Rory's Story (webcast)

Rory's Story
Script release:	Adventures in Lockdown
Main character(s):	Rory Williams
Featuring:	Amy
Main setting:	Amy and Rory Williams' home, New York City, 1946
Key crew
Writer:	Neil Gaiman
Producer:	Emily Cook
Music:	Blair Mowat
Release details
Premiere broadcast:	11 April 2020
Premiere network:	YouTube
Format:	1x2 min 30 sec minisode
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You may be looking for the comic story of the same name.

Rory's Story was a webcast mini-episode that was made specifically for the Doctor Who: Lockdown! event, to coincide with the global online rewatch of The Doctor's Wife. It was also a direct sequel to the partially unfinished mini-episode P.S., as it written around Anthony Williams. Amy and Rory's adopted son, who was introduced in P.S..

Plot

Rory is in his home in 1946, recording a dictation for a book he's writing for his future adopted son Anthony on "the only working smart phone in the world", as Anthony is to be brought to his home in a week's time. After admitting that he is not a writer, he proceeds to recount the chapters he has already written. He is about to enter the next chapter entitled "I'm the Pretty One", when his wife, Amy Williams, calls for him to come and help her paint the baby's room — to which he hurriedly shuts off the phone to go and do so, so as not to earn Amy's ire.

Cast

• Rory - Arthur Darvill
• Amy - Karen Gillan (voice only)

Crew

• Writer - Neil Gaiman
• Music - Blair Mowat

(Based on a theme by Murray Gold)

• Producer - Emily Cook
• With Thanks To Steven Moffat & Abigail Scarfe

Worldbuilding

• In 1945, World War II has finally ended.
• Rory introduces the "next chapter" in his book, calling it "I'm the Pretty One".
• Amy demands that Rory come and help her paint the baby's room, in preparation for Anthony.

Notes

• The script for this story was later published in Adventures in Lockdown.

Continuity

• Rory notes that Amy wrote the Melody Malone books. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)
• Rory mentions meeting Amy at school, "about 43 years from now", (TV: Let's Kill Hitler etc.) and becoming her fiancé. (TV: The Eleventh Hour, The Vampires of Venice)
• He recalls getting killed by an old lady in a dream. (TV: Amy's Choice)
• Rory mentions getting killed by a Silurian and then ceasing to exist entirely. (TV: Cold Blood)
• He goes on to speak of being a plastic Centurion, guarding Amy for 2000 years. He says he then died once more as the universe ended, before getting married. (TV: The Big Bang)
• Rory notes he was shot on a dam. (TV: Day of the Moon)
• Rory recounts drowning, being subsequently rescued by a mermaid, and finally saved by Amy with CPR. (TV: The Curse of the Black Spot)
• In the "chapter that follows", Amy had to contend with an old and angry Rory, who also died. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
• Rory says he and Amy used to hang out with Anthony's "future brother-in-law". (TV: A Good Man Goes to War, The Wedding of River Song)