History Recap / DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone

%%* NearVillainVictory:

* NoGravityForYou: The Angels die when the artifical gravity turns off and they fall into the crack in time. In this case, this wasn't really a plan so much as the Angels accidentally hoisting themselves by their own petard.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The way Amy kisses the Doctor, despite his clear refusal, would not have been taken as well if it had been a man kissing an unwilling woman.

A DVD-only scene. The Doctor has pushed Amy back into the TARDIS, and after a few failed attempts at kissing him again, it slowly dawns on her that he's ''really'' not going to shag her. She calls him out on being the absolute MasterOfTheMixedMessage, and realizes that she's not the first pretty girl he ever took into space. She tricks the TARDIS into showing her pictures of all previous companions and smugly notes that yep, that's a whole lot of pretty young human girls. One of which is wearing a leather bikini. The Doctor is miffed at the TARDIS for not including the tin dog.

'''The Doctor:''' Everything -- I look at a star, there's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends... and [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome I was probably there both times]]. After a while, everything is just ''stuff''. That's the problem; you make all of space and time your back yard, and what do you have? A back yard. But you; [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Just in case you forget when the series finale will be on, the date is the same as the one that the End of the Universe explosion occured on.

* ApologeticAttacker: Angel Bob is very sorry that the angels are going to kill all the humans.

* ForTheEvulz: Why are the Weeping Angels making Amy count down to her death? Just to scare her!
* FriendsWithBenefits: Amy wants this. The Doctor, it appears, does not.

* RuleOfScary: Suddenly the Angels can move even if they can see each other?They don't seem to care that the lights are on, they're facing each other and well, they move. It's genuinely frightening.

* TemporaryBlindness: Amy's inability to open her eyes.

* YourCheatingHeart: Amy attempts to shag the Doctor on the night before her wedding. You gotta feel bad for Roy.

* CelibateHero: Downplayed here. The Doctor might not be TheCasanova and it's been a long time since his last shag but Amy points out that he just happens to enjoy showing off how awesome he is to young attractive women.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite instructions to show ''all'' previous companions, the TARDIS only seems to show the female ones, leaving out all the men. The Doctor snarks at her for leaving out the metal dog too (K9).
* DirtyOldMan: The Doctor fears he looks like one since most of his previous companions were attractive young women.

* {{Understatement}}: The Doctor's had a few young, attractive women in the TARDIS before.
* UnwantedHarem: Of a kind. The Doctor is trying to evade a ''very'' flirty Amy, who eventually gets around to questioning him about any and all previous companions he's had. [[BlatantLies He admits that there have been a few, and a couple of them have been female]]. Amy tricks him into calling up a visual record of all the other TARDIS inhabitants over the years (mostly attractive women, as we know). He nearly dies of embarrassment.

* CallForward:
** To "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]": "You... me... handcuffs... Why does it always end this way?"
** Another one is made to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang events yet to happen]], indicated by an out of place Doctor showing up, made clear by the fact he has a jacket on, after the present Doctor had to slip out of his to escape the grip of a Weeping Angel. Then begins talking about something entirely unrelated to the current situation with Amy being consumed by an Angel, as though he has already lived through these events and knows it has been taken care of already. This other Doctor has something much more pressing on his mind, and seems upset by it.

* RedShirt: Alas, poor neck snapped and regoned Clerics.

* TooDumbToLive: Or even Too Dumb to Have Ever Existed -- The Weeping Angels fall into the crack in time because the gravity turned off and the gravity turned off because they drained the power for it. The Doctor did ''nothing'' to stop them other lead them into position over the crack, and he didn't do that on purpose. He just figured out what would happen before it did.

* AnyoneCanDie: The Clerics.
* ApologeticAttacker: Angel Bob

* ArtificialGravity: This causes plenty of wacky fun throughout the episode.

* BerserkButton: The Doctor threatens the soldiers that if anything happens to Amy while he's away he "will hold each of [them] personally responsible. Twice." Later behaviour as he realised leaving Amy behind was a mistake perhaps crosses into PapaWolf or BigBrotherInstinct territory.
* BoxedCrook: River. She seems more comfortable with the idea than Octavian, her gaoler.

* CallForward: To "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]": "You... me... handcuffs... Why does it always end this way?"

* CessationOfExistence: What happens to you if you're consumed by a crack in time. But worse than just not existing, the cracks make sure that you ''never existed to begin with''.

* DamselInDistress: Amy, although she's got a good reason for it.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: River Song

* EvilLaugh: Of the horrific variety. Considering that it's the same noise that the freaking [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings ringwraiths]] make... yeah.

* FaceDeathWithDignity / ItHasBeenAnHonor: Father Octavian may have redefined the former trope.
-->'''The Doctor:''' I wish I had known you better.\\

* FromBadToWorse

* GladToBeAliveSex: Amy wants this, but as the Doctor, as Creator/StevenMoffat put it, "stumbles over his shoelaces" when a woman starts behaving like that, it doesn't work out...
* GoryDiscretionShot: One for Octavian.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Just in case you forget when the series finale will be on.

* MuzzleFlashlight
* NeckSnap

* NoGravityForYou: Though in this case, this wasn't really a plan so much as the Angels accidentally hoisting themselves by their own petard.

* PlotHole: So, suddenly the Angels can move even if they can see each other? At least, they don't seem to care that the lights are on, they're facing each other and well, they move...

* RedShirt: Alas, poor Clerics.
* RetGone: The cracks do this.

* RippleEffectProofMemory: This is a side effect of being a time traveller.
* RuleOfScary: See PlotHole above.

* NearVillainVictory: ''Holy shit!''
* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The Cracks are revealed to be this, as they will ''erase you from existence'' if you get too close to them.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Doctor would have had no clue how to stop the light in the crack if the Angels hadn't suggested he sacrifice himself, which gave him the idea to sacrifice them instead.

* RedemptionQuest: River is on one of, as it seems, many.

* RetGone[=/=]UnPerson: The cracks do this.

* RippleEffectProofMemory: Apparently this is a side effect of being a time traveller.

* TimeyWimeyBall: Taken to a horrific extreme when the crack begins to start erasing parts of history, absorbing things into it. Altogether fitting considering the TropeNamer for TimeyWimeyBall was the Weeping Angels' first appearance, "Blink".
* TooDumbToLive: Or even Too Dumb to Have Ever Existed -- The Weeping Angels. It must be pointed out that the Doctor actually did ''nothing'' to stop them and actually gave them hints as to what they were doing wrong. They still managed to stupid themselves to death. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Again.]]
* WhatCliffhanger: He just needed to shoot the gravity thing? That's ''it?'' It seems like the writers were just looking for a justification for making the Doctor act like Clint Eastwood in the trailer.

* YourCheatingHeart: What the hell, Amy? Have to feel bad for Rory even though we don't know him well at this point.

* CelibateHero: Subverted -- the Doctor might not be TheCasanova, but Amy points out that he just happens to enjoy showing off how awesome he is to young attractive women.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite instructions the TARDIS only seems to show the female companions, leaving out all the men. The Doctor snarks at her for leaving out the metal dog too (K9).

* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Amy calls out the Doctor on this.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Amy tricks the Doctor into showing her the visual records of his previous companions.

Angel Bob, the dead cleric, is on the line again. He/it informs the Doctor that the Angels are growing in power and will soon be able to devour the whole universe. According to Bob, Amy has something rather nasty in her eye. And she's still counting down. And apparently there's a much bigger source of power here than the humans had anticipated. The Angels have started laughing, which frankly sounds more like screaming.

And... there's [[ArcSymbol a crack in the wall]]. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour A rather big, glowing familiar-looking one.]]

Amy, meanwhile, has reached four in her involuntary countdown and is not doing well. While River and Octavian have a little argument about waiting for the Doctor, the man himself shows up, just in time to see Amy begin to decline. Not just decline, in fact; she's dying, which everyone is quickly made aware of because the Doctor doesn't believe in beating about the bush. He also doesn't have a very good bedside manner as he tries to figure out what's wrong with her. It turns out that, having looked the Angel in the eyes, there's an Angel growing in her mind, or more specifically in the vision centres of her brain. When Bob is asked why the Angels are making her count, it turns out that it's not for anything important, it's simply to make her afraid and ForTheEvulz. The Doctor is ''not'' happy.

With only seconds until the growing Angel "switches off" Amy, River and the Doctor decide that in order to starve it of visual input Amy must do what you should never, ''never'' do when it comes to the Weeping Angels -- close her eyes. And she does.

And it seems to work. She certainly isn't dying any more. But if she opens her eyes again, for more than a second...

And then he comes back, wearing his jacket... which he lost back in the console room? This will be important ''much'' later. He tries a bit harder to comfort her, and also tells her to remember what he said when she was seven. Unable to recall, Amy asks him what it was, but he refuses to answer -- that's not "the point". She has to ''remember''. Then he heads off again, leaving poor Amy feeling slightly less jilted, but ''very'' confused.

As the Doctor, River and Octavian pick their way through the forest, he teases her about Octavian because of his "wherever she goes, I go" schtick. Hearing this, the bishop meanly decides to break his promise to River and reveals that she's a prisoner under his jurisdiction, and that he's responsible for her until she's earned her pardon. Well, ''that's'' slightly awkward. No time for it, though, as the Doctor's calculated the date that the explosion that caused the crack began, which is 26/06/2010. Amy's era. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall The air date of this series' finale.]]

Back with Amy and the Clerics, it appears that the Angels are using the old reliable method of turning off the lights, namely by ripping the tree borgs apart. And they're wearing their grumpy faces, which means they mean business. Back with the Doctor, River and Octavian, they've reached a service hatch to the primary flight deck, but the Doctor is more intrigued by something that River says... time is running out. What if, he muses, it actually could?

Back again with Amy and the clerics, just as it seems the Angels are about to attack, a sudden bright glow in the distance scares them off. Clerics Philip and Crispin are sent to investigate the bright light, and Amy's just too damn curious not to look. She opens her eyes for that crucial second to confirm that yes, that glowing curtain of energy ''is'' the crack, and it looks just the same as it did before on her bedroom wall. It's following her...[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow not that we didn't]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks already know that]]. Then Cleric Pedro decides to get a closer look at the light. Wait, why not just wait for the other two to get back?

Marco's adamant that there never was a Philip or a Crispin on the mission. Amy is just as adamant that there were. And during the conversation, he manages to forget Pedro as well. Amy, now understandably freaked out, tries to persuade Marco to ''please'' not go and investigate the crack, as it doesn't seem to be good for the health at all. He doesn't listen. "Two minutes." But he does leave her a spare communicator to talk to him, so she can hear perfectly clearly when his voice suddenly fades away into crackles and silence. Amy's left all alone. Well, alone except for those Angels.

Octavian is trying to get a preoccupied Doctor to leave, as the Angels are coming. The Doctor waves this off, turning around just in time to stop one going just that little bit further with the headlock it's got Octavian in.

On the flight deck, River's trying to get the teleporter to work. But the Doctor says there's no point, since it's as dead as Octavian. He manages to contact Amy and tells her that she has to come to them, since it's dangerous to stay where she is for more than one reason. The Angels will kill her, but if the time energy catches up with her it will erase every moment of her existence. Oh, the essentially walking blind factor? Just follow the sound of the sonic screwdriver on the communicator. And just to help, the Doctor uploads a proximity detector to the device; it'll beep so that Amy can manoeuvre around things. Such as, for example, all those Angels in front of her. Not to worry (for the moment); the Angels are [[AssPull frightened and acting on their instincts]], freezing because they assume she can see them (wait, weren't them quantum-locked ''by nature''?). In order not to dispel that illusion, Amy has to walk as if she ''can'' see them.

River's wondering how they stop the time energy eating everything. The obvious answer is to feed it a big [[Literature/ContinuityErrors complicated space time event]], which will satisfy it -- for the moment. What big complicated space time event were you thinking of, Doctor?... You know, you really have something of a loud martyr complex, has anyone ever told you that?

The Doctor's plan actually seems to work, as with a bit of coaxing, Amy manages to thread her way through a big group of Angels apparently without giving the game away. Of course, MurphysLaw dictates that when she's nearly clear of the Angels she promptly trips over a root, falls flat on her face and drops the communicator. And as she fails to find it again, the jig is up as the Angels begin to move in for the kill... And we get to see them move ''on-screen'' for the first time.

But River beams Amy to the flight deck. Guess there was a point in trying to fix that teleporter after all. But the Angels are draining the last of the ship's power. The doors to the forest vault open, and there are the Angels on the other side. Along with Angel Bob, who is once again their spokesperson. They've had the same idea as the Doctor: if he throws himself into the rupture in time, the rupture will close and they will be saved. The Doctor isn't too impressed with the idea when presented this way. Why should he do such a thing? Oh, yeah, Amy and River will be saved too. Well, there is that.

Understandably, River pipes up, saying that she fits the criterion for sealing the rupture as well. But it turns out she's nowhere near the level of the Angels, and only all together are they on his level, so "get a grip". No, really, get a grip. River gets the message and prepares herself and Amy accordingly, while the Doctor points out to the Angels that they happen to have drained all the power ''out'' of a ship in which, without artificial means, they by all rights shouldn't be standing upright. By means of a {{Pun}}, he points out that the artificial gravity is failing, and the real gravity is about to kick in with a vengeance. And guess what's waiting down below?

Later, back on the surface, the Doctor reassures Amy that the Angel inside her head is gone, since with the deletion of the Angels the memory never existed at all. Of course, she still remembers it (and all those poor clerics) because she's got a very good RippleEffectProofMemory. This will be extremely important later. The crack, meanwhile, is gone for now, but there's still the explosion that caused it, out there, somewhere. River and the Doctor flirt a bit, and he tells her he could kiss her for how awesome she was. "Maybe when you're older," she replies, grinning. She also tells him that the next time he meets her, the Pandorica will open. He thinks that's just a fairy tale. With that, she's taken back to prison.

Back in her bedroom, Amy shows the Doctor her wedding dress and engagement ring and confesses that she’s getting married to Rory in the morning. After the Doctor misses a few anvil-sized hints that she’s interested in one last bachelorette fling, Amy simply tries to jump him. In panic, he scrambles off her bed as quickly as possible. Not to be deterred that easily, she pushes him up against the TARDIS door and manages to get in a few kisses while he tries to tell her that she's engaged, she's human, he's 907 years old, the kind of relationship she is suggesting would never work between them, and could she just ''stop it!'' She instead lies back on her bed, hoping for a good shag, and that's when the Doctor realises that something very wrong is going on. Whatever it is, it’s focused on Amy and he has to fix it right now....

The Doctor takes one last look at the clock, and realises that Amy's wedding is on the same day as the explosion that caused the cracks -- 26/6/2010. And he quickly pushes her back into the TARDIS just before the clock strikes midnight...

Back in her bedroom, Amy shows the Doctor her wedding dress and engagement ring and confesses that she’s getting married to Rory in the morning. After the Doctor misses a few anvil-sized hints that she’s interested in one last bachelorette fling, Amy simply tries to jump him. He scrambles off her bed as quickly as possible. Not to be deterred that easily, she pushes him up against the TARDIS door and manages to get in a few kisses while he explains that she's engaged, she's human, he's 907 years old, the kind of relationship she is suggesting would never work between them, and could she just ''stop it''. She instead lies back on her bed, hoping for a good shag, and that's when the Doctor realises that something very wrong is going on. Whatever it is, it’s focused on Amy and he has to fix it right now....

* HintDropping: When talking about how her near-death experience have put her view on her marriage into perspective, Amy tries repeatedly to hint to "who" she wants, but the Doctor hasn't a clue to what she is talking about. She then gives up and kisses him.

[[{{Retgone}} What other two?]]

And so to the dulcet strains of a [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome certain theme tune that still hasn't gotten old]], the three dangle off handrails as the Angels plummet into the crack and into the cessation of their existence.

* DistressedDamsel: Amy, although she's got a good reason for it.

* EvilLaugh: Of the horrific variety. Considering that it's the same noise that the freaking [[Film/LordOfTheRings ringwraiths]] make... yeah.

* IndyPloy: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]:

* RetGone[=/=]{{Unperson}}: The cracks do this.

* CosmicRetcon: Thanks to the crack in time, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor "The Next Doctor"]] (at the very least) never happened. The Daleks, as pointed out in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks Victory of the Daleks]]" also have vanished from Amy's time.

* RetGone: The cracks do this.

'''WARNING! THERE MAY BE UNMARKED SPOILERS!'''

Back in her bedroom, Amy shows the Doctor her wedding dress and engagement ring and confesses that she’s getting married to Rory in the morning. After the Doctor misses a few anvil-sized hints that she’s interested in one last bachelorette fling, Amy simply tries to jump him. He scrambles off her bed as quickly as possible. Not to be deterred that easily, she pushes him up against the TARDIS door and manages to get in a few kisses while he explains that she's engaged, she's human, he's 907 years old, the kind of relationship she is suggesting would never work between, and could she just ''stop it''. She instead lies back on her bed, hoping for a good shag, and that's when the Doctor realises that something very wrong is going on. Whatever it is, it’s focused on Amy and he has to fix it right now....

Back in her bedroom, Amy shows the Doctor her wedding dress and engagement ring and confesses that she’s getting married to Rory in the morning. After the Doctor misses a few anvil-sized hints that she’s interested in one last bachelorette fling, Amy simply tries to jump him. He scrambles off her bed as quickly as possible. Not to be deterred that easily, she pushes him up against the TARDIS door and manages to get in a few kisses while he explains that she's engaged, she's human, he's 907 years old, the kind of relationship she is suggesting would never work between them, and could she just ''stop it''. She instead lies back on her bed, hoping for a good shag, and that's when the Doctor realises that something very wrong is going on. Whatever it is, it’s focused on Amy and he has to fix it right now....

The Doctor takes one last look at the clock, and realises that Amy's wedding is on the same day as the explosion that caused the cracks -- 26/6/2010.

Back in her bedroom, Amy shows the Doctor her wedding dress and engagement ring and confesses that she’s getting married to Rory in the morning. After the Doctor misses a few anvil-sized hints that she’s interested in one last bachelorette fling, Amy simply tries to jump him. He scrambles off her bed as quickly as possible. Not to be deterred that easily, she pushes him up against the TARDIS door and manages to get in a few kisses while he explains that she's engaged and she's human and he's 907 years old and could she just ''stop it''. She instead lies back on her bed, hoping for a good shag, and that's when the Doctor realises that something very wrong is going on. Whatever it is, it’s focused on Amy and he has to fix it right now....

Back in her bedroom, Amy shows the Doctor her wedding dress and engagement ring and confesses that she’s getting married in the morning. After the Doctor misses a few anvil-sized hints that she’s interested in one last bachelorette fling, Amy simply tries to jump him. He scrambles off her bed as quickly as possible. Not to be deterred that easily, she pushes him up against the TARDIS door and manages to get in a few kisses while he explains that she's engaged and she's human and he's 907 years old and could she just ''stop it''. She instead lies back on her bed, hoping for a good shag, and that's when the Doctor realises that something very wrong is going on. Whatever it is, it’s focused on Amy and he has to fix it right now....

* EvilLaugh: Of the horrific variety. Considering that it's the [[HellIsThatNoise same noise]] that the freaking [[Film/LordOfTheRings ringwraiths]] make... yeah.

** Angel Bob calls the Doctor "The Doctor in the TARDIS" and River mentions the Pandorica opening, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E01TheEleventhHour both like Prisoner Zero.]]

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