Venice 1580. Guido ( Lucian Msamati) gives Rosanna Calviari (Helen McCrory) his daughter Isabella (Alisha Bailey) who's just the daughter of a boat builder, so there's no future for her. Calviari accepts her, and her son, Francesco (Alex Price) reveals his sharp teeth, pointy much. Rory (Arthur Darvill) calls Amy (Karen Gillan) and leaves a message on her machine. The Doctor (Matt Smith) surprises him at his stag do by coming out of the cake, instead of a stripper. The Doctor confesses to Rory that Amy tried to kiss him, he's lucky, "she's a great kisser." Then realizes what he just said sounded better in his head. The doctor wants to send the two wherever they want to go, as a wedding present.
Rory notices the size of the TARDIS being bigger on the inside, he's been reading up on it, the latest dimension, since Prisoner Zero mentioned it in episode 5.1 (the last time we saw Rory.) Doctor: "I like the bit when someone says 'it's bigger on the inside' - I always look forward to it." Venice is romantic. (The Doctor wears a gold wrist watch here, for future reference.) The man asks for papers before he lets them into the city, they're checking for aliens now and calls the Doctor, "his Holiness." The Viscountess Rosanna Calivari has seen the streets full of bodies. Rory is the 'eunuch.' Which he's not pleased about. Guido searches for Isabella amongst all the 'maidens.' They're from the Calviari School. He tells them evil goes on there as his daughter didn't even recognize him. He describes the girl's face as that of an animal's.
Francesco fears they will be discovered if they wait to long to introduce the maidens to his brothers. Francesco watches Rory and Amy and then goes for the flower girl, and Amy can't help finding out what is happening, on her own. The Doctor gets in for an audience with Calviari and looks at himself in the mirror, "Hello handsome." He doesn't notice the maidens in the mirror as they don't have a reflection. He shows his library card and asks if he's thinking what he thinks he's thinking? The Doctor and Amy are excited at the prospect of vampires. Guido says there's no way in, but there's an underground tunnel. Amy suggests they need someone on the inside, but Rory wants the Doctor to reject that idea.
The Doctor could say Amy is his daughter, no brother. Amy would prefer fiance. Rory should be Amy's brother and the Doctor her fiance. Guido says he thought the Doctor was really Amy's fiance. At court, doesn't Francesco recognize Amy especially, since he saw them both. Maybe it's the clothes. But he does ask if they've met. They have references from the King of Sweden. Francesco likes Amy and Isabella takes her to the room with the green light and the chair. The sun burns Isabella's skin.
Rory questions the Doctor about Amy's kiss, he has a right to know as he's getting married in 430 years. She kissed him in the relief of surviving, he didn't kiss her back, but Amy would have kissed Rory if he was there. Calviari claims the Psychic Paper doesn't work on her and Amy is caught. Doctor brought his UV light. Rory: "Yours is bigger than mine." Doctor: "Let's not go there." Amy jokes she's from OFSTED. (The UK body which has responsibility to ensure schools maintain their standards.) Rory and the Doctor find DBs in the chest with moisture removed from their bodies and not just blood. The maidens give chase. If Amy survives there are 10,000 husbands waiting for her in the water. Calviari changes into her true form, that of a fishy creature. Doctor: "Cab for Amy Pond." Amy says they're aliens not vampires, which the Doctor prefers.
Isabella lets them out, but she doesn't manage to get out herself. The Doctor gets electrocuted by the door. Isabella is sacrificed to the brothers in the water. The Doctor sits on Calviari's throne and he knows she's using a perception filter, he's seen her in the mirror for the first time, the "brain can't fill in the blanks and leaves it blank." Thus their reflection can't be seen. Calviari thinks he should be in a museum or mausoleum (hey River (Alex Kingston) said that in 5.4, but she's allowed.) Calviari ran from "the silence." (See season 6.) There were cracks, small and large and she saw "the silence through others and the end of all things." Not if he can help it!
Another alien species running from the Crack. He's a Time Lord and she demands a partnership. The Doctor threatens to tear down her house because she didn't know Isabella's name. She lets him go and that was a mistake. Calviari's filter is damaged. Back at the house, the Doctor asks for silence (ha.) "Brain thinking, hush." Calviari's meddling with the environment, she'll sink Venice and repopulate it with the maidens. The Doctor's been around but he finds that repulsive, eeww, I.e. Mum finding them compatible girlfriends. "Fish from space...not vampires." Then he sees the maidens at the window, "Blimey fish from space have never been so buxom!" They're attacked by the maidens and Guido explodes the gunpowder, taking himself with them.
Another episode where the Doctor has to climb the tower to the top to stop the energy lightning. The Doctor says when he tells Amy to do something she should do it. Rory thanks him for being so abrupt and direct. "Sky's boiling." The maidens are gone and he should be dead. Rory and Amy encounter Francesco again and Rory forms a makeshift cross and calls him "the Sponge Bob." Francesco goes for Amy, Rory insults his mother and Francesco draws his sword. Amy to the rescue as usual and burns him. Amy asks why Rory made the sign of the cross. The Doctor has to stabilize the storm, they need to shutdown the throne and the generator. Calviari asks if it's too much for one city to be destroyed to save an entire species. The Doctor should remember them. Doctor: "can't go back to change time." But he said it can be re-written. Calviari's perception filter fails and she jumps into the water, where she's devoured by her children.
The Doctor wants to give them away and they say Rory should come with them on the TARDIS. They're Amy's boys. The Doctor tells Rory to listen and he replies, "All I can hear is silence." Yes, The silence.
Another episode with the Doctor having to choose between Earth or aliens invading Earth and this was just moot after all; since humans will always inevitably win, other species be damned. The Doctor using his library card as ID, has a photo of the first Doctor. Alex price narrated the season 5 series of Doctor Who Confidential. This episode was filmed at St Donal's Castle, Wales and in Croatia, giving the episode an exciting, horror, gothic feel. Even if the vampires turned out to be fishy aliens and where better to have vampires, or would-be vampires than in Venice.
The Silence being alluded to again as this is the main arc of this season and that's what the Crack will lead to eventually, as they say, "the rest is silence."
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