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|image = Walk like you can see.jpg
|story name = Flesh and Stone
|series = [[Doctor Who television stories|''Doctor Who'' television stories]]
|series = ''[[Doctor Who]]'' - [[List of Doctor Who television stories|Television stories]]
|season number = Series 5 (Doctor Who 2005)
|number = [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]]
|series episode number = 5
|story number = 206b
|story number = 206b
|doctor = [[Eleventh Doctor]]
|novelisation = The Time of Angels (novelisation)
|companions = <ul><li>[[Amy Pond]] </li><li>[[River Song]] (guest)
|scripturl      = https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/documents/doctor-who-5-episode-5-flesh-and-stone-yellow-revisions-30072009.pdf
|enemy = [[Weeping Angel]]s<br>[[Time Field]]
|doctor = Eleventh Doctor
|setting = <ul><li>[[Alfava Metraxis]], [[51st century]] </li><li>[[Leadworth]], [[England]], [[25 June|25]]-[[26 June]] [[2010]]
|companions = [[Amy Pond|Amy]], [[River Song|River]]
|writer = [[Steven Moffat]]
|enemy = [[Angel Bob]]
|setting = The ''[[Byzantium (spacecraft)|Byzantium]]'', [[Alfava Metraxis]], [[51st century]]
|writer = Steven Moffat
|director = [[Adam Smith (director)|Adam Smith]]
|director = [[Adam Smith (director)|Adam Smith]]
|producer = [[Tracie Simpson]]
|producer = [[Tracie Simpson]]
|confidential=[[Blinded by the Light]]
|confidential = Blinded by the Light (CON episode)
|broadcast date = [[1st May]] [[2010]]
|broadcast date = 1 May 2010
|format = 1x 45 minute episode
|network = BBC One
|production code = 5.5
|format = 1x45 minute episode
|previous story = [[The Time of Angels]]
|production code = 1.5
|next story = [[The Vampires of Venice]]
|prev = The Time of Angels (TV story)
}}'''''Flesh and Stone''''' was the fifth episode of [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|the fifth series]] of [[BBC Wales]] ''[[Doctor Who]]''. It was the second part of a two-part story that began with ''[[The Time of Angels]]''.
|next = The Vampires of Venice (TV story)
==Synopsis==
|made prev = The Time of Angels (TV story)
There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped among an army of [[Weeping Angel]]s, The Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner. Meanwhile, in the forest vault Amy finds herself facing an even more deadly attack.
|made next = The Beast Below (TV story)
|clip = Narrow escape - Doctor Who - BBC
|clip2 = The gravity of the situation - Doctor Who - Flesh and Stone - Series 5 - BBC
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'''''Flesh and Stone''''' was the fifth episode of [[Series 5 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 5]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
 
It was the second of a two-part story that began with ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]''. It showed the Weeping Angels moving for the first time; when moving slowly, they give off a stone-scraping sound. It also showed the Angels' cruelty and sadism in a new light; though the Angels wish only to feast on the ''Byzantium''{{'}}s power, they continuously go after the survivors fleeing them for no other reason than to kill.
 
It also continued the theme of suggesting that the Eleventh Doctor is [[Crazy|mad]], which he has either claimed to be or has been called a madman.
 
This story revealed more about the cracks, such as why Amy cannot remember the Daleks' attacks on Earth during ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'' or ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'' / ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]''. The [[Pandorica]] is mentioned again, this time by River Song, hinting it may be a serious event in [[the Doctor]]'s future. The story also contained a moment where the Doctor appeared out of place from the conflict around him and seemed more engrossed in a [[The Big Bang (TV story)|bigger crisis]] yet to ensue. The end of this story leads into part two of ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS (home video)|Meanwhile in the TARDIS]].''
 
== Synopsis ==
There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped by an army of [[Weeping Angel]]s and an ever-growing [[Time field|mysterious crack]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and his friends try to escape through the wreckage of [[Byzantium (spacecraft)|a crashed space liner]]. Meanwhile, surrounded by Angels, [[Amy Pond|Amy]] faces an even more deadly attack, as she's forced to find her way through the forest vault, eyes closed.


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]], [[Amy Pond|Amy]], [[River Song]], [[Octavian|Bishop Octavian]], and his clerics have all jumped on the Doctor's signal. They have been caught by the ''[[Byzantium (ship)|Byzantium]]'''s gravity field to land on the Byzantium's hull, upside down over the restoring [[Weeping Angel]]s beneath them, draining the energy around them. They enter the ship, but the Angels pursue. The Doctor prepares to open the door to the secondary flight deck. Amy says ten instead of the number of times to turn the door wheel.
Quickly picking himself up, [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] tells everyone to look up, as he begins pacing around and pointing the [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]] at their footing. A confused Amy asks the Doctor what he is looking at. Exasperated at Amy's inability to grasp the obvious, the Doctor reminds her that the power is still on in the crashed ship, so what else is on? The artificial gravity!
 
The Doctor explains that shooting the [[gravity globe]] caused an updraft, allowing them to be caught in the ''[[Byzantium (spacecraft)|Byzantium]]''{{'}}s [[gravity]] field once they jumped. They have landed upside down on the [[Spacecraft|ship]]'s hull; even if they jumped again, they would still be in the ship's gravity field. Octavian quickly notices that the [[Weeping Angel]]s are beginning to look more like themselves; within an hour they'll be an army, the Doctor notes. The Doctor opens the door, telling everyone to get in. Amy wonders how. The Doctor tells her its just a corridor; the gravity orientates to the floor. Everyone heads inside as the Angels pop the lights outside the entrance.
 
Right as the door shuts behind them, the Doctor notes the Angels arrived within the first few seconds after the door closed they are not [[quantum lock]]ed in the dark. Making matters worse is the way to the secondary flight deck is shutting, despite the Doctor's attempts to force it back. Worse, the lights are still flickering. As the Doctor works on the lights, four Angels break off the door and enter the corridor. In the nick of time, the Doctor prevents the Angels from draining the lighting grid's power. However, he gravely announces he will have to drain the power in the corridor to get the door open — including the lights. Amy points out that they lost the torches when they jumped; this will leave them in total darkness.
 
Having lost good men to these monsters, Octavian asks River if she trusts the Doctor; she does. However, when asked if the Doctor is a [[Insanity|madman]], River repeats "I absolutely trust him." Seeing that the Doctor is the only one who can get them out of this time-bomb/death trap, Octavian and his men line up to fire on the Angels while the Doctor tells Amy to turn the wheel on the door four times after he has cut the power. She responds with "ten", but the Doctor corrects her and she replies that she said four.


Octavian magnetises the door to prevent the Angels following, but the [[file:Revealing_the_forest.png|thumb|left|The Oxygen Factory is revealed.]]door wheel turns. There must be an oxygen factory onboard so passengers can breathe. The Doctor opens a door to reveal a forest. Amy says seven, then denies she has done so.
They quickly enter, with the Doctor shutting the door behind them. Octavian magnetizes the door to keep the Angels out, thinking even they cannot turn the wheel now; they start doing so, but slow enough that it buys everyone time to think. Now that Octavian gets that the Angels cannot be stopped by conventional means, the Doctor begins figuring out what their resources are; River joins him in contemplating what they can do. The Doctor and River realise there must be an [[oxygen]] factory on board to supply the passengers with air. The Doctor activates a panel on the back wall, which opens to reveal a cybernetic [[forest]] within the ship. Amy continues counting down but has no memory of doing so.


They try to explain this to her, but [[Angel Bob]] calls the Doctor to find out what they are planning. The Doctor taunt him and finds out there is an Angel in Amy's mind; soon it will take her. Bob gloats about gaining power to master time and space. The Doctor tells him the Byzantium doesn't have that much power. A horrible screeching sound is heard outside and Bob explains that the Angels are laughing at him because the Doctor hasn't noticed the source of that great power. The Doctor wonders what he missed and notices a large [[Time Field|crack]] in the hull the exact same shape as the one in Amy's wall when she was seven. He orders the others to flee while he scans the crack. He turns to find the Angels have broken in have caught him by his jacket.
While the Doctor and River try to explain the counting to her, [[Angel Bob]] calls to find out their plans. The Doctor taunts him but grows serious when Bob tells him that they are in Amy's eye. The Angels are making her count to scare them and will take her soon. Bob gloats over gaining mastery over [[time]] and [[space]]. The Doctor informs him the ''Byzantium'' doesn't have that much power. A screeching noise is heard from outside; "Dear God! What is that!?" Bob explains, the best as it can, that the Angels are laughing because "[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|the Doctor in the TARDIS hasn't noticed]]".


They do not kill him. Hhe finds some of them with arms open to absorb the energy coming out of the crack. The Doctor tells them the light coming from the crack is pure time energy, not power, but "the fire at the end of the universe". He wriggles out of his jacket and runs into the forest.
[[File:Byzantium crack.jpg|thumb|left|The crack appears...]]
The Doctor wonders what he has missed and turns to see [[Time field|a huge crack]] appear on the wall of the ship; the energy the crack is giving off makes the room shake. He orders the others to run while he looks at it. Though Amy is reluctant, River pulls her away, knowing the Doctor will catch up. A scan from the sonic tells the Doctor that the crack is "extremely very not good." When the Doctor turns to follow, he is surrounded by the Angels. He quickly scans the entire room, maneuvering over the equipment to block the Angels. However, right before he can enter the forest and lose them, an Angel catches the Doctor by his jacket.


Amy is down to two in her countdown ande lies down. River pulls out a medical scanner to check her while Octavian complains that they are exposed to the enemy. River tells him his job is to keep the Doctor safe; if he's dead, she won't forgive herself and if he's alive, she won't forgive him, "And Doctor, you're standing right behind me aren't you?" [[file:Amy Angel Eye.PNG|thumb|right|A Weeping Angel invades Amy Pond's mind.]] After debating with himself, the Doctor orders Amy to close her eyes. If she opens her eyes for more than a second, the Weeping Angel will escape and she will die. She is left with the clerics as the Weeping Angels advance. The Doctor, River and Octavian head off to find a way to stop them.
The Weeping Angels do not kill him immediately, confusing the Doctor. He turns around to see them facing the crack, arms raised. Wiggling to get free of the grip of the Angel holding him by his jacket, the Doctor tells them that the light coming out of the crack is pure [[time]] energy; it is not power, but "the fire at the [[End of the Universe|end of the universe]]." As the entire group looks at the crack, the Doctor runs off into the forest without his jacket, telling them, "Another thing, never let me talk"; he got out of his coat while they were distracted.


The Angels leave too, when a light comes from the vault. Two clerics go to investigate. When Amy briefly opens her eyes, she sees it's the crack from her wall. The remaining clerics forget the existence of the other two, and [[Pedro]] goes to investigate. [[Marco (The Time of Angels)|Marco]], the cleric left, forgets about the others' existence. He goes to investigate and leaves Amy with a communicator. As soon as he is within range of the "curtain of energy", his voice vanishes.
Meanwhile, Amy has reached "four" in her countdown and lies down, cradling her head. River produces [[River Song's scanner|a scanner]] to check her while Octavian worries they are exposed. River retorts that Octavian's only job is to keep the Doctor safe. If he's dead, she won't forgive herself, but if he's alive, she won't forgive him. She realises he is standing right behind her. They wonder how he escaped the Angels; "Found a crack in the wall and told them it was the end of the universe". When questioned what the crack really is, the Doctor repeats "the end of the universe" and rushes over to Amy.


Octavian tells the Doctor that River is on leave from prison and in his custody to earn her pardon. While River works on opening the door to the primary flight deck, the Doctor puts together the anomalies he has recently noticed. River opens the door and enters while the Doctor uses a device to work out that a temporal explosion on 6/26/10 will cause the cracks. The lights go out. When they come back on, Octavian is held in a stranglehold by an Angel. Octavian tells him River killed a good man to earn her imprisonment before the Doctor flees. He hears the Angel snap Octavian's neck as he enters the main control deck,. River tries to get the teleporter working as the Doctor explains about the cracks. As she challenges the Doctor's ideas, he responds with growing rage.
The Doctor quickly babbles over the fact Amy looked into an Angel's eyes, and an image of an Angel becomes one. He then realizes that the Angels want their victims to use the [[quantum lock]], so they'll look in the Angels eyes and create an image in their brain's visual centre. And there's a copy of Angel Bob in Amy's mind. At "zero", it will pop out of Amy's head, killing her. After internal debate, the Doctor orders Amy to close her eyes; she complies, after fighting off the fear the Angel tried using to stop her. She soon begins to normalise. If she opens them for more than a second, the Angel will escape and she will die. Unable to see, the Doctor suggests she stay in the clearing with the others while he and River proceed to the primary flight deck. Octavian insists that where River goes, he does as well. The Doctor reluctantly agrees, leaving Amy with the remaining Clerics. As they head off, Amy asks him not to leave him.


Amy is alone and blind, with only a communicator. The Doctor radios her. She must come to the control room; the Angels can only kill her, but the crack can erase her from time. He sends software to the communicator to direct her to the control room with the sound of his [[Sonic Screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]]. Terrified and with her eyes closed, she follows his signal until the Angels surround her. They too are terrified and their instincts freeze them to stone around her, but Amy falls and the Angels, realising she can't see, close in to kill her. Before they reach her, River teleports her to the control room.
As she sits waiting, the Doctor suddenly reappears and tells her that it's vital she start trusting him. She asks how she can trust him, as he doesn't always tell her the truth. He says that if he always told the truth, he wouldn't need her to trust him. Amy then asks how the crack in her wall can be here, and the Doctor responds that he doesn't know yet, but he's working it out. He requests that she [[The Big Bang (TV story)|remember what he told her when she was a little girl]]. When Amy asks him what he told her, the Doctor tells her that what he said isn't the point... just as long as she remembers. Just as quickly as he arrived, the Doctor is gone again.


The Angels drain all the energy from the doors to the secondary control room. They open, revealing the Angels with their screaming faces, except one: the lead Angel, [[Angel Bob]], who demands the Doctor throw himself into the crack to save the Angels, Amy and River. River, as a time traveler, wants to throw herself in, but the Doctor laughs at the idea. She is not even as complicated as one Angel and it would take all them to equal him. He tells her to "Get a grip". River tells the Doctor she will not let him die. The Doctor tells her "Seriously. Get a grip".
As Octavian, River, and the Doctor move through the forest, Octavian tells the Doctor that River is on leave from [[Stormcage Containment Facility]] in his custody. Through this mission, she hopes to earn a [[pardon]]. While River tries to open the door to the primary flight deck, the Doctor considers the anomalies he has recently noticed: the [[Leadworth duck pond|duckless duck pond in Leadworth]]; Amy's inability to remember [[Dalek invasion of Earth (2009)|the Dalek invasion of Earth]]; and the lack of any mention of [[The Next Doctor (TV story)|the CyberKing in Victorian London]] in the history books. He uses River's scanner to analyse the scan he took from the crack; it reveals that a temporal explosion will occur on [[26 June]] [[2010]] and cause the cracks in time and space — Amy's time.


River calls him a genius and has Amy grab onto the console. Angel Bob tells the Doctor to hurry and throw himself in for the Angels. With a smile, the Doctor wishes them 'night-night' and grabs onto the console himself. The gravity fails and as the Doctor and his companions watch from above, the Angels plunge through the trees and into the crack. The crack explodes in a glare of energy, then closes, as the complicated space-time event of the Weeping Angels ceases to have ever existed.
The Angels stake out the clearing and begin tearing apart the [[treeborg]]s to cut off the power supply to the lights. The lights flicker. When they go out, the Angels are nowhere to be seen. Light projects across the forest from the secondary flight deck. [[Marco (The Time of Angels)|Marco]], the squad leader, sends [[Crispin (The Time of Angels)|Crispin]] and [[Phillip (The Time of Angels)|Phillip]] to investigate it. Amy insists on seeing its source, though she will have to open her eyes. When she sees it is the crack from her wall, she collapses and begs to know why it is following her.


Outside, Amy aches from climbing out with her eyes closed. The Doctor tells her that she did not have to as [[Angel Bob]]'s double in her mind no longer exists due to it falling into the [[Time Field]]. Amy wonders why she remembers them and the Clerics, who didn't even rememeber each other. The Doctor explains she is a time traveller now.
[[File:Cleric_marco.jpg|thumb|The lead cleric, [[Marco (The Time of Angels)|Marco]].|left|200x200px]]
Marco orders [[Pedro]] to go to the light. Amy reminds him he sent the other two, but he [[history-proofing|insists there weren't any others]]. After some time, Marco decides to go and investigate, having forgotten Pedro as well. Amy pleads with him to stay, but Marco foolishly wishes to investigate what the light is. As a compromise, he leaves her a spare communicator and agrees to speak to her through it. As he reaches the crack, his voice vanishes in a crackle of static. Amy is now left alone without anyone to guard her against the Angels: the one in her mind and the ones outside of it.


The Doctor goes to River, who has been handcuffed to be returned to Stormcage. River laughs. She may have done enough this time to earn her pardon. The Doctor tells her Octavian told him she murdered someone. River sadly says that he was a very good man, the best man she'd ever known. The Doctor asks if he can trust her, River laughs hysterically. "If you like. . . but where's the fun in that?" She vanishes in a whirlwind of dust with the remaining clerics.
River opens the door and steps inside while Octavian waits with the Doctor. The Doctor deduces to his own surprise that time can be unwritten; Octavian tells him to hurry inside because of the Angels. ''"There's more dangerous things here than Angels."'' the Doctor retorts. The lights go out. When they return, Octavian is trapped in an Angel's stranglehold. Knowing the Doctor cannot save him, Octavian tells him River is in prison for murder and he shouldn't trust her. As the Doctor flees, Octavian's neck is snapped. River tries to get a [[teleport]] working as the Doctor explains the cracks. When she challenges his ideas, he responds with growing rage and tells her the teleport is useless.


[[File:DR_AMY_KISS.png|thumb|Amy kisses the Doctor]]Back in the TARDIS, Amy tells the Doctor she wants to go home. There is something she wants to show him. They land in Amy's bedroom five minutes after they first left. Amy is getting married to Rory. She was using him to run away, just as he has been running from River. She tries to seduce the Doctor. He remembers what the scan from the crack told him and takes her into the TARDIS just as Amy's alarm clock turns to [[26 June|26th of June]], [[2010]].
Amy huddles alone in the forest, blind and with nothing but the communicator. The Doctor contacts her; Amy must make her way to the flight deck. The Angels can only kill her, but the crack can erase her from time. He sends software to the communicator to help her find her way. Terrified, she slowly makes her way across the forest, soon surrounded by the army of Weeping Angels fleeing from the crack. In their own terror, they do not realise her eyes are closed and their defence mechanisms kick in. They figure it out, though, when Amy trips over a root on the ground. They slowly remove the statue guise and move in to kill her.


== Cast==
Just as an Angel reaches towards Amy, River thankfully gets the teleport working and transports her to the flight deck. The Doctor tells River he could kiss her out of happiness, but River tells him to wait until he's older. An alarm goes off, confusing River. The Doctor says its warning the ship is low on power, which means the flight deck will open.
*[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Matt Smith]]
 
*[[Amy Pond]] - [[Karen Gillan]]
[[File:Angel Bob.jpg|thumb|"Bob" tries to get the Doctor to sacrifice himself to close the crack.]]The wall lifts up, revealing the Weeping Angels all snarling at them, except for Angel Bob; "Bob" explains the crack will destroy their reality if left unchecked. The Angels have calculated the crack will close if the Doctor throws himself into it. When asked why he should help the Angels, "Bob" tells him it will save River and Amy as well. River, as a time traveller, wants to take the Doctor's place, but he laughs — she is not even as complicated as one Angel and it would take all of them to equal him. He tells her to get a grip. River continues to protest, but the Doctor tells her to seriously get a grip.
*[[River Song]] - [[Alex Kingston]]
 
*[[Octavian]] - [[Iain Glen]]
River [[deduce]]s his "genius" plan and has Amy grab onto the console, warning her not to let go. Angel Bob repeats his request for the Doctor to sacrifice himself, but the Doctor reminds them that they've been draining all of the power on the ship, including that of the artificial gravity; with the words "Night-night", the Doctor grabs onto the console and the ship's gravity fails. The planet's gravity field takes over in its place, sending the Angels plummeting into the crack while the Doctor watches in delight. The [[Time Field|crack]] glows brighter and closes.
*[[Bob (The Time of Angels)|Bob]]/[[Angel Bob]] - [[David Atkins]]
 
*[[Marco (The Time of Angels)|Marco]] - [[Darren Morfitt]]
Later, another squad of Clerics cleans up the camp outside the temple while Amy sits nearby, complaining of aches from climbing out of the ''[[Byzantium (spacecraft)|Byzantium]]'' with her eyes shut. The Doctor likewise did so; Amy tells him that he didn't have to do that. ''"Neither did you"'' he states. Since the Angels fell into the crack, the one in her mind never existed now. Amy wonders why she remembers them and the Clerics when they never existed at all; the Clerics all forgot each other and walked straight into the crack. The Doctor explains that, as a [[time travel]]ler, she now sees things differently.
*[[Pedro]] - [[Mark Monero]]
 
*[[Cleric Phillip|Phillip]] - [[George Russo]]
The Doctor goes to River, who has been handcuffed. She is prepared to [[teleport]] up to the prison ship, hoping to have done enough to earn a pardon. The Doctor admits that Octavian told him of River's crime that she [[murder]]ed a man. River confirms this. When further stating that Octavian told him the victim was a good man, she replies that he was the best man she ever knew. The Doctor asks if he can trust her. River laughs, saying he can if he wants to... "but where's the fun in that?" She also adds that [[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|they'll see her next when the Pandorica opens]]; the Doctor laughs at this, thinking the [[Pandorica]] is a fairytale, River responding with "Aren't we all?" She vanishes with the Clerics.
 
Back in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], Amy tells the Doctor she wants to go home. He thinks she means for good, but she insists she has something to show him. "You're running from River. I'm running from something, too." He parks the TARDIS in [[Amy Pond's house#Amy's bedroom|Amy's bedroom]] [[25 June|five minutes after they first left]]. Amy shows him her wedding dress and engagement ring; she is getting [[married]] in the morning to [[Rory Williams]].
 
[[File:The Doctor and Amy kiss.jpg|thumb|left|Amy [[kiss]]es the Doctor.|200x200px]]
Amy says that she needs comforting, after the recent events. She tries to explain to the Doctor "who" she wants, but the Doctor hasn't a clue as to what she is talking about. Seeing he is not going to get hints, Amy tries to [[kiss]] him, but he dodges her and stands up. She continues to allude to sexual connotations, all of which the Doctor nervously attempts to fend off. He rebuffs her advances by protesting that he is 907 years old and the kind of relationship she wants will never work out between them.
 
Amy retorts that she was thinking of a one-night stand, not a relationship. She attempts to undress him and finally kisses him, but he pushes her away, citing her marriage the next morning. Amy thinks he's given in, heading to her bed. Realising that the date of the temporal explosion: [[26 June]] [[2010]] is the date of Amy's wedding. The Doctor tells her that the most important thing is that he straightens things out with her. He pulls her to the TARDIS, with Amy trying to kiss him again. He pushes her back into the TARDIS just as the [[clock]] turns past midnight to the next day.
 
[[File:Date of the Universe Explosion.jpg|thumb|right|The cracks in time will be created on Amy's wedding day.]]
A flashback returns to the conversation River Song and the Doctor were having about the origin of the cracks in time. Amy's wedding day will preclude a catastrophic event. The base code of the universe translates to "[[Tel:26 06 2010|26 06 2010]]", the date of an explosion that caused the cracks to appear. With that, the Doctor vanishes into the TARDIS.
 
== Cast ==
* [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Matt Smith]]
* [[Amy Pond]] - [[Karen Gillan]]
* [[River Song]] - [[Alex Kingston]]
* [[Octavian (The Time of Angels)|Octavian]] - [[Iain Glen]]
* [[Angel Bob|Bob]] - [[David Atkins]]
* [[Marco (The Time of Angels)|Marco]] - [[Darren Morfitt]]
* [[Pedro]] - [[Mark Monero]]
* [[Phillip (The Time of Angels)|Phillip]] - [[George Russo]]


== Crew ==
== Crew ==
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== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== [[:Category:The Doctor|The Doctor]]===
=== The Doctor ===
*Whilst trying to figure out the implications of [[the Cracks|the cracks in time]], the Doctor wonders to himself about the [[CyberKing]], and wonders if [[21st century]] [[Earth]]'s lack of knowledge of its presence is somehow related.
* Whilst trying to figure out the implications of [[the Cracks|the cracks in time]], the Doctor wonders about the [[CyberKing]], and if [[21st century]] [[Earth]]'s lack of knowledge of its presence is somehow related.
*When mentioning how time can be rewritten the Doctor references Amy's lack of knowledge of the Daleks and planets in the sky ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]'').
* The Doctor states his age is nine hundred and seven.
*He mentions the duck pond that may not have been a duck pond from ''[[DW]]: [[The Eleventh Hour]]''
* River Song says she and the Doctor will meet again when the [[Pandorica]] opens; the Doctor claims that the Pandorica is just a fairy tale.
*[[Eleventh Doctor]] states his age is nine hundred and seven, which suggests that a year has passed since the events of ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''.
*River Song said that she and the Doctor will meet again when the [[Pandorica]] opens. The Doctor claims that it is just a fairytale.


===[[:Category:Timeline|Timeline]]===
=== Timeline ===
*Amy's age is established and her second encounter with the Doctor as taking place in [[2008]] (when she encountered [[Prisoner Zero]]), while her third encounter with the Doctor when she left with him took place on the night of [[25 June]] [[2010]] when Amy is twenty-one.
* Amy's age and her second encounter with the Doctor are established as taking place in [[2008]], when she encountered [[Prisoner Zero]], while her third encounter with the Doctor when she left with him took place on the night of [[25 June]] [[2010]] when Amy is twenty-one.


== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
*According to [[Steven Moffat]] on the [[30 March]] [[2010]] edition of the [[BBC Radio 4]] programme, ''Front Row'', the title of this episode was supplied by his son, Joshua.
* In [[2020]], [[Steven Moffat]] admitted that he should not have played the scene where Amy tries to seduce the Doctor "for laughs", noting that Amy ignoring the Doctor's protests against her overtures does, at the very least, have some rather uncomfortable sexual assault undertones. He admitted that this was the one thing about his era would change.
*The title is a play on 'flesh and bone', a common idiom referring to a creature's anatomy, since most humans and animals are composed of flesh and a skeletal structure. The title also refers to the Weeping Angels' weakness of turning to stone whenever anyone looks at them, and possibly the fact that Amy thought her hand had turned to stone in the previous episode, ''[[The Time of Angels]]''. This was a rumoured title for the episode ''[[Gridlock]]''.
* According to [[Steven Moffat]] on the [[30 March (production)|30 March]] 2010 edition of the [[BBC Radio 4]] programme, ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Row_(radio_programme) Front Row]'', he struggled to find an appropriate phrase which incorporated the word “Angels” in the title until Joshua pointed out that this was unnecessary, since the presence of the Weeping Angels would have been well-established during [[The Time of Angels (TV story)|''The Time of Angels'']]. Playing on the phrase “flesh and bone”, he suggested Flesh and Stone as an alternative, and the name stuck.
*In the trailer at the end of ''[[The Time of Angels]]'' it shows a [[The Cracks|crack]] - continuing the theme throughout the series. The crack appears to be growing, and upon finding it, Amy Pond notes its similarity to the one on her bedroom wall from [[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]''. The Doctor says of the crack, "That is extremely very not good."
* The title is a play on "flesh and bone", a common idiom referring to a creature's anatomy, since most humans and animals are composed of flesh and a skeletal structure. The title also refers to the Weeping Angels' weakness of turning to stone whenever anyone looks at them, and possibly the fact that Amy thought her hand had turned to stone in the previous episode, ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]''. This was a rumoured title for the episode ''[[Gridlock (TV story)|Gridlock]]''.
*A video clip on the official Doctor Who website shows that the Doctor gets the Weeping Angels to say "comfy chairs".
* The Weeping Angels are seen moving for the first time. One Angel is seen moving a hand to grab the Doctor by his jacket, and later they turn their heads when they realise that Amy can't see them.
*The Doctor finds out that time can be unwritten.
* The date shown in the episode, 26/06/2010, would be the broadcast date of the final episode of Series 5, ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'', in Britain. In other countries, it was not aired until later, however.
*The time on the scanner that The Doctor holds says that Amy's time is her wedding day.
* The method the Doctor uses to dispose of the Weeping Angels mirrors his method of vanquishing the [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] and [[Dalek]]s in [[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]''.
*The Weeping Angels are seen moving for the first time. One Angel is seen moving their hand to grab the Doctor by his jacket, and later they are seen turning their heads when they begin to realise that Amy can't see them.
* Amy continues the tradition of female companions [[kissing]] the Doctor. However, instead of falling in love with him, Amy had [[sex|another idea]].
*The date shown in the episode, 26/06/2010, was the final episode date of Series 5 in Britain. In America, however, it was not aired until much later in the summer.
* This episode aired on the same day as the ''[[K9 (TV series)|K9]]'' episode ''[[Alien Avatar (TV story)|Alien Avatar]]'' was first broadcast on Disney XD in Britain. It also aired on the same day that ''[[Sirens of Ceres (TV story)|Sirens of Ceres]]'' was first broadcast on Network Ten in Australia.
*The method the Doctor uses to dispose of the Weeping Angels mirrors his method of vanquishing the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] and [[Dalek]]s in [[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]''.
* The episode's final scene leads into ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS 2 (TV story)|Meanwhile in the TARDIS 2]]''.
*Amy continues the tradition of the female companions kissing the Doctor. However, instead of falling in love with him, Amy had ''another idea'' instead.
* The blue in Amy's bedroom was an idea of [[Adam Smith (director)|Adam Smith]] to show that it was inspired by the TARDIS from Amy's encounter with the Doctor when she was young.
*This episode aired on the same day as the ''[[K9 (TV series)|K9]]'' episode, ''[[Alien Avatar]]'' was first broadcast on Disney XD in Britain. It also aired on the same day that ''[[Sirens of Ceres]]'' was first broadcast on Network Ten in Australia.
* The Doctor's gesture indicating Rory's long nose wasn't in the script. This two-parter was actually the first episodes filmed, before [[Arthur Darvill]] had acted on the show, but after he'd been cast. [[Matt Smith]] and Darvill were already old friends, so Smith already knew about Darvill's honker and improvised.
*Because the cracks never existed, the events of this story may have changed.
* [[Steven Moffat]] came up with the concept for this two-parter when he was thinking of the worst possible situations to be in with the Weeping Angels and thought of the inability to see. His first idea was blindness, though this developed into the situation that Amy ends up in.
===Ratings===
* [[Matt Smith]] had difficulty saying: "the forest is full of angels", instead he said: "the angel is full of forests". There's even a t-shirt in existence showing the phrase.
6.9 million
* In the climactic scene, [[Karen Gillan]] had to walk with her eyes closed, which she said was difficult and challenging as the ground was uneven and muddy. She stated that "it was the most scary thing" when she had to trip over a step and fall, even though she was aware of the crash mat. As she was not able to express herself through her eyes, Gillan had to make herself more animated to convey emotion.
* The scene in which the Doctor, Amy and River are horizontal in mid-air when the gravity field fails on the Byzantium was achieved by using wires and powerful wind machines.
* [[The Doctor's rules]] come into play to defeat the angels: use your enemy's power against them.
* The Mill remain uncredited in this story.
* [[Iain Glen]] would later appear in ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', where his character is touched by a "stonemen" and slowly is watching his skin turn into stone. Here, the men , the soldiers under his command are turning into stone angels around him. [[Matt Smith]] would later star in the prequel series ''[[House of the Dragon]].''
 
=== Ratings ===
* 6.9 million viewers
* 8.5 million viewers (UK final)<ref>[http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/info.php?detail=ratings&type=date Doctor Who Ratings - UK final]</ref>


=== Filming locations ===
=== Filming locations ===
*The beach on [[Alfava Metraxis]] were filmed at [[wikipedia:Southerndown|Southerndown]] beach, [[wikipedia:Vale of Glamorgan|Vale of Glamorgan]]. This was also where scenes in ''[[Army of Ghosts]]''/''[[Doomsday]]'' and ''[[Journey's End]]'' were filmed.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/doctor-who-wales/alllocations/southerndown-beach</ref>
* The beach scenes on [[Alfava Metraxis]] were filmed at {{w|Southerndown}} beach, {{w|Vale of Glamorgan}}. This was also where scenes in ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]''/''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'' and ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'' were filmed.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/doctor-who-wales/alllocations/southerndown-beach</ref>
*Scenes in the forest vault of the ''Byzantium'' were filmed in [[wikipedia:Puzzlewood|Puzzlewood]] in the [[wikipedia:Forest of Dean|Forest of Dean]].<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/gloucestershire/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8635000/8635073.stm</ref>
* Scenes in the forest vault of the ''Byzantium'' were filmed in {{w|Puzzlewood}} in the {{w|Forest of Dean}}.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/gloucestershire/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8635000/8635073.stm</ref>


===Rumours===
=== Rumours ===
*Amy and Rory will either marry each other or put it on hold at the end of the episode, and Rory will travel in the TARDIS at the end. ''This was proven false, but Rory joined Amy and the Doctor in the TARDIS in [[The Vampires of Venice|the next episode]], and he and Amy got married in the [[The Big Bang|series finale]] ''.
* Amy and Rory will either marry each other or put it on hold at the end of the episode, and Rory will travel in the TARDIS at the end. ''This was proven false, but Rory joined Amy and the Doctor in the TARDIS in [[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|the next episode]], and he and Amy got married in the [[The Big Bang (TV story)|series finale]]''.
* The Doctor wearing his coat while explaining to Amy it's vital he remembered was an error on the production team's behalf as the Doctor had lost his coat earlier. ''This was proven false in [[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]] when it was revealed that conversation took place much later in the Doctor's timeline.''


=== Production errors ===
=== Production errors ===
*When Amy lies down on the tree stump her hair is all over her face but on the wide shot her hair is behind her head.{{discontinuity}}
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*While the Doctor is talking to River in the forest, he has both hands behind his back as if tucking in his shirt; however in the next shot he is still in mid-sentence and is suddenly holding his hands in front.
* On first entering the Byzantium, the Weeping Angels' stances change between first breaking in and just before the Doctor must turn the lights off. This is despite the lights being isolated and them always being observed by at least four Clerics.
*While the Doctor talks to River at the end of the episode the position of his right suspender strap switches places from angle to angle.
* After the Doctor and co make it through the door to the secondary flight deck, a camera is visible on the far right hand side.
*Just after the Doctor leaves with River and Octavian, his future self holds Amy's hand and talks to her. However, he does not wear his normal gold watch, which is replaced with a black one, and does not have the vortex manipulator on his right arm, which he should have had.
* When the Doctor is searching for a way to open the door to the forest he places his hands on it and it wobbles.
*During the final scene in Amy's bedroom the Doctor looks at Amy's alarm clock. Despite the fact that the conversation was talking about Amy getting married "in the morning" the clock changes from 11:59 '''AM''' '''on 6/25 '''to 12:00 '''PM on 6/26''', a mysterious 24-hour jump.
* When the Doctor is grabbed by a Weeping Angel, the Angel's hand is seen moving along with the Doctor.
* When Amy lies down on the tree stump her hair is all over her face but on the wide shot her hair is behind her head.
* While the Doctor is talking to River in the forest, he has both hands behind his back as if tucking in his shirt; however in the next shot he is still in mid-sentence and is suddenly holding his hands in front.
* While the Doctor talks to River at the end of the episode the position of his right suspender strap switches places from angle to angle.
* Just after the Doctor leaves with River and Octavian, his future self holds Amy's hand and talks to her. However, he does not wear his normal gold watch, which is replaced with a black one, and does not have the vortex manipulator on his right arm, which he should have had.
* During the final scene in Amy's bedroom the Doctor looks at Amy's alarm clock. Despite the fact that the conversation was talking about Amy getting married "in the morning" the clock changes from 11:59 ''AM'' ''on 6/25 ''to 12:00 ''PM on 6/26'', a mysterious 12-hour jump.
* In the scene where Amy is following the sound of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver, there are points where the light on the screwdriver is off, yet the sound can still clearly be heard on both ends of the communicator.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Events the Doctor thinks are erased from history by the cracks include [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]'' and ''[[The Next Doctor]].''
* River says to the Doctor, "You, me, handcuffs... must it always end this way?" ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'')
* River says to the Doctor "You, me, handcuffs... must it always end this way?", unknowingly referencing her own death in [[DW]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead]]''.
* River Song mentioned the crash of the'' Byzantium'' when meeting the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'')
* River Song mentioned the crash of the Byzantium to the [[Tenth Doctor]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]''.
* River Song says the Doctor will see her again soon, when the [[Pandorica]] opens. This refers to their later (to her, earlier) adventure where it is shown she knows to say this as Amy told her she did. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
* River Song refers to the events of the Pandorica opening, foreshadowing the series 5 finale. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
* When mentioning how time can be rewritten the Doctor references Amy's lack of knowledge of the [[Dalek]]s and planets in the sky ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]''), and that no one on [[Earth]] remembered a [[Cyber-King]] in [[19th century]] [[London]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]'')
* There is a flashback to [[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]''.
* The Doctor and Amy both recall the crack from her bedroom wall. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')
* Amy asks the Doctor "Do you comfort a lot of people on the night before their wedding?" The Doctor previously interrupted [[Donna Noble]]'s wedding in [[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]''.
* After the Doctor leaves with River and Octavian to find the primary flight deck, the Doctor quickly returns for a moment to speak with Amy and his behaviour and appearance are different (jacket, rolled-up sleeves, etc). This turned out to be the Doctor from the future. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
* After the Doctor leaves with River and Octavian to find the primary flight deck, the Doctor returns for a moment to speak with Amy and his behavior and appearance is completely different (Jacket, rolled-up sleeves, different watch, etc). This turned out to be the Doctor from the future, though there were some inconsistencies concerning his watch. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
* The Doctor mentions the duck-pond with no ducks in [[Leadworth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')
* The Doctor mentions the duck-pond with no ducks from [[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]''.
* The Doctor describes himself as a [[complicated space-time event]]. [[Arthur Candy]]'s research defined the Doctor as "a [[CSTE]] – a [[Complex Space-Time Event]]. In fact, I believe he is the most complex space-time event there has ever been anywhere". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Continuity Errors (short story)|Continuity Errors]]'')
* This is the second time the doctor has kissed a female companion on the forehead before he temporarily left them; the first was [[Zoe Heriot]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]''. He similarly kissed [[Jo Grant]] on the forehead in [[DW]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'', but that was upon meeting her (after she had been abducted).
* The Doctor [[kisses]] Amy on the head before temporarily leaving her. He did the same with [[Zoe Heriot]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') and [[Jo Grant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'')
* [[Angel Bob]] says that the Doctor in the TARDIS hasn't noticed. [[Prisoner Zero]] says something similar to the Doctor in [[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]''.
* [[Angel Bob]] says that "the Doctor in the TARDIS" hasn't noticed. [[Prisoner Zero]] said something similar to the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')
* In [[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'', the Doctor prevented the cracks from ever existing. Although most cracks were closed, anything that Amy remembered (such as her travels) would still exist following the finale, meaning a few cracks still existed, but as seen, were solved individually (such as the one on Byzantium being closed due to swallowing the angels)
* The Doctor's regret on not getting to know Octavion mirrors his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth]] incarnation's remorse when he realised how wrong about [[Gustave Lytton|Lytton]] he was, ([[TV]]: [[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]) and also his [[ninth]] realising how harsh he was on [[Rose Tyler]] for messing with her [[Pete Tyler|father]]'s death. ([[TV]]: [[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]])
 
* River says that the man she killed is the best man she knows and is indicated to be the Doctor himself. This is confirmed in ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'' where the crew of the ''[[Teselecta]]'' state that she killed the Doctor on [[22 April]] [[2011]] on [[Lake Silencio]] which is a [[fixed point in time]]. River's "murder" of the Doctor is later explored in ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]''.
== [[Eleventh Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]] ==
* River states that she hopes she has done enough to get a pardon. While she apparently doesn't at this time, she is later pardoned after the Doctor erases all records of himself, meaning there is no proof she killed anyone. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'')
'''For the present Doctor and Amy'''
* River later visits her Amy and Rory shortly after the events of this episode for her during ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'' to reveal the Doctor's survival to them and that she had lied about not recognising Amy.
* This story occurs after: [[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]''
* This story occurs before: [[DW]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]''
'''For the future Doctor'''
* This story occurs during: [[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]''
'''For River Song'''
* This story occurs after: [[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]''
* This story occurs before: [[DW]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]''
 
==DVD/Blu-ray-exclusive scene==
The 2010 DVD and Blu-ray release of the ''Complete Series 5'' included an additional scene from ''Flesh and Stone''. Contrary to many reviews and video-sharing site repostings of the scene, it is not a deleted scene, but rather a scene shot specifically for the DVD/BD release sometime during the later stages of Series 5 production.


The scene reveals what happened after Amy's failed seduction attempt and the Doctor taking her away. Inside the TARDIS, Amy continues to try to convince the Doctor to sleep with her, leading him to explain his attitude towards his companions -- that they help him "see things" that he no longer is able to see because of his age and travel experience. Her physical desires replaced by curiosity, this leads Amy to quiz the Doctor about his past companions.
== Home video releases ==
[[File:Dvd-series5vol21.jpg|right|thumb|Series 5 Volume 2 DVD Cover]]


She eventually tricks the Doctor into unlocking visual files of past TARDIS inhabitants, and she is treated to a slide show of various female companions ranging from [[Barbara Wright]] to [[Donna Noble]], with apparent particular emphasis on [[Leela]]. In order to distract Amy from the picture show, the Doctor suggests they pick up [[Rory Williams|Rory]] from his stag party, which leads directly into ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]''.
=== DVD & Blu-ray releases ===


Other companions shown in the slide show include [[Polly Wright]], [[Leela]], [[Peri Brown]], both [[Romana]]s, and [[Josephine Grant]], as well as recent companions [[Rose Tyler]] and [[Martha Jones]]. With the exception of [[Sarah Jane Smith]] (also shown), all companions pre-dating Rose are making their first on-screen appearance in the post-2005 era (Jo Grant's appearance in [[SJA]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'' had not yet been broadcast at the time of the DVD/BD release).
* Series 5, Volume Two was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in region 2/B on [[5 July (releases)|5 July]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]] and region 4/B on [[5 August (releases)|5 August]] 2010. The volume features ''The Time of Angels'', ''Flesh and Stone'' and ''The Vampires of Venice'', and the featurette ''The Monster Diaries''.
* The episode was later released in the Complete Fifth Series boxset on both DVD and Blu-ray, in region 1/A on [[9 November (releases)|9 November]] 2010, in region 2/B on [[8 November (releases)|8 November]] 2010 and in region 4/B on [[2 December (releases)|2 December]] 2010.
* A DVD-only release of Series 5, Part One, containing the first six episodes of the series, was released in region 1 on [[15 March (releases)|15 March]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]].


The context of the scene supports the recurring implication that the TARDIS is sentient, given the way the Doctor reacts to the TARDIS when the slideshow begins -- coupled with the fact the TARDIS does not show images of the Doctor's various male companions such as [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Adric]] or [[Jack Harkness]]. The fact expanded universe companions, such as [[Izzy Sinclair]] and [[Destrii]] from the comic strip and [[Evelyn Smythe]] and [[Lucie Miller]] from the audio dramas, are not visible does not necessarily disqualify them from canon as the viewscreen is not visible all the time, and several TV series companions are not shown either.
=== Digital releases ===


==Home video releases ==
* In the United Kingdom, this story is available on [[BBC iPlayer]].
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[[BBC Video]] - ''Doctor Who Series Five - Volume Two'' was released on Monday [[5th July]] [[2010]] (UK Only) on DVD and Blu-ray, featuring ''[[The Time of Angels]]'', ''Flesh and Stone'' and ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]''.<ref>DWM 421, Page 17</ref>


==External links==
== External links ==
Series 5: Episode 5 - Flesh & Stone [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s971z]
* Series 5: Episode 5 - Flesh & Stone [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s971z]
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Flesh and Stone was the fifth episode of series 5 of Doctor Who.

It was the second of a two-part story that began with The Time of Angels. It showed the Weeping Angels moving for the first time; when moving slowly, they give off a stone-scraping sound. It also showed the Angels' cruelty and sadism in a new light; though the Angels wish only to feast on the Byzantium's power, they continuously go after the survivors fleeing them for no other reason than to kill.

It also continued the theme of suggesting that the Eleventh Doctor is mad, which he has either claimed to be or has been called a madman.

This story revealed more about the cracks, such as why Amy cannot remember the Daleks' attacks on Earth during Doomsday or The Stolen Earth / Journey's End. The Pandorica is mentioned again, this time by River Song, hinting it may be a serious event in the Doctor's future. The story also contained a moment where the Doctor appeared out of place from the conflict around him and seemed more engrossed in a bigger crisis yet to ensue. The end of this story leads into part two of Meanwhile in the TARDIS.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped by an army of Weeping Angels and an ever-growing mysterious crack, the Eleventh Doctor and his friends try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner. Meanwhile, surrounded by Angels, Amy faces an even more deadly attack, as she's forced to find her way through the forest vault, eyes closed.

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Quickly picking himself up, the Doctor tells everyone to look up, as he begins pacing around and pointing the sonic screwdriver at their footing. A confused Amy asks the Doctor what he is looking at. Exasperated at Amy's inability to grasp the obvious, the Doctor reminds her that the power is still on in the crashed ship, so what else is on? The artificial gravity!

The Doctor explains that shooting the gravity globe caused an updraft, allowing them to be caught in the Byzantium's gravity field once they jumped. They have landed upside down on the ship's hull; even if they jumped again, they would still be in the ship's gravity field. Octavian quickly notices that the Weeping Angels are beginning to look more like themselves; within an hour they'll be an army, the Doctor notes. The Doctor opens the door, telling everyone to get in. Amy wonders how. The Doctor tells her its just a corridor; the gravity orientates to the floor. Everyone heads inside as the Angels pop the lights outside the entrance.

Right as the door shuts behind them, the Doctor notes the Angels arrived within the first few seconds after the door closed they are not quantum locked in the dark. Making matters worse is the way to the secondary flight deck is shutting, despite the Doctor's attempts to force it back. Worse, the lights are still flickering. As the Doctor works on the lights, four Angels break off the door and enter the corridor. In the nick of time, the Doctor prevents the Angels from draining the lighting grid's power. However, he gravely announces he will have to drain the power in the corridor to get the door open — including the lights. Amy points out that they lost the torches when they jumped; this will leave them in total darkness.

Having lost good men to these monsters, Octavian asks River if she trusts the Doctor; she does. However, when asked if the Doctor is a madman, River repeats "I absolutely trust him." Seeing that the Doctor is the only one who can get them out of this time-bomb/death trap, Octavian and his men line up to fire on the Angels while the Doctor tells Amy to turn the wheel on the door four times after he has cut the power. She responds with "ten", but the Doctor corrects her and she replies that she said four.

They quickly enter, with the Doctor shutting the door behind them. Octavian magnetizes the door to keep the Angels out, thinking even they cannot turn the wheel now; they start doing so, but slow enough that it buys everyone time to think. Now that Octavian gets that the Angels cannot be stopped by conventional means, the Doctor begins figuring out what their resources are; River joins him in contemplating what they can do. The Doctor and River realise there must be an oxygen factory on board to supply the passengers with air. The Doctor activates a panel on the back wall, which opens to reveal a cybernetic forest within the ship. Amy continues counting down but has no memory of doing so.

While the Doctor and River try to explain the counting to her, Angel Bob calls to find out their plans. The Doctor taunts him but grows serious when Bob tells him that they are in Amy's eye. The Angels are making her count to scare them and will take her soon. Bob gloats over gaining mastery over time and space. The Doctor informs him the Byzantium doesn't have that much power. A screeching noise is heard from outside; "Dear God! What is that!?" Bob explains, the best as it can, that the Angels are laughing because "the Doctor in the TARDIS hasn't noticed".

The crack appears...

The Doctor wonders what he has missed and turns to see a huge crack appear on the wall of the ship; the energy the crack is giving off makes the room shake. He orders the others to run while he looks at it. Though Amy is reluctant, River pulls her away, knowing the Doctor will catch up. A scan from the sonic tells the Doctor that the crack is "extremely very not good." When the Doctor turns to follow, he is surrounded by the Angels. He quickly scans the entire room, maneuvering over the equipment to block the Angels. However, right before he can enter the forest and lose them, an Angel catches the Doctor by his jacket.

The Weeping Angels do not kill him immediately, confusing the Doctor. He turns around to see them facing the crack, arms raised. Wiggling to get free of the grip of the Angel holding him by his jacket, the Doctor tells them that the light coming out of the crack is pure time energy; it is not power, but "the fire at the end of the universe." As the entire group looks at the crack, the Doctor runs off into the forest without his jacket, telling them, "Another thing, never let me talk"; he got out of his coat while they were distracted.

Meanwhile, Amy has reached "four" in her countdown and lies down, cradling her head. River produces a scanner to check her while Octavian worries they are exposed. River retorts that Octavian's only job is to keep the Doctor safe. If he's dead, she won't forgive herself, but if he's alive, she won't forgive him. She realises he is standing right behind her. They wonder how he escaped the Angels; "Found a crack in the wall and told them it was the end of the universe". When questioned what the crack really is, the Doctor repeats "the end of the universe" and rushes over to Amy.

The Doctor quickly babbles over the fact Amy looked into an Angel's eyes, and an image of an Angel becomes one. He then realizes that the Angels want their victims to use the quantum lock, so they'll look in the Angels eyes and create an image in their brain's visual centre. And there's a copy of Angel Bob in Amy's mind. At "zero", it will pop out of Amy's head, killing her. After internal debate, the Doctor orders Amy to close her eyes; she complies, after fighting off the fear the Angel tried using to stop her. She soon begins to normalise. If she opens them for more than a second, the Angel will escape and she will die. Unable to see, the Doctor suggests she stay in the clearing with the others while he and River proceed to the primary flight deck. Octavian insists that where River goes, he does as well. The Doctor reluctantly agrees, leaving Amy with the remaining Clerics. As they head off, Amy asks him not to leave him.

As she sits waiting, the Doctor suddenly reappears and tells her that it's vital she start trusting him. She asks how she can trust him, as he doesn't always tell her the truth. He says that if he always told the truth, he wouldn't need her to trust him. Amy then asks how the crack in her wall can be here, and the Doctor responds that he doesn't know yet, but he's working it out. He requests that she remember what he told her when she was a little girl. When Amy asks him what he told her, the Doctor tells her that what he said isn't the point... just as long as she remembers. Just as quickly as he arrived, the Doctor is gone again.

As Octavian, River, and the Doctor move through the forest, Octavian tells the Doctor that River is on leave from Stormcage Containment Facility in his custody. Through this mission, she hopes to earn a pardon. While River tries to open the door to the primary flight deck, the Doctor considers the anomalies he has recently noticed: the duckless duck pond in Leadworth; Amy's inability to remember the Dalek invasion of Earth; and the lack of any mention of the CyberKing in Victorian London in the history books. He uses River's scanner to analyse the scan he took from the crack; it reveals that a temporal explosion will occur on 26 June 2010 and cause the cracks in time and space — Amy's time.

The Angels stake out the clearing and begin tearing apart the treeborgs to cut off the power supply to the lights. The lights flicker. When they go out, the Angels are nowhere to be seen. Light projects across the forest from the secondary flight deck. Marco, the squad leader, sends Crispin and Phillip to investigate it. Amy insists on seeing its source, though she will have to open her eyes. When she sees it is the crack from her wall, she collapses and begs to know why it is following her.

The lead cleric, Marco.

Marco orders Pedro to go to the light. Amy reminds him he sent the other two, but he insists there weren't any others. After some time, Marco decides to go and investigate, having forgotten Pedro as well. Amy pleads with him to stay, but Marco foolishly wishes to investigate what the light is. As a compromise, he leaves her a spare communicator and agrees to speak to her through it. As he reaches the crack, his voice vanishes in a crackle of static. Amy is now left alone without anyone to guard her against the Angels: the one in her mind and the ones outside of it.

River opens the door and steps inside while Octavian waits with the Doctor. The Doctor deduces to his own surprise that time can be unwritten; Octavian tells him to hurry inside because of the Angels. "There's more dangerous things here than Angels." the Doctor retorts. The lights go out. When they return, Octavian is trapped in an Angel's stranglehold. Knowing the Doctor cannot save him, Octavian tells him River is in prison for murder and he shouldn't trust her. As the Doctor flees, Octavian's neck is snapped. River tries to get a teleport working as the Doctor explains the cracks. When she challenges his ideas, he responds with growing rage and tells her the teleport is useless.

Amy huddles alone in the forest, blind and with nothing but the communicator. The Doctor contacts her; Amy must make her way to the flight deck. The Angels can only kill her, but the crack can erase her from time. He sends software to the communicator to help her find her way. Terrified, she slowly makes her way across the forest, soon surrounded by the army of Weeping Angels fleeing from the crack. In their own terror, they do not realise her eyes are closed and their defence mechanisms kick in. They figure it out, though, when Amy trips over a root on the ground. They slowly remove the statue guise and move in to kill her.

Just as an Angel reaches towards Amy, River thankfully gets the teleport working and transports her to the flight deck. The Doctor tells River he could kiss her out of happiness, but River tells him to wait until he's older. An alarm goes off, confusing River. The Doctor says its warning the ship is low on power, which means the flight deck will open.

"Bob" tries to get the Doctor to sacrifice himself to close the crack.

The wall lifts up, revealing the Weeping Angels all snarling at them, except for Angel Bob; "Bob" explains the crack will destroy their reality if left unchecked. The Angels have calculated the crack will close if the Doctor throws himself into it. When asked why he should help the Angels, "Bob" tells him it will save River and Amy as well. River, as a time traveller, wants to take the Doctor's place, but he laughs — she is not even as complicated as one Angel and it would take all of them to equal him. He tells her to get a grip. River continues to protest, but the Doctor tells her to seriously get a grip.

River deduces his "genius" plan and has Amy grab onto the console, warning her not to let go. Angel Bob repeats his request for the Doctor to sacrifice himself, but the Doctor reminds them that they've been draining all of the power on the ship, including that of the artificial gravity; with the words "Night-night", the Doctor grabs onto the console and the ship's gravity fails. The planet's gravity field takes over in its place, sending the Angels plummeting into the crack while the Doctor watches in delight. The crack glows brighter and closes.

Later, another squad of Clerics cleans up the camp outside the temple while Amy sits nearby, complaining of aches from climbing out of the Byzantium with her eyes shut. The Doctor likewise did so; Amy tells him that he didn't have to do that. "Neither did you" he states. Since the Angels fell into the crack, the one in her mind never existed now. Amy wonders why she remembers them and the Clerics when they never existed at all; the Clerics all forgot each other and walked straight into the crack. The Doctor explains that, as a time traveller, she now sees things differently.

The Doctor goes to River, who has been handcuffed. She is prepared to teleport up to the prison ship, hoping to have done enough to earn a pardon. The Doctor admits that Octavian told him of River's crime that she murdered a man. River confirms this. When further stating that Octavian told him the victim was a good man, she replies that he was the best man she ever knew. The Doctor asks if he can trust her. River laughs, saying he can if he wants to... "but where's the fun in that?" She also adds that they'll see her next when the Pandorica opens; the Doctor laughs at this, thinking the Pandorica is a fairytale, River responding with "Aren't we all?" She vanishes with the Clerics.

Back in the TARDIS, Amy tells the Doctor she wants to go home. He thinks she means for good, but she insists she has something to show him. "You're running from River. I'm running from something, too." He parks the TARDIS in Amy's bedroom five minutes after they first left. Amy shows him her wedding dress and engagement ring; she is getting married in the morning to Rory Williams.

Amy kisses the Doctor.

Amy says that she needs comforting, after the recent events. She tries to explain to the Doctor "who" she wants, but the Doctor hasn't a clue as to what she is talking about. Seeing he is not going to get hints, Amy tries to kiss him, but he dodges her and stands up. She continues to allude to sexual connotations, all of which the Doctor nervously attempts to fend off. He rebuffs her advances by protesting that he is 907 years old and the kind of relationship she wants will never work out between them.

Amy retorts that she was thinking of a one-night stand, not a relationship. She attempts to undress him and finally kisses him, but he pushes her away, citing her marriage the next morning. Amy thinks he's given in, heading to her bed. Realising that the date of the temporal explosion: 26 June 2010 is the date of Amy's wedding. The Doctor tells her that the most important thing is that he straightens things out with her. He pulls her to the TARDIS, with Amy trying to kiss him again. He pushes her back into the TARDIS just as the clock turns past midnight to the next day.

The cracks in time will be created on Amy's wedding day.

A flashback returns to the conversation River Song and the Doctor were having about the origin of the cracks in time. Amy's wedding day will preclude a catastrophic event. The base code of the universe translates to "[06 2010|26 06 2010]", the date of an explosion that caused the cracks to appear. With that, the Doctor vanishes into the TARDIS.

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Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Whilst trying to figure out the implications of the cracks in time, the Doctor wonders about the CyberKing, and if 21st century Earth's lack of knowledge of its presence is somehow related.
  • The Doctor states his age is nine hundred and seven.
  • River Song says she and the Doctor will meet again when the Pandorica opens; the Doctor claims that the Pandorica is just a fairy tale.

Timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Amy's age and her second encounter with the Doctor are established as taking place in 2008, when she encountered Prisoner Zero, while her third encounter with the Doctor when she left with him took place on the night of 25 June 2010 when Amy is twenty-one.

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • In 2020, Steven Moffat admitted that he should not have played the scene where Amy tries to seduce the Doctor "for laughs", noting that Amy ignoring the Doctor's protests against her overtures does, at the very least, have some rather uncomfortable sexual assault undertones. He admitted that this was the one thing about his era would change.
  • According to Steven Moffat on the 30 March 2010 edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme, Front Row, he struggled to find an appropriate phrase which incorporated the word “Angels” in the title until Joshua pointed out that this was unnecessary, since the presence of the Weeping Angels would have been well-established during The Time of Angels. Playing on the phrase “flesh and bone”, he suggested Flesh and Stone as an alternative, and the name stuck.
  • The title is a play on "flesh and bone", a common idiom referring to a creature's anatomy, since most humans and animals are composed of flesh and a skeletal structure. The title also refers to the Weeping Angels' weakness of turning to stone whenever anyone looks at them, and possibly the fact that Amy thought her hand had turned to stone in the previous episode, The Time of Angels. This was a rumoured title for the episode Gridlock.
  • The Weeping Angels are seen moving for the first time. One Angel is seen moving a hand to grab the Doctor by his jacket, and later they turn their heads when they realise that Amy can't see them.
  • The date shown in the episode, 26/06/2010, would be the broadcast date of the final episode of Series 5, The Big Bang, in Britain. In other countries, it was not aired until later, however.
  • The method the Doctor uses to dispose of the Weeping Angels mirrors his method of vanquishing the Cybermen and Daleks in TV: Doomsday.
  • Amy continues the tradition of female companions kissing the Doctor. However, instead of falling in love with him, Amy had another idea.
  • This episode aired on the same day as the K9 episode Alien Avatar was first broadcast on Disney XD in Britain. It also aired on the same day that Sirens of Ceres was first broadcast on Network Ten in Australia.
  • The episode's final scene leads into Meanwhile in the TARDIS 2.
  • The blue in Amy's bedroom was an idea of Adam Smith to show that it was inspired by the TARDIS from Amy's encounter with the Doctor when she was young.
  • The Doctor's gesture indicating Rory's long nose wasn't in the script. This two-parter was actually the first episodes filmed, before Arthur Darvill had acted on the show, but after he'd been cast. Matt Smith and Darvill were already old friends, so Smith already knew about Darvill's honker and improvised.
  • Steven Moffat came up with the concept for this two-parter when he was thinking of the worst possible situations to be in with the Weeping Angels and thought of the inability to see. His first idea was blindness, though this developed into the situation that Amy ends up in.
  • Matt Smith had difficulty saying: "the forest is full of angels", instead he said: "the angel is full of forests". There's even a t-shirt in existence showing the phrase.
  • In the climactic scene, Karen Gillan had to walk with her eyes closed, which she said was difficult and challenging as the ground was uneven and muddy. She stated that "it was the most scary thing" when she had to trip over a step and fall, even though she was aware of the crash mat. As she was not able to express herself through her eyes, Gillan had to make herself more animated to convey emotion.
  • The scene in which the Doctor, Amy and River are horizontal in mid-air when the gravity field fails on the Byzantium was achieved by using wires and powerful wind machines.
  • The Doctor's rules come into play to defeat the angels: use your enemy's power against them.
  • The Mill remain uncredited in this story.
  • Iain Glen would later appear in Game of Thrones, where his character is touched by a "stonemen" and slowly is watching his skin turn into stone. Here, the men , the soldiers under his command are turning into stone angels around him. Matt Smith would later star in the prequel series House of the Dragon.

Ratings[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • 6.9 million viewers
  • 8.5 million viewers (UK final)[1]

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Rumours[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Amy and Rory will either marry each other or put it on hold at the end of the episode, and Rory will travel in the TARDIS at the end. This was proven false, but Rory joined Amy and the Doctor in the TARDIS in the next episode, and he and Amy got married in the series finale.
  • The Doctor wearing his coat while explaining to Amy it's vital he remembered was an error on the production team's behalf as the Doctor had lost his coat earlier. This was proven false in The Big Bang when it was revealed that conversation took place much later in the Doctor's timeline.

Production errors[[edit] | [edit source]]

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.
  • On first entering the Byzantium, the Weeping Angels' stances change between first breaking in and just before the Doctor must turn the lights off. This is despite the lights being isolated and them always being observed by at least four Clerics.
  • After the Doctor and co make it through the door to the secondary flight deck, a camera is visible on the far right hand side.
  • When the Doctor is searching for a way to open the door to the forest he places his hands on it and it wobbles.
  • When the Doctor is grabbed by a Weeping Angel, the Angel's hand is seen moving along with the Doctor.
  • When Amy lies down on the tree stump her hair is all over her face but on the wide shot her hair is behind her head.
  • While the Doctor is talking to River in the forest, he has both hands behind his back as if tucking in his shirt; however in the next shot he is still in mid-sentence and is suddenly holding his hands in front.
  • While the Doctor talks to River at the end of the episode the position of his right suspender strap switches places from angle to angle.
  • Just after the Doctor leaves with River and Octavian, his future self holds Amy's hand and talks to her. However, he does not wear his normal gold watch, which is replaced with a black one, and does not have the vortex manipulator on his right arm, which he should have had.
  • During the final scene in Amy's bedroom the Doctor looks at Amy's alarm clock. Despite the fact that the conversation was talking about Amy getting married "in the morning" the clock changes from 11:59 AM on 6/25 to 12:00 PM on 6/26, a mysterious 12-hour jump.
  • In the scene where Amy is following the sound of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver, there are points where the light on the screwdriver is off, yet the sound can still clearly be heard on both ends of the communicator.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Home video releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

Series 5 Volume 2 DVD Cover

DVD & Blu-ray releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Series 5, Volume Two was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in region 2/B on 5 July 2010 and region 4/B on 5 August 2010. The volume features The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone and The Vampires of Venice, and the featurette The Monster Diaries.
  • The episode was later released in the Complete Fifth Series boxset on both DVD and Blu-ray, in region 1/A on 9 November 2010, in region 2/B on 8 November 2010 and in region 4/B on 2 December 2010.
  • A DVD-only release of Series 5, Part One, containing the first six episodes of the series, was released in region 1 on 15 March 2016.

Digital releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • In the United Kingdom, this story is available on BBC iPlayer.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Doctor Who Ratings - UK final
  2. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/doctor-who-wales/alllocations/southerndown-beach
  3. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/gloucestershire/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8635000/8635073.stm
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