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Art collector and mob boss, [[Julius Grayle]], has hired private detective [[Sam Garner]], but wonders if Sam believes the reason he has been hired - and that statues can move. Sam simply says he believe what he's told to believe; as long as he's paid. Grayle sends detective Garner to [[Winter Quay]], an apartment building "where the statues live". Once Garner leaves for the Quay, Grayle looks out his office window, and notices one of two statues standing outside his mansion has disappeared when he wasn't looking. When Garner | Art collector and mob boss, [[Julius Grayle]], has hired private detective [[Sam Garner]], but wonders if Sam believes the reason he has been hired - and that statues can move. Sam simply says he believe what he's told to believe; as long as he's paid. Grayle sends detective Garner to [[Winter Quay]], an apartment building "where the statues live". Once Garner leaves for the Quay, Grayle looks out his office window, and notices one of two statues standing outside his mansion has disappeared when he wasn't looking. When Garner arrivebs at Winter Quay, he notices the residents of the Quay and the surrounding apartment buildings watching his arrival with dread. A little girl sees him from the window of a building across from the Quay, mimicking weeping; he ignores this, thinking the girl is playing games. Garner enters the Quay, unaware of a [[Weeping Angel]] sitting on a plinth near the building awakens as he enters. | ||
Garner enters a room in Winter Quay that has his name on it, unaware of the Angels stalking him through the building. He encounters an elderly version of himself, who warns him that "they" are going to send him back in time now he is there. Garner is then attacked by the Weeping Angels. He manages to avoid them, as something large is heard approaching Winter Quay from outside. When he finds the Angels have blocked the stairwell, Garner is forced onto the roof and comes face to face with the snarling [[Statue of Liberty]], revealed to be a Weeping Angel of gigantic size. As he succumbs to his fate, someone is writing about Garner's demise on a typewriter. | Garner enters a room in Winter Quay that has his name on it, unaware of the Angels stalking him through the building. He encounters an elderly version of himself, who warns him that "they" are going to send him back in time now he is there. Garner is then attacked by the Weeping Angels. He manages to avoid them, as something large is heard approaching Winter Quay from outside. When he finds the Angels have blocked the stairwell, Garner is forced onto the roof and comes face to face with the snarling [[Statue of Liberty]], revealed to be a Weeping Angel of gigantic size. As he succumbs to his fate, someone is writing about Garner's demise on a typewriter. | ||
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In 2012 [[New York]], the Doctor and the Ponds are having a picnic in Central Park. Amy is annoyed by the Doctor's habit of reading his pulp paperback novel, ''[[Melody Malone: Private Detective in Old New York Town]]'', out loud, while he in turn is perturbed by Amy's use of reading glasses. The Doctor tells Amy that he doesn't like her glasses because they make her eye look "all liney". After taking Amy's glasses off, he realises that the lines are minor wrinkles in her skin and that her eyes look better with with the glasses. Amy then starts arguing with the Doctor about how she looks, asking Rory (who is a safe distance away from his wife) if there are lines around her eyes. Rory claims he never noticed them, walking back to his wife, who happily kisses him. Rory goes off to get more coffee for them as Amy tells the Doctor to tell her a story. The Doctor is amused she has changed her mind. The Doctor tears out the last page, telling Amy that he hates endings. The story will never end now, for him. | In 2012 [[New York]], the Doctor and the Ponds are having a picnic in Central Park. Amy is annoyed by the Doctor's habit of reading his pulp paperback novel, ''[[Melody Malone: Private Detective in Old New York Town]]'', out loud, while he in turn is perturbed by Amy's use of reading glasses. The Doctor tells Amy that he doesn't like her glasses because they make her eye look "all liney". After taking Amy's glasses off, he realises that the lines are minor wrinkles in her skin and that her eyes look better with with the glasses. Amy then starts arguing with the Doctor about how she looks, asking Rory (who is a safe distance away from his wife) if there are lines around her eyes. Rory claims he never noticed them, walking back to his wife, who happily kisses him. Rory goes off to get more coffee for them as Amy tells the Doctor to tell her a story. The Doctor is amused she has changed her mind. The Doctor tears out the last page, telling Amy that he hates endings. The story will never end now, for him. | ||
On Rory's way back, he hears the sound of children giggling, as a stone cherub under ''Angel of the Waters'' in [[Bethesda_Terrace#Bethesda_Fountain|Bethesda Fountain]] disappears. As Rory passes an archway and enters a darkened [[Wikipedia:Bethesda Terrace|Bethesda Terrace]], the giggling gets closer and closer. In the meantime, the Doctor's book says Melody saw a thin man appear on [[3 April]] [[1938]], and followed him until he noticed her; the Doctor is shocked by what the thin man says to Melody: "I was just getting coffee for the Doctor and Amy. Hello, River." "Hello, Dad," [[River Song]] replies. The Doctor and Amy run to the TARDIS, while in 1938 Rory questions River about how he got there as he was just walking under the archway in the park. River tells him she has not idea, but he better put his hands up; armed men are surrounding them. | On Rory's way back, he hears the sound of children giggling, as a stone cherub under ''Angel of the Waters'' in [[Wikipedia:Bethesda_Terrace#Bethesda_Fountain|Bethesda Fountain]] disappears. As Rory passes an archway and enters a darkened [[Wikipedia:Bethesda Terrace|Bethesda Terrace]], the giggling gets closer and closer. In the meantime, the Doctor's book says Melody saw a thin man appear on [[3 April]] [[1938]], and followed him until he noticed her; the Doctor is shocked by what the thin man says to Melody: "I was just getting coffee for the Doctor and Amy. Hello, River." "Hello, Dad," [[River Song]] replies. The Doctor and Amy run to the TARDIS, while in 1938 Rory questions River about how he got there as he was just walking under the archway in the park. River tells him she has not idea, but he better put his hands up; armed men are surrounding them. | ||
In the meantime, the Doctor and Amy have boarded the TARDIS as Amy continues reading from the book, which has River saying the TARDIS cannot land in New York during this time because of several [[time distortion]]s. Comparing it to trying to land a plane in a blizzard, she says even she couldn't do it. An annoyed Doctor attempts to land the TARDIS, but it is bounced back to [[2012]] New York by a wall of temporal energy. Landing in a cemetery in Queens, the Doctor tells Amy to stop reading ahead in the book because reading the events written in it causes them to become [[Fixed points in time|fixed in time]]. However, Amy has read that River and Rory have been taken to Grayle's mansion (406 94th Street, Manhattan), where River comments on the mob boss's taste in [[Qin]] artifacts. Hearing this, the Doctor figures out how to get "landing lights". Going back to [[BC#3rd century B.C.|221 BCE]], he leaves a message on one of the vases: "Yowza!" (in [[Wikipedia:Clerical Chinese]]). | In the meantime, the Doctor and Amy have boarded the TARDIS as Amy continues reading from the book, which has River saying the TARDIS cannot land in New York during this time because of several [[time distortion]]s. Comparing it to trying to land a plane in a blizzard, she says even she couldn't do it. An annoyed Doctor attempts to land the TARDIS, but it is bounced back to [[2012]] New York by a wall of temporal energy. Landing in a cemetery in Queens, the Doctor tells Amy to stop reading ahead in the book because reading the events written in it causes them to become [[Fixed points in time|fixed in time]]. However, Amy has read that River and Rory have been taken to Grayle's mansion (406 94th Street, Manhattan), where River comments on the mob boss's taste in [[Qin]] artifacts. Hearing this, the Doctor figures out how to get "landing lights". Going back to [[BC#3rd century B.C.|221 BCE]], he leaves a message on one of the vases: "Yowza!" (in [[Wikipedia:Clerical Chinese]]). | ||
