Dorium Maldovar Dorium Maldovar was a black market eer in the 52nd century who owned a bar that gained its wares through questionable means . He was beheaded by the Headless Monks but his severed head , which retained its life and sentience , was kept in the Seventh Transept . Biography . Dealings . In 5145 , after hearing she was looking for time travel technology , Dorium met with River Song in the Maldovarium bar to offer her a vortex manipulator " fresh off the wrist of a handsome Time Agent " and wonder if she had a " pretty toy " as payment for him . River offered him a Callisto Pulse which could disarm the micro - explosive s she had put in his wine . ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " ) Dorium sold a Judoon ' s brain that contained a security protocol to a trio of Headless Monks . They paid him with a bag of sentient money . As his customers left , he questioned their motives for kidnapping " the child " and told them not to provoke the Eleventh Doctor ' s anger and rage . ( WC : " Prequel ( A Good Man Goes to War ) " ) Demons Run . One day , Dorium Maldovar was fearfully closing down his bar in a hurry . He was caught by Colonel Manton and Madame Kovarian , who asked him what he knew ; a month they had been on Yellow Alert after Amy ' s baby was born and the Doctor hadn ' t done anything . Dorium explained that there were numerous people throughout time and space who owed the Doctor a debt for helping them ; the Doctor was gathering an army . Dorium explained the stories about the Doctor were true and not myths . Seeing they were getting nowhere , Kovarian and Manton left . Dorium prepared to follow suit , but found the TARDIS had landed in the backroom of his bar . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) Dorium was one of many people who owed the Doctor a debt . So he was summoned to help rescue Amy and her baby at Demon ' s Run . He did not serve in a combat role , but hacked into the station ' s computer and discovered that Melody Pond had " human plus Time Lord " DNA . Dorium made a fatal mistake when he and the others were surrounded by the Headless Monks . He believed they were his friends and would not hurt him . He approached them with open arms , but they swiftly decapitated him and added him to their ranks . His headless body was subsequently killed by the Doctor ' s remaining allies in their fight against the monks . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) Post - beheading . The Doctor was told by the alien Gantok that Dorium had information about the Silence . They went to the Seventh Transept , where the heads of those whom the monks had beheaded were stored . Dorium ' s head was in a box , alive and able to speak . He told the Doctor that on the fields of Trenzalore , at the fall of the Eleventh , a question would be asked , a question that must never be answered . The Doctor took him aboard the TARDIS . Dorium tried to explain to the Doctor that he must die at some point . Later , a Headless Monk was seen carrying Dorium ' s head to the Seventh Transept . Dorium realised it was the Doctor , but wondered how he could still be alive after the Lake Silencio incident . The Doctor had used the " Teselecta " to fake his death . As the Doctor left , Dorium warned him Trenzalore and the Fall of the Eleventh still awaited him . Dorium called after the Doctor the first question in the universe , which he had been running from his entire life : " Doctor Who ? " ( TV : " The Wedding of River Song " ) Iris Wildthyme and Panda once encountered Dorium , who told Iris that soon she would face " the Penultimate Question " . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) At some point , the Eleventh Doctor dropped by the Maldovar Market and picked up Handles . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) The Twelfth Doctor occasionally used Maldovar as a bowling ball . On one occasion , the Doctor brought Maldovar to a game with Strax . However , Strax destroyed the targets before the Doctor could get his turn and Maldovar didn ' t get used . ( COMIC : " The Adventures of Strax & the Time Shark " ) Personality . Dorium Maldovar was a friend of the Doctor ' s despite his dealings with criminals and even the Doctor ' s enemies . He respected the Time Lord , to the point of almost being afraid of him which was shown when he warned Madame Kovarian that it was not a good idea to make the Doctor angry . Dorium had a tendency to complain , especially shown after he was beheaded . Although he was an associate of Kovarian , the Silence and the Headless Monks , Dorium ' s loyalty was to the Doctor . He helped the Time Lord rescue Amy Pond , getting himself beheaded in the process . He didn ' t seem too bothered by his beheading , joking with the Doctor about it and commenting that living without a body actually wasn ' t so bad . He could keep himself entertained with a chip he had installed in his skull , as he said that the wifi in the Seventh Transept was excellent . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " , " The Wedding of River Song " )