Rory's Story Part 15: The Almost People

Here's part fifteen of Rory's Story, a feature looking at Rory's involvement in previous Doctor Who episodes, (a prequel to the upcoming feature Rory Watch) from The Eleventh Hour to A Good Man Goes to War:

PART FOURTEEN: THE ALMOST PEOPLE (Series 6 episode 6)

Rory has found Jennifer--or make that Jennifers: Jennifer and her ganger. Unable to tell human from flesh, he realises one is limping. The injured Jennifer is attacked by the other, and the attacker is thrown into a pool of acid, revealing herself to be a ganger. The other Jennifer and Rory head towards thermostatic control room, where they can stir the oxygen to remove some of the fumes coming off the boiling acid. Unknowing that the controls only work for humans, Rory shuts off the thermostatic regulators. On their way back to the others, Jennifer shows Rory a pile of discarded gangers, their flesh melding although they are still semi-conscious. Declaring this as wrong, Rory decides to help Jennifer stop this from happening. Jennifer locks the others in an acid chamber, and Rory says he has seen what happens to old gangers. Amy and the Doctor tell him the Jennifer is dead and he has been tricked by her ganger. When he discovers he's been tricked, Rory tries to leave the gangers, but is stopped by the Doctor's ganger, who shouts "Ring ring!" and answers the holographic phone. Jimmy's ganger runs to release the humans (and Time Lord) who are locked in the acid room. Rory tells them of an escape route not in the schematics that would take them directly to the sinking TARDIS. As they head for the passage, they're intercepted by Jennifer's ganger, which becomes a scorpion-like version of herself. After giving his ganger a sonic screwdriver, the Doctor takes the surviving people into the TARDIS, where the gangers stabilise permanently. After dropping Cleaves and Dicken's ganger at a press conference, Amy suddenly doubles over. uddenly doubles over. The Doctor says that she is going into contractions, about to give birth. He and Rory help her back to the TARDIS. The Doctor tells Rory to step away from Amy. Rory at last backs away from Amy, who the Doctor assures they will find. The Doctor points his sonic screwdriver at "Amy" and activates it, causing her to collapse into raw flesh.

RORY MOMENT OF THE EPISODE

Finding the passage to escape

GoodGum will be doing A Good Man Goes to War tomorrow.

L Bunting