Eldane: "This is the story of our planet, of Earth. The day - a thousand years past when we came to share it with a race known as humanity. It is the story of the Doctor who helped our races find common ground and the terrible losses he suffered. It is the story of our past and must never be forgotten."
The Doctor (Matt Smith) notes the race is still asleep and they need to find the others. The front door approach is good, but the backdoor is better too, at times. The Silurians gas them. Amy (Karen Gillan) the female is more resistant to the cold and is about to be dissected, but is saved by an alert. She's picked the creature's pocket and she and Mo (Alun Raglan) get out. She has to be nosy at times and presses the button on one of the chambers revealing Elliot (Samuel Davies). Rory (Arthur Darvill) tells Ambrose (Nia Roberts) he's not the police and there's been a misunderstanding. Rory would trust the Doctor with his life. Ironic words for Rory. And they need to keep the creature safe; cos Ambrose won't.
The Doctor is being decontaminated and he asks why he's not dead yet. The Silurian doctor and Restac (Neve McIntosh) are the same rank. She wants to watch him die. The Doctor isn't an ape. They want to remove his human germs but that's the only thing keeping the Doctor alive. He then asks for celery. He wanted celery in the opening episode, 5.1 The Eleventh Hour. He's only here for the humans they took and exchange them for Alaya. (Neve McIntosh) Amy opens the lights inside the chamber and walks in, noticing the transport discs; a way for them to get out and takes their weapons. The others are in hibernation. The Doctor believes the moon aligned with the earth and they thought they were facing the apocalypse, the rest of their species were attacked by the humans and died.
Ambrose demands a cure for Mack (Robert Pugh) from Alaya and threatens her with a taser. She's only protecting her family. Alaya taunts her into using the taser, she knew Ambrose would kill her as she's "the weakest." Rory tries to save her, "You're not dying - I'm not going to let you, not today." As the Doctor also says. Poignant words from Rory in relation to the end of the episode, as there was nothing they could do for him. Restac takes The Doctor and Nasreen (Meera Syal) to their court and Amy demands they be released. But Restac takes the gun from Amy. Malokeh, the Silurian doctor (Richard Hope) is ordered away. Restac wants them executed. The Doctor calls them Homoreptilia and they want the planet back.
Restac appears on the screen and Rory speaks for the humans, at least on behalf of some of them. Amy calls Rory "clingy." The Doctor wants Rory to handle this and Amy is ordered to be executed. Eldane (Stephen Moore) demands their release as Restac isn't their commander. Malokeh says they're not killers and neither are the humans, well he was wrong about both of them. The Doctor calls them down using the transport discs and they should bring Alaya. Even though she's dead Rory insists they have to return her.
The Doctor posits they both have a genuine claim to the planet and they need to discuss this, Amy and Nasreen are the best people to do this, to speak on behalf of the planet. The Doctor explains to Nasreen that he and Amy travel in time and this is a "temporal tipping point" this will change reality so they have to do good here. (Whereas at other times that can't be done.) Mack tells Ambrose this isn't about them and she needs to do this for Elliot. Malokeh had no intention of harming Elliot, he was studying the young. Eldane: "the future of both species...rested in their hands." They're afraid they won't find any common ground. Amy says there are areas not populated by the humans. Eldane says they are able to bring new sources of energy and give them knowledge and technology beyond human bounds.
Restac awakens the other warriors and kills Malokeh for getting in her way. So that's what he was saying about them being good in both species, but she's like Ambrose, though Restac kills one of her own. The Doctor realizes something is wrong when he sees Alaya's body, "tell me you didn't do this." Ambrose is so much less than the best of humanity, they had a chance here and were let down by one. Ambrose tells him it's too late since she and Mack set the drill to burrow again. After one warning the Silurians will return to hibernation. Doctor: "This ends now!"
There's no cure for Mack, he's mutating and needs decontamination. The Doctor needs to send energy up the channel to blow up Nasreen's life's work, the drill. Eldane states they can use toxic fumigation and they'll have to return to their chambers. Amy says he'll be killing his own people. The Doctor is aware earth isn't ready for their return, the planet is to be shared in the future and he tells Elliot to pass that on, Elliot understands. There's no time for Mack to be decontaminated, so in the process of attempting to save them, Ambrose loses her father. They need to find his blue box. Nasreen is staying behind to hibernate with them, she's found what she's looking for. The Doctor sent them to hibernate promising a future of peace with the humans.
At the TARDIS they see the Crack again, but the Doctor wonders why it's here now and it's getting bigger. Flashbacks to the angels episode: "the Byzantium and all through the universe - rips in the continuum." The Doctor is angry everyone knows what's happening except him, Prisoner Zero and the angels were all laughing at him. "Where there's an explosion, there's shrapnel." He puts his hand in the Crack, Rory warns him not to and the Doctor screams as he pulls something out. Restac zaps Rory and he recalls being on the hill. "I can't die here."
The Doctor has a flashback to 5.6 about time energy catching up to her and never being born; which is what happens to Rory (first and then the Doctor later.) The light from the Crack touches Rory and the Doctor shouts to Amy to get away from the light. He pushes her into the TARDIS and locks it with the Sonic. She'll forget him, if the light absorbs Rory, he'll never have existed. The Doctor leaves and tells Amy, "don't forget him in your mind, if you forget him, you'll lose him forever." Which explains why he was planting all those thoughts into Amy's head about himself. So what happens if the Doctor recalls Rory, which he does, or isn't it the same thing cos he's not human. Only Amy can remember them since it's her history.
The Clerics weren't part of Amy's world but this is her own history changing. The Doctor tells her about Rory, "gorgeous Rory." He can only help her if she remembers him and still save Rory's memory. Flashbacks to Rory. Doctor: "Rory still lives in your mind." The Doctor sees the ring box on the floor of the TARDIS. Amy has forgotten Rory. The site explodes. Ambrose could have saved Alaya, but the Doctor tells her there's another way - she has to make Elliot "the best of humanity in the way you couldn't be." Amy's on the hill alone without Rory, she thought she saw someone else there for a moment. The Doctor despairs over Rory and what is yet to come. Eldane: "...the losses he suffered then and the greater losses that were still to come." The Doctor pulled a fragment of a burnt out TARDIS from the Crack, which exactly matches part of his TARDIS.
So Rory being lost and never existing, which is why I said it was ironic that Rory was fighting so hard to save Alaya, not only that he's a nurse, but he wasn't going to let her die, and no one was going to die today, except Rory and he is the best of humanity, as the Doctor puts it and yet he's taken from Amy and she can't remember him. Kind of funny the way he can remember but she can't. So he'll carry the burden of Amy's forgetting him and also her pain. But we know Rory's not really lost. This continues the arc about the Crack.
The Doctor asks for celery and this was worn by the fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) on his jacket, which was also said to have restorative properties, thus the Doctor asks for it here. Parts of this episode was also filmed at Plantasia Botanical Gardens, Wales; where the episode The Doctor's Daughter was also filmed.
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