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The episode opens with the Doctor in France getting caught posing nude for a female painter, then it cuts to Rory and Amy in what appears to be their new home while Rory has Laurel and Hardy on. When they aren't looking the doctor wearing a Fez comes up to the screen and waves. The mail comes and they receive a TARDIS blue envelope that has the number 3 on the back, the envelope just has the date and coordinates for Utah, USA. It cuts to the Storm cage where River gets her mail and receives the same envelope but with a 2 on the back and she escapes.
Rory and Amy arrive in Utah and meet up with The Doctor who sent the envelopes, River arrives, they stop at a diner and compare diaries. This Doctor and River seem pretty in sync, so they have a picnic, he mentions they have a mission in 1969 regarding the moon.
Amy asks how old he is and says he is now 1103, Amy states last time they saw him two months prior he was only 908. So this Doctor is the Future Doctor - 300 years in the future. Amy looks a cliff and sees a Silent and flips out but she looks down and forgets. The Doctor says the line from the Trailer about needing to stop running, and when he looks at a cliff he sees an old man standing there, turns around and the Astronaut is in the water.
He approaches the Astronaut says it's OK I know who you are and what you are going to do. As he opens the Spaceman's visor the camera pans so you don't see who it is. Amy, Rory and River wondering from a distance who it is. Then next thing you know BAM! The Spaceman fires a laser gun at him. BAM! Again fires more shots. He looks at his hands as they start to glow gold and I think he said I'm sorry its happening again. And right before he was about to burst in regenerative energy BAM! He gets shot one more time. They run to him all flipping out and River is furiously firing her gun at the Spaceman, Amy seeing The Silent again, The Doctor is dead. No life signs, no regeneration. Just dead.
The old man comes down. He has a TARDIS blue envelope as well. His is numbered 4. It's an aged Canton Everett Delaware The 3rd. And he brought a can of kerosene/gasoline to burn the Doctor's body. Rory decides to do it "with honour" as he spots a rowboat. They place the doctor's body inside and set it on fire and push it out into the water. When they head back to the diner, Amy notices another TARDIS blue envelope with the number 1, they ask the diner who it is and he just says some guy but he is in the bathroom, River surmises who it is and asks who does the Doctor trust the most. The door opens and out pops The Doctor. Looking goofy as ever saying he just went to get his favorite straw because it makes drinks more fizzy. River calls him cruel, Amy and Rory are in shock. River tells Amy to ask how old he is and he says he is 908.
At the end of Episode 1 you find out who Amy shoots. It's the girl calling Nixonb in the Teaser, she is trapped in the spacesuit, which can move on its on. She is a prisoner of the Silents. Amy and Canton go to investigate the home she is from, Amy find her room and see her pictures, one of which is Amy holding a baby. Rory and River have to save the Doctor from NASA because he got arrested.
The Doctor goes to the Silence' base which River and Rory found in episode 1 (its the Lodger TARDIS or at least a duplicate) and The Doctor pretty much lays down the law. Saying he hates guns but River not so much. She would easily kill 8 of them without hesitation. Stuff happens River starts killing Silents, Rory tries to save Amy, the Doctor sonics her free and then joins River in the onslaught and uses the Sonic Screwdriver as a weapon shooting energy blasts. They return Canton to the White House and then are on their way and you cut to the final scene.
You see a hobo going through the trash and she comes stumbling through. He asks " are you alright little girl?" and she says "No ::cough cough:: I'm dying..." The homeless man sounds startled and confused "... but it's OK" she says "because it's starting" her hands and body starts to glow bright orange and energy starts to float off of her, the hobo gets scared and runs away and WOOOOOOOOSH! This unknown 6-8 year old girl starts regenerating. And then it cuts to the credits.