The Eleventh Hour (TV story): Difference between revisions

After sustaining major damage from the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s regeneration, [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] is flying wildly through [[London]]. An explosion on the console throws open the doors and the [[Eleventh Doctor]] is barely hanging onto the edge of the entrance. As he tries to get back in, the Doctor notices the TARDIS is heading towards [[Big Ben]]. Using his [[sonic screwdriver]], the Doctor manages to divert the the TARDIS. Before he can relax, another explosion makes it spin wildly off into the distance

 

 

In 1996, [[Amy Pond|Amelia]] is praying to Santa in her bedroom. There is a [[Time Field|crack]] in her wall she wants mended. She hears a crashes and runs to the window. She sees the crashed TARDIS and goes to investigate. The TARDIS doors fly open and the Doctor pulls himself out. He asks her for an [[apple]] because his regeneration's aftereffects are giving him a craving. After the Doctor tries a variety of foods (including [[yoghurt]], [[bacon]], [[bean]]s, and [[butter]]ed [[bread]]), the he decides on [[fish finger]]s and [[custard]].

 

 

The Doctor investigates the crack in Amelia's wall. He deduces that it is a crack in time and space. Listening to the wall, he hears a voice saying ''"Prisoner Zero has escaped"''; there is a prison on the other side of this crack, with an inmate missing. To close the crack, the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to fully open it. While it's open, an Atraxi sends him a message: 'Prisoner Zero has escaped'. He surmises that Prisoner Zero escaped through the crack because it acted like a wormhole. The Doctor investigates the corridor and senses he's missing something in the corner of his eye. The cloister bells chime, warning that the engines are going to overload and he rushes back to the TARDIS to fix it, promising Amelia to return in five minutes. An excited Amelia goes to pack her things, not noticing that the door the Doctor was about to discover has mysteriously opened.

 

The Doctor again shows up at Amelia's garden in day time, and runs into the house. He's figured out what he was missing andAmelia's life is in danger. He is looking around the house when someone behind him whacks him on the head with a cricket bat. When he wakes -- hand-cuffed to a radiator -- the Doctor is confronted by a young woman in a police uniform. He asks about Amelia Pond. The woman says that Amelia hasn't lived in the house for six months. The Doctor asks her to count the number of rooms on the floor. She counts five, but the Doctor says six, One is protected by a perception filter. The woman is shocked. She investigates the room, ignoring the Doctor's warnings. She finds the sonic screwdriver stuck to a table by goo. She picks it up and comes face to face with [[Prisoner Zero]]. Startled, she runs back to the Doctor and gives him his sonic screwdriver.

The Doctor locks the door and tries to free himself. Prisoner Zero breaks through the door and emerges as a man with a dog. However, the creature doesn't seem to be able to copy two voices at once, and both mouths bark. The Doctor says that the policewoman had called for back up. The woman, tells him that the radio is fake, she hasn't called for backup, and she isn't a police woman, but a kiss-o-gram. She whips off her police hat, revealing long bright red hair. The [[Atraxi]] captain is  heard: ''"Attention Prisoner Zero the human residence is surrounded"'' followed by ''"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated"'' over and over. Back at the local hospital several patients in comas keep repeating one word: "Doctor". One of the people in a coma is a double of the form that Prisoner Zero has taken.

The Doctor and the woman go outside to the TARDIS  but the Doctor can't open it because it's repairing itself. He notices the shed which he smashed when he crash-landed. He licks it , The shed is twelve years old. He asks the woman why she had said six months had passed, when in fact twelve years had. In reply, she angrily yells ''"Why did you say five minutes!?"'' - in a Scottish accent. The young woman is an adult Amelia Pond, embittered about the Doctor leaving her all those years ago. Prisoner Zero barks at the entrance and they flee into the street where  the message from the Atraxi is repeated over and over again, on all wavelengths throughout the world. The Doctor realizes this means that when the Atraxi are saying that they are going to incinerate the human residence, they mean the Earth.

The Doctor and Amelia investigate the transmissions, which are being broadcast across the globe, entering the home of Amelia's friend [[Jeff Angelo]] and [[Angelo (The Eleventh Hour)|his grandmother]]. They recognize the "Raggedy Doctor" from drawings Amelia did as a child. While in the Angelo's home, Amelia reveals that she is now calling herself Amy.

The Atraxi put the earth in a forcefield, preparing to boil it. The Doctor recovers and notices a nurse taking a picture of Prisoner Zero in the nearby park instead of the obscured sun. The Doctor announces he can save the world and tells Amy to help him or run home and say good-bye to loved ones.  Amy slams the Doctor's tie in a car door, demanding to know his identity. The Doctor persuades her to trust him by showing her the apple she gave him when she was seven, still fresh. Amy releases the Doctor's tie and they run into the park.

The Doctor takes the nurse's cell phone and asks why he was taking that photo. Amy introduces him as her "sort of boyfriend", [[Rory Williams]]. Rory explains that the man Prisoner Zero is disguised as can't be there because he's in the hospital in a coma. Confronting Prisoner Zero, the Doctor tells him that the Atraxi are scanning for non-terrestrial technology. He uses his sonic screwdriver to attract the attention of the Atraxi. Unfortunately the screwdriver overloads and burns out.

With the distraction gone, Prisoner Zero escapes into a sewer. Figuring that it would take approximately twenty minutes for the Atraxi to power up their weapons and then incinerate the planet, the Doctor sends Rory and Amy to the hospital to clear out the coma ward. Prisoner Zero has beat them there and is killing all the conscious people in the ward. The Doctor heads to Jeff's room and uses his laptop to talk with all the "big boys": NASA, Tokyo Space Center, Patrick Moore, etc. Using Rory's phone, he writes a virus to turn every single digital display in the world into a list of zeros, uploads it to the web via the laptop, telling them to get it spread across the world.  

At the hospital, Amy and Rory have gotten past security thanks to her kiss-o-gram outfit. They meet a mother and her two daughters who survived Prisoner Zero's attack on the ward. Amy phones the Doctor, who has commandeered a fire engine to reach the hospital, telling him Prisoner Zero is there The Doctor tells them to leave, but one of the daughters talking in the mother's voice. Prisoner Zero apologizes for getting it wrong and chases Amy and Rory into the room the coma patients are.

The Doctor rams the firetruck's ladder into the window of the ward and asks Prisoner Zero to surrender by removing its disguise. Prisoner Zero refuses as the Doctor's virus takes hold on the clock behind them and all around the world for all digital devices. The Doctor tells him Rory took pictures of all his forms and uploaded them to the Atraxi. Prisoner Zero uses the link it formed with Amy to take the form of the Doctor holding onto Amy's hand. The Doctor uses his telepathy to have Amy dream of Prisoner Zero's true form. Prisoner Zero reverts and is about to attack the Doctor, but the Atraxi catch him in a paralyaing light and begin to teleport him away. Prisoner Zero snarls ominously at the Doctor ''"The Pandorica will open. Silence will fall... Silence, Doctor. Silence will fall"''.

With the threat ended, Amy awakes. The Doctor then calls back the Atraxi under rules of the Shadow Proclamation. The Doctor heads into the locker room and changes out of his ragged clothes, replacing them with fresh ones. On the roof, the Doctor uses his reputation to scare the Atraxi away from the planet. It runs as the Doctor notices his [[TARDIS key]] is glowing - the TARDIS has recovered and is waiting for him. The Doctor dashes off to the rebuilt TARDIS to see what is in store for him, and his eyes open with wonder as he beholds the newly repaired console room. Amy runs back to her garden, only to find the TARDIS fading.

Two years later, the Doctor returns to Amy, who had been having a dream about the first time she waited for him. She angrily informs him of the time she has been waiting for him since his last visit. The Doctor says she's waited long enough, and asks her to join him as a companion. She initially refuses, but changes her mind when the Doctor opens the TARDIS doors. Amy forces the Doctor to promise to bring her back to [[Leadworth]] by tomorrow morning, though she doesn't say why. the Doctor activates the controls and they vanish into the [[Time Vortex]]. The reason becomes clear soon enough to the audience, though; her bedroom is revealed to contain a few partially packed suitcases filled with her childhood dolls and cartoons of the Doctor.... and a wedding dress hanging on the wardrobe door.