Hidden Messages: Update

The Hidden Messages have returned with The Girl Who Waited, after skipping Night Terrors.

Let's Kill Hitler: “When Reason Slept, When Mothers Wept, When soldiers Crept, The Monsters came.”
 
The Girl Who Waited: “Late Friday afternoon.”

Doctor Who Confidential Clips

Clips have been released for the confidential for the upcoming episode The Girl Who Waited. This confidential is entitled What Dreams May Come.
Details:

Confidential is out and about with Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) and Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams). Can Karen get up to 100mph around one of the UK’s fastest racetracks and can Arthur rise to the challenge of swimming in a tank of sharks?
The team are also on set at Wales Millennium Centre to fend off some brutal new enemies and viewers get to experience a ‘Day in the Life’ of the camera department.
Also featured is another Script to Screen, as our storyboard artist brings the story to life.
Featuring interviews with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill and Steven Moffat.

 Clip One: Matt and Karen on new costumes and Twitter



Clip Two: Arthur Darvill swims with sharks

New Picture for The Girl Who Waited

A new image has been released for The Girl Who Waited:

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Teasers for The Girl Who Waited

Some teasers for The Girl Who Waited by Tom MacRae:

It’s the least noticeable Doctor-lite episode there has ever been

And it’s completely standalone

Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill are on top form throughout and it’s really their episode

If only Amy hadn’t pushed that button

“******* are cool, see.”

Rory is an admirer of fine ‘art’

 “This is a kindness, do not be alarmed”

A greeting from Let’s Kill Hitler is repeated

The Doctor is jealous of something Amy has made

36 years

“I hate *** ******!”

Amy gets a new pet and it will make you smile

Rory almost does what he does. Again

It’s extra wobbly

Another common phrase from Moffat’s-era crops up again

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Promotional Pictures for The Girl Who Waited

The BBC has released some promotional images for The Girl Who Waited.

More can be viewed here.

Imelda Staunton in The Girl Who Waited

According to The Radio Times, Harry Potter's Imelda Staunton, the woman who portrays Professor Delores Jane Umbridge is to be in the upcoming episode of Doctor Who, The Girl Who Waited.

She will be providing the voice of the Interface. Here is the cast list provided by The Radio Times:

• The Doctor - Matt Smith
• Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
• Rory Williams - Arthur Darvill
• Check-in girl - Josie Taylor
• Voice of Interface - Imelda Staunton
• Voice of Handbots - Stephen Bracken-Keogh 

Thanks to Time Dragon in the Vortex for the heads-up

Karen Gillan and Tom MacRae Introduce The Girl Who Waited

Official Summary: Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague – a plague that will kill the Doctor in a day. The Doctor can use the TARDIS to smash through time and break in, but then Rory is on his own. He must find Amy and bring her back to the TARDIS before the alien doctors can administer their medicine. Rory is about to encounter a very different side to his wife. Can he rescue Amy before she is killed by kindness?

Karen Gillan and writer Tom MacRae introduce episode 10:

The Girl Who Waited Trailer

Well, Night Terrors has aired and it was very creepy. Up next is The Girl Who Waited by Tom MacRae. For a synopsis, quote, and early teasers go here. And now, the next time trailer! The TV trailer is expected to be released soon.

Offical Synopsis for The Girl Who Waited

The official synopsis has been released for episode 10, written by Tom MacRae. We already got a few details and a quote on this episode, which can be viewed here. Among these is the fact that this will be a Doctor-lite episode.

Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague – a plague that will kill the Doctor in a day – as the time-travelling drama continues. The Doctor can use the TARDIS to smash through time and break in, but then Rory is on his own. He must find Amy and bring her back to the TARDIS before the alien doctors can administer their medicine. Rory is about to encounter a very different side to his wife. Can he rescue Amy before she is killed by kindness?

Summary for The Girl Who Waited

Doctor Who Magazine has revealed the summary for episode 10, The Girl Who Waited, written by Tom MacRae.

The Doctor takes Amy and Rory for a relaxing break on Apalapucia, not realising that the planet is ravaged by a deadly disease – one that threatens even the life of the Doctor himself. But that’s not the biggest problem: Amy’s gone and got herself trapped in a very unusual hospital. How long will she have to wait before the Doctor comes back for her this time?

A quote was also given:

AMY: Apalapucia. What a beautiful word.
THE DOCTOR: Beautiful word, beautiful world. Apalapucia – voted number two planet in the top ten greatest destinations for the discerning intergalactic traveller.
RORY: Why couldn’t we go to number one?
THE DOCTOR: Everyone goes to number one. It’s hideous. Planet of the coffee shops.

And a few plot details:

• This is the ‘Doctor-lite episode’…
• …though it won’t seem like it because the Doctor is always present in some way
• The draft of the story was very ‘timey wimey’, but it got toned down
• It takes place in an alien healthcare clinic called the Twostreams facility
• Amy gets separated from the Doctor and Rory
• The facility is set up to care for sufferers of a disease know as Chen7
• Chen7 only affects beings with two hearts…
• …so The Doctor is confined to the TARDIS
• Rory gets some specs through which the Doctor can watch and communicate through
• The Handbots are well meaning, but deadly hospital robots …
• …They are determined to inject Amy with medicine which would kill any human

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Steven Moffat on Episode 9 and 10

Steven Moffat has given very high praise to The Girl Who Waited, written by Tom MacRae, who’s other work in Doctor Who includes Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel.

Moffat on the episode: 

“I’m going to boast now and say that Tom MacRae’s stylish and moving script is one of the best uses of time travel in any story anywhere.” He says. “Mind-blowing and heart-breaking in every twist and turn. The Doctor has been in Amy and Rory’s life for a long while now—far longer than he ever intended. What if something were to go wrong? When they step from the Tardis into a strange white waiting room, they’re all about to learn just how wrong time travel can go…”

He also talks about Night Terrors, written by Mark Gatiss:

“It began with Mark Gatiss and me chatting on the set of Sherlock. “I’d like to do scary,” he said. ‘Do you know where the scariest place in the universe is?’ I’ve known Mark for a while. If he’s decided to tell me where the scariest place in the universe is, I’d better listen. “Where?” I quavered from behind my rapid-deployment Doctor Who fear sofa. “A child’s bedroom” he answered. “Parents of Britain—sorry, and good luck!”

Thanks to The Whoniverse Blog for the heads-up

Title for Episode 13 is not The Wedding

A few days ago, the Daily Star speculated that the title for episode 13 would be The Wedding. It has been confirmed that this is not the case:

From their Twitter account: “The six stories are called Let’s Kill Hitler; Night Terrors; The Girl Who Waited; The God Complex; Closing Time; and something so secret we’re not allowed to say what it is yet. Sorry. It’s 5 words….”

It has been rumoured that the title will be announced tomorrow as The Wedding of River Song, will. This fits the five-word mark, although it is still unconfirmed.

More on Episode 10

Matt Smith and Karen Gillan have given more information about part two of Series 6.

"I think it's my favorite title of the season so far," Smith said about Let's Kill Hitler. "Alex Kingston [River Song] is on fine fiddle through the episode. She is just brilliant in it. There are some great science-fiction moments where you are going ‘no way!'"

“[There's] this really cool robot/villain [that] goes back in time and fixes people that have done [something] wrong in history.” Karen said. This sounds sort of like a Reaper, from the Series 1 episode Father's Day. However, she could be talking about the Tessalector.

Matt Smith congratulated Karen on her performance in Episode 10, where something "really, really bad" happens to Amy, "And the Doctor is part of it."

The videos from the Comic-Con panel can be seen here.

Hints for The Girl who Waited

The writer for episode 10, Tom MacRae, has given a few hints on his episode:

Amy fights a handbot in The Girl who Waited

“My ep was NEVER called ‘The Green Anchor’, but the Green Anchor is very, VERY important! And also the best place to be.”
He added: “Amy’s favourite cat was called Biggles. What’s important is – that’s the name she DIDN’T use later on..”
Later on, he posted three quotes from the episode:

• Quote 1 – “How can you have a door without a wall?”
• Quote 2 – “The Green Anchor…The Red Waterfall.”
• Quote 3 – “You want to update Twitter!?”

Part 2 Trailer Breakdown

Here's a breakdown of the new trailer:

(Episode 8-Let's Kill Hitler

Episode 9-Night Terrors

Episode 10-The Girl Who Waited

Episode 11-The God Complex)

 

The Doctor running in the halls of the nightmare hotel in The God Complex

 Amy and Rory ride a motorbike in Let's Kill Hitler

 The Doctor dances in white tie in front of his TARDIS and a swastika, indicating this is in Let's Kill Hitler.

 The Doctor: "My time is running out..."

 He stands in front of a door, presumably in The God Complex...

 Which is numbered eleven, in the eleventh episode, and he's the eleventh Doctor.

 Churchill points a gun at someone.

 Craig is back!

 David Walliams as Gibbis in The God Complex

Daniel Mays in Night Terrors, episode nine.

Madame Kovarian: "And this is where it begins...."

The Doctor: "I'm going to die!"

 An eye (maybe the Minotaur's)

 "Something has happened to time" A voiceover says while someone else (the Doctor, maybe?) looks through something (a keyhole?)

An aged Amy, probably from The Girl Who Waited, episode 10

 

 Hitler: “Thank you. I think you have just saved my life.”

 Craig: "Doctor, are you going to kiss me?"
The Doctor:"Yes Craig. Yes I am."

Amy in a very strange garden, maybe from episode 10.

 The interior of a spaceship. The man on the far left may be in later clip from the trailer.

 A Nazi building...

 And the TARDIS crashes through the window into an office.

River Song in an Egyptian tomb(?)...with an eyepatch?!

 Skulls,

 A Silence in some sort of specimen tank,

 A Cyberman,

Weeping Angels!

One of those creepy dolls from Night Terrors,

A puppet doll from The God Complex

 A handbot from episode 10 opens, looking a lot like a Toclafane,

 A Viking-esque man playing chess...wearing an eyepatch like Kovarian's and River's.

 Minotaur from episode 11

The Silence breaking through a door

The Minotaur traps Rory

The Doctor jumps through a window...

People in what look like spacesuit teleport/beam down.

Rory punches Hitler...

 

Amy fights a handbot from episode 10

  

 Gibbis again

 

Rory dodges a handbot, probably in the same scene as Amy above

Remember the spaceship clip? This might be the man on the far left.

The Doctor tries to hold back Daniel in The God Complex

The Doctor sees his death date on the TARDIS screen, and he's wearing his Stetson (you can tell in the reflection)

Scenes extremely similar to the opening of Series 6, while Madame Kovarian intones, "An impossible astronaut will rise from the deep and strike the Time Lord dead."

The Doctor at Lake Silencio (which translates to Silence)

The Doctor: "Haven't you figured it out yet?"

No, Doctor. We haven't.