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Line 4: {{quote\|''This is the Doctor's darkest hour. He'll rise higher than ever before, then fall so much further. This is the day he finds out who I am.''\|'''River Song'''}} {{quote\|''Night will fall and drown the sun, when a good man goes to war.''~~<br />~~ ''Friendship dies and true love lies, night will fall and the dark will rise... when a good man goes to war''.\|'''River Song'''}} The finale of the first half of series 6. '''"Spoilers!"''' ----- Last episode, we found out that the Amy we've been seeing was not, in fact, Amy. It was an avatar, making her constantly believe that she was walking around unharmed, while her real self was held captive in a place called Demon's Run. She's given birth there to a baby girl named Melody, guided by Madame ~~Kovarian -- the~~Kovarian—the eyepatch ~~lady -- and~~lady—and surrounded by an entire military. But she's not scared. Because she knows that the baby's real father will come for them. A man who has travelled across the galaxy. A man who has lived for centuries. A man [[Ship Tease\|known as the]]... Last Centurion. The soldiers are quite nice, actually, and simply believe that the Doctor is a fearsome warrior that should be killed. That doesn't mean they can't be his fanboys, too. One of them, Lorna from the Gamma Forest, met him once when she was young and only joined so she could see him again. She's happily embroidering a little piece of cloth with the words "Melody Pond", as a religious good luck charm for Amy. The Doctor and Rory (dressed magnificently in his Last Centurion gear) prepare to raise an army. On his quest, Rory defeats a random Cybermen fleet without even a hint of fear. In her cell in Stormcage, River Song sadly acknowledges that the time has come at last. Today will mark the Battle of Demon's Run and the Doctor's darkest hour. Both sides will make their sacrifices and River Song must finally reveal her most closely guarded secret to the Doctor: her identity. She's unusually happy to see Rory, but she can't come with him. The Doctor gathers friends with old debts in his TARDIS: a Silurian woman named Vastra from Victorian London and her human girlfriend, a [[Badass]] Sontaran nurse whose clone batch [[Doctor Who~~/NS~~/Recap/~~S4 E4~~S30/E04 The Sontaran Stratagem\|met the Doctor once]], Captain Avery and Toby, the Judoon of the Shadow Proclamation, Churchill's spitfire fighters, and [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E12 The Pandorica Opens\|Dorium Maldovar, the owner of the Maldovarium]]. Lorna sneaks out, finds Amy and hands her the little embroidered cloth. Amy is too traumatised to talk to her much. [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin\|The Headless Monks]], a religious faction, are seemingly allied with the Demon's Run army, but the Doctor interferes and starts manipulating the soldiers effortlessly. As Amy watches, he vows to rescue her. [[Running Gag\|"Amy, get yer coat!"]] Rory, still in Centurion gear, reunites Amy and little Melody while crying [[Manly Tears]]. The Doctor follows soon after. He talks to young Melody for a bit ("I speak Baby. I speak ''everything''.") and the two quickly bond. The Doctor gives Melody a little Gallifreyan baby cot. Amy asks him where the hell he got that from. Why would he have a baby cot? Did ''he'' have kids? Does he have kids right now? He mumbles a bit of denial before revealing that alright, [[Trolling Creator\|yes, it's]] [[Ship Tease\|his]]... [[Bait and Switch\|cot]]. From when he was a baby. And little Melody will be quite safe. Chaos quickly ensues again, however, and the Doctor is questioned by everyone on whether or not he's responsible for the child. Because [[Wham! Line\|it's got Time Lord DNA]]. And there are not a whole lot of ways for little babies to become half Time Lord. Simply put, when a girl travelling with a Time Lord has a half Time Lord baby, people tend to draw conclusions. The Doctor is genuinely confused, because no, [[Ship Sinking\|he did not sleep with Amy]]. And he can't see any way for the child to be part Time Lord, even when it's pointed out by Vastra that the Time Lords themselves evolved from continuously being close to the time matrix. That doesn't apply here, he states, because Time Lords evolved over billions of years, not just nine months. And even if this baby was somehow influenced by Amy being in the TARDIS, it's just not how evolution works. Besides, how could it even have been conceived on the TARDIS? Rory wasn't there, and then he was dead, and then he never existed, and then he was a plastic Roman for two millennia, and then it was their wedding n-- Oh. The Doctor realises quite suddenly why Amy was so worried about her baby being messed up by the time stream or having a "time head" or something. Little Melody was conceived on the TARDIS, and the TARDIS added quite a bit of her own creative influence to the baby's DNA. And now this Time Lord baby will be raised as a weapon against him. {{quote\| '''The Doctor:''' Why would a Time Lord be a weapon?~~<br />~~ '''Vastra:''' They've seen ''you''. }} As the Doctor's makeshift army confronts the soldiers of Demon's Run, Lorna is shot. The Doctor rushes to her side and tells her to be brave. Of ''course'' he remembers her. They ran together, years ago. She dies in his arms. He quietly has to ask who she was, because he hasn't met her yet and he remembers everyone. By now, the Doctor has gotten into a habit of hugging Amy tightly, and rubbing her back, while he's talking to her. With permission from Rory, of course. Because he can only give her one nasty revelation after another: little Melody is not little Melody. She's made of the Flesh, and the real baby is far, far away by now. And then, just as the Doctor's friends are dying all around him again, River appears. And the Doctor is ''very'' genuinely angry with her. He's beyond [[Tranquil Fury]] and gone off into plain old rage. Why did she wait this long to show up? Why did she do ''nothing'' to prevent all this? Why is she just standing there? This carnage, this drama, this ''isn't him''. River quietly replies that he's wrong. This is him. [[Doctor Who~~/NS~~/Recap/S4 S30/E13 Journeys End\|Gathering people around him, changing their lives, making them sacrifice themselves for him]]. As for the Demon's Run army: in the Gamma Forest language, "Doctor" has become the word for "Mighty Warrior". The Doctor's reputation has made him into a demon in the eyes of entire cultures. He's a true [[Memetic Badass]], and they've become so scared of him, they're going to kill him out of sheer terror. Almost blind with anger, he orders her to stop lying to him and to finally explain who she is. She takes his hands and leads him towards the baby cot. He looks down at his old cot, at the Gallifreyan text, at his little kinetic baby toy mobile. He looks up at River. He looks down again. And he starts to happily make incoherent [[Squee]] noises while she grins and nods at him. It's all still a bit confusing to ~~him -- they~~him—they've kissed and everything, and that's just ''weird'' ~~now -- but~~now—but he's too busy being flabbergasted to even care anymore. He waves goodbye to the Ponds, promises to find little Melody, gets in the TARDIS and gives River one final [[Squee]] before dashing off. River can take the others home. Amy has a full-on [[Heroic BSOD]] at that. She picks up a gun and prepares to shoot River right then and there. River calms her down with some effort, and tells her to take another look at the Doctor's cot. Because with written text, the TARDIS translation matrix can take a while to kick in. No, not the Gallifreyan text on the cot -- [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E04 The Time of Angels\|the TARDIS doesn't translate ancient Gallifreyan anyway]]. River means Lorna's beautifully embroidered cloth, and she shows it to Amy and Rory. [[Arc Words\|The only water in the forest is the river]]. In Lorna's Gamma Forest language, the elaborate embroidered text says "Pond" on one side, and "Melody" on the other. {{spoiler\|"River", and "Song"}}. {{quote\| '''THE DOCTOR WILL RETURN IN'''~~<br />~~ '''[[Mood Whiplash\|LET'S KILL HITLER]]'''<br /> '''AUTUMN 2011''' }} ---- === Tropes === * [[Action Prologue]]: The first four minutes of the episode has Rory infiltrate a Cyber-man fleet, and the destruction of said fleet. All before the title runs. * [[Adult Fear]]: {{spoiler\|Your baby daughter is a really a ganger, and she ''melts away in your arms.''}} {{spoiler\|Amy's baby is taken from her and all she knows is that the kid will be raised as a living weapon. There's also that chilling part at the beginning, when Amy holds her daughter and tells her how she wishes she could promise to protect her. And then the soldier tells her she has two minutes left before they take the baby away.}} In a blink-and-you-miss-it example, {{spoiler\|having your spouse suddenly murdered, when you'd clearly thought that they'd been out for something innocuous and would be back by dinner,}} as the Thin Gay Anglican Marine did. While {{spoiler\|being converted to an order of Headless Monks is a bit of a [[Space Whale Aesop]]}}, you could easily apply the situation to something more mundane, like going out to the store or to a meeting at work. * [[Affably Evil]]: The Sontaran [[Combat Medic]] Strax. {{quote\| '''Strax''': Don't worry, my boy, you'll be up and around in no time. And perhaps one day, you and I will meet on the field of battle, and I shall destroy you for the glory of the Sontaran Empire.}} * [[Almost-Dead Guy]]: Both Strax and Lorna live long enough to express regret and drive a knife [[Tear Jerker\|right through your heart]]. * [[Ambiguous Syntax]]: "Demon's Run - when a good man goes to war" or "Demons run when a good man goes to war"? Line 68: * [[Arc Words]]: "The only water in the forest is the river" refers to {{spoiler\|a cultural translation issue. There is no word in the Gamma Forest for a pond, only for a river. Melody Pond becomes River Song.}} * [[Armor-Piercing Question]]: Not even intended, but this exchange: {{quote\| '''The Doctor''': Why would a Time Lord be a weapon?~~<br />~~ '''Vastra''': They've seen ''you''. }} ** The Doctor is so floored by the implications of this he has to sit down. * [[Army of the Ages]]: See [[Badass Army]] below. * [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: When Dorium realizes that he's one of the Doctor's draftees. {{quote\| '''Dorium''': "You don't need me! Why would you need me?! I'm old! I'm fat! [[Crowning Moment of Funny\|I'm blue!]]"}} ** Also, when Amy pick up some sort of tool (that looks like an electric toothbrush) in response to a knock on the door of her room {{quote\| '''Amy''': "I'm armed, and dangerous...and...cross!"}} * [[The Atoner]]: It's implied that Madame Vastra was murdering homeless people to avenge her sister before the Doctor found her and convinced her to become a [[Serial Killer Killer]]. Strax is introduced working as a nurse as some ill-defined punishment. * [[Avengers Assemble]]: We only see a handful of the people the Doctor calls in his marker for, but doing everyone would've been an episode all its own. * [[Awesome McCoolname]]/[[Fail O'Suckyname]]: Amy argues [[The Maiden Name Debate\|the difference between "Amy Williams" and "Amy Pond"]] is the difference between a geography teacher and a superhero. * [[Baby Language]]: The Doctor can speak it, apparently. What's hilarious is the lines of the one sided conversation he has with little Melody. Includes, "Really, you should call her mummy, not big milk thing," "It's my hair, it's real" and in regard to the bow-tie, [[Running Gag\|"No, it's cool."]] * [[Badass Army]]: Lets see, the Doctor brought alongside with him an army of Silurians including the one in Victorian England with a female human partner, the Judoon who are basically an intergalactic SWAT team, a Sontaran as a [[Combat Medic]], [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32 E3/E03 The Curse of the Black Spot\|Captain Avery and his son]], an intergalactic black market dealer, with [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E03 Victory of the Daleks\|the Space Spitfires covering the skies]], Rory/"[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E13 The Big Bang\|The Lone Centurion]]" and of course, the The Doctor himself who is a [[One-Man Army]] by himself, all there just to take back Amy's baby! Good Lord! The Doctor really outdid himself there! * [[Badass Boast]]: The Moff delivers as usual. {{quote\| '''The Doctor''': "Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out [[Bait and Switch Comparison\|why I have so many]]."<br /> ''The Doctor'': "Amelia Pond, get your coat!" (In context.) }} * [[Badass Family]]: The Pond-Williams, consisting of Amy, who tells her captors to be very, very afraid of what's coming for them, Rory, who gets up in the grill of an entire Cyber Legion, and Melody, {{spoiler\|who grows up to be a woman that makes Daleks beg for mercy.}} * [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Think about it. {{spoiler\|Whatever nefarious purpose Madame Kovarian wanted to achieve by kidnapping Baby!River set a chain of events that makes her a terrifying [[Action Girl]] whose mere name even causes fear in the heart of a freaking Dalek. River will still kill that good man, who in all likelihood, was Kovarian's target to begin with.}} ** More immediately, {{spoiler\|Madame Kovarian gets away with the real baby}}. * [[Bait and Switch]]: At the beginning it seems as though Amy is talking about the Doctor when she's telling little Melody about the man who's coming to help them. She's actually talking about Rory: {{quote\| '''Amy''': "He's the last of his kind. He looks young, but he's lived for hundreds and hundreds of years. And wherever they take you Melody, however scared you are, I promise you you will never be alone. Because this man is your father. He has a name, but the people of our world know him better...as the Last Centurion."}} ** When Amy asks the Doctor to please, ''please'' tell them what's going on his head re: Melody, he replies "It's mine," - and then clarifies that he was talking about the cot he found for her in the TARDIS. * [[Battle Butler]]: Jenny to Madame Vastra. Possibly a [[Ninja Maid\|Swashbuckler Maid]]. Not so much [[Les Yay]] as official couple. Line 94: * [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: A Sontaran who regrets dying in battle? Talk about playing against your planet's hat. * [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: It's what the episode title ''means'', so you can expect a lot of it. Rory kicks much ass and the ''entire episode'' is basically showing us this about the Doctor. The 'Colonel Runaway' scene and his [[What the Hell, Hero?]] to River are all about showing the Doctor when he's really at the limit of his restraint. {{quote\| '''The Doctor''': "Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many."}} ** As Rory notes in the opening teaser; {{quote\| '''Rory''': I have a message and a question. A message from the Doctor... and a question from ''me''. Where. Is. My. Wife?! Oh, don't give me those blank looks! The 12th Cyber Legion monitors this entire quadrant. You hear ''everything''. So you tell me what I need to know, you tell me ''now''. And I will be on my way...~~<br />~~ '''Cybermen''': What is the Doctor's message?~~<br />~~ ''The entire fleet explodes''~~<br />~~ '''Rory''': Do you want me to repeat the question? }} * [[Big-Budget Beef-Up]]: Series 6 has maintained the new programme's reputation for excellent special effects but they take it up a notch for the mid-series finale with appearances from several old enemies and allies, and CG effects galore. * [[Big No]]: Colonel Manton, when all hell breaks loose between the clerics and the monks. * [[Body Horror]]: Dear mother of God, the ''Monks''. ** {{spoiler\|and a bit more with gangers, this time having a baby explode into goop.}} * [[Break the Cutie]]: Amy Pond has to deal with this while she's alone on Demon's Run, mostly involving her baby. Of course, we've seen Amy snap before, so we know this isn't a good idea. Cue [[Beware the Nice Ones]], [[Mama Bear]], and most other revenge tropes. {{quote\| '''Amy''': "Can I borrow your gun?"~~<br />~~ '''Lorna''': "Why?"~~<br />~~ '''Amy''': "'Cause I've got a feeling you're gonna keep talking." }} ** Also: {{quote\| '''Kovarian''': "Wakie waaakiiiieeeee...." pop}} * [[Call Back]]: The hooded men with the [[Laser Sword\|laser swords]] are the Headless Monks. Their future final resting place is the Delirium Archive where [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E04 The Time of Angels\|River once left a message for the Doctor]]. Also several characters and groups from previous episodes make a return to help the Doctor. {{spoiler\|[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32 E2/E02 Day of the Moon\|The baby has a Time Head.]]}} {{spoiler\|The logo on the banners of Madame Kovarian's army contains the same logo we saw on [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E04 The Time of Angels\|the Church's uniforms]].}} The shot near the end of {{spoiler\|Amy and Rory looking on as the Doctor takes off without them}} is very similar to one from [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E01 The Eleventh Hour\|"The Eleventh Hour"]]. The Clerics practice recognizing psychic paper. The speech that Colonel Manton made to his army on the legends surrounding the Doctor as an exaggeration is a clear reference to "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E12 The Pandorica Opens\|The Pandorica Opens]]". [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32 E2/E02 Day of the Moon\|This is not the first time this season]] Amy has made a speech that sounds at first like it's about the Doctor, [[Bait and Switch\|when it's really about Rory]]. * Also, in ''Day of the Moon'', Rory mentions that Amy knows he's always coming for her. And what is Amy's speech about? When the gay married couple talk about the Doctor, they mention the time he [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 E1/E01 The Eleventh Hour\|sent the Atraxi off and then called them back for a "scolding"]]. The Doctor addressing an army with [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E12 The Pandorica Opens\|"Guess who" ]], like in the scene on Stonehenge. [[Crowning Music of Awesome\|Even the music agrees with the epicness!]] Amy refers to Rory and The Doctor as "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E06 The Vampires of Venice\|my]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E07 ~~Amys~~Amy's Choice\|boys]]". Amy arming herself with a toothbrush is even funnier when you remember the time the Doctor [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E11 The Lodger\|held a toothbrush in the same intimidating manner.]] ** When listing the reasons its impossible that Amy and Rory would have had time to produce a baby on the Tardis the Doctor mentions [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E06 The Vampires of Venice\|"sexy fish vampires"]]. * [[Cardboard Prison]]: Really... River can just waltz in and out (literally), use the phone to announce she's breaking in and order room service, and can gallivant off whenever she pleases. A [[Cardboard Prison]] would actually be more secure than what she's in right now. * [[Chaste Hero]]: The Doctor is completely oblivious to the notion that Melody might have been conceived in the TARDIS until pushed by Madame Vastra. He works through the fifth season and comes to the realization that the first time they were together on the TARDIS after the reboot was... their wedding night. Line 130: * [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Lorna. When she first appears, she just seems like a young soldier being nice to Amy. Then Lorna gives Amy the leaf, which shows up at the end for the final revelation. * [[Cherry Tapping]]: The Doctor wants Colonel Manton to order his men not to fall back, but to "run away". For the rest of his life, he would be known as Colonel Run-Away - to show what happens when you mess with the people the Doctor cares about. * [[Child Soldiers]]: Sontarans, sort of; as a cloned race of [[Proud Warrior Race Guy~~\|Proud Warrior Race Guys~~]]s, they skip past anything we would recognize as childhood, both physically and mentally. {{quote\| '''Strax''': "It's all right. I've had a good life. I'm nearly twelve."}} ** And of course {{spoiler\|Melody/River Song}} as well. * [[Christianity Is Catholic]]: Averted. Even though the sect called the Headless Monks follow decisions made by a "Papal mainframe", their Anglican allies are portrayed as a different sect where, if one of their number needs to join the former, they must first convert.<ref>In the most literal sense of the word.</ref>. * [[Church Militant]]: Similar to "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E04 The Time of Angels\|The Time Of Angels]]" ~~-- though~~—though Colonel Manton has a military rank rather than a clerical one. * [[Combat Medic]]: A Sontaran nurse. It started out as a punishment for [[Doctor Who~~/NS~~/Recap/~~S4 E4~~S30/E04 The Sontaran Stratagem\|something his clone-batch did]], as taking care of the sick and weak is a Sontaran's idea of the perfect humiliation. In spite of that, he seems to have grown to like it. {{quote\| '''Boy''': "Will I be okay?"~~<br />~~ '''Strax''': ''[cheerfully earnest]'' "Of course you will, my boy, you'll be up and around in no time. And perhaps one day, you and I shall meet on the field of battle, and I will ''destroy'' you for the glory of the Sontaran Empire!"~~<br />~~ '''Boy''': ''[Beat]'' "Thanks, nurse." }} And: {{quote\| '''Strax''': "Captain Harcourt, I hope someday to meet you in the glory of battle, where I shall crush the life from your worthless human form. ''[Beat]'' Try and get some rest."}} And let's not forget the '''other''' nurse who also happens to be the Last Centurion... * [[Cool Plane]]: Danny Boy and his space spitfires make their return. {{quote\| '''Doctor''': (after explaining to Col. Runaway that all he needs to do to keep the rest of the fleet uninvolved is take out the comm array) And you've got incoming!~~<br />~~ ''radio static burst [[Gunship Rescue\|Danny Boy to the Doctor! Danny Boy to the Doctor!]]''<br /> '''Doctor''': Give 'em Hell, Danny Boy! }} Line 153: ** On a different note, Strax's penance as a Nurse and how it plays out is rather unexpected from what we've seen of the (sometimes absurdly) militaristic and prideful Sontarans - a different working environment is apparently all it takes for a sympathetic outlook of other races (although the "glory of battle" bit is probably innate). * [[The Determinator]]: Rory, of course. Heaven help whoever is between him and Amy this time. * [[Gondor Calls for Aid\|The Doctor Calls For Aid]]: The Doctor raises an army to help him. {{quote\| '''Dorium''': There are people all over this galaxy that owe that man a debt. By now, a few of them will have found a blue box on their doorstep.}} ** {{spoiler\|After he says that, Dorium walks into the back room and, of course, finds the Doctor on ''[[Oh Crap\|his]]'' doorstep. "I'm old! I'm fat! I'm [[Crowning Moment of Funny\|blue]]! You can't need ''me''!"}} * [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu]]: Remember, the Doctor is considered a [[Memetic Badass]] demigod in-universe. See Dorium's quote above, and his many [[Badass Boast~~\|Badass Boasts~~]]s. {{quote\| '''Lady Kovarian:''' What have you heard?~~<br />~~ '''Dorium:''' That you pricked the side of a mighty beast, Madam Kovarian, and entirely failed to run. }} ** The Cyber-Legion immediately pull their weapons on Rory, who offers them the chance to answer a simple question and he will be on his way. They fail to answer. Cue the ''entire fleet'' exploding. {{quote\| '''Rory''': Do I need to ''repeat'' the question?}} * [[Double Meaning Title]]: With the "good men don't need rules" business from the Doctor, the title of the episode may very well apply to Rory. * [[Elite Mooks]]: [[Word of God]] is that the Headless Monks are the [[Church Militant]]'s special forces. Possibly [[Elite Zombie~~\|Elite Zombies~~]]s as well, since the detectors don't register them as alive. * [[Enemy Mine]]: This looks to be the situation for the army the Doctor raises. * [[Entendre Failure]]: When Vastra and Dorium notice the weird DNA in Melody's scan, they attempt to be tactful and ask in various vague ways if The Doctor and Amy ever.. you know. However the Doctor [[Completely Missing the Point\|fails to grasp at what they're on about.]] Once they find out it wasn't his... {{quote\| '''Madame Vastra''': ''[talking about Melody]'' "Which leads me to ask - when did it happen?"~~<br />~~ '''The Doctor''': "''When''?"~~<br />~~ '''Madame Vastra''': ''[scoffs]'' "I am trying to be delicate. [[Celibate Hero\|I know how you can blush.]]"<br /> ''[Dorium chuckles]''<br /> Line 173: '''Madame Vastra''': "Quite." }} * [[Eternal English]]: [[Subverted Trope\|Subverted.]] Among the people of the Gamma Forest the word "Doctor" has gone from meaning "Healer" to come to mean "Mighty Warrior" thanks to the badassery of the Time Lord himself. * [[Evil Knockoff]]: This is why Kovarian wants Amy's child: so she can make her into an [[Evil Knockoff]] of {{spoiler\|the Doctor.}} * [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: The Headless Monks, [[Captain Obvious\|monks who don't have heads.]] Also the episode title itself. ** Although the title is something of a subversion. It, of course, is implied to be the Doctor, but really it may as well be Rory. * [[Explain, Explain, Oh Crap]]: The Doctor insists that the baby can't have been conceived on the TARDIS. I mean, they spend far too much time running around fighting monsters for...that sort of thing, and anyway, in ''this'' version of reality they were never on the TARDIS together until their w- {{quote\| '''Madame Vastra''': Their what?~~<br />~~ '''The Doctor''': Their wedding night. }} * [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Madame Kovarian packs a [[Electronic Eyes\|cyborg version]] of one of these. Line 183: * [[False Dichotomy]]: Melody Williams is a geography teacher. Melody Pond is a superhero. * [[Fantastic Racism]]: From the Doctor of all people. Let it be said, he's being very [[Tranquil Fury]] at that moment, his levity is clearly hiding the fact we see later that he is ''very'' pissed off. {{quote\| '''The Doctor''': "Please, point a gun at me if it helps you relax! You're only human."}} * [[Fat and Skinny]]: The "thin/fat gay married Anglican marines." * [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The Doctor thoroughly ''trashes'' Colonel Manton into humiliation, in one of his biggest [[Tranquil Fury]] moments yet. And apparently enjoys every second of it. {{quote\| '''The Doctor''': No, Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to ''run away''.~~<br />~~ '''Manton''': You what?~~<br />~~ '''The Doctor''': Those words. Run away. I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Run-Away. [[Humiliation Conga\|I want children laughing outside your door, 'cos they've found the house of Colonel Run-Away]]. And when people come to you and ask you if trying to get to me through [[Berserk Button\|THE PEOPLE]] [[Nakama\|I LOVE]] [[Tempting Fate\|is in any way a good idea]]... I want you to tell them your name. }} * [[A Father to His Men]]: Give Colonel Manton his due. When it looks like the {{spoiler\|Headless Monks are about to start carving up his troops}}, he's clearly horrified. Line 193: Rory has been suppressing the Centurion's memories for his sanity. Not so much when Amy is missing. The Doctor, as usual. {{quote\| '''The Doctor''': "Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many."}} * [[Foil]]: Rory to Colonel Strax, of all people. Rory was a nurse who became a warrior, Strax was a warrior who became a nurse. * [[Foreshadowing]]: Meta-example. From the BBC website: {{quote\| '''River Song''': "Demons run when [[Title Drop\|a good man goes to war]]. Night will fall and drown the sun, when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies, night will fall and the dark will rise...when a good man goes to war."}} The poem has two more lines in the episode. {{quote\| {{spoiler\|Demons run but count the cost. The battle's won but the child is lost.}}}} "The only water in the forest is the river." The TARDIS said this while she was spouting gibberish, didn't she? ** "'Melody Williams' is a geography teacher, 'Melody Pond' is a superhero." Yes, actually, she is. * [[Freeze -Frame Bonus]]: [http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x393/likwidsolutions/Shows/Doctor%20Who/Doctor%20Who%20S6/Remember.jpg The Clerics do their darned best to not fear the Doctor's arsenal, which is neither sonic nor a screwdriver.] ** Also just before the Cybermen fleet is destroyed you can see a [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rory-Williams-is-the-New-Chuck-Norris/206862529349188#!/photo.php?fbid=2362664581585&set=o.206862529349188&type=3&theater TARDIS flying by]. * [[Friend in ~~The~~the Black Market]]: Dorium. * [[Genre Savvy]] / [[Only Sane Man]]: Dorium seems to be a rare antagonist version, in that he is the only one that realizes that antagonizing the Doctor is a really bad idea. {{spoiler\|He retains this after we find out he's working for the good guys, pointing out how they cleared out the fortress far too easily}}. Dorium's savviness seems to degrade some {{spoiler\|when he walks up to the menacing Headless Monks, thinking that because they know him, they'll let him go}}. He does this after observing that ''they're chanting their war hymn.'' When it looks like the Doctor is trying to start a shoot-out between his men and the monks, Manton is the first person to discharge his gun's battery as a sign of good faith. "We are not fools." He just had no way of knowing about the Doctor's real plan. Keep in mind that [[Big Bad\|Madame Kovarian's]] entire reason for kidnapping {{spoiler\|Amy's child is so she can be raised as a weapon against The Doctor.}} That they are ''so terrified'' of him they are willing to harm his [[Nakama]] to do it. When The Doctor invades Demon's Run, Madame Kovarian is ''quaking in fear'' from being in the Doctor's presence. She doesn't even start her [[Evil Gloating]] until she is far, far away from The Doctor. Lorna met the Doctor when she was a kid. He's going to meet her again and have to know {{spoiler\|she's going to die in a few years}}. * [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: It's a Moffat episode, so there are several. Not the least of which is Vastra's [[Power Perversion Potential]]. {{quote\| '''Madame Vastra''': "Oh, all mammals look the same."~~<br />~~ '''Jenny''': "Gee, thanks."~~<br />~~ '''Vastra''': "Oh, I'm sorry dear, did I say something insensitive again? I don't know why you put up with me."~~<br />~~ ''[cue a six foot long tongue whiplash to subdue a prisoner]'' }} The exchange between River Song and Rory in the Stormcage Prison. {{quote\| '''Rory''': "I've come from the Doctor too."~~<br />~~ '''River''': Yes, but at a different point in time."~~<br />~~ '''Rory''': "Unless there's two of them."~~<br />~~ '''River''': "Now... that's a ''whole different'' birthday." }} Or before that, when she sees Rory in the shadows and can only make out his Roman soldier outfit. She is delighted and comments that her jailers usually don't read her request memos. * [[Good -Looking Privates]]: The Centurion uniform is back on Rory to much delight, and there's also Lorna. * [[Gun and Sword]]: Rory dual-wields his gladius and a pulse pistol as they prepare for the Headless Monks to attack. Madame Vastra seems to have both her katana and a pulse rifle taken from the army, but she wouldn't be able to use them both at the same time. * [[Have We Met Yet?]]: Rory is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to ask this of River in the beginning. Line 227: ** A much bigger one after a scathing [[What the Hell, Hero?]] from {{spoiler\|River}}: the Doctor realizes that the rest of the universe sees him as a dangerous and potentially insane warrior because of his actions. We haven't yet seen the full extent of this one, however. * [[Hidden Agenda Villain]]: Arguably, Madame Kovarian. She's clearly a mysterious one, and outside of getting rid of the Doctor, she doesn't seem to have revealed any major ambitions... as of yet. It's not even clear exactly why she wants the Doctor gone. But what ''is'' clear, if she can play the Doctor like a fiddle, she's gotta be one [[Magnificent Bastard]], and she must have things in store for the universe, and specifically {{spoiler\|Melody/Little!River}}. * [[Hot Chick ~~With~~with a Sword]] and [[Hot Chick in Aa Badass Suit]]: Jenny. And Madame Vastra, if you like [[Green-Skinned Space Babe\|that sort of thing]].▼ * [[Hitler Cam]]: Several, given the prevalence of balconies and grand speeches. One for [http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DW_6x07_A_Good_Man_Goes_To_War_262.jpg Colonel Manton] and, oddly, one for [http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DW_6x07_A_Good_Man_Goes_To_War_335.jpg Madame Vastra].▼ ▲* [[Hot Chick With a Sword]] and [[Hot Chick in A Badass Suit]]: Jenny. And Madame Vastra, if you like [[Green-Skinned Space Babe\|that sort of thing]]. * [[Hypocritical Humour]]: Vastra. She frequently shows disdain for mammals and implies she devours ones who annoy her, though she is also involved in a lesbian relationship with a human woman. She does seem to try to catch herself when she's being rude at least, commenting "how do you put up with me?". * [[Idiot Ball]]: Dorium running towards the Headless Monks. Prior to that he'd been pretty [[Genre Savvy]]. * [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Vastra. * [[In Love ~~With~~with the Mark]]: {{spoiler\|If, as Madame Kovarian suggests will happen, Melody/River is raised as a Doctor-killing weapon, she falls under this trope.}} That said, there's probably more to this. * [[Interspecies Romance]]: [http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DW_6x07_A_Good_Man_Goes_To_War_242.jpg Madame Vastra the Silurian and Jenny the human]. [[They Fight Crime]] in [[Victorian England]]. [[Crazy Awesome\|Need more be said?]] * [[Jack the Ripper]]: Gets ''eaten'' by a Silurian off-screen. Line 241 ⟶ 240: ** Not only gives a [[Clean Cut]], but also [[Body Horror\|ties a knot]] [[Squick\|in the neck of a decapitated enemy]]. * [[Leitmotif]]: The music that plays when {{spoiler\|River reveals she is Melody Pond}} is the same heard when {{spoiler\|the Doctor was given a Viking funeral in "The Impossible Astronaut"}} and {{spoiler\|the girl regenerated at the end of "Day of the Moon"}}. * [[Let's Get Dangerous]] / [[Take a Level In Badass\|Regained Several Levels of Badass]]: The ~~baddies -- not~~baddies—not to mention the ~~audience -- get~~audience—get a vicious reminder that between being a nurse and being a companion, Rory was the Lone Centurion. Begins the episode by scaring the crap out of {{spoiler\|a legion of Cybermen to determine Amy's location}}, and only gets better from there. ** As for the Doctor himself, this is not one of those episodes where he scares off his enemies by saying [[Doctor Who~~/NS~~/Recap/~~S4 E9~~S30/E09 Forest of the Dead\|"You're in a library, look me up."]] No, this is one of the times when he shows exactly ''why'' everyone's so scared of him. * [[Lovely Angels]]: Vastra and Jenny, though with no [[Les Yay\|subtext]], it's right upfront. ▲* [[~~Hitler~~Low-Angle ~~Cam~~Shot]]: Several, given the prevalence of balconies and grand speeches. One for [http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DW_6x07_A_Good_Man_Goes_To_War_262.jpg Colonel Manton] and, oddly, one for [https://web.archive.org/web/20181024083824/http://doctorwho.sonicbiro.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/DW_6x07_A_Good_Man_Goes_To_War_335.jpg Madame Vastra]. * [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: {{spoiler\|River reveals she's Amy and Rory's daughter}}. * [[Manly Tears]]: {{spoiler\|Rory, upon returning Melody to Amy. Even more heartwarming is that he does it while saying he was trying to be "cool" and not cry}}. Line 250: ** According to Steven Moffat, Lorna Bucket: {{spoiler\|"Lorna the warner, the bucket that carried the pond to the river."}} * [[Mood Whiplash]]: ** River and the Doctor trade [[What the Hell, Hero?\|WhatTheHellHeros]] and the audience is quite caught up in it. Then the Doctor looks at the crib and he's giddy as a schoolboy. He bounces out of the room and... {{quote\| '''River''': "It's me. {{spoiler\|I'm Melody. I'm your daughter.}}"~~<br />~~ * smash to black~~<br />~~ THE DOCTOR WILL RETURN IN '''LET'S KILL HITLER''' AUTUMN 2011. }} * And after all this: {{spoiler\|1=a brief clip of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDhmZwiS-0g&feature=feedu a skeletal hand clutching a sonic screwdriver]...}} Line 258: * [[Mook Horror Show]]: One gets the impression the Doctor is the monster in this particular episode. ** Even Rory gets this treatment in the [[Cold Open]], particularly with this bit of dialogue: {{quote\| '''Cyberman''': "Intruder Level 11! Seal off Levels 12, 13 and 14! ''[[Offscreen Teleportation\|Intruder Level 15!]]''" }} * [[Moral Dissonance]]: Due to the Doctor's influence, Vastra no longer preys upon humans as she once did. On the other hand, she has no qualms about killing and ''eating'' [[Jack the Ripper]]. * [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: The Doctor has this combined with a [[Heroic Blue Screen of Death]] when he realizes just how much he's made people fear and hate him over the years, and what that's cost him and his loved ones. * [[Mythology Gag]]: When Rory asks if there could be more than one Doctor, River says 'that's another sort of birthday', referencing the multi-Doctor anniversary specials (and perhaps hinting there will be another for the 50th anniversary?) as well as a very likely threesome. ** Also possibly a reference to the events of "First Night / Last Night" where the Doctor has to deal with trying to keep three River Songs from bumping into each other, each mistaking his TARDIS as the one that was meant to pick them up [[Timey-Wimey Ball\|in their respective present.]] * [[Name's the Same]]: The inclusion of a character called Jenny made fans assume [[Doctor Who~~/NS~~/Recap/~~S4 E6~~S30/E06 The ~~Doctors~~Doctor's Daughter\|the Doctor's Daughter]] was returning. * [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Eye Patch Lady's real name is [[Obviously Evil\|Madame Kovarian]]. ** And of course, [[Mook Horror Show\|for the antagonists]], The Doctor. Line 269: * [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: We can imply that the whole reason {{spoiler\|River Song}} was taken from {{spoiler\|Amy and Rory}} and became who she is today is because the Doctor has a love for theatrics and likes to make his enemies afraid of him. During the [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech given to him near the end by {{spoiler\|River}} he seems to be having a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment when he realizes that he's partly culpable for the creation of a [[Child Soldier]] [[Tyke Bomb]]. Yeah, [[Sarcasm Mode\|great going there]] Doctor. * [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: [[They Fight Crime\|Crime-fighting]] [[Serial Killer Killer\|serial-killer-hunting]] [[Katanas Are Just Better\|katana-wielding]] [[Victorian Britain\|Victorian]] [[Interspecies Romance\|interspecies]] [[Les Yay\|lesbians]]. {{quote\| '''[[Neil Gaiman]]:''' "I think Madame Vastra should act as well as solve crimes. Then she'd be a [[Sublime Rhyme\|Victorian Silurian Lesbian Thespian]]."}} * [[Not So Different]]: Rory and the Doctor. When the chips are down, Rory will destroy anything in his path to get back the people who were taken from him. Despite being the person who usually tries to save everyone, you do NOT want to piss off Rory and underestimate the fury of the Last Centurion. ''Sound familiar?'' ** "''When A Good Man Goes To War''", the title proves equally true of both Rory and the Doctor. Line 275: * [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Implied. If "Doctor" means "mighty warrior" in the language of the Gamma Forest, the Doctor must [[Time Travel Tense Trouble\|do/have done]] something pretty spectacular even by his standards during his visit there, especially if it's from only one visit. ** Rory's entire fight with the Headless Monks. Particularly given how they fight with a [[Laser Sword]] while he's dual wielding a gun and sword. * [[Off ~~With~~with His Head]]: The Headless Monks. * [[Oh Crap]]: The Doctor when he finds out {{spoiler\|River is Melody}} and that he has a ''special'' relationship with {{spoiler\|Rory and Amy's daughter}}. That face just ''screams'' "They're going to kill me!". Dorium, when he realizes the Doctor's recruiting him too. The Doctor has one earlier, when he realizes that {{spoiler\|baby Melody that Amy is protecting is actually a Flesh avatar, and that Madame Kovarian has successfully kidnapped the real child.}} * [[One-Scene Wonder]]: A number of the Doctor's allies, including {{spoiler\|[[Doctor Who~~/NS~~/Recap/~~S3 E1~~S29/E01 Smith and Jones\|the Judoon,]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E03 Victory of the Daleks\|the Space Spitfires]] and [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32 E3/E03 The Curse of the Black Spot\|the pirate captain and his son]].}} * [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: The Thin One and the Fat One. [[Lampshaded]]. {{quote\| '''The Fat One''': "We're the thin/fat, gay, married Anglican Marines. Why would we need names as well?"}} * [[Papa Wolf]]: Rory. * [[Power Perversion Potential]]: {{quote\| '''Madame Vastra''': "Was I being insensitive again, dear? I don't know why you put up with me." knocks out a mook from across the room with her prehensile tongue ''smiiirk''}} * [[Prop Recycling]]: [http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x323/eviltwin5311/DoctorCorridors.jpg Those corridors on Demon's Run look awfully familiar.] * [[Punctuated! ~~for~~For! Emphasis!]]: {{quote\| '''Rory''': "Where. Is. My. WIFE?"}} * [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: Definitely one for the Doctor. He raised an army, kicked the ass of the bad guys with them, took control of the army and even got back the real Amy [[Everybody Lives\|without a single fatality]] {{spoiler\|up to that point}}. However, part of the mission was to save Amy and Rory's newborn daughter with them, which they failed and even some of the lives of the Doctor's army were lost in the battle. However, after finding out who [[The Reveal\|River Song really is]], the Doctor is reinvigorated to rescue {{spoiler\|her infant self}}. The battle may have been lost (or won, as the case may be), but the war is far from over. * [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Given to the Doctor {{spoiler\|by River Song no less.}} It basically consists of "you're so successful at what you do that it's starting to scare people, so that whole non-violent schtick of yours is starting to seem kinda flimsy from where everyone else is standing". ** The 'Run away' speech the Doctor gives to Colonel Manton comes across as a sort of "The Reason You ''Will'' Suck Speech". * [[Red Baron]]: Rory, the Lone/Last Centurion. Post Big Bang 2, his standing guard over the Pandorica has become part of the Earth's official mythology, and will never be forgotten. * [[Red Herring]]: A ''magnificent'' one that had been building up for a year: whether or not the Doctor and Amy were doing it. Everyone around them assumed that they were, and it would have very neatly explained the baby. While everyone was busy fretting and [[~~Star Boarding~~Starboarding]] over that, the ''real'' secret of the baby is something completely different. Since the cot is the Doctor's, and River seems to point at its engraved Gallifreyan text when the Doctor asks her who she is, there are also hints that River could be a future incarnation of him. This was already hinted at in "The Doctor's Wife" when it was revealed that Time Lords can change sex when regenerating. It was [[David Tennant]]'s personal pet theory while filming River's first appearance, and when he revealed that to [[Steven Moffat]] during the audio commentary, Moffat was amused enough to tease the fans with it a little in this episode. The giant "door lock override" button. The guard dramatically inches his way toward it, almost making you think he'll succeed... and then Vastra tongue-whips him unconscious as if it's nothing. * [[Redshirt Army]]: Subverted. The human [[Mooks]] out to kill the Doctor don't look as if they'll stand a chance against the hordes the Time Lord can call up, but the Doctor takes the base without a drop of blood being spilled. {{spoiler\|Initially.}} ([[What Measure Is a Mook?\|Just don't count the RedShirt and the Headless Monk killed when the Doctor briefly turned the two enemies against each other.]]) * [[Refuge in Audacity]]: "The Doctor will return in '''LET'S KILL HITLER''' Autumn 2011" ** The Doctor makes a point by ''blowing the ever-loving crap out of an entire Cyber Legion''. * [[The Reveal]]: River Song's identity. {{spoiler\|She's Amy and Rory's daughter.}} * [[Rousing Speech]]: By the Colonel to the [[Redshirt Army]]. Line 304: As always, the Stormcage is a [[Cardboard Prison]]. Bowties are what? {{quote\| '''Melody Pond''': \gurgle\~~<br />~~ '''The Doctor''': "No it's not." \adjusts bowtie\ "It's cool." }} * [[Scary Black Man]]: Colonel Manton. * [[Serial Killer Killer]]: Madame Vastra killed and ate Jack the Ripper. * [[Shout-Out]]: The mysterious hooded men (Headless Monks) resembling [[The Lord of the Rings (~~Film~~film)\|Ringwraiths]] wield electric swords resembling [[Star Wars\|lightsabers]]. River Song comments on Rory's outfit by saying that the Doctor's rules of engagement "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee", a quote from boxer Muhammad Ali. [[Fridge Brilliance\|She's pretty much saying he's as subtle as a punch in the face.]] In London, a posh lady gives orders to her chauffeur, [[Thunderbirds\|Parker]]. His reply: "Yes, M'Lady." River Song tells Rory that the Doctor got Stevie Wonder to sing for her birthday. [[wikipedia:~~Isnchr(27)~~Isn't She Lovely\|Stevie Wonder wrote the song "Isn't She Lovely" in celebration of the birth of his own daughter.]] The battlefield scene where we meet Strax is possibly a homage to the opening of ''[[Firefly]]''. ** The Doctor's victory at Demon's Run in a little over three minutes is perhaps a reference to Asuka's final fight in {{''[[End of Evangelion}}]]'' . * [[Smug Snake]]: Kovarian positively oozes this trope near the end. {{quote\| '''Kovarian''': "''Fooling you once was a joy. {{spoiler\|Fooling you twice, with the same trick? It's a privilege.}}''"}} * [[Space Is Noisy]]: A couple of times, each involving Dalek Spitfires. * [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: The Doctor is more than happy to use explosions to make a point. * [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Kovarian really, really comes off like the Rani sometimes. * [[Sword and Gun]]: Rory when facing off with the Headless Monks, taking up a [[Badass]] pose to boot. Line 325: Dorium pointing out that there are people all over the galaxy who owe the Doctor a favor, and now he's calling them in. {{spoiler\|Seems Dorium owes one as well.}} From the Fat One's conversion, just before {{spoiler\|he loses his head.}} {{quote\| '''The Fat One:'' "Do you lot have Lent? I'm not good at giving things up."}} * [[They Fight Crime]]: Madam Vastra's a Silurian [[Great Detective\|detective]] with [[Katanas Are Just Better\|a katana]] who [[I Am a Humanitarian\|eats people]]. Jenny's a [[Battle Butler]] / [[Ninja Maid]]. [[They Fight Crime]] in [[Victorian London]]! * [[This Is My Name Onon Foreign]]: {{spoiler\|In the language of the forest people, which lacks a word for a still body of water and clearly ain't that complex about music either, 'Melody Pond' becomes 'River Song.'}} [[Translator Microbes]] + averting [[Eternal English]] = [[Wham! Episode]]. Who knew? * [[This Is Sparta]]: "And when, in the future, people come to you and ask you whether coming after me through the PEOPLE! I! LOVE! is in any way a good idea, I want you to tell them your name." * [[Those Two Guys]]: More specifically, Those Two "thin/fat gay married Anglican Marines" Guys, who [[Lampshade Hanging\|don't need names]]. * [[Title Drop]]: Twice, both fitted in nicely. River's voice-over gives it context, but Dorium's one does it best: {{quote\| '''Dorium:''' "Do you know why it's called Demon's Run? [...]Demons run when a good man goes to war."}} * [[Trailers Always Lie]]: The preview for the episode sure made it seem like Amy's kid was the Doctor's. * [[Tranquil Fury]]: Rory facing the Cyber legions. Line 341: * [[Villainous Valor]]: We all knew how outclassed Colonel Manton's forces would be, still remarkable they got as far as they did. * [[Waistcoat of Style]]: Jenny's outfit is very stylish indeed. * [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The bad guys of this episode seem to be ~~this--they~~this—they genuinely think that the Doctor is a threat to everyone, and are willing {{spoiler\|to turn Melody into a [[Child Soldier]] to stop him.}} Madame Kovarian [[Knight Templar\|at least thinks she is.]] [[Hidden Agenda Villain\|Probably.]] * [[Wham! Episode]]: Almost certainly, not least because it's the last episode of this half of the series, the apparent [[Gondor Calls for Aid\|Doctor Calls For Aid]] scenario and [[The Reveal\|River Song's identity being revealed.]] Moffat's been promising a cliffhanger that, rather than endanger the characters' lives, will change them forever. ** {{spoiler\|The Doctor and company manage to save the baby, but it turns out to be a double bluff as the baby is Flesh. [[Timey-Wimey Ball\|Which completely makes things weird, as Little!River is still somewhere out there in the hands of Madame Kovarian.]] [[Fridge Horror\|Wait, what?!]]}} * [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: River and the Doctor actually exchange these speeches with one another at the end. {{spoiler\|In fact, it could well be said that the entire, desperate attempt by the Clerics to create a weapon usable against the Doctor served as an enormous one of these}}. {{quote\| '''The Doctor''': "Where the ''[[Precision F-Strike\|hell]]'' were you today?!"}} * [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: The "we are not fools" ploy might have worked had the Doctor been working alone as usual. Too bad he has an army. ** The [[Those Two Guys\|fat/thin gay married Anglican marines]] seem to assume that they are quirky enough to outlive the story. [[Nominal Importance\|They don't even need names!]] Unfortunately, in this series [[Anyone Can Die]]. * [[Xanatos Gambit]] / [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: The Doctor's plan to take Demons Run. {{spoiler\|Disguise himself as a Headless Monk and start an [[Enemy Civil War]] amongst the enemy factions. Colonel Manton gets around this by ordering his forces to lay down their arms to get the Monks to back off... leading the Doctor to call in the Judoon and Silurian forces to capture them in one fell swoop}}. Manton tries to counter ''this'' by using the base's automatic distress signal... at which point the Doctor {{spoiler\|orders in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 E3/E03 Victory of the Daleks\|the air force of Spitfires armed with Dalek weaponry]] to blow their communications array sky high.}} How much of this he planned and how much he [[Indy Ploy\|improvised along the way]] is anyone's guess. * [[You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With]]: Near the beginning, Dorium attempts to educate the villains about the reality of their situation. {{quote\| '''Dorium ''': "Colonel Manton, all those "stories" you've heard about him? They're ''not'' "stories", they're ''true!'' Really, you're not telling me you don't know what's coming?"}} * [[You Look Familiar]]: The Doctor's old acquaintences Strax and Vastra, even though we've never seen them ~~before -- but~~before—but we have seen that actor playing a Sontaran and that actor playing a Silurian. ** In Strax's case the two characters were clones so naturally they look alike. * [[Younger Than They Look]]: You wouldn't guess by looking at him, but {{spoiler\|Strax is less than twelve years old}}. * [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Or in this case, your {{spoiler\|daughter is in another body}}. Line 358: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Doctor Who (TV)/Recap~~{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] ~~[[Category:Doctor Who S 32 E 7 A Good Man Goes To War]]~~ [[Category:Recap]] [[Category:Doctor Who/Recap]]

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