"My boys! My poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a Peruvian folk band," she says, which is a nice and quippy way of saying, "Stop fighting over me like the last piece of pizza, you assholes." They stand there in a weird set-piece for a second, staring at the cold sun, and then abruptly move to the next page of the script. The Doctor does more Scream-talk: "If we fall asleep here we're in trouble. If we could divide up, then we'd have an active presence in each world, but the Dream Lord is switching us between the worlds." The DL loves this idea, and sends Rory and the Doctor back to Leadworth so he can get creepy on Amy one-on-one. "Maybe I'll keep her, and you can have Pointy-Nose to yourself for all eternity, should you manage to clamber aboard some sort of reality?"
The Doctor tells her not to be scared, as they are going, and the DL just giggles and acts horrible, and Amy has her one-per-episode shivering fit about being left alone in the dark by the ones who are supposed to be protecting her.
Rory drags Amy's leaden body up the stairs, into the bright yellow nursery, and locks the door behind them. She's asleep on the floor and it's super scary. He plays with a mobile above the crib for a second, and then gets all angry looking down at them in the garden, poking at the TARDIS and getting ready to assault him. It's fairly awful, even with the ponytail, to see him there with the door blocked and his pregnant wife on the floor and a whole bunch of monsters coming after him.
Inside the butcher's freezer, the Doctor sonicks something or something and they stop with the eyeballs and also close their eyeballs that are located in their eyes, so he pushes past them. There's a kid in a van who is about to get dusted, but the Doctor jumps in the van and somehow they are safe. Then they drive around the town leisurely picking up everybody who's not old. The old people are mostly moving very slow and not doing anything terrible to them, just sort of menacing random groups of white people and being super old. I guess when your entire village mostly just likes to hang out on benches all day, things could catch you by surprise.
The DL pops in to needle Amy about how the Doctor is constantly leaving her places and not apologizing, and promises he never will. Then he changes into a silky robe and sort of threatens to rape Amy. Um, Truman Capote dressed like a flamenco dancer is like the least threatening thing I can imagine, sexually speaking. Also, that is so gross. Also, if you think that is the scariest thing you can say to Amy Pond, you don't get her. (Also, why go there at all? What is the point of that? Is this a Doctor-reversion thing, like the Master always hitting his wife?) "The Doctor knows you, but he's not telling me who you are. And he always does. Takes him a while sometimes, but he tells me. So you're something different."













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