As they made their way back to the drop ship, the Doctor walked to meet them.
"Are you ok?" he asked, regarding Aderyn with a look of fatherly concern.
"Yeah I'm fine." she lied. He looked up at River, who shook her head.
"I want you to go back to the drop ship and stay there with Amy, stay there till I call you."
When Aderyn was safely out of ear shot he rounded on River.
"What's wrong?"
"She's seen an Angel. She said that there was an angel across the street from where she lives. And it moved." River watched Aderyn walk towards the drop ship and then turn sharply away from it, finding a secluded spot to sit and watch the bustle of soldiers.
Aderyn watched the Doctor and River talking. She knew the expressions too well. River had brushed off her sighting of the stone angel but she wouldn't be talking to the Doctor about it if it was nothing to worry about. And she knew the Doctor wouldn't look so concerned if it truly was nothing to worry about.
River sighed as she looked over at Aderyn "she never does what you tell her to does she?"
The Doctor chuckled slightly "I don't think anyone I have ever travelled with has."
They were interrupted by Father Octavian."So what is the plan sir?" he asked.
"The hyperdrive would've split on impact. That whole ship's going to be flooded with drive burn radiation, cracked electrons, gravity storms. Deadly to almost any living thing."
"Deadly to an Angel?"
"Dinner to an Angel," the Doctor said "The longer we leave it there, the stronger it will grow. Who built that temple? Are they still around?"
"The Aplans. Indigenous life form. They died out four hundred years ago," River informed him "Two hundred years later, the planet was terraformed. Currently there are six billion human colonists."
"You lot, you're everywhere. You're like rabbits," the Doctor turned to Aderyn who had walked over to them "I'll never get done saving you." he smiled at Aderyn, who attempted to smile back.
"Sir, if there is a clear and present danger to the local population" Father Octavian said.
"Oh, there is. Bad as it gets. Bishop, lock and load."
Father Octavian saluted before walking away "Doctor Song, with me." River turned to Aderyn before following "Come on sweetie." She held out her hand, Aderyn took it and followed River.
"Doctor, we need you as well." Father Octavian shouted over his shoulder.
The Doctor followed.
From the door of the drop ship Amy watched them walk passed. She shrugged before walking back in.
She looked up at the monitor as she entered. The angel was still there. But this time it's hands were no longer covering it's face. It was starting to look over it's shoulder.
Outside the drop ship, River handed a book to the Doctor, he flicked quickly through it's pages.
"I found this. Definitive work on the Angels. Well, the only one. Written by a madman. It's barely readable, but I've marked a few passages." River said.
"Doctor Song?"
River looked round to see Amy leaning out of the door of the drop ship.
"Did you have more than one clip of the angel?"
"No, just the four seconds." She replied.
Amy went back into the drop ship and looked again at the monitor. The Angel had moved again. This time it was staring straight ahead, straight out at her, it's arms lowered. Amy turned her attention to the time stamp. She watched as it reached the four second span, then looped back again. When she looked up at the screen again, the Angel was closer. The door closed and locked behind her.
The Doctor was still musing over the book. Aderyn had managed to grab it from his unresisting hands as he had waved it while he'd been talking. She flicked through the pages.
"The book is wrong. What's wrong with this book? It's wrong." The Doctor was saying.
Amy reached for the remote, trying to switch off the screen. it flicked back on instantly. She tried several times. Every time the screen instantly switched back on. She walked up to the monitor and yanked the cable beneath it. It didn't move. When she looked back up the angel was, once again, closer. The time stamp continued to loop through the same four seconds. Keeping the angel in sight, she backed towards the door. When it didn't open she looked round at it. She was locked in. When she looked back the Angel's mouth was open in a terrifying silent snarl.
"Doctor!" she shouted.
"Pictures," Aderyn said, handing the book back to the Doctor. "Why aren't there any pictures? the whole book is a warning about the Weeping Angels. So why no pictures? Why not show us what to look out for?"
"There was that bit about images." River said.
"Yes, hang on," The Doctor flipped quickly through the pages again "That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an Angel." He slammed the book closed, once again lost in his own thoughts, muttering the line under his breath.
"What does that mean?" Aderyn asked.
Amy's fear reached it's peak when she once again took her eyes off the angel to try the door. When she looked back, the Angel was in the room.
The Doctor paced, muttering constantly. Then it hit him. He dropped the book back on the table and ran towards the drop ship.
"Aderyn stay here." River demanded before following the Doctor.
"Amy," he called through the door "Are you alright? What's happening in there?"
"Doctor, it's coming out of the television." Amy called through the door. The Doctor directed the sonic screwdriver at the door's keypad. But it wouldn't open.
"Deadlocked." he cursed.
"There is no deadlock." River said as she drew level.
"Well there is now." The Doctor retorted, trying to switch off the power from the outside.
"Doctor, the Angel is here." Amy said.
"Don't take your eyes off it. Keep looking. It can't move if you're looking. Don't blink, Amy. Don't even blink." The Doctor called. Amy heard his voice moving along the side of the ship,, as though the Doctor were running back and forth.
"Can you switch it off?" He shouted.
"I tried."
"Try again. But don't take your eyes off the Angel. Each time it moves, it will move faster. Don't even blink. "
"I'm not blinking, have you ever tried not blinking." She shouted, sounding angrier then she intended. She closed one eye at a time as she moved towards the remote. She hit the power button again. And again it switched on again instantaneously.
"It won't switch off."
"Yeah that's the Angel." The Doctor shouted as he ran back to collect the book.
"But it's just a recording." Amy shouted, not knowing the Doctor had walked away.
"No, anything that takes the image of an Angel is an Angel," River called "Just keep looking at it. Don't stop looking."
"But not the eyes, anywhere but the eyes." The Doctor shouted, he returned with the book in hand and a worried Aderyn not far behind him.
"Why not the eyes?" Aderyn asked.
"The eyes are not the windows of the soul. They are the doors. Beware what may enter there." The Doctor read.
"What did you say? What was the bit about images?" came Amy's shout.
River pushed the Doctor out of the way and called through the door "Whatever holds the image of an Angel, is an Angel."
Amy aimed the remote at the screen again and fixed on the time stamp. She watched the numbers flick passed "Hold this." she growled. And pressed the pause button as the blip on the tape signalled it returning to the beginning of the loop. The Angel froze. Then the monitor switched off. River, The Doctor and Aderyn burst through the door.
"Are you ok?" the Doctor ran up to her.
"Yeah I froze it. There was a sort of blip on the tape and I froze it on the blip. It wasn't the image of an Angel any more. That was good, yeah? It was, wasn't it? That was pretty good."
"That was amazing." Aderyn said. The doctor strode up to the monitor and yanked the cable out.
"River, hug Amy." he said.
"Why?" Amy asked, as River walked up to her.
"Because I'm busy."
"So it was here? That was the Angel?" Aderyn said, staying close to the door.
"That was a projection of the Angel. It's reaching out, getting a good look at us. It's no longer dormant."
The drop ship shuddered as an explosion tore through the quiet of the evening.