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I'm your new undercover agent, on loan from Scotland Yard,
code name The Doctor.
These are my top operatives. The Legs, The Nose and Mrs Robinson.
-I hate you. -No, you don't.
Doctor Who picks some pretty lucky
human beings as companions along the way.
And those people get to experience the universe
and get insight into how this Tardis works.
Shall we?
WATTS: Even through all the close calls, near deaths,
being scared out of their wits,
(SCREAMING)
they all pretty much agree that it's worth it.
I could not be more jealous of the companions.
Amy and Rory just get to live the best life ever.
Don't worry about a thing, Your Majesty, we're on our way.
The companion is basically someone that keeps the Doctor sane.
If you were the last of your kind
and you were roaming around the universe,
you would need someone to keep you sane.
Or at least to fire jokes off of.
Who da man?
Oh. I'm never saying that again.
The Doctor is not the kind of hero who you aspire to be.
The companions, typically, are people who you want to be or you want to date.
Oh.
ADAM ROGERS: And the best companions have been a mystery to the Doctor, too.
They seem like they're just ordinary humans,
but there's something else going on.
Who are you?
You're going to find out very soon now.
You've got a real time machine?
Not for much longer if I can't get her stabilised.
Five-minute hop into the future should do it.
Can I come?
Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes.
I'll be right back.
People always say that.
Am I people? Do I even look like people?
Trust me. I'm the Doctor.
The Doctor tells Amy that he's going to just jump five minutes in the future,
and you know as soon as those words come out of his mouth
that that's not going to happen.
And this little child, Amelia, sits down with her suitcase all ready
and packed up to go, and your heart breaks for her.
Poor Amy! I felt so bad, with her little suitcase. So cute.
I wanted him to show up so badly,
and she just keeps sitting there. It's really sad.
She really trusted him from the beginning,
and I think that's why she waited for him as long as she did.
She felt some sort of purpose with him.
She felt like she finally meant something, and she belonged somewhere.
Even from that first meeting, someone saw her for her potential,
at that young age, and nobody had done that.
When you're a kid, and something like that happens to you,
you hold on to things so tightly.
And then the guy, like, checks out for, uh, most of your life.
It's like, "You got me all excited here, dude, and then you left.
"And then I had to go back to playing with dolls."
ROGERS: Doctor disappears, "I'll be right back."
-Amelia! -ROGERS: And for him, he is right back.
But it's actually 10 years later or something, 12, something like that,
which has totally psychologically screwed Amy up.
Which is probably why she's so pissed at him the next time she sees him.
-Amelia Pond. You're the little girl. -I'm Amelia, and you're late.
-What happened? -Twelve years.
-You hit me with a cricket bat. -Twelve years.
-A cricket bat. -Twelve years and four psychiatrists.
-Four? -I kept biting them.
-Why? -They said you weren't real.
He burrows so far into her psyche
that he sort of mind-owns her from a very young age.
So, is this early evidence in their relationship of the kind of damage
that the Doctor can actually wreak on these poor companions?
But they go for it, like they want it.
They ask for it. They ask to go on the Tardis. Like, everybody volunteers.
There's a lovely moment where Amy pretty much saves everything
by convincing the android inventor of these World-War-II-era Daleks
that he actually has a heart, that he's more than just a machine.
Hey,
Paisley.
Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?
What?
Hurts, doesn't it?
But kind of a good hurt.
I really shouldn't talk about her.
Oh. There's a her.
I mean, that's a neat trick. If you can convince a robot that he's not a robot
just by reminding him of a girl he liked.
What was she like, Edwin?
Such a smile.
And her eyes...
Her eyes were so blue.
Almost violet.
Like the last touch of sunset
on the edge of the world.
(BEEPING)
Love conquers all. To an extent, it's just like, "Aww!
"Well, we just poured hugs on the bomb and it went away."
But that's kinda what happened!
They poured hugs on the bomb and it went away.
ROGERS: Amy's her own kind of superhero at a certain point.
She kind of becomes her own avatar of empathy,
in a way that the Doctor can't be
because he's either too much of a nerd or too much of a Time Lord.
But Amy can bring out these emotional responses
even from only slightly animate objects.
It was a really beautiful way to resolve the episode,
and it just goes back to the theme of Doctor Who as a show,
which is the idea of intellected romance over brute force and cynicism.
DOCTOR: Welcome to the human race.
If the Doctor decided to travel with a non-human companion,
what would you want it to be?
I think it'd be adorable if he went with an Ood.
Oods are good. Love an Ood. Hello, Ood!
Cybermen. Like, a half-Cyberman, half-human or something
would be really cool.
A blob. A big rock monster, perhaps.
Uh, something with antennas.
Like, a puppy. Yeah, definitely a puppy.
I think it'd be great if it was a Dalek.
-It wouldn't make any sense, but it'd be so cool -(LAUGHS)
-just to have him talk to a Dalek. -He's a Dalek fan.
They're just buddies.
I really haven't thought about that before, but I would just hope
they are very curious about everything, as much as the Doctor is.
She's here.
River is badass. She really is. I love that character.
The way she's introduced to the Doctor, where she sends him a message.
What does it say?
"Hello, sweetie!"
It's kind of great to send someone a message that way,
and it says, "Hello, sweetie." It doesn't say, "Come save me."
ALISTAIR: The party's over, Dr Song, yet still you're on board.
RIVER: Sorry, Alistair.
I needed to see what was in your vault.
Do you all know what's down there? Any of you?
Because I'll tell you something.
This ship won't reach its destination.
Wait till she runs. Don't make it look like an execution.
Triple-seven five, slash three-four-nine by ten.
Zero-twelve, slash acorn.
Oh, and I could do with an air corridor.
-What was that, what did she say? -Coordinates!
Like I said on the dance floor,
you might want to find something to hang on to!
(BEEPING RAPIDLY)
And she's just like, "Yeah, it's cool. I got it.
"I'm pressing this button, going out into space. Peace. I'm out."
It's fantastic.
She's mad clever, that River Song.
The Doctor essentially has no equal.
He has no one that keeps him in check.
She actually puts him in his place, which you never ever see.
So she has the same effect on him
that he has on everyone else, where she just shows up and says,
"Hey! This is how it is, and you're this person, and I can land the Tardis."
-Parked us right alongside. -Parked us? We haven't landed.
Of course we've landed. I just landed her.
But it didn't make the noise.
-What noise? -You know, the...
(IMITATES TARDIS WHOOSHING)
It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the brakes on.
Yeah, well, it's a brilliant noise. I love that noise.
Come along, Pond, let's have a look.
She's not just this companion like all of the others
who kind of followed him around like a little puppy dog
'cause they were just so excited to see the rest of the universe.
She's been there, she's done that, and she can face him eye to eye.
River is in many ways the Doctor's equal, certainly hair-wise.
It is the Clash of the Titans. They're an exciting hirsute couple.
River Song is one of the closest to being his equal,
but isn't, simply because she's not immortal.
And then she has a watch instead of a swimming pool.
They really are two sides of the same coin.
They are, therefore, in that way, connected.
I think the connection runs a lot deeper than we have yet discovered.
I kind of like that she's not what I would've expected.
He's really resourceful, and she's really good with guns.
My old fellow didn't see that, did he?
He gets ever so cross.
I like that she's more willing to just shoot somebody
and ask a question later,
like she's more reactive, more physical than the Doctor is.
Records indicate you will show mercy.
You are an associate of the Doctor's.
I'm River Song. Check your records again.
-Mercy. -Say it again?
-Mercy. -One more time.
Mercy!
She's dangerous.
And in a way, it's the dangerous companions
who are super-interesting when you pair them with the Doctor.
-Is this sensible? -God, I hope not.
I think that River knows enough about the Doctor that if she wanted to,
she could probably be the only person that could really hurt him.
-Can I trust you, River Song? -If you like.
(LAUGHING) But where's the fun in that?
Weeping Angels. Terrifying.
You know, there's just something so compelling about the angels, especially.
As a monster, that they can get inside you.
It can live inside your eye, if you look at it for too long.
It's just that creeping dread of being surrounded by
something that you can't defeat.
Okay, Bob, enough chat. Here's what I wanna know. What have you done to my Amy?
BOB: There's something in her eye.
-What's in her eye? -We are.
What's he talking about?
Doctor, I'm five.
Uh, I mean, five.
Fine! I'm fine.
You're counting.
-Counting? -You're counting down from 10.
You have been for a couple of minutes.
-Why? -I don't know.
-Well, counting down to what? -I don't know.
I'm a pretty smart viewer, and so, I can...
I'm usually ahead of things. (LAUGHS)
Uh, and this, I didn't know what she was counting down to.
Why are they making her count?
BOB: To make her afraid, sir.
Okay, but why? What for?
For fun, sir.
I love Amy. Well, mostly because she's Scottish.
But she has this fantastic attitude to just roll with everything.
That's part of what makes this... The show work.
You've got this otherworldly stuff,
and then you've got these ordinary people,
and you put yourself there, and you imagine how you would react to what you would do
and how you would get out of the situation.
How would I react if there was a Weeping Angel projection locked inside my eye,
slash mind?
Then I got to freak the (BLEEP) out.
You ever seen a big guy screaming and yelling when he's out there, terrified?
That would've probably been me.
DOCTOR: Amy, listen to me. This is going to be hard, but I know...
You can do it.
All you've got to do is walk like you can see.
Just don't open your eyes.
-(BLEEPS) -Walk like you can see.
The scene where Amy is walking through the forest with her eyes closed
shows that she trusts the Doctor more than she trusts herself, probably.
Because she's doing something that is instinctually the wrong thing to do.
Essentially, Amy gets put in a minefield,
except, instead of having to be told where to walk, 'cause it'll blow up,
she has to keep her eyes closed, but not look like she has her eyes closed, right.
Fly casual.
How great is it to have to keep your eyes closed
when you know these terrifying things are all around you?
I just thought that was fantastic television. I loved it.
The Tardis has a pool,
where there are other weird rooms or objects you think are hiding there.
Definitely a game room.
Squash court.
A beach.
-There's a garden. -There's definitely a garden.
I think he has a candy store.
I hope there's a trampoline room,
with, like, Velcro all over the walls.
He probably has a cool kitchen, too.
I like to imagine that he also would have a bowling alley.
I think the Doctor would be a bowler.
What would you do with your own Tardis?
Go everywhere.
Go back to 1977, see the Sex Pistols,
The Clash, and then see The Ramones all at once.
I would probably travel back to 1989 to stop Doctor Who from going on the hiatus.
I would go back to the dinosaurs.
-Oh, yeah. -I don't know why they've never done that episode.
Because, seriously, why would you not go back to the dinosaur era?
I would do that, plus pop open as many photographs of popular history as I could.
I would certainly never go back to my boring job.
ALL: Out! Out! Out!
Rory!
That's a relief. Thought I'd burst out of the wrong cake.
Again. That reminds me, there's a girl standing outside in a bikini.
Could someone let her in and give her a jumper?
Lucy. Lovely girl. Diabetic.
Now, then. Rory.
We need to talk about your fiancee.
She tried to kiss me.
There is frequently tension between Rory and the Doctor,
I think because it appears to Rory that
Amy has feelings for the Doctor, which frequently is the case.
That's probably enough hugging now.
'Cause let's be honest, Amy is a handful.
She's really crappy to Rory in the beginning, and he takes it.
'Cause he loves her.
We're still together in 10 years.
No need to sound so surprised.
'Cause I'll tell you, most people, certainly me,
like, growing up nerdy the way I did,
I want to be the Doctor, but I'm probably Rory.
And so, when she blows him off, you're kinda like,
"Hey! Why are you so much like my high school was?"
And so, you start to get bitter at Amy, and like,
"He's right there! I'm right here, Amy, what do you need?"
To feel like you're a third wheel in your own marriage,
that can't be pleasant.
I know I've made a lot of people feel that way,
and I apologise here and now.
It took this show to make me understand I was hurting people's feelings.
Rory has every reason to be jealous, because who wouldn't be jealous
if your chick just took off with the coolest guy in the universe?
You can equate the Tardis to a high-end sports car.
That he just basically pulled up in front of your woman's house,
picked her up, and took her to Milan for the weekend.
Of course I'll be intimidated.
He's the Doctor, and I'm a nurse.
My profession is a nurse.
I don't think he's jealous of the Doctor,
I think he's wary of the Doctor.
He's called the Doctor out on several occasions.
You know what's dangerous about you?
It's not that you make people take risks,
it's that you make them want to impress you.
You make it so they don't want to let you down.
You have no idea how dangerous
you make people to themselves when you're around.
I don't know if that's necessarily the Doctor's fault.
It's not like the Doctor tries to be as amazing and brilliant as he is.
He just is.
The distraction of the Doctor in her life makes you think that
she's just going to dump Rory, what has he got for her?
But you come to realise that she cares for Rory more than the Doctor.
AMY: I love you. I know you think it's him.
I know you think it ought to be him, but it's not. It's you.
They always throw those kinda red herrings in where you don't...
When she's saying, "I love you,"
you don't know if she's talking to the Doctor or Rory,
and I think it's really great that they do reveal, like,
"Oh, no, it is Rory that she loves."
-Thanks. -You're welcome.
I think there are a lot of people who would not choose Rory over the Doctor.
Until you realise that he's an alien
and probably can't love you the way that Rory can.
Rory can love you.
-Doctor, what is going on? -Is this because of you?
Is this some Time Lordy thing because you've shown up again?
Listen to me. Trust nothing.
From now on, trust nothing you see, hear or feel.
But we're awake now.
You thought you were awake on the Tardis, too.
-But we're home. -Yeah. You're home.
You're also dreaming. Trouble is, Rory, Amy, which is which?
Are we flashing forwards or backwards?
Hold on tight.
This is going to be a tricky one.
The Dream Lord was somebody who was forcing the Doctor and Rory
and Amy to live either in some idyllic village
later in their lives together or back on the Tardis.
The fun of the episode is to see what life is going to be like, potentially,
for Rory and Amy, and to have Amy have to make some decisions
about what she believes in and how much she loves Rory,
and the kind of love triangle that Amy and Rory
and the Doctor have, but don't have.
She's kind of torn between hanging with Rory
or travelling in space with the Doctor.
But I know where your heart lies, don't I, Amy Pond?
Shut up! Just shut up and leave me alone.
Honestly, I didn't know Amy cared that much about Rory.
I think that the reality of the situation was when Rory jumped
in front of the acid spewing old lady
and saved her,
that let her know how much she really cared for him.
AMY: No!
No!
Come back.
Save him. You save everyone. You always do. It's what you do.
I think that scene is good for the audience.
I mean, we really know how she feels about him.
How much she feels for him.
-This is a dream. -How do you know?
Because if this is real life, I don't want it. Don't want it.
Amy makes her choice about which is the real world
based on which world has Rory in it. Which is super-romantic.
Also maybe not the basis I want somebody to choose which universe is real
and which one is going to get destroyed,
because if I'm in the one that Rory isn't there,
I might have a, you know...
'Cause I... Not turned into powder.
Be very sure, this could be the real world.
It can't be. Rory isn't here.
I didn't know. I didn't, I didn't, I honestly didn't till right now.
I just want him.
She makes a decision like the Doctor makes decisions, right?
Like, hmm, okay, blow up this planet or destroy that race.
You know, it's like,
huge stakes based on an emotional reason rather than a rational one.
After seeing the universe with the Doctor, would you have married Rory?
-No. -No. Honestly, no.
He's not really my type.
Yes. I love Rory!
Rory is so cute, and he's sweet.
He'd have waited for Amy for 2,000 years. I mean, that's pretty neat.
Let's face it. The Doctor is not exactly good, you know, relationship material.
It's a really messed-up moment when
Rory basically gets vanished from existence.
Amy, move away now.
No! I am not leaving him! We have to help him!
The light's already around him, we can't help him.
-I am not leaving him! -We have to.
-No! -I'm sorry.
-Get off me! -I'm sorry!
Get off me!
Most of the time you see the Doctor will do whatever he can to save someone.
And this is one of those times where he literally has to drag her away
and say, like, "He's gone."
Could he have done more for that? No.
There was nothing to be done. That's when things fail for him,
is when there's nothing left to be done.
If his body's absorbed, I'll forget him. He'll never have existed.
You can't let that happen.
The fabric of space-time is being re-knitted without Rory in it.
But the Doctor essentially tries to will Amy to remember him anyway.
Keep him in your mind. Don't forget him.
If you forget him, you'll lose him forever.
No way. On the Byzantium, I still remembered the Clerics
because I am a time traveller, now you said.
They weren't part of your world.
This is different. This is your own history changing.
Tell me it's going to be okay. You have to make it okay!
It's going to be hard, but you can do it, Amy.
He's trying to get Amy to remember Rory,
even though the universe doesn't want her to,
that there's something about how much she loves him that can defeat even that.
Rory's only alive in your memory. You must keep hold of him.
Don't let anything distract you.
Rory still lives in your mind.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
What were you saying?
It's such a kick in your heart when she's sobbing and, like,
"Oh, my God, I just lost the guy I love.
"I just lost the guy that meant everything to me."
And then a second later, she's like, "What are we doing?"
And then it's gone. And then he is...
And this force that we all loved just is gone from her life.
The Doctor knows that Rory existed and she doesn't.
But she feels it still and she's sad still, and doesn't know why.
I think it's an amazing, amazing idea.
There are certain people that are in your life that hurt you
or are a painful experience, and many times you wish to erase them.
I think I'd rather remember someone I loved,
rather than just have them wiped out of my memory after something tragic.
Amy doesn't have the choice,
so she just is living blithely without him.
She doesn't remember me.
But how could she not remember me?
Because you never existed.
Rory's sad. A lot of bad things happen to Rory.
Rory has to go through a lot of crap. It's terrible.
Rory keeps dying.
-(SCREAMING) -Rory!
Rory really kind of became the South Park Kenny of Doctor Who.
(SCREAMING) No! No!
I think Moffat takes, like, a mad, sick pleasure in, like,
"How can I torture Rory this week?"
(GROANS)
DOCTOR: He can't breathe. Turn it back on.
What's so great is that Rory just has this indomitable spirit.
Whatever you do to him, he will constantly prevail
because his spirit is unconquerable.
You're new here, aren't you?
-First day. -Then I'm very sorry.
River Song is pretty... She's a pretty cool customer.
She breaks out of prison, she's gotten very good at it,
kisses a dude with some hallucinogenic lipstick on.
She's wearing it, not him, although now some of it is on him,
because of the kiss. I don't have to explain lipstick to you.
I think there may have been women I've dated
who had some hallucinogenic lipstick,
because I'm not sure I would've kissed all of them.
Here's the thing. If you put it on, doesn't it affect you?
I would totally buy that. That would be awesome!
And it would probably be a really cool colour. I'd like it.
She had the lipstick. The hallucinogenic lipstick.
She tried to use it on me.
Your tricks don't work in here, Dr Song.
Storm Cage, pretty impenetrable.
River Song has penetrated it outwardly.
If they can't hold her there,
I don't know if there's a prison built that can hold her.
River's kind of like Hogan's Heroes.
She stays there 'cause she wants to. She'll stay there out of respect
for whatever crime she's committed,
but she'll jump out any time she needs to.
She's willing to sacrifice her freedom
to help the Doctor, to be on his side always.
Even if it means doing things that are kind of shady.
She bends the rules. Ah, she flat-out breaks them, I think.
(GASPS)
This is the Royal collection. And I'm the bloody Queen.
I'll tell you what. That's not going to take time away from her sentence.
It's about the Doctor, Ma'am.
You met him once, didn't you? I know he came here.
-The Doctor? -He's in trouble.
I need to find him.
-Then why are you stealing a painting? -Look at it.
I need to find the Doctor, and I need to show him this.
And then she's Cleopatra for a little while.
Why not, River? Let's do it. Why not?
You know that person existed, let's have some power.
Hello, sweetie.
Now, the question is, was she Cleopatra?
Was River Song Cleopatra? Really?
Or did she just convince people that she was?
Or did she, like, throw Cleopatra in a closet and put on a wig
and sit on her throne? What happened? I wonder. But it is kind of awesome.
-DOCTOR: What's this? -It's a painting.
Your friend Vincent.
One of his final works.
He had visions, didn't he? I thought you ought to know about this one.
Doctor? Doctor, what is this?
So far, it appears that a young River song killed the Doctor.
As her parents, how do you think Amy and Rory should punish her?
Oh, she's so grounded.
-No more 1960s astronaut suits for you, young lady. -(CHUCKLES)
Put her in the Pandorica.
Put her in a room, and then keep moving the room around in the Tardis.
Exactly.
Like, can't really send River Song to her room, 'cause she kind of escaped.
No fish custard.
No fish custard for her.
If River went rogue, do you think the Doctor could stop her?
No. River is totally badass. She's got it all. (LAUGHS)
It would almost be a toss-up,
but I think, in the end, I'd give the Doctor a slight advantage.
She'd give him a heck of a run for his money, but I think he could stop her.
-"Would he stop her?" is the question. -Yeah.
I think he'd get to the point, like out-stopping her
and then wouldn't be able to follow through with it.
I would like to see that, actually. It'd be kind of cool.
Your girlfriend isn't more important than the whole universe.
She is to me!
Centurion Rory. Anybody in a Roman soldier outfit is really hot.
I dig it. The skirt, the pleats,
the probably no underwear. It's fantastic.
-Whoa, whoa, what are you doing? -I'm saving her.
This box is the ultimate prison. You can't even escape by dying.
-It forces you to stay alive. -But she's already dead.
Well, she's mostly dead. The Pandorica can stasis-lock her that way.
Now, all it needs now is a scan of her living DNA and it'll restore her.
Where's it going to get that?
In about 2,000 years.
So, Rory decides to make a big change in his life.
And he is going to stand guard over Amy for thousands of years
as a sort of Centurion, or a Cent-Roryan, if you will.
(CHUCKLES) I wouldn't blame you if you didn't
and I'm sorry that I said that.
This box needs a guard. I killed the last one.
Two thousand years, Rory. You won't even sleep.
You'd be conscious every second. It would drive you mad.
Will she be safer if I stay?
Look me in the eye and tell me she wouldn't be safer.
-(SIGHING) Rory, you... -Answer me!
Yes. Obviously.
-Then how could I leave her? -(SCOFFS)
Why do you have to be so...
human?
Because right now, I'm not.
He has a plastic body, but it's still Rory's mind.
And the idea that he sits and waits for her
like a puppy, no sleep...
That kept me awake for a week, bending my mind, like,
every moment, you're just there. And all you have to do is wait.
No one's going to bring you an iPhone to play Angry Birds.
You are stuck in front of that box for a thousand years
because that's how much you love this girl.
I don't know. Me, personally, I might've been like,
"400 years? Maybe I'll date."
I think waiting that long for somebody is a little cra-cra. (LAUGHING)
I mean, 2,000 years go by, and how do you know
what's actually going to come out the other end?
That's when you're really, really setting yourself up for disappointment.
Okay, kid. This is where it gets complicated.
If my wife was locked in an alien box,
I would probably wait forever for her,
'cause it feels like I wait forever for her every time we go out!
(CHUCKLING) Score!
MAN ON TV: According to legend, wherever the Pandorica was taken
throughout its long history,
the Centurion would be there, guarding it.
-His last recorded appearance... -(SIRENS BLARING ON VIDEO)
...was during the London blitz in 1941.
There are eyewitness accounts from the night of the fire
of a figure in Roman dress carrying the box from the flames.
Since then, there have been no sightings of the lone Centurion.
And many have speculated that if he ever existed,
he perished in the fires of that night,
performing one last act of devotion
to the box he had pledged to protect for nearly 2,000 years.
Rory... Oh, Rory.
I think Rory's had the broadest arc of any character,
maybe in the show's history,
where he just goes from comic relief to genuine hero.
And that all comes out of his love for Amy.
DALEK: Scans indicate intruder alert!
Do you think?
(SHOOTING)
He's an embodiment of absolute loyalty.
He would sacrifice anything, and do anything, and has proved it
time after time after time.
In a way, the story... The last couple of seasons' worth of story
becomes the story of their relationship, and his maturity.
So there's this great metaphor here of Rory finally stepping up
and not just being a... Like, chasing around, following Amy,
shrieking and fighting fish vampires with a broom
or whatever kind of silliness he engages in
in the early part of the season. Right?
He becomes every bit her equal and the Doctor's equal.
(SHRIEKING)
-Canton. -Miss Pond.
-Is that a body bag? -CANTON: Yes, it is.
-It's empty. -How about that?
We see Canton, this guy we've come to know and like,
we see him *** River, we see him *** Amy,
we see him *** Rory.
And then I think, "I actually started to like that dude.
"And then he murdered all of my friends." My TV friends.
I think one of the reasons they might've picked me for the role
is my propensity to play bad guys.
So I think nobody was particularly surprised when I started killing people.
"Ah! You see? I knew he was going to turn out to be somebody awful!"
-What are you waiting for? -CANTON: I'm waiting for you to run.
It'd look better if I shot you while you were running.
Then again, looks aren't everything.
(GUNSHOT ECHOING)
You know he's not really killing the companions.
There's no Doctor Who universe where you sit there and go, like,
"I guess that's it for Amy and Rory. Maybe Canton will be the new companion."
You're pretty sure that's not happening. But trying to understand
what's actually going on is the fun. It becomes a puzzle show.
We're like, "How the heck are they going to get out of that one?"
Oh! Finally!
It's amazing the extent that they had to go to in order to make that work.
You're coming with us, Dr Song.
There's no way out this time.
There's always a way out.
(SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE)
If your back is against the wall, and you know you're going to be murdered
by the agents of the White House,
make sure you fall out of a very high building
and just do a very graceful sort of reverse swan-dive.
It was absolutely lovely.
-Absolutely lovely. -(SPLASHING)
River.
Who are you?
You're going to find out very soon now.
And I'm sorry.
But that's when everything changes.
The relationship which fascinates me at this point in the series
is the Doctor and River.
It's one of the saddest things I've ever seen.
You, me,
-handcuffs. -(BEEPING)
Must it always end this way?
She's truly moving in one direction and he's moving in the other.
The Doctor's first kiss with River is River's last kiss with the Doctor.
But you and I, we-we-we...
-Yes. -(GIGGLING)
His first adventure with her is her last adventure with him.
Forget about star-crossed lovers, they're time-crossed lovers.
Every time we meet, I know him more, he knows me less.
I live for the days when I see him.
But I know that every time I do,
he'll be one step further away.
The day's coming when I'll look into that man's eyes,
my Doctor,
and he won't have the faintest idea who I am.
Romance, or amour, is tough.
But even if you are both time travellers
and you're going in opposite directions in the time stream,
I think you have to stop and you have to say, "Hey, how was your day?
"And also, who are you again?"
Right. Okay.
Interesting.
What's wrong? You're acting like we've never done that before.
We haven't.
-We haven't? -Oh, look at the time, must be off.
But it was very nice. It was... It was good.
It was unexpected.
You know what they say, there's a first time for everything.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
And a last time.
The first time and the last time.
That's such a great line, I love that. It's so bittersweet.
I think it's a really interesting way to look at life and time.
ROGERS: Her relationship with him will only get sadder and sadder,
but on the flipside, the Doctor knows, and by the end of the season,
has understood enough of this to know he'll always have more.
-Hello. -Hello.
They end up being very existential about it, I suppose.
In whatever moment they have together, they're in that moment together.
And then they split off.
It's as though everything they do, every interaction they have,
is a total of everything they've ever done.
I think it's the most amazing story, certainly,
in this incarnation of her.
Doctor,
I'm pregnant.
Boy! This show certainly throws some things at you, huh?
-(CRYING OUT IN PAIN) -Whoa!
-(GASPING) Whoa! Whoa! -What's wrong with her?
Get her into the Tardis.
I would love to have been in the room
when Karen got that script and went, "Oh, so I'm giving birth this episode,
"when I haven't been pregnant this whole time? That's awesome."
If I was pregnant for some of it, wouldn't it have had an effect?
Because I don't want to tell Rory this baby might have three heads
-or like a time head or something. -(EXHALES)
-What's a time head? -I don't know, but what if it had one?
I loved her explanation of like, "What if it has two heads,
"with all this time-travelling I'm doing."
I mean, it's a very interesting human mother-like response.
They refer to the baby as a "time head".
Now, I don't know if that's a derogatory term.
-(LAUGHS) A time head? -Shut up, all right?
I don't know if it's going to be some baby born with a clock for a head!
That would be kind of cheap, I think.
I think that's more of a first-draft idea.
I have no idea what a time head is. It sounds gross.
I'm just glad about Amy's pregnancy, that the Doctor wasn't the father.
'Cause that was creepy, when they were talking about that. That was weird.
Now, I have a question, a simple one. Is Melody human?
Sorry, what? (CHUCKLING AWKWARDLY) Of course she is.
Completely human. What are you talking about?
MORALES: They made it seem like it might be the Doctor,
because she was pregnant and she wasn't pregnant on that little thing
that kept going back and forth and you were like,
"Oh, does that mean it's a weird baby, does that mean it's a weird time baby?"
Positive, negative, positive... Ahhh!
Freaking out. The pictures freak me out, everything freaks me out in that.
It's...nail-biting.
What does it mean, what doesn't it mean? Whose is it?
I mean, we were led down that path for a while.
-What is happening to her? -Contractions.
-Contractions? -She's going into labour.
Did he say... No, no, no. Of course he didn't.
Rory, I'm... I don't like this. Ow!
You're going to have to start explaining some of this to me, Doctor.
What? The birds and the bees? She's having a baby.
I needed to see the Flesh in its early days. That's why I scanned it.
That's why we were there in the first place.
I was going to drop you off for fish and chips first
but things happened and there was stuff and shenanigans.
It's plain when you look at Amy that she's not pregnant.
And then she goes into labour.
We're coming for you, I swear.
Whatever happens, however hard, however far, we will find you.
I'm right here.
No, you're not. You haven't been here for a long, long time.
-(GASPING) -Oh, no.
(BLEEPING)
(GASPS)
Well, dear, you're ready to pop, aren't you?
Little one's on its way.
MORALES: And that obviously adds stakes to the whole thing.
She's been hiding having a baby,
and this is just some weird projection of her.
Wait, so all these episodes, that was not real Amy?
And real Amy was pregnant, being held in a chamber somewhere?
And we don't know...
We just don't know anything that's real any more.
We don't know anything that's real. It makes you question
the reality of the thing you thought you knew about the show.
-Here it comes. -(AMY WHIMPERING)
Push!
(SCREAMS)
To redefine the canon, where you have to go back
and rethink and rewatch all those episodes again and go,
"Oh, yes! Did they plant this on purpose here or am I just...
"Now, because of what I know, is this just a happy accident?"
I tend to think that Moffat planned almost everything.
Be honest. If you were a companion,
how long do you think you'd survive with the Doctor before you were killed?
-Half an episode. -Not very long.
Five minutes.
-Twenty-seven seconds. -(LAUGHING)
A week.
Yeah, a week. But I'd come back like Rory.
Till I die, when I'm old.
I can run pretty fast, so I think I would a while.
Really, that's all it is. It's how fast you can run.
Right now, I'm pretty horrifically out of shape,
so probably about an hour and a half.
But when I get in better shape, I'm sticking with him till the end.
AMY: I wish I could tell you that you'll be loved,
that you'll be safe and cared for, and protected.
But this isn't a time for lies.
What you are going to be, Melody,
is very, very brave.
-Two minutes. -But not as brave
as they'll have to be, because there's someone coming.
I don't know where he is or what he's doing,
but trust me, he's on his way.
So Amy's talking to her baby, and she's saying,
"This great warrior is coming. He's going to save everything.
"Don't you worry, he's been around for thousands of years.
"He's very fierce and determined, and wonderful,"
and you think she's talking about the Doctor.
Oh, guess what? You forgot that she's married to a Centurion,
who's also been around for thousands of years
and also is very brave and blah, blah, blah...
But also, you're a baby, you don't understand a word I'm saying.
Oh! I might as well be talking to the wall.
I think that trick is pulled over us a lot on this show. (LAUGHING)
And I knew she was talking about Rory the whole time.
Oh, God, I was going to be cool.
(SOBBING) I wanted to be cool. Look at me.
You're okay. A crying Roman with a baby, definitely cool.
I love that she sees Rory as her protector, because he is.
He obviously proved that.
It's your daughter's name in the language of the forest.
I know my daughter's name.
Except they don't have a word for "pond"
because the only water in the forest is the river.
The Doctor will find your daughter.
And he will care for her, whatever it takes.
And I know that.
It's me.
I'm Melody.
I'm your daughter.
You would think the revelation that River is Amy and Rory's daughter
would just answer every single question that you had.
And yet, it turns out it elicits even further questions.
I knew some people who watched the show, and were like, "I knew it!"
You didn't know it. Stop lying. Yeah, I'm saying it on television.
Stop lying, friends of mine. You know who you are.
I'm fascinated to see what the second half of six does,
because I think the series has taken another massive leap.
Okay, Doctor, did I surprise you this time?
I think Amy and Rory and River
are really great this season. I like Amy especially,
because I enjoy how she stands up to the Doctor and is feisty about everything.
This is my life now. And it just turned you white as a sheet.
So, don't you call it dull again. Ever. Okay?
-Sorry. -Yeah.
MORALES: I think she makes a great partner to the Doctor.
They all do, actually. It's all kind of a good mix of people
and characters and personalities.
-Nice hat. -I wear a Stetson now.
-Stetsons are cool. -(GUNSHOT)
Hello, sweetie.
The companions are a very special, special breed,
I mean, who gets to tag along with the Doctor is a wonderful thing.
We want to be just as excited and interested
in the companion as we do about the Doctor.
You're a time traveller now, Amy. It changes the way you see the universe.
They've been good. They've been really, really good.
Yeah, I kind of creamed it, didn't I?
I guess I'm a bit of a companion, 'cause I've travelled.
I've been told if you've actually time-travelled on the Tardis,
then you are, in fact, a companion.
-It's bigger on the inside. -Yeah, you get used to it.
I think that's the requirement. I think that is the requirement.
I would maybe travel with the Doctor. It does seem like a lot of fun.
And I would also get to meet so many people
that I would probably not meet in New York.
I have gene-spliced myself for all nursing duties.
I can produce magnificent quantities of lactic fluid.
You know, there's a lot of weirdos in New York,
but how many of them can put on the skin of another person?
Time travel. Let's face it, we all want to do that, right?
Our lives are miserable, and we don't like the people around us.
I don't know why you put up with me.
I would jump at the opportunity to go. The unknown,
to go someplace you've never been before,
to see planets and things that you've never seen,
I would definitely go.
It's wonderful and heart-breaking, and, like, you would do it, too.
We are in space! Whoo!
You would say to yourself, "I'm going to spend
"as much time as I can with this guy
"because he'll always be able to return me to the exact time that I left.
"Nobody will ever notice I was gone.
"Won't mean a thing." And it's never true.
-Are you from another planet? -Yeah.
-Okay. -So what do you think?
-What? -Other planets, want to check some out?
-What does that mean? -It means, well...
It means come with me.
-Where? -Wherever you like.