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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
The Doctor takes Rory and Amy to the planet Apalapucia, supposedly a top holiday destination, but they arrive in a clinically white room, its only exit a door with two buttons. As Amy steps back into the TARDIS to collect her phone, the Doctor and Rory pass through the door using one of the buttons to find a white room witha glass 'magnifying glass; Amy follows | The Doctor takes Rory and Amy to the planet Apalapucia, supposedly a top holiday destination, but they arrive in a clinically white room, its only exit a door with two buttons. As Amy steps back into the TARDIS to collect her phone, the Doctor and Rory pass through the door using one of the buttons to find a white room witha glass 'magnifying glass; Amy follows but uses the other button. She finds a similar room, but no sign of the others. | ||
When the Doctor realizes that Amy hasn't joined them, he discovers that she has ended up in a second, faster time stream, but is able to talk with her through the glass scope. A week has already passed for her. The Doctor and Rory soon find a faceless, white robot, who explains they are in the Two Streams "kindness facility", helping to deal with a plague, Chen7, that affects only races with two hearts. This includes the native Apalapucians and Time Lords. The robot, and others likes it, do not recognize the two as alien life forms, andtries to inject them with 'medicine' | When the Doctor realizes that Amy hasn't joined them, he discovers that she has ended up in a second, faster time stream, but is able to talk with her through the glass scope. A week has already passed for her. The Doctor and Rory soon find a faceless, white robot, who explains they are in the Two Streams "kindness facility", helping to deal with a plague, Chen7, that affects only races with two hearts. This includes the native Apalapucians and Time Lords. The robot, and others likes it, do not recognize the two as alien life forms, andtries to inject them with 'medicine' that would kill them. The Doctor warns Amy, and tells her to wait. He will rescue her. Rory and he race back to the TARDIS with the glass scope, using it to lock onto Amy's time stream to effect her rescue. The Doctor, forced to stay in the TARDIS for fear of the Chen7 virus, gives Rory his sonic screwdriver, the glass scope, and a set of glasses that allows the Doctor to see, hear, and communicate with him, guiding him to find Amy. | ||
Rory explores more of the facility, but soon is set on by more robots. He is saved by a much older Amy, a fugitive hiding from the complex's sensors. The Doctor realises that he locked onto her time stream at | Rory explores more of the facility, but soon is set on by more robots. He is saved by a much older Amy, a fugitive hiding from the complex's sensors. The Doctor realises that he locked onto her time stream at the wrong point, and tries to get Rory to convince the older Amy to help locate the younger one. Rory finds the older Amy bitter, having waited as the Doctor instructed. She has been alone for thirty-six years, save for the complex's computer interface, and a disarmed robot she calls Rory. The older Amy refuses to help. She knows saving the younger version of herself would mean she never existed. The Doctor detects signals from the younger Amy nearby, and Rory finds her through the glass scope, weeping. Rory sets the scope to allow the older Amy to speak to her younger self, but the older Amy repeats that she experienced this before, and hearing her future self warn about the time streams convinced her to wait out for rescue. Rory manages to convince the younger Amy to change her mind. Realising that time can be altered if you are aware of the future timeline, as Amy is, the older Amy decides to help, but demands that the Doctor take her too. This is a difficult but not impossible task for the TARDIS. The Doctor agrees, and as Rory reroutes a control panel that maintains the facility's time streams, the Doctor helps the two Amys synchronize their thoughts, letting the two exist at the same time. | ||
With these changes, the Doctor's glasses fail, and Rory and the two Amys must race through groups of the robots to get to the TARDIS and safety. As they near its location, the older Amy falls back to protect the other two. Younger Amy runs into a robot and is sedated. As older Amy covers his back, Rory takes younger Amy into the TARDIS. The Doctor slams the door behind him. | With these changes, the Doctor's glasses fail, and Rory and the two Amys must race through groups of the robots to get to the TARDIS and safety. As they near its location, the older Amy falls back to protect the other two. Younger Amy runs into a robot and is sedated. As older Amy covers his back, Rory takes younger Amy into the TARDIS. The Doctor slams the door behind him. | ||
The Doctor tells tells Rory that it is impossible for both Amys to exist in the same time stream. Rory must choose which Amy he wants. The older Amy and he have a tearful farewell at the shut TARDIS door before Older Amy tells Rory to move on without her, and is taken by the robots. As the Doctor pilots the TARDIS away, Amy wakes up and asks | The Doctor tells tells Rory that it is impossible for both Amys to exist in the same time stream. Rory must choose which Amy he wants. The older Amy and he have a tearful farewell at the shut TARDIS door before Older Amy tells Rory to move on without her, and is taken by the robots. As the Doctor pilots the TARDIS away, Amy wakes up and asks for her older self. The Doctor and Rory cannot answer her. | ||
==Cast== | ==Cast== | ||
