He thinks the meeting place on Skaro to be strange, as the original planet of the Daleks; cos it can only be a trap. She escaped from the Dalek camp but of course no one escapes cos they're exterminated. He feels her hand, she's cold and she transforms into a Dalek and knocks him out. "The Doctor is acquired."
Amy (Karen Gillan) is at a photoshoot and is told her husband is here. She doesn't have a husband. Rory (Arthur Darvill) sits in her dressing room with papers for her to sign. This can't the the end of Amy and Rory, not in that sense. She's working. Rory: "thought you were just pouting at the camera." A bulb flashes on the mirror and Amy too is knocked out. "Amelia Pond is acquired." Thus leaving Rory who's taken from the bus. "Rory Williams is acquired."
They wake up to Dalek ships outside in space. The Doctor is brought in by a Dalek and Rory asks how much trouble they can be in now. Doctor: "how much trouble? Out of 10 - 11." They're surrounded by Daleks as they're in "the Parliament of the Daleks." He says they have to "make them remember you." They ask for his help and not as he thinks he's about to be exterminated. "You will save us...save the Daleks," echoes around them.
Another woman narrates: "day 633 the terror continues - made another souffle." They came at night and Carmen is playing. She's the new companion of course! Daleks are outside and it's apparent she was also a Dalek too. Amy says he's frowning now and thinking something's wrong with Amy and Rory and "who's gonna fix it." That can be read in two ways as in he who is WHO will fix it, as always! He fixes his bow tie.
The Dalek woman, Darla (Anamaria Marinca) or puppet as the Doctor will refer to them, only has her memories activated when needed for a cover. The PM states it is "offensive for us to extinguish such divine hatred." Doctor is disgusted as usual, "you think hatred is beautiful." That's why they "weren't able to kill you." A hole opens like a portal and they will be transported to the planet. Rory asks what colour they are as they weren't any "good questions left." Well some may be interested in the colour considering they had those new pastille coloured ones in season 5! Ha.
Carmen is heard playing again and the Daleks call it a signal from the planet. It's the Doctor playing the triangle. He asks if they tried talking to them. Yeah Daleks are big on talking. She calls herself Oswin Oswald (Jenna-Louise Coleman) and she crashed here and has been here a year. She's looking through their eyes and that thing is a Dalek eye so it's obvious she's a Dalek. He asks her where she gets the milk to make souffles?
The asylum forcefield is impenetrable and must be turned off from the inside and he realizes the Daleks are too afraid to go but not that he's the Predator they're referring to. Hey here the Doctor says the Daleks are afraid, that being a human emotion and later on he will tell Amy scared is good for the same reason. The bracelets will protect them from the nanocloud. The Doctor requires his companions, thus Amy and Rory are here. Amy's not scared, again for future reference. Amy: "Geronimo."
Harvey (David Gyasi) finds Amy and she finds the Doctor but Rory lands inside, of course. Oswin scopes the Doctor using Dalek technology. As the Doctor says that's a Dalek eye. She says Dalek technology is easy to hack into and he doesn't believe it is. Rory thinks the Dalek is asking for an egg, but it's actually "exterminate." Harvey crashed here two days ago but the crew have been dead longer. He's a Dalek as are the DBs. The Doctor comments the nanocloud processes all matter into a Dalek puppet, living or dead. They are chased by the dead ones too. Hiding out in a compartment, Oswin finds them and comments on the Doctor's chin. "Can put someone's eye out."
She then asks "is there a word for total screaming genius that sounds modest and a tad bit sexy." Doctor: "Doctor, they call me the Doctor." Oswin: "I see what you did there." As do we! Hey they can have a chin wag later, sorry! The hatch has already been used. He asks Amy what happened with Rory and "what can I do?" Amy calls him the raggedy man again and says it's what happens, it's life. The DB Dalek puppets outside have her bracelet. She'll become a Dalek now.
Oswin helps Rory. "The nose and the chin, you two could fence." Amy is being rewritten and it's begun as they had the same conversation four times. Oswin tells Rory he can remove his shirt now and he asks why, no reason. The Doctor tells Amy to watch the Daleks and leaves her there whilst Oswin sends him a map. She sees people and opens the door. Have to say, liked the Dalek going round and round in circles, like the ballet dancer.
He asks what the Dalek can do, it's just a "tricycle with a roof." The Dalek initiates the self destruct and is pushed into the others by the Doctor who blows them up. He carries Amy out and Rory asks who killed the Daleks. Doctor: "who do you think." That was the little early teaser which led us astray into thinking Amy was dead, but not that soon.
Amy wakes and slaps Rory. Oswin says she's shielded and the Doctor is preoccupied with her having no milk for the souffle, "is no one else wondering about that?" No they're not but he is and it's always the little things that niggle at him, cos he's going to get to the bottom of it. The Doctor is a man with a plan. Rory: "all ears."
Amy: "there's a nose joke going too you can always pick off." No comment. What with ears, noses and chins... The Doctor finds the teleport which they can use to propel off the planet but he must get Oswin. Doctor: "Who am I?" She hasn't met him yet. The Doctor tells Amy they're "subtracting glove - don't let them." Amy gave Rory up as she couldn't have children after Demon's Run (but they have River at least.) Rory wants to put his bracelet on her out of love and cos it''ll take longer for him to get converted as he loves her more than she does him. He waited 2,000 years outside the box and she tells him not to bring that up, it's not the same. Slapping him again. She has the Doctor's bracelet, he's a Time Lord and doesn't need it.
The Doctor comes across Daleks who were survivors of the war against him. They wake and Oswin deletes Predator from their memories. They're like a hive, a "path web" and she made them forget him. Oswin: "tell me I'm cool Chin Boy." He comes across her finally, as a Dalek (like I said.) Oh the look of despair on his face. She "dreamed it for yourself because the truth was too terrible." She was human once. She was the one who climbed out of the pod. She's a genius and the Daleks need genius so they gave her the full conversion. She stops herself eliminating him. Fought them many times and disables the forcefield.
Rory and Amy kiss and the Doctor has to teleport them himself, into the TARDIS. The other Daleks don't recognize him either. He's the "Oncoming Storm, the Predator. All they can say is "Doctor Who?" Over and over. Oswin wiped their memories too. Doctor: "You're never gonna stop asking...Dr Who?"
So was this the way to ensure the Daleks will no longer feature in future episodes as they no longer remember him. So what about Oswin, will she no longer remember him either, though she cunningly or sly looks at the camera when she says he will remember her.
So he does sort the two of them out and get Amy and Rory back together, no longer has the Daleks for enemies and leaves us wondering how Oswin will become his companion. Not to mention the conundrum of who is "Doctor Who..." Just thinking out loud, but as the Doctor keeps saying in the past how time can be re-written, don't suppose he'll go back and save Oswin from crashing, thus she will be human, kind of. Nah that'd be too obvious and easy.
Darla says the Doctor fought in the Time War and then he died. Nanogenes were in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances. In 6.13 The Wedding of River song, the question that must never be answered was "Doctor Who." Though it doesn't matter how many times it's asked. The Oncoming Storm, or rather the Doctor being referred to as such was in Remembrance of the Daleks - a novel.
Oswin mentions the wars the Doctor fought with the Daleks, these include: Aridius from The Chase. Kembal in Mission of the Unknown; Vulcan in Power of the Daleks, Exxilon in The Dalek's Master Plan and spiridon in Planet of the Daleks.
This is the first story about the Daleks which was written by Steven Moffat who wanted to not feature them in the show anymore as people were no longer afraid of them. Amy and Rory's divorce was alluded to in Part 5 Pond life, a five part mini-series broadcast on the BBC Red Button.
This episode had all the Daleks the Doctor has ever come across, about 25 types, including one which was borrowed from Russel T Davies. The Dalek's models ranged from 1963-2010.
Had to be lots of references to the Doctor and his looks as in the past, since this is the first time Oswin has met him, but he has been referred to as 'sexy' and gorgeous on many an occasion!
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