The Doctor (Two Ponds, a River, and Enough to Water a Rose)

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The Eleventh Doctor is a Gallifreyan Time Lord who travels through time and space in a type 40 TARDIS with various human and non-human companions. In the Lilith!Verse, he is married to Rose Tyler-Lungbarrow. He has five children: Jenny, Lilithanadir Tyler-Lungbarrow, Darkelvoriplorellion Tyler-Lungbarrow, Nyxiusfelania Tyler-Lungbarrow, and Jaminoreniakal Tyler-Lungbarrow.

### Aliases

John Smith
James McCrimmon

### Nicknames

Doc (by Jack)
Johnny (by Cazoendra)

### Affiliation(s)

The Tyler-Lungbarrow Family
UNIT

### Relatives

Jackie Tyler (mother-in-law)
Peter Tyler (father-in-law)
Tony Tyler (brother-in-law)
Rose Tyler-Lungbarrow (wife)
Jenny (daughter)
Lilithanadir Tyler-Lungbarrow (daughter)
Darkelvoriplorellion Tyler-Lungbarrow (daughter)
Nyxiusfelania Tyler-Lungbarrow (daughter)
Jaminoreniakal Tyler-Lungbarrow (son)
Susan (granddaughter)

### Appearences

Two Ponds
A River
Enough to Water a Rose

> *“Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand. It's important, my daughter knows it, and one day your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box.”*
> -Two Ponds, Prisoner Zero
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## Two Ponds

With his regeneration complete, and Lilith alive, the Eleventh Doctor inspects his new body before realizing that he and his family are in danger. He shouts, "Geronimo!" as the TARDIS' console crashes and explodes while hurtling back to Earth. Lilith and the Doctor manage to (crash) land the TARDIS in Leadworth, 1996. There, they  meet young Amelia Pond. Amelia shows the two the crack in her wall and the Doctor discovered that it is a crack in space and time itself. It briefly opens, showing an Atraxi prison, and the jailor send the Doctor the message, 'Prisoner Zero has escaped'. He and Lilith  have to rush back to the TARDIS when the cloister bell starts ringing, promising Amelia that they'd be back in five minutes. Smoke begins to fill the console room and leaves the TARDIS with the Doctor to warn Amelia that prisoner Zero is in her house.

Upon searching the house, they find a policewoman instead who turns out to be Amelia, now Amy, just twelve years older. The Doctor then reveals to Amy that Prisoner Zero has been hiding in a room in her house that she had never noticed, due to a perception filter. After venturing into the room, she frees the Doctor and grants him his sonic screwdriver. They dodge an attack by Prisoner Zero and flee the house. Shortly afterwards, the Atraxi arrive in orbit, alerted by the Doctor's arrival, and issue an ultimatum: if Prisoner Zero does not vacate 'the human residence', meaning the Earth, they will incinerate the planeta. Meeting Amy's boyfriend Rory Williams, the Doctor realises that Prisoner Zero, a multiform that can take the form of any unconscious being by forming a telepathic link with them, is borrowing the forms of a nearby hospital's coma patients. The Doctor uses a laptop to gatecrash an online meeting of scientific experts discussing the Atraxi situation and send instructions to them while Lilith goes with Amy and Rory to the hospital.

The Doctor races to the hospital, just in time to save Amy, Lilith, and Rory from Prisoner Zero. He reveals his plan: he has created a computer virus that will broadcast the number zero across the world. It is tied to Rory's phone, which contains images of the coma patients, identifying Prisoner Zero in whatever form it may take. Prisoner Zero reveals it has one more form, knocks out Amy, and transforms into the Doctor, Lilith , and young Amelia. Lilith realises that Amy can hear her speaking and manipulates her subconscious to remember the form of Prisoner Zero she had seen in her house. This forces Prisoner Zero to revert to his true form; it is identified by the Atraxi and captured. Before being transported away, Prisoner Zero warns the Doctor that "Silence will fall." The Atraxi fleet leaves, but the Doctor, invoking the Shadow Proclamation, orders their return and reprimands them for threatening the planet. The Doctor shows the Atraxi images of the many past alien invaders who have attempted to seize or destroy the Earth, but who have been defeated by his past incarnations, causing the Atraxi to take him at his word, and run. The Doctor and Lilith return to the TARDIS and depart before Amy or Rory can catch up. The Doctor later returns to Amy's house, finding that another two years have passed. Though still upset, she readily accepts their offer to travel together, as long as they can return her the next day.

The Doctor, Lilith, and Amy arrive on the *Starship UK*in the distant future, a colony spaceship containing the population of the United Kingdom who have left the planet to escape deadly solar flares. They come across a crying girl, Mandy, whom all the other adults aboard consciously ignore. The Doctor, having discovered that the ship does not seem to be powered by normal engines, tells Amy to follow Mandy while he and Lilith  explore the engine room. There, they find the engine controls to be a false front, and encounters a masked woman called Liz 10, who also is aware of the ship's oddness and of the Doctor's identity. The Doctor and Lilith  arrive at the voting booth; Mandy explains that the voting takes place every five years and everyone chooses to forget. The Doctor, however, triggers the protest sequence, sending him, Lilith, and Amy into the bowels of the ship. Finding themselves in the mouth of a giant creature, the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to make the creature throw them up. Liz 10 reveals herself to be Queen Elizabeth X.

The Winders arrive and take Liz 10, the four travelers, and Mandy to the Tower of London, where it is revealed that all of *Starship UK* rides atop a giant Star Whale that provides the ship's locomotion. However, in order to direct the whale, the pain center of its brain has been exposed to receive frequent jolts of electricity. The Winders show Liz 10 that she ordered this centuries ago, but every ten years she finds her way to the Tower and chooses to have her memory wiped to prevent herself from remembering. The Doctor is furious, realising to his despair that he has to choose between saving the humans or the Star Whale. He decides to alter the controlling device programming to render the Star Whale brain-dead, allowing it to continue through space but no longer feel the pain. As the Doctor worked, Amy and Lilith, considering all they have seen and heard, take control. Lilith stops the Doctor and Amy and uses Liz 10's hand to strike the abdicate button that disables the controlling device and allows the Star Whale to break free. To everyone's surprise, the Whale does not leave, and in fact the ship moves faster. Amy explains to the Doctor that she saw the similarities between him and the Star Whale, and deduced that the Whale came to Earth willingly at the time of crisis. She and the Doctor reconcile, and they all return to the TARDIS.

The Doctor and Lilith  pilot the TARDIS to the Cabinet War Rooms during The Blitz of the World War II, one month after Winston Churchill requested the Doctor's help in the war effort. As they arrived late, Churchill turned to the scientific advances of Professor Edwin Bracewell, including robotic devices called "Ironsides", which are recognised immediately by the Doctor and Lilith as Daleks. The Doctor tries to understand their purpose in being on Earth at this time, but they continue to act as Bracewell's inventions, ready to serve Britain's war efforts. Angrily, the Doctor attacks the devices, shouting, "I am the Doctor and you are the Daleks!" Upon hearing the Doctor's 'testimony', the Dalek aboard the orbiting ship uses it to activate a Progenator Device and alerts its comrades on Earth. The Daleks reveal their intent and turn hostile, killing several guards and exposing Bracewell as an android before transmatting to their ship. The Doctor and Lilith  follow in the TARDIS, leaving Amy behind for her protection. The Doctor learns that the ship escaped destruction at the Game Station after it fell through time by accident, leaving it nearly drained of power. The Daleks' objective is to restart the Progenator, which contains pure Dalek DNA, thus restoring their race. Since these particular Daleks were created from humans, the Progenator could not properly accept them as Daleks, and so they required a testimony from their greatest enemy to activate it. The Doctor threatens to destroy the ship, including himself and Lilith , before the Progenitor completes, but the Daleks fire an energy beam at London that lights up the entire city minutes before an air raid by the Luftwaffe, leaving the Doctor's allies vulnerable and creating a stalemate.

When the Progenator completes, five brand new Daleks in larger, redesigned casings emerge from the Progenator Chamber. They disintegrate the older, 'inferior' models, who die willingly. At the same time, Amy convinces Churchill and Bracewell to use the technological know-how they have obtained from the Daleks to modify three Spitfires so that they can fly in space. The pilots attack and destroy the dish on the underside of the Dalek ship that was firing the energy beam, saving London before it can be destroyed by the approaching German bombers. The Doctor orders the last Spitfire pilot to continue his attack and destroy the Dalek ship, hoping to rid the universe of them forever. The Daleks retaliate by triggering the Oblivion Continuum, the power source inside Bracewell that contains an unstable wormhole that will consume the planet if released. The Doctor, torn over defeating the Daleks or saving Earth, orders the Spitfire to stop its attack and returns to Earth. With Amy and Lilith 's help, the Doctor is able to convince Bracewell that he is more human than machine, deactivating the device. The Daleks announce their victory and retreat into hyperspace. The Doctor removes all the advanced technology borrowed from the Daleks despite Churchill wanting to use it for the war, and convinces Bracewell that he need not be deactivated because he helped save the world. As they leave, the Doctor and Lilith ponder why Amy does not remember the Daleks from their previous invasions of the Earth.

The Doctor, Lilith, and Amy travel to the Delirium Archive, a museum in the distant future and discover a message from River Song, engraved in Old High Gallifreyan, the language of the Doctor's home planet, on a damaged flight recorderfrom the starship *Byzantium* twelve thousand years in the relative past. The Doctor and Lilith  take the TARDIS to rescue her before the ship crashes on the planet Alfava Metraxis. After the TARDIS lands on the planet via River's guidance, Amy learns from both the Doctor and River that they have a unique relationship owing to the nature of time travel; she has met the Doctor numerous times before in her timestream, while he still barely knows who River is. River warns them that the *Byzantium'*s cargo hold contains a deadly Weeping Angel, which can move only when unobserved by others. She calls down the orbiting Father Octavian and his militarized clerics to help her capture the Angel before the radiation leaked from the ship makes it too powerful, and to protect a large human colony on the planet. River, the Doctor, Lilith, and Amy review a four-second loop of security footage of the Angel in the *Byzantium* vault as the soldiers set up base camp. Outside the trailer, the Gallifreyans  and River look through a book written by a madman about the Angels and find the words, "That which holds the image of an Angel becomes itself an Angel".

Amy has returned to the viewing room; each time she turns away the Angel from the footage moves and it begins to emerge from the screen, trapping her in the room. The Doctor, Lilith , and River attempt to free Amy; the Doctor warning her not to look directly into the eyes of the Angel because the book compared eyes to the doors of the soul. Lilith uses her squareness gun to break in and shoot the screen, causing the Angel to disappear and saving Amy . To access the *Byzantium* and locate the Angel, the group must travel through a Maze of the Dead, a stone labyrinth with numerous statues erected by the native race, among which the Angel could easily hide. After launching a gravity globe near the roof of the Maze to provide illumination, the group splits up, with some soldiers left to guard the entrance. While the Doctor, Lilith , and River discuss the two-headed natives who built the catacombs, it suddenly occurs to them that all the statues have only one head: they must therefore be Weeping Angels. Each of these is slower and weaker than the *Byzantium'*s captured Angel, having had no beings to consume over the centuries, but they are now absorbing energy from the crashed ship; the Doctor surmises that the Angel purposely crashed the *Byzantium* to rescue its kind. The group soon finds that the Angels have killed their rear guard and are using the consciousness of one soldier, Bob, to speak to the Doctor. The Angels reveal they have lured the group to the highest point of the maze, directly under the crashed ship, and are planning to kill and use their essences to further regenerate. The Doctor tells the Angels that they should have never put him or his family in the trap, and prepares the group to jump once he destroys the gravity globe.

The destruction of the gravity globe allows the Doctor, Amy, Lilith, River, and Father Octavian and his clerics to jump into the localized gravity well of the starship *Byzantium*and escape the horde of approaching Weeping Angels. The Angels follow them into the ship and the Doctor directs everyone into the ship's oxygen factory, a forest contained within the starship. While in the secondary control room, the Doctor observes a crack in the wall and realizes that it is the same one from Amy's bedroom. He determines that it is leaking time energy from which the Angels are attempting to feed. In the forest, the Doctor, Lilith, and River find Amy struggling with an image of an Angel imprinted in her brain. Amy has been counting down backwards and is close to being killed by the Angel when the Doctor instructs her to keep her eyes closed to starve the angel. With Amy unable to move, the others and Octavian attempt to reach the primary control room on the other side of the forest. Octavian reveals to the Doctor that River is a prisoner in his custody, with a pardon promised should she help them complete their mission.

Octavian is captured and killed by an Angel as the others enter the control room. The Doctor contacts and instructs Amy to begin moving towards the primary control room, keeping her eyes closed but acting as if she is still able to see in order to fool the Angels. She trips and reveals her blindness to the Angels, but before they can kill her Lilith  teleports her to the control room. The Doctor reveals that the crack is due to an explosion somewhere in time, a date that he, Lilith , and River are able to determine. The Doctor warns that anything that falls into it is erased from time; this is why the Angels fear the crack. The only way of temporarily closing the crack is to send a complicated space-time event, such as the Doctor himself or the whole of the Angels, into the crack. The Angels continue to drain power from the *Byzantium* until they cause the artificial gravity to fail, dropping the Angels into the crack and sealing it while the Doctor, Amy, Lilith, and River hang on to the controls. With the Angels gone, the Angel in Amy's mind never existed, and she is able to recover. River is teleported away by the clerics; she tells the Doctor and Lilith that they will meet again soon when the Pandorica opens, which is dismissed by the Doctor as a fairy tale.

The Doctor, thinking that Amy 's attraction to him is due to the stress of the adventures, gatecrashes her fiancé Rory's stag party and invites the two of them on a romantic trip courtesy of the TARDIS. They land in Venice in 1580 and soon find trouble. The city's patron, Signora Rosanna Calvierri, claims that the Black Plague runs rampant outside of Venice. The Doctor says this is false and that it appears she is using the plague as an excuse to seal off the city. While investigating, they encounter Guido, a boat-builder whose daughter Isabella hasn't contacted him since enrolling in Signora Calvierri's school for girls. Amy and Lilith devise a plan to place themselves inside the school with the help of Rory and the psychic paper. They manage to unlock a gate and allow the others in, but in doing so are captured and taken to a chamber. The Doctor and Rory come to believe the women are being converted into vampires, and discover a box containing a dead figure. The 'vampires' begin converting Amy into one of them when Isabella frees Amy and Lilith and they escape. Isabella hesitates while escaping because she can no longer tolerate direct sunlight and is pulled back inside while the door closes. The Doctor tries to open the door but he gets shocked by electricity and collapses.

The Doctor goes back inside to question Signora Calvierri who confirms that she and the others are from the planet Saturnyne, a race of aquatic beings with vampire-like tendencies. She and the others landed on Earth after seeing the cracks in the universe. Calvierri and her son Francesco intend to sink the city into the water and convert humans into 'Sisters of the Water' in order to continue their race. When the Doctor returns to Guido's home to regroup with Lilith, Amy, and Rory, Signora Calvierri sends her transformed girls to attack them. Guido sacrifices himself for the others by blowing up several kegs of gunpowder that kill him and the girls. Signora Calvierri activates a device on a tower that begins to create the earthquakes and floods that will sink Venice. While Amy, Rory, and Lilith face and defeat Francesco, the Doctor climbs the tower and stops the device in time. The last of her kind, Signora Calvierri throws herself into the canal to be eaten, but not before tormenting the Doctor by reminding him that he is now responsible for the extinction of two species: her own, and the Time Lords. In the aftermath of the incident, the travelers invite Rory to continue traveling with them, but as the Doctor and Rory are about to enter the TARDIS, everything falls silent. Unnerved, the Doctor remembers Signora Calvierri's words: "We saw silence, and the end of all things..."

The Doctor, Lilith, Amy, and Rory find themselves flickering between two realities, falling asleep at the sound of birdsong in one and waking in the other. In the first reality, Amy and Rory stopped travelling with the Doctor and Lilith five years previously, are happily married, and Amy is heavily pregnant. They find themselves in their hometown of Leadworth being chased by the Eknodine, an alien race that have disguised themselves as the elderly of the town. The Eknodine are able to turn anyone into dust by blowing a poisonous liquid on them. In the other reality, they are trapped in the powerless TARDIS drifting towards a freezing cold star which will kill them. During one of their experiences in the TARDIS-reality they are met by the Dream Lord, an apparition who tells them that he has created a dream reality in contrast to their actual reality. The four must determine which is the dream reality and kill themselves in it to return to the other reality. However, if they choose wrong they will be killed in both.
The Doctor is trying to rescue people from Leadworth in a motor-caravan. As Amy believes she is going into labour, Rory and Lilith are sprayed by the Eknodine and turn to dust. Amy decides that she is willing to risk her own life for the chance of seeing Rory again and concludes the Leadworth reality is false. Amy and the Doctor drive the motor-caravan into the house, leading to their assumed deaths. The four wake up again on the TARDIS where they are congratulated by the Dream Lord, who then reactivates the TARDIS. After the Dream Lord's departure Amy and Rory are surprised by the Doctor when he directs the TARDIS to self-destruct, apparently killing them all. They wake up again on the TARDIS, no longer in any danger. The Doctor realizes both realities were false since the Dream Lord had no power over the real world and was a manifestation of his darker side. They were influenced by psychic pollen that had fallen in the TARDIS time rotor and heated up, creating the Dream Lord and the false realities.

Lilith, the Doctor, Amy, and Rory land in the small Welsh village of Cwmtaff in 2020 instead of their intended destination, Rio de Janeiro. They encounter a mining operation led by Doctor Nasreen Chaudhry, who is studying minerals deep in the earth that have not been seen for over twenty million years. Nasreen is assisted by a local, Tony Mack, whose daughter and grandson, Ambrose and Elliot, are investigating the disappearance of bodies at the nearby church graveyard. An earth tremor causes the ground to open and sends Tony and Amy falling into it; Tony is rescued but Amy is pulled under by unknown forces. The Doctor surmises that the minerals form a bio-reactive defence system triggered by the drilling operation. The group is soon alerted to the presence of three life forms travelling up the drilling shaft from 21 kilometers below the earth, and they barricade themselves in the church. The Doctor explains Amy's disappearance to Rory and assures him he will get her back.
The three beings are discovered to be reptilian humanoids, and in a scuffle, they capture Elliot and strike Tony with a venomous forked tongue; the Doctor, Lilith, and Rory subdue one while the other two retreat with Elliot back into the earth. The Doctor realizes the beings are a new form of Silurians, and that they have relented in their attack since both sides hold a hostage. The captured Silurian calls herself Alaya; she is a member of the warrior caste, awoken by the drill. Alaya believes, as do all Silurians, that the Earth still belongs to them, that the drilling was a form of attack by the humans, and that they will defeat humanity eventually. Tony, suffering from the effects of the venom, says they should dissect Alaya, but the Doctor warns that it would be seen as an act of war. The Doctor decides to travel in the TARDIS down the drilling shaft to talk to the rest of the Silurians and work out a truce; Nasreen and Lilith accompany him. They arrive underground in the TARDIS; the Doctor explains about the Silurians and says that he expects to encounter only a few of the creatures. Instead, they find an immense Silurian civilisation in the caverns below the earth.

As the Doctor, Lilith, and Nasreen arrive in the massive Silurian underground civilization, they are captured and taken to the Silurian doctor, Malohkeh. The Silurians' hostility is increased when the Doctor recalls his previous meeting with a similar race of reptilian humanoids which were destroyed by humans. When Malokeh realizes the Doctor and Lilith are not human, the leader of the Silurian warrior caste, Restac, insists both the Doctor and Lilith and Nasreen be executed and escorts them to a Silurian court; though Amy and Mo interrupt the trial with stolen weapons, they too are captured. Eldane, Restac's superior, is called in by Malohkeh and demands a halt to the hostilities. The Doctor makes contact with Rory, Mo's wife Ambrose, and Ambrose's father Tony, reminding them to keep their captive Silurian, Restac's sister Alaya, alive. The Doctor arranges a conference between the Silurians, represented by Eldane, and the humans, represented by Amy and Nasreen; the three discuss how both species can co-exist on the surface of the Earth.

When Rory and the others arrive with Alaya's corpse, Restac becomes furious and orders the humans' death; the Doctor disables their weapons to give him, Eldane, and the humans time to escape; they bar themselves into Malohkeh's lab. The Doctor and Eldane realise they can use Silurian technology to destroy the drill before it detonates, but it will cause their exit route to collapse if they cannot reach the TARDIS in time. Eldane returns the warriors to hibernation by initiating a toxic fumigation; the humans escape, and Eldane hopes that in a thousand years, peace between humans and Silurians can occur. Tony, still affected by Silurian venom, opts to stay behind to be cured, and Nasreen also remains behind to study the earth from below and help improve human-Silurian relations.

Ambrose's family takes refuge inthe TARDIS, but the Doctor, Amy, Lilith, and Rory find a crack in the cavern wall similar to those they have seen before. The Doctor surmises that the crack was caused by an explosion in time, which might have left shrapnel behind. He reaches in and pulls out an object which he wraps in a handkerchief. Before he can explain, Restac, dying from the toxic exposure, crawls around the corner and fires twice at the Doctor, but Rory gets in the way and Lilith tries to save him. Both take the shots; Rory dying in Amy's arms and Lilith beginning to regenerate. As the crack begins to absorb Rory's body, the Doctor realizes that Rory will be written out of history and forces Amy to board the TARDIS before the drill explodes. He tries to help her concentrate on remembering Rory, but Lilith's regeneration into her fourth body causes her to lose concentration and her memories of Rory are lost. The Doctor finds Amy's engagement ring, which Rory had stowed before the events, on the floor of the TARDIS. On the surface, Ambrose thanks the Doctor for not letting the Silurians execute her for killing Alaya, and the Doctor asks her to help prepare humanity for their next encounter with the Silurians. The Doctor, Lilith, and Amy return to the TARDIS, where Amy spies her future self on the hillside without Rory. The Doctor takes out the object he pulled from the crack: a burnt piece of the TARDIS's sign. He worriedly compares it to the real thing. Aside from the damage, they appear identical. He and Lilith share a worried glance before following their companion inside.

The Doctor and Lilith have taken Amy to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, where they admire the work of the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. The Doctor discovers a seemingly alien figure in a window of the painting *The Church at Auvers*, and decides they must travel back in time to speak to Vincent around when he painted the painting. In 1890, they find Vincent at a cafe in Arles, a lonely man with a bad reputation. Vincent opens up when he notices Amy, sensing a loss she herself is not aware of. Outside the cafe a young girl is murdered, when the trio go out to see what happened they are stoned by locals who blame Vincent's insanity for the killing. Lilith and Amy talk Vincent into letting them stay the night and they return to his home. That evening, Vincent confesses that his works have little value to anyone else. He believes the universe is filled with wonders that he must paint, and that he can 'hear the colors'. Amy goes outside and is attacked by a beast that only Vincent is able to see. He sketches it for the Doctor, who identifies it as a Krafayis. Knowing the beast will appear when Vincent paints the nearby church the next evening, the Doctor, Amy, and Lilith plan to join him. The next morning, Vincent becomes distraught after being told that the Doctor and the girls won't be staying long. Vincent shuts himself in his bedroom, saying that everyone leaves him in the end. They set out to capture the beast alone, but Vincent soon joins them eager to help. He confides to Amy that if she can 'soldier on, then so can Vincent van Gogh'.

Vincent begins creating the painting of the church and soon spots the beast inside. The Doctor demands that Amy stay back as he and Lilith enter the church alone, but she and Vincent both agree they should help the Doctor. Vincent is able to save the Doctor, Lilith, and Amy by describing the beast's actions as they hide in the confessionals. The Doctor soon realises from Vincent's description that the beast is blind, the likely reason it was abandoned on Earth. The beast is impaled on Vincent's easel when it tries to lunge at the artist. The Doctor attempts to soothe the dying creature while Vincent empathises with its pain. After the creature dies, the three return outside the church and Vincent describes the night sky as he envisions it. The next day, Lilith, the Doctor, and Amy prepare to leave. Vincent asks Amy to return and marry him should she leave the other two. The Doctor offers to show him something. They take Vincent in the TARDIS to the present and the Van Gogh exhibit at the Musée d'Orsay. Vincent is stunned at the display and becomes emotionally overwhelmed when he overhears art curator Dr. Black say that Van Gogh was 'the greatest painter of them all' and 'one of the greatest men who ever lived'. They return an emotionally changed Vincent to the past and say their final goodbyes. As the Doctor, Amy, and Lilith return to the present, Amy is confident that there will be hundreds of new paintings by Vincent waiting for them. She is crushed to learn that Vincent committed suicide weeks after their adventure, at the age of 37. The Doctor explains that life is a mixture of bad and good, and while their brief encounter with Vincent couldn't undo all of the bad, they added some good to his life. The evidence is in Vincent's displayed works: the face no longer appears in *The Church*, and now *Vase with 12 Sunflowers* bears the inscription, 'For Amy'.

After stepping out of the TARDIS in modern-day Colchester, the Doctor and Lilith are blown off their feet by a blast of air, and the TARDIS, Amy still inside, dematerializes into the time vortex and refuses to rematerialize. With Amy's help, Lilith and the Doctor track the disturbance to the second floor of a house. The Doctor opts to take a room for rent offered by the downstairs tenant, Craig Owens, in order to determine what is present on the second floor without alerting whatever it is to his Time Lord nature and Lilith poses as his sister. Neither Craig nor the Doctor and Lilith are aware that people are being lured off the street to the second floor flat and never leaving again, but the Doctor is conscious of localized time loops and disturbances aboard the TARDIS that coincide with noises from the second floor. Over two days, the Doctor attempts to adapt to human life. He and Lilith learn about Craig, an office worker with little aspiration to move onward. Craig is stuck in a platonic relationship with his co-worker, Sophie. The Doctor becomes overly involved in Craig's life, becoming the star player in Craig's local football club, filling in for him at the call centre when Craig falls ill, and encouraging Sophie to follow her dream of traveling overseas to help animals. Craig, who has not yet professed his love for Sophie, becomes upset; he accosts the Doctor and demands that he leave, which forces the Doctor to reveal his history and his reason for being in the flat, much to Lilith's amusement.

Sophie arrives while they argue and is lured upstairs; the Doctor, Lilith, and Craig follow, learning from Amy that Craig's building has never had a second floor. Inside, they find an alien ship housing a primitive time engine. The ship crashed some time ago and has used a perception filter to disguise itself as part of Craig's house. The ship's emergency holographic program has been drawing in passersby, all who have a desire to escape, to find a replacement pilot for itself, but they were killed in the attempt. The machine identifies the Doctor as a possible pilot and tries to draw him to the controls, but the Doctor warns that if he should touch the controls, the ship could explode and take the solar system with it. The Doctor convinces Craig to touch the controls since he does not want to leave due to his love for Sophie, which will counteract the ship's protocols. Craig does so, and he and Sophie admit their love and share a kiss that breaks the ship's hold on the Doctor and themselves. The four escape in time to see the perception filter turn off and the ship implode, leaving Craig's undamaged one-story flat below. Craig and Sophie thank the Doctor and Lilith, Craig giving him a spare set of keys in case he ever needs it. Aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor directs Amy to write the note that led him to Craig's house, using a red pen in his jacket, unaware that she would find her engagement ring instead.

The Doctor, Lilith, and Amy, following a message from River Song, arrive in Roman Britain on Earth in 102 AD, where they find River posing as Cleopatra. She shows the Doctor a Vincent van Gogh painting titled *The Pandorica Opens*, which depicts the TARDIS exploding. River had recovered the painting in the 52nd century and travelled to the time-space coordinates on the painting using a time agent's vortex manipulator. The Doctor realises the Pandorica, a fabled prison for the universe's deadliest being, must be stored in a memorable location near the coordinates: Stonehenge. At Stonehenge, Lilith, the Doctor, Amy, and River find a passage to an underground area. Inside, they find the Pandorica, a giant metal box outfitted with every type of lock imaginable. While examining the Pandorica, Amy confronts the Doctor about an engagement ring she had previously found in the pocket of his jacket and feels a strong emotional attachment to; he says that it belonged to a friend, and that nothing is ever truly forgotten. The Pandorica is transmitting a signal amplified by Stonehenge's rocks across the universe, and River warns the Doctor that the signal is drawing everything that ever hated him to Earth that night. The Doctor is aided by a volunteer group of Roman legionaries; the centurion in charge of them is revealed to be Rory. Neither Rory nor the Doctor or Lilith can explain Rory's presence, as he was consumed by a crack in the universe and erased from existence. When Amy comes around after being knocked out by a damaged Cyberman, she does not remember Rory, which upsets him greatly. The Doctor assures him that Amy will remember in time, and hands him the engagement ring.

The Doctor's enemies begin to orbit overhead, and the Doctor buys himself additional time with a threatening speech. He urges River to bring the TARDIS to Stonehenge while he, Lilith, Amy, Rory, and the legionaries prepare. When River tries to use the TARDIS, an outside force takes control of it and pilots it to Amy's house in the present day. She discovers landing patterns in Amy's garden and sees that someone has broken into the house. She finds in Amy's room a story book about Pandora's box and a children's book about Roman Britain. River communicates this to the Doctor, warning him that the Pandorica must be a trap, created out of Amy's memories. She identifies her current space-time coordinates as 26 June 2010, the date the Doctor identified as the onset of the time energy explosion that caused the cracks in the universe. The Doctor warns her to leave immediately. Back at Stonehenge, the Doctor discovers that the volunteer legionaries, including Rory, are Autons, and Lilith races to the surface to find Amy and Rory. The Doctor is quickly captured as his other orbiting foes materialise around him. He struggles against his captors, who reveal that they have formed an alliance to imprison him in the Pandorica. Knowing the TARDIS exploding would cause the cracks destroying reality, they believe only the Doctor can operate the TARDIS, and thus removing him will prevent the explosion and save the universe. As the Pandorica seals, all of the stars go super nova and everything stops.

The TARDIS's explosion has caused the whole universe to have never existed, except for the Earth, its moon, and a sun-like object, otherwise leaving a dark infinite void. Only stone versions of the Doctor's foes surround the Pandorica. As Rory and Lilith are mourning Amy, the Doctor appears using River's vortex manipulator. He hands Rory his sonic screwdriver and explains how to use it to open the Pandorica and free his younger self. Following these instructions, Rory and Lilith free the Doctor, who then places Amy's body inside the Pandorica. He explains that the Pandorica, being the 'perfect prison', will not allow its occupant to escape, not even by dying, and will restore her once given an imprint of her DNA. The Doctor then retrieves River's manipulator and uses it to jump ahead nearly two millennia while Lilith uses hers. Rory, in his ageless Auton body, decides to stay with the Pandorica and guard it. In 1996, seven-year-old Amelia Pond finds instructions from the Doctor leading her to the National Museum, where the Pandorica is on display. She touches the box, allowing it to revitalise Amy and release her. They are soon joined by the Doctor, Lilith, and Rory, now a museum guard who secretly survived the Blitz. After a tearful reunion, they are chased by a Dalek restored by the light of the Pandorica. The Doctor uses the vortex manipulator to go back and give Rory his screwdriver, as well as leave Amelia the clues to the museum. Amelia soon disappears: a sign, according to the Doctor, that the universe is collapsing rapidly. The injured body of a future version of the Doctor appears and whispers something to his earlier self. The Doctor takes off with Lilith, Amy, and Rory to the roof of the museum, where he discovers that the 'sun' is the still-exploding TARDIS. Rory hears a voice coming from the exploding TARDIS and the Doctor amplifies the voice and discovers it is River in a time-loop, implemented by the TARDIS to keep her alive. The Doctor saves River, and as the quintet reunites, the Doctor is shot by the Dalek and sends himself backwards in time. Amy and Rory depart while River and Lilith threaten the Dalek before shooting and destroying it.

Amy and Rory discover that the wounded Doctor had told his earlier self to create a diversion, allowing him to rig the Pandorica to fly into the TARDIS explosion. The Doctor postulates that enough of the original universe still exists in the Pandorica to completely restore it via the exploding TARDIS. After a tearful farewell to Lilith, Amy, Rory, and River where he instructs Amy to focus on her family, Rory, and Lilith to restore them in the new universe, the Doctor engages the Pandorica and flies it into the exploding TARDIS. A second Big Bang occurs. The Doctor comes to consciousness and begins witnessing events in his life in reverse as the cracks in the universe close. The Doctor has to stay outside this new universe in order for that to happen. After a final goodbye to Amelia on the night they met, he enters the cracks and disappears. As Amy recites the old proverb at her wedding, where Lilith is the maid of honor, the TARDIS and the Doctor appear. The Doctor comes out of the TARDIS and after a brief conversation with Amy, introduces himself by saying "Hello everyone! I'm Amy's imaginary friend, but I came anyway!" and joins the wedding festivities. Afterwards, he returns River's diary and the vortex manipulator to her so she can return to her own time. She sadly tells him he will soon learn who she truly is and that it will change everything. Aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor explains to Amy, Rory, and Lilith that unanswered questions remain about the destruction of the TARDIS and the nature of 'the silence' that will fall. The Doctor receives a telephone call alerting him to the presence of "an escaped Egyptian goddess on the Orient Express, in space". He tells the two humans that this will have to be goodbye. They agree that it is goodbye and Amy leans out of the TARDIS and yells "Goodbye!". The four then leave on their next adventure.

## A River

Regrouping at a diner, Amy, Rory, and River are shocked to find Lilith waiting there, saying that the Doctor would be back any moment. The Doctor walks in and reveals that he and Lilith were given an envelope, but don't know who sent it to them. The five do a search on Canton Everett Delaware III and 'Space, 1969'. The TARDIS travels back to 8 April 1969, and ends up cloaked in the Oval Office. President Richard Nixon converses with Delaware about a series of phone calls he received from a young girl asking for help. The Doctor quickly gains Delaware's trust, convincing Nixon to give him a few minutes to locate the girl. The Doctor found the girl's location, a building near Cape Canaveral, Florida, at the intersection to streets named Jefferson, Adams, and Hamilton. The Doctor, Lilith, and their companions leave in the TARDIS, followed closely by a curious Delaware. Upon arrival, they find pieces of a space suit and alien technology. River and Lilith explore a vast network of tunnels that have apparently spread across the planet for centuries, River eventually sending Lilith back. Meanwhile, Delaware hears the little girl screaming and gives chase. As Amy, Lilith, and the Doctor follow, Amy tells them she is pregnant. When they find Delaware unconscious, a figure in an astronaut suit appears. Quickly, Amy picks up Delaware's gun and shoots at the suit. However, she realises too late that the helmet's visor has opened to reveal the little girl.

In the three months after, Lilith, Amy, Rory and River have been attempting to track the Silence, an alien race who cannot be remembered after they are encountered while the Doctor was being held captive. Ex-FBI agent Canton Delaware, under the ruse of capturing them as criminals, helps to reunite the group inside a special prison at Area 51 containing the TARDIS. Though they do not yet know the name or motive for the aliens, the Doctor's allies have discovered they exist across the entire planet, and have the ability to place post-hypnotic suggestions in humans they encounter. The Doctor plants a communication device called a nanorecorder in each of the group's hands to record audio of meetings with the Silence. As they travel to Kennedy Space Center shortly before the launch of Apollo 11, Amy tells the Doctor and Lilith she was mistaken and is not pregnant as she previously had claimed. While the Doctor alters part of the command module of Apollo 11, Canton and Amy visit a nearby orphanage, hoping to find where the girl in the spacesuit was taken from. Arriving too late, the Doctor and his allies find Amy's recording device. Canton is able to shoot and wound one of the creatures, and from it the Doctor discovers the creatures are the Silence, a group he was warned about by several of his foes in his recent adventures.

Analysing the now-empty space suit, River realizes that the girl possesses incredible strength to have forced her way out of it, and that the suit's advanced life-support technology would have called the President as the highest authority figure on Earth when the girl got scared. The Doctor realises why the Silence have been controlling humanity-- by guiding their technological advances, they have influenced humanity into the Space Race for purposes of building a spacesuit, which must somehow be crucial to their intentions. The Doctor uses Amy's communication chip to track her location, and lands the TARDIS in the Silence's control room five days later. As River, Lilith and Rory hold the Silence at bay, the Doctor shows them the live broadcast of the moon landing. As they watch, the Doctor uses his modification of the Apollo command module to insert Canton's recording of the wounded Silent into the footage of the landing. Because of this message, humans will now turn upon the Silence whenever they see them. The group frees Amy and departs in the TARDIS, while River and Lilith kill all the Silence in the control room. Amy says that she told Lilith, rather than Rory, when she believed she was pregnant through fears that travelling in the TARDIS might have affected her child's development. As the quartet sets off, the Doctor discreetly uses the TARDIS scanner to attempt to determine if Amy is pregnant.

Amy is trying to get the Doctor's attention while he fixes the TARDIS. She discovers that Rory is helping the Doctor by installing thermal couplings underneath the glass floor of the TARDIS. Rory, Lilith, and Amy then start a small argument about Amy cheating when she took her driving test, when the TARDIS suddenly shakes and the lights go out. Lilith accuses Rory of he dropping a thermal coupling, which he admits to and apologizes for doing. Amy then apologizes as well and, at the Doctor's confusion, explains that Rory was looking up her skirt through the glass floor when he dropped the thermal coupling. The Doctor then notes that they have landed through emergency materialization which should have landed the TARDIS in the safest space available. The lights come on, revealing another TARDIS inside the control room-- the TARDIS has materialized inside herself. The Doctor experimentally walks through the door of the TARDIS inside the control room and instantly walks back into the control room through the door of the outer TARDIS. The Doctor tells Lilith, Rory, and Amy that they are trapped in a "space loop" and that nothing can enter or exit the TARDIS ever again. Despite the Doctor's words, another Amy enters through the TARDIS door saying, "Okay, kids, this is where it gets complicated."

The other Amy reveals that she is from a few moments in the future, and is able to come into the current outer TARDIS because the exterior shell of the TARDIS has drifted forwards in time. The other she knows what to say and do because, from her perspective, she is repeating what she heard herself say earlier on. The Doctor sends the current Amy into the TARDIS within the current TARDIS, in order to maintain the timeline. The two Amys take a moment to flirt with each other before the current one departs, much to the Doctor's exasperation and Lilith's amusement. However, not long after the current Amy has left, Rory and Lilith enter through the door of outer TARDIS explaining that the Doctor, from their perspective, has just sent them into the inner TARDIS. The current Doctor promptly sends the current Lilith and Rory through the inner TARDIS. The Doctor then explains that he will set up a controlled temporal implosion in order to reset the TARDIS, but in order to do so he must know which lever to use on the control panel. Moments after he speaks, another Doctor enters though the outer TARDIS door and tells him to use the wibbly lever, which he quickly operates, then steps into the inner TARDIS to tell his past self which lever to use. The inner TARDIS dematerializes while the outer TARDIS (being the same TARDIS) does the same, and the Doctor assures Lilith, Amy, and Rory that they are now back in normal flight, and then advises Amy, "Pond, put some trousers on".

Following a distress signal, the TARDIS lands aboard a 17th-century pirate ship stranded in the middle of an ocean. The ship's crew have been terrorised by a Siren-like creature who marks people with black spots on their palms after they are injured. Her song then lulls victims into a trance, making them want to go to her, which apparently disintegrates them. Rory receives a cut during a tussle with the pirates, and finds a black spot on his hand, but is prevented from succumbing to the song of the Siren by Amy, Lilith, and the Doctor. Surmising the Siren is using water as a portal, the Doctor instructs everyone to seek refuge in the ship's dry magazine. There, they find Toby Avery, the son of the ship's captain Henry Avery, who stowed away on the ship in order to join the crew after his mother died, unaware of his father's illicit deeds. He too has a black spot on his palm due to a fever. In an attempt to escape, the Doctor, Lilith, and Avery board the TARDIS, but find it is acting haphazardly, and are forced to evacuate, and they watch as it dematerializes by itself. After another shipmate is taken by the Siren in a dry room, the Doctor realises the Siren is using reflection to appear. In response they rid the ship of reflective surfaces, including the ship's stolen treasure.

When a storm begins, the crew start to set sail. Toby drops a polished crown while bringing his father a coat. The Siren is summoned and takes Toby. Soon, Rory falls into the ocean, and the Doctor rationalises that the Siren has shown intelligence and will likely get to Rory before he drowns. Believing the victims are not dead, the Doctor convinces Avery, Amy, and Lilith to prick themselves. The Doctor's suspicions are confirmed when the Siren's touch actually teleports them to an alien spaceship, invisible in the same spot the pirate ship is located. The Doctor finds the spaceship's crew long dead from exposure to a human virus. The four then discover a sickbay where Avery's entire crew, Toby, and Rory are in medical care. The Siren turns out to be the ship's virtual doctor, caring for the injured humans; the black spots are tissue samples used as references. Amy convinces the Siren to release Rory into her care. Using Rory's nursing knowledge, Lilith, Amy, and the Doctor remove him from life support and are able to resuscitate him. Avery decides to stay with his son and his crew, unable to go back to England himself while the ship will care for his crew. Avery takes the helm of the spaceship and, along with Toby and his crew, sets off to explore the stars.

When Amy answers the TARDIS telephone in the middle of the night, she learns that Lilith acts like an actual teenager and snuck out of the TARDIS to go to a party. The Doctor then enters the TARDIS carrying a goldfish, whom he claims is actually a Queen. Amy tries to piece together how the fate of the Commonwealth could possibly be affected by the Doctor, Lilith, River, the Prince of Wales, and the goldfish. She wants to have a serious conversation with the Doctor, but the Doctor calls for Rory to come deal with her emotions. Lilith realizes that the goldfish is actually the wrong goldfish and the Doctor says they have three hours to save the Commonwealth because that's when the pet shop opens.

While in deep space, the Doctor, Lilith, Amy, and Rory receive a communication cube containing a distress call from a Time Lord. Tracing the source of the call to a rift leading outside the universe, the Doctor deletes parts of the TARDIS to generate enough energy to traverse the rift. After landing in a junkyard on a solitary asteroid, the TARDIS shuts down and its matrix disappears. The four travelers explore the asteroid and meet its strange inhabitants: Uncle, Auntie, a green-eyed Ood called Nephew, and an excited young woman named Idris. Idris calls Lilith 'Dear One' and the Doctor 'my Thief', then bites him. While Nephew locks up Idris, Amy and Rory return to the TARDIS. The Doctor and Lilith follow the distress signal and find a cabinet containing a large number of message cubes. Upon further investigation of Uncle and Auntie, the Doctor finds they are constructed of body parts from other beings, including Time Lords. They are controlled by the asteroid, called House, which is sentient and able to possess other technology around it. House led the Doctor there and removed the TARDIS's matrix, initially intending to consume its Artron energy. Upon learning that the Doctor is the last Time Lord and that no more will ever arrive, House transfers itself into the TARDIS to escape from the rift. Amy and Rory are trapped inside as the House-controlled TARDIS dematerializes.

The Doctor learns that Idris contains the personality of the TARDIS' matrix and that they can talk to each other for the first time. Without House's support meanwhile, Uncle and Auntie die, and Idris's body only has a short time before it too will fail. Idris reveals that House had stranded many TARDISes before, and that its universe is hours away from collapsing. The Doctor, Lilith, and Idris work together to construct a makeshift TARDIS from scraps, and then pursue House. Idris makes a psychic connection with Rory to give him directions to a secondary control room, where he and Amy are able to lower the TARDIS' shields without House's interference. This allows the Doctor and Lilith to land the makeshift console in the secondary control room, which atomizes Nephew. House deletes the secondary control room as he prepares to break through the rift, which the Doctor anticipates. The TARDIS's safety protocols transfer them to the main control room, where the dying Idris releases the TARDIS's matrix back to the TARDIS, destroying House. A remnant of the TARDIS's matrix, in Idris' body, sadly states that she will not be able to speak to the Doctor again but will be there for him. Idris's body then disappears as the TARDIS matrix is fully restored. The Doctor installs a security field around the matrix to prevent it from being compromised again. Rory tells the Doctor that some of Idris's final words were 'the only water in the forest is the river', which the Doctor doesn't understand. When he asks Lilith if it means anything to her, she looks uncomfortable and says no. After Amy and Rory leave to find a new bedroom, the Doctor talks to the TARDIS, and in response a nearby lever moves on its own, sending the TARDIS to its next destination.

The TARDIS is caught in the first waves of a solar tsunami and materializes on Earth in the 22nd century. The Doctor, Lilith, Amy, and Rory find themselves on a remote island, where a factory housed in a former castle monastery pumps a valuable, highly corrosive acid to the mainland. The skeleton crew of the factory uses a self-replicating fluid called the Flesh from which they create doppelgängers of themselves, colloquially called 'Gangers'. The crew control the Gangers from special harnesses, operating in the hazardous environment of the factory via the disposable bodies. The Doctor, initially posing as a weatherman, fears the worst part of the solar tsunami will strike the solar-powered factory soon, threatening those still remaining, and offers to take the crew in his TARDIS. The foreman, Miranda Cleaves, refuses to shut down the factory until she receives orders from the mainland. As the solar storm begins, the Doctor and Lilith race to disconnect the solar collector, but an electrical strike hits the castle, throwing the Doctor off the tower and knocking everyone inside unconscious.

When the crew awaken, they find themselves out of the control beds with no sign of the Gangers. However, their own personal belongings have been gone through and the TARDIS has sunk into acid-corroded ground. The Doctor explains that they have likely been unconscious for more than an hour and the Gangers have gained sentience. They soon discover that two of the Gangers are amongst them, posing as Cleaves and Jennifer, when the two give themselves away by turning pale-white. Jennifer also exhibits the ability to contort and stretch her body well beyond human limits. The Jennifer Ganger struggles with her new identity and befriends Rory who has begun to demonstrate an emotional attachment to her. The Cleaves Ganger works in secret with the other Gangers to try to kill the real humans, as the human Cleaves plans to kill the Gangers. The Doctor and Lilith attempt to reunite the two sides but fail when the human Cleaves kills one of the Gangers with a high-powered electrical charge. The Gangers plan an attack, and the Doctor accuses Cleaves of killing a living being which Cleaves refuses to acknowledge. The Doctor determines that in a monastery, the safest place to be is the chapel, and directs everyone there. The Gangers, in acid-protection suits, bear down on the chapel. Rory responds to the sound of Jennifer screaming by deliberately separating from the group, against Amy's wishes. In the chapel, Amy, Lilith, and the Doctor discover a Ganger version of the Doctor.

The Ganger of the Doctor differs only from the real Doctor by his shoes. Though the Ganger Doctor appears ready to help the crew to contact the mainland to request rescue, Amy is distrustful of the being, particularly after it advances on her after she asks about the Doctor's death she witnessed. Eventually, Cleaves orders the two Doctors separated; the Ganger Doctor and another crewman go looking for Rory, who had gone off alone to find the emotionally distraught Jennifer. Jennifer had managed to convince Rory to lead the human group into the acid storage chamber and traps them inside; crewman Jimmy is killed trying to stall the acid release. The Ganger Doctor has met with the other Gangers, and discovers their unwillingness to proceed. He uses the opportune call of Jimmy's son on his birthday to convince the Ganger Jimmy and the other gangers they are just as real as their human counterparts. Ganger Jennifer becomes furious at this display and rages off; the other Gangers agree to work with the humans to escape the facility. They free the humans trapped in the acid storage room, and race off through the crypts below the monastery, chased by a savage Ganger Jennifer who has transformed herself into a monster. Both Ganger and human sacrifice themselves to stall the monster while letting the rest of the group escape.

They eventually come onto a room where the TARDIS, having been trapped in a pool of acid outside, has fallen into the crypt. Ganger Cleaves offers to hold the door to allow the rest to escape, and the Doctor soon joins her, stunning Amy. To her surprise, the Doctor reveals that he and his Ganger had switched shoes long ago. Amy apologizes to the Ganger Doctor, who accepts but warns her, "'push, Amy, but only when she tells you to". As the surviving humans and Gangers escape to the TARDIS, the Cleaves and Doctor Gangers together face the monster, triggering a sonic screwdriver at the right moment to cause them and the monster to dissolve back into liquid. Aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor indefinitely stabilizes the Gangers' forms, while providing Cleaves a cure to her terminal condition. He drops the factory crew at their headquarters where they plan to reveal the truth of the Flesh to humanity. As the TARDIS crew turns to leave, Amy starts feeling contractions. Back aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor admits his trip to the factory was planned: he wanted to investigate the Flesh in its raw form, as he and Lilith had known for some time that Amy is a Ganger herself. Lilith hold Rory back as the Doctor promises Amy that he will find her and then disrupts her form, turning her back to raw Flesh.

The Doctor and Lilith have come to learn the real Amy is being held on a secret asteroid base called Demon's Run, and the Doctor collects several old debtors from across time and space to lay assault on the base, including Sontaran Commander Strax, Silurian Madam Vastra and her human companion Jenny Flint, and the black market trader Dorium Maldovar. Assisted by additional Silurian and Judoon forces, the Doctor and his allies launch a surprise attack and secure the base. The Doctor, Lilith, and Rory free Amy and retake Melody before Madame Kovarian can escape with her. As the Doctor celebrates, considering this his greatest achievement, Vastra and Dorium discover Kovarian has been scanning Melody and has found the child has both human and Time Lord DNA. The Doctor surmises Melody was likely conceived on Amy and Rory's wedding night aboard the TARDIS, the baby's DNA influenced by the time vortex. The rest of the Doctor's allies regroup, and Amy and Rory tend to their daughter using an ancient wooden cot the Doctor claims was his own. Lorna Bucket arrives and warns the group of Kovarian's trap, but they are too late, as the TARDIS is blocked by a forcefield. They are attacked by the Headless Monks, and several Silurians are killed immediately. Dorium is beheaded, while Strax and Bucket are fatally wounded in the battle.

Meanwhile, Kovarian, well away from the base, contacts the Doctor, explaining they will be using Melody as a weapon in the war against him. She takes delight in telling him he has fallen into another trap, and fooling the Doctor twice in the same way is a privilege. The Doctor and Lilith race to the hangar to warn their friends, the Doctor unaware they are too late. They arrive too late to help their wounded allies, and so Lilith and Rory console Amy. Lorna Bucket dies, remembering her childhood adventure with the Doctor. River appears, and the Doctor berates her for not helping. She tries to explain she could not have interfered in these events, and tells the Doctor what transpired was partially his fault, having been brought about by those who feared his reputation. The Doctor becomes angry and demands to know who she is. River shows the Doctor the cot, and the Doctor recognizes her identity. Elated, he drags Lilith into the TARDIS to rescue Melody, asking River to return everyone to their proper time period. Once inside, the Doctor asks her if she knew that River was Melody and, when Lilith says yes, he demands to know why she never told him. Lilith explains about the fight future him and future River had about allowing her to keep the memories of River’s identity. He asks if she knows where Melody is and if she can tell him. Lilith responds that she could, but “that would be giving you a spoiler”, quoting the last thing River said to Lilith before she died in the Library.

In modern-day Leadworth, Amy and Rory create a crop circle to gain the Doctor and Lilith's attention via its newspaper coverage. They arrive with the TARDIS, but they are soon joined by Mels-- Lilith, Amy, and Rory's childhood friend who knows of Amy's 'raggedy Doctor' and was, along with Lilith, responsible for Amy and Rory's relationship; Amy had subsequently named her daughter Melody Lilith after the two. On the run from the police after stealing a car, Mels brandishes a gun and coerces them to escape in the TARDIS and kill Hitler. Inside, she fires the gun, hitting the time rotor which fills the time machine with a poisonous gas and sends it out of control. The TARDIS crashes into Hitler's office. Hitler, already panicked, fires on the Teselecta, but his aim is poor and strikes Mels. As Rory punches Hitler and locks him in a cupboard, the TARDIS crew finds Mels regenerating, becoming River Song. Having been trained by her captors to kill the Doctor, Melody makes several attempts but the Doctor has taken precautions to nullify these. Instead, she kisses him and, before disappearing into the streets of Berlin, reveals that her lipstick is poison from the Judas Tree, which will kill the Doctor within the hour and prevent his regeneration. The Doctor orders Amy and Rory to follow Melody, passing Amy his sonic screwdriver, while Lilith helps him return to the TARDIS to try to discover a cure. Lilith promises him that everything will work out fine and that she'll meet up with him when he gets to Melody.

The Tesalecta takes on Amy's appearance, allowing the robot to get close to Melody to attack her. Before they can complete the attack, the TARDIS materializes. The Doctor, spurred on by the TARDIS' voice interface hologram of Amy's younger self, has found time to dress for the period and stops the attack, now aware of the Teselecta's nature. The captain speaks to the Doctor, informing him that Melody has been trained to kill him by the Silence, a religious order that believes that when the oldest question in the universe is asked, silence will fall across the universe. When the crew refuse to back down from attacking Melody, Amy uses the sonic screwdriver to turn the robot's 'antibodies' against the crew. The crew abandon the robot by being teleported away by their mothership, leaving Amy and Rory to face the antibodies. The Doctor finds himself too weak from the poison's effects to pilot the TARDIS to rescue his companions and Lilith doesn't want to leave him. Melody is inspired by the Doctor's sympathy, and finds herself guided by the TARDIS itself to pilot the ship, and rescues Amy and Rory in time. On returning to the café, the trio finds Lilith crying and the Doctor near death. He asks Melody to find 'River Song' and give her a message, then whispers something in her ear before he passes away. Melody, who at this point still only knows herself as Melody Pond, asks Amy who River Song is. Amy uses the Teselecta to show her form stored in the robot's database of who she is to become. With this, Melody sacrifices her remaining regenerations to bring the Doctor back to life, and passes out. The Doctor, Lilith, Amy, and Rory take her to a hospital in the far future, leaving the TARDIS-shaped diary as a gift by her bedside, and depart. The Doctor notices that Lilith is being reclusive and asks if she is leaving again, like she did before Canary Wharf and after the Medusa Cascade. Lilith tells him that she'll spend the next few years for her in and out of his life, but it will be decades between visits for him. Aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor has discovered the date of his death from the records aboard the Teselecta, but does not reveal this knowledge to Amy or Rory.

After making a 'house call' to help George with his fears, the Doctor leaves the Estate to find Amy and Rory chatting with a newly arrived Lilith. They all go into the TARDIS and, when the Doctor asks where they should go next, Lilith has an idea. She says that since they just dealt with a child's nightmares, they should experience a child's dreams and takes them to Disney World. A few months later, after the Doctor had given the Ponds their new house, the Doctor goes to visit Craig Owens and finds that Lilith is already there. Before the Doctor could become too interested in the fact that something was off, he bids Craig and his son goodbye and leaves.

The Doctor, aware of his imminent death at the fixed point of time on 22 April 2011 at Lake Silencio in Utah, attempts to track down the Silence to learn why he must die. He encounters the Tesalecta shapeshifting robot and its miniaturised crew who are currently posing as one of the members of the Silence; they offer him any help within their power as he faces his death. Through them, the Doctor is led to the living head of Dorium Maldovar, one of the Doctor's allies taken by the Order of the Headless Monks. Dorium reveals that the Silence are dedicated to averting the Doctor's future, warning him "On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer a question will be asked—one that must never be answered. And Silence must fall when the question is asked.” The Doctor continues to refuse to go to Lake Silencio until he discovers his old friend the Brigadier has died, at which point he accepts his fate. To avoid crossing his own time stream, he gives the Teselecta crew four invitations to Lake Silencio for Amy and Rory, River, Canton Everett Delaware III, and a younger version of himself and Lilith. The Doctor joins his friends and Lilith at Lake Silencio and then approaches the astronaut, a younger version of River. She does not want to kill him but is unable to fight the suit's control, and the Doctor says he forgives her and reminds her that the event is inevitable. River, despite his warning against interfering with a fixed point, surprises the Doctor by draining the astronaut suit's weapons systems and averting his death. Time becomes ‘stuck’ as a result and begins to disintegrate; all of Earth's history begins to run simultaneously at a fixed moment of 5:02 p.m. on 22 April 2011. In London, Holy Roman Emperor Winston Churchill takes the Doctor, his ‘soothsayer’, out from his locked cell to ask him about the condition of time.

The Doctor explains the preceding events, as tally marks begin appearing on his arms, indicating the presence of the Silents. After noticing a Silents’ nest overhead, they are rescued by Lieutenant Amy Pond, Major Lilith Smith, and a squad of soldiers under their command. Due to the effects of the crack in her bedroom wall, Amy is cognizant of the altered timeline, though she is unaware that her trusted captain is her Rory. Amy and Lilith take the Doctor to Area 52, a hollowed-out Giza pyramid, where they have captured over a hundred Silents and Madame Kovarian. River is also there, aware of the consequences of her actions she refuses to allow the Doctor to touch her, an event that would ‘unfreeze’ time and allow it to resume. They all wear ‘eyedrives’, external memory eye patches, which enable them to avoid the Silents’ effect of erasing themselves from memory. They realize that this was a trap arranged by Kovarian, as the Silents begin to escape confinement and overload the eyedrives, killing their users. The Doctor and River escape to the top of the pyramid while Lilith, Amy, and Rory fight off a wave of Silents and Amy realizes who Rory is. Madame Kovarian dislodges her own eyedrive as it begins to overload, but Amy forces it back in place with the intention of killing her as revenge for Kovarian taking her child away. Amy, Rory, and Lilith regroup with River and the Doctor. River tries to convince the Doctor that this frozen timeline is acceptable and that he doesn’t have to die, but the Doctor explains that all of reality will soon break down. Lilith steps up and backs up the Doctor’s explanation. She says to River that she doesn’t want the Doctor dead either, because if the Doctor really dies at Lake Silencio, how will Lilith be born? River realizes that, since Lilith exists in the real timeline, the Doctor doesn’t die at the lake. Lilith tells River to save the universe and “do it Melody Pond style.” River kisses the Doctor and reality returns to normal.

Eventually, the Doctor takes Dorium's head back to where it was stored and explains that his perceived death will enable him to be forgotten as he had been getting too big and drawing too much attention. As the Doctor leaves, Dorium warns of turing a few of Lilith's visits, the prophecies that still await him and the question which Dorium calls out after him: "Doctor *who*?"

## Enough to Water a Rose

During a few of Lilith's visits, she and the Doctor contacted Amy and Rory. One time, the TARDIS directed the call to arrive in April. The Doctor claimed to be checking in. He told them about a trip to Floridal IX. Lilith amended his story, saying that his abrupt surfing adventure had caused her to be nearly captured by Sontarans. She told the Ponds about how she had to pull Mata Hari off of the Doctor in Paris. He added that he also recorded a song. Lilith told them that they would visit any day, literally any day since the helmic regulator wasn't working probably. She had to hang up as they were "about to collide with Ancient Greece!" In May, Lilith and the Doctor landed the TARDIS in the Ponds' house. In a rush, the Doctor barged into their bedroom, despite Lilith's warning. Amy admonished him, reminding the Doctor about the rule they had about the bedroom. Lilith called that the Ponds needed to hurry up. The Doctor explained that there was a world ending emergency and that the needed to leave immediately. Then he realized that they had no idea what he was talking about and the broken helmic regulator had caused them to land too early. The Doctor lied and told them not to worry about the future and left. In July, Rory and Amy contacted the Doctor and Lilith, as they had left an Ood at their house the month before. The Doctor explained that they were attempting to take him back to the Ood Sphere after finding him in the middle of the battle and he must have wandered off when they stopped by a few days prior for them, but months ago for the Ponds. The Doctor promised to pick up the Ood as soon as possible when the power started draining. Lilith shouted that something was wrong on the console and the Doctor hung up. In August, Lilith called the Ponds while the Doctor changed the light bulb on top of the TARDIS. She assured them that they got the Ood back home and apologized that the helmic regulator still wasn't working. She told them about a few more of their adventures like being at Hastings Hill, riding horses through 11th century Coventry, and the Doctor accidentally inventing pasta. She said that she and the Doctor had managed to visit a few days earlier, but they weren't home. Lilith asked if they were doing alright, immediately dismissing the notion they they weren't. She was just worried because of some resurfacing memories. She told them to call if they needed anything or just wanted to talk and bid them goodbye. Handing the phone to the Doctor with a somber expression, he used the sonic screwdriver to delete the message.

The Doctor is contacted by a messenger of Darla von Carlson via dream message. The messenger says that Darla's daughter is in danger and only he and Lilith can save her. He gives the Doctor space time coordinates and orders him to name the planet. The Doctor refuses and wakes up on the TARDIS to find Lilith there, worrying over him. He sets the coordinates, but before he could pull the dematerialization lever, Lilith stops him and asks why they are going to Skaro.

In the ruins of Skaro, homeworld of the Daleks, the Doctor and Lilith are approached by Darla von Karlsen, who requests his help in freeing her daughter from a Dalek prison camp. The Doctor's suspicions are confirmed when Darla turns out to be a humanoid Dalek puppet and teleports them to the spaceship housing the Parliament of the Daleks. There they are reunited with a now divorced Amy and Rory, who have been similarly kidnapped from present-day Earth, just after Rory has delivered Amy their divorce papers. The Doctor is surprised when, rather than exterminate him as he expects, the Daleks ask him for help. The Dalek Prime Minister explains that they have a planet known as the Asylum, which the Parliament is currently orbiting, where they keep battle-scarred Daleks that have gone insane. They are unwilling to kill these Daleks, as destroying such pure hatred would contravene their sense of beauty-- something which sickens both the Doctor and Lilith. The Parliament has received a transmission of the Habanera Aria from the heart of the Asylum. The Doctor makes contact with the source of the transmission: a woman named Oswin Oswald, who states that she was Junior Entertainment Manager on the starliner *Alaska*, which crashed into the Asylum. Oswin claims to have been fending off Dalek attacks for a year, occupying herself by making soufflés, which intrigues the Doctor as he wonders where she got the milk and eggs. Just as intriguing to him is Lilith's reaction to Oswin's voice and refusal to admit that she reacted at all. The crash had ruptured the planet's force-field, thus risking escape of the planet's inmates. To prevent this, the Parliament wishes to destroy the planet remotely, but the forcefield is not ruptured sufficiently to allow that. The forcefield can only be deactivated from the planet itself, but afraid to face such a mission themselves, the Daleks task the Doctor, Lilith, Amy, and Rory with doing so. The four are given bracelets to protect them from the planet's nanogene cloud, which would convert them into Dalek puppets to serve the facility's security systems, before being dropped through the forcefield breach onto the surface of the planet via a gravity tunnel. The Doctor, Lilith, and Amy land close to each other, and are discovered by Harvey, another survivor from the *Alaska*. Harvey guides Lilith, the Doctor, and Amy to his *Alaska*escape pod, where he attacks them after being revealed as a Dalek puppet, converted by the nanogene cloud. A similar fate has befallen the corpses of other *Alaska* survivors, who re-animate and attack the three, stealing Amy's nano-field bracelet just before the pair are saved by Oswin, who also guides them to Rory through a hatch in the bottom of the pod. Now unprotected against the nanogenes, Amy begins to be converted, experiencing memory loss and hallucinations.

The Doctor guesses that the Daleks will destroy the planet as soon as he deactivates the forcefield, but he realizes that Rory's hideout is a telepad, via which they can teleport onto the Dalek Parliament ship. Oswin agrees to deactivate the force-field in return for the Doctor and Lilith coming to rescue her. They make their way to Oswin, venturing through the 'intensive care section', which holds Daleks who survived encounters with the Doctor. They begin to re-activate, but he is saved by Oswin, who deletes the Doctor and the Collector from the Daleks' collective telepathically-shared knowledge, leaving them with no memory of him. The Doctor has never been able to hack into their hive intelligence, let alone remove anything from it, and is confused to how she has done so. The Doctor enters Oswin's chamber, only to discover to his horror that she is really a Dalek. It turns out that Oswin had been captured by Daleks after the *Alaska* crashed on the Asylum and, to preserve her genius-level intellect for Dalek use, was turned into a full Dalek rather than a standard puppet. Unable to cope with her conversion, her mind retreated into a fantasy of survival as a human. The Doctor had suspected that something was wrong from the beginning, however, as one of the things Oswin had kept herself busy with while in hiding had been making soufflés, which the Doctor noticed would be impossible to get the ingredients for. Oswin is nearly overcome by her Dalek personality at this revelation, but she still possesses human emotions and is unable to kill the Doctor. Lilith, who hadn't really spoken since they reached the planet, raises her voice and begs Oswin to remember who she is and not kill them. Oswin fulfills her promise of deactivating the forcefield, making her final request that they remember her as the human she once was. The Doctor and Lilith return to Amy and Rory, and they teleport back to the TARDIS just as the planet is destroyed. The Daleks fail to recognize the Doctor due to his removal from their hive intelligence. He jubilantly leaves the ship, and drops the reunited Amy and Rory back home. He and Lilith departs, delighting in the Dalek Parliament's closing question to him: "Doctor *who*?"

While in 1334 BC Egypt with Queen Nefertiti, the Doctor receives a call from the Indian Space Agency in 2367 about a vast spaceship which will crash into Earth in six hours. The ISA plans to destroy it with missiles unless the Doctor stops it first. Taking Nefertiti with him, he picks up Edwardian explorer John Riddell from the African plains in 1902. He then materializes the TARDIS around his companions Amy and Rory ten months after he last saw them in, inadvertently taking Brian, Rory's father, and Lilith, who had been there to warn the Ponds of the Doctor's impending arrival, on the TARDIS as well. They materialize in the spaceship and find that it contains dinosaurs. When asking the ship's computer for the engines, the Doctor, Lilith, Rory, and Brian are transported to the engine room, a large beach on the ship which uses the waves as hydro-power. After escaping from a group of pterodactyls, Lilith, the Doctor, Rory, and Brian are escorted by two robots to the only human on board, a brutal man called Solomon who has been injured in a raptor attack and requires medical help.

Scanning the Doctor to see who he is, Solomon is surprised that the Doctor does not appear in his universal database. Solomon reveals himself to be a lawless exotic black market trader who has raided the spaceship in order to steal the dinosaurs. Having had the robots murder all of the Silurians, Solomon was unable to take control of the ship himself and the computer defaulted to its point of origin, causing it to return to Earth. Discovering Queen Nefertiti's identity and value, he decides to kidnap her and leave in his own ship. Though the Doctor refuses, Nefertiti agrees to go with him to save the others, despite the man's obvious sadistic intentions towards her. While Amy and Riddell shoot hostile dinosaurs with a tranquiliser gun, the Doctor disables Solomon's robots and rescues Nefertiti, then tricks the ISA missiles into targeting Solomon's ship rather than the ark: it is destroyed, taking him with it. Rory and Brian pilot the ark away from the Earth, as the ship can only be piloted by two people of the same gene chain. The Doctor and Lilith then take Amy and Rory back to their home after letting Brian view the Earth from orbit.

The Doctor, Lilith, Amy, and Rory, while en route to the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico via the TARDIS, instead arrive at the small American Frontier town of Mercy. The Doctor is curious as to a ring of stone and wood that surrounds the town's border and the availability of electricity to the town ten years too early. They learn from the town's marshal, Isaac, that they have been kept within town for the last three weeks by 'The Gunslinger', who uses alien weaponry to threaten to kill anyone trying to leave town and blocks the town from receiving any supplies. The Gunslinger has demanded the town turn over 'the doctor', which the Doctor deduces is not himself but a humanoid alien hiding in the marshal's jail. The alien introduces himself as Kahler-Jex, who had crashed on Earth about ten years earlier, and was rescued from his craft by the town; in return, Jex has helped the town as their physician, ending a cholera outbreak and providing the town with primitive electricity. However, the town's food supplies are nearly empty, and while the situation has become more dire, the marshal is reluctant to hand over Jex. The Doctor offers to get the TARDIS and evacuate the town, he and Lilith riding off on horseback to collect it while Isaac and Rory distract the Gunslinger. The Doctor and Lilith come across Jex's craft and enter it, though in doing so they set off an alarm heard across the plains. The Doctor reviews Jex's records and discovers that Jex was part of a team of scientists from his war-torn homeworld that experimented on a number of volunteers to convert them into cyborgs, who either died or killed countless people in the battle. Aghast, the Doctor leaves the ship to find the Gunslinger waiting for him, and he realises that the Gunslinger is one of Jex's subjects. The Gunslinger affirms that he is seeking revenge on those that created him, with Jex being the last member alive; he further explains that his programming prevents him from harming innocents, creating the ring around Mercy to protect the townsfolk while Jex is in their care, but demands of the Doctor that the next person that crosses that line must be Jex.

The Doctor and Lilith return to Mercy and Lilith angrily drags Jex to the edge of town, followed by their companions and the concerned townsfolk. As she forces Jex to cross the line, Amy notes that this is not normal behavior for Lilith. The Gunslinger arrives and holds his weapon to Jex; Jex tries to offer that he has become better and rejects his past actions, but this does not sway the cyborg. As the Gunslinger is about to fire, Isaac pushes Jex out of the way, taking the lethal shot. Isaac's final action is to hand his marshal badge to the Doctor and ask him to protect the town. The Gunslinger leaves, warning that he will return at noon tomorrow to collect Jex, even if it puts the townspeople at risk. During the night, Jex explains his guilt to the Doctor, trying to repent for his past knowing what will await him in his afterlife: his culture believes that upon death, one must carry the souls of everyone they have ever wronged up a mountain, giving Jex an unbearable load. An angry mob of townsfolk arrive to demand Jex, but the Doctor warns by doing so they would have not honored Isaac's death. Further discussions with Jex provide the Doctor with an idea for a plan. The next day, when the Gunslinger arrives the Doctor distracts it by amplifying the electricity sent through town, while other townsfolk, wearing makeup applied in the same fashion as Jex's facial markings, dash between buildings to confuse the cyborg. Jex flees out of town to his ship as the Doctor planned, but instead of returning to space, Jex initiates the ship's self-destruct. Before he dies, Jex explains that no matter where he goes, the Gunslinger will follow and more innocents will be caught in the crossfire. Truly wishing to repent of his past actions, he declares that his last act will be to end the war for the Gunslinger and go to face the souls of those he wronged. The Gunslinger becomes desolate with his quest for revenge complete and the realization that Jex was no worse a person than he is. Recognizing that there is no need for a creature of war during a time of peace, the Gunslinger announces his intent to self-destruct far away from town, but the Doctor suggests that he could become the *protector* of peace as the new marshal. The Doctor and Lilith take Amy and Rory home, while the Gunslinger stays on to watch over Mercy.

Amy and Rory have tried to adjust to normal life without traveling with the Doctor and Lilith. One day billions of small black cubes appear around the globe, but they appear to be inert and invulnerable. Lilith and the Doctor arrive to help, having been alerted by news stories. UNIT storms the Ponds' house soon after in response to the duo's arrival. The UNIT force is led by scientific adviser Kate Stewart, the daughter of the Doctor's friend and former UNIT commander, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Kate explains that they have no idea of the purpose of the cubes and hope the Doctor and the Collector, Lilith, can help. After several days of watching the cubes without anything out of the ordinary occurring, the Doctor decides there is no problem and puts Rory's father Brian in charge of watching the cubes as he returns and departs in the TARDIS without Lilith, who, strangely, elected to stay on Earth with Amy and Rory. Over the following year, Lilith, Amy, and Rory live out their lives, making commitments despite not knowing if they will always be around. The Doctor visits them at Amy and Rory's wedding anniversary party and takes them on a trip for seven weeks, though returns them a few minutes after leaving. Brian notices their absence and, in private, asks the Doctor the fate of his previous companions. The Doctor admits that while most had left on their own or were left behind, some have died, but promises that will not happen to Amy or Rory. Humanity forgets about the cubes' arrival, and use them as paperweights and similar mundane functions. A year after their arrival, the cubes start to activate, scanning the world's information networks and acting in self-defence. The Doctor realizes that the cubes are part of a 'slow invasion'.

While Rory and Brian go to the hospital to help those injured by the cubes, the Doctor, Lilith, and Amy are summoned to the UNIT headquarters under the Tower of London where Kate shows them several cubes under investigation, every single one behaving in a different fashion. The cubes then simultaneously display the number seven and slowly count down. The cubes all open when they reach zero, appearing empty, but soon reports of people dying from cardiac arrest appear from around the globe. The Doctor finds that one of his own hearts has stopped, and realizes that the cubes sent out an electrical impulse that killed about one third of the human population. Kate's team traces a communication from the cubes to seven different outposts across the world, including one at Rory's hospital, and Lilith, the Doctor, and Amy race there. Amy uses a defibrillator to restart the Doctor's heart. They find the girl, who the Doctor realises is an android, and disable her before locating the elevator and the portal. Aboard the ship, Amy and Rory rescue Brian while the Doctor and Lilith encounter a hologram of a member of the Shakri, who, according to Gallifreyan legend, were self-appointed 'pest controllers' in the universe. The Shakri states that he and six other ships tied to the other outposts are there to wipe out humanity before it spreads across the galaxy, and prepares to launch a second wave of cubes to kill even more before disappearing. The Doctor uses the ship's computer to reverse the shock the cubes gave to the original victims, restoring them, and the five escape the ship before the feedback from the cubes causes it to explode. As the world recovers, Lilith and the Doctor prepare to leave when Brian insists that Amy and Rory go with them, stating the adventures they have with him are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He tells the Doctor to "just bring them back safe". The four say goodbye to Brian and depart in the TARDIS.

The Doctor finds Lilith in the console room staring out of the open doors of the TARDIS at a nearby nebula. She tells him that she’s thinking about her favorite adventure that they went on back in his ninth life when they and Rose met Jack during the Blitz. He asks what’s really bothering her and she explains that she loves traveling with him but she misses her linear parents and her siblings. She reminds him of another adventure with Rose, the 2012 Olympics, and how he had said that a storm was coming. She warns him that another storm is on its way and she’s not going to be there when it hits. He understands that she’s talking about leaving again and thinks that it will be like the other times and that she’ll be back for another few years. She says that the next time he sees her will be the last and it will be only for a moment because she’s going to have someone with her. When he asks who, she doesn’t give him a straight answer and replies that she’s going to Pete’s World to bring Rose back to the prime universe. The Doctor argues, saying that Rose is living a human life with the Metacrisis, and Lilith informs him that the Metacrisis and Rose died, but Rose didn’t stay dead. She came back to life as a Gallifreyan and she’s stuck alone in a parallel universe. Lilith then adds that she *has* to bring Rose back, otherwise she won’t be born, meaning that Rose is her mother. Lilith makes the Doctor promise that, when the storm hits, he won’t give up hope and assures him that everything will turn out fine.

Eleven months later, two months after the Weeping Angel took the Ponds, the TARDIS lands herself on Woman Wept. The Doctor is confused as to why and doesn’t want to be on that planet, thinking that a place with such good memories shouldn’t be spoiled by his sulking and being alone. He remembers that the last time he was on Woman Wept was with Rose and realizes that he only every said her name once in his eleventh body. When he says “Rose Tyler” she responds from behind him. The Doctor jumps up and spins around, finding Rose looking no older than she had hundreds of years before. He manages to stutter out the question of how she was back and Rose replies that “a certain temporally misplaced Time Lady” arrived in the parallel universe to bring her home. In the distance, the Doctor notices a very smug Lilith watching the two of them. He turns his attention back to Rose. She notes that he’s regenerated and that he’s still not ginger. He tells her he loves her.

> *And she kissed him.
> It was perfect.
> Rose Tyler and the Doctor, just as it should be.*
> -Enough to Water a Rose, Goodbye & Hello
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