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 {{quote| '''Rory''': ''I don't care that you grew old. I care that we didn't grow old together.'' }}
-The Doctor lands the TARDIS, claiming to Amy and Rory that they have arrived at Apalapucia, a futurist holiday resort. But on opening the door, they find themselves in a clinically white room, a single door in front of them. Amy returns to the TARDIS to retrieve her phone, while the Doctor and Rory step ahead and examine the door, which has a panel with two buttons. Rory hits the green top one, revealing yet another clinically white waiting room behind it. They enter it, the door closing behind them. Amy, by now, has left the TARDIS, and, figuring them to have gone through the door, hits the [[Oh Crap|second]] [[Red Pill B Lue Pill|red button]] and enters the room.
+The Doctor lands the TARDIS, claiming to Amy and Rory that they have arrived at Apalapucia, a futurist holiday resort. But on opening the door, they find themselves in a clinically white room, a single door in front of them. Amy returns to the TARDIS to retrieve her phone, while the Doctor and Rory step ahead and examine the door, which has a panel with two buttons. Rory hits the green top one, revealing yet another clinically white waiting room behind it. They enter it, the door closing behind them. Amy, by now, has left the TARDIS, and, figuring them to have gone through the door, hits the [[Oh Crap|second]] [[Red Pill, Blue Pill|red button]] and enters the room.
 Neither party sees the other, causing both to freak out. The Doctor observes a strange lens in the middle of the room. On activation, it allows them to see Amy. They try to have Amy leave the room, but the button on her side doesn't work, and when Rory tries to leave and enter via the second button, Amy's not to be found. The Doctor and Rory are surprised by the appearance of a white, faceless robot with human hands. The Doctor asks the Handbot about the situation and discovers that Apalapucia is in quarantine. It's facing the Chen7 plague that affects beings with two hearts. They're in the Two Streams treatment facility for plague victims and their loved ones. Through the lens, Amy is yelling at them, because she's been there [[Cube|for a week now]]. She doesn't need food or sleep or water. She's just very, very scared.
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 * [[First Kiss]]: What inspires Amy to Paradox. We never see it.
 * [[Foreshadowing]]: "Sometimes knowing your own future is what allows you to change it, especially when you're bloody-minded, contradictory, and completely unpredictable."
-* [[Freeze Frame Bonus]]: The first time that time goes wobbly, you can see Amy pacing, being bored, sitting in various poses. She really was stuck there for a week.
+* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: The first time that time goes wobbly, you can see Amy pacing, being bored, sitting in various poses. She really was stuck there for a week.
 * [[Future Badass]]: Older Amy.
 * [[Genre Blind]]: Leaving Amy in the TARDIS to enter another room, which closes, and then neglecting to tell her ''which'' button to push? [[Idiot Ball|Nice going, boys.]] Strangely, Amy also qualifies. Normally you would ask ''which'' button to push, or at least opt for the (to a human) more natural choice of the green button on the top instead of the lower red button.
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 * [[No Biochemical Barriers]]: Played with. The 'One Day Plague' affects species with two hearts, but humans are fine. Ordinary Apalapucian medicine is probably lethal to humans, but anaesthetics work just fine.
 * [[Noodle Incident]] / [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Older Amy's [[The Slow Path|alternate life]] appears to have been a series of these.
-* [[Off With His Head]]: One of Older Amy's methods for dealing with the handbots.
+* [[Off with His Head]]: One of Older Amy's methods for dealing with the handbots.
 * [[Oh Crap]]: For both Older Amy and the audience -  {{spoiler|Old Amy and the Doctor lock eyes across the gallery and suddenly everyone knows what the Doctor's [[Shoot the Dog|going to do...]]}}
 * [[One Steve Limit|One Amy Limit]]
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 * [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Amy's a remarkable woman indeed if she's managed to remain so stable after her predicament. Even the first week would affect most people a LOT more than what we've seen.
 ** Potentially [[Justified]] in that at the beginning of the episode the Doctor says not only is she in a faster timestream but that time is compressed for her, hence why she didn't feel hungry, didn't need to eat or find it odd she hadn't eaten in a week.
-* [[Separated By the Wall|Separated By The TARDIS Door]]: With a little [[Window Love]] thrown in.
+* [[Separated by the Wall|Separated By The TARDIS Door]]: With a little [[Window Love]] thrown in.
 * [[Shout-Out]]
 ** Robo-Rory = Wilson from ''[[Cast Away]]''.
 *** Oh, an initially deadly robot is now the protagonist's companion. [[Terminator|Sounds familiar?]]
-** "[[Highlander (Franchise)|There can be only one]] Amy!"
+** "[[Highlander|There can be only one]] Amy!"
-** The aesthetic is borrowed from ''[[THX 1138 (Film)|THX 1138]]'' and ''[[Two Thousand and One A Space Odyssey]]''.
+** The aesthetic is borrowed from ''[[THX 1138 (Film)|THX 1138]]'' and ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.
-** When older Amy charges through the Handbots, the sequence is shot like the battles in ''[[Three Hundred]]''.
+** When older Amy charges through the Handbots, the sequence is shot like the battles in ''[[300]]''.
 * [[Skewed Priorities]]: The Doctor has just brought his companions to the second-best planet in the universe... and Amy's primary concern is her phone. The Doctor complains that she's trying to update [[Twitter]], but Amy explains that she wants to take pictures.
 * [[The Slow Path]]: Older Amy. Having run into this once before, she's ''doubly'' pissed off.