Series 5, Episode 13 | 2 parts | First broadcast: 26 June 2010 | Writer: Steven Moffat | Director: Toby Haynes
Cast
- Matt Smith as the Doctor
- Karen Gillan as Amy Pond
- Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams
- Alex Kingston as River Song
Summary
With the universe collapsed to a single exploding star and only fragments of reality left intact, a future Amy and a museum-displayed Pandorica hold the key to undoing the damage, while the Doctor is trapped inside the prison box itself. Using the Pandorica’s restorative power and a desperate journey through his own timeline, the Doctor engineers a way to reboot all of creation, though the plan comes at a devastating personal cost that only Amy’s wedding-day memory can undo.
Interesting Facts
- The episode’s central time-loop structure sees the Doctor interacting with earlier versions of Amy across her whole life to set up the eventual “reboot.”
- The Doctor is erased from the universe entirely at the story’s climax, saved only by Amy remembering him back into existence at her own wedding.
- This finale resolves the season-long mystery of the cracks in time, revealing them as a symptom of the TARDIS itself exploding.
- The episode ends the season with the newly married Amy and Rory rejoining the Doctor for further adventures aboard the TARDIS.
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