Amy shut the door of the TARDIS and pranced towards the control column. 'Where to now Doctor?' He wandered round the column, flicking switches and staring blankly at the varying images on the screen that hung from the ceiling. 'Home. I said one trip. I meant it, for once.' Rory's face fell, 'But- but, can't we travel with you again?' Amy swaggered over to Rory and threw her arm over his shoulders and pouted, 'Yeah Doctor, I thought we were your companions! That's what we get called isn't it?' The Doctor slammed down a lever then snapped towards them. 'No, Every time I become close to someone- anyone- they are then linked with me and my life. And every time, every time, that is why they must leave.' He smacked a lever forward and the TARDIS rocketed into action, more violently than usual. The Doctor started shouting, snapping from his sombre mood' What? No, no! No-no-no-no-no!' He pulled on a lever putting all of his weight on it, 'We're going off course!' He let go of the controller and held onto the hand-rail. He shouted over the roar of the TARDIS, 'I've completely lost control!' Suddenly the TARDIS juddered to a halt.
Amy had walked to the door when the Doctor shouted, 'Stop! We don't know what's out there, whatever dragged us out of the time vortex had enough power to get in and out, we don't know where that could have put us. Just…wait.' The Doctor spun the screen towards him and inspected the detailed patterns of the Gallifreyan symbols in confusion then strode to the door of the TARDIS where he stepped cautiously outside. 'London,' he declared. He sniffed the air. 'London- Two thousand and… Twelve? No… I can't be here; I've already been here once. We need to leave. Now.' Amy looked at her watch instinctively but shook the confusion from her mind and picked a newspaper from the top of a bin. Her watch never worked properly anymore, she had tried to set it to match the local date and time but eventually gave up. Rory stood peering over her shoulder. After scanning the date on the paper she read, 'March 10th, Doctor, our time. Why can't you be here?' He stared thoughtfully, 'Because I've already been here before in the past, if I met myself again, it could rip a hole in reality. But…'
'But?' Asked Rory.
'Not yet, I come to London at a later time in a different place. We should be… Ok. But I want to see what went wrong-' The TARDIS whirred and started to fade. 'What? No!' The Doctor grunted and smacked the wall in anger as the TARDIS faded from sight and silenced. He twisted to face the wall and slumped against it. After a moment he turned to Amy and Rory, grimaced then spoke. 'Right, I'm going to get you two back home and I know exactly how. But we're going to have to wait for a while.'