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Doctor Who S5 • Episode 4

The Time of Angels

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DOCTOR: The writing, the graffiti. Old High Gallifreyan. The lost language of the Time Lords. There were days, there were many days, these words could burn stars and raise up empires, and topple gods.

AMY: What does it say?

DOCTOR: Hello, sweetie.

The Time of Angels
Amy and The Doctor, looking at the Home Box

“Like I said on the dancefloor, you might want to find something to hang on to.”

— River Song, The Time of Angels
River Song

DOCTOR: Parked us? We haven't landed.

RIVER: Of course we've landed. I just landed her.

DOCTOR: But, it didn't make the noise.

RIVER: What noise?

DOCTOR: You know, the (wheezing).

RIVER: It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the brakes on.

DOCTOR: Yeah, well, it's a brilliant noise. I love that noise.

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The Doctor, doing his TARDIS impression

AMY: How come you can fly the TARDIS?

RIVER: Oh, I had lessons from the very best.

DOCTOR: Well, yeah.

RIVER: It's a shame you were busy that day.

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Amy and River in the TARDIS

AMY: Aren't you going to introduce us?

DOCTOR: Amy Pond, Professor River Song.

RIVER: Ah, I'm going to be a Professor some day, am I? How exciting. Spoilers.

The Time of Angels
River Song on the beach

RIVER: Where are we up to? Have we done the Bone Meadows?

AMY: What's the book?

DOCTOR: Stay away from it.

AMY: What is it though?

DOCTOR: Her diary.

RIVER: Our diary.

DOCTOR: Her past, my future. Time travel. We keep meeting in the wrong order.

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River Song looking through her diary

“A Weeping Angel, Amy, is the deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life form evolution has ever produced, and right now one of them is trapped inside that wreckage and I'm supposed to climb in after it with a screwdriver and a torch, and assuming I survive the radiation long enough and assuming the whole ship doesn't explode in my face, do something incredibly clever which I haven't actually thought of yet. That's my day. That's what I'm up to. Any questions?”

— Eleventh Doctor, The Time of Angels
The Doctor, talking to Amy

“I've got pictures of all your faces. You never show up in the right order, though. I need the spotter's guide.”

— River Song, The Time of Angels
River Song, looking up from her diary

“"That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel."”

— Eleventh Doctor, The Time of Angels
The Doctor, reading the book about the Angels, with River in the background

DOCTOR: Each time it moves, it'll move faster. Don't even blink.

AMY: I'm not blinking. Have you ever tried not blinking?

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Amy winking at the Angel

“"The eyes are not the windows of the soul. They are the doors. Beware what may enter there."”

— Eleventh Doctor, The Time of Angels
The Doctor, reading from the book about the Angels

RIVER: A needle in a haystack.

DOCTOR: A needle that looks like hay. A hay-like needle of death. A hay-alike needle of death in a haystack of, er, statues. No, yours was fine.

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Stone Statues

AMY: You're so his wife.

RIVER: Oh, Amy, Amy, Amy. This is the Doctor we're talking about. Do you really think it could be anything that simple?

AMY: Yep.

RIVER: You're good. I'm not saying you're right, but you are very good.

The Time of Angels
River and Amy, laughing

“Ah, good. Scared keeps you fast. Anyone in this room who isn't scared is a moron.”

— Eleventh Doctor, The Time of Angels
The Doctor, talking to the clerics

“"What if we had ideas that could think for themselves? What if one day our dreams no longer needed us? When these things occur and are held to be true, the time will be upon us. The Time of Angels."”

— River Song, The Time of Angels
The Doctor in the foreground, with a torch. River is reading from a book in the background

DOCTOR: Didn't anyone every tell you there's one thing you never put in a trap? If you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never, ever put in a trap.

ANGEL BOB: And what would that be, sir?

DOCTOR: Me.

The Time of Angels
The Doctor, firing a gun up in the air

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