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As the [[War of the Roses]] enters its second year even as [[London]] picnickers are warned not to feed the [[Pterodactyl|pterodactyls]] and [[Charles Dickens]] is interviewed about his[[A Christmas Carol| new Christmas ghost special]], Holy Roman Emperor [[Winston Churchill]] returns to [[Buckingham Palace]] from a conference in [[Gaul]] with [[Cleopatra]] to wonder why it is always 5:02 PM on [[22 April |22 April]][[ 2011]]. His[[ Silurian]] physician, Dr. [[Malokeh]], tells him it is always that time, but Churchill has his doubts and summons his [[soothsayer]] from the dungeon of[[ Tower of London| the Tower of London]]. It is the Doctor, who tells him it is because of a woman. | As the [[War of the Roses]] enters its second year even as [[London]] picnickers are warned not to feed the [[Pterodactyl|pterodactyls]] and [[Charles Dickens]] is interviewed about his[[A Christmas Carol| new Christmas ghost special]], Holy Roman Emperor [[Winston Churchill]] returns to [[Buckingham Palace]] from a conference in [[Gaul]] with [[Cleopatra]] to wonder why it is always 5:02 PM on [[22 April |22 April]][[ 2011]]. His[[ Silurian]] physician, Dr. [[Malokeh]], tells him it is always that time, but Churchill has his doubts and summons his [[soothsayer]] from the dungeon of[[ Tower of London| the Tower of London]]. It is the Doctor, who tells him it is because of a woman. | ||
In a flashback, [[the Doctor]] wants to know why he must die. Taking all the information on the Silence from a dying [[Dalek]], he tracks down Father [[Gideon Vandaleur]], actually the [[Teselecta]], who points him in the right direction: [[the Silence]]'s agent, [[Gantok]], who almost electrocutes himself in a game of [[Live Chess|live chess]] with the Doctor. To avoid death, Gantok takes him to the head of [[Dorium Maldovar]] in the [[Seventh Transept]]. | In a flashback, [[the Doctor]] wants to know why he must die. Taking all the information on [[the Silence]] from a dying [[Dalek]], he tracks down Father [[Gideon Vandaleur]], actually the [[Teselecta]], who points him in the right direction: [[the Silence]]'s agent, [[Gantok]], who almost electrocutes himself in a game of [[Live Chess|live chess]] with the Doctor. To avoid death, Gantok takes him to the head of [[Dorium Maldovar]] in the [[Seventh Transept]]. | ||
Dorium explains that if the Doctor lives long enough, on the fields of [[Trenzalore]], at the fall of the Eleventh, when no creature can speak falsely or fail to answer, a question that must never be answered will be asked: the first question, hidden in plain sight. He asks the Doctor if he wants to know the question and he nervously agrees. | Dorium explains that if the Doctor lives long enough, on the fields of [[Trenzalore]], at the fall of the Eleventh, when no creature can speak falsely or fail to answer, a question that must never be answered will be asked: the first question, hidden in plain sight. He asks the Doctor if he wants to know the question and he nervously agrees. | ||
Taking Dorium's head with him, the Doctor determines to continue his farewell tour. However, when he learns that his old friend Brigadier [[Lethbridge-Stewart]] is dead, the Doctor's defiance crumbles. His time has come. He gives the invitations to the Teselecta to deliver and goes to [[Lake Silencio]] with [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams]] and [[River Song]], where they drink a bottle of wine that [[Napoleon]] threw at him. An impossible astronaut rises from the lake and the Doctor goes to meet it. It is River Song, trapped in the suit by [[Madame Kovarian]] and the [[Silents (The Silence Species)|Silents]]. She has no control over the suit and is about to kill her love willy-nilly. He forgives her unconditionally and shuts his eyes as her arm rises to deliver the three killing blows. | Taking Dorium's head with him, the Doctor determines to continue his farewell tour. However, when he learns that his old friend Brigadier [[Lethbridge-Stewart]] is dead, the Doctor's defiance crumbles. His time has come. He gives the invitations to the Teselecta to deliver and goes to [[Lake Silencio]] with [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams]] and [[River Song]], where they drink a bottle of[[ wine]] that [[Napoleon]] threw at him. An impossible astronaut rises from the lake and the Doctor goes to meet it. It is River Song, trapped in the suit by [[Madame Kovarian]] and the [[Silents (The Silence Species)|Silents]]. She has no control over the suit and is about to kill her love willy-nilly. He forgives her unconditionally and shuts his eyes as her arm rises to deliver the three killing blows. | ||
There are five bursts that make him flinch. The Doctor opens his eyes to demand what she has done. She has discharged her weapons systems harmlessly and the world shatters about them. | There are five bursts that make him flinch. The Doctor opens his eyes to demand what she has done. She has discharged her weapons systems harmlessly and the world shatters about them. | ||
The Doctor and Churchill discuss these events. Tally marks appear on the Doctor's arms. As the Silents on the ceiling prepare to attack the Doctor and Churchill, a grenade rolls into the hall and they are rescued by a company of soldiers under an eyepatch-wearing Amy Pond, who shoots the Doctor. | The Doctor and Churchill discuss these events. Tally marks appear on the Doctor's arms. As the Silents on the ceiling prepare to attack the Doctor and Churchill, a [[grenade]] rolls into the hall and they are rescued by a company of soldiers under an eyepatch-wearing Amy Pond, who shoots the Doctor. | ||
The Doctor wakes in Amy's office on a train bound for Area 52 inside the Great Pyramid at Giza. She grew up with a [[Crack]] in her wall, and remembers both timelines. She draws pictures of the other timeline, but cannot remember that her husband is Captain Williams in her force. They have captured more than a hundred Silents and walk past the prisoners to the King's Chamber, where River Song is trying to keep the Doctor alive. Madame Kovarian is their prisoner, too and they have used her eyepatch to create [[Eye Drive|eye drives]] that let them remember the Silents even when not looking at them. | The Doctor wakes in Amy's office on a train bound for Area 52 inside the Great [[Pyramid]] at Giza. She grew up with a [[Crack]] in her wall, and remembers both timelines. She draws pictures of the other timeline, but cannot remember that her husband is Captain Williams in her force. They have captured more than a hundred Silents and walk past the prisoners to the King's Chamber, where River Song is trying to keep the Doctor alive. [[Madame Kovarian]] is their prisoner, too and they have used her eyepatch to create [[Eye Drive|eye drives]] that let them remember the Silents even when not looking at them. | ||
The Doctor goes to take River Song's hand, but she know that they are the poles of an explosion waiting to destroy this timeline. She has him handcuffed and tries to convince him to live. Even as she does so, the Silents begin to escape. It is their trap the Doctors' friends have fallen into and as the forces beat a retreat to the King's Chamber, their eye drives electrify and kill them. Madame Kovarian mocks them, until her eye drive begins to spark. As Rory prepares to hold off the Silents, River, the Doctor and Amy go up to the apex of the Pyramid to see what River has been doing. The door bursts open and Rory collapses to his knees as the Silents enter and begin to electrocute him, but Amy kills them all with a machine gun, then cold-bloodedly blinds a terrified Kovarian; River's psychopathic behavior did not arise solely from her rearing. | The Doctor goes to take River Song's hand, but she know that they are the poles of an explosion waiting to destroy this timeline. She has him handcuffed and tries to convince him to live. Even as she does so, the Silents begin to escape. It is their trap the Doctors' friends have fallen into and as the forces beat a retreat to the King's Chamber, their eye drives electrify and kill them. Madame Kovarian mocks them, until her eye drive begins to spark. As Rory prepares to hold off the Silents, River, the Doctor and Amy go up to the apex of the Pyramid to see what River has been doing. The door bursts open and Rory collapses to his knees as the Silents enter and begin to electrocute him, but Amy kills them all with a machine gun, then cold-bloodedly blinds a terrified Kovarian; River's psychopathic behavior did not arise solely from her rearing. | ||
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On the top of the Great Pyramid, River has built a distress beacon, asking the universe for help across all time zones: the Doctor is dying. Please help. The answer comes back: Yes, of course. The Doctor, however, insists that no one can help him. He must die. | On the top of the Great Pyramid, River has built a distress beacon, asking the universe for help across all time zones: the Doctor is dying. Please help. The answer comes back: Yes, of course. The Doctor, however, insists that no one can help him. He must die. | ||
[[File:The_Wedding_of_River_Song.png|thumb|left|The Doctor and River kiss at their wedding.]] | [[File:The_Wedding_of_River_Song.png|thumb|left|The Doctor and River kiss at their wedding.]] | ||
As River despairs and swears to suffer more than any living thing in the universe for him, the Doctor tells Amy to uncuff him. He takes off his [[tie |bow tie | As River despairs and swears to suffer more than any living thing in the universe for him, the Doctor tells Amy to uncuff him. He takes off his [[tie |bow tie]] and uses it to marry River in a handfasting with her parents' consent. The Doctor whispers a secret into his bride's ear and tells her that she must never tell anyone what he has just told her: his name. As she looks at him in wonder, the Doctor asks for her help. There is no other way. | ||
They kiss and time moves again. The Doctor dies at Lake Silencio. River and Amy weep. Rory looks on in agony as the world vanishes. | They kiss and time moves again. The Doctor dies at Lake Silencio. River and Amy weep. Rory looks on in agony as the world vanishes. | ||
Shortly after, River, fresh from the crash of the [[Byzantium]], is at her mother's home, splitting a bottle of wine. Amy wonders what what the events from the aborted, frozen time line say about her, in particular her | Shortly after, River, fresh from the crash of the [[Byzantium]], is at her mother's home, splitting a bottle of wine. Amy wonders what what the events from the aborted, frozen time line say about her, in particular her tormenting of Kovarian. She wants to talk with the Doctor, but he is dead. River disagrees. Amy notes that her daughter is still having adventures with her son-in-law in the hundreds of years before his death, but River tells her a secret which she probably shouldn't. As Rory joins his wife and daughter, they dance for joy. | ||
A | A[[Headless monks| monk]] carries Dorium's head back to the Seventh Transept. Dorium realises it is the Doctor and demands to know how he escaped. The Doctor tells him: River actually shot the Teselecta, with the Doctor safe inside, waving happily at her. Now that the entire universe believes him dead, it's time for him to step back into the shadows. | ||
As the Doctor leaves, Dorium shouts at him that Fields of [[Trenzalore]] and the first question still await him. As the Doctor pauses by the TARDIS, Dorium screams: "Doctor who? Doctor Who? DOCTOR WHO?" | As the Doctor leaves, Dorium shouts at him that Fields of [[Trenzalore]] and the first question still await him. As the Doctor pauses by the TARDIS, Dorium screams: "Doctor who? Doctor Who? DOCTOR WHO?" | ||
