Amy Pond

NOTE

Amy Pond is a human who is married to Rory Williams. She has two children: Melody Pond and Anthony Williams.

## Amy

Amy Pond in Not Rio (Two Ponds, chapter 19)

### Nicknames

Ames (by Lilith)
Pond (by the Doctor)

### Relatives

Tabetha Pond (mother)
Augustus Pond (father)
Rory Williams (husband)
Melody Lilith Williams (daughter)
Anthony Williams (adoptive son)

### Appearences

Two Ponds
A River
Enough to Water a Rose
The Fourth Collector (mentioned)

> *"Raggedy Man, I remember you, and you are late for my wedding!"*-Two Ponds, The Wedding
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## Biography

Amy was born in Scotland, but moved to Leadworth when she was young. When she was seven years old, the TARDIS crashed into her backyard and she met Lilith and a newly regenerated Doctor. The Doctor was able to mostly fix the crack in her bedroom wall, which was actually a crack in the fabric of the universe. The TARDIS engines started phasing and the Doctor and Lilith promised to return in five minutes. Amy grew up friends with Rory Williams and Mels Zucker, eventually dating the former. In 2008, the Doctor and Lilith returned, causing the Atraxi to reappear as well. Amy and Rory helped the two catch Prisoner Zero, but before Amy could join them, they ran off again and returned two years later. Amy traveled with Lilith, the Doctor, and (eventually) Rory for a few months before Big Bang Two reset the universe, rewinding time to when Amy was seven again. This time she grew up with Lilith as her friend along with Mels and Rory. On the day of her wedding, Amy remembered the Doctor, bringing him back into existence. She and Rory continued to travel with Lilith and the Doctor until Rory was taken by a Weeping Angel and Amy sacrificed herself to live the rest of her life in with in 20th century New York. A few years later, they adopted a son, Anthony Williams.

## Meeting the Doctor and Lilith

When she was seven years old, Amelia was praying to Santa Clause to send someone to fix the crack in her bedroom wall. She heard a noise from her backyard and went out to find Lilith and the Doctor climbing out of the TARDIS. She brought them inside and made the Doctor a variety of food so he can test out his new tastebuds. He settled on fish fingers and custard while Lilith and Amelia had ice cream. Amelia took the two to her room where the Doctor opened the crack and a large electric blue eyeball sent him the message 'Prisoner Zero has escaped'. The cloister bell went off, prompting the Doctor and Lilith to run back to the TARDIS. The Doctor promised to be back in five minutes and they climbed back into the box and left. They didn't return five minutes later. After twelve years, the Doctor broke into Amy's house and, dressed in her place kissogram outfit, she knocked him out with a cricket bat and handcuffed him to the radiator. Lilith appeared and woke the Doctor up. He explained that there was something dangerous in the house and when the multiform revealed itself, a voice announced "Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated." The Doctor used the sonic to free himself and the three ran back to the TARDIS. He realized that the shed they had destroyed when the TARDIS crashed was older than six months and Lilith demanded to know why Amy lied and Amy yelled back asking why the Doctor had promised five minutes.

In town, they discovered that the message was being played through all of the electronics. The Doctor rushed into the nearest house where he and Lilith were recognized my Amy's friend Jeff. The Doctor realized that 'the human residence' didn't just refer to Amy's house, it referred to the Earth. Lilith calculated that they had twenty minutes until the planet would be incinerated. She, the Doctor, and Amy headed to the town square. The Doctor doubled over and breathed out more artron energy, not fully done regenerating. The Atraxi surrounded the Earth in a forcefield in preparation for it's destruction. The Doctor noticed that there was a man taking pictures of Prisoner Zero as opposed to the odd looking sun. He declared that he can save the world and told Amy that she could either help or go home. Amy demanded to know who they are, no longer believing the two since she grew up. Lilith convinced her just to believe until the world is safe and Amy relents. The Doctor ran over to the man, who Amy introduced as Rory. The Doctor asked why he was taking pictures of a man and a dog instead of the sun and Rory explained that it was because the man was in the hospital in a coma. The Time Lord tried to signal the Atraxi by using his screwdriver to make everything go haywire, but it shorted out and Prisoner Zero escaped. Rory recognized Lilith and the Doctor as Amy's 'raggedy Doctor' and his daughter. The Doctor instructed Amy, Lilith, and Rory to clear out the coma ward at the hospital and ran off. While Rory was still having trouble believing that the Doctor and Lilith exist, Amy forced him to comply.

The hospital was in a state of havoc when the three arrived. Lilith called the Doctor and he suggested that Amy use her police costume to get past the security. Amy, Lilith, and Rory came across a woman and her two daughters who turn out to be Prisoner Zero. The multiform chased them into the coma ward. The Doctor arrived, smashing through the window and offered Prisoner Zero a chance to surrender. It refuses saying that if it is to die, the Earth will too. The Doctor went off on a clever victory speech about how he created a virus that would broadcast the word zero from the phone he had taken from Rory. A phone that had pictures of all of Prisoner Zero's disguises so the Atraxi would know it was the multiform, no matter what form it took. Prisoner Zero surprised the Doctor by forcing Amy into a coma and turning into Lilith and the Doctor. Lilith managed to get Amy to change the multiform's image to its real form and the Atraxti captured it and leave. The Doctor summoned the Atraxi back to scold them for attempting to burn the Earth. Once he was done, he and Lilith ran back to the TARDIS and left. Two years later, Amy was dreaming of her younger self waiting for the Doctor and Lilith to come back, and wakes up to the sound of the TARDIS dematerializing in her backyard. The Doctor emerged, still in the clothes he stole from the hospital and asked if Amy would join him and Lilith as their companion. Amy initially refused, but changed her mind when the Doctor opened the doors by snapping his fingers. Amy told him that she had come to see him as a madman with a box, now thinking she was wrong. However, the Doctor told her, "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." Amy made him promise to bring her back to Leadworth by the next morning, and Lilith pulled the dematerialization lever.

## Traveling with the Doctor and Lilith

### Two Ponds

Amy asked the Doctor many questions without pausing: how does the TARDIS retain its air supply? Why did he label a time machine 'police box'? Where are the other windows which are on the exterior of the TARDIS? What is a police box and is the Doctor a policeman? Has he seen his haircut? Does he ever need to change the bulb on top the TARDIS? She also thought the box was made of wood and his bow tie was a cry for help The Doctor answered most of the questions. Amy asked again if he's an alien. The Doctor said that, from his perspective, she'd be the alien. Amy wondered if the Doctor is a space squid or a tiny slug zipped in a human suit, but the Doctor dismissed her theories, stating he's as human as he appears. Amy admited she's done with her questions, but the Doctor told her she's just begun; he threw a switch on the TARDIS console, opened the door and showed her outer space. When Amy said it looks like special effects in a studio, the Doctor proved it was real by pushing her out of the TARDIS, making Lilith laugh as she looked on.

The Doctor had a grip on Amy's ankle as she floated in open space. He pulled her inside and noticed something below where the TARDIS was hovering. Lilith caught Amy before she could fall back out of the ship. They joined the Doctor at the console and he showed them Starship UK. When Amy asked if they could visit, he agreed but said that they couldn't interfere. Amy looked at the monitor and the Doctor appeared on the screen talking to the crying girl. Lilith and Amy catch up with him. The Doctor encourages Amy to notice everything. Abruptly, he stopped, took a glass of water off a nearby table, and set it on the ground. He stared at it for a moment before returning it. Then, acting as if he hadn't just done that, he informs the girls that it is a police state. Lilith, the Doctor, and Amy watch the crying girl from a bench. The Doctor tells Amy that he name is Mandy, that he thinks it's odd that no one is stopping to see if she's okay, and that she should follow her and ask about the 'smiling fellows in the booths'. He and Lilith go off, leaving Amy to search for Mandy. She finds her in a street where they discover a sealed off part of the road. Upon further investigation, despite Mandy's protests, Amy finds a giant tenable rising through the ship from below. It forced her out of the tent and she was surrounded by a group of men who knocked her out. Amy regained consciousness in a voting booth. The screen showed a video of a man explaining that she will be shown the truth of the Starship UK and that she can either choose to forget or protest. She suddenly found herself having pressed the 'forget' option and had no idea what she had just seen. A recording she made before forgetting appear on the screen. She was crying and insisted that she get the Doctor and Lilith off the ship before they could investigate. Amy cut off the video just as the door opened for the Doctor. From a scan with the sonic screwdriver, the Doctor deduced that a machine in the lamp above Amy's head had made her forget the last twenty minutes. Mandy explained that anyone sixteen and older can choose to use a booth once every five years. He pulled Lilith and Amy to the side and pressed the 'protest' button, making the door slam shut and the floor open. He pulled the two into the abyss and they land in what looked like a dump at the heart of the ship. Another scan with the sonic informed the Doctor that they were in a creature's mouth. In order to get them out, he used the screwdriver to make the beasts vomit.

The trio found themselves in an overspill pipe, the only way out being to press a 'forget' button. When they refused to press the button, the Smilers at the end of the hall become angry and step out of the booths to attack. They were rescued by a woman who introduced herself as Liz Ten. The Doctor realized that by 'Ten' she meant 'the tenth' and that the woman was Elizabeth X, the Queen. Liz led them to her rooms where glasses of water littered the floor. She explained that she had been investigating the creature for ten years, every since she came to the throne. At that moment, the hooded men enter and demand that Liz go with them. Liz reminded them that she is the Queen and they agreed, but told her that, on the highest authority, she needed to go to the Tower of London. The group was taken to the bowels of the ship, where Liz met Hawthorne, a senior member of the government. The Doctor revealed that the creature, whom they previously thought was malevolent, was the ship's means of flying. They had a laser placed above the exposed pain centre of the creature's brain that repeatedly zapped it, torturing the beast into continuing. When the Queen demanded the creature's immediate release, Hawthorne insisted that he was simply obeying the orders of a higher authority. Liz protested, calling herself the highest authority on the ship. The Doctor brought her attention back to the impossibility of her mask and told her that she had reigned the same ten years over and over again, each time choosing to forget the truth. Hawthorne played a recording of Liz Ten. She explained that the creature was the last of the Star Whales and was being used as the engine for the Starship UK. The recording gave Liz the option to forget or abdicate. Pressing abdicate would release the star whale, but in doing so would destroy the ship and kill everyone onboard. The Doctor declared that there is no choice but a mercy killing. He would cause the Star Whale to be essentially dead, but allow it to continue to sustain Starship UK. As the Doctor set up the electrical charge that would render the Star Whale brain-dead, Amy realized that the creature had been voluntarily propelling the ship for the humans because of its compassion for the children. Lilith came to the same conclusion, stopping the Doctor while Amy made Liz Ten press the 'abdicate' button. Despite the torture stopping, the Star Whale didn't destroy the ship. Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor and Lilith worked on the console as Amy answered the phone. It was British Prime Minister Winston Churchill; the Doctor took the call, agreeing to go straight to his time to help.

The Doctor materialized in the War Rooms in response to Churchill's call for help. He was greeted by the Prime Minister. Churchill was shocked that the Doctor has changed his face once again, and told the Doctor that he had arrived a month late; Lilith suggesting that it was because a past version of she and the Doctor were already in 1941. Churchill took the Doctor , Lilith , and Amy to the roof to showcase his latest weapon. They were introduced to Professor Edwin Bracewell, head of the new Ironside Project. A group of planes came into view, and were shot down by and energy weapon with amazing precision. The Doctor and Lilith recognized the weaponry and watched, horrified, as Bracewell produced a camouflaged, Union Flag-wearing Dalek. In Churchill's office, the Doctor argued with his friend, but Churchill wouldn't listen to reason. He insisted thatthe Doctor think about what he can do with hundreds or thousands of them. Lilith asked Amy for backup, her having been on Earth in 2009 during the events in the Medusa Cascade, but Amy had no recollection of the invasion. Suggesting that they just ask, Amy approached a Dalek and questioned it about its origin, but the Dalek simply responded that it is a soldier. The Doctor begged Churchill to reconsider, but he claimed he couldn't afford to abandon the Ironside project if it meant London falling to the Nazis. An all clear siren sounded and Lilith muttered that they were far from safe. The Doctor decided to talk to the creator of the Ironsides, so he, Lilith , and Amy went to Bracewell's lab. He asked how Bracewell came up with the idea for the Ironsides, prompting the scientist to show him other beyond human inventions he had been planning. When Churchill came in, again insisting that the Daleks would win him the war, the Doctor resorted to attacking the nearest Dalek. He reminded them of how he defeated them, how he is their greatest enemy and how they are everything he despises, declaring, "I am the Doctor and you are the Daleks!" before kicking the Dalek across the room. The Dalek recovered, and reverts to its true personality. It transmited the 'testimony' to the Dalek mothership. Two soldiers run in to stop the Daleks, and are promptly exterminated. The professor yelled for his creations to stop and one of the Daleks blasted his hand off, leaving only exposed wiring. Bracewell was an android, and they created him. They teleport away. The Doctor  and Lilith return to the TARDIS to follow, ordering Amy to stay behind.

Amy and Churchill were left panicking, until Amy remembered the Daleks left Bracewell behind. They found him preparing to commit suicide, believing his whole life to be a lie. However, Amy talked him out of it, and Churchill demanded to know whose side he's taking, humanity's or the Daleks', as it's the only important thing. Bracewell wondered what he can do, until Amy began reminds him that he talked about technology for lasers and such. Churchill wondered if they can send something up to fight the Daleks and Bracewell explained that in a gravity bubble, it would be possible. Bracewell left and returned to the War Room with a pair of headphones on his head. They are attached to a screen of some sort, which he explained will allow them to see what was going on in the Dalek ship. The black and white image showed the Doctor and Lilith facing a white Dalek, which introduces each role of the new five Daleks-- Surpreme, Strategist, Drone, Scientist, and the Eternal. The Doctor demanded the Daleks turn off the laser, or he'd blow up the TARDIS and them with it. However, once the Daleks performed a scan that proved he's bluffing, he eats the Jammy Dodger, saying that he had been promised tea. The Dalek sensors went off, informing them that they had an incoming spacecraft. The Spitfires arrived from Earth, and were ordered by the Doctor to target the dish as he and Lilith ran into the TARDIS. The Dalek defense lasers took out two of the planes, leaving only Danny Boy. The Doctor disrupted the Dalek defenses long enough for Danny Boy to destroy the dish the laser is coming from, shutting off London's lights. Just as the Doctor gave the order to destroy the ship, the Daleks ordered the Doctor to stop the attack, or they will destroy Earth with an Oblivion Continuum bomb they built inside Bracewell. The Doctor reluctantly called off the attack and returned to Earth, leaving the Daleks free to escape. However, true to their genocidal nature, the Daleks still activate dthe bomb as they fled. Upon arrival on Earth, the Doctor and Lilith  revealed that the bomb is charging itself inside Bracewell. Realizing that the only way to stop it from exploding is to convince Bracewell that he is human, he tried to remind the professor of his memories and how much they hurt. Amy and Lilith tried the opposite tactic. Amy asked him if he'd ever fancied something he shouldn't and Bracewell remembered a girl as the countdown retreated, cancelling the detonation. The Doctor was distraught over the Daleks' escape, but Amy reminds him that he has just saved the entire world. Amy and Lilith bid farewell to Churchill as the Doctor removed all the alien technology Bracewell had in the base. He, Lilith, and Amy returned to the TARDIS. Amy questioned the Doctor about having enemies, but told him she would continue traveling with them anyway. The Doctor is worried about how Amy didn't remember the Daleks from the Battle of Canary Wharf or the invasion in the Medusa Cascade, but put that aside so that they could continue with their adventures.

The Doctor, Lilith, and Amy were exploring the Delirium Archive, the final resting place of the Headless Monks. Amy was bored; the Doctor had promised to take her to a planet next, and the museum was on an asteroid. Lilith explained that museums are how he keeps score. The Doctor was fascinated by a home box, which works like an airplane's black box except it homes. He said the message scrawled on the box is for him because it was written in Old High Gallifreyan. Amy asked what the message says, and the Doctor glanced at Lilith and replied, "Hello, sweetie." They stole the box and ran to the TARDIS, pursued by guards. The Doctor connected the home box to the TARDIS console, Getting a visual, they see River Song smiling at the camera. Changing the footage, River was cornered in front of an airlock by a man in a suit and two guards. She explained she needed to see what was in the vault, and warned them that the ship will not reach its destination. As the guards prepared to shoot her, River rattled off "7775/349x10,012/acorn" and requested an air corridor. The Doctor set the TARDIS controls for River's position. The airlock opened and River floated out into space just as the TARDIS materialized and knocked the Doctor to the floor. The three TARDIS pilots had the ship chase the star liner. River landed the TARDIS smoothly and The Doctor, grumbling, opened the door and announced they have landed on Alfava Metraxis. All four exited the TARDIS to see the smouldering wreckage of the *Byzantium*. The Doctor introduced Amy to River, neglecting to mention Lilith. River produced her diary, and asked the Doctor where she's landed in his timeline. The Doctor ordered Amy to keep away from it, as Lilith tells her that it's "Her past, Dad's future". Before River could read off any past adventures, four men in combat uniform teleported in and approached them. Their leader, Father Octavian, was upset; River had promised him an army. They revealed their enemy. Turning to the Doctor, River asked him what he knows of the Weeping Angels. While the others made plans, Amy was left with nothing to do. Looking back at the tape, she realized the Weeping Angel had changed its position slightly. When she asked River if she has more than one clip of the Angel, River says no. When Amy looked back, the Angel had moved again. The door behind her shut. Amy tried to turn off the television, but it quickly switched back on. When she looked back up, the Angel's face had filled the screen. She tried to leave, but the door wouldn't budge. She looked back again to find the Angel baring its fangs at her.

Amy looked away again. That time, when she looked back, the Angel had projected itself into the drop-ship as a hologram. Amy shouted for the Doctor and Lilith. The Doctor warned Amy not to blink, then looks back into the book, and added she is not to look into the Angel's eyes; but Amy already had. Lilith got fed up with nothing working and used her squareness gun to open a hole in the hull and shot the screen, making the projection of the Angel disappear. An explosion sounded outside, and Octavian told them the Clerics had blasted into the structure. The Doctor left, convinced things are going to get even worse. The group climbed down into the temple, finding a gravity well inside. The Doctor called it the perfect hiding place for the Angel. He kicked a gravity globe high into the air. With the space lit, the interior was revealed: hundreds of disintegrating stone statues. The Doctor, Lilith, and Amy rush off to explore, Lilith calling River when she stayed back to Octavian. In one of the tunnels, Amy stopped some distance away from the Doctor to rub her eye. Dust ran between her fingers. Amy was shocked, but the dust vanishes. River and Lilith appeared behind her and River gave her an injection to protect her from the radiation from the ship. Amy asked River about her relationship with the Doctor. River stayed evasive and Amy continued to believe they are married. The Doctor, Amy, Lilith, and River explored the maze. The Doctor remembered the Aplans who built the crypt, saying he had dinner with the chief architect. According to him, the species had two heads. River told the Doctor that something was wrong, but she doesn't know what. The Doctor was feeling the same. Examining a statue while Amy pointed out that divorce of self-marriage must have been messy, the Doctor, River, and Lilith had a terrifying epiphany. The statues, unlike the Aplans, only had one head. Gathering everyone behind him, the Doctor had them turn off their flashlights. When they turn back on after a second, all of the statues had turned to face them. The Doctor guessed the Angels were slowly being restored by the radiation leaking from the wreckage. Octavian radioed Bob to warn him. Bob said he was on his way and that the others were dead. The Doctor was surprised, as Angels normally displace their victims in time, unless they need bodies for something. Bob explained that the Angel killed him as well. The group ran to the *Byzantium*. As the Doctor ran to join the others, he found Amy frozen in the corridor. She told the Doctor that, because she looked into the Angel's eyes earlier, her hand has turned to stone. The Doctor bit her hand. They met up with the others. Angel Bob radioed the Doctor again, saying there is nowhere for them to go and the Angels will kill them all. The Doctor took Octavian's sidearm and ordered the group to jump on his signal. The Doctor warned the Angels that there's one thing you should never put in a trap. Him. He shot the gravity globe, plunging them into total darkness.

The Doctor, Amy, Lilith, River, Father Octavian, and the Clerics jumped at the Doctor's signal, allowing them to be caught in the *Byzantium's* gravity field. The Doctor opened the door and led everyone inside. Before they could enter the secondary flight deck, the door shut. As the Doctor worked on the lights, four Angels broke off the door and entered the hall. He prevented the Angels from draining the lighting grid's power, but *he* would have to drain the power in the corridor to get the door open. Octavian, his men, and Lilith lined up to fire on the Angels while the Doctor told Amy to turn the wheel on the door four times. She responded with ten, then corrected herself. They entered, the Doctor shutting the door behind them. Octavian magnetized the door to slow down the Angels. The Doctor and River realized there must be an oxygen factory on board. He activated a panel on the back wall, which opened to reveal a cybernetic forest. Amy continued to count down, but denied doing so. Angel Bob called to learn their plans. The Doctor taunted him, but grew serious when Bob told him that they are 'in Amy's eye'. The Angels were making her count to scare her. A screeching noise came from outside; Angel Bob explained that the Angels were laughing because the Doctor had missed something. He wondered what he had missed and turned to see a crack in the wall of the ship, the exact shape of the one in Amy's bedroom wall. He ordered the others to run. River produced a scanner to check her while Octavian worried they were exposed. She retorted that Octavian's only job is to keep the Doctor safe. She realized he was standing right behind her. When questioned what the crack really is, the Doctor said, "the end of the universe". He deduced that because Amy looked into the eyes of an Angel, there was a living Angel in her brain's visual center. The Doctor ordered Amy to close her eyes. Unable to see, he suggested she stay in the clearing with the others while he, Lilith and River proceeded to the primary flight deck. Octavian insisted that he go too. The Doctor agreed, leaving Amy with the remaining Clerics.

One by one, all of the Clerics walked into the light and vanished. The Doctor contacted Amy saying she must make her way to the flight deck. The Angels could only kill her, but the crack could erase her from time. He sent software to the communicator to guide her. The Angels figured out that Amy couldn't see, and moved in to kill her. Just as an Angel reached towards Amy, Lilith appeared, shot it, and teleported them to the flight deck. The Angels drained all of the ship's energy, opening the flight deck doors in the process. Angel Bob demanded the Doctor throw himself into the crack to save the Angels, Amy, River, and Lilith. Lilith, as a temporally misplaced time traveller, wanted to throw herself in in place of the Doctor, but told her to get a grip. River guessed his plan, and had Lilith and Amy grab onto the console. The Doctor grabbed onto it too and the ship's gravity failed, sending the Angels plummeting into the crack. It glowed brighter, and closed. Later, a second squad of Clerics cleaned up the camp while Amy sat nearby. She wondered why she remembered the Angels and the Clerics, when they never existed. The Doctor explained that, as a time traveller, she sees things differently. He went to Lilith and River, the latter being handcuffed. She was prepared to teleport up to the prison ship, hoping to have done enough to earn a pardon. The Doctor said that Octavian told him of her crime. He asked if he can trust her. River laughed, saying he could if he wanted to, but it would be no fun. She vanished with the Clerics. Back in the TARDIS, Amy told the Doctor she wanted to go home and insisted she has something to show him. He parked the TARDIS in Amy's bedroom five minutes after they first left. Amy showed him her wedding dress and engagement ring. She said that she needed comforting after the recent events. She tried to explain to the Doctor 'who' she wanted, but he didn't have a clue to what she was talking about. Amy kissed him. She continued to allude to sexual connotations, which the Doctor attempted to fend off. He rebuffed her advances by protesting that kind of relationship wouldn't work out between them. She attempted to undress him and kissed him again, but he pushed her away. He shoved her back into the TARDIS just as the clock turned past midnight to the next day.

After the failed seduction, Lilith immediately guessed what happened. The Doctor demanded why she wasn't angry, reminding her of the time she pulled Madame de Pompadour off of him in his tenth body. She replied that Reinette wasn't their companion, and therefore it wasn't funny. Amy said she was getting mixed signals from the Doctor, confusing him. She insisted that showing up in the middle of the night to offer a ride in his timeship is an obvious signal. The Doctor insisted that he was more like a space Gandalf and Amy argued that he was just like any other male. He begged Lilith to assist him, but she just watched, amused. The Doctor explained that he invited her along because he couldn't 'see it' anymore. Amy asked if he had traveled with others and, when he responds positively, she questioned how many were female. She tricked him into opening the TARDIS visual records, which only showed her his female companions. Amy asked if Lilith's mother was on the list, but got distracted from her answer by a picture of Leela in her leather outfit. In an attempt to take her mind off of his past companions, the Doctor declared that they were going to pick up Rory from his stag night.

{In a Leadworth pub, Rory called Amy's house from his stag party. He left a message on her answering machine, telling her how much he loved her and that, if they weren't getting married the next day, he'd propose. He noticed Lilith calling his name and hastily hung up. She had come to warn him that the Doctor was about to do something stupid, but before she finish her warning, one of his guests directed his attention to a cake being wheeled in. People chanted for the stripper to come out of the cake. To everyone's shock, except Lilith's, it was the Doctor instead. The Doctor mentioned that the stripper was outside and that they should let her in. He then told Rory that they need to talk about Amy, as she tried to kiss him. Lilith ordered the Doctor out of the cake and dragged him and Rory to the TARDIS.}

In the TARDIS, the Doctor explained that travelling with him blinds his companions to the important things in their lives back home. As a wedding gift, he and Lilith were going to take them anywhere they want to visit. Lilith reminded the Doctor that Rory was new to the ship and he prepares to give him the 'bigger on the inside' speech, but Rory calmly stated that the inside was another dimension. The Doctor suggested a romantic destination and Lilith offered Venice. The TARDIS materialized and the Doctor went on to explain how Venice was founded. When they tried to enter, they discovered that Venice had been quarantined to protect the citizens from the plague. The Doctor was immediately suspicious; the plague having died out years before. He presented the psychic paper, and they were admitted to the city, where they see a man interrupt a procession of Calvierri school girls. Amy asked the Doctor what he thinks of the situation, only to find that he was already gone. Lilith told them to go do their "human date-y stuff" and that she'd deal with the Doctor. Rory and Amy walk through Venice as he asked what she has been up to. Amy vaguely explained the basics of her travelling with the Doctor and Lilith, only to be asked by Rory if she thought of him. Amy answered that she knew she would be coming back. Rory then said that the Doctor is right: travelling with him blocks out all the important things. Amy consoled him, explaining that this is their date and that they should enjoy it. Rory tried to take a picture of Amy with his camera phone, but they hear a girl scream. They ran back to find a young man leaning near her with blood-covered fangs. Rory attended to the girl and Amy followed the man, but the trail dead-ended at the river. The Doctor and Lilith met up with Amy and Rory, Lilith and Amy excited at having discovered vampires in Venice. The Doctor took them to meet Guido, and they began to strategise infiltrating the school. Guido suggested blowing their way in with gunpowder but the Doctor discards the idea. Amy proposed that she and Lilith dress in Isabella's clothing and have the Doctor pose as Amy's fiancé. They would be admitted to the school, and, once inside, could open the trap door that leads down to the river. Rory objected, as he didn't want others to think the Doctor was her fiance. Amy countered that they've already seen the Doctor, but they haven't seen Rory, and offered to go with him as their brother. Rory again objected as they are dealing with vampires, to which the Doctor replied, "We hope." Lilith caught onto the Doctor's train of thought: if they're not really vampires, what could be mistaken for them and not mind?

At Amy's suggestion, Rory acted as her and Lilith's brother and used the psychic paper. After being admitted, Amy and Lilith met Isabella inside. Isabella told them about the school. She said that she is taken regularly in the middle of the night and strapped to some sort of chair. All she knew was that the sun burned her skin. That night, Amy and Lilith snuck down to the courtyard and unlocked the trap door, but were caught by the steward. Amy was forced into the dungeon cell that Isabella described and Lilith's hands were bound. Rosanna tried to force Amy to reveal their identities, as well as how they managed to obtain psychic paper. When Amy resisted, Rosanna ordered the process to begin, drinking some of Amy's blood. As Amy barely hung on to consciousness, Rosanna explained she and Francesco drink the girls dry and replace their blood with that of their own species. The girls either die or transform. Amy apologized that she was already engaged and kicked Rosanna's hip, dislodging a perception filter. The process was interrupted by the commotion caused by the Doctor and Rory. Rosanna and Francesco rushed off to investigate, leaving Amy and Lilith to be found and freed by Isabella. The three women joined the Doctor and Rory and made their way through the dungeons. They escaped the school, but Isabella's sensitivity to light allowed her to be recaptured. When the Doctor rushed back to rescue her, he was knocked unconscious by an electrical shock that coursed through the door.

Back at Guido's house, Amy told the Doctor what Rosanna said about having "10,000 husbands waiting in the river"; he deduced she transformed the girls into suitable mates for her sons, and intended to sink Venice to create a new home for the Saturnyn race. Suddenly, Rosanna's girls appeared in the window. The Doctor pointed his sonic at them, canceling perception filters. The girls looked fully Saturnynian, with no trace of their humanity left. They ran down the stairs to the exit, with the Doctor holding back the girls with his UV wand. The moment the travelers got outside, Guido demanded the UV wand. He locked them out and headed back upstairs to the gunpowder, blowing up his home and taking himself and the girls with. Realizing the danger that lay ahead, the Doctor ordered Amy and Lilith back to the TARDIS for their own safety. On their way to the TARDIS, Francesco confronted Lilith, Amy, and Rory. He was still bitter that Amy escaped from the school, and attacked her. Rory tried to ward him off, but Francesco overpowered him. Amy and Lilith came to his rescue, Lilith shooting Francesco and Amy using her mirror to amplify the sunlight and vaporize the body. Amy kissed Rory and she told him that they were going to go help the Doctor. Amy, Lilith, and Rory returned to the Doctor, who set them to destroying the control hub in the throne while he climbed to the bell tower. He stopped the bell and continued climbing, deactivating the generator. The quartet left Venice, with the Doctor remarking that their next trip will be to the Leadworth Registry Office. When Amy continued to express some reluctance at marrying Rory, he sadly asked the Doctor to drop him off where they found him. Amy instead invited Rory to join them, to which the Doctor and Lilith agreed. Lilith and Amy gleefully enter the TARDIS, pulling Rory along.

In Upper Leadworth, 2015, a hugely pregnant **Amy** was in her kitchen, baking, when she hunched over in pain. A pony-tailed Rory returned home rushed inside when he hears **Amy** screaming his name, believing her to be in labor. However, it was merely a false alarm and he found her sitting on the kitchen floor, happily eating from the bowl of cake batter that she prepared with a cake spatula. They were about to resume their activities as normal, when they suddenly heard the TARDIS materialising in the garden outside their window. The Doctor and Lilith stepped out of the ship, and were greeted first by Rory, then by **Amy**. The Doctor commented on how happy they both look after five years, commenting **Amy**'s weight gain multiple times, despite being told repeatedly that she is pregnant. Apparently not listening, the Doctor asked if she's pregnant. The couple takes them on a tour of Upper Leadworth, explaining that most of the people in the village are elderly, so they live a quiet life. Sitting down on a bench, the Doctor fails to hide his exasperation with the dull tedium of the village. They told them the boring things they do as birdsong chimes in the background, and they all fell fall asleep. **Amy** and Rory woke up on the TARDIS and went into the control room, confused expressions on their faces. Rory described a dream he'd woken up from, with **Amy** chiming in that she dreamt something similar. As they both divulged details, it quickly became apparent that all four of them had the same dream. Something was wrong and birdsong sounds throughout the TARDIS. They fall asleep and find themselves back in Upper Leadworth. The Doctor warned the three not to believe anything they see, hear, or feel. He quickly deduced that they were not experiencing virtual reality; they really were awake or dreaming. Stopping outside the village retirement home and remembering **Amy** and Rory's previous explanation that many senior citizens in the town live well into their 90's, the Doctor went inside to investigate. He noticed something suspicious about each one of them.

The four fall asleep again, waking in the TARDIS as alarms blare. The Doctor tried to figure out what was happening as the power died. Trying to bring the power back on, he realized someone was interfering with the TARDIS. A strange man who called himself the Dream Lord appeared and revealed that he was testing them. In each world, they would face a deadly danger and they must decide which world is which. If they were killed in the dream world, they would wake up in the real world, but if they were killed in the real world, they would actually die. They were put to sleep again. The quartet woke up again in Leadworth and immediately began arguing over which world was real. The Doctor quickly noticed that the senior citizens have disappeared. They ventured outside and saw Mrs. Poggit approaching a group of schoolchildren playing inside the local castle ruins. As the Doctor continued to poke fun at **Amy** and Rory's new life, **Amy** cried out in pain; both the Doctor and Rory reacted in terror at the prospect that she is going into labor, but **Amy** quickly revealed that it was a prank to remind the Doctor that her world 'just turned him white as a sheet' and he shouldn't make fun of it anymore. Before they can approach Mrs Poggit, though, they fall back asleep.

Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor pulled out a spare generator from below the console. They found the Dream Lord was propelling the TARDIS towards a cold star, and they only had forty minutes before they freeze to death. The Doctor was at a loss for an explanation about the cold star. The Dream Lord appeared and taunted the Doctor about the danger in both worlds, before sending them back to sleep. They woke up in Leadworth to find the children missing. **Amy** contemplated whether or not life in Leadworth is something she would settle for. Lilith spotted small piles of ash scattered around the ruins, and she and the Doctor quickly deduced that the children had been vaporized by Mrs. Poggit. As the elderly approached, the Dream Lord appeared. Lilith tried to defend the Doctor, but the Dream Lord taunted her, saying she was only good as a hired gun. The Doctor stopped the Dream Lord's taunts by telling him he knew who he is. The Dream Lord told them to worry about the senior citizens, then vanished. The seniors revealed they were possessed by Eknodines. The Eknodines tried to kill the quartet, but the Doctor stepped in to protect Lilith, **Amy**, and Rory while they escape. Fleeing to the Ponds' home, Rory was forced to whack an elderly woman who was waiting for them outside the house. Inside, **Amy** rested on the stairway while Rory and Lilith barricaded the door. **Amy** felt bad that she let the Doctor sacrifice himself to save them. The group woke in the TARDIS, and argued about which of the worlds is real. The Doctor believed the TARDIS world was real. Rory insisted the Leadworth world was real, prompting Lilith to angrily shout at them for competing over **Amy**. Annoyed, **Amy** retrieved blankets from a storage area and turned them into ponchos. The Doctor decided if they split up in each world, the Dream Lord would have a harder time putting them back to sleep. The Dream Lord materialized and sent the Doctor, Lilith, and Rory back to Leadworth and kept **Amy** awake in the TARDIS.

He confronted **Amy**, but she ignored him. He made it clear to her that she was not the first woman to travel with the Doctor and Lilith, and questioned her romantic inclinations, claiming Rory was nothing compared to the excitement the aliens could offer her. However, he also suggested settling for Rory would be better than loving and losing the Doctor. He told, "Amy's lives, Amy's choice." She decided to return to Leadworth to join Rory and Lilith. She got caught up as the Doctor climbed in through the nursery window. Mrs. Poggit broke into the nursery's second window, and Rory immediately stood. Lilith jumped up to pull him out of the way, but both were hit by the deadly gas. The Doctor jammed a nearby lamp into Mrs. Poggit's face, causing her to fall. Rory and Lilith dissolved into dust. **Amy** begged the Doctor to save them, but he sadly said he couldn't. Distraught, **Amy** decided that Leadworth was the dream. She and the Doctor made their way outside and approached the van. The two drove the van straight into the house, killing themselves and several Eknodines in the process. The Doctor, **Amy**, Lilith, and Rory woke in the TARDIS, almost frozen, but alive. The Dream Lord appeared and turned the power back on before vanishing. The Doctor was not convinced, and set the TARDIS to self-destruct. He explained that the Dream Lord would have had no power in the real world and was offering them a choice between two dreams. The four woke up in the TARDIS again. The Doctor showed his companions a speck of psychic pollen that it had fallen into the time rotor and heated up, creating the dream state. He revealed that the Dream Lord was a manifestation of the dark side of his personality. Rory asked **Amy** what stopped the Leadworth dream, having forgotten dying and **Amy** told him, confessing that she did not know which world was real, but that no matter what, she couldn't live without him. Rory, when asked by the Doctor where they'd like to go next, said it's **Amy**'s choice.