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Friendship dies and true love lies, night will fall and the dark will rise, when a good man goes to war. DOCTOR: Amy! RIVER [OC]: Demons run but count the cost.
Jun 6, 2011 · s06e07 - A Good Man Goes to War Tran script. detail. RECAP INCLUDING SCENES OF THE LITTLE GIRL AND EYE-PATCH LADY, CULMINATING IN THE FINAL SCENES OF "THE ALMOST PEOPLE" SPACE. An asteroid has been converted to a base known as Demon's Run. INT. DEMON'S RUN, NURSERY. A small baby is cooing as it lies in a small crib.
"A Good Man Goes to War" is the seventh episode of the sixth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and was first broadcast on BBC One on 4 June 2011. It served as a mid-series finale. The episode was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Peter Hoar.
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was the seventh episode and mid-series finale of series 6 of Doctor Who.
It was the last episode of the spring half of the sixth series. It was, in a sense, the first episode of a two-part story, followed by Let's Kill Hitler. It revealed the identity of River Song, naming her as Melody Pond, the daughter of Amy Pond and Rory Williams. The midseries finale also introduced the Headless Monks, a militaristic faction of the Silence, and formally introduced the ubiquitous "Eye Patch Lady" as the malevolent Madame Kovarian. It also showed the extent to which the Doctor had become feared and the lengths to which those who feared him were willing to go to be rid of him. Equally so, it revealed how easily the Doctor could assemble a small army and counter an enemy's force, and the severity of his anger when someone he deeply cared about was tormented to the point that irreversible damage was done to their life.
Further notable moments were the reappearances of several of the Doctor's allies, enemies, and neutral acquaintances - and the introduction of several previously unseen friends. Three individuals who debuted in this story would later become known as the Paternoster Gang as they continued to make appearances as a collective: Madame Vastra, her lover Jenny Flint, and the Sontaran Strax, the last of which died in this episode, but had his death reversed in the mini-episode The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later.
This story marked the first time that the BBC Wales series had not broadcast an uninterrupted thirteen-episode run for a series of Doctor Who. As a result of its status as a midseries finale, the length and allotted run time of the episode was extended to 50 minutes. The episode was also given an ending that would allow for a reasonable time skip to take place in-universe, where the Doctor sets off on his own in search of Melody Pond. However, viewers can still watch Series 6 in full without any difference in the story arc progression. The major plots introduced at the beginning of this series were continued in the latter half of the broadcast and tied up in a standalone finale.
The practice of splitting apart a 13-episode series would be repeated with Series 7, which contained further experiments with the series format. It was comprised of two different character-related story arcs that were contained in the first and second parts of Series 7, and premiered new episodes across two years, incorporating a Christmas special in between the break that bridged the two halves of the series. The singular run format, reduced to 12 episodes rather than 13, would return when the Twelfth Doctor's era began.
It wouldn't be revealed until The Time of the Doctor that Madame Kovarian had not been truly villainous; the "war" she spoke of wasn't simply the Doctor's enemies trying to kill him like normal, the Kovarian Chapter of the Papal Mainframe was trying to kill him before he could even take part in the Siege of Trenzalore in his personal future. She believed that if the Doctor were to die before the Siege, the Time Lords would not be released from their pocket universe, thus preventing the Time War from starting anew.
On the asteroid Demon's Run, Amy Pond has given birth. But the villainous Madame Kovarian and the religious order of the silence are waiting to make a collection that tears Amy's world apart. Across the galaxy, the Eleventh Doctor and Rory Williams are assembling an army to fight the battle that lies ahead, whilst in Stormcage, River Song prepares ...
On the Demon's Run base, Amy calms her infant daughter, Melody Pond, as Cleric guards and Madame Kovarian look on. It has been some time since she gave birth to her child, and now Melody is ready to be raised by a parent. However, Amy has been denied the privilege of caring for her own baby. Kovarian has plans to enact another kind of parenthood for Melody Pond. She gives Amy two minutes to say goodbye to her child before approaching her with two armed guards. Amy tells Melody of her father. Though he looks young, he has lived for hundreds of years and he is coming for them, so their captors had better beware as not even an army would stop him.
When Amy's time with Melody is up, Kovarian ruthlessly advances with her arms outstretched to obtain Melody by force if she has to. Crying, Amy begs Kovarian to leave the baby alone. She removes the child from her mother's arms and puts her in a cot to be taken away. A young female soldier reluctantly watches Amy's heartbroken reaction, and two cloaked figures from an upper balcony step forward to watch Melody being brought into Kovarian's care.
Before her baby is completely separated from her, Amy gives Melody a kiss and continues talking about her father; though he has a name, the people of Earth know him better by a different title: the Last Centurion.
Twenty thousand light years away, on the flagship of the Twelfth Cyber Legion, Cybermen detect an intruder working his way to their command centre, wreaking havoc with a sonic screwdriver. They try sealing him off, but every attempt fails. They prepare to confront him, weapons raised as the door opens to reveal Rory. Fearless, Rory tells the Cybermen that he has a message from the Doctor and a question from himself: "Where is my wife?" The Cybermen don't answer, prompting Rory to explain that they hear everything in the quadrant; he will leave in peace if they tell him what he wants to know. The Cyber-Leader demands the message from him and gets it: the rest of the ships explode outside the window. Message delivered, Rory asks if he needs to repeat his question.
On Demon's Run, the Fat One and the Thin One discuss the Doctor and how he scolded the Atraxi after scaring them off a planet. The Thin One reminds the Fat One that they're being paid to fight the Doctor. Praising costs more. A Cleric named Lorna overhears them, smiles, and continues to sew on her break.
This is seen on a security monitor by two guards in the control room, Dominicus and Lucas, who are practising how to tell the difference between psychic paper from actual identification. Lucas incorrectly chooses the psychic paper, and Dominicus reminds him he has to look for the psychic fractals to recognise which ID is real. However, Dominicus is too bored to care because the Clerics have been on Yellow Alert for over three weeks.
•The Doctor – Matt Smith
•Amy Pond – Karen Gillan
•Rory – Arthur Darvill
•River Song – Alex Kingston
•Madame Kovarian – Frances Barber
•Fat One – Charlie Baker
Anatomy and physiology
•The Doctor, having discovered Melody's Time Lord DNA, recounts Amy worrying that her baby would have a timehead while trying to make sense of it all, leading Vastra to note that only he would ignore the instincts of a mother.
Individuals
•The Fat One asks the monks if they have Lent. •Vastra's driver is named Parker.
The Doctor
•The Doctor pulls out his own cot from when he was a baby, complete with Gallifreyan symbols.
•River states she cannot be at Demons Run until the very end. This would be explained as her avoiding a paradox or the Blinovitch Limitation Effect. However, the River that said this looked in her diary first, suggesting that she simply knew she wouldn't be there until the end as she was a later version of River Song.
•In Confidential, Alex Kingston explains the entire set was shocked when she revealed River's true identity.
•This episode was originally entitled Demons Run. It was changed to A Good Man Goes to War, although His Darkest Hour and An Angel Goes to War had also been considered as titles. Demons Run was the episode's German title.
•As noted by Steven Moffat, aside from being episode 7 of this series, this is also the 777th episode of Doctor Who. Moffat stated there were no "seven puns" in the episode as the coincidence was only observed after it was shot.
•The end credits list Russell T Davies as creating the Ood and Judoon. However, no Ood appear in the episode. In The Brilliant Book 2012 it is stated that we would have seen Ood Sigma assist the Doctor's Army, but the scene was cut.
•Malcolm Hulke is credited as the creator of the Silurians in the end credits. Strangely, this did not occur in The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood nor The Pandorica Opens.
•River Song uses her diary. (TV: Silence in the Library, Forest of the Dead, The Time of Angels, The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang, The Impossible Astronaut)
•Amy Pond mentions to Lorna Bucket that she first met the Doctor when she was a little girl and how he came back for her. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
•The Doctor and Amy discuss Amy's time as a Ganger, particularly about how Amy saw a hatch opening and Madame Kovarian appearing behind it. (TV: Day of the Moon, The Curse of the Black Spot, The Almost People) The Doctor explains this as "reality bleeding through" and states that Amy must've been kidnapped before the events in America. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon)
•When talking to baby Melody, the Doctor seems to repeat his belief that "bow ties are cool". (TV: The Eleventh Hour, et al.)
•The Doctor has said before that he speaks every language. (TV: Planet of the Dead)
•Dorium Maldovar believes he sold the Headless Monk's security software to them. (TV: Prequel (A Good Man Goes to War))
DVD & Blu-ray releases
•A Good Man Goes to War was released in Series 6 Part One on DVD and Blu-Ray in region 1/A on 19 July 2011, in region 2/B on 11 July 2011 and in region 4/B on 4 August 2011. It is a collection of the first seven episodes. •The episode was later released in the Complete Sixth Series boxset on both DVD and Blu-ray, in region 1/A on 22 November 2011, in region 2/B on 21 November 2011 and in region 4/B on 1 December 2011.
Digital releases
•In the United Kingdom, this story is available on BBC iPlayer.
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Apr 3, 2010 · The Doctor Who Transcripts - 11th Doctor Episode Listings : Doctor Who Home: ... A Good Man Goes to War: 6.7: 4 Jun, 2011: Let's Kill Hitler: 6.8: 27 Aug, 2011: Night ...
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Original Broadcast (UK) A Good Man Goes to War. June 4th, 2011. 6h40pm - 7h30pm. Notes: None. On the Demon's run military base, Amy is looking after her baby daughter, Melody Pond. Madame Kovarian, the Eye Patch Lady has come to take the baby. Amy tells Melody that her father is coming for them.
