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The Doctor, Rose, Jack, Jenny and River were in the warehouse, examining the spacesuit as a small black-and-white TV was playing the news, showing Apollo 11, standing at it's launch pad.

"The target for the Apollo 11 astronauts, the moon, at lift off, will be at a distance of 218,096 miles away. We're just past the two minute mark on the countdown. T minus one minute 54 seconds and counting…"

"It's an exo-skeleton. Basically, life support. There's about 20 different kinds of alien tech in here," Reiver reported as she scanned the spacesuit with her handheld device.

"I figured as much," Rose told her.

"Who was she? Why put her in here?" The Doctor asked.

"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," River added.

"Including the telephone network?" Jack asked her.

"Easily," she answered.

"Why phone the President?" The Doctor asked.

"It defaults to the highest authority it can find. The little girl gets frightened, the most powerful man on Earth gets a phone call. The night terrors with a hotline to the White House," River explained as Rose looked up and saw her husband sniffing River's envelope before licking it.

"Do you have to be that disgusting, Theta?" Rose asked her husband.

River then looked up to see exactly what Rose saw, "You won't learn anything from that envelope, you know."

"Purchased on Earth, perfectly ordinary stationery, TARDIS blue. Summoned by a stranger who won't even show his face. That's a first for me, not sure about you, Rose," the Doctor told her, "How about you?"

"Our lives are back to front," River told both Time Lords, "Your future's my past, your firsts are my lasts."

"That's not really what he asked, River," Rose told her.

"Ask something else then, Doctor," River told him.

"What are the Silence doing? Raising a child?" He asked her.

"Keeping her safe. Even giving her independence," River answered.

"The only way to save Amy is to work out what the Silence are doing," Rose told Rory.

"I know, Rose," Rory told the Time Lady.

"Every single thing we learn about them brings us a step closer," the Doctor added.

"Yeah, Doctor, I get it, I know," Rory told him.

"Of course, it's possible she's not just any little girl," Jenny told them.

"Well, I'd say she's human, going by the life support software," River added.

"I suspected as much," Jack told her.

"But?" The Doctor asked.

"She climbed out of this suit. Like she forced her way out," River answered, "She must be incredibly strong."

"Incredibly strong and running away. I like her," the Doctor told her.

"I like her too, Doctor," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.

"We should be trying to find her," Jack told them.

"Yes, I know, but how?" The Doctor asked him, "Anyway, I have the strangest feeling she's going to find us."

"This is Houston, do you read? Over," NASA's mission control on the TV said.

"Why does it look like a NASA space suit?" Rory asked.

"Because it is a NASA spacesuit," Rose answered.

"Rose is right," the Doctor said as he walked towards the TV, "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?" Jack asked.

"Super parasites," the Doctor answered, "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…"

"Then what?" Rory asked.

"Then why did the human race suddenly decide to go to the moon?" Rose asked him.

"Ten, nine, ignition sequence start, six, five, four…" Mission control on the TV said as they counted down.

"Because the Silence needed a space suit," Rose added.

"..one, zero, all engines on. Lift off. We have a lift off. 32 minutes past the hour, lift off on Apollo 11," Mission Control went on as Apollo 11 lifted off from it's launch pad.

A while later, the Doctor opened a video on River's handheld device where the wounded Silent was trapped in the cell that he and Jack were in earlier.

"You should kill us all on sight," the wounded Silent said.

Rory was off to the side listening to Amy's sobs over the nano-recorder as RIver was scanning the spacesuit with Jack and Jenny as the hand/glove twitches, "This suit, it seems to be repairing itself. How is it doing that?"

"That's cool," Jenny told her.

"It kind of is," Jack said, agreeing with the Time Lady.

Rory then sat on the floor, his back against a packing crate.

Doctor, a unit like this, would it ever be able to move without an occupant?"

"Why?" He asked her

"Well, the little girl said the space man was coming to eat her," River reminded him.

"You think maybe that's exactly what happened?" Rose asked her.

"Yeah, I do, Rose," River answered.

Amy began to speak as Rory lifted his head, both Gallifreyans also heard but left Rory alone, "I love you. I know you think it's them. I know you think it ought to be them. But it's not, it's you. And when I see you again, I'm going tell you properly, just to see your stupid face. My life was so boring before you just dropped out of the sky," she said before he dropped his head, "So just get your stupid face where I can see it. OK? OK?"

"She'll be safe for now. No point in a dead hostage," the Doctor told Rory as he and Rose said next to him.

"Can't you both save her?" Rory asked them.

"We could track that signal back. Take us right to her," Rose told him.

"Then why haven't either of you done it?" Rory asked them.

"Because then what? We find her, and then what do we do? This isn't an alien invasion. They live here. This is their empire. This is kicking the Romans out of Rome," the Doctor explained.

"Rome fell," Rory told him.

We know, Rory. We were there," Rose told him.

"So was I," Rory told them.

Can we ask you a personal question?" He asked him.

"Seriously? You?" Rory asked them.

"Do you ever remember it? 2,000 years, waiting for Amy together? The Last Centurion and the Time Lady who helped the Last Centurion?" Rose asked him.

"No," Rory answered.

"Are you lying?" The Doctor asked him.

"Course I'm lying," Rory answered.

"Course you are," the Doctor said, "Not the sort of thing anyone forgets."

"But I don't remember it all the time," Rory added, "It's like there's… a door in my head. I can keep it shut."

"Please come and get me. Come and get me," Amy continued to sob as the Doctor and Rose stood up and listened to the nanorecorder.

On the Silent ship, Amy woke up and saw a bright light in her eyes as she was strapped to one of the tables tilted upright, "Where am I? Where is this?"

One of the Silents then noticed that she was awake and turned to face her, "You are Amelia Pond."

"You're ugly, has anyone mentioned that to you?" Amy asked the Silent.

"We do you honour. You will bring the Silence. But your part will soon be over," the Silent told her.

"Whatever that means, you've made a big mistake bringing me here, because wait till you see what's coming for you now," Amy told the Silent.

"You have been here many days," the Silent told her.

"No. I just got here. You just put me in here," Amy argued.

"Your memory is weak. You have been here many days," the Silent insisted.

"No. No, I can't have been," Amy argued.

"You will sleep now. Sleep," the Silent said as he leaned over her.

"No! No! Get off me!" Amy protested.

"Sleep," the Silent said, repeating himself.

"No! No!" Amy continued to protest as the TARDIS materialized, causing the silence to turn to stare at it as the Doctor, Rose, Jack, Jenny, River and Rory stepped out as the Doctor was carrying a TV while Jack and River had their guns out.

"Oh! Interesting. Very Aickman Road, seen one of these before. Abandoned, wonder how that happened," the Doctor said as he noticed that the spaceship looked like the 'second floor' of Craig's flat, "Oh, well! I suppose I'm about to find out. Rory, River, keep one Silent in eyeshot at all times. Oh, hello, sorry. You're in the middle of something. Just had to say though, have you seen what's on the telly? Hello, Amy, you all right? Want to watch some television?" He then set the TV on the console "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 this is our friend, River," Jack said as he began flirting with her, "Nice hair, clever, has own gun, and unlike the Doctor and Rose, she really doesn't mind shooting people like me. I kind of like that."

"Thank you, sweetie," River thanked Jack.

"I know you're team players and everything, but she'll definitely kill at least the first three of you," the Doctor added as River moved so that she and Jack were standing back-to-back.

"The first seven, easily," River told them.

"Seven, really?" Jack asked as he continued to flirt with her.

"Oh, eight for you, honey," River flirted with him.

"Stop it," Jack told her.

"Make me!" River ordered.

"Yeah, well, maybe I will," Jack said as he continued to flirt with her.

"Is this really important, flirting?" Amy asked them, "I feel like I should be higher on the list right now."

"Amy is right," Rose said, agreeing with her, "You two can flirt after we defeat the Silence."

"Amy and Rose are right," the Doctor said, agreeing with Amy and his wife, "As I was saying, our naughty friends here are going to kill the first three of you to attack, plus him behind. So maybe you want to draw lots, or have a quiz."

"What's he got?" Amy asked as both Rose and Rory tried to free Amy from the table she was strapped on.

"Something, I hope," Rory told her.

"He definitely has something," Rose told them.

"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. You've been interfering in human history for thousands of years. People have suffered and died. But what's the point in two hearts, if you can't be a bit forgiving now and then," the Doctor said as he walked around the console before staring into the leader's face, "Ooh! The Silence. You guys take that seriously, don't you? OK, you got me, I'm lying. I'm not really going to let you go that easily. Nice thought, but it's not Christmas. First," he then turned on the TV, "you tell me about the girl. Who is she? Why is she important? What's she for? Guys, sorry. But you're way out of time. Now, come on, a bit of history for you. Aren't you proud, because you helped?" He then pulled out the TV antennae, "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." The Doctor stopped and watched as the moon landing unfolds.

"Okay. Engine stopped. ACA out of Detent," Buzz Aldrin said on the TV, "Descent Engine Command Override Override, off."

"Oh," the Doctor said as he took out a phone, "But they'll forget this bit. Ready?"

"Ready," Canton replied

"That's one small step for a man…" Neil Armstrong began to say on the TV before the broadcast was interrupted with the video of the Silent that Canton had shot earlier saying that they should all kill them on sight and began playing on a loop and kept repeating.

"You've given the order for your own execution, and the whole planet just heard you," the Doctor told the Silence.

"One giant leap for mankind," Neil Armstrong finished.

"And one whacking great kick up the backside for the Silence!" The Doctor added,

"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." The leader began to advance on the Doctor who backed away, "They won't even know they're doing it. I think, quite possibly the word you're looking for right now is, 'Oops!' Run! Guys, I mean us! Run!"

The Silence began to draw on their energy as River and Jack began to fire their guns at the Silence as the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to keep them back.

"We can't get her out!" Rory told the Doctor.

"Go, just go!" Amy told them.

"We are not leaving without you!" Rory told his wife.

"Will you just get your stupid face out of here?!" Amy yelled at him, causing Rory to stop and look at her.

"For Rassilon's sake! Do I have to do it?!" Rose exclaimed as she took out her sonic screwdriver on Amy's straps to free her before she and Rory helped her into the TARDIS.

"Right, into the TARDIS, quickly!" Jenny ordered as she ran into the TARDIS with her mother, Rory and Amy as Jack and River covered them along with the Doctor

"Don't let them build to full power!" The Doctor told them.

"I know. There's a reason why me and Jack are shooting!" River told him, "What are you doing?"

"Helping," the Doctor answered.

"You've got a screwdriver. Go build a cabinet!" River told him.

"I told him that when I first met him," Jack told her, "In London 1941 back when I was still mortal with gas masked Zombies created by nanogenes."

"I know that, Sweetie," River told him.

"That's really rude!" The Doctor told her.

"Shut up and drive!" River told him as he and Jack went into the TARDIS as River spun around and fired at a Silent, killing them all. She ended in a crouch before slowly standing up as Rory stood in the TARDIS doorway, staring at her in amazement. She twirled her gun into its holster.

"So, what kind of doctor are you?" Rory asked her.

"Archaeology," she answered as without looking, River pulled out her gun and fired at a Silent behind her, "Love a tomb." SHe then entered the TARDIS and pushed the Doctor out of the way and worked the controls.

"You can let me fly it!" The Doctor told her.

"Or we could go where we're supposed to, me and Rose can just pilot the TARDIS without you," she told him, "You failed your driver's test and got a 51 on the second attempt while Rose got a hundred on her first attempt."

Amy then walks down the steps to Rory by the door, "What's the matter with you?"

"You called me stupid," he answered.

"I always call you stupid," she told him.

"No, but... my face," he explained as she reached out and opened Rory's hand to reveal her recorder, "I wasn't sure who you were talking about. You know, me, or…"

"Them?" Amy asked with surprise.

"Well, you did say, 'Dropped out of the sky,'" He told her.

"It's a figure of speech, moron!" She said before pulling him in for a kiss.

"Thanks," he said, thanking her.

"You're welcome," she told him.

The next day in the Oval Office, President Nixon shook the Doctor's hand as Rory stood near the TARDIS with River standing in the TARDIS doorway as Jack stood next to the couch with Jenny as Amy and Rose sat on the couch, "So we're safe again."

"Safe?" The Doctor asked, "No, of course you're not safe. There's a billion other things out there, waiting to burn your whole world. But if you want to pretend you're safe, just so you can sleep at night, OK, you're safe. But you're not really." He then turned to Canton, "Canton. Till the next one, eh?"

"Looking forward to it," Canton said as he shook the Doctor's hand.

"Canton just wants to get married. Helluva reason to kick him out of the FBI," the Doctor told Nixon.

"I'm sure something can be arranged," Nixon told him.

"I'm counting on you," the Doctor told him.

"Er, Doctor... Canton here tells me you're... from the future. Hardly seems possible, but I was wondering…" Nixon began to say.

"Should warn you, I don't answer a lot of questions," the Doctor told him.

"But I'm a President at the beginning of his time. Dare I ask? Will I be remembered?" Nixon asked him.

"Oh, Dickie. Tricky Dickie. They're never going to forget you," the Doctor said as he headed for the TARDIS with Rose, Amy, Jack, Jenny and Rory entering it with River, "Say hi to David Frost for me."

"David Frost?" Nixon asked with confusion as he and Canton watched as the TARDIS dematerialized, "This person you want to marry. Black?"

"Yes," Canton answered.

"Hmm. I know what people think of me, but perhaps I am a little more liberal," Nixon told him.

"He is," Canton added.

"I think the moon is far enough for now, don't you, Mr Delaware?" Nixon asked him.

"I figured it might be," Canton said, agreeing with the President.

The TARDIS stood in the hall as Jack was saying goodbye to River by her open cell, "You could come with us as I'm going to travel with the Doctor and Rose for a while."

"I escape often enough, thank you," she told him, "And I have a promise to live up to. You, Rose and the Doctor will understand, soon enough."

"OK, up to you," Jack told her as he walked back to the TARDIS, "See you next time. Call me."

"Can you give me a goodbye kiss, Jack?" River asked him.

"I think I should, River," Jack said as he walked back to her and began kissing her as they began to kiss each other passionately for the first time from Jack's point of view, "See you around Dr River Song."

"See you too, Captain Jack Harkness," River muttered as she said goodbye to him as Jack entered the TARDIS as it dematerialized.

"Jenny, do you want to stay with us and Jack for a while or go back to university?" Rose asked Jenny.

"I would like to go back to university, Mum," Jenny answered, "I'm thinking of studying science so I could become a Scientific Advisor for UNIT like Dad was."

"I'd like that, Jenny," the Doctor told her before turning to Rory, "Rory, I'm going to need thermo couplings. The green ones and the blue ones."

"OK, hold on," Rory said as he headed off.

"So," the Doctor said.

"So?" Amy asked.

"You're OK?" Rose asked her.

"Fine. Head's a bit weird. There's lots of stuff I can't quite remember," Amy answered as she flashed back to the photo and what happened in the orphanage.

"After effect of the Silence. Natural enough. That's not what we were asking," he told her, "You told us you were pregnant.

"Yes," Amy told them.

"Why?" Rose asked her.

"Because I was. I thought I was. Turns out I wasn't," Amy explained.

"No. Why did you tell me and Rose?" The Doctor asked.

"You're my friends. You're my best friends," Amy explained.

"Did you tell Rory?" Rose asked.

"No," she answered.

"So, let me get this straight," Jack said, "You told the Doctor and Rose that you were pregnant, but not your husband."

"Jack's right, Amy, why tell me and Rose but not Rory?" The Doctor asked her.

"Why do you think, Doctor?" Amy asked him, "I travelled with you and Rose in this TARDIS for so long. All that time. If I was pregnant for some of it, wouldn't it have had an effect? I don't want to tell Rory, this baby might have three heads, or like a time head or something."

"What's a time head?" The Doctor asked her.

"I don't know, but what if it had one?" Amy told him.

"A time head?" Rose asked.

"Shut up, all right!" Amy told them as she, the Doctor, Rose, Jack and Jenny began laughing before she realized that Rory was listening in on their conversation with her nanorecorder, "Oi! Stupid face."

"Er, yeah. Hello," Rory said as he made his way back to the console room.

"Taking that away from you, if you're going to listen in all the time," Amy told him.

"OK, that's a fair point. But you should've told me that you thought you were pregnant," he told her, "I'm a nurse, I'm good with pregnancy."

"Not, as it turns out, that good. So can you stop being stupid?" Amy told him as she hugged him.

"Er, no. Never. I'm never, ever going to stop being stupid!" He told her.

"So, this little girl, it's all about her. Who was she? Or we could just go off and have some adventures. Anyone in the mood for adventures?" The Doctor asked, "I am. You only live once. Well, except for you Jack you'll live for millions, possibly billions of years."

" I am," Rose answered as Jack, Jenny, Amy and Rory shared a look as the Doctor fiddled with the scanner controls. He smiles at Amy as he looks back to the scanner. The TARDIS was performing a full-body scan on Amy, testing for pregnancy but the results kept switching between positive and negative.

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And how should the next episode play out with Jack there?