Good Night

[TARDIS]

(The Doctor walks down the TARDIS stairs whistling, carrying a euphonium. He opens the TARDIS doors and shouts outside.)

DOCTOR: River! I'll see you later! Er, tell Marilyn she's too late, she'll have to use the biplane! Take care!

(More whistling and he sonics the euphonium then fiddles with TARDIS controls)

AMY: Do you do this every night?

(Amy is sitting on the stairs watching him, wearing her nightdress)

DOCTOR: Whoah!

(He hides the euphonium behind his back)

DOCTOR: Hello.

AMY: You're trying to conceal a euphonium. Guiltily. Has that ever been attempted before?

DOCTOR: What? Oh this, oh yeah it's just one of those um... euphoniums.

AMY: Okay, so is this what you do at night when we're sleeping? Have extra adventures?

DOCTOR: I don't sleep as much as you, I keep busy.

AMY: Doing what? And actually tell me for once. You're my friend. My best friend, so tell me what it is you do!

DOCTOR: Okay. I just helped out a possessed orchestra on a moonbase. Before that I prevented two supernovas, wrote a history of the universe - all in jokes - and did a bit of locum work in Brixton. Lovely practice, very short staffed. What's wrong?

AMY: We're all such tiny parts of your life aren't we? All the friends you make just flicker in and out, you must hardly notice us.

DOCTOR: Amy, you are enormous parts of my life. And you are all I ever remember.

AMY: Speaking of which... My life doesn't make any sense.

DOCTOR: I know

AMY: That's what I've been trying to talk to you about.

DOCTOR: I know.

AMY: Like, when I, when I first met you I didn't have parents - I never had parents. And then you did whatever it was you did and rebooted the universe and , and suddenly I had parents. And I've always had parents. And I remember both lives in my head - both of them in my head at the same time.

DOCTOR: And it's fine, isn't it?

AMY: Yeah but it shouldn't be. Why is it fine?

DOCTOR: Rory was a Roman for 2000 years!

AMY: He says he hardly remembers it.

DOCTOR: Ah! But sometimes you catch him just staring. The thing is, Amy, everyone's memory is a mess. Life is a mess. Everyone's got memories of a holiday they couldn't have been on or a party they never went to, or met someone for the first time and felt like they've known them all their lives. Time is being rewritten all around us, every day, people think their memories are bad but their memories are fine. The past is really like that.

AMY: That's ridiculous.

DOCTOR: Ah, now you're starting to get it!

(The Doctor claps, gets up and walks towards the TARDIS controls)

DOCTOR: Put your hand here.

AMY: What is it?

DOCTOR: The TARDIS telepathic circuits.

AMY: What do I do?

DOCTOR: Nothing. Just relax. Your saddest ever memory was.. at a fairground in 1994, can you remember why?

AMY: No. Hang on did I... did I drop an ice cream? That can't be my saddest memory.

DOCTOR: Remembering ice cream's always sad.

(TARDIS materialising sound)

AMY: Did we just land? Where are we?

DOCTOR: What happened after you dropped your ice cream?

AMY: Nothing I.. I cried. No, no hang on there was a lady and she bought me another one.

DOCTOR: Oh, good for her - what did she look like?

AMY: She looked like she.. she had a funny dress, a nightdress. She had red hair. Doctor...

(The Doctor is standing by the TARDIS door)

AMY: I don't understand! Why are you doing this, what is the point?

DOCTOR: The nice lady. What did she say to you?

AMY: Cheer up. Have an ice cream.

DOCTOR: Amy. Time and Space is never, ever going to make any kind of sense. A long time ago, you got the best possible advice on how to deal with that. So, I suggest.. you go and give it.

(The Doctor opens the TARDIS doors. You can hear children laughing)

AMY: Okay, okay so I ask a big, important question about life and you're basically telling me to go and buy myself an ice cream.

DOCTOR: No Amy, I'm telling you to go and buy us both ice creams. I love fairgrounds.

AMY: I hate you.

DOCTOR: No you don't. Do you get a bit scared on ghost trains? I get a bit scared so is it okay if I hold your hand?

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

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