He drops Rose and Canton off to start searching the children's homes and he lands the Tardis at Kennedy Space Center.
"Apollo 11's your secret weapon?" River asks him.
"No, no. It's not Apollo 11. That would be silly. It's Neil Armstrong's foot." He tells River.
He looks at Jack. "Watch Kiam and keep your hands to yourself." Jack salutes him and he heads out of the Tardis and climbs up into the Rocket. He is laying there attaching a broadcaster boost when his cell phone rings.
"Rose." He answered it happily.
"I think we've found the place she was taken from." She tells him. "Because those things have been here. But the whole place is deserted. There's just one guy here and I think he's lost it."
"Repeated memory wipes fry your head eventually. Find out what you can, but don't hang around."
"Where are you?"
"Got to go. Got company. I love you." He closes the panel he is working on and grins at them. Don't worry, I've put everything back the way I found it."
They call the guards and he is handcuffed and taken to what looks like a class room. They had been questioning him for a while and he was starting to get impatient with waiting for Jack and River to show up. He really hoped for Jack's sake they showed up soon.
"Now, one more time, sir. How the hell did you get into the command module?" One of the men asks him.
"I told you. I'm on a top secret mission for the President." He answers for the third time.
"Well, maybe if you just get President Nixon to assure us of that, sir, that would be swell." The man says sarcastically.
"I sent him a message." He says calmly and finally the door opens. President Nixon enters with River and Jack dressed as guards
"Hello. I believe it's Mister Gardner. Is that correct? Head of Security?" He says taking the man's hand.
"Er, yes sir. Yes, Mister President." Mr. Gardner said happily.
"Mister Grant, is it?" He says turning to the other man.
"Yes, Mister President."
"Now, fellows, listen. This man, here, code name the Doctor, is doing some work for me personally. Could you cut him a little slack?"
"Er, Mister President, he did break in to Apollo 11."
Nixon looks at him and he grins at him and mouths Sorry.
"Well, I'm sure he had a very good reason for that. But I need you to release him now so he can get on with some very important work for the American people. Could you do that for me?" Nixon asks them. "Son, I am your Commander in Chief." He finishes when they are still hesitant.
"Then I guess that would be fine, Mister President."
"Glad to hear it." Nixon says as they undo his handcuffs.
"Thank you." He says to Nixon and heads back onto the Tardis. He sets the coordinates and lands the Tardis in the Oval office again and steps out into it with the President.
"You have to tape everything that happens in this office. Every word, or you won't know if you're under the influence."
"Doctor, you have to give me more than this. What were you doing to Apollo 11?"
"A thing. Now, no more questions. You have to trust me and nobody else."
River pops out of the Tardis with the telephone. "Doctor, it's Canton. Quick, he needs us."
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He lands the Tardis at the children's home and is out the door and heading into the building as soon as it lands. He runs up the stairs and hears Canton saying.
"Rose, can you hear me? Rose, I'm going to try to blow the lock. I need you to stand back."
He runs up behind Canton. "Okay, gun down. I've got it." He pulls out his sonic screwdriver.
"Rose, we're here. Are you okay?" He calls through the door.
"I can't see." Rose replies and the lock clicks and he opens the door and rushes in to find the room empty.
"Where is she, Doctor?" Jack asks him.
River goes over to the spacesuit lying on the floor. "It's empty." She says.
"It's dark. So dark. I don't know where I am. Please, can anybody hear me?" He picks Rose's nanorecorder off the floor.
"They took this out of her. How did they do that, Doctor? Why can I still hear her?" Jack asks him as he holds it.
"It defaults to live. This is current. Wherever she is right now, this is what she's saying." He says and looks at Jack. Before looking around the room for any clues. He notices pictures on the dresser and one of them is a familiar looking female holding a baby.
"But that's impossible."
"What's impossible," Jack asks.
"Nothing," He replies putting the picture in his pocket.
"Rose, can you hear me? We're coming for you. Wherever you are, we're coming, I swear." Jack says taking the recorder from him.
"She can't hear you. I'm so sorry. It's one way." He says sadly.
"Doctor, are you out there? Can you hear me? Doctor? Oh, God. Please, please, Doctor, just get me out of this." Rose says breaking his hearts.
"He's coming. I'll bring him, I swear." Jack tells the recorder.
A man wanders into the room. "Hello? Is somebody there? I think someone has been shot. I think we should help. We c. I can't re. I can't remember." He says looking blankly at them before wandering out of the room.
They look through the orphanage until they come across one of the beings in an office.
"Okay. Who and what are you?" He asks it.
"Silence, Doctor. We are the Silence. And Silence will fall." The being says.
"Help me." He says looking at Jack and together they lift the being up and move him back to the Tardis. He takes the Silence and Canton and drop them off in the cell and then transports them to the warehouse to examine the spacesuit. He leaves Jack on the Tardis with Kiam and heads out with River.
"It's an exoskeleton. Basically, life support. There's about twenty different kinds of alien tech in here." River tells him.
"Who was she? Why put her in here?" He asks River.
"You put this on, you don't even need to eat. The suit processes sunlight directly. It's got built in weaponry, and a communications system that can hack into anything."
"Including the telephone network?" He sticks his tongue to the corner of his mouth. "But why phone the President?" He says leaning close and pressing his glasses up.
"It defaults to the highest authority it can find. The little girl gets frightened, the most powerful man on Earth gets a phone call." He leans back again. "What are the Silence doing, raising a child?"
"Keeping her safe, even giving her independence."
"The only way to save Rose, is to work out what the Silence are doing.
And every single thing we learn about them brings us a step closer." He tells Her. "It's possible she's not just any little girl."
"Well, I'd say she's human, going by the life support software." River begins. "But she climbed out of this suit. Like she forced her way out. She must be incredibly strong."
"Incredibly strong and running away." He smiles at River "I like her."
"We should be trying to find her." River tells him.
"Yes, I know. But how? Anyway, I have the strangest feeling she's going to find us."
"So, why does it look like a NASA spacesuit?" Jack says leaning in the Tardis door.
"Because that's what the Silence do. Think about it. They don't make anything themselves. They don't have to. They get other life forms to do it for them."
"So they're parasites, then."
"Superparasites, standing in the shadows of human history since the very beginning. We know they can influence human behaviour any way they want. If they've been doing that on a global scale for thousands of years. So, why did the human race suddenly decide to go to the Moon." He turns to the Television that is on in the corner on silence and he watches the rocket taking off.
The glove of the suit twitches. "This suit, it seems to be repairing itself. How's it doing that? Doctor, a unit like this, would it ever be able to move without an occupant?"
"Why?"
"Well, the little girl said the spaceman was coming to eat her. Maybe that's exactly what happened." River says.
"Doctor I love you." He hears Rose's nanorecorder saying. "My life was so boring before you just dropped out of the sky."
"She'll be safe for now." He tells Jack.
"Can't you save her?" Jack asks him
"I can track that signal back. Take us right to her." He says.
"Then why haven't you?"
"Because then what? I find her and then what do I do? This isn't an alien invasion. They live here. This is their empire. This is kicking the Romans out of Rome."
"Rome fell." Jack says.
"I know. I was there." He says darkly.
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He traces the recorder and lands the Tardis in what looks like a spaceship. "Kiam stay here." He steps through the door. "Interesting."
He says seeing Rose tied to a chair surrounded by the Silence. "Jack, River, keep one Silent in eyeshot at all times." He says to them before turning his attention to them. "Oh, hello. Sorry, you were in the middle of something. I just had to say, though, have you seen what's on the telly?" He sets down a mobile television and turns it on. "Oh, hello, Rose. Are you all right? Want to watch some television? Ah. Now, stay where you are. Because look at me, I'm confident. You want to watch that, me, when I'm confident. Oh, and these are my friends," he gestures. "Jack and River."
"Nice hair, clever, has her own gun, and she really doesn't mind shooting people. I shouldn't like that. Kind of do, a bit." Jack gushes.
"Thank you, sweetie."
"I know you're team players and everything, but she'll definitely kill at least the first three of you." Jack tells them.
"Well, the first seven, easily." River says backing into Jack.
"Seven? Really?" Jack replies and he looks at Rose and they both roll their eyes.
"Oh, eight for you, honey."
"Stop it." Jack wiggles against her and he clearly hears Rose make a gagging sound.
"Make me."
"Yeah? Well, maybe I will."
"Is this really important flirting? Because I feel like I should be higher on the list right now." Rose asks them.
"Yes. Right. Sorry. As I was saying, my naughty friend here is going to kill the first three of you to attack, plus him behind, so maybe you want to draw lots." Jack finally says turning his attention back to the Silence. He looks at Jack.
"Can I continue now." Jack gestures and he steps forward. "Or maybe you could just listen a minute. Because all I really want to do is accept your total surrender and then I'll let you go in peace. Yes, you've been interfering in human history for thousands of years. Yes, people have suffered and died, but what's the point in two hearts, if you can't be a bit forgiving, now and then?." He pauses and they say nothing. "Okay, you got me. I'm lying. I'm not really going to let you go that easily. First, you tell me about the girl. Who is she? Why is she important? What's she for?" He looks to the telly to see that it is still in the nasa control room.
"Now, do you know how many people are watching this live on the telly? Half a billion. And that's nothing, because the human race will spread out among the stars. You just watch them fly. Billions and billions of them, for billions and billions of years, and every single one of them at some point in their lives, will look back at this man, taking that very first step, and they will never, ever forget it." He pulls out his phone and picks up another device by the Television. "Oh. But don't forget this bit. Ready?" He hooks the phone to the device.
On the television they hear Neil Armstrong say. "That's one small step for a man" The screen cuts out and the injured Silence appears. "You should kill us all on sight." Just as quickly it is back to Neil.
"You've given the order for your own execution, and the whole planet just heard you. You just raised an army against yourself and now, for a thousand generations, you're going to be ordering them to destroy you every day. How fast can you run? Because today's the day the human race throw you off their planet. They won't even know they're doing it." He notices that they are pulling the electricity to them again. "Run!" He yells.
River starts shooting as Jack runs to Rose and starts pulling at the straps. "I can't get her out!" Jack calls to him and he pulls out his sonic and helps Jack get Rose loose and then guards them as Jack helps Rose on to the Tardis.
"Don't let them build to full power."
"I know. There's a reason why I'm shooting, honey. What are you doing?"
"Helping." He says.
"You've got a screwdriver. Go build a cabinet."
He runs into the Tardis and starts setting it in motion again. He takes Canton back to the Oval office and watches him walk out of the doors before setting the Tardis to Stormcage.
He walks River out. "You could come with us." He tells her.
"I escape often enough, thank you. And I have a promise to live up to. You'll understand soon enough." She says.
Jack walked up to the cell and kissed River on the cheek. She grabbed him and pulled him closer. He adverted his eyes and headed back onto the Tardis.
"You have five minutes Jack, or I'm leaving with out you."
Jack enters a few minutes later.
"So, where to now?"