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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 believes 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 arrives 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 her and enters the Quay, unaware as a [[Weeping Angel]] sitting on a plinth near the building awakening as he enters. | 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 believes 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 arrives 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 her and enters the Quay, unaware as a [[Weeping Angel]] sitting on a plinth near the building awakening as he enters. | ||
[[File: | [[File:Statue of Liberty at Winter Quay.jpg|thumb|left|The Statue of Liberty at Winter Quay.]] | ||
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 that 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. He 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 that 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. He 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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Something large is heard approaching Winter Quay, forcing the group to decide that Rory and River's plan will work. Amy and Rory run out, but the Doctor and River are forced back into the room by two Weeping Angels. Amy and Rory enter the stairway, seeing an Angel is blocking the way out downwards. Thus, they climb up to the roof, where they are confronted by the snarling [[Statue of Liberty]]. Back inside, the Doctor causes a distraction that allows him and River to escape the Angels via the fire escape. Back on the roof, Rory sees the only way out is to jump and commit [[suicide]], thereby preventing the Angels from sending him back in time to become the aged Rory who just died, creating a paradox which would kill the Angels and keep him from having been sent back. Amy tries talking him out of it, but Rory defends the idea by reminding her that he has died and come back to life numerous times before. Amy decides to jump with Rory just as the Doctor and River reach the roof. Before the Doctor can stop Amy or Rory, the two jump from the roof, and embrace as they fall to their deaths. The paradox that Rory's death has created then begins to take effect. | Something large is heard approaching Winter Quay, forcing the group to decide that Rory and River's plan will work. Amy and Rory run out, but the Doctor and River are forced back into the room by two Weeping Angels. Amy and Rory enter the stairway, seeing an Angel is blocking the way out downwards. Thus, they climb up to the roof, where they are confronted by the snarling [[Statue of Liberty]]. Back inside, the Doctor causes a distraction that allows him and River to escape the Angels via the fire escape. Back on the roof, Rory sees the only way out is to jump and commit [[suicide]], thereby preventing the Angels from sending him back in time to become the aged Rory who just died, creating a paradox which would kill the Angels and keep him from having been sent back. Amy tries talking him out of it, but Rory defends the idea by reminding her that he has died and come back to life numerous times before. Amy decides to jump with Rory just as the Doctor and River reach the roof. Before the Doctor can stop Amy or Rory, the two jump from the roof, and embrace as they fall to their deaths. The paradox that Rory's death has created then begins to take effect. | ||
[[File: | [[File:The ending angel.jpg|thumb|The surviving Angel.]] | ||
The group awake back in the cemetery in 2012 New York with the TARDIS, relieved to be alive, and the Doctor happily explains that Winter Quay's negation from the timeline by the paradox meant that they never went there in the first place. Rory complains that when they came to New York, he wanted to go to a pub. The Doctor decides they can all do that; a family outing. However, as everyone boards the TARDIS, Rory notices a gravestone with his name on it, and immediately vanishes; a surviving Angel has sneaked up behind Rory and sent him back in time, and the group notice that Rory's gravestone now reads that he was 82 years of age when he died. | The group awake back in the cemetery in 2012 New York with the TARDIS, relieved to be alive, and the Doctor happily explains that Winter Quay's negation from the timeline by the paradox meant that they never went there in the first place. Rory complains that when they came to New York, he wanted to go to a pub. The Doctor decides they can all do that; a family outing. However, as everyone boards the TARDIS, Rory notices a gravestone with his name on it, and immediately vanishes; a surviving Angel has sneaked up behind Rory and sent him back in time, and the group notice that Rory's gravestone now reads that he was 82 years of age when he died. | ||
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== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
[[File:AngelsTakeManhattanPlayset.jpg|thumb|''The Angels Take Manhattan'' [[Character Options]] playset]] | [[File:AngelsTakeManhattanPlayset.jpg|thumb|''The Angels Take Manhattan'' [[Character Options]] playset]] | ||
* In-universe, ''[[Melody Malone: Private Detective in Old New York Town]]'' is written by [[River Song]] based on what happened to her in New York just before and during the events of [[TV]]: ''The Angels Take Manhattan''. [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery]]'' is an e-book tie-in novel, written by [[Justin Richards]], that segues into the events of River's book and [[TV]]: ''The Angels Take Manhattan''. It was released on [[4 October (releases)|4 October]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]].<ref>http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/09/27/doctor-whos-first-e-book-exclusive-inspired-by-the-angels-take-manhattan/</ref><ref>http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/09/melody-malone-270912171508.html</ref> | * In-universe, ''[[Melody Malone: Private Detective in Old New York Town]]'' is written by [[River Song]] based on what happened to her in New York just before and during the events of [[TV]]: ''The Angels Take Manhattan''. [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery (novel)|The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery]]'' is an e-book tie-in novel, written by [[Justin Richards]], that segues into the events of River's book and [[TV]]: ''The Angels Take Manhattan''. It was released on [[4 October (releases)|4 October]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]].<ref>http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/09/27/doctor-whos-first-e-book-exclusive-inspired-by-the-angels-take-manhattan/</ref><ref>http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/09/melody-malone-270912171508.html</ref> | ||
* This is the first episode to feature River Song that is neither part of a two-parter nor at least preceded by a cameo appearance of River in the previous episode. | * This is the first episode to feature River Song that is neither part of a two-parter nor at least preceded by a cameo appearance of River in the previous episode. | ||
* This story features the last appearance of the Matt Smith title sequence that debuted in ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''. Beginning with ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'', a new title sequence was used, and overall this is the last revived series Doctor Who story title sequence to feature only the time vortex - a concept which had been used since 2005. | * This story features the last appearance of the Matt Smith title sequence that debuted in ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''. Beginning with ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'', a new title sequence was used, and overall this is the last revived series Doctor Who story title sequence to feature only the time vortex - a concept which had been used since 2005. | ||
* Similarly, this episode features the last usage of the TARDIS console room that debuted in ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''. | * Similarly, this episode features the last usage of the TARDIS console room that debuted in ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''. | ||
* It is also currently the last episode in which the [[Doctor Who theme|theme music]] includes the counter-melody known as "the chase." | * It is also currently the last episode in which the [[Doctor Who theme|theme music]] includes the counter-melody known as "the chase." | ||
[[File: | [[File:DWLogoS7 Angels Take Manhattan.jpg|thumb|The ''Doctor Who'' logo with its Statue of Liberty texture.]] | ||
* As with all of the Series 7 part 1 episodes, this episode has individually stylized opening credits: the time vortex appears blue and grey and the [[Doctor Who logo|''Doctor Who'' logo]] resembles the Statue of Liberty in colour and pattern. | * As with all of the Series 7 part 1 episodes, this episode has individually stylized opening credits: the time vortex appears blue and grey and the [[Doctor Who logo|''Doctor Who'' logo]] resembles the Statue of Liberty in colour and pattern. | ||
* Amy asks the Doctor to return to meet a young Amelia Pond the morning after he left her waiting in the garden in ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'' to tell her about the adventures they will have together. The older Amy was dreaming about that morning when the Doctor came back to pick her up the night before her wedding at the end of ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''. Steven Moffat said of the scene, "After showing Amelia Pond in the garden as a young girl in ''The Eleventh Hour'', Karen's first episode, the final shot in Saturday's ''The Angels Take Manhattan'' is a punchline I have been waiting to tell for two and a half years." | * Amy asks the Doctor to return to meet a young Amelia Pond the morning after he left her waiting in the garden in ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'' to tell her about the adventures they will have together. The older Amy was dreaming about that morning when the Doctor came back to pick her up the night before her wedding at the end of ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''. Steven Moffat said of the scene, "After showing Amelia Pond in the garden as a young girl in ''The Eleventh Hour'', Karen's first episode, the final shot in Saturday's ''The Angels Take Manhattan'' is a punchline I have been waiting to tell for two and a half years." | ||
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* The afterword Amy wrote in ''[[Melody Malone: Private Detective in Old New York Town]]'' was a message for the Doctor, which made reference to various adventures the Doctor and Amy had had together: saving [[Star whale (The Beast Below)|a whale]] in space ([[TV]]: ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]''), fighting [[pirate]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot (TV story)|The Curse of the Black Spot]]''), inspiring [[Vincent van Gogh|a great artist]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)|Vincent and the Doctor]]''), and falling in love with [[Rory Williams|a man]] who would wait [[Rory Williams (Auton)|two thousand years]] for her. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') | * The afterword Amy wrote in ''[[Melody Malone: Private Detective in Old New York Town]]'' was a message for the Doctor, which made reference to various adventures the Doctor and Amy had had together: saving [[Star whale (The Beast Below)|a whale]] in space ([[TV]]: ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]''), fighting [[pirate]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot (TV story)|The Curse of the Black Spot]]''), inspiring [[Vincent van Gogh|a great artist]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)|Vincent and the Doctor]]''), and falling in love with [[Rory Williams|a man]] who would wait [[Rory Williams (Auton)|two thousand years]] for her. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') | ||
* Amy asks the Doctor to return to meet a young Amelia Pond the morning after he left her waiting in the garden to tell her about the adventures they will have together. The older Amy was dreaming about that morning when the Doctor came back to pick her up the night before her wedding. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') | * Amy asks the Doctor to return to meet a young Amelia Pond the morning after he left her waiting in the garden to tell her about the adventures they will have together. The older Amy was dreaming about that morning when the Doctor came back to pick her up the night before her wedding. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') | ||
* River mentions that she was pardoned from prison because the man she killed never existed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'', ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'') Oswin erased the Doctor from the Daleks' memories in [[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]''. The conversation between River and the Doctor (and the fact that [[Solomon (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)|Solomon]] couldn't find info about the Doctor or his TARDIS ([[TV]]: ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'') implies the Doctor is responsible for the other erasures, as he was "getting too big". One of these erasures was indeed caused by him, involving a memory-proofing of all the [[Inforarium]] data archives about him. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[The Inforarium]]'') | * River mentions that she was pardoned from prison because the man she killed never existed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'', ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'') Oswin erased the Doctor from the Daleks' memories in [[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]''. The conversation between River and the Doctor (and the fact that [[Solomon (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)|Solomon]] couldn't find info about the Doctor or his TARDIS ([[TV]]: ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'') implies the Doctor is responsible for the other erasures, as he was "getting too big". One of these erasures was indeed caused by him, involving a memory-proofing of all the [[Inforarium]] data archives about him. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[The Inforarium (home video)|The Inforarium]]'') | ||
* River says that she is a professor now. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'') | * River says that she is a professor now. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'') | ||
* While on the roof contemplating jumping, Rory makes a reference to his history of having died multiple times and coming back to life each time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Amy's Choice (TV story)|Amy's Choice]]'', ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'', ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot (TV story)|The Curse of the Black Spot]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') | * While on the roof contemplating jumping, Rory makes a reference to his history of having died multiple times and coming back to life each time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Amy's Choice (TV story)|Amy's Choice]]'', ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'', ''[[The Curse of the Black Spot (TV story)|The Curse of the Black Spot]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'') | ||
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* The Doctor uses the [[extractor fan]]s once more. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') | * The Doctor uses the [[extractor fan]]s once more. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') | ||
* River tells Amy that the Doctor doesn't like to see his companions age. The Doctor once indicated the same. ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'') | * River tells Amy that the Doctor doesn't like to see his companions age. The Doctor once indicated the same. ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'') | ||
* Amy again encounters the Weeping Angels. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]''/''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Good as Gold (TV story)|Good as Gold]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Touched by an Angel (novel)|Touched by an Angel]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic of the Angels (novel)|Magic of the Angels]]''). If the 'fake' angel that was generated as a representative of Gibbis' worst fear is taken into consideration then it would be her fifth encounter with them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The God Complex]]'') | * Amy again encounters the Weeping Angels. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]''/''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Good as Gold (TV story)|Good as Gold]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Touched by an Angel (novel)|Touched by an Angel]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic of the Angels (novel)|Magic of the Angels]]''). If the 'fake' angel that was generated as a representative of Gibbis' worst fear is taken into consideration then it would be her fifth encounter with them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'') | ||
* When trying to materialise in 1938, [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] makes the same malfunctioning sound it has made previously. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'') | * When trying to materialise in 1938, [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] makes the same malfunctioning sound it has made previously. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'') | ||
* While in this episode a [[Temporal paradox|paradox]] leads to the Angels' destruction, in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Touched by an Angel (novel)|Touched by an Angel]]'', the Angels try to create a paradox to feed. Since zapping a person into the past creates a paradox, it seems there are good and bad paradoxes. Good paradoxes involve the creation of time energy and alternate realities through transporting people through time, while bad ones change the timeline of the | * While in this episode a [[Temporal paradox|paradox]] leads to the Angels' destruction, in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Touched by an Angel (novel)|Touched by an Angel]]'', the Angels try to create a paradox to feed. Since zapping a person into the past creates a paradox, it seems there are good and bad paradoxes. Good paradoxes involve the creation of time energy and alternate realities through transporting people through time, while bad ones change the timeline of the Angels, poisoning their food. | ||
* River encourages Amy to go ahead with her plan to join Rory in the past. River was in New York City in [[1969]] at an earlier point in her adult life, before she was pardoned. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') | * River encourages Amy to go ahead with her plan to join Rory in the past. River was in New York City in [[1969]] at an earlier point in her adult life, before she was pardoned. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') | ||
* The Doctor stated that he liked the picture on the cover of ''Melody Malone'', unaware that it was a drawing of his wife and her décolletage. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'') | * The Doctor stated that he liked the picture on the cover of ''Melody Malone'', unaware that it was a drawing of his wife and her décolletage. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'') | ||
