Thalia Pond {FULL SERIES}

Series 5 - The Pandorica Opens

[France 1890]

(Night. It is raining. In a bedroom, an unappreciated artist is having a breakdown by his new painting of Still Life with Twelve Sunflowers, dedicated to Amy. His doctor is in attendance.)

GACHET: Vincent, can you hear me? Please.

VERNET: It's not enough he goes drinking all round the town. Now the whole neighbourhood has to listen to his screaming.

GACHET: He's very ill, Madame Vernet.

(Madame Vernet looks at another painting, which we do not get to see.)

VERNET: Look at this, even worse than his usual rubbish. What's it supposed to be?

[Cabinet War Rooms, London 1941]

(Bracewell brings the picture to the Prime Minister.)

BRACEWELL: It was found behind the wall, in an attic in France. It's genuine. It's a Van Gogh.

CHURCHILL: Why bring it to me?

BRACEWELL: Because it's obviously a message, and you can see who it's for.

CHURCHILL: Can't say I understand it.

BRACEWELL: You're not supposed to understand it, Prime Minister. You're supposed to deliver it.

[Stormcage Containment Facility 5145]

(A guard answers a telephone.)

GUARD: Cell four two six. The Doctor? Do you mean Doctor Song?

(River goes to the bars of her cell.)

RIVER: Give me that. Seriously, just give it to me. I'm entitled to phone calls.

(The guard gives her the telephone.)

RIVER: Doctor?

[Cabinet War Rooms]

CHURCHILL: No, and neither are you. Where is he?

RIVER [OC]: You're phoning the Time Vortex. It doesn't always work. But the Tardis is smart. She's re-routed the call.

[Stormcage]

RIVER: Talk quickly. This connection will last less than a minute.

GUARD: Doctor Song. Are you finished with that?

(River returns the telephone with a smile.)

RIVER: You're new here, aren't you?

GUARD: First day.

RIVER: Then I'm very sorry.

(River pulls him to the bars and kisses him. Later, a group of armed guards run to the cell. The guard is inside, pointing his gun at something.)

GUARD 2: Stay exactly where you are.

GUARD: She had the lipstick. The hallucinogenic lipstick. She tried to use it on me. Your tricks don't work in here, Doctor Song.

(He is pointing his gun at a stick drawing on the wall with the word 'Bye!' in a bubble.)

[The Royal Collection 5145]

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

LIZ: This is the Royal Collection, and I'm the bloody Queen. What are you doing here?

RIVER: It's about the Doctor, Ma'am. You met him once, didn't you? I know he came here.