"A Pond Farewell"

The Doctor, Amy and Rory after a moment or two of deciding, choose to take a vacation from dangerous traveling. The Doctor remarks to the TARDIS Console to not take them anywhere with anything sharp, pointy, big and growly or, well, evil for once. He flicks the lever and the TARDIS starts up and they end up in Manhattan, 2012. Deciding to simply take in the sights they leave the TARDIS behind in a cloaked state (similar to it doing so in "The Impossible Astronaut"). They then take a taxi to see a Broadway play Amy has heard things about growing up and has pestered Rory to take her to it numerous times. The Doctor and Rory give in, the Doctor with a "love a play" (an homage to River's "love a tomb" line), and the three are off to see "Angelus Est Scriptor Vindicatio". Upon taking their seat the play begins and deals with a man slaying stunt actors dressed in all gray tights. From there the man leaves and flashes back to him encountering more gray tight stunt actors and again slays them. The Doctor looks confused as there has been no dialogue or real effort put in to show what the play actually means or symbolizes. Finally once more the stage opens up with the same man standing center stage, this time with two others. A redheaded woman on one side and a lanky fellow to his other side. As they stand still a rumbling begins and The Doctor grows uncomfortable as Amy and Rory take note of what they're seeing too. From behind the three play actors rises another in a Statue Of Liberty costume who stalks behind them, mutters "Qui utrum eligitis?" and then touches their back. The actors fall with a terrible yelp and die before the spectator's eyes. The Doctor begins to shout for everyone to leave and then sonics the sprinkler system on so everyone flees the theater. Amy points out the stunt doubles in the gray tights are coming back out and they stand next to the Statue of Liberty actor. The Doctor remarks this isn't good as suddenly the lights flicker and the doubles in gray suddenly deform their image into Weeping Angels. The Doctor shouts to run and they do but Amy and Rory are nabbed from behind as he escapes and when he turns back they're gone.

The Doctor rushes to the TARDIS and scans New York City in it's entirety trying to find Amy and Rory to no avail. He then realizes the title of the play translated means "Angel's Revenge" and remembers the Statue Of Liberty. He starts the TARDIS and flies to the Statue.

Meanwhile inside, Amy awakes inside a glass container rigged to a simple looking black tube inside a large empty circular room. A single light illuminates the area around her and she tries to bang it but nothing happens. Another light flickers to show a monitor set on another identical room, but with Rory in a container of his own. She yells for him and he awakes in a similar fright and shouts for her in response. Suddenly an Angel flickers onto Amy's monitor behind Rory's container, but Rory is unaware. Rory turns and nothing is there as it reappears inside Amy's room. She asks what it wants to no response. She asks why imprison them and not kill them. It responds with a low toned female's voice, "he must suffer with another choice."

The TARDIS lands inside the head of the Statue and the Doctor pops out. Nobody greets him to his bewilderment until finally the lights flicker and he turns to see two Angels in front of his TARDIS. He says he's installed more security in the TARDIS since their previous encounter and that they can't simply "have the box" anymore to use. One responds with the same female voice as before, "it is not the box we seek. It is the choice." The Doctor turns as the Angel points behind him to the Angel who was in Amy's room. It's cracked down the side of it's head and an arm is missing. The Doctor makes a snarky remark about giving it a hand for capturing his friends and mimes applause with one hand. The Angel demands "the choice". The Doctor is confused. The Angels behind him suddenly appear at his sides but he reacts quickly and flees the room as they echo, "the choice" behind him. He then slowly progresses down the Statue avoiding detection of a few more Angels before ending up in a room with two doors. He wonders since when has so many rooms existed inside the Statue of Liberty until the cracked Angel reappears stating "it is not unlike your TARDIS. We are just completing it." The Doctor questions this as it demands "the choice" again.

The Doctor then looks to each door seeing a monitor beside each. They flicker on and show Amy and Rory on each one. The Angel raises it's hands. "The choice." The Doctor questions this being the Angels' master stroke plan and laughs at their attempt. The other Angels appear in the room around him now as the Angel speaks, "each room is a separate dimensional lock. You enter one, you cannot go backwards to the other. Nor sideways. Only forwards out of the Statue. Choose one and the other room vanishes forever, not unlike a Time Lock. Once a door opens, the other will vanish with the room." The Doctor questions why they're being held in containers. "One will leave, that is your choice. The other completes it." The Doctor then examines each monitor then turns back, "you're going to use their existence, their being to give life to the Statue of Liberty... a large Weeping Angel with a torch... an unstoppable Angel, with the Artran energy and the time vortex particle back-splash from the TARDIS from every time they traveled that resides invisibly on their person." "Yes. The choice."

The Doctor looks at both monitors and snarls remarking "you're going to make me choose which one I spare from a perpetual nightmare full of solitude... all while they slowly waste away burning up like fuel... And the other experiences it..." "Not perpetual... they will be immediately drained of what energy they have been exposed to inside the TARDIS and disposed of through-" "-a temporal inversion. You're going to erase them from existence while you simultaneously drain them for fuel. Just like the cracks did to you in order to close..." "Yes. The room in it's entirety will cease to ever be. The only fate worse than death is knowing you chose for one you cared about to never exist again, providing what your enemy required to them, and having to live with it. That guilt and pain... that is what is perpetual here, Doctor. The choice. Decide."

The Angels retreat as The Doctor stands between both doors. He puts a hand on each monitor knowing that there's no way to open both doors and is only able to save one companion. The monitors flicker off as they echo, "The choice", again. The Doctor flashes anger across his face, "... when I leave here. I will not stop until every single one of you is gone. Wiped out from existence. I will not stop. I will not slow. I will not be distracted. I am going to find every last one of you... you've always known my choice. Which door is it... Where is she?"

One of the two doors finally open as The Doctor turns his back to it while staring at the Angels. "That room behind the door may disappear. But this one won't. Run. Run for your lives." "The choice was given. But our revenge is not yet over, Doctor." The Doctor looks at the other door as it slowly disappears and steps into the room behind him looking at the Angels. Then he hears them...

"Doctor? Where's Amy? Is Amy with you? Did you get her out of there?" The Doctor's face freezes as he slowly turns and sees Rory in his container confused. The Doctor's mouth trembles as he looks over his shoulder, only the Angel with the crack down it's side is left smiling, "our revenge is done." It vanishes as The Doctor stumbles into a wall, trying to support himself against it. "Doctor, where's Amy? What's going on? Why are we here?"

The Doctor faces Rory and in tears raises his Sonic to Rory's monitor and turns it on to show Amy in her container. "Rory... I'm sor... I'm so sorry..." Rory looks up and knows what's happened instinctively. "You chose me. That's why I heard that damn word every few seconds from outside. You chose me. You chose ME. WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE HER!? WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE AMY?" The Doctor stares at Rory and tries to say he did but Amy's voice is heard in the room. "Doctor?"

"Amy?" "What's going on? Why am I still in here? Is the Doctor with you? Would you stop dawdling and get me out of here already?" "Amy... I can't come. Not... this time." Amy sees through her monitor that The Doctor is in tears and Rory looks like he has no idea what to do with himself behind his glass. "The Angels were asking for a choice. You had to choose between me and Rory, didn't you? You had to pick which one of us lives. You chose Rory." "No, I-" "He should have picked you!" "No, he chose right."

They bicker for a few seconds more until The Doctor finally interjects as Amy asks what's going to happen then. "Your containers are linked together to a single... engine of sorts. When one container is opened the other turns on. It's going to drain you of any sort of energy you may have been exposed to in the TARDIS during our time together. It's going to use it to animate the Statue of Liberty." "You can't just... 'sonic' the engine through here? Open both containers?" "I could, yes. But your room is locked. I can't get in even with the TARDIS. You've been removed from time and space. You're... lost." "And if you open the containers anyway..." "We can escape, you'll still be stuck as the engine inverts and begins flooding your room with the energy used to mix with the ones they planned to take from you. You'll die of poisoning within seconds." "And if I stay inside... and you just free Rory?" "Then the engine turns on, and you'll be gone." "Can you stop the Statue if it animates?" "The Angels only intended to use it as a device for this situation. I can stop the process easily enough from here but it would take at least twenty minutes... the engine will start turn on and we'll lose you within seconds."

Amy realizes her situation and says for The Doctor to free Rory and turn the machine on. Rory refuses but Amy demands he go and take care of River. River can't lose both of her parents. Rory says she has the Doctor to look after her but Amy says River needs a father, not a man she rarely ever sees. She tells Rory to leave and The Doctor to start. The Doctor hesitates and Rory pouts before lowering his head. The Doctor lifts his sonic and frees Rory, he rushes to the monitor to see the machine on Amy's end beginning to turn on. She stares at her monitor to see Rory as Rory stares back through his. "Why do we always have to have these moments through a window..." she wonders as Rory begins to show tears. The Doctor says for him to look away, he shouldn't see it happen but Rory refuses. The process begins and Amy is suddenly paralyzed as her body from her feet slowly begins to disintegrate into yellow dust. "Remember when I said you fell from the sky?" "You said that to the Doctor..." "No, I was telling The Doctor about you... When I said it... I meant it. You did. You fell from the sky and landed in your parents' backyard. When I woke up the next day... you were there. As if you had been there the entire time since a baby. Your parents just showed up with you to school and we found each other."

The Doctor listening lowers his head but keeps listening intently. "We were always meant to be. Even when we were worlds apart we found each other... I love you." "I love you too..." As Rory puts his hand against his screen Amy fades away entirely but whispers something else, and The Doctor sonics the monitor off. Rory tries to compose himself but storms off before The Doctor can say anything else.

Inside the TARDIS, Rory is sitting next to the console as The Doctor pops inside. "I, uh, destroyed the machine. No big giant statue to terrorize the world to fear now. Guess that's one for the good guys-" "One for the good guys? Is that how you see all this? Is that how you're feeling right now? I just lost Amy... I just lost my wife. And all you can do is stand there like an... an... alien to what I'm going through. You only see this as which side has 'won' today. You think of the casualties, sure, but then you saunter off. You walk away and never look back, only to find more to do away with. You're not one of the 'good guys'. Look in the mirror... You're one of them not us."

Rory walks towards the TARDIS door as it lands and The Doctor stares after him in shock. Rory stops at the door and turns back to him, "there's still something you're not telling me. I feel it just like Amy could about you. You're hiding something like you always do." "When you walk out that door... you're not going to remember anything... you're not going to remember Amy. And by association, you're not going to remember me. Because Amy doesn't exist anymore. She never has." "Amy doesn't exist... If there's one thing about Amy is that she existed more than any other person in all of time and space. And no matter what, I'm not going to forget her. I will never forget her, Doctor. What about you?" "I've been exposed to the TARDIS' energy for far too long... I've become too complicated... I'm going to remember, Rory. But not like you. You'll remember her for every good thing you did with her and how much you loved her... I'm going to remember I was the one responsible." Rory tears up as The Doctor approaches him, "it's not fair... why can't I remember too?" "You said I was turning you into me. You didn't want that, and we both know you still don't. I'm sorry." "If I don't remember you, what about River?" "River has been exposed to the TARDIS and has used her Time Vortex Manipulator for too long. She'll remember you both, but by extension you won't remember her. But I'm sure she'll find you and you'll remember her too when you see her. Standing on a street corner, inside a market... You'll know."

Rory nods then exits the TARDIS as The Doctor looks on. Rory slowly walking towards his big blue house begins to clutch his head as all the memories of Amy begin to slip away. He struggles to hang on but is unable to as every last one just disappears. He falls to his knees looking at his house and smiles, "I won't forget you." The Doctor closes his TARDIS door as Rory stands back up shaking his head remarking and wonders why he is out in the cold for with such a pounding noise in his head and walks back home. The Doctor inside the TARDIS breaks down after holding himself together as the TARDIS starts up, he narrates in his head that the voice the Angels were using the entire time was Amy's to communicate to him... they were laughing at him the entire time while he suffered in confusion.

In the end, Rory is upstairs in his bedroom and all of his pictures are now just of him. He grabs one and looks closely at it but can't seem to see anything else. He hears the TARDIS noise from outside and a quick flash to inside his containment room hits him with Amy's whisper, "look in the drawer." Rory sets the picture down and pulls open each drawer but finds nothing. He then looks beside his bed and sees a small blue box with drawers on it. He pulls each one open until finally he slides the top one open. He reaches in and pulls something out, shining gold in his hand. Another flash hits him of Rory falling and then landing in his parents' swimming pool in the backyard. Another of his father pulling him out. Another of him laughing as a small child before falling unconscious and a burst of yellowish orange energy flows out of his mouth and into his parents'...

The closing moment is one last flash of the next day at the school bus stop with young Rory meeting young Amy for the first time. Rory greets her and asks if he can trust her. Amy nods and Rory hands her something saying "no matter what... don't lose it. I may need it again someday." Amy looks down and she's holding a FOB Watch.

The Master's laugh echoes through Rory's head in his bedroom as it opens.