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The story starts with the Doctor and Nasreen walking along a bridge in the Silurian civilisation with the Doctor explaining his |
The story starts with the Doctor and Nasreen walking along a bridge in the Silurian civilisation with the Doctor explaining his interest in the technological advances since he has last met them. They find themselves in a corridoor covered in plants long thought extinct, the pair are inveitably captured by the Silurian soldiers and taken to a disection room. |
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interest in the technoligical advances since he has last met them. They find themselves in a corridoor covered in plants long thought extinct, the pair are inveitably captured by the Silurian soldiers and taken to a disection room. Meanwhile, in another disection room Amy is about to be disected by a Silurian doctor, who is called off moments before he disects Amy by an alarm. The |
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Silurian doctor sees Amy stuggling and uses a circular device to lock her hands into it, when the alarm goes off he shoves the device into her hands before he leaves, believing human thumbs to be inanimate growths caused by interbreeding. Amy uses her thumb to unlock the clamps around her arms and free the other prisoner, soon finding small chambers each with a warrior in it, Amy deduces that they are hibernation pods, with each warrior standing on a transort disc that takes them to the surface quickly, they take the weapon from two of the warriors so they have somthing to fight with. While walking through a corridoor it turns out that the prisoner is Elliot's father after seeing him in a stasis chamber. In the church, while the group are awaiting the Doctor's and Nasreen's return, Ambrose notces her father's injury from Alaya's sting, so she goes to Alaya's room and asks her to tell her what the cure is |
Meanwhile, in another disection room Amy is about to be disected by a Silurian doctor, who is called off moments before he disects Amy by an alarm. The Silurian doctor sees Amy stuggling and uses a circular device to lock her hands into it, when the alarm goes off he shoves the device into her hands before he leaves, believing human thumbs to be inanimate growths caused by interbreeding. Amy uses her thumb to unlock the clamps around her arms and free the other prisoner, soon finding small chambers each with a warrior in it, Amy deduces that they are hibernation pods, with each warrior standing on a transort disc that takes them to the surface quickly, they take the weapon from two of the warriors so they have somthing to fight with. While walking through a corridoor it turns out that the prisoner is Elliot's father after seeing him in a stasis chamber. |
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In the church, while the group are awaiting the Doctor's and Nasreen's return, Ambrose notces her father's injury from Alaya's sting, so she goes to Alaya's room and asks her to tell her what the cure is. Alaya simply mocks Ambrose's efforts to threaten her with an electrical stun gun, deliberately provoking Ambrose into killing her to trigger a war. |
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Meanwhile, the Doctor and Nasreen are clamped onto the operating tables, Nasreen is knocked unconcious but the Doctor is kept awake for interrogation, the Silurians use deprocessisation that destroys anything in-human about them. The scientists then realise that the Doctor has two hearts, so they turn the machine off a Silurian scientist uses a rod similar to the Doctor's sonic Screwdriver to wake up Nasreen, they then release them and take them to the conference room, Amy and the prisoner arrive, armed with the Silurian guns, they storm the room but are overwhelmed by the dozens of Silurian guards, are tied to the railings on the wall, and are about to be used for target practice when the ambassador arrives and orders them to be untied. Back at the church, rory and the gang have wrapped Alaya's body in an orange fishing net, then the screen on an unplugged computer comes to life, apearing on it the leader of the Silurian army, saying she has they're friends as hostages, the Doctor starts tellng Rory that if they bring Alaya back, the Silurians will leave them alone, the screen then turns into a blur, then switches off completely. |
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Later, the group arrive in the conference room with Alaya's body and lie it on the floor, the entire Silurian army begins pursuing the Doctor and his friends. Ambrose's dad is put into a chamber to stop the infection from Alaya's sting getting into his blood, the process itself takes about 30 minutes but the drill has been activated and will destroy the Silurian civilisation in 15 minutes. Ambrose's dad says that he is staying behind, Nasreen then decides she will stay with him. The Doctor and his friends run to the TARDIS to escape, but the Doctor realises the crack from Amy's bedroom wall as a child, the leader of the Silurian army appears, having been poisoned by gas shoots at the Doctor before dieing. Rory pushes the Doctor out of the way and takes the blast, dying in Amy's arms, the Doctor see's energy from the crack travelling up Rory's leg and then recalls what he said to Amy in the forest at the ''Byzantium'' "If the time energy catches up with you you will never have been born!" |
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The Doctor then pries Amy away from Rory's lifeless body, locks her in the TARDIS and takes off, watching Rory's body dissipate into the crack. |
The Doctor then pries Amy away from Rory's lifeless body, locks her in the TARDIS and takes off, watching Rory's body dissipate into the crack. Despite the Doctor's best efforts to keep Amy's mind focused, Amy loses all memory of Rory- although it is implied that the Doctor still remembers him-, with the final shot as the Doctor and Amy depart showing the future Amy they witnessed earlier watching the village, now on her own. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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| Directed by | Ashley Way | ||
| Written by | Chris Chibnall | ||
| Script editor | TBA | ||
| Produced by | Peter Bennett | ||
| Executive producer(s) | Steven Moffat Piers Wenger Beth Willis | ||
| Production code | 1.9 | ||
| Series | Series 5 | ||
| Running time | 45 minutes | ||
| First broadcast | 29 May 2010[1] | ||
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"Cold Blood" is the ninth episode in the fifth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was broadcast on Saturday 29 May 2010. It was written by Chris Chibnall, best known for his work on the science-fiction series Torchwood.
It is the second episode of a two-part story, the first episode being "The Hungry Earth", which features the return of the Silurians.
Plot
The story starts with the Doctor and Nasreen walking along a bridge in the Silurian civilisation with the Doctor explaining his interest in the technological advances since he has last met them. They find themselves in a corridoor covered in plants long thought extinct, the pair are inveitably captured by the Silurian soldiers and taken to a disection room.
Meanwhile, in another disection room Amy is about to be disected by a Silurian doctor, who is called off moments before he disects Amy by an alarm. The Silurian doctor sees Amy stuggling and uses a circular device to lock her hands into it, when the alarm goes off he shoves the device into her hands before he leaves, believing human thumbs to be inanimate growths caused by interbreeding. Amy uses her thumb to unlock the clamps around her arms and free the other prisoner, soon finding small chambers each with a warrior in it, Amy deduces that they are hibernation pods, with each warrior standing on a transort disc that takes them to the surface quickly, they take the weapon from two of the warriors so they have somthing to fight with. While walking through a corridoor it turns out that the prisoner is Elliot's father after seeing him in a stasis chamber.
In the church, while the group are awaiting the Doctor's and Nasreen's return, Ambrose notces her father's injury from Alaya's sting, so she goes to Alaya's room and asks her to tell her what the cure is. Alaya simply mocks Ambrose's efforts to threaten her with an electrical stun gun, deliberately provoking Ambrose into killing her to trigger a war.
Meanwhile, the Doctor and Nasreen are clamped onto the operating tables, Nasreen is knocked unconcious but the Doctor is kept awake for interrogation, the Silurians use deprocessisation that destroys anything in-human about them. The scientists then realise that the Doctor has two hearts, so they turn the machine off a Silurian scientist uses a rod similar to the Doctor's sonic Screwdriver to wake up Nasreen, they then release them and take them to the conference room, Amy and the prisoner arrive, armed with the Silurian guns, they storm the room but are overwhelmed by the dozens of Silurian guards, are tied to the railings on the wall, and are about to be used for target practice when the ambassador arrives and orders them to be untied. Back at the church, rory and the gang have wrapped Alaya's body in an orange fishing net, then the screen on an unplugged computer comes to life, apearing on it the leader of the Silurian army, saying she has they're friends as hostages, the Doctor starts tellng Rory that if they bring Alaya back, the Silurians will leave them alone, the screen then turns into a blur, then switches off completely.
Later, the group arrive in the conference room with Alaya's body and lie it on the floor, the entire Silurian army begins pursuing the Doctor and his friends. Ambrose's dad is put into a chamber to stop the infection from Alaya's sting getting into his blood, the process itself takes about 30 minutes but the drill has been activated and will destroy the Silurian civilisation in 15 minutes. Ambrose's dad says that he is staying behind, Nasreen then decides she will stay with him. The Doctor and his friends run to the TARDIS to escape, but the Doctor realises the crack from Amy's bedroom wall as a child, the leader of the Silurian army appears, having been poisoned by gas shoots at the Doctor before dieing. Rory pushes the Doctor out of the way and takes the blast, dying in Amy's arms, the Doctor see's energy from the crack travelling up Rory's leg and then recalls what he said to Amy in the forest at the Byzantium "If the time energy catches up with you you will never have been born!"
The Doctor then pries Amy away from Rory's lifeless body, locks her in the TARDIS and takes off, watching Rory's body dissipate into the crack. Despite the Doctor's best efforts to keep Amy's mind focused, Amy loses all memory of Rory- although it is implied that the Doctor still remembers him-, with the final shot as the Doctor and Amy depart showing the future Amy they witnessed earlier watching the village, now on her own.
References
- ^ "Network TV BBC Week 22: Saturday 29 May 2010" (Press release). BBC Press Office. 13 May 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
External links
- Cold Blood on Tardis Wiki, the Doctor Who Wiki
- "Cold Blood" at the BBC Doctor Who homepage