History Recap / DoctorWhoS31E01TheEleventhHour

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[[caption-width-right:350:The Eleventh Doctor is in.]]

->'''Amy:''' Twelve years! And four psychiatrists!\\
'''Eleventh Doctor:''' Four?\\
'''Amy:''' I kept biting them.\\
'''Eleventh Doctor:''' Why?\\
'''Amy:''' They said you weren't real.

[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime Last time]], Creator/DavidTennant exploded into a new regeneration and set the TARDIS on fire in the process. It's rapidly crashing into London with Creator/MattSmith, the Eleventh Doctor, hanging off of it. He scrambles back in and manages to crash-land the TARDIS in a sleepy English 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 itself in her garden... on its side.

The little girl (Creator/CaitlinBlackwood) 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 [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime the swimming pool]]). Totally normal, he insists. The little girl, 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 -- [[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures 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' OhCrap 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, "Give me five minutes, I'll be right back". Amelia notes that "People always say that". After a quick talk, the Doctor [[IndianaJones 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 and runs (notice the creepy door is wide open) back into the garden. She waits. And waits.

It's daytime 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 nurse called 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 risqué policewoman's uniform is standing over him, apparently calling for backup. 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 by having rolled under the door. 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 in 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 realises that ''she'' is Amelia, [[SheIsAllGrownUp all grown up.]] And not a police officer 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 centre, 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 called 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 [[StaggeredZoom 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 shape-shifting 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 phone and Jeff's laptop. [[TheInternetIsForPorn 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, [[UsefulNotes/FermatsLastTheorem quickly proves how much of a genius he is]] and makes Jeff convince the world's nations to implement the virus while he runs off with the 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 officer (admittedly slightly {{Stripperific}}), which gets them in. Once in the ICU, we learn that the Doctor has nicked a fire engine 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 engine'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 months 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 and Rory rush to her. 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 leaving the Doctor with a cryptic warning: [[ArcWords 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'' (Rory has some issues with this), to discuss why they just seriously violated the Shadow Proclamation's ethics codes and threatened to blow up a class 5 civilisation. They head back to the hospital, and the Doctor raids the hospital locker room for a new wardrobe. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace As]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie usual.]]

After stripping and changing in front of his new companions (which Amy doesn't exactly mind), he makes it onto the roof and starts TalkingTheMonsterToDeath while trying to decide on a new tie.

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arAjbSkKF-Q 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 by whom? The eyeball visualises images of various ''Who'' monsters [[note]]Including the Ood and Hath who, excluding Ood Sigma's telepathic message at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]", ''have never set foot on Earth at this point.''[[/note]] and all ten preceding incarnations of the Doctor. The Doctor steps through the projections shown (more precisely, he symbolically steps through Creator/DavidTennant's face), his new outfit now complete with a bow tie, and tells the Atraxi to '''run'''. They do.

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 but, 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.

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'''Meanwhile In The TARDIS: First Episode'''

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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!! Tropes

* AdultFear: The then-seven-years-old Amelia Pond is clearly frightened of a crack in her bedroom wall, which she can hear voices out of. When the Doctor meets her, he even notes that she's quite brave and that the crack must be extraordinarily strange to scare her so much. It's also shown that Amelia's aunt - her only guardian - not only doesn't believe there's anything wrong with the crack, but is often not home to care for her. It turns out that the "crack" is an opening to a parallel dimension, which an alien prisoner escaped from. Because the Doctor jumps through time 12 years instead of 5 minutes, Amelia unknowingly spends most of her life living with an alien criminal hiding in her house, creating a mental link with her to steal her form. While this obviously plays off of a child's fear of things like the bogeyman and seemingly mundane details, there's also the parental fear of danger coming to a child because of not taking their worries seriously.
* AlienLunch: Upon receiving new taste buds, the Doctor goes through several things in Amelia's fridge before settling on fish fingers and custard (together) as a first meal after regenerating.
* AllThereInTheManual: Creator/StevenMoffat has said in the commentary for this episode that Prisoner Zero was arrested for impersonating an army. Although, as the next thing he says is that this is ridiculous, and Rule One is that [[LyingCreator Moffat lies]], it's debatable how canon it is.
* ArcNumber: Invoked; the Doctor has every single digital device ''in the world'' reset to bear the number 0. As in Prisoner Zero.
* ArcWords: "Silence Will Fall" and "The Pandorica Will Open".
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
-->'''Rory:''' You just summoned aliens back to earth. Actual aliens. Deadly aliens. ''Aliens. Of death.''... And now you're taking your clothes off.
* TheBackwardsR: The MΨTH logo on Jeff's laptop and some of the hospital equipment.
* BadassBoast: Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically... '''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome run.]]'''
* BatterUp: Amy with a cricket bat. Poor Doctor.
* BigDamnHeroes: DUCK.
* BigWhat
* BlatantLies
** To young Amy in the beginning:
--->'''Doctor:''' You know when the grown-ups say that everything's gonna be fine, but you think they're lying to make you feel better?\\
'''Amelia:''' Yes...\\
'''Doctor:''' Everything's gonna be fine.
** In "Meanwhile in the TARDIS", when the Doctor explains how the chameleon circuit [[TheAllegedCar "works"]]:
--->'''Doctor:''' It's camouflage. It's disguised as a police telephone box from 1963. Every time the TARDIS materialises in a new location, within the first ''nanosecond'' of landing, it analyses its surroundings, calculates a 12-dimensional data map of everything within a 1000-mile radius and determines which outer shell would blend in best with the environment.... And then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963.\\
'''Amy:''' Oh. Why?\\
'''Doctor:''' It's probably a bit of a fault, actually. I've been meaning to check.\\
'''Amy:''' What, it's a police box every time?\\
'''Doctor:''' Yeah. I suppose, now you mention.\\
'''Amy:''' How long has it been doing that?\\
'''Doctor:''' Oh... you know. [[LongRunners Not long...]]
* BrickJoke: The Doctor's first visit to Amelia leaves behind an unmistakable impression, leading to an obsession with her "imaginary friend" for quite some time, long enough that seemingly everyone in town, from the local hunk and his granny to her (sort-of) boyfriend, has a reaction to seeing "The Raggedy Doctor" in the flesh. Cue Amy's exasperated looks and quietly asking people to please shut up about it.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Cartoons?
* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Deliberately averted. Amy lives in a rural part of England. Moffat has said that something of a pet peeve of his during the first series was that, while they had all of time and space to play around in, they seemed to spend an awful lot of time in London.
* BroughtDownToNormal: No TARDIS, no sonic, twenty minutes to save the world.
* BookEnds: Subverted; it's more like chapter ends. When we first meet Amy and she first meets the Doctor she is in her nightie, 14 years later and having her first trip in the TARDIS she is wearing a very similar nightie.
* BowtiesAreCool: TropeNamer.
* BrokenBird: Amy Pond... as young Amelia she clearly has abandonment issues brewing. When the Doctor leaves her for, in his words "Five minutes", she grows up with a lingering resentment and a rather short temper. We finally see her shell start to crack when The Doctor invites her into the TARDIS for the first time, confirming that everything he told her as a child was really true.
* CallBack
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E9ForestOfTheDead The Doctor opens the door to the TARDIS by clicking his fingers.]]
** Also the appearance of the hat-stand in the console room.
** And the St John's Ambulance badge is back, as it once was during the early years of the show.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink A written message from the Doctor saying to "DUCK!" right before something comes at its receiver through a window.]]
** The montage of previous monsters and all ten previous Doctors before telling the latest alien "Run".
** His use of the word "Run" is a reference to [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1Rose "Rose"]], where it is the first line uttered by the Doctor in the new incarnation of the series. Here, of course, it is turned on its head; instead of warning a companion, he is threatening an enemy.
** The Doctor congratulates Prisoner Zero on creating [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva "a perfect impression of [it]self".]]
** Also, the TARDIS landing on its side right after a big regeneration.
** The Doctor promising a little girl he'd be right back, and shows up years later. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E4TheGirlInTheFireplace Not the first time this has happened...]]
** Also not the first time he's stolen [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace his]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie outfit]] from a hospital locker.
** The cracks in time? [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster Totally ne]][[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath w, right?]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime A swimming pool inside the TARDIS?]]
** As the out-of-control TARDIS is flying across the city, the [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1Rose London Eye swivels to follow it]].
** The Fifth Doctor's love for cricket is inverted here (a cricket bat hitting the Doctor).
** Eleven's apparent revulsion to carrots echoes the Sixth Doctor's unintended last words: "Carrot juice?!" (Also offered to him by a redhead companion -- Melanie, in this case.)
** The Doctor turning BigEater after his big comeback, [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime just like the Master in their previous outing.]]
** The "You've got some cowboys in here" line was previously used in "The Girl in the Fireplace", another Steven Moffat-penned episode.
* TheCameo: ''The'' PatrickMoore. Who is apparently a DirtyOldMan.
* CanonImmigrant: The Atraxi are from the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Vampire Science''.
* CaptainObvious: "Do you know what the crack is?... It's a crack!"
* ChekhovsGun: The smiley face apple Amelia gives the Doctor later gets used to convince her to help him out.
-->'''The Doctor:''' [[LampshadeHanging I'll save this for later.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: As much as being a kissogram can be considered a skill. Everybody assumes that Amy spending a large chunk of the episode in her police uniform was merely to give the audience some FairCop fanservice; in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it line, the costume is actually useful when she needs to gain entry to an otherwise-inaccessible wing of the hospital.
* ChekhovsGunman: Both the man with the dog and the woman with the children are shown as coma patients early in the episode.
* CoolStarship: Giant flying crystal snowflake starships? With a [[FacelessEye giant eyeball]]?
* CordonBleughChef: The Doctor rejects the perfectly good food little Amy offers up, and opts for custard and fish fingers instead. Rapidly undergoing a MemeticMutation with many anecdotes online of what this actually tastes like (with varying results.) Ironic since the fish fingers used in the scene were not fish fingers ([[FakeFood they were merely cakes breaded in coconut.]])
* CreepyChild: Zero as little Amelia is surprisingly effective.
* DareToBeBadass: Jeff gets a speech from the Doctor exhorting him to "be magnificent".
* DeadpanSnarker
** "Oh yeah, yeah of course! It's an inter-dimensional multi-form from outer space; they're all terrified of ''wood''."
** "Oh that's good, fantastic that is. Twenty minutes to save the world and I have a post office. [looks at it] AND IT'S SHUT!"
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Rory, apropos the Atraxi.
-->'''Rory:''' You just summoned aliens back to earth. Actual aliens. '''Deadly aliens'''. ''Aliens''. '''''Of death.'''''
* DyingAsYourself: An odd forced inversion, in which the Doctor convinces sleeping Amelia Pond to dream of Prisoner Zero's true form so the Atraxi will recognise him.
* EditedForSyndication: BBC America cut out quite a bit of this episode for re-airings, including most of the Doctor's "cravings" scene, young Amy waiting for the Doctor, the Doctor proving to the conference who he is, the woman being attacked, the Doctor's comment about Amy's accent and [[ChekhovsGun the "Silence Will Fall" scene with Prisoner Zero]]. Luckily Space Channel seems to have learned from the mistakes of the CBC and left the episode intact for those watching in Canada. BBC America premièred the episode uncut in a special timeslot (the only changes were commercials inserted here and there, but no actual footage was excluded) and for reruns for the rest of the night. They've continued the practice of "première uncut, then edit later" for all new episodes afterwards.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
-->'''The Doctor:''' You're not the first lot to have come here. Oh, there have been so many. And what you have to ask yourself is... ''what happened to them?''\\
(''the Atraxi shows pictures of the previous incarnations of the Doctor, finishing with an image of the Tenth Doctor through which the Eleventh Doctor then steps'')\\
'''The Doctor:''' Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically... '''run'''.
* EverythingIsOnline: A computer virus causes a ''mechanical flip clock'' to reset.
* FacelessEye: The Atraxi, spaceships which are just giant flying eyeballs.
* FailedASpotCheck: Although [[MaleGaze obvious to the audience]], our CelibateHero fails to notice anything odd about the policewoman who's captured him, such as the [[{{stripperiffic}} extreme brevity of her hemline]].
* FanficMagnet: Amelia as companion! In fact this episode gave a boost to the idea of a child companion in general.
* FemaleGaze: Amy eyes up the Doctor as he [[ShirtlessScene changes clothes]]. Thank you, Creator/StevenMoffat, for levelling the playing field.
* FieryRedhead: Amy, of course.
* FlatWhat: Amy is about as fond of it as the Doctor himself.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Amy speculates that the Doctor is actually some kind of squid thing in the "Meanwhile in the TARDIS" deleted scene.
* FreezeFrameBonus
** Amy runs outside in her nightie, passing by the stuff including her wedding dress from the slow pan at the end of the episode.
** During the montage of zeros around the world, you can see an Angel next to one of the buildings.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar
** That's very obviously porn on Jeff's laptop.
** And the Eleventh Doctor takes more than his shirt off in the locker room.
* GlamourFailure: A variant. Prisoner Zero can take on the form of multiple people as long as they are connected (a man walking a dog, a woman holding hands with two children, etc). However, it can't quite get the voices right (the man is growling and barking, the woman's voice is coming from the little girl's body) blowing the image.
* GiantEyeOfDoom / {{Oculothorax}}: The Atraxi.
-->''Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated. [[BrokenRecord Prisoner Zero will vacate...]]''
** Made even more of a doom when you realise that "the human residence" does ''not'' mean Amy's house, but the ''Earth''.
* GroinAttack: Eleven, hanging on to the out-of-control TARDIS for dear life, ''narrowly avoids'' damaging his meat-and-two-veg on Big Ben's spire. Seriously, the gap is two or three inches at most -- ouch!
* HumiliationConga: After the Tenth Doctor's violent regeneration, the TARDIS is forced into lockdown while it [[TrashTheSet rebuilds itself]], a situation made worse by his old Sonic Screwdriver likewise exploding halfway through the episode. It's one of ''those'' days.
* HypocriticalHumor: After the Doctor rudely demands Amelia to cook all sorts of food for him, only to claim them disgusting, poisonous or evil once he actually tastes them, Amelia takes one last peek into the refrigerator.
-->'''Amelia:''' We've got some carrots.\\
'''The Doctor:''' ''Carrots''? Are you ''insane''?
* InternalHomage
** The opening shot is a recreation of the opening of [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1Rose "Rose"]]. This has also appeared in "The Christmas Invasion" and "Smith and Jones".
** Also, more importantly, the hospital that the episode features is remarkably similar to the one that the Third Doctor ended up in following his regeneration ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace "Spearhead from Space"]]). The Third Doctor also ends up stealing his first iconic opera-based outfit from said hospital, just as the Eleventh does (but rather more sneakily).
*** One of the coats Rory is holding is a red velvet jacket similar to one worn by the Third Doctor.
*** The [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie}} Eighth Doctor]] does the same thing -- only his is a fancy dress costume.
** There are definite echoes of [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E1SmithAndJones "Smith and Jones"]] in that (a hospital/Earth) is harbouring a disguised alien fugitive from justice (The Plasmavore/Prisoner Zero), so the alien police (Judoon/Atraxi) threaten to destroy (the hospital/Earth) if the people do not turn in the fugitive.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva Right after the Doctor's regeneration, the TARDIS lands at its next destination on its side.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E4TheGirlInTheFireplace The Doctor arrives at a girl's home at various points in her life]]. [[TheSlowPath Only minutes pass for him, but it's years for her.]] [[RecycledScript Also written by]] Creator/StevenMoffat.
** The Doctor says to Amelia [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E4TheGirlInTheFireplace "You've had some cowboys in here"]] while examining the crack in her wall.
** The line ''"I've put a lot of work into it"'' (re: the Earth/universe) is taken from the also-Moffat-penned ''Recap/DoctorWhoTheCurseOfFatalDeath''.
** The out-of-control TARDIS barely misses [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E4AliensOfLondon the tower that contains Big Ben]].
* TheInternetIsForPorn: Strongly implied to be whatever Jeff was looking at on his laptop in his room. The Doctor even tells him to get a girlfriend and delete his history.
* JumpingOnPoint: With the RTD era ending on a reference-heavy, cameo-packed grand finale, we now get a new Doctor, companion and TARDIS set all at once.
* KillItWithFire: How the Atraxi intend to deal with Prisoner Zero. And the human residence.
* MaleGaze: The first we see of grown up Amy; a slow pan up her short-skirted legs.
* MathematiciansAnswer: Combined with awesomeness.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Twenty minutes. Run home to your loved ones and kiss them all goodbye, or stay and help me.\\
'''Amy:''' No. (''she proceeds to trap his tie in a car window and demand an explanation from him'')
* MeaningfulName: The expression "eleventh hour" means "in the nick of time". It also references the fact it's one-hour long exactly and that it's the first full episode with the ''eleventh'' Doctor.
* MeaningfulRename: Amelia to Amy, very pointedly.
* MrFanservice
** Why hello there, hunky Jeff with the [[TheInternetIsForPorn porny laptop]] and big arms.
** On a less conventionally good-looking note, Creator/MattSmith fangirls are practically an inevitability.
* NationalStereotypes: "You're Scottish; fry something." Ironically, written [[SelfDeprecation by a Scottish author]].
* NecktieLeash: Amy not only drags the Doctor by the tie, she locks it in a car door to get information out of him. [[FridgeBrilliance After that, the Doctor wears a bow tie.]]
* {{Nephewism}}: Amy has no parents, only an aunt. ''[[FridgeHorror Maybe]].''
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Variant. The Doctor tells Amy that he has heard every possible reaction to the fact that the TARDIS is bigger on the inside. Amy responds "I'm in my nightie". He probably has heard that one before.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Millennium Bug notwithstanding, resetting all the computer clocks in the world to zero would royally mess up all sorts of society's critical systems.
** NiceJobBreakingItHero: And since this episode is set in 2008, the Doctor is probably the one responsible for the worldwide financial crisis.
* NothingIsScarier! Amy approaching the extra door in her house. Just Amy, slowly walking down an ordinary hallway towards an ordinary closed door... Hitchcock would've been proud.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: After the Doctor accidentally skips forwards twelve years instead of five minutes, the rest of the village end up believing that "the Raggedy Doctor" is Amelia's imaginary friend, and are weirded out or charmed to actually meet him. Amy is less pleased, in part due to the four psychiatrists she'd been made to visit.
* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: When Prisoner Zero takes on the Doctor's form, he hasn't looked in a mirror since his regeneration, so his reaction is, "Well, that's rubbish. Who's that supposed to be?"
* OhCrap
** Of course the Atraxi don't have any facial features, but they'd certainly get the hell out of Earth when they realize they've been tangling with the Doctor.
** The Doctor has his own when he realises that it's been more than five minutes. Something may have happened to Amelia Pond.
** Jeff for a second when he realises he'll have to hand over his laptop.
* PresentDayPast: As [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the commentary, the Millennium Dome can clearly be seen in the opening scene, which takes place in 1996. This is only noticeable on later viewings, as there is nothing to suggest that the opening isn't set in present day until later in the episode.
* RealitySubtext: The interior of the TARDIS is wrecked and the old Sonic Screwdriver is broken, prompting new sets and props to go with the new Doctor.
* [[RoomFullOfCrazy Room Full of Slightly Off-Kilter]]: Amy's room full of "Raggedy Doctor" drawings and toys.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Amy, who is first seen aged seven, then 19. Then 21.
* ShirtlessScene: Creator/MattSmith, and it's still just the first episode. And he was more than just shirtless.
* ShoutOut: The guy who's surfing porn and seriously needs to get a girlfriend's name is '''[[Series/{{Coupling}} Jeff]]'''.
* TheSlowPath: The first time the Doctor disappears he returns 12 years later, the second time he comes back 2 years later. Amy is not happy either time.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Amy is consistently doubting the Doctor and his claims on the justification that she grew up.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Don't worry. I'll soon fix that.
* SniffSniffNom: How the doctor realises that the replacement shed for the one he destroyed with the TARDIS has been there for 12 years.
* StaggeredZoom: The episode used this to follow the Doctor's thought process in examining the scene involving Rory photographing Prisoner Zero. Though it's really more of a wandering, meandering series of cuts which focus on different objects and people with varying levels of zoom.
* StarfishAliens: The Atraxi, putting the "alien" in "alien police" with their big eyeballs and crystalline web ships.
* StealthPun: Combined with a BrickJoke here: when first running through the village, Amy points out the empty duck pond to the Doctor. Later, when he makes his BigDamnHeroes entrance at the hospital, he texts her "DUCK!" Duck, Pond!
* StockEpisodeTitles: 7 uses.
* TakingYouWithMe: Prisoner Zero nonchalantly observes if it can't escape execution then "let there be fire"; that of the Atraxi detonating the entire planet and its inhabitants, that is.
* TalkativeLoon: And you thought the ''Tenth'' Doctor had this trope bad...
* [[ThatManIsDead That Little Girl Is Dead]]: "Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a very long time."
* ThatPoorCat: When the Doctor throws out the buttered bread.
* TimeshiftedActor: Young Amelia and companion Amy, played by [[RealLifeRelative cousins]].
* TotallyRadical: "WHO DA MAN!?... I'm never saying that again."
* TrustMeImAnX: "Trust me -- I'm the Doctor."
* {{Tsundere}}: Amy swings between "''Oh my God it's my Doctor!''" and "''[[AC:Twelve Years]] (and four psychiatrists)!''"
* TwistEnding: Amy's wedding is tomorrow.
* UpToEleven: The big series-long arc that starts here. Plus an IncrediblyLamePun, given what doctor number we're up to.
* VertigoEffect
* VillainousBreakdown: Prisoner Zero mixes this with CreepyMonotone, when the Doctor forces it into its true form.
* WhamLine: In-Universe, "''Why did you say 'five minutes'?!''" is this for the Doctor. After all, it was already pretty obvious to the audience where "Amelia" was.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The duckless duck pond.
** Jeff seems to be set up to help UNIT, but we never see that subplot again.
* YouLookFamiliar: One of the villagers is Cully from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators "The Dominators"]].
* YouNeedToGetLaid: The Doctor tells Jeff as much. Although what was hinted to be on Jeff's computer by the Doctor and Jeff's reactions might.

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* TakeThat: Quite possibly one against ''Film/{{Signs}}'' when the Doctor uses his screwdriver to lock Prisoner Zero in a room. When Amy asks if that will hold it, he sarcastically replies that of course an incredibly powerful shape-shifting alien would be vulnerable to a wooden door.

* BookEnds
** Subverted; it's more like chapter ends. When we first meet Amy and she first meets the Doctor she is in her nightie, 14 years later and having her first trip in the TARDIS she is wearing a very similar nightie.
** After [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]], it is apparent that Amy hitting the Doctor with a cricket bat and handcuffing him to the radiator is the front book end to River Song punching him and handcuffing him to a pipe at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]].
** When the Doctor meets Amelia, the first time he sees her, is when she's seven in her garden. When the Doctor says goodbye to her, the last time he sees Amelia [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan is when she's seven and in her garden.]]

** His use of the word "Run" is probably a reference to [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1Rose "Rose"]], where it is the first line uttered by the Doctor in the new incarnation of the series. Here, of course, it is turned on its head; instead of warning a companion, he is threatening an enemy.

* CerebusCallback: This quote from the Doctor, when we [[ForeShadowing first hear it]], is funny. After the events in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]'' it becomes [[BrokenPedestal heartbreaking]].
-->'''The Doctor:''' Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cos it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a madman with a box.

* {{Foreshadowing}}
** The cracks, obviously. By extension, "Silence Will Fall".
*** A throwaway line from the Doctor about the pond having no ducks is a subtle hint the cracks are already erasing things from time.
*** Special note goes to the one [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens on a screen inside the TARDIS]].
** The Doctor says the following; ''"Listen to me, and believe it, because this may one day save your life; I am''definitely'' a madman with a box."'' In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]] he breaks Amy's faith in him, thus saving her life, by saying that he's not a hero, but ''just'' a madman with a box.
** After the Doctor defeats the Atraxi and disappears in the new TARDIS, there's a short flashback scene of young Amelia waiting in the garden, hearing the TARDIS sound. It quickly cuts to an adult Amy waking up on the night before her wedding, making it seem like it may have been a dream. That scene is not explained at all until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]], two and half series later.]]

** There's also someone who runs past the camera around sixteen minutes in, for a fraction of a second, when the camera's looking out the kitchen window at Amelia. WordOfGod says that that was Eleven during his rewind in "The Big Bang" and was supposed to be part of the series finale but they couldn't fit it in continuity-wise without making it look like Amelia had fallen asleep in seconds.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The duckless duck pond. A scene was planned for the series finale showing that closing the cracks had restored the ducks, but it was never shot.

** After the Doctor defeats the Atraxi and disappears in the new TARDIS, there's a short flashback scene of young Amelia waiting in the garden, hearing the TARDIS sound. It quickly cuts to an adult Amy waking up on the night before her wedding, making it seem like it may have been a dream. [[spoiler:That scene is not explained at all, until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]] -- Amy's final episode -- two and half series later.]]

** After the Doctor defeats the Atraxi and disappears in the new TARDIS, there's a short flashback scene of young Amelia waiting in the garden, hearing the TARDIS sound. It quickly cuts to an adult Amy waking up on the night before her wedding, making it seem like it may have been a dream. That scene is not explained at all, until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]] -- Amy's final episode -- two and half series later.

'''Amy:''' I kept biting them.\\PresentDayPast

'''Amy:''' I kept biting them.\\

:: Made even more of a doom when you realise that "the human residence" does ''not'' mean Amy's house, but the ''Earth''.

* HumiliationCongaLine: After the Tenth Doctor's violent regeneration, the TARDIS is forced into lockdown while it [[TrashTheSet rebuilds itself]], a situation made worse by his old Sonic Screwdriver likewise exploding halfway through the episode. It's one of ''those'' days.

* TrashTheSet: After the Tenth Doctor's violent regeneration, the TARDIS is forced into lockdown while it rebuilds itself and the Sonic screwdriver likewise explodes halfway through the episode.

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arAjbSkKF-Q 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 by whom? The eyeball visualises images of various ''Who'' monsters [[note]]Including the Ood and Hath who, excluding Ood Sigma's telepathic message at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]", ''have never set foot on Earth at this point.''[[/note]] and all ten preceding incarnations of the Doctor. The Doctor steps through the projections shown (more precisely, he symbolically steps through DavidTennant's face), his new outfit now complete with a bow tie, and tells the Atraxi to '''run'''. They do.

* CordonBleughChef: The Doctor rejects the perfectly good food little Amy offers up, and opts for custard and fish fingers instead. Rapidly undergoing a MemeticMutation with many anecdotes online of what this actually tastes like. Ironic since the fish fingers used in the scene were not fish fingers.

[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime Last time]], DavidTennant exploded into a new regeneration and set the TARDIS on fire in the process. It's rapidly crashing into London with MattSmith, the Eleventh Doctor, hanging off of it. He scrambles back in and manages to crash-land the TARDIS in a sleepy English village.

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* AllThereInTheManual: StevenMoffat has said in the commentary for this episode that Prisoner Zero was arrested for impersonating an army. Although, as the next thing he says is that this is ridiculous, and Rule One is that [[LyingCreator Moffat lies]], it's debatable how canon it is.

* BlatantLies:
-->'''Doctor:''' You know when the grown-ups say that everything's gonna be fine, but you think they're lying to make you feel better?\\

-->'''Doctor:''' It's camouflage. It's disguised as a police telephone box from 1963. Every time the TARDIS materialises in a new location, within the first ''nanosecond'' of landing, it analyses its surroundings, calculates a 12-dimensional data map of everything within a 1000-mile radius and determines which outer shell would blend in best with the environment. ...And then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963.
-->'''Amy:''' Oh. Why?
-->'''Doctor:''' It's probably a bit of a fault, actually. I've been meaning to check.
-->'''Amy:''' What, it's a police box every time?
-->'''Doctor:''' Yeah. I suppose, now you mention.
-->'''Amy:''' How long has it been doing that?
-->'''Doctor:''' Oh... you know. Not long...

-->'''The Doctor''': Cartoons?
* BritainIsOnlyLondon - Deliberately averted. Amy lives in a rural part of England. Moffat has said that something of a pet peeve of his during the first series was that, while they had all of time and space to play around in, they seemed to spend an awful lot of time in London.
* BroughtDownToNormal- No TARDIS, no sonic, twenty minutes to save the world.
* BookEnds- Subverted; it's more like chapter ends. When we first meet Amy and she first meets the Doctor she is in her nightie, 14 years later and having her first trip in the TARDIS she is wearing a very similar nightie.
** After [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes To War]], it is apparent that Amy hitting the Doctor with a cricket bat and handcuffing him to the radiator is the front book end to River Song punching him and handcuffing him to a pipe at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E9ForestOfTheDead Forest Of The Dead.]]

* BowtiesAreCool: TropeNamer

* CallBack -- [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E9ForestOfTheDead The Doctor opens the door to the TARDIS by clicking his fingers.]]

*** His use of the word "Run" is probably a reference to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1Rose Rose]]", where it is the first line uttered by the Doctor in the new incarnation of the series. Here, of course, it is turned on its head; instead of warning a companion, he is threatening an enemy.

*** Also, the TARDIS landing on its side right after a big regeneration.

** The "You've got some cowboys in here" line was previously used in 'The Girl in the Fireplace', another Steven Moffat-penned episode.
* TheCameo -- ''The'' PatrickMoore. Who is apparently a DirtyOldMan.

-->Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cos it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a madman with a box.

--> '''The Doctor''': [[LampshadeHanging I'll save this for later.]]

* ChekhovsGunman - Both the man with the dog and the woman with the children are shown as coma patients early in the episode.
* CoolStarship - Giant flying crystal snowflake starships? Hell yeah.
** Don't forget the [[FacelessEye giant eyeball]]
* CordonBleughChef - The Doctor rejects the perfectly good food little Amy offers up, and opts for custard and fish fingers instead.
** Rapidly undergoing a MemeticMutation with many anecdotes online of what this actually tastes like. Ironic since the fish fingers used in the scene were not fish fingers.
* CreepyChild - Zero as little Amelia is surprisingly effective.
* DareToBeBadass - Jeff gets a speech from the Doctor exhorting him to "be magnificent".

* EditedForSyndication - BBC America cut out quite a bit of this episode for re-airings, including most of the Doctor's "cravings" scene, young Amy waiting for the Doctor, the Doctor proving to the conference who he is, the woman being attacked, the Doctor's comment about Amy's accent and [[ChekhovsGun the "Silence Will Fall" scene with Prisoner Zero]]. Luckily Space Channel seems to have learned from the mistakes of the CBC and left the episode intact for those watching in Canada.
** BBC America premièred the episode uncut in a special timeslot (the only changes were commercials inserted here and there, but no actual footage was excluded) and for reruns for the rest of the night. They've continued the practice of "première uncut, then edit later" for all new episodes afterwards.

--> '''The Doctor''': You're not the first lot to have come here. Oh, there have been so many. And what you have to ask yourself is... ''what happened to them?''
--> ''{The Atraxi shows pictures of the previous incarnations of the Doctor, finishing with an image of the Tenth Doctor through which the Eleventh Doctor then steps)''
--> '''The Doctor''': Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically... '''run'''.

* FacelessEye - The Atraxi, spaceships which are just giant flying eyeballs.

* FanficMagnet - Amelia as companion! In fact this episode gave a boost to the idea of a child companion in general.
* FemaleGaze - Amy eyes up the Doctor as he [[ShirtlessScene changes clothes]]. Thank you, StevenMoffat, for levelling the playing field.
* FieryRedhead - Amy, of course.
* FlatWhat - Amy is about as fond of it as the Doctor himself.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The cracks, obviously. By extension, 'Silence Will Fall'.

** The Doctor says the following; ''"Listen to me, and believe it, because this may one day save your life; I am''definitely'' a madman with a box."'' In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]] he breaks Amy's faith in him, thus saving her life, by saying that he's not a hero, but ''just'' a mad man with a box.
** After the Doctor defeats the Atraxi and disappears in the new TARDIS, there's a short flashback scene of young Amelia waiting in the garden, hearing the TARDIS sound. It quickly cuts to an adult Amy waking up on the night before her wedding, making it seem like it may have been a dream. That scene is not explained at all, until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan]] - Amy's final episode - two and half series later.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith - Amy speculates that the Doctor is actually some kind of squid thing in the "Meanwhile in the TARDIS" deleted scene.
* FreezeFrameBonus:

** There's also someone who runs past the camera around sixteen minutes in, for a fraction of a second, when the camera's looking out the kitchen window at Amelia. WordOfGod says that that was Eleven during his rewind in ''The Big Bang'' and was supposed to be part of the series finale but they couldn't fit it in continuity-wise without making it look like Amelia had fallen asleep in seconds.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - That's very obviously porn on Jeff's laptop.

** Made even more of a doom when you realise that "the human residence" does ''not'' mean Amy's house, but the ''Earth''.

-->'''Amelia''': We've got some carrots.
-->'''The Doctor''': ''Carrots''? Are you ''insane''?
* InternalHomage - The opening shot is a recreation of the opening of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1Rose Rose]]". This has also appeared in "The Christmas Invasion" and "Smith and Jones".
** Also, more importantly, the hospital that the episode features is remarkably similar to the one that the Third Doctor ended up in following his regeneration (''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace Spearhead From Space]]''). The Third Doctor also ends up stealing his first iconic opera-based outfit from said hospital, just as the Eleventh does (but rather more sneakily).

** There are definite echoes of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]" in that (a hospital/Earth) is harbouring a disguised alien fugitive from justice (The Plasmavore/Prisoner Zero), so the alien police (Judoon/Atraxi) threaten to destroy (the hospital/Earth) if the people do not turn in the fugitive.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E4TheGirlInTheFireplace The Doctor arrives at a girl's home at various points in her life]]. [[TheSlowPath Only minutes pass for him, but it's years for her.]] [[RecycledScript Also written by]] StevenMoffat.
*** The Doctor says to Amelia [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E4TheGirlInTheFireplace 'You've had some cowboys in here']] while examining the crack in her wall.
** The line ''"I've put a lot of work into it"'' (re: the earth/universe) is taken from the also-Moffat-penned ''Recap/DoctorWhoTheCurseOfFatalDeath''.

* TheInternetIsForPorn - Strongly implied to be whatever Jeff was looking at on his laptop in his room. The Doctor even tells him to get a girlfriend and delete his history.

-->'''The Doctor:''' Twenty minutes. Run home to your loved ones and kiss them all goodbye, or stay and help me.
-->'''Amy:''' No. [she proceeds to trap his tie in a car window and demand an explanation from him]
* MeaningfulName: The expression "eleventh hour" means "in the nick of time". It also references the fact it's one hour long exactly and that it's the first full episode with the ''eleventh'' Doctor.

* MrFanservice: Why hello there, hunky Jeff with the [[TheInternetIsForPorn porny laptop]] and big arms. On a less conventionally good-looking note, MattSmith fangirls are practically an inevitability.
* NationalStereotypes - "You're Scottish; fry something." Ironically, written [[SelfDeprecation by a Scottish author]].
* NecktieLeash - Amy not only drags the Doctor by the tie, she locks it in a car door to get information out of him.
** [[FridgeBrilliance After that, the Doctor wears a bow tie.]]

* NeverHeardThatOneBefore - Variant. The Doctor tells Amy that he has heard every possible reaction to the fact that the TARDIS is bigger on the inside. Amy responds "I'm in my nightie". He probably has heard that one before.

* NothingIsScarier - Amy approaching the extra door in her house. Just Amy, slowly walking down an ordinary hallway towards an ordinary closed door... Hitchcock would've been proud.

* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: When Prisoner Zero takes on the Doctor's form, he hasn't looked in a mirror since his regeneration, so his reaction is, "Well, that's rubbish. Who's that supposed to be?".
* OhCrap: Of course the Atraxi don't have any facial features, but they'd certainly get the hell out of Earth when they realize they've been tangling with the Doctor.

* [[RoomFullOfCrazy Room Full Of Slightly Off Kilter]]: Amy's room full of "Raggedy Doctor" drawings and toys.
* SheIsAllGrownUp - Amy, who is first seen aged seven, then 19. Then 21.
* ShirtlessScene - MattSmith, and it's still just the first episode. And he was more than just shirtless.
* ShoutOut - The guy who's surfing porn and seriously needs to get a girlfriend's name is '''[[{{Coupling}} Jeff]]'''.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids - Amy is consistently doubting the Doctor and his claims on the justification that she grew up.
--> '''The Doctor''': Don't worry. I'll soon fix that.

* StarfishAliens - The Atraxi, putting the "alien" in "alien police" with their big eyeballs and crystalline web ships.
* StealthPun: Combined with a BrickJoke here: When first running through the village, Amy points out the empty duck pond to the Doctor. Later, when he makes his BigDamnHeroes entrance at the hospital, he texts her "DUCK!". Duck, Pond!

* ThatPoorCat - When the Doctor throws out the buttered bread.
* TimeshiftedActor - Young Amelia and companion Amy, played by [[RealLifeRelative cousins]].
* TotallyRadical - "WHO DA MAN!?... I'm never saying that again."
* TrustMeImAnX - "Trust me -- I'm the Doctor."
* {{Tsundere}} - Amy swings between ''Oh my God it's my Doctor!'' and ''[[AC:Twelve Years]] (and four psychiatrists)!''.
* TwistEnding - Amy's wedding is tomorrow.
* UpToEleven - The big series-long arc that starts here. Plus an IncrediblyLamePun, given what doctor number we're up to.

* YouNeedToGetLaid - The Doctor tells Jeff as much.
** Although what was hinted to be on Jeff's computer by the Doctor and Jeff's reactions might.
* YouLookFamiliar - One of the villagers is Cully from ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators The Dominators]]''.

[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime Last time]], DavidTennant exploded into a new regeneration and set the TARDIS on fire in the process. It's rapidly crashing into London with MattSmith, 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 (Creator/CaitlinBlackwood) 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 [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime the swimming pool]]). Totally normal, he insists. The little girl, Amelia Pond, is charmed, and lets the Doctor in because she hopes he'll fix the scary wall crack.

So he opens it, and they stare into an alien prison cell. A booming voice repeats "PRISONER ZERO HAS ESCAPED." A giant eyeball -- [[Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures 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' OhCrap 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 Doctor [[IndianaJones 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 called 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.

"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 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, [[SheIsAllGrownUp 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.

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. [[TheInternetIsForPorn 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, [[UsefulNotes/FermatsLastTheorem 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.

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 leaving the Doctor with a cryptic warning: [[ArcWords 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'' (Rory has some issues with this), to discuss why they just seriously violated the Shadow Proclamation's ethics codes and threatened to blow up a class 5 civilization. They head back to the hospital, and the Doctor raids the hospital locker room for a new wardrobe. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace As]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie usual.]]

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arAjbSkKF-Q 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 [[note]]Including the Ood and Hath who, excluding Ood Sigma's telepathic message at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]", ''have never set foot on Earth at this point.''[[/note]] and all ten preceding incarnations of the Doctor. The Doctor steps through the projections shown (more precisely, he symbolically steps through DavidTennant's face), his new outfit now complete with a bow tie, and kindly tells the Atraxi to '''run'''. They do.

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.

* BrickJoke: The Doctor's first visit to Amelia leaves behind an unmistakable impression, leading to an obsession with her "imaginary friend" for quite some time, long enough that seemingly everyone in town, from the local hunk and his aged granny to her (sort-of) boyfriend, has a reaction to seeing "The Raggedy Doctor" in the flesh. Cue Amy's exasperated looks and quietly asking people to please shut up about it.

* BritainIsOnlyLondon - Deliberately averted. Amy lives in a rural part of England. Moffat has said that something of a pet peeve of his during the first season was that, while they had all of time and space to play around in, they seemed to spend an awful lot of time in London.
* BroughtDownToNormal- No TARDIS, no Sonic, twenty minutes to save the world.

* BuffySpeak -
-->'''Rory:''' You just summoned aliens back to earth. Actual aliens. Deadly aliens. ''Aliens. Of death.''

** The montage of previous monsters and all 10 previous Doctors before telling the latest alien "Run!"
*** His use of the word "Run!" is probably a reference to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1Rose Rose]]", where it is the first line uttered by the Doctor in the new incarnation of the series. Here, of course, it is turned on its head; instead of warning a companion, he is threatening an enemy.
** The Doctor congratulates Prisoner Zero on creating [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva "a perfect impression of yourself."]]

* ChekhovsGun: The smiley face apple Amelia gives the Doctor later gets used to convince Amy to help The Doctor out.

* ChekhovsSkill: As much as being a kissogram can be considered a skill. Everybody assumes that Amy spending a large chunk of the episode in her police uniform was merely to give the audience some FairCop fanservice; in a blink and you'll miss it line, the costume is actually useful when she needs to gain entry to an otherwise-inaccessible wing of the hospital.

* DyingAsYourself: An odd forced inversion, in which the Doctor convinces sleeping Amelia Pond to dream of Prisoner Zero's true form so the Atraxi will recognize him.
* EditedForSyndication - BBC America cut out quite a bit of this episode for re-airings, including most of the Doctor's "cravings" scene, young Amy waiting for the doctor, the Doctor proving who he is to the conference, the woman being attacked, The Doctor's comment about Amy's accent and [[ChekhovsGun the "Silence Will Fall" scene with Prisoner Zero]]. Luckily Space Channel seems to have learned from the mistakes of the CBC and left the episode intact for those watching in Canada.
** BBC America premièred the episode uncut in a special timeslot (the only changes were commercials inserted here and there, but no actual footage was excluded) and for reruns for the rest of the night. They've continued the practice of "Première uncut, then edit later" for all new episodes afterwards.

--> ''{The Atraxi shows pictures of the previous incarnations of the Doctor, finishing with an image of the Tenth Doctor that the Eleventh Doctor then steps through)''

* FoodPorn - Doctor, if you're not going to finish that bacon...? Cause it looks ''delicious''.

** Made even more of a doom when you realize that "the human residence" does ''not'' mean Amy's house, but the ''Earth''.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall / IncrediblyLamePun: "WHO da man?!" It ([[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilariously]]) falls flat.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Oh, I'm never saying that again, fine.

* MeaningfulName: The expression "eleventh hour" means "in the nick of time". It also references the fact it's one hour long exactly, and that it's the first full episode with the ''eleventh'' Doctor.

** Kudos to the Mill for somehow managing to give a floating eyeball recognizable body language.

** Jeff for a second when he realizes he'll have to hand over his laptop.

* TakeThat: Quite possibly one against ''Film/{{Signs}}'' when the Doctor uses his screwdriver to lock Prisoner Zero in a room. When Amy asks if that will hold it, he sarcastically replies that of course an incredibly powerful shapeshifting alien would be vulnerable to a wooden door.
* TakingYouWithMe: Prisoner Zero nonchalantly observes if it can't escape execution, "let there be fire"; that of the Atraxi detonating the entire planet and it's inhabitants, that is.

* WhamLine: In-Universe, "''Well, why did you say '5 minutes'?!?!''" is this for the Doctor. After all, it was already pretty obvious to the audience who "Amelia" was.

* YouNeedToGetLaid - The Doctor tells Jeff as much. Well, that he needs a girlfriend, anyway; one doesn't necessarily imply the other.

** The line ''"I've put a lot of work into it"'' (re: the earth/universe) is taken from the also-Moffat-penned ''DoctorWhoTheCurseOfFatalDeath''.

->'''Amy:''' Twelve years! And four psychiatrists!
->'''Eleventh Doctor:''' Four?
->'''Amy:''' I kept biting them.
->'''Eleventh Doctor:''' Why?
->'''Amy:''' They said you weren't real.

The little girl (CaitlinBlackwood) 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 [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime the swimming pool]]). Totally normal, he insists. The little girl, Amelia Pond, is charmed, and lets the Doctor in because she hopes he'll fix the scary wall crack.

* BatterUp: Amy with a cricket bat. [[spoiler:Poor Doctor]].

** After [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes To War]], it is apparent that Amy hitting the Doctor with a cricket bat and handcuffing him to the radiator is [[spoiler:the front book end to River Song punching him and handcuffing him to a pipe at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E9ForestOfTheDead Forest Of The Dead.]]]]
** When the Doctor meets Amelia, the first time he sees her, is when she's seven in her garden. [[spoiler: When the Doctor says goodbye to her, the last time he sees Amelia [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan is when she's seven and in her garden.]]]]

* ChekhovsGunman - Both the man with the dog and [[spoiler: the woman with the children]] are shown as coma patients early in the episode.

** The cracks, obviously. By extension, [[spoiler: 'Silence Will Fall']].
*** A throwaway line from the Doctor about the pond having no ducks is a subtle hint [[spoiler:the cracks are already erasing things from time]].
*** Special note goes to the one [[spoiler: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens on a screen inside the TARDIS]].]]
** The Doctor says the following; ''"Listen to me, and believe it, because this may one day save your life; I am''definitely'' a madman with a box."'' In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]] [[spoiler: he breaks Amy's faith in him, thus saving her life, by saying that he's not a hero, but ''just'' a mad man with a box.]]
** After the Doctor defeats the Atraxi and disappears in the new TARDIS, there's a short flashback scene of young Amelia waiting in the garden, hearing the TARDIS sound. It quickly cuts to an adult Amy waking up on the night before her wedding, making it seem like it may have been a dream. That scene is not explained at all, until [[spoiler: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan]] - Amy's final episode - two and half series later.]]

** Amy runs outside in her nightie, passing by the stuff [[spoiler: including her wedding dress]] from the slow pan at the end of the episode.

* TwistEnding - [[spoiler: Amy's wedding is tomorrow.]]

* WhamLine: In-Universe, "''Well, why did you say '5 minutes'?!?!''" is this for the Doctor. [[spoiler: After all, it was already pretty obvious to the audience who "Amelia" was.]]

->'''Amy''': Twelve years! And four psychiatrists!

->'''Amy''': I kept biting them. They said you weren't real.

The little girl (CaitlinBlackwood) 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 [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime 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.

But before the Doctor can work on that, he hears the Cloister Bell, the TARDIS' OhCrap 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 [[IndianaJones 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.

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.

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.

* ArcNumber: Invoked; the Doctor has every single digital device ''in the world'' reset to bear the number 0. As in, for Prisoner Zero.

-->'''Doctor:''' You know when the grownups say that everything's gonna be fine, but you think they're lying to make you feel better?\\

-->'''Doctor:''' It's camouflage. It's disguised as a police telephone box from 1963. Every time the TARDIS materializes in a new location, within the first ''nanosecond'' of landing, it analyzes its surroundings, calculates a 12-dimensional data map of everything within a 1000-mile radius, and determines which outer shell would blend in best with the environment. ...And then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963.

* BrickJoke: The Doctor's first visit to Amelia leaves behind an unmistakable impression, leading to an obsession with her "imaginary friend" for quite some time, long enough that seemingly everyone in town, from the local hunk and his aged granny to her (sort-of) boyfriend has a reaction to seeing "The Raggedy Doctor" in the flesh. Cue Amy's exasperated looks and quietly asking people to please shut up about it.

* BookEnds- Subverted, it's more like chapter ends, when we first meet Amy and she first meets the Doctor she is in her nighty, 14 years later and having her first trip in the TARDIS she is wearing a very similar nighty.

** Also the appearance of the hatstand in the console room.
** And the Saint John's Ambulance badge is back, as it once was during the early years of the show.

** The montage of previous monsters and all 10 previous Doctors before telling the latest alien, "Run!"

** 11th Doctor exclaims "What?!" three times after realising Amy is the little girl he left behind in the beginning. The 10th had made this expression a couple of times during his run.
** The Doc promising a little girl he'd be right back, and shows up years later. [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E4TheGirlInTheFireplace Not the first time this has happened...]]

** Eleven's apparent revulsion to carrots echoes the Sixth Doctor's unintended last words: "Carrot juice?!" (Also offered to him by a redhead companion --Melanie, in this case.)

-->Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a madman with a box!
* ChekhovsGun: The smiley face apple Amelia gives The Doctor later gets used to convince Amy to help The Doctor out.

* ChekhovsGunman - Both the man with the dog, and [[spoiler: the woman with the children]] are shown as coma patients early in the episode.

* DareToBeBadass - Jeff (OBTAE) gets a speech from the Doctor exhorting him to "be magnificent".
%% OBTAE = "other bloke that Amy encounters"? *shrug*

** "Oh yeah, yeah of course! It's an interdimensional multi-form from outer space, they're all terrified of ''wood.''"

** BBC America premiered the episode uncut in a special timeslot (the only changes were commercials inserted here and there, but no actual footage was excluded) and for reruns for the rest of the night. They've continued the practice of "Premiere uncut, then edit later" for all new episodes afterwards.

* FemaleGaze - Amy eyes up the Doctor as he [[ShirtlessScene changes clothes]]. Thank you, StevenMoffat for leveling the playing field.

** After the Doctor defeats the Atraxi and disappears in the new TARDIS, there's a short flashback scene of young Amelia waiting in the garden, hearing the TARDIS sound. It quickly cuts to an adult Amy waking up on the night before her wedding, making it seem like it may have been a dream. That scene is not explained at all, until [[spoiler: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E05TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan]] - Amy's final episode - two and half seasons later.]]

** There's also someone who runs past the camera around sixteen minutes in, for a fraction of a second, when the camera's looking out the kitchen window at Amelia. WordOfGod says that that was Eleven during his rewind in ''The Big Bang'' and was supposed to be part of the series finale but they couldn't fit it in continuity wise without making it look like Amelia had fallen asleep in seconds.

* GroinAttack: Eleven, hanging on to the out-of-control TARDIS for dear life, ''narrowly avoids'' damaging his meat-and-two-veg on Big Ben's spire. Seriously, the gap is two or three inches at most--ouch!

** There are definite echoes of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]" in that (a hospital/Earth) is harboring a disguised alien fugitive from justice (The Plasmavore/Prisoner Zero), so the alien police (Judoon/Atraxi) threaten to destroy (the hospital/Earth) if the people do not turn in the fugitive.

-->'''Amy:''' No. [she proceeds to trap his necktie in a car window and demand an explanation from him]

* NationalStereotypes - "You're Scottish, fry something." Ironically, written [[SelfDeprecation by a Scottish author]].

* NeverHeardThatOneBefore - Variant. The Doctor tells Amy that he has heard every possible reaction to the fact that the TARDIS is bigger on the inside. Amy responds "I'm in my nightie." He probably has heard that one before.

* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: When Prisoner Zero takes on the Doctor's form, he hasn't looked in a mirror since his regeneration, so his reaction is, "Well, that's rubbish. Who's that supposed to be?"

** The Doctor has his own when he realizes that it's been more than five minutes. Something may have happened to Amelia Pond.

* SheIsAllGrownUp - Amy, who is first seen age seven, then age 19. Then 21.

* SniffSniffNom: How the doctor realizes that the replacement shed for the one he destroyed with the TARDIS has been there for 12 years.

* TakingYouWithMe: Prisoner Zero nonchalentally observes if it can't escape execution, "let there be fire", that of the Atraxi detonating the entire planet and it's inhabitants that is.

* TrustMeImAnX - "Trust me - I'm the Doctor."

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The duckless duck pond. A scene was planned for the season finale showing that closing the cracks had restored the ducks, but it was never shot.

The Guards arrest Zero via white light beams, but not before it leaves the Doctor with a cryptic warning: [[ArcWords 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. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace As]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie usual.]]

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arAjbSkKF-Q 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 [[note]]Including the Ood and Hath who, excluding Ood Sigma's telepathic message at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]", ''have never set foot on Earth at this point.''[[/note]] and all ten preceding incarnations of the Doctor. The Doctor steps through the projections shown (more precisely, he symbolically steps through DavidTennant's face), his new outfit now complete with a bow tie, and kindly tells the Atraxi to '''run'''.

* VillainousBreakdown: Prisoner Zero mixes this with CreepyMonotone, when the Doctor forces it into it's true form.