Blinded by the Light

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0:00:04 > 0:00:06Confidential goes down to the woods today

0:00:06 > 0:00:09to join the Doctor Who cast and crew.

0:00:09 > 0:00:12In this episode, Amy faces her darkest moment yet.

0:00:12 > 0:00:15Amy is on the brink of death, basically.

0:00:15 > 0:00:17Doctor, it's coming. I can feel it.

0:00:17 > 0:00:19I'm going to die!

0:00:19 > 0:00:22And the Doctor has left her again,

0:00:22 > 0:00:25and he kind of has a habit of doing this.

0:00:25 > 0:00:27I always come back.

0:00:27 > 0:00:29Can you imagine walking through a forest

0:00:29 > 0:00:33of Weeping Angels with your eyes shut?

0:00:33 > 0:00:35It's hideous! That's as bad as it gets!

0:00:35 > 0:00:38MUSIC: "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga

0:00:44 > 0:00:48And Miss Pond puckers up as she prepares to land one on the Doctor.

0:00:51 > 0:00:53And then they have a little smoochie!

0:00:53 > 0:00:56- Which we call... - BOTH: ..smoochie-smoochie time!

0:00:57 > 0:00:59Doctor...

0:01:28 > 0:01:30In this adventure, it's all about Amy.

0:01:30 > 0:01:37Despite a rough ride in the previous episodes, the heavenly host still have her in their sights.

0:01:37 > 0:01:39MUSIC: "Bad Day" by Blur

0:01:49 > 0:01:53Part of the mission statement of writing a script for Doctor Who

0:01:53 > 0:01:55is, "How bad a time

0:01:55 > 0:01:56"can you give Amy Pond?"

0:01:56 > 0:01:58What's it going to do to me?

0:01:58 > 0:02:00I'm going to die! Please, just listen to me!

0:02:00 > 0:02:03'In one scene in the spaceship,'

0:02:03 > 0:02:06they're trying to run away from the Angels and keep them away,

0:02:06 > 0:02:10and Amy takes some instructions from the Doctor,

0:02:10 > 0:02:13but she actually says a different number to the number that he tells her.

0:02:13 > 0:02:16Spin it clockwise four turns.

0:02:16 > 0:02:17Ten.

0:02:17 > 0:02:21- How long have we got? - Five minutes max.- Nine.- Five.

0:02:21 > 0:02:23- Five, right. Yeah. - Why did you say nine?

0:02:23 > 0:02:25I didn't.

0:02:25 > 0:02:26Eight.

0:02:26 > 0:02:28What did you say?

0:02:28 > 0:02:31- Seven.- Seven?

0:02:31 > 0:02:33- Sorry, what?- You said seven.

0:02:33 > 0:02:35- No, I didn't.- Yes, you did.

0:02:35 > 0:02:38Angel Bob makes her aware that she's actually counting down.

0:02:38 > 0:02:39Six.

0:02:39 > 0:02:42OK, here's what I want to know. What have you done to Amy?

0:02:42 > 0:02:44'There's something in her eye.'

0:02:44 > 0:02:46- What's in her eye?- 'We are.'

0:02:46 > 0:02:47What's he talking about?

0:02:47 > 0:02:49Doctor, I'm five!

0:02:52 > 0:02:54I mean...five.

0:02:57 > 0:02:58Fine.

0:02:58 > 0:03:02For Amy, I think that was just such a freaky thing, because imagine

0:03:02 > 0:03:06saying something else to what you mean to say.

0:03:06 > 0:03:10It's a really strange situation for her to comprehend.

0:03:10 > 0:03:12And then she gets really freaked out,

0:03:12 > 0:03:18because as she counts down further and further to one, she's getting closer and closer to death.

0:03:18 > 0:03:20MUSIC: "Where Is My Mind?" by the Pixies

0:03:20 > 0:03:21Four.

0:03:26 > 0:03:27Three.

0:03:27 > 0:03:29There's a line when the Angel says,

0:03:29 > 0:03:32"Oh, we're just doing it for fun."

0:03:32 > 0:03:36You know, they're killing Bob and inside Amy's mind and all that.

0:03:36 > 0:03:38Bob? Why are they making her count?

0:03:38 > 0:03:41- 'To make her afraid, sir.' - OK, but why? What for?

0:03:41 > 0:03:43'For fun, sir.'

0:03:43 > 0:03:46That riles the Doctor, because it's Amy, it's his Amy,

0:03:46 > 0:03:53and the Doctor will always confront that which is just inherently bad.

0:03:53 > 0:03:57But when it's taking the mickey as well,

0:03:57 > 0:03:59that stirs him.

0:03:59 > 0:04:02It stirs him forward, though, in a good way.

0:04:02 > 0:04:05Gives him courage to go, "Come on, I can beat these things."

0:04:05 > 0:04:08What's the matter with Amelia? Something's in her eye.

0:04:08 > 0:04:11- Doctor, I'm scared. - Of course - you're dying. Shut up!

0:04:11 > 0:04:13OK, let him think.

0:04:13 > 0:04:15When the Doctor encounters Amy in the clearing

0:04:15 > 0:04:21and very quickly works out that he's got seconds, he's got a couple of minutes to solve this,

0:04:21 > 0:04:27we get to see the Doctor being very, very basic, very, very pure, simple Doctor.

0:04:27 > 0:04:29He hasn't got time to comfort Amy.

0:04:29 > 0:04:32That's one thing I rather like. He says, "Shut up, I've got to think."

0:04:32 > 0:04:36And River understands that, and she's just saying to Amy,

0:04:36 > 0:04:38"Just let him think, just let him think. Just do it."

0:04:38 > 0:04:40Come on, come on, come on, wakey-wakey.

0:04:40 > 0:04:43She watched an Angel climb out of the screen, stared at the Angel, and...

0:04:43 > 0:04:45The image of the Angel IS an Angel.

0:04:45 > 0:04:47'Of course he cares -'

0:04:47 > 0:04:49but he's got to not let that get in the way.

0:04:49 > 0:04:53He's not got to let his compassion drive him away from the right answer.

0:04:53 > 0:04:57So he actually has to sort of close all that down, and be the

0:04:57 > 0:05:02extraordinary thinking machine he is, and pull an answer out of the air, as he does with seconds to spare.

0:05:02 > 0:05:04How would you starve your lungs?

0:05:04 > 0:05:06- I'd stop breathing. - Amy, close your eyes.

0:05:06 > 0:05:08No, I don't want to.

0:05:08 > 0:05:12Good. Because that's not you, it's the Angel inside you. It's afraid. Close your eyes.

0:05:16 > 0:05:20Amy is passionate and a fighter, and she's also really smart.

0:05:20 > 0:05:24The Doctor says, "If you open your eyes for more than a second..." And she says, "OK, more than a second -

0:05:24 > 0:05:29"I could do a good half-second, then." That'd be Amy's response.

0:05:29 > 0:05:36She's SO determined not to be a victim, she's in permanent danger of making herself one.

0:05:36 > 0:05:38I need to see it.

0:05:38 > 0:05:42- Am I looking the right way? - You have to be quick.

0:05:42 > 0:05:43Very quick.

0:05:44 > 0:05:45OK.

0:05:53 > 0:05:56It's the same shape as the crack in my wall.

0:05:56 > 0:06:01This whole series is about cracks in time. They will develop throughout

0:06:01 > 0:06:08and you will see them just about every single week, in different forms and in different ways.

0:06:08 > 0:06:12Two parts of space and time that should never have touched...

0:06:12 > 0:06:13pressed together.

0:06:17 > 0:06:21- It's like the crack from my bedroom wall when I was a little girl.- Yes.

0:06:22 > 0:06:23Hello...!

0:06:23 > 0:06:25Hello?!

0:06:27 > 0:06:28What's that?

0:06:28 > 0:06:32Where the crack comes from is above my younger son Louis's bed.

0:06:32 > 0:06:34There was a crack along the wall.

0:06:34 > 0:06:38It's not there any more, but there was a roughly crooked smile-shaped crack in the wall,

0:06:38 > 0:06:41Which I didn't point out to him, he'd never have slept again.

0:06:41 > 0:06:43But I thought, "Ooh, that's good, cracks in walls.

0:06:43 > 0:06:45"We should do cracks in walls."

0:06:53 > 0:06:55"What's the worst thing that could happen,"

0:06:55 > 0:06:59I was thinking when I was writing this, "if you're surrounded by Weeping Angels?"

0:06:59 > 0:07:03Well...unable to open your eyes is good, obviously. I thought first of all, blind.

0:07:03 > 0:07:10I thought blind, surrounded by Weeping Angels and walking like you can see. That would be cool.

0:07:10 > 0:07:13Then I thought, that's kind of ordinary for Doctor Who.

0:07:13 > 0:07:15What if you were in a situation -

0:07:15 > 0:07:20which I think would be so frightening - where if you open your eyes, you'll die?

0:07:20 > 0:07:24Imagine forcing yourself to keep your eyes shut when you're surrounded by scary monsters,

0:07:24 > 0:07:27knowing that if you open your eyes, you'll die.

0:07:27 > 0:07:28I had to do it with my eyes closed,

0:07:28 > 0:07:32which was quite difficult, because the ground was pretty uneven.

0:07:32 > 0:07:33It was a muddy place.

0:07:33 > 0:07:37MUSIC: "In A Forest by The Cure

0:07:54 > 0:07:57And I had to fall over a step at the end -

0:07:57 > 0:08:00with my eyes closed still - which was the most scary thing,

0:08:00 > 0:08:03because it was throwing myself into the unknown.

0:08:03 > 0:08:05And all Karen has to do is start the trip,

0:08:05 > 0:08:09and as long as she ducks out through a tight one, we're OK.

0:08:10 > 0:08:15'Although I knew there was a crash mat there, your instincts tell you not to do it.'

0:08:15 > 0:08:19But I had to, so, erm... so that was quite a challenge.

0:08:24 > 0:08:25Doctor?

0:08:25 > 0:08:27I can't find the communicator.

0:08:28 > 0:08:35Acting with your eyes open, you kind of channel a lot of emotion into your eyes and out of your eyes.

0:08:35 > 0:08:39Without the eyes, you kind of have to up your performance and make it

0:08:39 > 0:08:42a little bit more animated, almost as if you've got a mask on,

0:08:42 > 0:08:44and you have to be a bit more animated

0:08:44 > 0:08:47to convey the emotions that you want to get across.

0:08:49 > 0:08:52After her brush with death, Amy's up for returning home to share

0:08:52 > 0:08:55something with the Doctor. Perhaps a bit more than he was expecting.

0:09:02 > 0:09:06Amy's bed is amazing. It's got like, two mattresses on it,

0:09:06 > 0:09:09and it's really high, and it's kind of like, old and cool.

0:09:12 > 0:09:14And I love the blue.

0:09:14 > 0:09:18And that was Adam's idea, Adam the director, to kind of have lots of blue

0:09:18 > 0:09:24in Amy's house, because it kind of symbolises the colour of the TARDIS and Amy's love for the Doctor.

0:09:24 > 0:09:28Hi! No-one cares about your silly bedroom.

0:09:30 > 0:09:35It's interesting. You don't often find them in a bedroom, sat on a bed, chilling out.

0:09:35 > 0:09:39Usually they're being chased by an Angel or a Silurian or something.

0:09:39 > 0:09:44- And we're just kind of having a normal conversation without the fear of...- "A normal conversation"!

0:09:44 > 0:09:46Shut up! That's how I talk!

0:09:46 > 0:09:50Let me do that again. We're just having a normal conversation.

0:09:51 > 0:09:53We're just having a normal conversation...

0:09:53 > 0:09:56- "We're just having a normal conversation"!- Oh, will you shut up!

0:09:56 > 0:10:01..without the fear of death, which is really nice and refreshing for us to do.

0:10:01 > 0:10:03I'm getting married in the morning.

0:10:05 > 0:10:08Why did you leave it here?

0:10:08 > 0:10:13Why did I leave my engagement ring off when I ran away with a strange man the night before my wedding?

0:10:13 > 0:10:15You really are an alien, aren't you?

0:10:15 > 0:10:22It's a light-hearted scene. It's at the end of episode five, and Amy decides to come on to the Doctor!

0:10:22 > 0:10:26And he's completely oblivious at the beginning, so it's quite funny.

0:10:26 > 0:10:29- And then... - Well, let's hope so.- Well...!

0:10:29 > 0:10:31- As funny as HE gets.- Yeah.

0:10:31 > 0:10:35- It's true.- But erm...yeah, and then they have a little smoochie!

0:10:35 > 0:10:39- Ooh! Which we call... - BOTH: ..smoochie-smoochie time!

0:10:39 > 0:10:41- Oh yeah! - Yeah, all right, that's enough.

0:10:41 > 0:10:43MUSIC: "Pumpkin Soup" by Kate Nash

0:10:43 > 0:10:46# I just want your kiss, boy, kiss, boy, kiss boy

0:10:46 > 0:10:50# I just want your kiss

0:10:51 > 0:10:55# I just want your kiss, boy, kiss, boy, kiss boy... #

0:10:55 > 0:10:58Here's this man, this generally rather good-looking man -

0:10:58 > 0:11:01sometimes older, sometimes younger, but generally good-looking -

0:11:01 > 0:11:04who's wonderful, funny, passionate and kind

0:11:04 > 0:11:08and the nicest, bestest human being - apparently - you'll ever meet.

0:11:08 > 0:11:11And all those girls didn't notice?

0:11:11 > 0:11:14Ever? Not once? They didn't think, "Well, he's quite nice"?

0:11:14 > 0:11:16When we rehearsed for the wide,

0:11:16 > 0:11:18Karen actually subconsciously put

0:11:18 > 0:11:20her hand on Matt's inner thigh.

0:11:20 > 0:11:25- Subconsciously(!) I've been batting her off for months.- And denied it afterwards.

0:11:25 > 0:11:27- But it was on camera, wasn't it?- God!

0:11:27 > 0:11:31In a word, in one very simple word even you can understand...

0:11:31 > 0:11:35- You were lost in the moment, weren't you?- You were. I seduced you.

0:11:35 > 0:11:37You didn't seduce... Ohhh!

0:11:37 > 0:11:42- And come on, you know, the Doctor... 900 years... - They've been through a tough time.

0:11:42 > 0:11:46- Amy and the Doctor have just been through a big, big adventure, haven't they?- Yeah.

0:11:46 > 0:11:49So why does that make her want to kiss him?

0:11:49 > 0:11:52- They've shared something together. - She was going to die.

0:11:52 > 0:11:55And also, sometimes you do things in the heat of the moment.

0:11:55 > 0:11:58- Well, SHE does. - Yeah. Well, she certainly does.

0:11:58 > 0:12:03I don't know, when you're excited and you've shared something with someone and,

0:12:03 > 0:12:04you know...

0:12:04 > 0:12:07- Will you stop? - And he hasn't tried it on yet.

0:12:07 > 0:12:11Yeah! Amy can't understand why this man hasn't tried it on with her.

0:12:11 > 0:12:13We know from episode one

0:12:13 > 0:12:16that Amy isn't restrained in thinking about those things.

0:12:17 > 0:12:20- I heard you on the radio. You called for backup.- It's a pretend radio.

0:12:20 > 0:12:23- But you're a policewoman. - I'm a kissagram!

0:12:25 > 0:12:31The way we've played it up until now is people falling in unrequited love with the Doctor. Great, why not?

0:12:31 > 0:12:33But actually, Amy isn't offering that at all.

0:12:33 > 0:12:36She's just thinking, "Well, we've got some time!

0:12:36 > 0:12:41"You're kinda hot, and I've had a bad night!" And I think, "OK, why not?"

0:12:41 > 0:12:44Now, Amy, listen to me. I am 907 years old.

0:12:44 > 0:12:46- Do you understand what that means? - It's been a while?

0:12:46 > 0:12:51And the Doctor isn't very good at facing off that at all!

0:12:51 > 0:12:54He just gets embarrassed and flustered, which I love about the Doctor.

0:12:54 > 0:13:01He's so wise in so many ways, but he's tripping over his shoelaces the moment a woman is behaving that way.

0:13:02 > 0:13:04But you're human! You're Amy!

0:13:04 > 0:13:07You're getting married in the morning! In the morning...

0:13:07 > 0:13:09Doctor...

0:13:09 > 0:13:10It's you. It's all about you.

0:13:10 > 0:13:13Everything. It's about you.

0:13:15 > 0:13:17Hold that thought.

0:13:19 > 0:13:22But possibly the single most important thing in the history of the universe

0:13:22 > 0:13:24is that I get you sorted out right now.

0:13:24 > 0:13:26- That's what I've been trying to tell you!- Come on.

0:13:31 > 0:13:32Doctor...

0:13:35 > 0:13:38And for those of us who can't read the base code of the universe...?

0:13:38 > 0:13:41Amy, it's time.

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