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Overview

First aired

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Production Code

1.12

Written by

Steven Moffat

Directed by

Toby Haynes

Runtime

50 minutes

Story Type

Series Finale, Two-Parter

Time Travel

Past, Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Companion Doppelgänger, Consequences, Deadlock Seal, Doctor imprisoned, Flashbacks, Meeting in the wrong order, Mind Control, Spaceship, Spoilers, Stone Circle, Time Travel Pivotal

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Crack in time, Silence Will Fall

Inventory (Potential Spoilers!)

Sonic Screwdriver

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Stonehenge, Earth, England, Leadworth, Stormcage

UK Viewers

7.57 million

Appreciation Index

88

Synopsis

A Van Gogh painting ferried across thousands of years offering a terrifying prophecy, a message on the oldest cliff-face in the universe and a love that lasts a thousand years: in 102 AD England, Romans receive a surprise visit from Cleopatra. Nearby, Stonehenge hides a legendary prison-box. As it slowly unlocks from the inside, terrible forces gather in the heavens. The fates are closing around the TARDIS. The Pandorica, which contains the most dangerous threat in the Universe, is opening. Only one thing is certain: "The Pandorica will open... Silence will fall".

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Quotes

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The Doctor and Amy
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AMY: That's a Roman Legion.

DOCTOR: Well, yeah. The Romans invaded Britain several times during this period.

AMY: Oh, I know. My favourite topic at school. Invasion of the hot Italians. Yeah, I did get marked down for the title.

— The Pandorica Opens

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Transcript + Script

[France 1890]

(Night. It is raining. In a bedroom, an unappreciated artist is having a breakdown by his new painting of Still Life with Twelve Sunflowers, dedicated to Amy. His doctor is in attendance.)

GACHET: Vincent, can you hear me? Please.
VERNET: It's not enough he goes drinking all round the town. Now the whole neighbourhood has to listen to his screaming.
GACHET: He's very ill, Madame Vernet.

(Madame Vernet looks at another painting, which we do not get to see.)

VERNET: Look at this, even worse than his usual rubbish. What's it supposed to be?

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