The Weeping Angels of Mons ( comic story ) Publisher ' s summary . When Gabby and the Doctor arrive by accident in No Man ' s Land in July , 1916 , they ' re met by Corporal Jamie Colqhoun — a soldier who knows from bitter experience that there are worse things than the Jerries out in the rat - strewn trenches . Things that drift through the smoke of a thousand cannon shells , and move only when you look away . Shadows that flit over artillery - blasted field hospitals and throw their terrifying wings over the living . Statues that steal your life in an instant . The Weeping Angel s . But in a conflict where the life of young men is cheap , and thousands die every day — are the Angels actually offering salvation ? Trapped in the midst of a flock of starving Angels , the Doctor faces his most challenging and terrifying moral dilemma yet ! Plot . Part one . As the British Army prepares to defend the Belgian town of Mons from the advancing German army in its first engagement in World War I , Jamie Colquhoun and his friend Harry are sent for a reconnaissance of Mons . Before leaving for the mission , Jamie steals the last rays of sunlight to scribble a letter to his sister Jeanie and dates it 21st August 1914 . The town is eerily empty . At a cemetery they make a short break . Many gravestones are embellished with cherubs and angels . Harry is busy planning for after the war , when they are back in Paisley . He ' s going to propose to Jeanie and tries to matchmake Jamie with his own sister . When Jamie goes to check inside the nearby church , Harry pulls out Jeanie ' s photo and starts practising his future proposal . Suddenly , behind him he notices a dark figure with wings . It ignores his demands to identify itself and seems impervious to bullets . Jamie is alarmed by the shots , but Harry can finally see clearly . It is just a statue of a weeping angel . As he turns to tell Jamie everything ' s alright , the Weeping Angel reveals its face . A short scream later , Jeanie ' s photo is all that is left of Harry . The TARDIS materialises in a barren land , grey and completely devoid of trees . Gabby Gonzalez is taken aback because she expected a spot of history more beautiful than this . Turns out , while attempting to boil the kettle , she accidentally pressed something in the TARDIS and steered them off course . The Tenth Doctor decides to explore anyway , but their finds are more and more chilling — a horse skeleton , barbed wire and finally a gas mask . The Doctor realises they got themselves bang in the middle of the First World War , most probably its Western Front . As in confirmation of their worst fears , they hear the sound of approaching shells and start running back towards the TARDIS . Explosions hitting near , Gabby and the Doctor almost make it to safety when a shell hits the TARDIS knocking them both off their feet . When Gabby manages to take her bearings , the TARDIS is gone and the Doctor is unconscious . It is July 1916 , and Jamie writes another letter to Jeanie , from the Big Push to take the Somme . He has been promoted to a Corporal and is a veteran soldier now . Jamie ' s faith has been crushed by war . He doesn ' t believe in Heaven anymore but Hell he can see all around him . Still instead of concentrating on the details of the fighting and the slaughter , he fills the letter with notes about his brothers - in - arms , those who came with him all the way back in August 1914 , John " Shuggy " McHugh , Manny Simons , Joe Logue and Big Wullie Cairns . Their commanding officer , Captain Fairbairn , on the other hand , only arrived a few weeks ago and still needs time to get used to the war . This time they succeeded in crossing the No Man ' s Land and got into German trenches , which are surprisingly empty , except for Gabby with the still unconscious body of the Doctor . With Jamie ' s bayonet aimed right at her , Gabby decides to surrender just in case . After the fighting is over , Captain Fairbairn reports to Major Atkinson from headquarters that they suffered heavy casualties while crossing the No Man ' s Land but then saw no resistance in the trenches or in the town of St Michel they have taken . He also mentions the two civilians they picked up , Gabby and the Doctor , sure they are spies and planning to interrogate them . Jamie , however , is not so sure . Meanwhile , Thomas Monaghan , a military chaplain , is checking up the unconscious Doctor in a field hospital set up in a church . He can find no fault other than the second heart . The Doctor suddenly comes to and stands up so abruptly that Manny Simons thinks he ' s trying to escape and points a revolver at him . Gabby explains that they are suspected spies , so all their belongings including the Doctor ' s sonic screwdriver were confiscated . As the Doctor tries to distract the chaplain ' s attention from his less than usual physiology , a German soldier nearby starts screaming , " Don ' t look away ! " His eyes are completely bandaged , but he is violently ripping off the bandages . When he succeeds in removing them , it turns out his eyelids are sewn permanently open . And he continues shouting , " Don ' t blink ! Don ' t even blink ! " The chaplain says that they found him already in this state and think he may have done it to himself . The Doctor looks closely into his eyes and sees an image of a Weeping Angel . Wullie Cairns and Joe Logue are establishing the perimeter around the town on Captain ' s orders . They stop to smoke a fag near a fountain embellished with many statues . Wullie hangs his helmet on a nearby statue of a weeping angel . Suddenly , they hear the helmet drop to the ground . When they turn to look , the Weeping Angel has uncovered its fierce face and is stretching its hands towards them . Terrified , Wullie pleads for mercy . Part two . Wullie pleads for mercy and suddenly finds himself in a bathroom of a train carriage . Heavy rain lashes at the windows . Joe appears behind him . Neither understands what happened or where they are . Wullie thinks they are in Scotland . Meanwhile the train get onto a bridge . A man from a compartment greets them , and they use the opportunity to carefully figure out where they are . They explain their questions by the amount of alcohol they had before boarding the train , which brings them scorn of a woman sitting in the compartment . The man calms her down and explains that they are on the Dundee train . Suddenly , Wullie notices the date on a newspaper the man is reading — 28th December , 1879 . After the initial shock , Wullie , being from Dundee himself , starts remembering that on that same day the Tay Bridge , the bridge they are passing by now , collapses . Before he finishes his thought , the train and all its passengers are plunged into the river below . The next day , the " The Dundee Herald " publishes a report on the tragic event , which left no survivors . The town of St Michel . The Somme , France , 1916 . Three soldiers are smoking and preparing a meal on a make - shift fire on the darkened streets of St Michel . A couple of statues covering their faces can be seen in the arches of a building behind them . Gabby asks the Doctor what happened to the German patient who continues shouting about not blinking . The Doctor mentions angels , and it turns out that Chaplain Monaghan heard rumours about Angels taking soldiers from battlefields dating back all the way to the first battle of the war in Mons . Their discussion is interrupted by Jamie Colquhoun , who is to take the Doctor and Gabby to Captain Fairbairn . On the way from the church to Captain ' s headquarters , the Doctor asks Jamie if he noticed anything suspicious about the statues in the city . The Doctor ' s dismissive manner doesn ' t help Jamie warm up to him . But he does not seem to be fond of the possibility of a firing squad either and asks Gabby to influence her " boyfriend " . Gabby vigorously dispelling this notion opens up the door for some unmistakable though at times awkward flirting between the two of them . In Fairbairn ' s office , the Doctor continues behave in the most irritating manner causing Captain to pull a gun on him . Jamie vouches that they ' re harmless if a little crazy , and Gabby tries to explain their presence with a hastily cooked up cover story involving a " Lieutenant Colonel Brooks " . Naturally , Fairbairn immediately calls the headquarters to verify the story . Fortunately for Gabby and the Doctor , the telephone line is dead . Fairbairn sends McHugh to fix it . " Shuggy " is not too happy to go out into the gloomy town . He finds where the line was cut off . Suddenly , one of the wires is pulled away from him along the trench . Following it , " Shuggy " bumps into a Weeping Angel . His cry is heard far and wide . Both Captain Fairbairn and Jamie are alarmed by the cry and take to arms assuming this to be a German attack . The Doctor , however , authoritatively tells them they have a new enemy now . He still acts as if he were in charge . He even steals Captain ' s personal firearm to prevent him from stopping him , while Gabby picks up and hands him his screwdriver . Jamie is forced to point his rifle at the Doctor . Unperturbed and beckoning everyone to follow him , the Doctor is already opening the door , only to find a Weeping Angel standing behind it . Slamming the door shut , the Doctor and others run to find another exit . On the run , the Doctor gives a primer on the worst - named predators in the universe . The Angel is already in the room . Jamie stays behind shooting at it , with no visible effect . But the Doctor and Gabby soon bump into another Angel up ahead . Running backwards , they soon join the others . The four humans with their backs to the windows are face to face with two Weeping Angels . The Doctor smashes the window with his sonic screwdriver . The four of them jump out and run for their lives , making it safely all the way to the church with the field hospital . Meanwhile , only Weeping Angels can be now seen near the make - shift fire . Matches and an overturned can are uselessly lying on the ground . Multiple Weeping Angels surround the church now . The Doctor makes sure that they are being continuously observed through the windows . With the temporary standstill , he explains in more detail that Angels have evolved to turn into stone whenever another living being looks at them . Their touch sends one into the past and traps there , allowing the Angels to devour the present and the future , to absorb the time - energy . They feed off the potential of your life that is never realised . They have to cover their faces in the presence of other Angels to prevent quantum - locking each other forever . The battlefields of World War I are a perfect hunting ground for them . And the likely reason that there was no resistance in the German trenches and in the town of St Michel is that most Germans have fallen victims of the Angels . One of the soldiers from the make - shift fire finds himself in the Colosseum in Rome in 97 AD , smack in the middle of a gladiator fight . Another appeared out of thin air in London in 1535 and is tied to a stake to be burned as a witch by the Londoners . Since in her story Gabby introduced herself as Nurse Gonzalez , Monaghan sends her down to the basement to get fresh supplies for dressing wounds . He asks Private Simons to accompany her . As they start descending the stairs , lights in the church start flickering . Gabby and Manny Simons chat about his dream to visit New York City while she collects supplies in the basement . Suddenly , a flickering bulb plunges them into complete darkness . When the bulb lights up again , a Weeping Angel reaches for Gabby ' s throat . Part three . New York , 1892 : A woman is attacked by two men . Manny saves the woman by knocking the two men unconscious . She asks him who is he and he says he was sent by an Angel . His entire life is seen passing , ending with him dying of shock after reading that thousands died in the war . The Doctor tries to get some light in the room . Gabby attempts to hold off an Angel , but has to blink . She opens her eyes and sees Jamie , also looking at the Angel . Jamie asks Gabby where Manny is , and she says the Angel got him . Jamie puts a grenade in the Angel ' s hand and they both run . The Angel survived the explosion and continues to attack . They run back upstairs , where the Doctor regrets taking Gabby for an extra trip . He tells the soldiers that they have to make it through the night , suggesting a guard system to Fairbairn . The sun rises and the Doctor goes to open the door , but they are interrupted by an artillery bombardment , hitting the city . The Angels close in , using the smoke as cover . Fairbairn holds off the Angels , telling everyone else to run . The Angels circle him as the rest of the group encounter more Angels . A tank suddenly drives through a wall , with Shuggy inside . He says the Angel sent him back in time , a few miles up the road . He married a woman named Brigitte and worked on a farm , waiting until the right time to return . As they approach a German trench , they see figures in the smoke . Assuming it ' s the soldiers , they look closer and realise that the figures are actually Weeping Angels . The Doctor deduces the angels are starving - that ' s why they ' re hunting in the open . He also deduces that since they could understand the German patient , the TARDIS must be around still . Gabby and Jamie find Shuggy is holding a picture of his family . Jamie offers him coffee , but they realise he died of old age . Jamie reminisces about the times before the war . Gabby and Jamie almost kiss , but they are interrupted by the Doctor , who asks if they have chewing gum . Using it to stick a machine together , he uses it to pinpoint the location of the TARDIS - in some old tunnels which were filled with explosives . The Doctor then realises that the TARDIS is moving , as some Weeping Angels begin to carry it away . Part four . In the tunnels , the Doctor , Gabby , Jamie and Monaghan are in a lift . They hear a thumping noise and the lift shakes . Three Angels are on top of the lift . They walk out of the lift and explore the tunnels , arriving at a two - way fork . Before the Doctor can say which path to take , Angels begin to cave - in the tunnels . A pile of rocks block off the tunnel , separating Gabby and Jamie . Monaghan says they are most likely dead , but the Doctor refuses the thought . Gabby and Jamie are alive , and they discovered the explosives . Angels chase the Doctor , and Monaghan says he ' ll stay and watch them for as long as he can . He says if they are really Angels , all his faith is a lie and he has to know the truth . He holds up his cross and recites a prayer . The Doctor finds the TARDIS , surrounded by angels . He starts to walk forward . Meanwhile , Jamie finds the detonator to the explosives , saying that the other half of the plan was to detonate the explosives and escape in the TARDIS . Since the Doctor was not with them , Jamie plans to detonate them himself . The Doctor sneaks past the angels , telling himself not to blink . He realises that instead of blinking , he can wink so that he can still see the Angels . Unlocking the TARDIS , he shuts the door while winking . Monaghan opens his eyes in Scotland , 1896 . A woman opens the door and asks him for help as a baby ' s just been born . He walks inside and asks what the name of the baby is - it ' s Jamie Colquhoun . Jamie and Gabby both press the detonator . The tunnels explode , seemingly killing them . As they kiss they realise they aren ' t dead . They open their eyes and discover they ' re in the TARDIS . Confused , Jamie asks what happened . The Doctor explains he shielded them with the TARDIS . He materialises the TARDIS on the surface and Gabby says goodbye to Jamie . St Michel War Cemetery , 2007 : A family walks down a path , wheeling an old man in a wheelchair . The old man is revealed to be Jamie - he survived . He looks around , noticing the TARDIS , the Doctor and Gabby . They leave , and Jamie and his family leave . Jamie ' s great - granddaughter , Gabriella , trips over something , saying it must have been a rock . However , an Angel ' s hand sticks out of the ground . Notes . Original print details . " to be added "