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...until they are attacked by a swordsman and deactivated. Rory looks to his savior. It's Amy, but a much older and much angerier Amy. When she realizes the Doctor can hear her, she reveals that it's been 36 years. 36 years of hell. The Doctor immediately warns Rory that if they option to save the older Amy, they will be unable to go back to rescue the younger version without creating a time paradox. Rory tries to convince Amy to help find her younger self, but she adamantly refuses. She no longer wants to be rescued. She wants to be left the hell alone. Rory is a memory long gone, and the Doctor is her personal devil. If her younger self were to be rescued, she would die, and 36 years would have been for nothing. She tells Rory to just go away. The Last Centurion tries to explain to his wife that age, pain and years of loneliness ''really'' aren't unfamiliar to him.
Rory follows the older Amy into the bowels of the facility, discovering where she has hidden herself from detection. There, her own companion is a (literally) disarmed Handbot, which she has drawn a dorky face on and named "Rory". She also built herself a sonic screwdriver (which she calls a "probe", because ''fuck'' the Doctor's terms), which the Doctor is pretty damn impressed with. Again, the Doctor tries to gain Amy's help but she flatly refuses. He's the one who left her there. He's the one who abandoned her for 36 years. He's the one who didn't check if the planet would be dangerous before landing. "That's not how I travel," he tries to protest, which earns him an extremely painful [[What the Hell, Hero?]] from Rory.
Rory uses the lens to discover younger Amy, in the same room but 36 years prior, sobbing to herself. Rory tries to convince the older Amy to say something to her younger self, but the older Amy can only remain pessimistic, remembering herself on the other end of this conversation and being told there would be no hope. Older Amy just doesn't want to die. And when the time comes for younger Amy to be on the other end of this talk, 36 years from now, she'll say the same thing. But [[Arc Words|time can be rewritten]]. Younger Amy finally convinces her older self to help, not for herself, but for Rory's sake. The revelation sparks a change in the older Amy and she agrees, but only on one condition: the Doctor must rescue ''both'' Amys. Older Amy can live her own life. She can visit the Ponds on Christmas, she can be distant, she can be independent, she'll think of a way to make it work. The Doctor frets, worried about that being too much stress on the TARDIS, but ultimately agrees.
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* [[Action Survivor]]: Older Amy; it's kind of a necessity when you're trapped in an empty facility and hunted non-stop by robots that will unintentionally kill you.
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Apalapucia is under planet-wide quarantine thanks to the plague.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The Doctor's answer to whether or not {{spoiler|[[Tenchi Solution|both Amys can join Rory in the TARDIS]]}}:
{{quote| '''The Doctor:''' Maybe, if I shunted the reality compensators on the TARDIS, recalibrated the [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|doomsday pumpers]], and jettisoned the Karaoke Bar, yes… maybe, yes.}}
* [[Ascetic Aesthetic]] / [[White Void Room]]: The hospital.
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** The check-in girl makes a reference to "Disneyland [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S2 E10 Love and Monsters|Clom]]".
** [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S32 E8 Let's Kill Hitler|"I come in peace! Peace! Peace! Peace! Peace…"]] ([[Hypocritical Humour|Coming from a guy who claimed it would never work.]])
** The [[What the Hell, Hero?]] quote is reminiscent of what [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E13 Journeys End|Davros called the Doctor out on doing]].
** Rory calling the Doctor out on his actions at the end of this episode seemed pretty remiscent of Steven Taylor doing the same, some [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S3 E5 The Massacre|45 years earlier]].
** Amy [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S32 E6 The Almost People|still has issues about]] [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S32 E5 The Rebel Flesh|how real or valid a person is under weird circumstances,]] though the similar themes aren't mentioned by anyone.
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* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: "Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness."
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Older Amy, arguably. Even though she'd just said she'd go down kicking and screaming and fighting, Rory's choice seems to have taken the will out of her.}}
* [[Dual
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Rory, carrying an unconscious Amy, kicks open the door and bursts into the TARDIS.
* [[Eyeless Face]]: The robots have no eyes, instead seeing through sensors in their organic hands. The heads house a syringe launcher to subdue unruly patients.
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* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]: The [[Nerd Glasses]] are a camera/two-way radio.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: {{spoiler|The Doctor shows himself to be [[Manipulative Bastard|unrepentantly manipulative]], getting both Amys and Rory to believe that he could save all three of them, knowing full well that he was never going to bring the Older Amy with them. Worse still, to the Doctor there isn't a choice; he intended from the start to leave the Older Amy behind. He forces Rory to make the choice when he protests and for added cruelty, he takes his hand and makes him lock the door himself.}}
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]: Even after thirty-six years, Rory thinks Amy is ''hot''[[hottip:**:[[Ironic Echo|Eyes front, soldier.]]. "You look great."
* [[Harmful Healing]]: Of the "averts [[No Biochemical Barriers]]" type. All the medicine is meant for lifeforms with two hearts, and Amy can't make the robots understand that it's lethal to her.
* [[Heel Realization]]: Rory forces Older Amy to face her weeping younger self.
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Older Amy.}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Older Amy:''' [[Tear Jerker|Tell Amy... Your Amy... I'm giving her the days. The days with you. Days to come... Days I can't have. Take them, please... I'm giving you my days.]] }}}}
* [[Hey
* [[Hipster]]: The Doctor is the ultimate hipster, taking Rory and Amy to the ''second'' most popular tourist destination because the first is over-run by coffee shops.
* [[Hope Spot]]: After both Amys are in the same time stream, there's a few moments of awkwardness, but soon Rory starts making jokes about the benefits of having two of his wife. Maybe this can work after all, the audience thinks...and then Old!Amy and the Doctor lock eyes across the gallery...
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: During a pretty serious scene, both Amys start doing the Macarena. Whiplashes back once Rory explains the significance: {{spoiler|[[Adorkable|that's what they had their first kiss to]]}}.
* [[Mrs. Robinson]]: Older Amy towards Rory, who flirts with him in front of her ''younger self''.
** When Rory asks her to stop, she mentions that in all the times they dressed up, [[Head
* [[My Eyes Are Up Here]]: Rory stares for a bit too long at a naked statue, then at Older Amy. The Doctor, watching through the [[Nerd Glasses]], says "Eyes front, soldier." Older Amy says the same.
* [[My Future Self and Me]]
** [[Future Me Scares Me]]: Older Amy is ''intimidating''.
* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Older Amy wears them briefly but they are mostly worn by Rory.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Both the Doctor, for taking them to the second most beautiful planet ''after'' it's been hit by a devastating plague, and Rory, for telling Amy "Push the button" while omitting the small detail of which button to push.
* [[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.
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** "Glasses are cool".
** The (in)famous fez gets mentioned again.
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Rory can only choose to save one of his wives; the young, cheerful Amy he set out to protect, or the older, bitter Amy who is desperate to not be abandoned again. {{spoiler|In the end, he chooses the younger one, at Older Amy's behest.}} See [[What the Hell, Hero?]] below for the quote that sums it up.
** For bonus points, {{spoiler|Older Amy could understand what he went through as the Last Centurion, or he could spare younger Amy that fate. He rejected the selfish choice, but only with help. "If you love me, don't let me in."}} This episode is effectively "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 E07 Amys Choice|Rory's Choice]]".
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Brief, but it's there.
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* [[Take a Third Option]]: In order to avoid a [[Temporal Paradox]], only one Amy can be saved... until the Doctor says to hell with paradoxes and that he'll save them both. {{spoiler|In the end, it's an aversion. The Doctor lied about it so that Older Amy would help them.}}
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: The handbots are nice enough to stop and let Older Amy tell the interface about this nice boy on earth before swarming in to kill her.
* [[Temporal Paradox]]: The [[Timey
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Rory gives the Doctor an epic put-down in this episode;
{{quote| '''Rory''': This is ''your'' fault! You should look in a history book once in a while! See if there's an outbreak of plague or not!<br />
'''Doctor''': That is not how I travel-<br />
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** And also, if the inhabitants of a major tourist planet had thought to incorporate more judgment and biological scanning equipment than God gave a mosquito into their beyond-state-of-the-art quarantine facility and its robots, they might actually check to see if a given alien is even capable of carrying the plague, never mind what medications work on it.
* [[We Named the Monkey Jack]]: Rory the Handbot.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]:
** Until younger!Amy can sway her opinion, older!Amy spends the whole episode viciously grilling the Doctor.
{{quote| '''Amy:''' I waited. I waited for you. ''I waited.''}}
** "This isn't fair. You're turning me into ''you!"''
* [[Yank the
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: The different rates of time passage between the Red Waterfall and the Green Anchor.
** Justified: Since the planet is a plague facility, the plague sufferers who would be dead in a day get to live a full lifetime. The visitors need to stay in a normal timestream, hence the other side of the planet.
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