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The Vampires Of Venice

[Rory is at his stag party; music is playing; there is a paper cake in the middle of the pub. The men cheer for the "beautiful woman" to come out of the cake ("Out, out, out, out..."), however to their surprise the Doctor pops out instead. Rory shakes his head as he realises who it is.]
The Doctor: Rory! [feedback whines; music stops] That's a relief! I thought I had burst out of the wrong cake. Again. That reminds me, there's a girl standing outside in a bikini. Can someone let her in and give her a jumper? Lucy. Lovely girl. [whispers] Diabetic.
[everyone continues staring at him]
The Doctor: Now then, Rory, we need to talk about your fiancée. [Rory smiles] She tried to kiss me. [Crowd draws breath; Rory is visibly shocked] Tell you what though, you're a lucky man; she's a great kisser! [Glass smashes; Doctor realises what he just said] ... Funny how you can say something in your head and it sounds fine.

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[It is Rory's first time in the TARDIS]
The Doctor: It's a lot to take in, isn't it? Tiny box, huge room inside; what's that about? Let me explain...
Rory: It's another dimension.
The Doctor: It's basically another dimensi... what?
Rory: After what happened with Prisoner Zero, I've been reading up on all the latest scientific theories. FTL travel, parallel universes.
The Doctor: I like the bit when someone says "It's bigger on the inside!" I always look forward to that. [The Doctor looks annoyed, then smiles]

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[Discussing the plan for Amy to infiltrate the Calvierri house]
The Doctor: We'll go together, say that you're my... daughter.
Rory: What? Don't listen to him.
Amy: Your daughter? You look about nine.
The Doctor: Brother, then.
Amy: Too weird. Fiancée.
Rory: Uh, I'm not having him running around, telling people he's your fiancée.
Amy: No. No, you're right.
Rory: Thank you.
Amy: I mean, they've already seen the Doctor. You should do it.
Rory: [scoffs, weakly and nervously] Me?
Amy: Yeah. You can be my brother. [she tousles Rory's hair]
[the Doctor chuckles a bit]
Rory: Why is he being your brother weird, but with me it's okay?
Guido: [pointing at the Doctor] Actually, I thought you were her fiancée.
The Doctor: Yeah, that's not helping.

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The Doctor: She was frightened, I was frightened. But we survived, and the relief of it, so she kissed me.
Rory: And you kissed her back?
The Doctor: No. I kissed her mouth.
Rory: [sarcastically] Funny.

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The Doctor: Can't see a thing.
Rory: Well, its a good thing I brought this then. [He produces a tiny torch.]
The Doctor: [Produces a rather larger light] Ultraviolet. Portable sunlight.
Rory: [Stares at the item] Yours is bigger than mine.
The Doctor: Let's not go there.

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Signora Rosanna Calvierri: Where are you from?
The Doctor: Gallifrey.
Signora Rosanna Calvierri: You should be in a museum. [The Doctor laughs] Or in a mausoleum.
The Doctor: Why are you here?
Signora Rosanna Calvierri: We ran from the silence. Why are you here?
The Doctor: Wedding present. The silence?
Signora Rosanna Calvierri: There were cracks. Some were tiny. Some were as big as the sky. Through some we saw worlds and people. And through others we saw silence [pause] and the end of all things.

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Signora Rosanna Calvierri: A partnership. Any which way you choose.
The Doctor: I don't think that's such a good idea. Do you? I'm a Time Lord. You're a big fish. [pause] Think of the children.

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[The Doctor is in a house after rescuing Amy Pond and is thinking]
The Doctor: Argh! I need to think. Come on brain, think, think. Think! Think!
Amy: If they're fish people, it explains why they hate the Sun.
[The Doctor covers Amy's mouth with his right hand]
The Doctor: Stop talking, brain thinking. Hush.
Rory: It's the school thing I don't understand.
[The Doctor covers Rory's mouth with his left hand]
The Doctor: Stop talking, brain thinking. Hush.
Guido: I say we take the fight to them.
The Doctor: Ah-ah-ah!
Guido: What?
The Doctor: Ah!
[The Doctor gestures to Rory with his head; Rory covers up Guido's mouth]
The Doctor: Her planet dies, so they flee through a crack in space and time, and end up here, then she closes up the city and, one by one, changes people into creatures like her to start a new gene pool. Got it! Then what? They come from the sea; they can't survive forever on land, so what's she going to do? Unless she's going to do something to the environment to make it habitable... She said "I would bend the heavens to save my race."
[The Doctor stretches Amy and Rory's mouths]
The Doctor: Bend the heavens...
[The Doctor pushes Amy and Rory's heads up and down]
The Doctor: Bend... the heavens... [realises] She's going to sink Venice.
Guido: She's... she's going to sink Venice?
The Doctor: And repopulate it with the girls she's transformed.
Rory: You can't repopulate somewhere with just women. You need... blokes.
Amy: [realises] She's got blokes!
The Doctor: Where?
Amy: In the canal. She said "There are 10,000 husbands waiting in the water."
The Doctor: Only the male offspring survived the journey here. She's got 10,000 children swimming around in the canals waiting for Mummy to make them some compatible girlfriends. [suddenly disgusted] Ew. I mean, I've been about a bit, but really, that's... that's... ew.

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The Doctor: Blimey, fish from space have never been so... buxom!

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Amy: Hey, look at this. I got my spaceship, I got my boys... my work here is done. [struts into the TARDIS, head held high]
Rory: [scoffs] We are not her "boys."
The Doctor: Yeah we are.
Rory: Yeah, we are.

S5 EP6 Vampires In Venice

Vampires In Venice

EPISODE: 207

AIRDATE: May 8,2010

COMPANIONS: Amy Pond, Rory Williams

VILLAINS/MONSTERS/ALIENS: Saturnynians, Rosanna Calvierri, Francesco

OTHER CHARACTERS: Guido, Isabella, Gabriella Wilde, Hannah Steele, Elizabeth Croft, Sonila Vieshta,Gabriella Monturaz, Inspector, Sterward

LOCATION: Leadworth Earth June 6,2010, Venice Earth 1580

PLOT:
Following Amy's attempts to seduce him, the Doctor gatecrashes her fiancé Rory's stag party and tells him the problem. Knowing full well that travelling with him has a habit of destroying his companions' lives and relationships on Earth, the Doctor decides to take Amy and Rory on a romantic trip to get their relationship back on track. The TARDIS lands in the city of Venice in 1580, but he quickly discovers all is not well, as according to the citizens, plague is running rampant, and the city has been placed under quarantine at the order of the city's patron, Signora Rosanna Calvierri.

The Doctor heads to the Calvierri's palazzo, where he discovers that Rosanna runs a school for the betterment of young ladies which is highly sought after. However, as the Doctor watches, he sees a Venetian boat-builder called Guido, who had entered his daughter Isabella into the school several days before, trying to remove her. After Guido is turned away by the guards, the Doctor goes after him and learns that something evil is happening in the school, for his daughter didn't recognise him, and the girl who turned him away had a face like an animal.

Meanwhile, Amy and Rory, desperately trying to get along, hear a scream, and go to investigate, finding Rosanna's son, Francesco Calvierri, drinking blood from the neck of a flower girl. As Rory tends to the girl, Amy chases Francesco, only to lose him when he turns into an alley that opens on to the canal. Meanwhile, with Guido's help, the Doctor sneaks into the school, where he is ambushed by five beautiful girls. Upon noticing the girls have no reflections, and seeing their teeth are curved fangs, the Doctor quickly makes an escape and tells Amy, Rory and Guido the problem: there are vampires in Venice.

Needing a way into the school, Amy suggests that she pose as a destitute girl to gain entrance to the school, then open a way for the Doctor and the others to enter. Despite his distaste for the idea, the Doctor reluctantly agrees; however Amy is caught opening a trap door for the others and is taken to a chamber by Rosanna, Francesco and the other girl to be transformed. As they sneak into the school, the Doctor and Rory find a desiccated female corpse; the Doctor theorises that not all the girls survive the process of being turned into vampires, and Rory angrily tells the Doctor that the greatest danger he poses to his companions is the fact he drives his companions to put themselves at risk trying to impress him. Fortunately, the Doctor and Rory, with the help of Isabella, are able to rescue Amy and escape, though Isabella is caught and thrown into the canal, where something alive in the water drags her under.

The Doctor goes back to the school and confronts Rosanna. He identifies her as a Saturnynian, a race of aquatic beings. The vampiric traits displayed are a result of the natural teeth of the species, their natural aversion to sunlight (being deep-sea creatures) and a perception filter they wear to give themselves human appearance by manipulating brain waves which is rendered redundant when seen in a mirror, hence no reflection; the teeth emerge when attacking because, sensing danger, the human brain 'tweaks' the perception filter to see something dangerous. Rosanna explains that her people's planet was lost when "silence fell" and that they fell through a crack in time that sealed behind them, leaving the Saturnynians trapped in 16th century Venice. When the Doctor identifies himself as from Gallifrey, Rosanna proposes an alliance to restore their peoples together, but the Doctor refuses and departs after confirming that she doesn't even remember Isabella's name. Rosanna remarks that she will "bend the heavens" to save her people, then orders her girls to kill the Doctor and his companions.

At Guido's house, the Doctor realises that the Saturnynians are planning to make Venice habitable for their species by sinking the city. The purpose of Rosanna's school was to lure girls to the school that could be converted into female Saturnynians, since only Rosanna and her male offspring survived the fall through time. At that moment, the Calvierri girls, now fully transformed into Saturnynians, attack the house, but Guido buys the Doctor, Amy and Rory enough time to escape by detonating barrels of gunpowder he had stolen from his workplace at the Arsenal, killing the girls but sacrificing himself. At the same time, Rosanna activates a device that triggers an immense storm over Venice; the Doctor realises that the storm will trigger earthquakes and tsunamis that will sink the city and tells her that all the female Saturnynians she has created are dead. Then, with the help of Amy and Rory, he deactivates the device, saving Venice. Defeated, Rosanna throws herself into the water in human form to be eaten by her doomed offspring, but not before tormenting the Doctor with the knowledge he is now responsible for the extinction of two species: hers, and his own.

In the aftermath of the incident, Amy and the Doctor invite Rory to continue travelling with them in the TARDIS, but as the Doctor and Rory are about to enter the TARDIS, everything falls silent. Unnerved, the Doctor remembers Rosanna's words: "We saw silence, and the end of all things..."