn't want to kiss and tell, but he's remembering her fondly.

The Doctor looks on, enthralled. He gets it now, and he asks her name. It was Dora Bella. Eddie's final triangle goes blue and then the next one goes from red back to orange.

And Eddie goes entirely blue as he remembers Dora Bella.

Oblivion has been canceled. Sorry.

Yay! Eddie is officially human now or something.

Everyone is brilliant! Amy earns a kiss on the forehead.

Now to stop the Dalkes, but Eddie says it's too late. He can feel that they have gone.

The Daleks vow to return and disappear into time. They shall live to exterminate another day.

Well, the Doctor doesn't like this one bit.

Amy tries to console the Doctor, but he's having none of it.

Yes, by continuing to exist the Daleks have won.

He finally gives in to the consoling and admits that saving the Earth isn't such a bad thing and Churchill offers him a cigar.

It's morning and the troops raise the flag.

Later, in the war room, Bree has a breakdown.

Nope, Reggie didn't make it, sadly. Nope, this had nothing to do with the plot, other than to show that war is horrible but we must keep on keeping on, I suppose.

The Doctor reappears and tells us that he's removed all of Eddie's alien tech. Churchill, once again, tries to convince the Doctor to let him use it anyway, but alas. That's not happening.

They have to perservere and see it through even though it's going to be hard. Churchill tries to convince the Doctor that they need him to stay, but the Doctor tells him that the Earth doesn't need him right here and now. Not when they have Churchill.

It's okay. Churchill knows he's right. Hugs!

He sas goodbye to Amy and walks away, but not before she ask him for the TARDIS key that he pickpocketed from the Doctor.

He hands it back over and compliments Amy on her sharpness.

So, Eddie has been expecting the Doctor and he's waiting in his lair all dramatic-like.

Eddie thinks it's time for deactivation, which surprises the Doctor, because he had no intentions of doing that apparently. He plays along anyway.

Yes, as soon as the Doctor gets back in ten or fifteen minutes he's totally deactivating you.

Or Maybe Twenty. Yeahhhh. That's it.

Eddie doesn't get that the Doctor is giving him an out.

The Doctor tells him not to go runing off to the post office to find Dora Bella or anything like that while he's gone on this half hour trip.

Yeah! That's the ticket! No deactivation for you, Mr. Bracewell!

The Doctor and Amy say goodbye and Eddie imediately begins to pack his suitcase with circuit cards and various sundries.

So the Doctor and Amy compare enemies on their way back to the TARDIS. Amy's is a neighbor with a mental dog, and the Doctors are "Like Arch Enemies"

Amy realizes that this time travel buisness is indeed dangerous now. I'm surprised that almost being eaten by a space whale didn't clue her in.

Danger is Amy's middle name though. The Doctor isn't going to get rid of her that easily.

Amy can tell he's worried about the Daleks, but that's not the most worriesome thing to him. It's the fact that she doesn't remember them that's worrying.

It's off they go as the TARDIS dematerializes it reveals the crack it's been hiding in the wall behind it.

NEXT TIME

River Song!

Crashes!

And the Weeping Angels make a comeback.

Episode: 01 Season: 05
Title: The Eleventh Hour
Summary: You can bring a Pond to the ducks, but you can't make them exist.

Well, hello, Earth! Fancy meeting you in a season premier of Doctor Who. I wonder where the TARDIS is going to be landing this time? Hmmmmmm....It's a mystery!

Okay. So maybe "Landing" is a bit of a strong term as it seems the TARDIS is exploding at the moment.

So, where is the Doctor in all of this? Of course he is.

Now the TARDIS is hurdling towards that one Clock.

He sonics the console and narrowly manages to avoid the spire atop the tower. Whew!

Back in the TARDIS! All safe and Sound. Y'know, except for the part where it's still all explody, and hurtling willy-nilly through time and space.

Oh No! New credits? New Logo? That's it. The Moff has destroyed my youth! Whaaaaaa! I'm never watching Who again! (Except my youth in regards to Dr. Who consists of Cheetah People on PBS, and that was only impressive because...what the hell? They're people, who are CHEETAHS!)

A pinwheel twirls in the breeze. A portent to certain doom, I'm sure.

A swing slowly creaking back and forth with no child sat upon it, creepy background music. Yep. Certain doom.

We meet young Amelia Pond, who is praying to Santa, naturally. I mean, who else are you going to pray to on Easter? I can't think of anybody. Amelia is pretty awesome already.

So, what's happening with Amelia that has got her praying to Santa? She's got this sick crack in her wall. Her Aunt says it's just an ordinary crack, which apparently isn't worth fixing, but Amelia knows better. There are voices coming out of that crack.

She want Santa to send someone to fix it, like a policeman, or something that she can't think of right now that is about to crash-land in her garden in 3...2...1...

Awww, poor TARDIS!

Amelia thanks Santa and goes to investigate, because that's what you do when a Police Box falls out of the sky.

So the doors to the TARDIS are flung open in dramatic fashion and a grappling hook emerges. It almost takes out Amelia, but she stands her ground.

The Doctor pops out of the TARDIS. Hey, Doctor! He wants an apple.

Amelia's in awe at first, but then she's just like: 'Why does this man keep talking about apples? Weirdo.'

Turns out the Doctor is just having a craving for apples, which is a new thing in this new body. Amelia asks if he's okay, because he's looking a bit frazzled. He just had a bit of a tumble in the library. Also, there is a pool in the library, which is why he's all wet.

Amelia's all 'whatever dude' and asks him if he's the police or what.

The Doctor's curious as to why this girl would need some police, and he's even more curious about the crack in the wall.

He's still suffering form New Doctor Pangs, and falls of the TARDIS at this point. Amelia's quite concerned, but he assures her that everything is just fine. It's all perfectly normal to be writhing in pain and spitting up golden energies.

She asks who he is exactly, and he doesn't quite know yet. Still working on it.

He asks if she's scared but she's not at all. She just thinks he's a big weirdo.

Alas, he's talking about the crack. Is she scared of the crack? Of course she is! You don't pray to Santa about the good kind of crack. That's what Dr. Drew is for.

Well, then, off we go! There are only three rules to be on this crack investigation team: Do Everything He Says. Don't Ask Stupid Questions, and don't wander off.

And Look out for trees. The Doctor marches forward and promptly does his best George of the Jungle impression.

Once inside, Amelia starts with what I would like to call a pretty reasonable question, so I don't think it violates rule #2.

If the Doctor is a Doctor...why does his box say Police? This is like one of those imponderables, or Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

The Doctor ignores this. He's on a mission to find some apples, which Amelia handily provides and he promptly spits out. Apples are rubbish!

Yogurt? That ends up on the floor too. It's just stuff with bits in it. Seems the Doctor is getting used to some brand new taste buds. Yogurt and Apples are out. Apple Yogurt is definitely not happening.

Amelia is skeptical about this guy and wonders what the heck is wrong with him. He blames her for the lack of decent food. "You're Scottish, Fry something!" Quoted for posterity because it made me laugh out loud.

OMG! BACON! The most glorious food on the planet!

Not for this Doctor. Not even delicious bacon can ease this craving.

Baked Beans? Beans are EVIL! (I concur fully) Don't look so horrified, Amy, at least he spit it in the sink this time instead of the floor.

Begone, Bread and Butter! You and the plate you rode in on!

The Doctor visits the fridge himself because it seems he's figured out exactly what he needs to chow down on before we can move on with this episode...

Fish fingers and custard! Yum. So, is this like, a thing, or a callback to the old series, or...just as gross as I think it sounds?

Amelia has settled on a far more tasty nighttime snack...Ice Cream, a big old scoop at a time. She thinks he's funny. He approves of this personality trait, and also Amelia's name.

Here's Amelia's story:

She has no parents and she lives with an Aunt, who ignores cracks, and leaves this girl alone in a big creaky house in some town in England, which is rubbish.

As for the Doctor here, he comments on Amelia's bravery in the face of being left alone in a house only to be confronted by this weirdo in a police box who is now stuffing his face with fish custard in her kitchen. That crack must be a million times scarier if she's going to put up with help from this guy.

All this talk about cracks, so now lets go investigate! The Doctor rambles on about cracks in walls sometimes spitting out cowboys, which is all well and good depending on what kind of cowboy pops out, I suppose. If it's the sexy, shirtless kind: sign me up!

Amelia is unconcerned with cowboys, sexy or otherwise. She's still interested in the apples. It turns out that she used to hate them too, but her mum would peel faces in them to sweet the deal.

Just what I'd want to entice me into eating something. Give it a FACE.

He thinks Amelia's mum sounds like an A+ lady, and he saves the apple for later even though he doesn't like them.

As for Cracky McCrackerson... Oh, it's nothin' much, just your average rip in the skin of the world. It's not even in the wall really, the wall just happens to be on top of it, so this neglectful aunt lady couldn't have patched it up anyway.

The Doctor asks if there are voices coming out of this crack. Amy confirms it, so he finds an auditory enhancement device on her nightstand. It's full of water, so he just flings it out over his shoulder. Oops.

What is with this dude?

So, what do these voices have to say? Prisoner 0 has escaped. Ooo, Ominous! And Amelia has been hearing this creepiness since she moved in probably. No wonder she trusts this Doctor fellow.

What does this mean, Amelia wants to know. Well, it pretty much means exactly what it sounds like. There's a prison on the other side and prisoner 0 has escaped. I can see where this is heading.

In any case, the Doctor's brilliant idea right now is to open the crack all the way, then it will somehow fix itself.

That sounds reasonable if not for the other option presented:

Remember that certain doom I was talking about earlier? Yeah. It could do that instead. I like that the Doctor doesn't lie here and tell her everything is going to be fine and dandy.

What's the best way to go about opening/shutting cracks in space and time? Who would have ever thought! Some things never change!

The Doctor plays a game of 'Can You Hear Me Now?' with the crack and shouts Hello at it a bunch of times like it's a mobile with bad reception. Finally he gets a response...

Holy Santa Clause! It's a gigantorous eyeball!

Amelia wants to know what the deuce that thing is, because giant alien eyeballs are certainly not what you expect to come out of a crack in your wall. Cockroaches maybe, small rodents, perhaps, but not eyeballs.

It shoots some flare of light at the Doctor's hip and he goes down.

Amelia's less concerned with the Doctor's health and well being than she is with the crazy business behind her wall. What was that thing? Was it prisoner 0? The Doctor is just pleased that his plan somehow worked and the crack is now gone.

Well, as it turns out, the lens flare wasn't dangerous, it was a psychic message that can now be read on the Doctor's psychic paper.

"Prisoner 0 has escaped."

Well, they have been shouting it through the wall for ages, so I guess that's why the eyeballs decided to send it psychically this time since these humans are thick and don't seem to get that the prisoner has escaped through the crack into Amelia's house.

The Doctor doesn't think that's possible, since surely Amelia or her Aunt might have noticed an alien beast rampaging through their home at some point.

The Doctor runs out into the hallway wondering what he missed. *Spoiler* It's behind the door on the right; a door that can't normally be seen because...well, we'll explain that later, because the TARDIS is about to take off without him, so he has to run now!

The Doctor scampers back to the yard spewing technobabble about the TARDIS at Amelia. I guess it's rebuilding itself since the crash, and it has to be stabilized.

Amelia wants to know how a box has engines. Smart girl. I like her!

SO, the Doctor tells her it's a Time Machine, and she doesn't really believe him at first, but she wants to give it a try anyway. (Y'know, since her Aunt, whoever she is, seems to be kind of terrible, and England is rubbish. Why not?)

It's too dangerous right now and he says to give him five minutes so he can jump into the future. Amelia gets depressed and is all like - everybody leaves in the end. - *Sadface*

But he says to trust him, he's the Doctor! Amelia is pleased with this response, and takes him for his word. SO, he "Geronimos" into the TARDIS and splashes down in the library/pool.

Who wants to take bets on how successful the new TARDIS is going to be at navigating to the exact point in time the Doctor wants to go back to?

Which is why it was so sad that Amelia ran to pack her bag straight away, and was left sitting all alone out in the cold English night waiting for the Doctor to come back.

Well, that was a long five minutes, because, not only have we had a close up of a ticking clock, but also, it is daytime now. The Doctor doesn't notice because he has figured the whole thing out and there is imminent danger for our little Amelia. IMMINENT!

Let's have this shot of the Doctor who is manically shouting at the previously invisible door that Prisoner 0 is there. Hmmm, it's almost as if he's being watched by some unseen entity.

It's not long before our Doctor is thwacked in the head by what appears to be a cricket bat. See. Cricket bats are not a strange and mysterious thing to keep around one's house.

We cut to a shot of an ambulance, but it's not heading for any poor concussed Gallifreyans. It's heading to here where we have this guy explaining to a disbelieving Doctor that all the coma patients are shouting at him simultaneously.

Clearly she does not believe this and reiterates that these are comatose patients and he is wasting her valuable time in a very loud and impatient angry voice. C'mon, now, lady! Be nice to Rain Man, he's only saying what he heard, and clearly he knows he sounds like he belongs in a mental ward.

(That was mean! I only say that because he totally gives me Dustin Hoffman vibes!)

He probably would have kept that little nugget of insanity to himself if these sick people hadn't been calling for her.

She wonders in an annoyed kind of bitchy way why they were asking all calling out for her.

Well, if you were a nurse, or whatever he is, and a bunch of sick people were calling out for a DOCTOR, what would you do? (Risk their lives or risk looking like a fool?)

Yeah, believe him now that the entire ward is calling out for a doctor. In your face!

Meanwhile the Doctor is wakening to find he has been restrained...

By a redheaded PC in pretty impractical miniskirt.

She has back-up on the way so they banter back and forth about the Doctor and his breaking and entering, until he asks after Amelia. This stops her cold.

Well, the Doctor is very concerned about Amelia...since the TARDIS is late and all. The Policewoman informs him that Amelia don't live here no more.

She blurts out that it's been six months.

The Doctor is suitably distressed at this news since he promised five minutes to a sad and lonely little girl. 6 months is a long time.

I have to say this completely anonymous red headed Scottish police lady that we totally have never seen before, is doing a good job of making it seem like something horrible has gone wrong in Miss. Amelia Pond's life.

We close up on the mysterious door of mystery, and then the screen fades into a picture of a cute little Rottweiler who belongs to one of the coma patients in the crazytown ward.

Oh, no. Look who it is!

Turns out the chatty coma patients aren't the only thing that has this guy concerned.

She has no time for these shenanigans! We learn our poor beleaguered nurse's name. Yes, he is a nurse, and his name is Rory, and he gets no props for being right about these people speaking. No. No props. In fact, Dr. Bitchface here doesn't even think he's that great of a nurse. He's just "Good Enough."

As for the other thing...well, she doesn't even let him plead his case. She just suggests he goes off and takes a vacation for the good of his mental health, and so she can go back to her very important biz.

While she's once again yelling at him about how coma patients are in a coma and they can't be seen elsewhere because they are under surveillance (Just like how coma patients can't chant for a Doctor either.) Rory pulls out his phone and just thrusts it awkwardly at her across coma guy's bed without any explanation, because he couldn't get one in edgewise anyway with her yelling at him.

She doesn't like this and just demands to know why, God! Why? is he giving her his phone.

Well, you see, it is also a camera, like most phones this day and age. It's a camera with things like proof of walking coma patients: proof that Rory is in fact, NOT, insane in the membrane.

Too bad the good Doc has just gotten a very inconvenient page.

This page, doesn't inspire her to run off to another area of the hospital to help a dying patient and continue this conversation later.

No, she's far too busy for that. She's just going to send Rory on a long vacation. RIGHT NOW! Raaaawrrrr, go away, you, and your rightness. I'm too busy for you!

Rory is wearing the appropriate expression for this almost firing. I had a similar one. Especially considering the proof is right in his hand, and Dr. Busy Bee here couldn't even glance down at it for a micro second.

He doesn't stick up for himself anymore, because it seems useless at this point. He just makes some frustrated gestures, like he wants to scream out loud and throw the phone right at this woman's head, but he knows that would be a horrible idea. Instead he shuffles away in defeat.

Back at the former Pond residence, the Doctor is still chained to a radiator, wondering what has gone wrong wit this adventure. He's a little disbelieving when the police woman says she lives there now.

She's all defensive about it, because law enforcement has got to live somewhere, don't they?

Well, now. He's got to do something about this predicament he's gotten himself into so he asks Totally Anonymous PC here to count the rooms. She does, but she does it without looking and he's all...Guess Again!

It's that pesky corner of the eye business. He keeps saying something is there, so she looks and...

DUN...DUN....DUNN! Of course, to us it has always been there, but none of the characters could see it because a perception filter is around it.

Anonypc is reasonably astounded by this magically appearing room.

While the Doctor is chained up and explaining that there is something dangerous hiding there and stay away why don't you? The girl is inching her way towards the door, and the more he says to stay away the more in the room she's going to go, obviously.

The Doctor is wailing around in impotent frustration as she just goes ahead and goes in the secret room of dangerous danger and he wonders if it isn't just his face that makes people never listen to him.

He doesn't even have is screwdriver to help him out of this jam!

AS for our very brave, and possibly stupid police lady here, she thinks the room is empty. The Doctor explains that if the scary big bad could hide the entire room...why would it not be able to just hide itself?

Well, what have we here? It's the sonic screw driver...looking rather gooier than usual. The Doctor thinks it must have rolled under the door, Anonypc agrees even though that's clearly not the case. Unless the Sonic Screwdriver has acquired some magical hopping-gooiefying skillz since we last saw it.

She voices this concern about it jumping up on the table, and the Doctor is noticeably horrified, because he can't do anything to save her stubborn ass since she's cuffed him to a radiator and lost the key. The best he can do is yell at her to get the hell out of there already.

She goes for the screwdriver, but does she run away once it's in her hand? Nahhhh. What's the fun in that? She hangs around for another look-around, and finally this creepy space eel thing decides to show its ugly face.

The Doctor instructs her not to try and look at it under any circumstances, so what does she do? She tries to look for it, and there it is! Happy now?

She runs screaming from the room at last.

He locks the door with the sonic screwdriver from afar then works on the handcuffs. Poor screwdriver seems to be on the fritz. Anonypc wonders if the door will hold. The Doctor is still not lying to her when he says that it can't, but he's much more sarcastic about it this time. He gets this deserved look for his trouble.

If you're wondering this alien is what we call an inter-dimensional multiform.

The Doctor tells her not to worry and just run since she called for back up and everything. Well, turns out, not so much. She's not a real police woman, she's a kiss-o-gram. She whips off her hat and let's the red locks flow down to illustrate the point.

The Doctor is confused.

But there is no time for confusion when there's a...a man and his dog! (A Familiar Man and a Familiar Dog.)

Kiss-O-Gram is confused, and much less scared of this incarnation.

Oh, but you see, Eel monster has disguised itself as two things in one. That's how multi-forms roll. Unfortunately this one isn't too good with getting the voice boxes right, and instead of speaking, the dude growls and barks like the Rottweiler at his side instead.

The Doctor muses upon how Multi-eel (Multeel? Eelmu?) has managed to become this thing since it needs a psychic link to an actual thing to become the thing. It takes years to do this apparently.

Just in case you weren't getting it.

Multeel shows its teeth! Eeew!

The Doctor tries to hold of the thing by telling it that Kiss-O-Gram has called for back-up, but she helpfully cries out that no, she has not actually. Since she's a fake cop and everything. The Doctor's all, 'thanks for ruining my clever ruse.'

The revised plan is to somehow convince this terrifying creature (That was once in jail, mind) that they alone are no threat, so they can be let go. Now, if there were back up that is when they'd need killing.

This is the point at which back-up arrives.

In the form of a booming voice from the heavens, calling out prisoner 0 and saying that the human residence has been surrounded. Goodie! OH, wait. The episode is only half over.

Well, P-Zero goes to check this biz out at the window. The booming voice is promising incineration of the human residence if the Priz doesn't give itself up.

Meanwhile, the Doctor works on getting his screwdriver to work so he can unlock himself, and once he does, he finally manages to get the girl moving before the house get's all burnt to a charcoaly crisp.

The Doctor chooses this moment to question why a Kiss-O-Gram would dress up like a cop. Easy explanation for that...her other costume is a French maid, and that doesn't exactly strike fear in the hearts of would be robbers.

The TARDIS is still rebuilding and isn't going to let them in at this time, conveniently. Multeel barks at them from the window out of both face holes.

Since the Doctor is often distracted by shiny things whilst saving the world, he notices that the shed he crashed down on six months ago is all rebuilt now.

He tastes it to gauge how old it is. Hmmmm. How old is it?

It's twelve years old. Kiss-O-Gram does not want to discuss this right now with a Dog-Man-Eel-Monster hot on their trail and her house about to be blown to kingdom come, but the Doctor insists on knowing why she said six months.

Finally she screams at him to tell her why he said five minutes.

Uh-Oh.

The Doctor can't believe this shit.

They argue up a hill. He: Why didn't you tell me? You hit me with a bat! She: You're twelve years late and they made me see four shrinks! 4 shrinks who didn't believe me so I took a bite out of them.

Rawrrrr. Don't mess with Amelia!

Oh! But wait just a tick, before we get too far into this debate, guys. Why is the message for Pzero blaring out of this ice cream man's truck? And why can't he get it out?

That shiz is pumping out of every available speaker in the area! The Doctor jets off to the nearest house and Amelia follows right behind him.

Inside the alien eyeball from earlier has hijacked the TV. It's on every channel. Watching your every move, like a Hall and Oates song.

And also, this poor lady who is confused by Amelia's many and varied kiss-o-gram outfits. She's been a nurse, a nun... A NUN? So there are dudes in this village that fantasize about nuns coming around to make out with them at parties? Does the nun costume have as short a skirt as the cop costume? These are important questions!

The Doctor isn't concerned about that. He's a bit put out that she goes by Amy now instead of Amelia. She tells him that it's a big 'fairy tale' which is a direct dig at him since that was why he said he liked it back when she was a wee little child.

Oh. Snap.

The cute old lady says that he looks familiar but he doesn't think it's possible. He's only had the face for not too long so far.

Well, now, Doctor, you may not have traveled far with it, but there's one poor girl who has been stuck waiting for that goofy mug for twelve years standing right next to you.

At this point he needs what a Kiss-O-Gram is to be explained to him and once it is, he gets all Daddly on Amy, complete with disapproving dad voice and everything. Amy declares him worse than her aunt...

Who isn't this sweet old lady. I knew she was too nice to be Amy's aunt!

The Doctor says he's worse than everybody's aunt <---quoted for LOLs.

He sonics the radio and it suddenly is able to pick up every radio station that exists on Earth, and they're all broadcasting the message for P-Zero in every language.

The Doctor pops his head out for a look-see then starts babbling in a seeming incoherent way about something we Earthbound humans have no idea about.

Then this happens. The Doctor consults the random beefcake that just walked in the door and declares that they have twenty minutes.

The Doctor heads back to Amy and her friend, but it seems that Beefcake has got his number right away and has him pegged as the Doctor.

Well, he just got a close enough look, so...

The Old lady gets all giddy at this now that she remembers, and starts causing all kinds of awkward embarrassment as old ladies are wont to do.

Seems Amy used to draw cartoon adventures and she called him the "Raggedy Doctor" Also, we learn that Beefcake's name is Jeff.

Amy's had enough discussion of her childhood antics, and asks again what twenty minutes is for.

Well, that's the time it will take for the spaceship hiding up above to blow up the Earth, because by "human residence" the aliens don't mean Amy's house specifically, but rather The ENTIRE PLANET.

Right, so is Zaphod Beeblebrox in charge of this prison, or what?

We zoom in on the eyeball in the TV and zoom out to reveal the entire fleet of space-faring eyeballs hovering just above the Earth's atmosphere!

So the Doctor and Amy are off to save the world! He takes stock of what he has to work with in this tiny English town...which is nothing basically, except a shut post office and duck pond with no ducks. He's especially interested in this pond.

He gets some more Doctor pangs and almost tumbles back into the duckless pond. Then something blots out the sun. It's a force field.

And the Human race takes pictures of their imminent doom with their camera phones. That is how we roll.

But the Doctor has seen something amiss in his own big eye!

It's our good friend Rory, and he's not interested in flaming suns or anything exciting up in the sky.

He's more interested in taking pictures of erstwhile coma patients roaming around with their dogs in the interest of getting his job back and proving his sanity.

He gives her two options: Say goodbye to your loved ones, or come with me and save the world! Wheee!

She chooses the option where she slams his tie in a car door and interrogates him about who the heck he really is.

This old man is just bamboozled by his car keys being stolen but Amy just shews him away.

So, Amy wants proof he really is who he says he is? Well, he's still carrying Mr. Happy Apple and it's fresh as the day Amy carved into him...so technically, he was only gone for five minutes.

Amy lets him go, and the Doctor jets off and grabs Rory's phone.

The Doctor questions him loudly, and Rory is at a loss, because who is this strange man? And this isn't the first time he's been shouted out today.

He's glad to see a friendly face though. Amy introduces him as a "Friend". He seems to think that she's his girlfriend. Ooooooo.

Scorned!

Rory needs a hug today. I volunteer!

So, the Doctor wants to know why he's taking pictures of some dude and his dog, but Rory is too busy recognizing him as the "Raggedy Doctor" and embarrassing Amy some more.

The Doctor is impatient with this so he just gets all up in Rory's face until he explains the story of the walking coma guy.

He pokes Rory in the head when he explains how Multeel needs a dormant mind to transform.

P-Zero will not be ignored! *woof*woof*!!!

Rory is amazed that not only is there a real Raggedy Doctor, but also there is a real prisoner zero. He shouldn't be so incredulous. I'd say he knows a thing or two about people not believing in stuff.

Too bad the floating eyeball spaceship shows up to add some more crazy to the pile.

The Doctor's new plan is to bring attention to P-Zero by sonicing everything within sight to oblivion. Light bulbs explode, windshield wipers go wild with alliteration. An old lady's scooter sends her careening down the street. (which is hilarious!)

This happens. Run Firemen! Catch that truck!

It works until the screwdriver explodes! The Spaceship flies away and P-Zero lives to bark another day.

The Doctor has to think about this now. Where could P-Zero have gone? Naturally, down the drain, but where to? He only has 17 minutes left to figure out how to drive it out into the open.

Where has P-Zero gone anyway? Well, it's gone to the hospital where we find the Doc trying to shake awake a coma patient. Hey, lady...He's comatose, you know that means he's probably not going to be waking up or answering you anytime soon. You need a mandatory vacation!

Back at the park the Doctor is explaining that a Multeel can live for millennia, so this is no big deal. The only reason the authorities are late catching it is because they were following the Doctor around on his timey-wimey five minute trip into the future.

He demands Rory's phone.

As the Doctor flips through the pictures of all the coma patients, Rory's kind of flipping out in disbelief. He let's out some more embarrassing info: Amy made a game of it when they were kids, and she made Rory dress up like the Doctor.

Awwwww. I want a flashback, where BB Amy and BB Rory play Adventures of the Raggedy Doctor!

In any case, we have an important bit of info to shed here: The Multeeel has a dog because the patient is dreaming of his dog. Dude must have really liked that puppy! (Remember this, it's important!)

After he's done explaining that, the Doctor Shouts "Laptop" into the air randomly.

The Doctor wants to use a laptop and he remembers that Amy's friend had one he can commandeer. The Good Looking one, Jeff. Not this one. Rory's all *Rolly Eyes* I see how it is.

The Doctor sends them off on a mission to the hospital, but Rory's still stuck on the whole 'Amy's imaginary friend is actually a real dude' thing.

Over at Jeff's house, the Doctor busts in on his room without knocking and interrupts a little... Jeff on Jeff time. Oh, dear.

Well, Gran decided to join the party, so I'm gonna guess Jeff isn't in the mood anymore.

Why not invite all the experts in the world over too? The Doctor has hacked into some sort of big sciency big-wig teleconference, and he's going to help them out.

How? Well, he's sending them a computer virus that they need to send to as many social networking places as possible so every chip in every clock ever can be set back to 0 at precisely the same time. How to they know to trust him?

Well, he's going to direct that question to his best man.

That would be you, Beefcake. The Doctor gives Jeff an up close and personal pep talk out of reach of the webcam. Seems good old Jeff here has gone from minding his own business and looking at porn on the internet to possibly being the hero of the world in about two minutes.

Soak it all in Jeff! He just has one question. Why him?

Simple. It's his bedroom! The Doctor wishes him good luck and scurries away as fast as he came.

Jeff is all down to serious savin' the world business now, but the Doctor pops back in for one bit of prudent advise: "Delete your internet history."

That, my friends, is advice to live by, for sure.

Meanwhile, at the hospital, Amy and Rory have run into a bit of a snag. Everything's been sealed off and nobody knows what's going on. She gets on the phone to the Doctor to see if he can't help them out of this pickle. His advice: Look in the Mirror.

She's still wearing the police uniform, so she can get in past the police tape now, or whatever's holding them back. Rory goes all *rolly eyes* again because he's been relegated to phone holder-upper while Amy ties her hair back and chats with the Doctor.

As for how the Doctor is going to get to the hospital... I guess the firemen never caught up with their truck after all!

Up the coma ward everything is ripped to shreds and throw all about the place...Rory and Amy run into this not suspicious lady and her children. She tells us that everyone is dead: The mean Doctor, all the Nurses. Oh, boy. You picked a good day to get kinda fired, Rory.

Amy gets on the phone to the Doctor again to let him know everything has gone to shit already, when the Lady's kid starts talking in an adult voice...thus giving away P-Zero. There's no reason for it to hide its teeth anymore.

Rory is reasonably terrified and so is Amy pretty much even though she's been there already today.

P-Zero is going to go into a villainous monologe about how it watched Amy grow up for twelve years now and the magic Doctor isn't going to save her this time. Except, that's no so much true...

Group Hugs! The Doctor busts in on his firetruck ladder. Spoilsport!

SO the Doctor tries to convince P-Zero to just give it up and reveal itself, but it's not in the mood to do that. If it's going to go down, it wants to take the entire human race with it of course.

The Doctor tells it to just open another crack if it wants out so bad, but it reveals that it didn't open the crack. Then it taunts the Doctor in a sing-song manner because he doesn't know how the cracks happened either.

She says something about the Pandoric opening and silence reigning, which I'm sure will be important later, so jot that one down.

While the Multeel has been talking, the clocks have all turned back to 0 All around the world.

Props to the Doctor's team: Jeff and the World! Go, Jeff and the World!

And what has all of this clock changery to do with anything? Well, the Eyeballs have been able to track this particular virus to the source...which is Rory's Mobile right here in the Doctor's hand, not only that, but all of its coma patient disguises are right there on Rory's camera as well!

How about them Happy Apples, Prisoner Zero?

The Doctor Tallies up the score: Doctor: 1, P-Zero: 0 with minutes to spare and no TARDIS or Screwdriver to boot.

"WHO 'DA MAN?!!!"

Right. That catch phrase is going back in the box where it belongs.

Meanwhile, the Multeel has one more trick up it's...mutli-dimensional, pointy toothed, eel form.

It has had twelve years to form a psychic bond with one person not in a coma. Amy. She goes down like a sack of potatoes.

Form of: The DOCTOR! He doesn't recognize himself, because he hasn't had time to look in a mirror in the past half hour or so.

He wants to know why P-Zero has chosen him to imitate, since it's Amy that's connected. The Multeel pulls out BB Amy who tries to pour some guilt on the Doctor by calling him a disappointment for never coming back for her all this time.

He doesn't buy it. He thinks Amy is dreaming of him because she can hear him in real life.

He runs back to Amy and tries to get her to imagine what she saw in that secret room she just would not leave earlier in the day.

Uh, OH! That's right, P-Zero. And you would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesky kids and their Doctor.

The Multeel has one more parting word, before it is whisked off to planet eyeball again: Enjoy the Silence... 'cos it's coming.

Rory's getting all excited because Amy's back in the land of the living, if a little groggy, and the Doctor has saved the day. Yay!

He gets a pat on the head from the Doctor (literally) and an advance apology for the ginormous long distance bill he's going to get, for the Doctor is about to call the eyeball ships out in space and it doesn't get much more long distance than that.

Rory blabbers on with incredulity about the Doctor defeating the Aliens then calling them back, but Amy hops right up and follows him. Eventually Rory stops talking and catches up with them.

The Doctor Makes a pit stop at the locker room for some new clothes. He shall be raggedy no longer. Rory is still going on about summoning the "Aliens of Death" back to Earth, and acts like he's never been in a changing room with another man before in his life. He turns his back while Amy grabs an eyeful.

They head up to the roof to meet the race of giant eyeballs. AKA "Aliens of Death" AKA the Atraxi The Doctor is angry because they were about to blow up a class 5 planet...which is illegal it seems. He doesn't want them to come back.

Rory just points at it speechlessly, because it's a giant frikkin' eyeball. What is there to say?

The Doctor asks for advice on his wardrobe from the Eyeball. The Better to see you with, I guess.

The Eyeball is like, What's your deal, dude? Who cares if we blow up this stupid planet, it's not important. Pfffft. They may have two eyeballs, but they're very tiny.

Well, the Doctor Cares. He asks if the People are a threat, and the answer is no. Not to the Atraxi anyways.

Then he asks if the world is protected. The Atraxi runs a projection of all the Who baddies, and all the Doctors that saved the world previously, and the new Doctor steps through the image of the last Doctor and pronounces his Doctorness, and that the Atraxi should RUN.

So they run. 'Cos the Doctor is that badass that just the mention of his name sends "Aliens of Death" scurrying for cover.

Just in time! A new TARDIS key!

The Doctor disappears while Amy stands and muses about the Eyeballs.

She gets back just in time to see the Doctor leave. What a downer.

Amy closes her eyes and flashbacks to BB Amelia waiting for the Doctor to come. Awwww.

We hear the sound of the TARDIS and it turns out that Amy was just having a dream about it...or is she?

The Doctor Apologizes for jetting off so fast earlier. He just wanted to take the new TARDIS out for a spin to the moon. Amy's just surprised he kept the clothes...including that bow tie.

This Doctor thinks bow ties are cool. So there. He invites Amy along on his adventures.

She reminisces about all the wondrous things they did, capturing P-Zero and banishing flying eyeballs and everything. The Doctor's all -Yeah, yeah, plenty more to see.-

Until she reveals that all that happened two years ago. Which brings the grand total up to 14 years of waiting.

"Oops"

Amy's not so sure about this as she once was when she was a little girl. She's had to do a lot of growing up. The Doctor assures her that he has the cure for that and he finger snaps the TARDIS door open.

Which is impressive. Amy heads on in because if there's one thing a girl can't resists, it's a great big TARDIS.

Amy is speechless. She doesn't even have a -bigger on the inside- comment despite the Doctor totally prompting her for one. When she does speak it's to worry about traveling time and space in her nightie. (No worries, there's a wardrobe.)

So, where to? Amy's asks him how he's sure she's coming along anyway. He rattles off a list of why she's coming, and she doesn't disagree.

She just has to be back for tomorrow morning at which point undisclosed "Stuff" will happen. She's totes engaged, isn't she? The Doctor promises to be back in time for the "Stuff" because he has a fantastic track record with punctuality.

Cool. The TARDIS has even manufacture a new Screwdriver! This one is green.

Most technologically advanced TARDIS eva!

Amy looks excited about the prospect for about half a second until she decides she needs to know why the Doctor chose her. He doesn't give a reason, but she pushes him for one.

What it comes down to is that he's lonely and tired of talking to himself.

Amy says okay. The shot lingers on this screen for a while with ominous music in the background.

Amy finally lets herself marvel at the TARDIS for a second. Seems like what the Doctor said was true, and she was begining to think he was just a madman with a box.

Ahh, but the secret to his success? He IS a madman with a box! They erupt into manic giggles and skip away to the TARDIS console.

And we're off!

Back in Amy's room, we see that she has all her old Raggety Doctor stuff out from when she was a kid.

How can we tell this isn't some sort of flashback?

Because of the Stuff.