Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Girl Who Waited (2011)

Karen Gillan: Amy Pond

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• Old Amy Pond : All those boys chasing me, but it was only ever Rory. Why was that?

  Amy Pond : You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful, and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later, they're as dull as a brick. Then there's other people and you meet them and you think, "Not bad, they're okay." And then you get to know them and... and they're face just sort of... becomes them, like their personality is written all over it. And they just... they turn into something so beautiful.

  Old Amy Pond : [Together]  Rory's the most beautiful man I've ever met.

• Amy Pond : In fact I think I can now definitely say I hate him. I hate the Doctor. I hate him more than I have hated anyone in my life and you can hear every word of this through those ridiculous glasses, can't you, Raggedy Man?

  The Doctor : Uh, yes. Putting the speakerphone on.

  Amy Pond : You told me to wait, and I did. A lifetime.

  The Doctor : Amy!

  Amy Pond : You've got nothing to say to me.

  The Doctor : Amy, behind you!

• Rory : It's like you're not even her.

  Amy Pond : 36 years, 3 months, 4 days of solitary confinement. This facility was built to give people the chance to live. I walked in here and I died. Do you have anything to say? Anything, Doctor?

  The Doctor : [in awe]  Where did you get a sonic screwdriver?

  Amy Pond : I made it. And it's a sonic probe.

  Rory : You made a sonic screwdriver?

  Amy Pond : [emphatic]  Probe.

• [in Amy's shelter by the time engines, Rory is startled by a Handbot] 

  Rory : Oh!

  [it turns, revealing a smiling face drawn on its head] 

  Amy Pond : Don't worry about him. Sit down, Rory.

  [Rory does. So does the Handbot. They look at each other] 

  Rory : You named him after me?

  Amy Pond : I needed a bit of company.

  Rory : So he's your...

  Amy Pond : Pet.

  Rory : Is it safe?

  Amy Pond : Yep. I disarmed it.

  Rory : How?

  [Rory notices that its hands are gone, severed] 

  Rory : Ohh! You, uh, you dis-armed it.

  Amy Pond : Oh, don't get sentimental; it's just a robot. You'd have done the same.

  The Doctor : [in the TARDIS, watching]  I don't think that I would've.

  Rory : And there he is: the voice of God! "Survive, because no one is going to come for you." Number one lesson. You taught me that.

  The Doctor : [over the glasses]  Is that really all I've taught you?

  Amy Pond : Don't you lecture me, blue-box man, flying through time and space on whimsy. All I've got, all I've had for 36 years is cold, hard reality. So, no, I don't have a sonic screwdriver, because I'm not off on a romp. I call it what it is: a probe; and I call my life what it is: hell.

• Old Amy Pond : [putting on Rory's glasses]  They look ridiculous.

  Rory : That's what I told him. Still, anything beats a fez, eh?

  [they both briefly laugh] 

  Rory : What is it?

  Old Amy Pond : I think that's the first time I've laughed in 36 years.

• Amy Pond : You didn't save me.

  Rory : [shudders]  Bu- *This* is the saving! This is the us saving you! The Doctor just got the

  Rory : [shouting aside, enraged]  *timing a bit out*!

  The Doctor : [mouthing]  Sorry.

• Old Amy Pond : Do you remember that summer when he came back to school with that ridiculous haircut?

  Amy Pond : He said he'd been in a rock band.

  Old Amy Pond : Liar. And then he had to learn to play the guitar.

  Old Amy Pond : So we wouldn't know he couldn't play it.

• [first lines] 

  The Doctor : Appalappachia.

  Amy Pond : Say it again?

  The Doctor : Appalappachia!

  Amy Pond : Appalappa...

  The Doctor : -chia!

  Rory : Appalappachia.

  The Doctor : Appalappachia.

  Amy Pond : Appalappachia! What a beautiful word.

  The Doctor : Beautiful word, beautiful world.

  Amy Pond : [the Doctor throws a lever, the room shifts]  Ooh!

  The Doctor : Appalappachia, voted number two planet in the Top Ten Greatest Destinations for the Discerning Intergalactic Traveler.

  Rory : Why couldn't we go to number one?

  The Doctor : It's *hideous*! *Everyone* goes to number one, planet of the coffee shops! Appalappachia, I give you sunsets; spires; soaring, silver colonnades; I give you, ahh!

  [the TARDIS opens to a small, all-white room with a pair of closed, gray sliding doors under a white arch and a small chrome panel to the right of it with two buttons labeled "GREEN ANCHOR" and "RED WATERFALL". The room is otherwise completely featureless] 

  Rory : Doors.

  The Doctor : Doors. Yes. I mea-, I- I-, I give you doors. But on the other *side* of those doors I give you sunsets; spires; soaring silver colonnades.

• The Doctor : [to Amy through the resynced glass]  It's OK, I've got you, you're fine.

  Handbot : [to Rory]  Will you be visiting long?

  Rory : Doctor, a little help, Doctor.

  Amy Pond : And where have you been?

  Handbot : Will you be visiting long?

  Rory : What do I tell it?

  Amy Pond : I have been here for a week!

  The Doctor : A WEEK?

  Rory : A *week*?

  The Doctor : I'm so sorry! Ah-ha, same room, different times. Two different time streams running parallel but at different speeds. Amy, you're in a faster timestream!

  Amy Pond : Doctor, it's going again!

  [Handbot moves its hand threateningly close to Rory's face; he flinches away] 

  Rory : Doctor!

  The Doctor : Amy!

  Amy Pond : Doctooor!

• [a light suddenly shines down in a beam onto Amy Pond] 

  Interface : Welcome to the Two Streams facility!

  [the light switches off] 

  Amy Pond : Um, who are you and why can't I see you?

  Interface : [the ceiling tile lights up and shines on her again]  I am the Interface between yourself and the systems of the Two Streams facility. I will be your guide, your teacher, your friend.

  [the light switches off and a video wall panel behind the counter shows the Check-In Girl] 

  Check-In Girl : Welcome to Two Streams. What is your name, please?

  Amy Pond : Amy. Amy Pond.

  Check-In Girl : Welcome, Amy Pond. I see you're traveling alone. As a resident, you will now have access to all of the entertainment zones inside. For a taste of adventure, why not try the Mountain Zone and explore Appalappachia's famous glass-mirror mountains? Or try our Roller Coaster Zone, authentically modeled on the famous Warp Speed Death Ride at Disneyland Clom. All you could wish for, and more, is through the depature gate, provided for you with kindness.

• Amy Pond : I'm gonna pull time apart for you.

• Amy Pond : Macarena.

• Old Amy Pond : [locked out of the Tardis]  Rory, please. The look on your face when you carried her... me... *her*. When you carried her away. You used to look at me like that. I'd forgotten how much you loved me. I'd forgotten how much I loved being her: Amy Pond, in the TARDIS with Rory Williams.

  Rory : I'm sorry, I can't do this.

  [goes to unlock the TARDIS door] 

  Old Amy Pond : If you love me, don't let me in. Open that door, I will... I'll come in. I don't want to die. I won't bow out bravely. I'll be kicking and screaming, fighting to the end.

  Rory : [crying]  Amy... Amy, I love you!

  Old Amy Pond : [crying]  I love you too! Don't let me in. Tell Amy, your Amy, I'm giving her the days: the days with you, the days to come...

  Rory : I'm so, so sorry.

  Old Amy Pond : ...the days I can't have. Take them, please. I'm giving you my days.

  Rory : I'm so, so sorry.

• Amy Pond : 'cos here's the deal. You take me too. In the Tardis. Me too.

  Rory : But that means there'd be two of you. Permanently. Forever.

  Amy Pond : And that means we both get to live.

  Rory : [to the Doctor]  Two Amys. Together. Can that work?

  The Doctor : [In the Tardis, watching]  I don't know. It's your marriage.

• [last lines] 

  The Doctor : I'll, uh, leave you two alone.

  Rory : You all right?

  Amy Pond : Mmm hmm.

  Rory : How are you feeling?

  Amy Pond : Where is she?

• Amy Pond : Have you seen my phone?

  The Doctor : Your phone?

  Amy Pond : Yeah.

  The Doctor : Your mobile telephone. I bring you to a paradise planet 2 billion light-years from Earth and you want to update... Twitter!

  Amy Pond : "Sunsets; spires; soaring silver colonnades." It's a camera phone.

  The Doctor : On the counter, by the DVDs.

  Amy Pond : Thank you.

• Rory : You've been crying. A little bit.

  Old Amy Pond : Shut up, Rory.

  Rory : You have, haven't you?

  Old Amy Pond : Woman with a sword. Don't push it.

• Amy Pond : [holding Older Amy's staff unsteadily as a handbot approaches]  Amy?

  Old Amy Pond : Kate Hailer. Year 10 hockey.

  Amy Pond : Go for the shins.

  [slashes the handbot's legs with the staff, knocking it down] 

• Amy Pond , Old Amy Pond : Okay, this is weird... Alright, stop doing that.

  Rory : How about Amy One speaks first?

  Amy Pond , Old Amy Pond : Which one's Amy One?

  Rory : Well...

  Amy Pond , Old Amy Pond : I am!... No, I am!... Rory?

• Rory : [referring to the handbot]  Is it safe?

  Old Amy Pond : Yeah. I disarmed it.

  Rory : How?

  [he sees that it has no hands] 

  Rory : Oh. You disarmed it.

• Amy Pond : Rory tell her!

  Old Amy Pond : Rory tell her!