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| Series: | Doctor Who - TV Stories |
| Series Number: | Series 3 |
| Story Number: | 187 |
| Doctor: | Tenth Doctor (cameo) |
| Companions: | Martha Jones (cameo) |
| Enemy: | Weeping Angels |
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| Writer: | Steven Moffat |
| Director: | Hettie MacDonald |
| Producer: | Phil Collinson |
| Broadcast: | 9th June 2007 |
| Format: | 1x45 minute episode |
| Prod. Code: | 190 |
| Previous Story: | The Family of Blood |
| Following Story: | Utopia |
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In an old, abandoned house, the Weeping Angels wait. However, when people start disappearing, a young woman called Sally finds cryptic messages bleeding through from 1969 – messages from a mysterious stranger called the Doctor. But can she decipher them before the Angels claim their prize?
Young photographer Sally Sparrow breaks into an old house (Wester Drumlins) and begins taking photos of the abandoned furniture. She takes a photograph of the letter B, which has been written on the bare wall. She pulls back the wallpaper to reveal the word BEWARE. She tears off more wallpaper, revealing a message telling her to beware of the Weeping Angels, and telling her to “duck, Sally Sparrow.” It is only when she reveals the words “duck now” that she actually does so, narrowly missing a rock that would have hit her head. She looks out the window, from where the rock was thrown, and sees the statue of an Angel with its hands covering its eyes. She peels the rest of the wallpaper off to reveal the writer of the message – “Love from The Doctor, 1969.”
Sally goes to her friend's house, that of a young woman called Katherine Nightingale. The TV is on playing a message of a man with glasses. The man tells the viewer not to turn away, not to look away, and not to blink – “Blink and you’re dead.” She also meets Kathy’s (naked) brother Larry.
The next morning, Kathy and Sally return to the house. Kathy is rather excited about this "investigating", and suggests the title of "Sparrow and Nightingale" for a detective show. Sally shows Kathy the message on the wall and the Weeping Angel, but notices that it is now closer to the house than before. Someone rings the doorbell; eventually, Sally goes to answer it, and Kathy waits upstairs. Kathy notices another Weeping Angel in the room and stares at it before blinking.
Sally answers the door to a man, looking for her. He says that he was told to come to this place on this exact date and time and give Sally Sparrow a letter. When Sally asks who sent him, he replies that it was his grandmother, Katherine Nightingale. Immediately recognising the name, Sally presumes she has figured out the joke and calls for her friend, but Kathy does not answer.
Kathy gets up in a field, and asks a local lad where she is. He replies that she is in Hull, but she refuses to believe it until he shows her the local paper, which not only confirms her location but also shows the date to be 1920.
Eventually, the man persuades Sally to take the letter, which happens to be from Kathy, who died twenty years ago. She explains that she had led a full and happy life (with the first man she met in Hull) and started a family. She includes photographs of her and her children from the past. She also writes that Larry will be working in a local DVD shop. In anger, Sally flings the letter down and heads upstairs to the room where she left Kathy, only to find three Weeping Angels in the room. One of them has a Yale key in its hand. She takes it and seeks out Larry.
When she gets there, she goes into the back of the DVD shop to find Larry. She also sees the man with glasses who gave her the blinking warning on a TV. Larry explains that the man features as an easter egg found on 17 DVDs and no-one, not even the manufacturers, knows how it got there. As they are talking, the DVD keeps un-pausing itself, and the man with glasses says random phrases. In the end, Larry gives her a list of the 17 DVDs that have the Easter Egg on them. She leaves the shop, and gets an idea from Larry’s co-worker ("Why does no-one ever go to the police?") about what to do next.
She goes to the police station, and meets up with DI Billy Shipton. After mentioning the house, he shows her a collection of cars with something strange in common: all of them were found outside the Wester Drumlins house (some with their motors still running) and all of their owners vanished without a trace. He then shows her a fake police phone box, with a lock that will not open. Billy coerces Sally to give him her mobile number before she leaves. ("Life is short, and you are hot.") In giving him her number, Sally makes a Freudian slip about her name ("Sally Shipton... I mean Sparrow. Sally Sparrow!"), and she rushes out, terribly embarrassed. After she leaves, he sees the Weeping Angels in the room with him, surrounding the phone box. He blinks.
Outside, Sally finds the key she took from the Angel’s hand in her coat pocket. She heads back to the garage to try it out, but both Billy and the police box have gone, and the outside door is broken, seeming forced open with violence.
Billy gets up to see the Doctor and Martha, who inform him that he is now in 1969, because of the “touch of an Angel.” After they talk, the Doctor asks Billy to give Sally Sparrow a message, and apologises for the long wait…
Back in the present, Sally gets a phone call. She goes to visit Billy Shipton, who is an old, dying man in a hospital bed. His message from the Doctor is to “look at the list”, the list being the DVD list Larry gave her. He mentions that he got into video production in the past, and she realises that he was the one who put the Easter Eggs on the DVDs. He also says that she will understand one day, but that he won’t; the Doctor has told him that this is their last meeting, and that he has only as long as the rain stops before he dies. She decides to stay with him until the end.
Later on, after the rain has stopped, Sally calls Larry. She says that she has realised what the DVDs on “the list” all have in common. They are all owned by her; specifically they are the ONLY DVDs she owns, which means that the Easter Egg must have been meant for her. She asks him to bring a portable DVD player to the old house.
Larry does so, and brings the DVD that has the best sound on the Easter Egg. They play it, and see the full message from the Doctor. He makes the same random comments from the video store, but now they fit into what Larry and Sally are saying. Realising this, Sally thinks he can hear them, but Larry explains that he always says it and that he has got a transcript of the Easter Egg with him. As the Doctor gives his message, everything Sally says seems to fit in, so Larry, now very excited, begins to add her words to the transcript.
The Doctor mentions that he has a copy of the transcript on his autocue, and that is how he knows what she is saying. He also warns about creatures from another world, the Weeping Angels. These creatures are incredibly fast, and they can send people back in time, which is how the Doctor got stuck in 1969. These Angels have a unique defence in that, if they are being looked at, they turn to stone, since “stone can’t be killed.” If any living thing looks at the Angels, they immediately turn to stone until they are no longer looked at. He calls this the 'Quantum Lock'. This, he says, explains the “Weeping”; they cannot look at each other, since it has the same effect. These Angels feed off of the days that their victims never had, and now they are looking for the TARDIS. They wish to feast on the energy of the TARDIS, and since Sally has the key, the Angels are after her now. He then says what Sally has already heard; she must keep her gaze on the Angels; she mustn’t turn away, look away, or even blink – “Blink and you’re dead.”
The Doctor is stuck in 1969, so he is relying on Sally to send the TARDIS back to him. When she asks how, he mentions that he has run out of transcript. Indeed, Larry has stopped writing, and they both notice at the same time that neither is looking at the Weeping Angel. They look up, and are shocked to find this Angel has its clawed fingers stretched out towards them, and is baring sharp teeth. Sally tells Larry to stay in the room while she searches for a way out. As she tries all the doors in the house, Larry looks away for a split second, and the Angel moves to right in front of him. Keeping his eyes on it, he leaves the room.
Sally has found the door to the cellar, which is unlocked, so she and Larry head down to see if there is a way out. When they get there, they find the TARDIS, along with the other three Weeping Angels. They head towards the door, keeping their eyes on the Angels. As they get to the TARDIS, Sally realises that the fourth Angel (the one who appeared upstairs with Larry) has appeared by the stairs and is pointing at the light. The light starts to flicker. Since Larry and Sally cannot see in the darkness, the Angels start to move towards Sally and Larry with their claws out and their teeth showing as the humans frantically try and unlock the TARDIS door. At the last minute, they break in.
As they look around a hologram of the Doctor says that the TARDIS has detected an authorised control disc, valid for one journey only; it is the DVD that Larry played to Sally to show her the message. He gets it out to find it glowing, but the Angels are shaking the TARDIS, looking for a way in. He puts it into the console and the TARDIS begins to dematerialise.
Sally realises with shock that the TARDIS is disappearing and she and Larry are not going with it. She screams at the Doctor to help them, even as the TARDIS fades, leaving them standing in the middle of the circle of Angels.
They realise quickly that the angels are frozen. As they were each holding a side of the TARDIS when it dematerialised, the Angels were left looking at each other, permanently locking them into place.
A year later, Sally and Larry are running the DVD store together, but Sally cannot let all that has happened go, and she cannot move on until she discovers who gave the Doctor the transcript and everything else she recorded. When Larry goes out to get some milk, she sees the Doctor and Martha getting out of a taxi, and realises in shock that it was she who gave the Doctor all the information: the transcript, the photos she took of the wall, everything. She rushes outside and passes it on, and warns the Doctor that he will get stuck in 1969 and that that is where it all starts. The Doctor asks her name and she tells him. The Doctor is in a hurry and cannot stay, so he and Martha eventually head off, while Sally clasps Larry’s hand and goes back into the shop, Sparrow and Nightingale's antiquarian books and rare DVDs. At the very end the doctor repeats the warning he gave to Sally, though this time it is directed at the viewer and pictures of recognizable statues are shown.
In addition, although they are never shown moving on screen, all of the Weeping Angels were in fact played by live actors.
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A 'sequel' to this story was released as a webisode on Day 24 of the 2009 Adventure Calendar on the Official Doctor Who website. It was narrated by John Barrowman as Jack Harkness in the style of a ghost story and depicted the abduction of another woman by the Weeping Angels.
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Precognition was a universal Force power.
The ability of foresight was perhaps universal to the Jedi or Force-sensitives and was manifested in the form of Force Visions of future events, or helped the Jedi predict his opponent's movements. Carnor Jax trained in the art. Plo Koon's former Master, Tyvokka was known to have advanced precognition powers.
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Battle Precognition was a variant of precognition that allowed one to sense the flows of the Force Jedi Padawan Tallisibeth Enwandung-Esterhazy (better known as "Scout") had this power. The Jedi Knight Revan and the Jedi Exile were known to be gifted users of Battle Precognition. The Jedi Exile learned this ability from Brianna. Darth Bane also possessed a natural ability for precognition before he even began training as a Sith. Nova Stihl possessed a nearly identical ability, which he called Blink.
The Echani were known to possess a variant of this ability which did not draw from the Force but from the warrior's own instincts. The most elite Echani warriors were able to predict battles and even the course of a war. It was probable that such outcomes grew more likely or unlikely as critical moments approached and passed.
Another variant of precognition was Blink, the name given to an unconscious ability that stormtrooper sergeant Nova Stihl possessed. This power, which was in reality a manifestation of his latent Force-sensitivity, allowed him to anticipate others' actions when engaged in a fight.
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