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FIRST MAN, a VOICE heard as fingers hit the keys of a typewriter:
New York. The city of a million stories. Half of them are true. The other half ... just haven't happened yet.
(We see statues around the city.)
'Statues', the man said.
'Living statues that moved in the dark.'
(We see two statues looking out across a park at a large house.)
SECOND MAN'S VOICE:
So, will you take the case, Mr Garner? (Inside the house, we see a bundle of money, payment, tossed down onto a desk.)
FIRST MAN (GARNER):
Sure. Why not?
SECOND MAN:
Because you don't believe me.
GARNER:
For $25 a day, plus expenses, I'll believe any damn thing you like.
SECOND MAN:
But you don't believe that statues can move. (The second man laughs.)
And you're right, Mr Garner. They can't.
*Of course* they can't...
..when you're looking.
GARNER (taking the money):
Good night, Mr Grayle.
(GARNER turns and leaves. After GARNER has left the house, GRAYLE watches him through the window. GARNER walks past the two statues on a plinth. GRAYLE turns away, then looks back: only one statue is on the plinth. GRAYLE looks alarmed.)
[cut] (We see a typewriter beating out these words as they are spoken by GARNER:)
The address Grayle gave me was an apartment block near Battery Park.
He said it was where the statues lived.
I asked him why he didn't go look himself.
(GARNER looks at the Statue of Liberty.)
He didn't answer.
Grayle was the scariest guy I knew.
If something scared him, I kinda wanted to shake its hand.
(GARNER, having exited a taxi, walks up to the staircase which leads up to a large building. Weeping angel statues stand on plinths on either side of the staircase, their eyes covered. Several other figures decorate a frieze high over the door.
Looking in the windows, we and GARNER see an older man and a little girl in separate windows. The girl covers her eyes with her hands, then moves her hands out of the way again, wing-like.
As GARNER approaches the door, we see the angel statue on his left has its eyes covers. The camera rises.
The doors open, and GARNER walks in, unaware that, as the camera lowers again, the angel has its eyes uncovered, its mouth open in a silent scream.)
GARNER (inside):
Hello? Hello? (In his accent, it sounds like "hullo".)
(The lift descends automatically to his floor. He enters. He turns around as its doors close, and notices a weeping angel statue standing where he had been standing in the lobby.)
GARNER (as the lift goes up):
What the...?
(The lights flicker as the lift reaches its destination, a floor with red carpet.
GARNER notices that one of the hotel-like rooms is labelled 'S. Garner'.
He approaches the door, which seems to open automatically. He knocks.)
GARNER:
Hello? Anyone home?
(He notices a hat like his hanging on a coatrack.
A wallet with an ID is on the table. He compares his to it: it is an older version of his.
He hears muttering in another room, and enters. In it, an old man lies in a bed.)
GARNER:
Hello?
(gruffly:) Who are you?
OLD MAN:
They're coming for you.
They're going to send you back.
GARNER:
Who's coming? Back where?
OLD MAN:
In time. Back in time.
I'm you.
I'm... you!
(GARNER strides out of the room, but in the hall notices that there are WEEPING ANGELS in the hallway in both directions.
He darts into the stairwell. ANGELS are coming up it. He darts upwards. He reaches the roof, as the ground shakes from the footsteps of something massive.
Behind him, we see a gaping grey maw.
GARNER turns, as we briefly see 'The Dying Detective' typed out by a typewriter.
He sees the statue of liberty standing, mouth open in a scream, by the 'Winter Quay' sign.)
GARNER:
You gotta be kiddin' me!
(The introductory time vortex is dark grey this time, at first. 'Doctor Who' is in green, and during the display of the title, the vortex turns grey as well. This is supposedly to represent the Weeping Angels.)
(As we look across a body of water at New York, "Englishman in New York" plays:
"Whoa, I'm an alien /
I'm a legal alien /
I'm an Englishman in New York.")
DOCTOR (unseen, his voice a voiceover):
New York growled at my window, but I was ready for it. My stocking seams were straight, my lipstick was combat-ready, and I was packing cleavage that could fell an ox at twenty feet...
AMY (sitting beside him on a large rock in a park):
Doctor, you're doing it again.
(AMY is wearing a white shirt with thin, black, horizontal stripes, and a khaki jacket, and blue jeans. The DOCTOR is wearing his typical light-coloured shirt, bow tie, and brown overcoat.)
DOCTOR:
I'm reading!
AMY:
Aloud.
Please could you not?
DOCTOR (to AMY):
There's something different about you, isn't there?
AMY:
What's the book?
DOCTOR:
Melody Malone. She's a private detective in old town New York.
AMY (mockingly):
"She's got ice in her heart and a kiss on her lips, and a vulnerable side she keeps well hidden."
DOCTOR:
Oh, you've read it?
AMY:
*You* read it. Aloud.
RORY or AMY(?):
And then went "Yowzah!"
RORY:
Only you could fancy someone in a book.
