The Almost People ( TV story ) The Almost People was the sixth story in the sixth series of " Doctor Who " . This episode saw the Doctor team up with a duplicate of himself . It also marked the moment he was made aware of his eventual death at Lake Silencio . This marks the second time in the Revived Series that the Doctor has been successfully cloned . The previous time was the birth of the Meta - Crisis Tenth Doctor . It was also part of an ongoing theme of the Eleventh Doctor being copied somehow through his tenure . In a major plot twist , it is revealed that Amy Pond had been replaced by a Ganger some time before " The Impossible Astronaut " . It also revealed the true nature of the " Eye Patch Lady " whom Ganger Amy has been seeing . Synopsis . As the conflict between the miners and their ganger s escalates , the Eleventh Doctor has to deal with Amy Pond ' s distrust of his ganger , while Rory Williams tries to help Jennifer . Plot . The ganger Doctor begins screaming in pain , prompting the original the Eleventh Doctor to ascertain what is wrong with his clone . Ganger Doctor begins quoting some of the Doctor ' s past incarnations . This makes the Doctor realise the Flesh is having a difficult time dealing with his past regenerations , which is causing his Ganger a great deal of difficulty in stabilising into his current one ( which is several bodies after the original ) . The Doctor encourages his Ganger to calm down , as the process is nearly over ; Amy looks on in bewilderment as the voice of the Doctor ' s Ganger changes a few times to match the incarnation he is quoting . The Ganger stops screaming and is now in the Doctor ' s form . Amy helps the factory workers barricade the door . The Doctor asks his Ganger to describe Cybermat s to prove that he is actually him . Ganger Doctor tells him that Cybermats are the creation of the Cybermen and kill by feeding on brainwaves . Amy then asks the workers if there are any weapons the Gangers could get their hands on ; they ' re a factory , so there ' s no need for weapons . Smoke begins seeping through the door — the gangers are trying to force their way inside by using acid . The two Doctors discuss the situation , amused that they can tell what the other is thinking ; getting everyone ' s attention , they establish protocol — simultaneously warning Amy to " breathe " — and deduce that they will be able to escape through an air - duct . They quickly climb into the vent , escaping just as the gangers succeed in breaking into the room . They run into the hall to discover that the acid leaking from the pipes is interacting with the stone , creating a highly potent miasma or " chokey gas " . Cleaves informs them they can get to higher ground in the evac tower and radio for help . They enter and the Doctors begin working together to get the power back online . Once they have power , they can radio for help and track down Rory and Jennifer . Amy wonders which is the real Doctor and they tell her their shoes are different — the Doctor changed his after the Flesh scanned him . The Ganger asks " Pond " if she ' s satisfied and she tells him not to call her that , saying that he ' s almost the Doctor " which is pretty damn impressive " . The Ganger takes offence to this and suggests being called " John Smith " as almost being the Doctor is like not being the Doctor . They get the power back on and Cleaves begins working the controls . Meanwhile , Gangers Cleaves , Dicken , and Jimmy go to the factory control room , where they are able to listen to Cleaves send a transmission to the mainland from the evac tower ; Cleaves requests immediate evacuation for herself , the Doctor , and the human s , and orders the gangers ' decommission . Ganger Cleaves tries to intercept the transmission , but the real Cleaves cuts off this line of approach , typing and sending a password that she explains must be used in all future transmissions so that the mainland may be able to verify that it is her and not her ganger . Ganger Cleaves comments on how clever she is , joking it ' s why she gets paid the most out of all of them . The Doctor ' s group tries to track Rory and Jennifer on the factory computer , but fail . Amy continues doubting both Doctors are real , saying , " There can only be one . " At the same time , the Doctor has booked a phone call for the morning ; he does not explain " why " . Abruptly , the woman with the eyepatch appears again ; Amy finally confesses the woman ' s presence to the Doctor , who insists she ' s nothing more than a " mirage , " and encourages her to breathe again . The Doctor ' s ganger leaves , muttering that something is in his head . Cleaves yells for him to come back , but Amy says she will go after him . Outside , Amy apologises for her earlier comments but says she ' s been through a lot with the Doctor , having even seen his death , which she admits to him . She then asks if the ganger could have been the Doctor who was killed at the lakeside when , suddenly , he shoves her up against a wall and repeats what each ganger says when it ' s decommissioned ( or , rather , executed ) : " Why ? " Frightened , Amy returns to the control room and orders the ganger to be kept away from her . The now - calm Ganger follows , apologising to Amy for his behaviour . Ganger Doctor asks the original if he heard the telepathic " Why " as well , The Doctor confirms he did , but not as strongly as his twin did . The Ganger Doctor explains the Flesh is growing and wants revenge for all the Gangers that have been decommissioned . Amy thinks the Ganger is acting on behalf of the Flesh and says he ' s not the Doctor . Cleaves tells Ganger Doctor to sit down and he does so without an argument , hoping to make Amy feel safe . Meanwhile , Rory has tracked down two different Jennifers , both of whom claim to be the human Jennifer ; one shows off a wound on her leg that she claims the Flesh is unable to replicate . Despite Rory explaining that the Doctor will help get both Gangers and humans off the island , one of the Jennifers explains that the Flesh wants to kill them now . Ultimately , the two fight , with one Jennifer dissolving the other by pushing her into a puddle of acid . Trusting Jennifer ( who is actually the original Ganger that created the now - melted copy of herself ) , Rory rushes off to the thermostatic control room with her , where Jennifer insists they will be able to deal with the deadly choking gas that is filling the corridors . The factory computer picks up a visual of Rory and Jennifer on their way to the thermostatic room , which greatly confuses Cleaves ; there is no way to clear out the air there , it controls the temperature gauge for the acid . The Doctor deduce s from the headaches Cleaves is experiencing that a blood clot in her brain is slowly killing her ; she then realises the Doctor is an alien when he mentions it ' s operable off Earth . Knowing Rory and Jennifer need to be rescued and brought to the evac tower , the Doctor gives the sonic screwdriver to his ganger and sends him off to accomplish this mission with Buzzer ' s supervision . Cleaves and Amy ask the Doctor if he ' s crazy ; the Doctor and his Ganger retort that the original once plugged his brain into the core of a planet to both hold its orbit and win a bet , so possibly . In the thermostatic chamber , as she previously failed to shut off the thermostatic regulators due to not being a human , the Ganger Jennifer tricks Rory into doing so in her place . She seems fond of Rory despite wanting to kill humans . With the underground cooling vents shut off , the acid will boil and incinerate the factory ; the lives of everyone there , human , Ganger and Time Lord , are in danger . They next find a pile of discarded , faulty Gangers that are fully conscious in a previously sealed - off room . Rory is now completely convinced that the Gangers have an equal right to live just as much as humans do ; they have to make the public aware of the Gangers ' suffering . Exploring the monastery , the Doctor ' s ganger and Buzzer discover the real Jennifer ' s body , deducing that she ' d died shortly before their arrival . Both Ganger Doctor and Buzzer realise that the Jennifer with Rory is a Ganger , meaning he ' s in trouble . However , while Ganger Doctor has his back to Buzzer , he is whacked on the head with a lamp , knocking him out . Buzzer apologises , saying it ' s Cleaves ' orders . Buzzer is subsequently killed by Jennifer ' s ganger when he discovers her comforting the pile of discarded Flesh . Rory , however , is not there . In the evac tower , the computer registers a rise in temperature , forcing Cleaves to change the rescue spot . However , before she can give the password to confirm her request , the computer explodes . Amy hears something break behind one of the walls , forcing them to leave the evac tower and turn the regulators back on . In the meantime , Ganger Cleaves , who has deduce d the password , calls the transport captain and reroutes the transport to the courtyard ; she and the original are the same person , so it wouldn ' t be that hard to guess the password . Meanwhile , the other gangers discover the unconscious ganger Doctor , who awakens at that moment and asks for something for the pain the blow to his head is giving him . Ganger Cleaves explains that Gangers will always be treated poorly by humanity . Putting away his sonic screwdriver , Ganger Doctor tells them to call him " John Smith " . Elsewhere , the Doctor ' s group arrives in the thermostatic regulator room . The Doctor and Cleaves try getting the machine to turn back on , but it ' s too late ; a chemical chain reaction has started and they have less than an hour before the factory is reduced to nothing but a puddle of acid . With the machine exploding , they are forced to run away and to seek the rescue shuttle . The Doctor ' s group reunites with Rory , who informs them that Jennifer has discovered a secret tunnel beneath the crypt — which also doubles as the acid room — which they can use to escape to the TARDIS . When they reach the acid room , however , Rory and Jennifer ' s ganger lock the group inside ; Rory is oblivious to Jennifer ' s true intentions , merely hoping to convince the group of the gangers ' right to live . As Rory becomes more uncertain of what they ' re doing , Jennifer reveals herself to be a ganger and drags him away before he can release the others . In the dining hall , Rory yells at Jennifer ; she ' s completely changed from the sweet and kind woman she was before to a revenge - crazed lunatic , going as far as creating a second Ganger of herself to win his trust and make him think she was the original Jennifer . Jennifer explains that the humans ( and the Doctor ) will be melted as they deserve and once they get to the mainland , they ' ll start a revolution to free the other Gangers ; she tells Ganger Doctor to join up . Rory then wonders about the real Jennifer and the Ganger Doctor tells him that she is indeed dead . In the acid room , they have lowered a lid on the boiling liquid to buy time . Jimmy is less than willing to believe it will work as the acid will eventualy eat its way out . Snapping at Jimmy , the Doctor says that if he has a better plan , he ' s all ears — " In fact I ' ll take you to a planet where " everyone " is all ears . " Back in the dining hall , Rory tries to leave to help the others ; however , he is ordered by the Doctor ' s ganger to stay as the holographic phone rings ; its the call the Doctor booked earlier . Jimmy ' s young son , Adam , is calling to speak to his father . Ganger Doctor speaks to Adam and then asks Ganger Jimmy to speak to his Adam ; he ' s just as much as Adam ' s father as the real Jimmy . Emotional , the Ganger runs off to release everyone . Jennifer snarls at Ganger Doctor , telling him he tricked Jimmy into an act of weakness . When the Doctor explains that this was only an " act " of humanity , Jennifer flees ; the other gangers also experience a change of heart . Jimmy ' s ganger is too late , however ; unlocking the door of the crypt , he is horrified to see Jimmy get hit in the chest by acid spitting out from beneath the lid of the tank . The Doctor scans Jimmy with the sonic screwdriver and sadly informs the group that the acid has already reached his heart . As Jimmy dies , he asks his ganger to answer his son ' s call and be his father now . The Doctor and the remaining group follow Jimmy ' s ganger back to the dining hall , where he wishes Adam a happy birthday ; he is also delighted when the Doctor informs Adam that Jimmy will be coming home that day . The group takes off running through the monastery as the roof begins to cave in ; they are pursued by a deranged and mutated Jennifer , who has taken the form of an elastic Flesh monster . Though they manage to find a safe chamber , the door at the end of the passage will not shut , and so Dicken sacrifices himself to close it . The Doctor and Cleaves ' s ganger use their bodies to barricade the second door as the TARDIS crashes through the ceiling behind them . Cleaves , Jimmy ' s ganger , and Dicken ' s ganger are ushered into the TARDIS by Rory . Amy calls for the Doctor to return to the TARDIS , with his ganger suggesting perhaps Amy thinks " he " should stay instead ; the Doctor maintains he ' s staying to keep the door shut and reveals " he ' s " the ganger — he and the Doctor switched shoes to prove the two races are not so different . Unfortunately , it also means he is now aware that he will be killed at Lake Silencio , and his earlier reaction in front of Amy was genuine terror . The Doctor gives the sonic to his ganger , who exchanges an emotional farewell with an apologetic Amy . He whispers to Amy , saying to push , but " only when she tells you to " . They enter the TARDIS and leave . The Gangers realise using the sonic to destabilise the Flesh will kill them too ; however , the Doctor optimistically hopes to return . Opening the door , they activate the sonic and all three Flesh beings collapse . Elsewhere , the Doctor explains exposure to the TARDIS engines permanently stabilised the gangers of Jimmy and Dicken , turning them into true human beings while giving Cleaves medicine ( that tastes like burnt onion s ) to cure the blood clot . Jimmy is dropped off at home , where he reunites with his son ; the Doctor , having given Jimmy balloon s for Adam , watches from the distance . He next drops Cleaves and Dicken off at an Army press conference about the incident ; he encourages her to spread the word about the gangers and not to let their deaths be in vain . Amy worries about what will happen to them , but the Doctor merely tells her to breathe . She is confused , but suddenly doubles over in pain ; Rory and the Doctor bring her back to the TARDIS where the Doctor informs the couple that she is going into labour . The Doctor orders Rory to step away from her , which he reluctantly does . Amy looks on , terrified . The Doctor explains that their trip to the factory was not unintentional : he needed to see the Flesh in its early stages so he could learn how to stop the signal — to Amy . He says no matter where she is , they ' ll find her . Rory watches in horror as the Doctor points the sonic at Amy and she dissolves into a puddle of Flesh . Amy wakes up to find herself imprisoned in a medical capsule , dressed in a white hospital gown . A panel in the ceiling slides away , revealing the woman with the eyepatch , seen by her Ganger , who informs Amy that she is nearly ready to pop and that the " little one " is on its way . Looking down , Amy is horrified to see that she is heavily pregnant and due to give birth at any minute . The woman cruelly instructs her to push as Amy screams , going into labour . Home video releases . This story was released as Series 6 Part 1 with " The Impossible Astronaut " , " Day of the Moon " , " The Curse of the Black Spot " , " The Doctor ' s Wife " , " The Rebel Flesh " and " A Good Man Goes to War " on 11 July 2011 . The episode was later released in the complete series 6 , which included the first and second half of the series , was released on DVD and Blu Ray on the 21 November 2011 .