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[[Foreshadowing|The Doctor tells Amy to breathe.]]
The Doctor's own Ganger has some initial glitches. But the Doctor calms him down and, [[Doctor Who/Recap/
Amy is ''very'' freaked out by seeing the Doctor's Ganger. She treats it coldly and pretty much stops just short of "[[Doctor Who/Recap/
It turns out that the factory is full of discarded bits and pieces of Flesh... still fully conscious.
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Eventually, the factory is about to be blown up, and the Doctor reveals to Amy that he's not the Doctor at all. He's the Ganger. They switched shoes to see how Amy would respond to them. The Doctor's Ganger sacrifices himself while the Doctor, Amy and Rory escape. The remaining Gangers are dropped off in a safe spot, planning to campaign against the use of the Flesh from now on.
Back inside the TARDIS, the Doctor explains his reasoning for the switcharoo. And why he told Amy to "breathe" earlier. She's going into labor. Or rather, her very pregnant ''actual'' self is. Because the Amy that's been travelling with the Doctor this season is not Amy, but a Ganger. She was kidnapped months ago. Probably before America. The Doctor knew all along, because [[Doctor Who/Recap/
And as the Doctor dissolves the Flesh of Amy's Ganger, telling Rory to be very brave, we cut to where Amy really is: on an operatng table, giving birth. And the eyepatch lady that Amy keeps seeing through doors and walls is staring at her, real this time, happy that the baby is about to be born. Amy ''screams''.
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* [[Cloning Blues]]: Subverted. While the Gangers question their humanity and their originals don't trust them, the Doctor considers the originals and their Gangers to be literally "the same person twice". In fact he sees his Ganger as himself and deserving of full respect. He's vindicated when {{spoiler|it turns out he and his ganger switched places near the beginning of the episode, in order to be sure they were the same.}}
* [[Continuity Nod]]: The Ganger-Doctor quotes his First, Third, Fourth and Tenth incarnations while trying to stabilize himself. At one point he even offers people a jellybaby in [[Tom Baker]]'s voice. Later, he calls himself John Smith, his most common alias over the series.
** More specifically, [[Doctor Who/Recap/
** {{spoiler|Right before making his [[Heroic Sacrifice]], he also shouts [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E13 The Big Bang|"GERONIMO!"]]}}
** Also, both Doctors refer to the TARDIS as [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E01 The Eleventh Hour|"Se]][[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E04 The Doctor's Wife|xy"]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Red Herring]]:}} The gangers immediately led [[Genre Savvy|both Amy and the viewers]] to the hypothesis that the Doctor who died in ''The Impossible Astronaut'' was a ganger.
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: {{spoiler|Three of the original humans are killed but their gangers resume their lives for them.}}
* [[Retcon]]: Cleaves seems surprised at the thought the Doctor is an alien because "Earth is all that's available". It's the 22nd century and there have been plenty of alien encounters known to the public in the Whoniverse by that point, besides colonies on [[Doctor Who/Recap/S4/E06 The Moonbase|the Moon]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/
* [[The Reveal]]: We finally get to know a bit more about the Eye Patch Lady Amy has been seeing.
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: Ganger!Jenny promises the other Gangers it will be "us or them."
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