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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/Recap/
Lorna sneaks out, finds Amy and hands her the little embroidered cloth. Amy is too traumatised to talk to her much.
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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/Recap/
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.
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** When the gay married couple talk about the Doctor, they mention the time he [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/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
** 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"]].
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* [[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 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/Recap/
{{quote|'''Boy''': "Will I be okay?"
'''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!"
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* [[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 to mention the 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/Recap/
* [[Lovely Angels]]: Vastra and Jenny, though with no [[Les Yay|subtext]], it's right upfront.
* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: {{spoiler|River reveals she's Amy and Rory's daughter}}.
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* [[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/Recap/
* [[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.
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** 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/Recap/
* [[Only Known by 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?"}}
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