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{{quote|''What if we had ideas that could think for themselves? What if, one day, our dreams no longer needed us? When these things occur and are held to be true, the time will be upon us: [[Title Drop|the time of Angels]].''}}
In the 51st Century, [[Timey-Wimey Ball|Not-Yet-Professor]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E08 Silence in the Library|River Song]] carves a message in Old High Gallifreyan onto the "home box" (like a black box) of a starliner, the ''Byzantium''. 12,000 years later, the Doctor and Amy come across the message while the Doctor’s [[
Much to Amy’s curiosity and the Doctor’s resentment, River takes control of the TARDIS. She learned how to pilot it from the best pilot there is. The Doctor was sick that day. The team follows the Byzantium to where it has
As the clerics work on breaking into the temple, the Doctor and friends work on decoding the mystery of the Angels with a four-second clip of the Angel in the Byzantium and an old Alfava
A light-producing ‘gravity globe' activated inside the catacombs reveals a disconcertingly large amount of statues, which the Angel is using as cover. The Doctor begins to explore, giving Octavian and River the chance to have a conversation revealing that they’re keeping something from him, something involving a spell in prison on River’s part which could conceivably prevent the Doctor from helping them. Meanwhile, a group of clerics investigating the one clear exit from the catacombs are being gradually picked off by the Weeping Angel, all after being summoned over the radio by their apparently dead colleagues and having their necks snapped, and Amy’s problems with her eye begin to increase when, after rubbing it, she feels sand pouring out.
As the party investigates deeper into the temple, the Doctor and River [[Fridge Horror|realize something terrible which has been staring them in the face all this time]]
Finding themselves directly under the hull of the Byzantium, the party’s torches are failing as the Angels continue to draw power and grow stronger. The Angels appear over the radio to taunt the Doctor for failing them all, hoping to make him angry. Unfortunately for them, it seems to
“''[[Badass Boast|Me.]]''”
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* [[Actionized Sequel]]: Moffat described this as ''[[Aliens]]'' to the ''Alien'' of "Blink".
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** And speaking of the museum, the Doctor seems to keep running into River in the vicinity of the universe's largest storehouses of knowledge.
* [[Church Militant]]: The Bishop, along with Sacred Bob, Angelo, Christian and crew.
** Subverted in that they're a very nice group of
** Their armbands, white cross on maroon field, mark them as the Knights of Malta.
* [[Colonel Badass|Colonel
* [[Commercial Pop-Up]]: Those fans watching on [[BBC 1]] in many regions were [[Sarcasm Mode|uniformly delighted]] to be presented with [[Mood Whiplash|a brightly-coloured animated banner complete with a caricature of Graham Norton]] for yet another talent show. ''During the cliffhanger.'' They might as well "[[Charlie Brooker|just wipe s*** all over the screen during the final scene of Dr. Who next week]]".
** It's the second time Graham Norton has turned up in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' when he's not wanted, the first time being some wire mix-up leaking sound from BBC3 during "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E01 Rose|Rose]]".
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