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''Blink'' was written by [[Steven Moffat]] and netted a ton of awards for both writing and acting. It also ultimately lost a [[Nebula Award]] for Best Script to ''[[
It is a [[Lower Deck Episode|Doctor-lite episode]], based on a short story written by Moffat for the 2006 ''Doctor Who Annual'', titled "'What I Did On My Holidays,' by Sally Sparrow" ([http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/2007/blink_annual.shtml The BBC has kindly put this up on their website.])
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"Blink" revolves around Sally Sparrow (played by [[Carey Mulligan]]), a clever, spunky young woman who visits an old mansion called Wester Drumlins in 2007 and finds a spookily-detailed message from the Doctor written in 1969. The message tells her to "beware the weeping angels" and "by the way, duck!" She ducks, and a ceramic pot of some sort smashes into the wall just behind her head. Seeking the attacker, she sights an angel statue in the garden.
Sally leaves Wester Drumlins, and the next day, goes to visit her friend, Kathy Nightingale. At Kathy's house, Sally notices a TV set playing a DVD of the Doctor, apparently talking to thin air. She also meets Kathy's brother Lawrence ([[Stealth Pun|Lawrence Nightingale, get it?]]), who has apparently <s>[[Naked First Impression|just stepped out of the shower and forgotten his towel]]</s> discovered that sleeping in the nude helps with those tricky midnight leaks. Sufficiently [[Genre Savvy]] viewers [[How to Become
Anyway, Sally convinces Kathy to come with her to Wester Drumlins. When someone knocks on the door, Kathy stays behind in case of danger, while Sally investigates. [[Leaning
Meanwhile at the door, a strange man approaches Sally with a letter, written by his grandmother: Kathy Nightingale. Sally opens the letter to find that it is indeed from Kathy, who was thrown back in time to 1920.
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After visiting Kathy's grave, Sally heads out to fulfill Kathy's last request and convey her love to Lawrence (AKA Larry). At the DVD shop where he works, Sally gets into an argument with the same recording of the Doctor. Since he [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That|appears to be talking directly to her]], she soon gets creeped out and yells at the Doctor to stop being so weird ... at which point, Larry shows up. He tells her that the video of the Doctor is an [[Easter Egg]] on 17 apparently unconnected DVDs, and that nobody seems to know what it's about, though he and his online friends have thoroughly dissected every line in search of answers.
Sally gives him an edited version of Kathy's message, collects [[Chekhov's Gun|a list of the DVDs]] with the Doctor Easter Egg, and then steps out of the back room, her head still spinning. The man behind the counter shouts “[[Police Are Useless|Go to the police]], you stupid woman! [[Genre Blindness|Why does nobody ever just go to the police?]]” Sally is startled, but relaxes when she sees that he's watching a B-Movie. (You can practically see Moffat [[Leaning
This explicit [[Lampshade Hanging]] leads her to take the counter-jockey's inadvertent advice, and Sally heads over to the Police Station -- followed by the Weeping Angels. At the station, she meets a Police Inspector named Billy Shipton, who flirts with her shamelessly, [[Genre Blind|blissfully unaware]] that [[First Girl Wins|The First Guy Wins]] (though he is encouraged by a [[Freudian Slip]] on her part.) He also shows her a garage full of cars whose owners have disappeared in or around Wester Drumlins in the past few years. The prize of the collection is an imitation police box built entirely to scale which nobody can manage to open (they know it's fake because the phone's just a dummy and [[Fandom Nod|the windows are the wrong size]]).
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It is at this moment, [[Foregone Conclusion|of course]], that Sally and Larry realise that neither of them have been looking at the Angel in the garden. After a moment's pause, they look up to see it standing only a few metres away, poised to attack. Sally goes to look for an exit, leaving Larry to stare at the Angel. He looks away for a split second, and when he looks back, the Angel's hands are inches away from his neck.
Sally finds the TARDIS in the mansion's basement, and she and Larry make their way down the stairs. However, the Angels follow them, and one ([[New Powers
They then discover that Larry's DVD functions as a TARDIS-activation key, slot it into the TARDIS' handy [[Plot Coupon]] drive and then watch as the TARDIS dematerializes without them. The Angels have surrounded the TARDIS by this point, and when it disappears, they're stuck looking at each other -- forever. Whoops.
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* [[The Film of the Book]]: "Blink" is based on Moffat's short story and shares several common elements; the heroine in both is Sally Sparrow (though the story's Sally is somewhat younger), there are elements of finding messages left by the Ninth Doctor trapped in the 1960s behind peeling wallpaper, and concludes with Sally finding a video tape, having a similarly strange conversation with the Doctor through the tape, and eventually helping to reunite him with the TARDIS. Fortunately, the story lacked much of the [[Nightmare Fuel]] that "Blink" had including the Weeping Angels and being sent back through time.
* [[First Girl Wins]]: Gender-flipped example
* [[Get Back to
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: Sally has a photo of an Angel in the folder she gives the Doctor. Image of an Angel, anyone?
* [[Just Ignore It]]: Inverted.
* [[Just Smile and Nod]]: Martha says this is the right way to behave around the Doctor: just nod every time he takes a breath.
* [[Leaning
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Sally after {{spoiler|Billy dies of old age}}. Even the music gears up as she goes into Determinator Mode.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
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