The Doctor and Amy

The Doctor takes Amy Pond to explore The Delirium Archive. There The Doctor spots a Home Box which he explains to Amy is like an aircraft’s Black Box but instead of having to be found a Home Box travels to its owner’s home. This Home Box though is covered in writing, which The Doctor recognises as Old High Gallifreyan, which says ‘Hello, Sweetie!’. These are the exact words that River Song, a previous acquaintance, used when they last met (see "Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead").

After extracting it from its glass case, The Doctor and Amy race back to the TARDIS pursued by some security guards. Inside The Doctor connects the Home Box to the TARDIS’ console monitor and they watch video footage of River Song on a spaceship and apparently in trouble. River Song has in fact boarded a Byzantium spaceship to locate a secret cargo in its hold. After etching the words on the Home Box, River Song is apprehended. River Song then demonstrates a unique means of escape - just before some explosives detonate, blowing out an external hatch so ejecting her into space, she states the time co-ordinates. Still watching the Home Box video The Doctor quickly sets the TARDIS co-ordinates. The TARDIS materialises in the path of River Song who is able to enter the TARDIS. As the Byzantium spaceship sets off River Song instructs The Doctor to follow it.

The TARDIS, with the help of River Song’s piloting skills, takes them to the planet Alfava Metraxis. The TARDIS materialises alongside a huge plateau of stone where they discover the flaming wreckage of the Byzantium spaceship atop a temple. The Doctor, Amy and River Song are soon joined by reinforcements as four men in desert camouflage teleport down. They are introduced to The Doctor, by River Song, as Clerics and their leader, Father Octavian, urges River Song to also reveal that the Byzantium were transporting a Weeping Angel…

River Song

Inside a cavern under the temple a camp is swiftly set up. Inside a dropship River Song shows The Doctor and Amy a looped four seconds of video footage showing the dormant Weeping Angel still locked up in the Byzantium spaceship. After The Doctor and River Song explain to Amy the nature of a Weeping Angel, Father Octavian goes off to place explosives, to enable them to gain access to The Maze of the Dead which will then allow them to reach the base of the Byzantium spaceship. As The Doctor and River Song search through some research material, to learn as much as the can about the Weeping Angels, Amy is left alone inside the dropship.

The Doctor discovers that an image of a Weeping Angel will become a Weeping Angel. While pondering as to what this means they are unaware that Amy, who has been watching the video of the Weeping Angel, has spotted that the supposedly dormant Weeping Angel has moved and is now facing the camera. After trying to convince herself that the Weeping Angel in the recording can't move, she attempts to unplug the television, but to no avail. Amy is in serious danger. Locked in the communications room the Weeping Angel starts to materialise inside the room. The Doctor, unable to reach Amy, despite using his sonic screwdriver on the lock, warns her not to blink and also not to look at the Weeping Angel’s eyes. But he is too late she has already done so. With the Weeping Angel becoming more solid Amy is eventually able to stop it by freezing the image on the television in the split second of static between the end and start of the looped video. This also unlocks the door allowing The Doctor and River Song to enter. After checking that Amy has not come to any harm, The Doctor explains that the Weeping Angel is no longer dormant and was trying to reach out to them through the television. However, as The Doctor and River Song leave Amy feels that there is something in her eye.

Amy, The Doctor and River Song

A large explosion is then heard when Father Octavian sets off the explosives to allow them to enter The Maze of the Dead. When The Doctor uses a gravity globe, to illuminate the huge chamber, they discover it contains hundreds of stone statues all in a very decayed state. As they start to navigate the labyrinth it is not long before The Doctor realises that despite the builders of the temple having two heads all the statues only have a single head and so the entire chamber is therefore filled with Weeping Angels. The Doctor correctly deduces that they do not look or act like Weeping Angels because they have been trapped inside the temple without anything to feed off of long enough for them to degrade and weaken. But now the crash of the Byzantium is releasing enough radiation to feed the army of Weeping Angels which are now growing in strength and are closing in on The Doctor’s group.

As they start to run towards the wreckage of the Byzantium, Amy discovers that her hand has turned to stone preventing her from moving. In order to convince her that her hand is normal, and that it is just the Weeping Angels playing with her mind, The Doctor bites her hand which breaks the hold over her so enabling them to catch up with the others who are now gathered below the wreckage of the Byzantium. Seemingly trapped by the advancing Weeping Angels, The Doctor, without any warning destroys the gravity globe and they are all caught by the spaceship's artificial gravity and so find themselves standing on the nose of the Byzantium, upside down and with the Weeping Angels below them. The group then make their way to the secondary flight deck but they are still being pursued by the regenerating Weeping Angels. It is then that The Doctor and Amy spot a crack in a wall – just like the one in Amy's bedroom – but much larger.

While the others escape into the ship's oxygen factory, a giant forest, The Doctor examines the crack and he warns the advancing Weeping Angels that they feed on time energy but that this crack is not the energy source they were anticipating; it is instead a fire from the end of the universe, one that will consume them all. Distracting the Weeping Angels, The Doctor catches up with the others to discover that Amy has collapsed. He deduces that the Weeping Angels are somehow killing her. Recollecting that the image of a Weeping Angel is itself a Weeping Angel, The Doctor realises that Amy has the image of a Weeping Angel in the visual centres of her mind and that she has been adding numbers to anything she says – counting down to her death. The Doctor tells her to close her eyes in order to suppress the visual centres. If she opens her eyes now for more than a second, the Weeping Angel will kill her.

Amy Pond

Because she has to keep her eyes closed, and so will slow them down, Amy is left behind, with the remaining Clerics to protect her while, The Doctor, River Song and Father Octavian head for the Primary Control Centre. The Doctor and River Song reach their destination but a Weeping Angel traps Father Octavian and kills him. Meanwhile, as the Weeping Angels advance, the Clerics protecting Amy go off one-by-one to inspect a bright light in the forest unaware that it is the crack seemingly following them. But, after all but one of them has gone, the remaining Cleric doesn't even remember that they existed. When he also goes off, to investigate the crack himself, Amy is left truly alone, unable to see and with only a communicator.

As Amy starts to panic she hears The Doctors voice coming from the communicator. Realising that he should not have left her, and with the crack in the universe getting closer and larger, The Doctor uses the communicator and his sonic screwdriver to guide Amy towards the Primary Control Centre. But this means getting past the Weeping Angels and so she must make sure they think that she can see them. Unfortunately, when Amy slips and drops the communicator the Weeping Angels realise that she can’t see them. Just as the weeping Angels close in on her River Song manages to teleport Amy to the Primary Control Centre. The Weeping Angels now close in on the entrance to the Primary Control Centre and they drain energy from the doors, which then open. With nowhere left to go The Doctor instructs Amy and River Song to hold onto something tight as he collapses the artificial gravity, sending all the Weeping Angels flying off towards the crack in the universe which then closes.

As the three of them depart from the temple The Doctor informs Amy that it is safe for her to open her eyes again as the Angel in her mind has been erased from time. Because River Song is in fact a prisoner for killing someone, and has only been temporarily released for the mission, she is teleported back to a penal starship. But before she departs she informs The Doctor that she will see him again when the Pandorica opens. This though unnerves The Doctor who claims the Pandorica is just a fairy tale.

Back in the TARDIS Amy demands that The Doctor takes her home. Which he does – arriving in her bedroom five minutes after they originally departed together in the TARDIS. Amy then tells The Doctor that she is getting married in the morning and that she has made up her mind who she wants to be with. The Doctor, not understanding what Amy means, finds himself being seduced by her. After fending off her advances he realises that she is at the centre of all the cracks in the universe and the explosion, which created them, occurs on the day of her wedding, the 26th June 2010. He therefore quickly drags her back in the TARDIS which then dematerialises.