Series 6, Episode 2 | 2 parts | First broadcast: 30 April 2011 | 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
Three months after being hunted as fugitives, the Doctor’s friends reunite with a secretly-alive Doctor to finish exposing the Silence’s decades-long, invisible occupation of Earth, using the cover of the Apollo 11 moon landing to trigger a broadcast that will make all of humanity remember and rise up against them. Amid the chaos, a mysterious young girl in an astronaut suit reveals a shocking, regenerative ability that ties her directly to the Doctor’s own future.
Interesting Facts
- The clever solution of embedding a subliminal command into the globally broadcast moon landing footage let humanity defeat an enemy no one could consciously remember.
- This episode’s ending, showing a child able to regenerate, deepened the season’s mystery around who exactly the astronaut who kills the Doctor really is.
- Filming again took place on location in the United States, continuing the transatlantic scope introduced in the previous episode.
- The Silence’s defeat here proved temporary, with remnants of the species continuing to influence events throughout the series.
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