Doctor Who Season 3 Episode 10 Blink

Doctor Who Blink 10/13

The episode, set mainly in 2007, focuses upon Sally Sparrow, who breaks into a dilapidated house called Wester Drumlins to take photographs. There she discovers behind the peeling wallpaper a message from "the Doctor" dated 1969, calling her by name and telling her to "beware the Weeping Angels" and then to "duck now", just before an object launched from behind nearly hits her.

She returns the next day with her friend, Kathy Nightingale. A man soon arrives at the door with a decades-old letter from his grandmother, saying he had promised to deliver it to Sally on this date at exactly this time. The name of his grandmother was Kathy Nightingale. Thinking this is a prank, she searches for Kathy, who has just disappeared. Sally encounters three Weeping Angel statues, one holding a Yale key. She takes the key and leaves the house, unaware that the Angels have moved and are watching her from the windows.

Sally reads the letter, wherein Kathy explains that the Weeping Angels transported her back to 1920 and that she lived a happy and full life. The letter asks Sally to explain her absence to her last close relative — Kathy's brother Larry, who runs a store that sells rare DVDs. Larry has also discovered a message from the Doctor, which features him carrying on half of an unfathomable conversation, as an easter egg hidden on seventeen unrelated DVDs. The easter egg is unusual in that no-one who worked on the DVDs had any idea it was there, it seemed to pop up from no-where. At one point, the Doctor appears to respond to one of Sally's comments and then tells her he can hear what she's saying, seriously freaking her out. Larry gives Sally a list of the DVDs that have the Doctor on them.

Sally goes to the police, where a Detective Inspector, Billy Shipton, shows her a car park full of abandoned vehicles found at Wester Drumlins, including a fake police box with a Yale lock that cannot be opened. Billy then begins to flirt with Sally, asking her to have a drink with him. She laughs, gives him her telephone number and leaves.

Outside, Sally realises that the Yale key could be used to open the police box while inside, Billy is sent back in time by the Weeping Angels to 1969. The Doctor finds him and tells him that the Angels feed on potential energy, and to do this they send people into the past and feed on the futures that will never be. After Billy asks the Doctor how he knows all this, he asks Billy to deliver a message to Sally, but apologises that it's going to take a while.

In 2007, Billy calls Sally minutes after they last spoke (from her point of view) and asks her to meet him in a hospital. He is now an old man, although he did marry in the past (to someone called Sally, no less), and eventually got into DVD publishing, and it was he who was responsible for adding the easter eggs. He gives her the Doctor's message: Look at the list of DVDs. She stays with him until he dies shortly after.

Looking at the list, Sally realises the connection between the DVDs: They are the seventeen DVDs she owns. The easter egg was intended for her. Sally and Larry enter Wester Drumlins, and watch the Doctor's message on a DVD. This time Sally provides the other half of the conversation, which Larry adds to a transcript he brought with him. The Doctor explains several things: He has a complete transcript of the incomplete conversation and is reading off an autocue, which is possible due to the non-linear nature of time; and that the Weeping Angels are "quantum locked", meaning they turn to stone when a living thing looks at them, even themselves, but when unobserved they are fast and can be deadly, hence it is of utmost importance that she does not blink.

He also tells them that the Weeping Angels feed on the potential energy of what the victim could have become by teleporting people to the past where they "live to death". They stole the TARDIS from The Doctor and Martha to try to feed on all of the time energy in it, with which they could absorb so much power as to switch off the sun if they wished, it is vital they don't make it inside. When Sally asks the Doctor how she can defeat the Angels, he cannot answer, as his copy of the transcript has ended since Larry has stopping writing, because an Angel has entered the building! He urges her to keep her eyes on the Angels, and to not blink!

While trying to escape from an Angel in the room they are watching the DVD in, Larry and Sally discover the TARDIS in the cellar. Unwilling to let their prey escape, the Angels cause a light bulb, the room's only light source, to flicker, allowing them to draw closer to the TARDIS. Larry and Sally manage to get into the TARDIS and shut the doors, just as the Angels manage to surround it. The DVD that Larry and Sally brought with them activates a protocol in the TARDIS, causing it to return to the Doctor. Sally and Larry are left behind, leaving the Angels trapped forever in a circle, tricked into observing each other.

The final scene takes place a year later, with Sally and Larry running the DVD store together; however, Sally is keeping a folder of everything connected with her experience with the Doctor and the Angels. Even though the danger has passed, she still doesn't understand how the Doctor got the list of DVDs, the transcript, how he knew what to write on the walls, etc.

As Larry goes to get some milk, Sally suddenly spots the Doctor and Martha emerge from a taxi outside the shop, armed with bows and arrows, apparently in pursuit of an unidentified monster. She quickly runs out and calls to him, and when the Doctor fails to recognize Sally, she realizes he has not yet experienced the episode's events (causing an ontological paradox).

Finally understanding fully, she hands over the folder which contains everything the Doctor will need to extricate himself from 1969, and tells him he'll need it in the future. Sally and the Doctor exchange goodbyes as Larry returns, surprised to find the man from the DVD Easter Egg. Sally and Larry hold hands as they walk away together. The episode ends with a repeat of the Doctor's warning to Sally, this time directed at the viewer, overlaid with flashes of famous bronze and stone statues.