The Time of Angels

Doctor River Song, after investigating a vault located on the starship Byzantium, sends a message on a home box, a futuristic black box device. 12,000 years later, the Doctor and Amy receive the message whilst visiting a museum which has collected the home box as an archaeological artefact. The Doctor arrives in the nick of time and catches River as she depressurises a section of the Byzantium. River orders the Doctor to follow the ship. The 3 of them pilot the TARDIS after the Byzantium, where it crash-lands on the planet Alfava Metraxis. There, River signals a group of soldiers from the Church, lead by Father Octavian, who teleport to the planet before asking the Doctor what he knows of the Weeping Angels.

The soldiers set up a base camp and the Doctor, Amy, and River watch a 4-second looped camera recording of the Weeping Angel in the vault onboard the Byzantium. The Doctor and River leave, leaving Amy alone in the room with recording. She turns back to the monitor and sees that the Angel has moved inside the recording, facing her. She attempts to shut off the screen by the plug and a remote, but looks away again and causes the Angel to move closer towards her. She backs off towards the door as it bares its teeth. Amy screams for the Doctor as the Angel suddenly emerges from the monitor. Meanwhile, River and the Doctor are looking through a book of information about the Angels, written by a "mad-man" who had encountered the Angels before. Inside the book, there are no pictures of the Angels, puzzling the Doctor. He then notices a passage on the Angels's image: "That which holds the image of an Angel, becomes itself an Angel". He then realizes Amy is in great danger. The Doctor cannot get the door to the viewing chamber open and River cannot burn through it with her weapon, due to the Angel causing the doors and power sources to be deadlocked. All the while the Doctor reiterates to Amy not to blink while he and River try to force their way in. He also tells Amy not to look into the Angel's eyes as the book says that the "eyes are not windows to the soul, but more like doors through which one may enter". As Amy looks into the Angel's eyes unknowingly, she remembers what the Doctor said about the images of Angels and pauses the recording on a skip in the tape. The Angel vanishes, as the recording was paused on something which was not the image of an Angel, saving herself.

The soldiers, the Doctor, River and Amy, move into the "Maze Of The Dead", a stone labyrinth with dead people buried inside the walls. The entire place is dark and full of worn and aged statues. The group attempt to track down the Angel, who is believed to be hiding amongst the statues to avoid detection. In the process, three soldiers have their necks snapped by the Angel. This worries the Doctor, as that is not their normal way of killing. The Doctor then realizes that every statue in the maze is an Angel, worn and deformed after being starved of potential enemies. Now that the group is here, this Army of Angels is waking up. The Angel that nearly killed Amy is also affecting how she perceives things, such as her hand turning to stone and stone dust coming from her eye when she rubs it. The Doctor deduces that she looked into the Angel's eyes despite what he said whilst Amy claims she tried but couldn't look away.

The Angel from the Byzantium uses the conciousness of one of the soldiers to communicate with the Doctor as the other Angels close in on all sides. The Angel taunts the Doctor over the fact he is seemingly doomed and that the soldier they are using to talk through died in fear, despite the encouragement the Doctor gave him earlier. This provokes him to act. He takes a gun from Father Octavian as he threatens the Angels. He tells them that he is the one thing that no-one should put in a trap if they value their continued existence and the episode ends on a cliffhanger, as the Doctor shoots out the gravity globe illuminating the Maze.