[Amy's bedroom] (1,894 years later... and one star at least is still burning brightly. Night. The red pinwheel turns in the breeze in the garden. Upstairs, a little red haired girl is saying her prayers.) AMELIA: Dear Santa. Thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I don't wake you, but, honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know it's not, because at night there's voices. So, please, please, could you send someone to fix it, or a policeman, or (A strange wind whistles outside.) AMELIA: Back in a moment. (She runs to the window, but there is nothing there. The moon hangs in a starless sky.) [Living room] (The nice lady psychiatrist is looking at a painting of the moon and stars.) CHRISTINE: It's a lovely painting, Amelia. And what are all these? AMELIA: Stars. SHARON: Oh, Amelia. CHRISTINE: Tell you what, shall we go outside? [Outside the house] CHRISTINE: What do you see, Amelia? AMELIA: The moon. CHRISTINE: And what else? AMELIA: Just the dark. CHRISTINE: But no stars. If there were stars up there, we'd be able to see them, wouldn't we? Amelia, look at me. You know this is all just a story, don't you? You know there's no such thing as stars. [Amy's bedroom] (Amy listens to the adult voices downstairs.) CHRISTINE [OC]: But there's bound to be a bit of her that feels alone. Amelia's a really good person. [Staircase] CHRISTINE [OC]: It's quite common, actually. Throughout history, people have talked about seeing stars in the sky. God knows where it comes from. SHARON [OC]: I just don't want her growing up and joining one of those Star Cults. I don't trust that Richard Dawkins. (Christine and Sharon walk across the hallway from the kitchen to the living room. Someone in a red fez puts a leaflet through the door. Amelia runs down to get it. It is titled The Anomaly, and features the Pandorica at the National Museum. Someone has written on it in red ink - Come along, Pond.) [National Museum] AMELIA: Come on, Aunt Sharon. SHARON: Oh, look at that. That's good, isn't it? AMELIA: Not that. This way. SHARON; But we're not looking at anything. AMELIA: This way! SHARON: Amelia! [Anomaly Exhibition] (Amelia stops to look at the exhibit of petrified Daleks, then pushes through the people standing looking at the Pandorica. Someone snatches her Original Cola drink from her. Suddenly there is a post-it note on the Pandorica, saying Stick around, Pond.) SHARON [OC]: Amelia! (Amelia runs to hide.) SHARON: Amelia? Amelia? (Closing time.) SHARON; Amelia! TANNOY: Amelia Pond, please go to the reception, please. Your aunt is waiting for you there. Amelia Pond, please go to reception. (Later still, Amelia creeps out from the Penguin display, knocking some over.) AMELIA: Sorry. (She returns to the Pandorica and removes the post-it note. He puts her hand on the Pandorica and starts to open. Amelia backs away. The person inside speaks to her.) AMY: Okay, kid. This is where it gets complicated. [Stonehenge] (1,894 years previously... Rory has the body of Amy lying across his lap, Pieta-style.) DORIUM: Not cheap, Doctor Song. Have you brought me a pretty toy? (She takes off one of her earrings.) RIVER: This is a Calisto Pulse. It can disarm micro-explosives from up to twenty feet. DORIUM: What kind of micro-explosives? RIVER: The kind I just put in your wine. [Tardis] (Amy is studying the engagement ring that she found in the Doctor's jacket pocket.) DOCTOR: Vavoom! AMY: Va-what? DOCTOR: I can't believe I've never thought of this before. It's genius. Right. Landed. Come on. AMY: Where are we? DOCTOR; Planet One. The oldest planet in the universe. And there's a cliff of pure diamond, and according to legend, on the cliff there's writing. Letters fifty feet high. A message from the dawn of time And no one knows what it says, because no one's ever translated it. DOCTOR: Till today. AMY: What happens today? DOCTOR: Us. The Tardis can translate anything. All we have to do is open the doors and read the very first words in recorded history. (So they go outside and read - Hello Sweetie ΘΣ ΦΓΥΔζ ) AMY: Vavoom. [Salisbury Plain] (The Tardis materialises at the edge of a wood, on a hill.) AMY: Right place? DOCTOR: Just followed the co-ordinates on the cliff face. Earth. Britain. one oh two am. No, pm. No, AD. (They are looking down on a Roman camp.) AMY: That's a Roman Legion. DOCTOR: Well, yeah. The Romans invaded Britain several times during this period. AMY: Oh, I know. My favourite topic at school. Invasion of the hot Italians. Yeah, I did get marked down for the title. (A soldier runs up and salutes.) CLAUDIO: Hail, Caesar! DOCTOR: Hi. CLAUDIO: Welcome to Britain. We are honoured by your presence. DOCTOR: Well, you're only human. Arise, Roman person. AMY: Why does he think you're Caesar? (Claudio has a smear of lipstick on his face.) CLAUDIO: Cleopatra will see you now. [Cleopatra's tent] RIVER: Hello, sweetie. [Stonehenge] RORY: I killed her. DOCTOR: Oh, Rory. RORY: Doctor, what am I? DOCTOR: You're a Nestene duplicate. A lump of plastic with delusions of humanity. RORY: But I'm Rory now. Whatever was happening, it's stopped. I'm Rory. DOCTOR: That's software talking. RORY: Can you help her? Is there anything you can do? DOCTOR: Yeah, probably, if I had the time. RORY: The time? DOCTOR: All of creation has just been wiped from the sky. Do you know how many lives now never happened? All the people who never lived? Your girlfriend isn't more important than the whole universe. (Rory punches the Doctor.) RORY: She is to me! DOCTOR: Welcome back, Rory Williams! Sorry. Had to be sure. Hell of a gun-arm you're packing there. Right, we need to get her downstairs. And take that look off your plastic face. You're getting married in the morning. [Pandorica chamber] (The Doctor places Amy in the Pandorica.) RORY: So you've got a plan, then? DOCTOR: Bit of a plan, yeah. Memories are more powerful than you think, and Amy Pond is not an ordinary girl. Grew up with a time crack in her wall. The universe pouring through her dreams every night. The Nestenes took a memory print of her and got a bit more than they bargained for, like you. Not just your face, but your heart and your soul. (The Doctor mind-melds with Amy.) DOCTOR: I'm leaving her a message for when she wakes up, so she knows what's happening. (The Doctor seals Amy inside the Pandorica.) RORY: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing? DOCTOR: I'm saving her. This box is the ultimate prison. You can't even escape by dying. It forces you to stay alive. RORY: But she's already dead. DOCTOR: Well, she's mostly dead. The Pandorica can stasis-lock her that way. Now, all it needs is a scan of her living DNA and it'll restore her. RORY: Where's it going to get that? DOCTOR: In about two thousand years. [Anomaly Exhibition] (Amy falls out of the Pandorica, gasping.) AMELIA: Are you all right? Who are you? AMY: I'm fine. I'm supposed to rest. Got to rest, the Doctor says. AMELIA: What doctor? (Amy taps her head.) (There is a sound of machinery moving, then the Altar stone moves aside to reveal a staircase down into the ground.) DOCTOR: The Underhenge. (As they go down, a nearby severed Cyberman head twitches.) [Pandorica chamber] (The Doctor lights a handy torch with his sonic screwdriver. He lights another for River and they unbar a big door, then enter.) DOCTOR: It's a Pandorica. (It is a big square monument with a circular design on each face.) RIVER: More than just a fairy tale. (The Doctor's foot touches a Cyberman's severed arm lying in the dust of the floor.) DOCTOR: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world. AMY: How did it end up in there? DOCTOR: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it. RIVER: I hate good wizards in fairy tales. They always turn out to be him. AMY: So, it's kind of like Pandora's Box, then? Almost the same name. DOCTOR: Sorry, what? AMY: The story. Pandora's Box, with all the worst things in the world in it. That was my favourite book when I was a kid. What's wrong? DOCTOR: Your favourite school topic. Your favourite story. Never ignore a coincidence, unless you're busy. In which case, always ignore a coincidence. RIVER: So can you open it? DOCTOR: Easily. Anyone can break into a prison. But I'd rather know what I'm going to find first. RIVER: You won't have long to wait. It's already opening. There are layers and layers of security protocols in there, and they're being disabled one by one. Like it's being unlocked from the inside. DOCTOR: How long do we have? RIVER: Hours at the most. DOCTOR: What kind of security? RIVER: Everything. Deadlocks, time stops, matter lines. DOCTOR: What could need all that? RIVER: What could get past all that? DOCTOR: Think of the fear that went into making this box. What could inspire that level of fear? Hello, you. Have we met? RIVER: So why would it start to open now? DOCTOR: No idea. AMY: Ahem, And how could Vincent have known about it? He won't even be born for centuries. DOCTOR: The stones. These stones are great big transmitters, broadcasting a warning to everyone, everywhere, to every time zone. The Pandorica is opening. RIVER: Doctor, everyone everywhere? DOCTOR: Even poor Vincent heard it, in his dreams. But what's in there? What could justify all this? RIVER: Doctor, everyone? DOCTOR: Anything that powerful, I'd know about it. Why don't I know? RIVER: Doctor, you said everyone could hear it. So who else is coming? DOCTOR: Oh. AMY: Oh? Oh, what? RIVER: Okay. If it is basically a transmitter, we should be able to fold back the signal. DOCTOR: Doing it. (The Doctor goes around the bases of the Sarsen stones with his sonic screwdriver.) AMY: Doing what? RIVER: Stonehenge is transmitting. It's been transmitting for a while, so who heard? DOCTOR: Okay, should be feeding back to you now. River, what's out there? RIVER: Give me a moment. DOCTOR: River, quickly. Anything? RIVER: Around this planet there are at least ten thousand starships. AMY: At least? RIVER: Ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, I don't know. There's too many readings. DOCTOR: What kind of starships? DALEK [OC]: Maintaining orbit. DALEK 2 [OC]: I obey. Shield cover compromised on ion sectors. AMY: Daleks. Those are Daleks. DALEK [OC]: Scan detects no temporal activity. DALEK 2 [OC]: Soft grid scan commencing. DALEK [OC]: Reverse thrust for compensatory stabilisation. RIVER: Daleks, Doctor. DALEK [OC]: Launch preliminary armaments protocol. DOCTOR: Yes. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Dalek fleet, minimum twelve thousand battleships, armed to the teeth. Ah! But we've got surprise on our side. They'll never expect three people to attack twelve thousand Dalek battleships. Because we'd be killed instantly. So it would be a fairly short surprise. Forget surprise. CYBERMAN [OC]: Course correction proceeding.) RIVER: Doctor, Cyberships. DOCTOR: No, Dalek ships. Listen to them. Those are Dalek ships. RIVER: Yes. Dalek ships and Cyberships. DOCTOR: Well, we need to start a fight, turn them on each other. I mean, that's easy. It's the Daleks. They're so cross. RIVER: Sontaran. Four battlefleets. DOCTOR: Sontarans! Talk about cross, who stole all their handbags? RIVER: Terileptil. Slitheen, Chelonian, Nestene, Drahvin. Sycorax, Haemogoth, Zygon, Atraxi, Draconian. They're all here for the Pandorica. DOCTOR: What are you? What could you possibly be? [Stonehenge] (Lots of spaceships are buzzing around in the sky.) AMY: What do we do? RIVER: Doctor, listen to me. Everything that ever hated you is coming here tonight. You can't win this. You can't even fight it. Doctor, this once, just this one time, please, you have to run. DOCTOR: Run where? RIVER: Fight how? DOCTOR: The greatest military machine in the history of the universe. AMY: What is? The Daleks? DOCTOR: No. No, no, no, no, no. The Romans. [Cleopatra's tent] (River returns to the Roman camp and is taken prisoner.) COMMANDER: So. I return to my command after one week and discover we've been playing host to Cleopatra. Who's in Egypt. And dead. RIVER: Yes. Funny how things work out. (A spaceship buzzes them.) COMMANDER: The sky is falling and you make jokes. Who are you? RIVER: When you fight Barbarians, what must they think of you? COMMANDER: Oh, riddles now. RIVER: Where do they think you come from? COMMANDER: A place more deadly and more powerful and more impatient than their tiny minds can imagine. (River uses her gun to disintegrate a wooden stand filled with ornaments.) RIVER: Where do I come from? Your world has visitors. You're all Barbarians now. COMMANDER: What is that? Tell me what? RIVER: A fool would say the work of the Gods, but you've been a soldier too long to believe there are Gods watching over us. There is, however, a man. And tonight he's going to need your help. MAN [OC]: Sir? COMMANDER: One moment. (The Commander has a whispered conference with a shady Centurion.) COMMANDER: Well, it seems you have a volunteer. [Pandorica chamber] AMY: So what's this got to do with the Tardis? DOCTOR: Nothing, as far as I know. AMY: But Vincent's painting. The Tardis was exploding. Is that going to happen? DOCTOR: One problem at a time. There's forcefield technology inside this box. If I can enhance the signal, I could extend it all over Stonehenge. Could buy us half an hour. AMY: What good is half an hour? DOCTOR: There are fruit flies live on Hoppledom Six that live for twenty minutes and they don't even mate for life. There was going to be a point to that. I'll get back to you. (Amy takes the ring box from her pocket.) AMY: So, are you proposing to someone? DOCTOR: I'm sorry? AMY: I found this in your pocket. DOCTOR: No. No, no, that's er, a memory. A friend of mine. Someone I lost. Do you mind? AMY: It's weird. I feel, I don't know, something. DOCTOR: People fall out of the world sometimes, but they always leave traces. Little things we can't quite account for. Faces in photographs, luggage, half eaten meals, rings. Nothing is ever forgotten, not completely. And if something can be remembered, it can come back. AMY: So, was she nice, your friend? DOCTOR: Remember that night you flew away with me? AMY: Of course I do. DOCTOR: And you asked me why I was taking you and I told you there wasn't a reason. I was lying. AMY: What, so you did have a reason? DOCTOR: Your house. AMY: My house. DOCTOR: It was too big. Too many empty rooms. Does it ever bother you, Amy, that your life doesn't make any sense? (An energy weapon fires at them. It is the severed Cyberman arm. They hide behind the Pandorica.) AMY: What was that? DOCTOR: Okay, I need a proper look. Got to draw its fire, give it a target. AMY: How? DOCTOR: You know how sometimes I have really brilliant ideas? AMY: Yes. DOCTOR: Sorry. (The Doctor runs out.) DOCTOR: Look at me, I'm a target! (He gets shot at and hides behind the base of a Sarsen.) AMY: What is that? DOCTOR: Cyberarm. Arm of Cyberman. AMY: And what's a Cyberman? DOCTOR: Oh, sort of part man, part robot. The organic part must have died out years ago. Now the robot part is looking for, well, fresh meat. AMY: What, us? DOCTOR: It's just like being an organ donor, except you're alive and sort of screaming. I need to get round behind it. Could you draw its fire? AMY: What, like you did? DOCTOR: You'll be fine if you're quick. It's only got one arm, literally. (Amy runs, screaming. The Doctor pounces on the arm.) DOCTOR: Come here! (He manages to sonic it.) AMY: Doctor? DOCTOR: Scrambled its circuits, but stay where you are, it could be bluffing. AMY: Bluffing? It's an arm. DOCTOR: I said stay where you are! (Something creeps up behind Amy and lassoes her ankle.) AMY: Doctor? (She is pulled to the floor.) DOCTOR: Amy! (The Cyberarm gives the Doctor an electric shock, knocking him out.) AMY: Doctor! (Amy is being attacked by the Cyberhead. She grabs it by the ears. It fizzles, then the mask pops open to reveal a skull, which falls out. Amy screams. The mask keeps snapping open and shut. She hits it against a Sarsen until it lets her go, then throws it to the floor. It crawls away.) AMY: Doctor? (The Cyberhead fires a little dart into Amy's neck.) CYBERHEAD: You will be assimilated. AMY: Yeah? You and whose body? (A headless, armless Cyberman enters. It puts its head back on then goes after the woozy Amy. She backs out through the big doors.) [Underhenge] AMY: Doctor? Doctor? (A Roman short sword pierces the door, which swings open to reveal the Cyberman skewered to the wood.) AMY: Who, who are you? (The Centurion removes his helmet.) RORY: Hello, Amy. (Amy passes out.) RORY: Whoa, whoa, whoa. (He catches her in his arms and lays her gently on a stone.) SOLDIER: Sir, the man's coming round. DOCTOR: Amy? Where's Amy? RORY: She's fine, Doctor. Just unconscious. DOCTOR: Okay. Yes, she's sedated, that's all. Half an hour, she'll be fine. Okay, Romans. Good. I was just wishing for Romans. Good old River. How many? RORY: Fifty men up top, volunteers. What about that thing? DOCTOR: Fifty? You're not exactly a legion. RORY: Your friend was very persuasive, but it's a tough sell. DOCTOR: Yes, I know that, Rory. I'm not exactly one to miss the obvious. But we need everything we can get. Okay, Cyberweapons. This is basically a sentry box, so headless wonder here was a sentry. Probably got himself duffed up by the locals. Never underestimate a Celt. RORY: Doctor? DOCTOR: Hush, Rory. Thinking. Why leave a Cyberman on guard, unless it's a Cyberthing in the box. But why would they lock up one of their own? Okay, no, not a Cyberthing, but what? What? No, I'm missing something obvious, Rory. Something big. Something right slap in front of me. I can feel it. RORY: Yeah, I think you probably are. DOCTOR: I'll get it in a minute. (The Doctor leaves with the weapons, drops them and returns. He prods Rory.) DOCTOR: Hello again. RORY: Hello. DOCTOR: How've you been? RORY: Good. Yeah. Good. I mean, Roman. DOCTOR: Rory, I'm not trying to be rude, but you died. RORY: Yeah, I know. I was there. DOCTOR: You died and then you were erased from time. You didn't just die, you were never born at all. You never existed. RORY: Erased? What does that mean? DOCTOR: How can you be here? RORY: I don't know. It's kind of fuzzy. DOCTOR: Fuzzy? RORY: Well, I died and turned into a Roman. It's very distracting. Did she miss me? (Something shakes the ground.) [Pandorica chamber] (The circular designs on the Pandorica are glowing green and moving like cog wheels.) RORY: What is it? What's happening? DOCTOR: The final phase. It's opening. [Salisbury Plain] (River is on her horse, watching the myriad of shining spaceships buzzing Stonehenge in typical Spielberg style.) RIVER: You're surrounded. Have you got a plan? DOCTOR [OC]: Yes. Now hurry up and [Pandorica chamber] DOCTOR: Big Bang Two! Now listen. (The Dalek shoots the Doctor.) DALEK: Exterminate! Exterminate! RORY: Get back. River, get back now! DALEK: Exterminate! (Rory shoots at the Dalek and it powers down again.) RIVER: Doctor? Doctor, it's me, River. Can you hear me? What is it? What do you need? (The Doctor activates the vortex manipulator and vanishes.) RIVER: Where did he go? Damn it, he could be anywhere. AMY: He went downstairs, twelve minutes ago. RIVER: Show me! AMY: River, he died. DALEK: Systems restoring. You will be exterminated. RORY: We've got to move. That thing's coming back to life. RIVER: You go to the Doctor. I'll be right with you. (Amy and Rory leave.) DALEK: You will be exterminated! RIVER: Not yet. Your systems are still restoring, which means your shield density is compromised. One Alpha Mezon burst through your eyestalk would kill you stone dead. DALEK: Records indicate you will show mercy. You are an associate of the Doctor's. RIVER: I'm River Song. Check your records again. DALEK: Mercy. RIVER: Say it again. DALEK: Mercy! RIVER: One more time. DALEK: Mercy! [Museum Reception] (The Doctor's body is not there, although Rory's jacket is.) RORY: How could he have moved? He was dead. Doctor? Doctor! AMY: But he was dead. RIVER: Who told you that? AMY: He did. RIVER: Rule one. The Doctor lies. AMY: Where's the Dalek? RIVER: It died. [Anomaly Exhibition] (The Doctor is in the Pandorica.) AMY: Doctor! (The Tardis lurches down the Time Vortex.) [Pandorica chamber] DOCTOR: There are cracks. Cracks in time. There's going to be a huge explosion in the future, on one particular day. And every other moment in history is cracking around it. RORY: So how does that work? What kind of explosion? What exploded? RIVER [memory]: And for those of us who can't read the base code of the universe? DOCTOR [memory]: Amy's time. DOCTOR: Doesn't matter. The cracks are everywhere now. Get too close to them and you can fall right out of the universe. RORY: So I fell through a crack and now I was never born? DOCTOR: Basically. RORY: Well, how did I end up here? DOCTOR: I don't know, you shouldn't have. What happened? From your point of view, what physically happened? RORY: I was in the cave, with you and Amy. I was dying, and then I was just here, a Roman soldier. A proper Roman. Head full of Roman stuff. A whole other life, just here like I'd woken up from a dream. I started to think it was a dream, you and Amy and Leadworth. And then today, in the camp, the men were talking about the visitors. The girl with the red hair. I thought you'd come back for me. But she can't even remember me. DOCTOR: Oh, shut up. RORY: What? (The Doctor throws the ring box to Rory.) RIVER: A restoration field powered by an exploding Tardis, happening at every moment in history. Oh, that's brilliant. It might even work. He's wired the vortex manipulator to the rest of the box. AMY: Why? RIVER: So he can take it with him. He's going to fly the Pandorica into the heart of the explosion. (A short time later.) RORY: Are you okay? AMY: Are you? RORY: No. AMY: Well, shut up then! RIVER: Amy, he wants to talk to you. AMY: So, what happens here? Big Bang Two? What happens to us? RIVER: We all wake up where we ought to be. None of this ever happens and we don't remember it. AMY: River, tell me he comes back, too. RIVER: The Doctor will be the heart of the explosion. AMY: So? RIVER: So all the cracks in time will close, but he'll be on the wrong side, trapped in the never-space, the void between the worlds. All memory of him will be purged from the universe. He will never have been born. Now, please. He wants to talk to you before he goes. AMY: Not to you? RIVER: He doesn't really know me yet. Now he never will. (Amy goes to the Pandorica. The Doctor is very weak.) AMY: Hi. DOCTOR: Amy Pond. The girl who waited all night in your garden. Was it worth it? AMY: Shut up. Of course it was. DOCTOR: You asked me why I was taking you with me and I said, no reason. I was lying. AMY: It's not important. DOCTOR: Yeah, it's the most important thing left in the universe. It's why I'm doing this. Amy, your house was too big. That big, empty house, and just you. AMY: And Aunt Sharon. DOCTOR: Where were your mum and dad? Where was everybody who lived in that big house? AMY: I lost my Mum and Dad. DOCTOR: How? What happened to them? Where did they go? AMY: I, I don't DOCTOR: It's okay, it's okay. Don't panic, it's not your fault. AMY: I don't even remember. DOCTOR: There was a crack in time in the wall of your bedroom, and it's been eating away at your life for a long time now. Amy Pond, all alone. The girl who didn't make sense. How could I resist? [Pandorica chamber] (The Doctor contacts River.) DOCTOR: The Tardis, where is it? Hurry up. [Tardis] RIVER: Don't raise your voice, don't look alarmed, just listen. [Stonehenge] RORY: Hey, what's wrong? AMY: Nothing. It's like, it's like I'm happy. Why am I happy? [Tardis] RIVER: They're not real. They can't be. They're all right here in the story book. Those actual Romans. The ones I sent you, the ones you're with right now. They're all in a book in Amy's house. A children's picture book. [Pandorica chamber] DOCTOR: What are you even doing there? RIVER [OC]: It doesn't matter. The Tardis went wrong. [Tardis] RIVER: Doctor, how is this possible? [Pandorica chamber] DOCTOR: Something's using her memories. Amy's memories. RIVER [OC]: But how? (The Pandorica reaches the Tardis. There is another explosion then everything reverses back to the start of the previous episode.) [Tardis] (The Doctor sits up on the floor of the Tardis.) DOCTOR: Oh! Okay. I escaped, then. Brilliant. I love it when I do that. Legs, yes. Bow tie, cool. I can buy a fez. DOCTOR [OC]: Lyle beach. The beach is the best. Automatic sand. AMY [OC]: Automatic sand? What does that mean? DOCTOR [OC]: It's automated. Totally. DOCTOR: Oh. DOCTOR 2: Cleans up the lolly sticks all by itself. DOCTOR: No, hang on. That's last week when we went to Space Florida. I'm rewinding. My, my time stream unravelling, erasing. Closing. (The crack in the scanner slowly closes and disappears.) DOCTOR: Hello, universe. Goodbye, Doctor. Amy. Amy. (And back through The Lodger.) [Aickman Street] DOCTOR: Ah, three weeks ago, when she put the card in the window. Amy! I need to tell you something. She can hear me. But if she can hear me (There is a crack in the road. And back to ) [Maze of the Dead] DOCTOR 2: Good luck, everyone. Behave. Do not let that girl open her eyes. Amy, later. River, going to need your computer. DOCTOR: Amy, you need to start trusting me. It's never been more important. AMY: But you don't always tell me the truth. DOCTOR: If I always told you the truth, I wouldn't need you to trust me. AMY: Doctor, the crack in my wall. How can it be here? DOCTOR: I don't know yet but I'm working it out. Now, listen. Remember what I told you when you were seven? AMY: What did you tell me? DOCTOR: No. No, that's not the point. You have to remember. AMY: Remember what? Doctor? Doctor? [Amy's home] (And back to the start of the season.) DOCTOR: Amelia's house. When she was seven. The night she waited. [Outside Amy's home] (Little Amelia has fallen asleep outside, lying on her suitcase.) DOCTOR: The girl who waited. Come here, you. [Amy's bedroom] (He puts her to bed.) DOCTOR: It's funny. I thought if you could hear me, I could hang on somehow. Silly me. Silly old Doctor. When you wake up, you'll have a mum and dad, and you won't even remember me. Well, you'll remember me a little. I'll be a story in your head. But that's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well, I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back. Oh, that box. Amy, you'll dream about that box. It'll never leave you. Big and little at the same time. Brand new and ancient, and the bluest blue ever. And the times we had, eh? Would have had. Never had. In your dreams, they'll still be there. The Doctor and Amy Pond, and the days that never came. The cracks are closing. But they can't close properly until I'm on the other side. I don't belong here any more. I think I'll skip the rest of the rewind. I hate repeats. Live well. Love Rory. Bye bye, Pond. (The Doctor goes through the crack in the wall. It closes. Amelia wakes up, looks around and goes back to sleep while the stars twinkle in the sky. Grown up Amy is woken by the bright sunlight. She still has her Doctor doll on the chest of drawers and her wedding dress hanging on the open wardrobe door. A woman enters with a tray.) TABETHA: Morning! AMY: You're my mum. Oh, my God. You're my mum. TABETHA: Well, of course I'm your mum. What's the matter with you? And this is your breakfast, which your father made, so feel free to tip it out of the window if it's an atrocity. Downstairs, ten minutes? Big day! (Tabetha leaves.) AMY: Of course she's my mum. Why is that surprising? [Living room] AUGUSTUS: Ah, Amelia. I fear I may have been using the same joke book as the best man. AMY: You're my tiny little dad! TABETHA: Amelia, why are you behaving as if you've never seen us before? AMY: I don't know. It's just. [Rory's home] (Rory is cleaning his teeth and talking on the phone at the same time.) RORY: Hello! AMY [OC]: Do you feel like you've forgotten something really important? [Amy's bedroom] AMY: Do you feel like there's a great big thing in your head, and you feel like you should remember it, but you can't? [Rory's home] RORY: Yep. [Amy's bedroom] AMY: Are you just saying yes because you're scared of me? RORY [OC]: Yep. AMY: I love you. RORY [OC]: Yep. [Rory's home] RORY: Er, I mean, I love you too! [Wedding reception] MASTER OF CEREMONIES: Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, the father of the bride, Augustus Pond! AUGUSTUS: Sorry, everyone. I'll be another two minutes. I'm just reviewing certain aspects. TABETHA: Your father, Amelia, will be the absolute death of me. Unless, of course, I strike pre-emptively. (Amy sees River walking past the windows. She stands up.) RORY: Amy? You okay? AMY: Yeah, I'm fine. RORY: Right. Er, you're crying. AMY: So I am. Why am I doing that? RORY: Because you're happy, probably. Happy Mrs Rory. Happy, happy, happy. AMY: No, I'm sad. I'm really, really sad. RORY: Great. AMY: Why am I sad? What's that? RORY: Oh, er, someone left it for you. A woman. AMY: But what is it? RORY: It's a book. (It's a book with a Tardis design cover.) AMY: It's blank. RORY: It's a present. AMY: But why? RORY: Well, you know the old saying. The old wedding thing. Huh? Amy, what? Hey. AUGUSTUS: Ready now. Sorry about that. Last minute adjustments to certain aspects. Now then, it hardly seems a year since (Amy sees one of the guests wearing a bow tie, and another with braces. A tear falls onto the book.) AUGUSTUS: At the age of six and announced that the new head teacher wasn't real because she looked like a cartoon. AMY: Shut up, Dad! RORY: Amy? AUGUSTUS: Amelia? AMY: Sorry, but shut up, please. There's someone missing. Someone important. Someone so, so important. RORY: Amy, what's wrong? AMY: Sorry. Sorry, everyone. But when I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend. TABETHA: Oh no, not this again. AMY: The raggedy Doctor. My raggedy Doctor. But he wasn't imaginary, he was real. TABETHA: The psychiatrists we sent her to. AMY: I remember you. I remember! I brought the others back, I can bring you home, too. Raggedy man, I remember you, and you are late for my wedding! (The glasses start rattling, very gently.) AMY: I found you. I found you in words, like you knew I would. That's why you told me the story the brand new, ancient blue box. (A strong wind blows the balloons around.) AMY: Oh, clever. Very clever. RORY: Amy, what is it? AMY: Something old. Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue. (The Tardis materialises in the middle of the room.) RORY: It's the Doctor. How did we forget the Doctor? I was plastic. He was the stripper at my stag. Long story. (Amy knocks on the Tardis door.) AMY: Okay, Doctor. Did I surprise you this time?
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Thalia Pond {FULL SERIES}
FanfictionMy name is Thaliania, or, as I prefer to be called, Thalia. I don't know much about myself, but I dream about the Doctor. My mom was one of Amelia Pond's friends. Then she died, and Amelia, or Amy took me in. We were like sisters, and then her imagi...
