Plot:
SPOILERAmy and Rory, celebrating their honeymoon, are aboard a space liner with 4001 other passengers, flying out of control into a colonized planet shrouded by a cloud system controlled by a spire on the planet. The Doctor, alerted by Amy's distress call, lands on the planet in the TARDIS and tries to convince the miser Kazran Sardick to turn off the cloud controls, which are biologically locked to Kazran, but Kazran refuses to do so. Kazran, like his father, considers the rest of the population of the planet as cattle and has little care for the lives aboard the liner. When the Doctor arrives, Kazran refuses to release a young girl, Abigail, from cryogenic storage to her sister's family. Recognizing that Kazran's father has had a significant effect on Kazran's life, the Doctor devises a scheme based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to improve Kazran in the past and present so that he will help turn off the spire and allow the liner to land safely.
The Doctor visits a young Kazran shortly after his father had hit him for trying to experiment with a phenomena of the planet: the ability of all manner of fish to "swim" in the foggy air. The Doctor determines the ice in the clouds contain a weak electrical charge that allows the fish to swim, and is adversely affecting the space liner. However, while experimenting with the fish, the Doctor and young Kazran are attacked by a shark that swallows the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. The Doctor recovers half of it, harming the shark in the process so it cannot return to swim in the clouds. The Doctor determines that the shark can be safely returned to the cloud system if she is transported in some sort of container. Young Kazran takes the Doctor to a system of cryogenic chambers beneath the spire, where Kazran's father stores family members of people to whom he has lent money as "security." The Doctor releases Abigail and introduces her to Kazran; Abigail's singing appears to calm the shark, another effect of the electrical field of the planet. The three successfully return the shark to the clouds.
Before putting Abigail back into storage, Kazran promises to have him and the Doctor return every Christmas Eve to celebrate it with Abigail. The Doctor keeps this promise, traveling forward every year to reunite Kazran and Abigail, and watching them develop a romance after he is introduced to her family. However, after several Christmas Eves, Abigail reveals to Kazran that she only can survive one more day outside of the chamber, and Kazran decides to end the tradition, leaving her in cryogenic storage indefinitely. The Doctor leaves the broken half of the sonic screwdriver with Kazran to use when he needs it. While this experience has given older Kazran many new memories, he still refuses to disable the spire, feeling heartbroken at Abigail's fate.
Amy appears to old Kazran as a hologram. She shows Kazran the crew of the doomed liner, singing Christmas carols in order to use the musical vibrations to partially stabilize the ship within the cloud system, just like Abigail was able to use the same phenomena to "calm" the shark. Kazran waves away the holograms, continuing to refuse to release the controls. When the Doctor appears and tries to show Kazran his future, Kazran fully admits that he will die alone and values the one day left he has with Abigail over the thousands on the liner or the population of the planet. Unbeknownst to Kazran, the Doctor has brought young Kazran to the future, who is shocked by his elder's self revelation. This induces a change in the older Kazran, and he agrees to release the spire controls, but they find that the Doctor's interference has changed Kazran's bio-signature enough that the controls are no longer mapped to him.
The Doctor devises a plan: by unfreezing Abigail and having her sing through the broken half of the sonic screwdriver, the other half in the shark would be able to resonate the ice and disrupt the cloud pattern, allowing the liner to safely land. Kazran, aware that Abigail will die after one day, releases her, and Abigail comforts him, reminding him they have had many Christmas Eves together and it is time for Christmas Day to come. The Doctor's plan is successful, and as the ship safely lands on the planet, the breakup of the clouds releases snow across the city. As the Doctor takes young Kazran back to his past, the old Kazran and Abigail celebrate a shark-driven carriage ride together.
Dauer: 60 Minuten
Release Date: 25 December 2010
Doctor: Matt Smith (Eleventh Doctor)
Companions: Karen Gillan (Amy Pond), Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams) upgraded
Others: Katherine Jenkins (Abigail Pettigrew), Michael Gambon (Kazran/Elliot/Sardick), Micah Balfour (Co-pilot), Pooky Quesnel (Captain), Leo Bill (Pilot), Laurence Belcher (Young Kazran), Bailey Pepper (Boy and Benjamin), Steve North (Old Benjamin), Laura Rogers (Isabella), Meg Wynn-Owen (Old Isabella), Danny Horn (Teenage Kazran), Nick Malinowski (Eric), Tim Plester (Servant).
SPOILERAmy and Rory, celebrating their honeymoon, are aboard a space liner with 4001 other passengers, flying out of control into a colonized planet shrouded by a cloud system controlled by a spire on the planet. The Doctor, alerted by Amy's distress call, lands on the planet in the TARDIS and tries to convince the miser Kazran Sardick to turn off the cloud controls, which are biologically locked to Kazran, but Kazran refuses to do so. Kazran, like his father, considers the rest of the population of the planet as cattle and has little care for the lives aboard the liner. When the Doctor arrives, Kazran refuses to release a young girl, Abigail, from cryogenic storage to her sister's family. Recognizing that Kazran's father has had a significant effect on Kazran's life, the Doctor devises a scheme based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to improve Kazran in the past and present so that he will help turn off the spire and allow the liner to land safely.
The Doctor visits a young Kazran shortly after his father had hit him for trying to experiment with a phenomena of the planet: the ability of all manner of fish to "swim" in the foggy air. The Doctor determines the ice in the clouds contain a weak electrical charge that allows the fish to swim, and is adversely affecting the space liner. However, while experimenting with the fish, the Doctor and young Kazran are attacked by a shark that swallows the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. The Doctor recovers half of it, harming the shark in the process so it cannot return to swim in the clouds. The Doctor determines that the shark can be safely returned to the cloud system if she is transported in some sort of container. Young Kazran takes the Doctor to a system of cryogenic chambers beneath the spire, where Kazran's father stores family members of people to whom he has lent money as "security." The Doctor releases Abigail and introduces her to Kazran; Abigail's singing appears to calm the shark, another effect of the electrical field of the planet. The three successfully return the shark to the clouds.
Before putting Abigail back into storage, Kazran promises to have him and the Doctor return every Christmas Eve to celebrate it with Abigail. The Doctor keeps this promise, traveling forward every year to reunite Kazran and Abigail, and watching them develop a romance after he is introduced to her family. However, after several Christmas Eves, Abigail reveals to Kazran that she only can survive one more day outside of the chamber, and Kazran decides to end the tradition, leaving her in cryogenic storage indefinitely. The Doctor leaves the broken half of the sonic screwdriver with Kazran to use when he needs it. While this experience has given older Kazran many new memories, he still refuses to disable the spire, feeling heartbroken at Abigail's fate.
Amy appears to old Kazran as a hologram. She shows Kazran the crew of the doomed liner, singing Christmas carols in order to use the musical vibrations to partially stabilize the ship within the cloud system, just like Abigail was able to use the same phenomena to "calm" the shark. Kazran waves away the holograms, continuing to refuse to release the controls. When the Doctor appears and tries to show Kazran his future, Kazran fully admits that he will die alone and values the one day left he has with Abigail over the thousands on the liner or the population of the planet. Unbeknownst to Kazran, the Doctor has brought young Kazran to the future, who is shocked by his elder's self revelation. This induces a change in the older Kazran, and he agrees to release the spire controls, but they find that the Doctor's interference has changed Kazran's bio-signature enough that the controls are no longer mapped to him.
The Doctor devises a plan: by unfreezing Abigail and having her sing through the broken half of the sonic screwdriver, the other half in the shark would be able to resonate the ice and disrupt the cloud pattern, allowing the liner to safely land. Kazran, aware that Abigail will die after one day, releases her, and Abigail comforts him, reminding him they have had many Christmas Eves together and it is time for Christmas Day to come. The Doctor's plan is successful, and as the ship safely lands on the planet, the breakup of the clouds releases snow across the city. As the Doctor takes young Kazran back to his past, the old Kazran and Abigail celebrate a shark-driven carriage ride together.
Dauer: 60 Minuten
Release Date: 25 December 2010
Doctor: Matt Smith (Eleventh Doctor)
Companions: Karen Gillan (Amy Pond), Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams) upgraded
Others: Katherine Jenkins (Abigail Pettigrew), Michael Gambon (Kazran/Elliot/Sardick), Micah Balfour (Co-pilot), Pooky Quesnel (Captain), Leo Bill (Pilot), Laurence Belcher (Young Kazran), Bailey Pepper (Boy and Benjamin), Steve North (Old Benjamin), Laura Rogers (Isabella), Meg Wynn-Owen (Old Isabella), Danny Horn (Teenage Kazran), Nick Malinowski (Eric), Tim Plester (Servant).
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