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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
The episode begins with | The episode begins with [[w:Charles II of England|Charles II of England]] ([[Paul Critoph]]) barging into the room with two other Cavaliers. A sword in hand, the monarch yells for the Doctor. Breaking into a room at the end of the hall, Charles enters a room with clothes thrown aside, painting equipment on a stool and a painting of the Doctor posing as Poseidon with two cupids. Across the room stands a woman (probably Catherine of Braganza) with a brush in one hand. The monarch asks where the doctor is and the lady simply replies saying "Doctor, who?". Charles draws his weapon and lifts the lady's dress up to reveal the doctor hiding within the folds. | ||
[[Amy Pond]] is reading out to [[Rory Williams]] from a history book. The | This happens to be one of the stories [[Amy Pond]] is reading out to [[Rory Williams]] from a history book. The story later concludes with the doctor being incarcerated without trial in the Tower of London; where from the doctor later escapes by the means of a magical, mysterious spherical device which is 20 feet across floating over the cityscape. On the accompanying leaf of the story is the illustration of a hot air balloon suggesting that the spherical device may as well be such a device, since the [[TARDIS]] is ''not'' a sphere. | ||
Amy figures that the | Amy reads out another story of the Doctor being caught while escaping with mates at an army base where they get caught when the Doctor confuses their escape route with the door to the commandant's office. A soldier shouts in German and pulls the Doctor out of their tunneled escape route. | ||
Amy figures that the Doctor is trying to communicate by manipulating historic events of lesser significance while Rory continues to watch a Laurel and Hardy film. Doorbell rings and as Amy goes to answer, Rory looks away. In this brief moment the doctor walks up to the camera in the film wearing his fez. The postman at the door hands over a envelope to Amy. The envelope has the number 3 written on its back in an etched white typeface. Upon opening the envelope, Amy discovers the following message written on a matted card: | |||
<p style="text-align: center;">22/04/2011<br />16:30 MDT<br />37°0'38"N -110°14'24"W</p> | <p style="text-align: center;">22/04/2011<br />16:30 MDT<br />37°0'38"N -110°14'24"W</p> | ||
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She opens the envelope and smirks while looking at the message within immediately hatching a plan of escape from the facility. Soon afterward, the facility is abuzz with loud alarms going off as a soldier reports to a superior on the phone how Doctor Song is acting suspiciously and packing ... ''again! ''He tells his superior that he thinks she is headed off to a planet called America. | She opens the envelope and smirks while looking at the message within immediately hatching a plan of escape from the facility. Soon afterward, the facility is abuzz with loud alarms going off as a soldier reports to a superior on the phone how Doctor Song is acting suspiciously and packing ... ''again! ''He tells his superior that he thinks she is headed off to a planet called America. | ||
Back on Earth, Amy and Rory hitch a school bus ride in San Juan going towards Goulding Arch near Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah where they had been summoned. The bus drives off revealing the Doctor sitting atop a car with a Stetson on. He calls them over saying, "Howdy!" and calls them Ponds rather than Williams implying that Amy is the dominant member in the relationship. Rory greets him by stating he is the husband; the Doctor simply calls him "Rory the Roman". While declaring his love for how cool Stetsons are, his hat is shot to the ground and we see River holding a | Back on Earth, Amy and Rory hitch a school bus ride in San Juan going towards Goulding Arch near Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah where they had been summoned. The bus drives off revealing the Doctor sitting atop a car with a Stetson on. He calls them over saying, "Howdy!" and calls them Ponds rather than Williams implying that Amy is the dominant member in the relationship. Rory greets him by stating he is the husband; the Doctor simply calls him "Rory the Roman". While declaring his love for how cool Stetsons are, his hat is shot to the ground and we see River holding a Colt Revolver which she then puts back in its holster, saying "Hello, Sweetie!" | ||
The group sits in a diner where River and the Doctor exchange and ''synchornise'' their diaries, laughing about their encounters on Easter Island and Jim the Fish. Amy explains to Rory that the Doctor and River as time travellers move opposite to each other in linear time and therefore have to synchornise their events in order to know which versions they are meeting. The Doctor tells the team that they are summoned here because they will visit "Space 1969". | |||
Just before the sunset, the team sits by the lake having a picnic, and sharing a toast to their time together when the Doctor reveals his age being 1,103 (almost 195 years older than Amy last saw him). No one pays much significance to this detail however when Amy tries to question about this discrepancy, the Doctor comments on her gaining weight. Amy sees something standing on one of the mesas, but when Rory's head blocks it from her view, she forgets about it. The Doctor is distracted too looking at a man standing by a truck a few yards from the picnic and waves to him, knowing well what is to happen next. | |||
A lone astronaut standing at the lakeside gets River's attention and the Doctor makes way towards the spaceman. With a serious face, the Doctor tells the team not to interfere in what happens next, no matter what. | |||
The Doctor greets the astronaut, saying that he knows who it was. The astronaut raises its visor to the Doctor, and shoots him. Amy starts to run towards him, but is held back by River and Rory. Being shot, the Doctor naturally begins to [[Regenerate|regenerate]], but the Astronaut shoots him again during his regeneration process at which point River runs towards the Doctor as well. | |||
The astronaut moves back towards the water and River shoots. She shoots five times and tries to shoot one last shot realising she'd already used that shot on the Doctor's Stetson. As the Astronaut retreats into the lake, River scans the Doctor and confirms that he's dead. When Amy starts suggesting that this Doctor is a duplicate, the man comes over and confirms that it is the Doctor. He introduces himself as Canton Delaware III, and gives the group a tank of petrol as he was previously told to by the Doctor. He also reveals an invitation similar to those received by Rory and Amy and River. The Doctor is then given a Viking funeral, before Canton departs, saying that the trio will meet him again. | |||
Bewailing, the team returns to the diner to figure out what had happened, and how they can work on the two clues - "Space 1969" and the mystery of Canton Delaware III. But the team are dumbfounded as the Doctor walks out of the rest room. After a short silence, River slaps him for 'something [he] hasn't done yet'. After talking about Jim the Fish (whom the Doctor has now never heard of), and having Amy ask the Doctor how old he is (909 years old), River deduces that the Doctor they are with is an earlier version of the Doctor they just saw killed, but keeps quiet about her suspicions. The Doctor reveals his invitation, with the missing number one on it. Upon his questioning, River tells him that they've been ''recruited ''by someone who trusts him more than anyone else in the universe. | |||
==Cast== | ==Cast== | ||
