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Meanwhile, something is screwy with the TARDIS. As the Doctor tinkers with its controls, sparks fly from the console. The Doctor tells Amy and Rory to go ahead while he tries to fix things. Upon exiting the TARDIS the Ponds find themselves falling, realizing the phone box is somehow parked at a ninety degree angle and perhaps a meter off the floor. The Doctor agrees that parking sideways was a bit odd. | Meanwhile, something is screwy with the TARDIS. As the Doctor tinkers with its controls, sparks fly from the console. The Doctor tells Amy and Rory to go ahead while he tries to fix things. Upon exiting the TARDIS the Ponds find themselves falling, realizing the phone box is somehow parked at a ninety degree angle and perhaps a meter off the floor. The Doctor agrees that parking sideways was a bit odd. | ||
The scene shifts back to Lady Christina and Captain Vorch. The captain is still flirting, but Lady Christina manages to get him to explain that the ship's shields are powered by the largest diamond in the galaxy, a jewel plucked from the center of the red giant the ship is approaching. In fact, it seems that the extraction process is responsible for causing the star to die and dooming the Ashayan homeworld. "The price we pay for progress," says Vorch. "So much easier when someone else pays," Lady Christina replies, a look of disdain on her face. The two walk by Amy and Rory, who are shocked to | The scene shifts back to Lady Christina and Captain Vorch. The captain is still flirting, but Lady Christina manages to get him to explain that the ship's shields are powered by the largest diamond in the galaxy, a jewel plucked from the center of the red giant the ship is approaching. In fact, it seems that the extraction process is responsible for causing the star to die and dooming the Ashayan homeworld. "The price we pay for progress," says Vorch. "So much easier when someone else pays," Lady Christina replies, a look of disdain on her face. The two walk by Amy and Rory, who are shocked to realise she is the same woman they had seen at the airport on Earth not long (in their timelines) before. With Christina out of sight, the Doctor interrupts the Ponds to give them the quick version of the mysterious woman's backstory: she is a thief, billionaire, socialite, and bus driver who he had last seen on the run from [[U.N.I.T.]] Amy tells him they saw her in Majorca, where she had announced her intention of going to Utah. "Of course," says the Doctor to himself. "The vault. Christina, you sly fox." | ||
Meanwhile, Neko silently observes three Ashayans conspiring in a dark corridor. Two bald Ashayans urge X.O. to consider helping them with their plan, which the first mate describes as mutiny and terrorism. X.O. refuses to listen to any more of their plan, but declines to alert his superiors to their scheme. "Sooner or later, sir, you're going to have to pick a side," one of the conspirators warns him. "You either stand with the oppressors... or with the goddess." Neko runs back to Lady Christina's quarters, complaining that her perfume makes the room smell like "a [[Betelgeuse|Betelgeusian]] bordello." Neko warns Lady Christina that the Ashayan crew is plotting something; Christina says she will have to keep them occupied somehow, but before she can elaborate, Captain Vorch walks in. She shoots him in the face with a [[neural pacifier]] and informs him that they are going to set the controls of the ship for the heart of the sun. | Meanwhile, Neko silently observes three Ashayans conspiring in a dark corridor. Two bald Ashayans urge X.O. to consider helping them with their plan, which the first mate describes as mutiny and terrorism. X.O. refuses to listen to any more of their plan, but declines to alert his superiors to their scheme. "Sooner or later, sir, you're going to have to pick a side," one of the conspirators warns him. "You either stand with the oppressors... or with the goddess." Neko runs back to Lady Christina's quarters, complaining that her perfume makes the room smell like "a [[Betelgeuse|Betelgeusian]] bordello." Neko warns Lady Christina that the Ashayan crew is plotting something; Christina says she will have to keep them occupied somehow, but before she can elaborate, Captain Vorch walks in. She shoots him in the face with a [[neural pacifier]] and informs him that they are going to set the controls of the ship for the heart of the sun. | ||
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Amy, despite the grumblings of her skeptical husband, bangs frantically at the TARDIS doors, shouting for the Doctor. An Ashayan, alerted by all the noise she's making, comes to see what the problem is, and Amy tells him that someone is trying to steal the diamond. The Ashayan, who was plotting to steal the diamond himself, brandishes a stun ray and forces the Ponds into a service elevator. As they march, the Ashayan explains his people's backstory in great detail, including how the Vodirans plucked out the "eye of Goddess," causing their sun to sicken and condemning their race to death or enslavement. He mistakes Amy and Rory for Vodirans themselves, who resemble [[human]]s much more than his own squat, egg-shaped species. But the Ashayan's attempt to make the alleged Vodirans understand his people's plight through by beholding the glory of the goddess's eye directly is foiled when they find the diamond already missing. Oh, there it is: the Doctor's got it. | Amy, despite the grumblings of her skeptical husband, bangs frantically at the TARDIS doors, shouting for the Doctor. An Ashayan, alerted by all the noise she's making, comes to see what the problem is, and Amy tells him that someone is trying to steal the diamond. The Ashayan, who was plotting to steal the diamond himself, brandishes a stun ray and forces the Ponds into a service elevator. As they march, the Ashayan explains his people's backstory in great detail, including how the Vodirans plucked out the "eye of Goddess," causing their sun to sicken and condemning their race to death or enslavement. He mistakes Amy and Rory for Vodirans themselves, who resemble [[human]]s much more than his own squat, egg-shaped species. But the Ashayan's attempt to make the alleged Vodirans understand his people's plight through by beholding the glory of the goddess's eye directly is foiled when they find the diamond already missing. Oh, there it is: the Doctor's got it. | ||
The Doctor intends to fix the TARDIS by using the diamond to sift the data of [[the Matrix]], which has apparently survived the destruction of [[Gallifrey]] in some form (Stored in the TARDIS? Still in his head after ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]''?). The Doctor disarms the Ashayan using his screwdriver's explode-stungun setting, but his plans to make use of the diamond are derailed when an alarm alerts everyone that they're (thanks to Christina's override) hurtling into the heart of the sun and (thanks to the Doctor stealing the diamond) the shields won't even work. While most of the passengers are escaping in life pods, Christina upbraids the Doctor for ruining her plan and nearly getting them all killed. It's only then that the Doctor | The Doctor intends to fix the TARDIS by using the diamond to sift the data of [[the Matrix]], which has apparently survived the destruction of [[Gallifrey]] in some form (Stored in the TARDIS? Still in his head after ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]''?). The Doctor disarms the Ashayan using his screwdriver's explode-stungun setting, but his plans to make use of the diamond are derailed when an alarm alerts everyone that they're (thanks to Christina's override) hurtling into the heart of the sun and (thanks to the Doctor stealing the diamond) the shields won't even work. While most of the passengers are escaping in life pods, Christina upbraids the Doctor for ruining her plan and nearly getting them all killed. It's only then that the Doctor realises Christina was there not to steal the diamond, but to return it to the star and save the Ashayan civilization. Together they do that and clouds of hydrogen gas are drawn into the red giant, reigniting it. The Ashayans celebrate the fact that they have a home again and drive the Vodirans off their planet. Amy, listening to them, comments that home sounds pretty good. The Doctor, for his part, says that without the diamond he's going to have to put off fixing the TARDIS; the immediate priority is to get off the ship before he has to explain things to the crew. He invites Christina to come along with him, saying he might have misjudged her the first time they met. She answers that maybe something of the Doctor rubbed off on her, but rejects his offer. "I'm nobody's passenger," she says. "Be good." | ||
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