First Night

[Stormcage Containment Facility]

(There is thunder and lightning outside. River is writing in her diary. The TARDIS is flying towards her)

[TARDIS]

(River enters the TARDIS)

RIVER: (noticing a dress hanging up) The dress is a little daring.

DOCTOR: Yep so I went for this instead.

RIVER: Are we going out?

DOCTOR: Parents are asleep. How's Stormcage?

RIVER: I'm on the first night of twelve thousand consecutive life sentences, kind of early to say. Where are we going?

DOCTOR: Calderon Beta. Boring, planet of the chip shops, but there is a four-hundred-foot tree growing out of a clifftop on the north side of a mountain in the middle of the sea and if you take the lift to the top and look up at exactly twelve minutes past midnight on the 21 September 2360 you can see more stars in one sky than at any other moment in the history of the universe. It's like daylight, only magic. You could read a book by it.

RIVER: Is it okay if I don't?

DOCTOR: We've got ten minutes, get dressed.

RIVER: Oh, that's so close to the perfect sentence.

DOCTOR: Hmmm. Did you bring the diary?

RIVER: It's a diary?

DOCTOR: It is now because River from now on there are rules.

RIVER: Ooh, you've gone all strict. Not that I mind.

DOCTOR: River, you and I, it's all in the wrong order, we never meet in sequence. You put everything in the diary, so we know where we are.

RIVER: Put what in the diary? Sweetie, I'm in the highest security prison in all of the known universe.

DOCTOR: River Song could walk in and out of that prison like the walls aren't there.

RIVER: I'm River Song.

DOCTOR: Then you'll be fine. If you don't like the dress, there's plenty more in the wardrobe - first right, second left, just past the helter-skelter.

(TARDIS materialising sound)

(River Song smiles and runs off to the wardrobe)

(There are explosions and gunfire outside the TARDIS door. The Doctor runs and opens the door, and River falls through it, she is being attacked)

DOCTOR: River!

RIVER: I knew you'd come back here. You nostalgic idiot. Hold me!

DOCTOR: River! River! River! River!

(River falls in his arms and looks as if she is dead)

Transcript by Shauny. The transcripts are for educational and entertainment purposes only. All other copyrights property of their respective holders.

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