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{{Infobox Story

|name = {{StoryTitle}}

|image =  

|enemy = [[Yuri Azarov]], the [[Mavora]], [[Sergal]]  

|setting = [[Prague]], [[1989]]

|writer = [[Scott Gray]]

|editor = [[Tom Spilsbury]]<br />[[Peter Ware]]

|publication = ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 451|451]] - [[DWM 454|454]]

|release date = [[30 August (releases)|30 August]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]]

|format = Comic - 4 parts

}}

'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic story featuring the [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]. It marked the first appearance of the Lake family, who would return in the 50th anniversary comic strip special, ''[[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]''. Even though they would appear in the following story, this strip was the final story to feature Amy and Rory travelling with the Doctor.

[[Prague]], [[1989]]: [[Patrick Lake]] and his family are desperate to return to London, but Patrick is hiding a dark secret from his wife - he is a British [[spy]] working undercover to bring down [[Yuri Azarov]], a man whose rise to power leaves devastation for all. Patrick finds an ally in a traveller called the Doctor, a man whose name echoes throughout history, according to Patrick's associate [[Hugo Wilding]]. But the Doctor's attempt to discover the truth leaves Patrick's family - and Rory - at the mercy of Yuri and his sinister, inhuman, sidekick...

=== Part One: The Broken Man ===

''To be added''

=== Part Two: From Russia With Hate ===

''To be added''

=== Part Three: The Sorrows of Prague ===

''To be added''

=== Part Four: The Sacrifice ===

''To be added''

* [[Ambassador]] [[Golovkin]]

* [[Sergal]]

== References ==

* When talking about [[London]], [[Heather Lake]] mentions ''[[Coronation Street]]'', [[Hyde Park]], [[fish]] and [[chip]]s and [[Woolworths]] shops.

* Rory was born in [[1989]].

* The Doctor claims to be the ambassador of [[Syldavia]].

* References are made to the revolutions of 1989, the Polish and Hungarian revolutions, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, fixed points in time, and the Jewish legend of the Golem.

* This is the first Eleventh Doctor [[DWM]] strip that does not feature the [[TARDIS]].

* The Doctor wears the evening outfit that he wore at Amy and Rory's wedding on [[26 June]] [[2010]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'') He also wore this outfit in Berlin in [[1938]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'') and Paris in [[1858]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Screams of Death]]'').

* The Doctor mentions his latest visit to [[Athens]] in [[BC#5th century B.C.|410 BC]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Chains of Olympus]]'')

* Rory punches [[Sergal]]. He previously punched the Doctor and [[Adolf Hitler]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')

* Amy mentions that her favourite artist is [[Vincent van Gogh]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]'')

* Amy uses [[River Song]]'s [[hallucinogenic lipstick]], which River sent to her for [[Mother's Day]]. Assuming that this story is set during [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|the 2011 series]], this places this story in between ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'' and ''[[The God Complex]]''.

* The Doctor says that [[Prague]] in [[1989]] is not a [[fixed point in time]], and that anything could happen. He previously said the same about Earth in [[2020]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'')

* When the Doctor discovers that they are in 1989, Rory says that his younger self "is in a cot in [[Leadworth]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[Amy's Choice]]'', ''[[The Big Bang]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]'')

* Amy calls Rory "stupid face". ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')

* When questioned by Patrick about his identity, the Doctor hands him a top secret file with infomation about his relationship with [[Winston Churchill]], and a picture of The Doctor and Churchill is shown. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')

* When interrogated by Yuri, Rory mentions being a [[Rory Williams (Auton)|plastic Roman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''/''[[The Big Bang]]'')