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| - Last time, David Tennant exploded into a new regeneration and set the TARDIS on fire in the process. It's rapidly crashing into London with Matt Smith, the Eleventh Doctor, hanging off of it. He scrambles back in and manages to crash-land the TARDIS in a sleepy England village. A little Scottish girl is praying to Santa that he will send someone to just fix that creepy crack in the wall. She's interrupted by the sound of a police telephone box parking inself in her backyard... on its side. The little girl (Caitlin Blackwood) runs to the window and peers out. Surprisingly, she isn't shocked to see a TARDIS has crashed sideways into her Auntie's garden shed. Like any good protagonist, she runs outside and witnesses the newly-regenerated Doctor climbing out, sopping wet (he got stuck in the library, and so did the swimming pool). Totally normal, he insists. The little girl, named Amelia Pond, is charmed, and lets the Doctor in because she hopes he'll fix the scary wall crack. He's still in the middle of regeneration trauma, but it doesn't involve comas this time around. He does have serious food cravings. Amelia obligingly fills the Doctor's increasingly gross requests, only to have him reject all the offerings in favour of... fish fingers with custard. The Doctor remarks how normal the kid is acting, given how scary most other kids would find this situation. Must be one hell of a scary crack in her wall, he opines. The pair trek upstairs (notice that creepy door), where the Doctor investigates the wall and decides eventually to sonic it open, so as to figure out what's behind it. So he opens it, and they stare into an alien prison cell. A booming voice repeats "PRISONER ZERO HAS ESCAPED." A giant eyeball -- the Atraxi -- eyeballs them and the crack closes and heals completely. Well, not quite. See, Prisoner Zero has escaped through the crack, and is around here... somewhere. But before the Doctor can work on that, he hears the Cloister Bell, the TARDIS' Oh Crap signal. That means the TARDIS is in trouble, so the Doctor rushes out and determines that he needs to take the TARDIS on a quick trip to stabilise her, but don't worry, "I'll be back in five minutes." Amelia has totally heard it all before (her parents are dead and she's got quite a few trust issues as a result), and demands a proper promise. After a quick talk, the Doc Indianas down into the control-- oh wait, back into the library/swimming pool. The doors shut and the TARDIS vworps away. Amelia runs back inside (notice the creepy door is ajar) and starts packing. She finally finishes, glad to escape and runs (notice the creepy door is wide open) back into the garden. She waits. And waits. It's morning when the Doctor vworps back into her garden, in a dead rush: he's figured out where Prisoner Zero is. "Amelia!" He sonics his way into her house, and sprints upstairs. "Amelia!" And that's when he meets a cricket bat. Meanwhile, in a hospital, a nervous nurse named Rory is insistent that his comatose patients are walking and talking. He's brought his supervisor along, saying that they were asking for her, but what they're really saying, all of them, is "Doctor." Rory asks his supervisor to just take a look at his camera phone evidence, but she instead tells him to take a few days off. Back at the country house, the Doctor wakes up, cuffed to a radiator. A woman in a rather risque policewoman's uniform is standing over him, calling for backup, or at least pretending to. Amelia hasn't lived here in a long time, she says. The Doctor piques her interest in... a creepy door she's never noticed before. "Don't go in there!" the Doctor protests. He gets ignored. She goes in -- it's totally ordinary. Run down and filthy, but... ordinary all the same. Until she sees... the sonic screwdriver, which had been mysteriously missing when the Doctor woke up from his meeting with Mr. Cricket-Bat. It's in the secret room, lying in a puddle of goo. Which could totally be explained. If it wasn't on the table. The Doctor tells the woman to get out of there. But she, displaying fine companion reflexes, ignores him, and dawdles enough to catch a glimpse of a scary blue snake-piranha. Then she flees. Doctor gets his screwdriver back, but the system is messed up from that goo. And to make things better, a creepy figure inexplicably bursts out of the room. It's a bloke with a dog. But the creature is still just one being, and it's getting its mouths mixed up. The man is barking at them. The Doctor technobabbles and bluffs, until he manages to get his sonic screwdriver working again, at which point he and his erstwhile captor bust a move. But the TARDIS won't let him because it's repairing itself, and... that's when he notices that the wooden shed he destroyed the night he met Amelia has been rebuilt. About twelve years ago. Incredulous, he turns to the young woman beside him... and realizes that she is Amelia, all grown up. And not a police woman at all, but a professional kissogram. And very cross at him for making her wait for two thirds of her life. They walk over to the village center, and all the speakers in the area are spawning the same message in every language -- "PRISONER ZERO WILL VACATE THE HUMAN RESIDENCE OR THE HUMAN RESIDENCE WILL BE INCINERATED." But if all they want is for Prisoner Zero to come out of the house, why is the message broadcasting in the village, and around the world? Unless... by "residence", they mean "planet". Amelia (now going by Amy) takes the Doctor to a neighbour's home, where the Doctor gets recognised by a guy named Jeff as Amy's infamous imaginary friend. The Doctor decides to get back into the open, trying to figure something out. At which point the aliens block out the sun, and then turn the block transparent to make a force field. People take pictures and Facebook their mates without realising they're going to die in... twenty minutes and counting. The Doctor gets his memory working overtime: he saw something weird a second ago. When the sun went out, everyone was photographing the sky... everyone except Rory, who was photographing Barking Man With Dog. It turns out that the man looks exactly like one of his coma patients, and this isn't the first time this has happened. He's gathering photographic evidence to prove he's not insane. He's also Amy's boyfriend, and absolutely speechless at suddenly seeing her imaginary friend come to life. She always made him dress up as the Doctor when they played as kids, and she went through four psychiatrists trying to get over her childhood experience, and now he's here and a bit too busy to have a chat and explain everything. The Atraxi scope the area, but blowing stuff up just won't grab their attention, and the Doctor accidentally melts his sonic screwdriver in the process. So, the guard wanders off and Barking Man With Dog decides to melt and travel via drains, heading to the hospital in its true form of snake-piranha, where Rory's supervisor is still checking on the creepy patients. Amy and Rory have to hurry to the hospital. Rory explains that the monster has taken the shape of his coma patient, and apparently shapeshifting abominations need psychic links to living beings. Therefore, it will go to the hospital for more prey and more disguises. The Doctor steals Rory's cool touch phone and Jeff's laptop. Which contains lots of implied porn. "Blimey! Get a girlfriend!" The Doctor quickly writes a harmless virus designed to grab the aliens' attention, hacks into the international red alert conference call with the phone, quickly proves how genius he is and makes Jeff convince the world's nations to implement the virus while he runs off with the cell phone again. Amy and Rory arrive at the hospital to find chaos. They phone the Doctor to tell him, then run upstairs, as Amy still looks like a police woman (admittedly slightly Stripperific), which gets them in. Once in the ICU, we learn that the Doctor has nicked a fire truck and that a woman and her daughters have escaped from the creature unscathed. One problem -- the wrong mouths are spouting the wrong voices again. Amy and Rory back away slowly, and the alien realises its mistake. Rory and Amy run to the actual ward, and the Doctor arrives with barely a second to spare, crashing in through the window with the fire truck's ladder. That computer virus has infected everything in the world. Every screen shows "0". Now the Atraxi know that Prisoner Zero is here. And now they're tracking the signal to Rory's phone. The Doctor promptly thwarts the prisoner by SMSing all the photos Rory has taken of the coma patient disguises of the alien. Prisoner Zero switches to a different disguise. Since it needs years of proximity to build up a connection to a physical memory, it's able to disguise itself as... the memory of little Amy and her "Raggedy Doctor". The Doctor sees his new face for the first time. Amy faints and the Doctor rushes to her side as Rory tries to stop her falling too hard and coming to harm. The Doctor convinces comatose Amy to fight the monster's mental link by imagining its true form, which she saw behind the scary door. It works. The Guards arrest Zero via white light beams, but not before it leaves the Doctor with a cryptic warning: The Pandorica will open, and silence will fall. As the aliens leave, the Doctor gets quite angry with them and demands that they come back, to discuss why they just seriously violated the Shadow Proclamation's ethics codes and threatened to blow up a class 5 civilization. Rory has some issues with that. While it heads back to the hospital, the Doctor raids the hospital locker room for a new wardrobe. Again. After stripping and changing in front of his new companions (which Amy doesn't exactly mind), he makes it onto the roof and starts Talking the Monster to Death while trying to decide on a new tie. He questions the Atraxi -- is Earth a threat? Is it a criminal planet? Does it violate the Guard planet's own laws? And finally: is it defended? And who is it defended by? The eyeball visualises images of various Who monsters and all ten preceding incarnations of the Doctor. The Doctor steps through the projections shown (more precisely, he symbolically steps through David Tennant's face), his new outfit now complete with a bow tie, and kindly tells the Atraxi to run. The TARDIS is working again, with a brand new interior. At night, Amy Pond wakes up, having heard the unmistakable sound of the TARDIS. She runs downstairs to meet the Doctor. He decided to keep the stolen clothes, figuring it's a nice reward for having saved the Earth a billion times over by now. Also, it's been two years since he last saw Amy. He thought it was five minutes. Again. She's appropriately pissed off at him for that. Regardless, he invites her to be his next companion. Amy agrees to come with him, so long as he can have her back by tomorrow morning. For an unspecified appointment. And eventually, they leave. We're left in Amy's room, now quiet, and linger over all her childhood drawings and handmade dolls of Amy and the Doctor and the TARDIS. And then we see the wedding dress, and we begin to have an idea what Amy's appointment might be. A DVD-only extra scene. Amy questions the Doctor on police boxes, his outfit and his hair. He shuts her up by showing her space, then merrily pushing her out of the TARDIS.
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