The Rings of Akhaten (TV story): Difference between revisions

The wind blows autumn leaves and a wooden gate closes. One large, reddish-orange [[Clara's leaf|leaf]] rattles on the [[tree]]. [[Dave Oswald|A young man]] dressed in a suit, fumbles with an unfolded map as he walks down a pavement. The Doctor peers out from behind a copy of ''[[The Beano]] Summer Special [[1981]]''. The young man looks around in confusion when suddenly a leaf falls from the tree into his face. He stumbles into the street and the path of an oncoming car, but is pulled aside by [[Ellie Oswald|a young woman]]. She asks if he is all right and he smiles.

Sometime later, the two are sharing an [[umbrella]] and stumble up to a doorway in laughter. He pulls out the leaf and she asks why he kept it. He explains that "this precise leaf had to grow in that precise way, in that precise place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch, and make it fly into this precise face at that exact moment. And if just one of those tiny little things had never happened, I'd never have met you. Which makes this the most important leaf in human history." They kiss; the Doctor frowns and walks away in the rain.

A teenage Clara, holding her mother's book, stands with her father in mourning over the [[gravestone]] for "Ellie Oswald, beloved wife and mother, born [[11 September]] [[1960]], died [[5 March]] [[2005]]." Hiding behind a tree, the Doctor watches as neither Oswald can find the words to comfort each other. He returns to the TARDIS, which shows an image of Clara graduating high school on the monitor; he's been investigating her past to make sure she's just a human girl. Information on Oswin, Victorian Clara and the present day version appear rapidly on the screen, much to his increasing disbelief. Frustrated, he pushes the screen away and declares, "She's not possible."

[[2013]]. Clara is sitting on the stairway outside [[30 Oak Street|her home]] with her book; she seems impatient, waiting for the Doctor to arrive. She hears the TARDIS land, the door open, and she smiles and jumps up as the doorbell rings.

In the [[TARDIS console room]], she asks about the nature of [[time]] ("not made of [[Strawberry|strawberries]]"), and if the TARDIS can go anywhere ("within reason"). The Doctor asks her where she wants to go and see. Clara freezes, saying she doesn't know; it's like forgetting what your favourite book when someone asks you. The Doctor patiently waits by the controls, as Clara thinks to herself about where to go. She smiles and says she wants to see "something awesome". The Doctor complies and begins working at the controls.

Clara asks to go see it, and the Doctor complies parking the TARDIS in an [[alien]] market.