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[[Oh Crap|...Oh.]]
At least 10,000
But they have the greatest fighting force in the history of the earth with them: the Romans. River rides back to get help, but it's not easy; the general has seen through her Cleopatra gig. It mainly has to do with the real Cleo being in Egypt and, well, dead (for 130 years, actually). But don't worry, a faceless, voiceless Roman soldier appears in the doorway to help. Who could it possibly be?
Back to Underhenge. The Doctor keeps scanning the Box, when Amy pulls out [[Chekhov's Gun|the ring]]. "Are you proposing to someone?" she asks. Well, no. It was a friend of his, the Doctor says, someone he lost. He tries to coax Amy into remembering Rory: sometimes, people fall out of the world, but they leave things behind; faces in photographs, half-eaten meals, luggage, rings. Nothing is ever completely forgotten; if they can be remembered they can come back. And the night he picked Amy
Suddenly, something is shooting at them and the Doctor needs to get a closer look. He has a brilliant plan --
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Amy runs out in front while the Doctor gets behind it, tackling it to the ground and disabling it. He warns Amy to stay where she is, while a disembodied Cyberhead approaches behind her. It's crawling and scrabbling around on its wires, and tangling around her wrists (at which point the dessicated ''human head'' is ejected) while the arm electrocutes the Doctor. She slams it against a stone wall, but before she can escape, a sleeping dart is shot into her neck. [[You Will Be Assimilated|"YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED."]] The Cyberman proper walks in and picks up its head.
Amy manages to stumble behind a big door and shut it. It rattles a bit and falls open, revealing the Cyberman with a sword stabbed through it and pinned to the wood. Amy passes out, but Rory, in full Roman gear, catches her and carries her out. The Doctor scans her and starts babbling, looking at two huge [[BFG|Cyberguns]]; Cybermen, Cyberweapons, why is one of them in there, was it locked in by one of its own? But there's something right in his face that he's missing, something right in front of him, something big. He'll get it in a minute. He walks away from Rory
He pokes Rory quite apprehensively. Not to be rude, but Rory ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E09 Cold Blood|died]]'' and was ''[[Ret-Gone|erased from time]]''. Turns out, Rory doesn't really have an answer either. He just died and became a Roman centurion. It's sort of distracting. He walks over to the sleeping Amy. [[Dramatic Irony|"Did she]] [[Tear Jerker|miss me?"]] Oh, Rory.
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Back to Stonehenge where Amy's waking up. She bumps into Rory and recognises him as the guy who... did the... swordy thing. The Doctor sends her up to get some fresh air. Rory is rather traumatized and angsts for a bit before the Doctor shuts him up and tosses Rory the ring. There's no explanation to this; Rory was eaten up by a crack in time and space and now he's here with a head full of Roman memories. It's unexplainable, and to be honest, rather distracting, but the Universe is big and sometimes impossible things just happen and people call them miracles. The Doctor's never seen one, but this is close enough. Rory goes after Amy.
The TARDIS and River have landed, but the screen is showing a mess of nothing. River goes out the door when the screen cracks, and suddenly a [[Hell Is That Noise|creepy voice]] from ''nowhere'' announces "silence will fall". They've landed outside Amy's house on June
Rory tries to get Amy to remember him. She's crying, but she doesn't know why. She's happy, but ''why is she happy?''
The TARDIS is still uncontrollable, the doors won't open, and again that creepy voice from ''nowhere'' that says "silence will fall". The Pandorica gives off a high-pitched whine and suddenly all the Romans stop. [[Tomato in the Mirror|Including Rory]]. A light comes from the Pandorica, and when the Romans start up again, the ones underground are frogmarching the Doctor towards it. In reality, the Romans are perfected Autons, part of the Nestene consciousness, made to forget what they really
"-- [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Williams. From Leadworth. My boyfriend. How could I ever forget you?"]] Oh, ''Amy''.
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{{spoiler|And then the [[Painting the Fourth Wall|background music stops]], mid-note.}}
[[Nothing Is Scarier|Silence]] [[Oh Crap|has]] [[Arc Words|fallen.]]<ref>
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* [[All There in the Manual]]: [[Steven Moffat]] said that the Cybermen seen in this episode, despite the fact that they have the Cybus logo on their chest, ''are'' in fact the Mondas Cybermen. The only reason they look that way is a low budget.
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* [[Shipper on Deck]]: The Doctor tosses the engagement ring to Rory and tells him to go get the girl.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The Cyberman head saying "You will be assimilated" to Amy is a nod to the arguments about whether [[Star Trek|the Borg]] was copied from the classic Cybermen and whether the new series Cybermen were overly influenced by the Borg.
** The "oldest text in the universe" that River uses to communicate with the Doctor near the beginning sounds ''very'' similar in the Doctor's description to God's Final Message to His Creation from ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish|So Long And Thanks For All The Fish]]''.
*** It could also be a shout-out to the [[Virgin New Adventures|spin-off novel]] ''Set Piece'', where one of the Doctor's companions uses basically the same trick to arrange a rescue after being stranded in Ancient Egypt.
** The Cyberman head crawling along on tentacles is straight out of ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]''.
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