Hello! You are in terrible danger,
but don't worry, it happens all the time,
especially if you're between the ages of 9 and 11.
Tricky time! You're not..? Then I am very sorry.
When I was your age, which was nearly a thousand years ago now,
I loved writing stories.
Impossible stories about adventures, saving the world
mad robots and things that went boom!
I bet you like writing stories too, don't you?
Go on. Admit it. Oh, good!
Because I would like you to write the story about me.
It really is the only way to save you from...
something really dreadful.
There are rules obviously...
Rules... Somewhere in...
You got to be at a British primary school.
Otherwise it won't work, just because
it's got to be story about me and the TARDIS.
The most important rule is if I'm wearing a hat
it's most definitely cool.
Got that bit? Good.
Make sure the 3 minutes long.
If it wins you'll get to see it film before it's broadcast
on British Television.
I know.
I always wanted to go on the television.
I've got turned down for "Strictly Come Dancing".
Obviously there's lots of small print on the website...
Take it all carefully, apparently I still owe Jane Austen a kidney,
and then email me your entries by June 13th 2011,
which really isn't very long at all.
Blimey, as I said,
if you don't...
something really dreadfully is going to happen.
So what are you waiting for?
Saint Austell, Cornwall.
Out of season, the harbour's a pretty chill place,
but not for the next few days.
Look, look, you're on Doctor Who Confidential!
CHEERING
The Doctor Who cast and crew have sailed into town
and are dropping anchor to film their very own pirate adventure.
A big, huge pirate ship... that's a win!
Yo-ho-ho!
Cut!
Welcome to Doctor Who doing pirates.
47, take 1.
LAUGHTER
It's got pirates, double win.
Hugh Bonneville is amazing.
Time to go.
Three, two, one.
Lily Cole, which was a bit of a coup.
Action!
And watch out for Amy with a sword, that's all I'm going to say.
We got the series off to quite a sort of scary start
and this is a chance for the Doctor
and Amy and Rory to kick back and have some fun.
I think that's what this episode is about.
It's a real romp, for want of a better word.
And Karen...could be in Pirates Of The Caribbean!
Best of all, we've got the pirate hat,
which just finishes the whole thing off.
But mostly we just wanted to do Doctor Who on the high seas,
and here we are in Cornwall doing just that, it's so exciting.
I think the Doctor particularly sort of loves the idea of being a pirate, you know?
Because there are... he's kind of a good pirate.
And then, on top of it, we've got the coolest pirate coat ever!
And it swishes as well. Look!
Swish! I'm actually deeply jealous of your pirate coat. It's so cool, isn't it?
But this is a pirate story with a difference.
Forget terrorising the high seas! This boat is staying right where it is.
Stand by to rehearse, please.
It's quite a challenge trying to work out how to be at sea
and not be at sea, because obviously...
taking a ship to sea is so time-consuming.
We had one major advantage which was that in the story the ship is becalmed, it's still,
so using a boat that's actually in a dock seemed to be a good idea.
Filming on a boat like this
which is becalmed in the middle of the ocean...
well, here in Charlestown anyway... it's great fun.
And then we had to try and work out exactly how not to see the dock.
So I think we've hired just about every black piece of material,
certainly in Cornwall, if not in the southwest, to keep the illusion that we're at sea.
So we've surrounded the boat with blacks, poured loads of smoke in,
put lots of sort of backlight,
and it seems to be working! Fingers crossed.
Stand by to shoot, please. Set to turn over.
31, take 1, B marker.
And...action, boats!
We had to have really still conditions to be able to pull this off and we were very, very lucky.
These calm conditions kept the smoke just where we needed it to be and we got away with it.
Lucky in some ways...
Cut there!
Cut there, please. How was that?
..but in others not so much.
If you're going to do pirates in Doctor Who, you've got to do the whole thing.
It's one of those episodes where we're just properly delivering everything you'd want about pirates,
and one of the things you expect if you're at sea on a pirate ship is you better have a storm.
It's just basic. You're going to have a storm.
It was great to have calm weather, but the script called for there to be a storm in the story,
so we had to manufacture that ourselves.
It's quite complicated,
because there are a lot of elements being brought together in one place.
The special effects department providing wind, rain and smoke.
Now we're just getting into the meat of today
which is the big scene where all the artists get completely drenched.
Let me know when you're there.
We've got a huge tanker here,
a water tanker which is supplying about 15,000 litres of water.
OK, next, turn over!
75, take 1!
And then we get on the boat and then they go, "Right, let's power it up!"
It was torrential rain.
It was like nothing I've ever experienced, the extremity of that situation.
I don't think I'll ever experience anything like that again.
It was freezing, it was cold, we couldn't hear anything, and it was just so much fun.
It's funny, because normally in a storm, you don't really want to stand outside for too long.
You know, it can be fun for a bit, but really it's all about getting home.
But we were out there for ages and loving every second of it.
Take 1.
And then I looked over and Hugh Bonneville
was just, like, with his hair blowing in the wind and he was just, like, "Come on!"
in his big booming voice. It was actually one of the best things I've ever seen.
We were blowing water at the cast with these massive fan machines,
almost like aircraft engines, really, so the noise that they make is incredible.
You can't hear yourself over them, so often, at the end, I'd be yelling,
"Cut! Cut!" But nobody would hear, so they'd carry on filming.
The adrenalin kind of kicks in and you just go for it,
and there were so many times when we looked round and went, "We're on a boat!
"We're doing a storm! This is pretty cool!" So, yeah, it was great fun!
Help!
It's good fun, though! Great fun!
Oh, thanks. He's lying!
So we're soaking wet. We've got our dry suits on, haven't we, Kaz?
Our dry suits! They're tight, aren't they? Yeah, they're really tight.
Matt came into make-up earlier in just his dry suit and it's all flesh-coloured
and it was disgusting. Oh...I'm a bit offended by that!
You know it was, you know it was! You know...
And we've been working with the lovely Hugh Bonneville. Yeah! Who's great fun!
I've never experienced something this extreme with water before.
"Extreme", you always use the word "extreme".
That's because it is extreme, it's a show of extremities. It is.
And, for one member of the cast, extreme is an understatement.
Aaaargh!
Rory! Rory! I can't... I can't see him!
There was a rumour that I was going to have to go in the water,
and at first I was, like, "Yeah, I can definitely go in the water! This'll be brilliant!
"I'll do it, I'll do my own stunts."
And then...and then I heard on the day that I wasn't doing it,
and I was, like, "Oh, guys, I can do it! Surely I can do it!"
And then I saw the water and I was, like, "I am so pleased that I didn't have to go there!"
Rehearsal. Three, two, one. Action!
Rory!
We're all happy with that. That's all good.
The hardest part is maybe to sell the fact he's been hit by the yardarm,
so we have to make sure that the yardarm
can get out far enough to hit him
and also sell the fact that it's hit him so hard that it's knocked him overboard.
Have a look. OK? Ready?
So we had a couple of guys giving it a good shove,
and we had to wait until it actually makes contact with Gordon
and then he can sell the rest by going into the water.
Three, two, one. Action!
'It was myself'
and the wireman Bob Schofield on the other end of the boom,
just out of shot, giving it a good old shove
towards Gordon, which is always nice. "Here, Gordon, have some of this!"
He'll get his own back on me, I know!
Three, two, one. Action!
That was the hardest thing. Cos the rain's falling so heavy on my eyes,
I can't actually see what's happening. It's very difficult to see when the yardarm's coming.
I would have done it, it would have been fun,
but Gordon's much better at getting wet than I am for some reason, so they had to get him to do that.
Apparently, I'm not particularly good at getting wet.
Aaaargh! Rory!
Rory! Rory!
I can't see him!
Doctor, I'm going in!
By the end of the night, nearly all the cast and crew are soaked through...
..all except for one.
No!
I need a little bit more on top.
It was very good on this camera.
We're here at the Doctor Who studios in Cardiff to do a blue-screen shoot.
Normally it would be a green-screen shoot, but today it's a blue-screen shoot,
because the person that we're shooting is, in fact, green.
We needed to find an actress who was beautiful, very, very striking,
who had a sort of slightly otherworldly, mysterious, slightly spooky quality about her,
so Lily came up quite early in our sort of casting ideas,
and we thought, "Should we approach her? Would she do Doctor Who?" I mean, hopefully she would.
I read the script, I thought it was a really fun, fantastic script,
and a really fun character to play and so I said yeah.
We then set about the look of her.
Steven Thompson, the writer, had made it quite clear in the script
that she sort of emanated this kind of turquoise light, which I liked as well,
I thought it would look really great at night.
So we went with that and we sort of coloured her skin.
I think they've done a really amazing job with hair and make-up.
It kind of reminds you of the '50s horror movies which is quite a fun look.
And so, yeah, I think it's, like... we did nearly two hours of being painted green, made very shiny,
put make-up on, do my hair and then put on the outfit.
MUSIC: "I Need Air" by Magnetic Man
Three, two, one. Action!
The script always described the siren as emerging out of the sea hands first,
then seeing her head and her torso,
so we got Lily
to sort of stretch out her hands,
and at the precise moment we lifted her with the harness.
Three, two, one. Action!
In this shot,
the siren soars up into the sky, looks down...
Three, two, one. Action!
Cut.
And then floats down on to the deck in front of Toby.
Three, two, one. Action!
Once she's on the deck, she beckons Toby to come to her.
And cut.
This was one the trickier shots that we asked Lily to do.
She had to rise up into the air and then dive backwards... in order to save Rory.
OK, for rehearsal, please.
Three, two, one. Action!
That's the idea.
Lily's been very good all day. She's starting to hurt a little bit cos it's quite painful in the harness,
but this will be the last shot we do with her today.
Action!
It's fun at first, like, you know, it's every person's dream, or girl's dream, I don't know, to fly.
But after a few hours it does get quite painful.
But it's a really nice crew and team of people. I've watched a couple of their clips and stuff,
and I think it looks like a really interesting episode,
and it's a really weird, fun character to play.
Three, two, one. Action!
Ah...
So good morning. It's a nice chilly day in Cardiff.
Today is the last day of shooting
on episode 3, the pirates.
I'm just about to head into set and see how they're getting on.
Come this way.
This is our very glamorous paint store.
Morning.
How's it going?
I'll normally try and drop in at least every couple of days to see how the guys are doing on set.
You don't know how to fight with a cutlass, boy!
Don't need to, do I?
Cut! Great.
It feels like the beginning of this scene, the scene should open with...
the black spot.
It'd be much better cut back to the bosun going...
You little swabber!
Congratulations! Made it to the menu! I think we should go out there now.
"Congratulations! Made it to the menu!"
And then you finish on, "No honour among pirates."
Yeah.
Which is still quite a nice end to the scene.
It is.
No honour among pirates!
Yeah? You all right with that?
I'm cool with that, yeah.
Occasionally, when you rehearse a scene, you find you need to just tweak it slightly,
so I'll call Steven Moffat, make sure he's happy with it.
So just heading back over to the production office now.
Just cutting through Sarah Jane. We've got a great facility here.
We've got four stages, plus the main TARDIS stage, so it's brilliant for building sets.
We've got Sarah Jane's loft here and next door is Upstairs, Downstairs.
Good morning, good morning. This is Pete on security, he keeps us safe. Good morning.
This is my office... which has new pictures on the wall.
So these are some of the visuals we've got to approve.
Looking at the placement of the TARDIS in the set.
And this is my life for the next few weeks.
Actually looks quite quiet at the moment.
Right, off to the edit now. Come this way.
Simon, how are you?
Can we have a look at some of the siren stuff from the spaceship?
I haven't seen any yet.
It's useful to come down here and look at what Simon's done, and see the sequence edited together
to make sure that everything glues together and works.
And also it's quite fun to just see it.
Sterilise! You see, I...
I-I sneezed, I've got germs here.
Cool. Thank you, Simon, that's great. Cheers.
See you in a bit.
Doctor Who's got one of the biggest unit bases I've ever seen.
We've got to cover prosthetics, we've got make-up,
we've got huge costumes for all our cast and aliens and everything, so...
Coordinating all this is part of the job, but ultimately I have the production management team,
line producers and ADs to look after all this stuff as well.
One of the things I love about my job is you're across so many areas,
you know, as you can see from today.
And basically my job is to go, "This is what we want."
Cool.
Off to the TARDIS. So just shooting
the climactic scenes now.
I think they're about to start rehearsing. Just pop in.
Hold the rope, please! OK...
OK. Rehearsing.
You just to keep your eye on key scenes and check that the director's happy with what's going on,
make sure that certain series elements are being covered.
Each director looks after their own episodes,
but there are certain elements of each script that contribute to the series story.
236, take 2.
And action!
You can't tell him.
It's his future.
Cut there.
So, you know, it's just got to keep a kind of overview of that.
But also I just like being down here. It's good fun.
I'm just going to head up to the art department budget meeting now.
As usual we want to do more than we can afford to, so we're just going to have to work out what we need.
Have we found more places to save some money, then?
We're building our own museum? Yeah, we are doing.
We are doing. Life has gone round in full circle, hasn't it?
So we're writing off the museum location and we're going to build it.
OK, so that's the art department budget meeting finished.
That's the last meeting of today.
I'm going to pop down to the set before I head off. Been quite a quiet day today.
But you never know quite when it's over because the phone might ring at any time.
One, two, three!
GROANING
Cut there.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very, very much indeed.
That's the episode complete.
CHEERING
So you come back? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Looking brilliant.
Well done, mate.
I just wanted one more where I was actually...
EVERYONE TALKS AT ONCE
Back in Cornwall, the art department are really pushing the boat out with the pirate decor.
I was wondering where it's gone. I have to say it looks wonderful.
We used a little boat called the Phoenix, a brig,
which is a piratical ship.
We've had to do a few things to it
to make it look a bit sort of more piratey-period,
but otherwise, by and large, it's a very good boat and it comes complete with lots of ropes
and lots of sails, and looks really rather good.
Below deck is a different story.
Hardly room to swing a ship's cat, never mind the cameras, sound booms and all the cast and crew.
So, when it came to filming down under,
they had to move the inside out.
We had to build the interiors back at the studios in Cardiff,
you know, the captain's cabin, the hold, the storeroom, the magazine.
Hello, and welcome to Captain Avery's set.
What is that thing? A legend.
We've got old netting here, we've got old hammocks...
candles...
Careful with that lantern.
Every barrel is full of powder.
Barrels, boxes, hessian sacks...
On the structure, it's quite a hard structure.
It's OK, we're safe down here. No curse is getting through three solid inches of timber.
Proper timber posts which gives it a lovely feel.
So we've built some tanks into the set which give us some water effects.
Everyone out of the water!
Aargh!
The TARDIS stood here in the water.
One final interesting thing about the set...
What's that?
This is the hatch. We made this especially for the boat itself.
The creature has returned.
And then we brought it to the interior set.
When they're on the boat, we've done a shot looking up
so we get all the masts and the ropes and everything up there...
And then we've come to the set here to do the reverse looking down with all this behind.
Yo-ho-ho!
Or does nobody actually say that any more? Cut!
This episode is pretty piratey. I think they've managed to fit in as many pirate elements as possible.
He slipped in the bilge water, Captain, and fell on to the rigger.
What do you think when you think pirates? Treasure.
No! This is the treasure of the Mogul of India.
Good! For a moment there I thought it was yours.
There better be a stowaway little boy onboard as well...
Oh! You fool, boy!
..who's run away with the pirates to have more exciting adventures than he'd have at home. All of that!
Black spot.
Same as all the others.
Mutiny. What are you doing? This is mutiny!
Pirates have to mutiny. If there's no mutiny, they're not proper pirates.
Walking the plank, that was hilarious.
Is laughing like that in the job description?
"Can you do the laugh? Check! Grab yourself a parrot!"
No parrot.
Er...maybe they've hidden one. Maybe that's a good game, see if you can spot the parrot.
There isn't a parrot.
There may be a pirate with a good heart who isn't really evil.
Who are you, Henry Avery?
Respected Naval officer, wife and child at home...
There better be a storm at sea, there better be a ghost ship, there better be all those things,
and best of all there better be...
Boo!
Throw the gun down.
..the beautiful Karen Gillan swashbuckling around with a cutlass.
Aaargh! Hey!
Initially when I read the pirates episode, I think it said in the script...
"Amy Pond emerges with sword in hand..." you know, with the full outfit on...
"Amy Pond, a pirate queen." And I was, like, "Yes, that just sounds amazing!"
Look, I'm on Pirate Queen Confidential!
Aha! En garde!
Can we do it, like, a half? I wouldn't do it, it's really, really sharp.
We start off getting used to moving the sword around and to what it feels like.
Take that!
Yeah! Come on, then!
Aieee!
And then I'll put some basic moves together with her and the stunt guy.
So it's up...
one...two...three...
head, other side, bang, thrust. Thrust.
Do it again.
Leg, leg...
At an angle.
Swing like that.
They were just telling me, "Go for the neck. Go for it!" And I had...it was a real sword.
It was blunted, but it would have done some damage.
Aim for the neck. OK.
So I just sort of got over my fear and really went for it.
So much fun! I was a little bit nervous, actually, I must say,
before I came down to Cornwall for the rehearsal.
Oh! That's it.
Because a lot of people do fencing and stuff at drama school, but I've never done any of that.
So it was all new to me, but I'm loving it!
Look...
this is sort of cool, actually.
Aha!
To be fair, she was absolutely fantastic.
She picked it up very well.
It's always a bit worrying sometimes with actors cos they can get undisciplined,
especially once you turn off the cameras, they get carried away,
routine goes out the window and you're fighting for your life for real, not good.
But, no, she was really, really good, can't speak highly enough of her.
She was very disciplined, she put everything into it
and it was a real pleasure to do a sword fight with her.
MUSIC: "Back It Up" by Caro Emerald
And we managed to get her swinging across the ship as well...
Aiee!
Taking out the pirates when she landed on some barrels across the other side.
All right? Three, two, one.
We're all going to get a cup of tea now, me and Tony and Crispin, the stunt guys.
And I've asked to take the sword with me because part of me just likes having a sword,
and the other part of me is thinking, "If I get used to this thing,
"then I'll be much more comfortable on the day when we come to film it,"
so I'm just going to be casually doing this all day.
When there's lots of people watching I might just do this around them, scare them slightly.
Yeah!
Excellent. Here we go.
Karen, happy? Happy!
Bob, happy?
A few hours later, it's time for the real swashbuckling to begin.
35, take 1.
Set...and action.
Magic!
Lots of cutlass action.
Just about everything you could want in a stunt fight.
That's metal on wood. Wood's going to lose every time.
When you contact the two together, you do it, you do it, you do it, eventually...ping!
A big, big battle, fighting, and it's really, really wet,
so how they're not slipping over I've got no idea.
I'm there with this kind of rather heavy leaden thing.
Three, two, one. Action!
Then Karen swinging in between us... It's brilliant, really good.
You can't really have a pirate adventure story or a pirate romp
without having somebody swinging across the deck.
And, of course, in our case, it's Amy Pond.
She was really keen to do it,
so we were able to get shots of her swinging across the deck, and it's really her, it's not a stunt double.
Action!
Look at Karen!
They can't pay us for this. She's just on a ride. It's ridiculous.
Aaargh!
And cut! Good. Check it.
But some stunts need someone who really knows the ropes.
We had to bring in a stunt double for this.
This is when the angry siren sort of screams at Amy
and she gets flown across the deck and smashes on to the deck.
We'll go on "Three, two, one, go!" yeah?
'The stunt performer'
actually did get thrown across the deck and bashed on to the deck itself.
She was wearing padding but this is something we couldn't do with Karen.
Three, two, one. Action!
Hi, I'm Steph. And I'm Karen.
And Steph... Plays Amy.
Yeah, plays Amy
when she's in moments of crisis and is doing dangerous things.
And Steph makes Amy look really cool.
Which I can't do because I'm too sacred.
She wears some padding, obviously, on her back and her hips and elbows,
but her pirate outfit was quite skimpy so we couldn't get that much padding on,
but me managed to take out the sting.
It's still a big, you know, fall, but it looked spectacular, so it was very good.
This is rather bizarre. So I'm about to watch myself getting flung across the entire deck.
Three, two, one. Action!
I don't know, it's like having an out-of-body experience.
She's a brave lady, Steph,
stunt double Steph.
Well, I think they're about to go.
I'm quite nervous.
For rehearsal, please.
And...three, two, one. Action!
And cut!
Really glad that's not me!
Wow!
She's really getting thrown back!
That is going to look wicked.
Three, two, one. Action!
You all right, Steph?
I'd like to change my hair to this colour cos I think it's absolutely beautiful! Oh, thank you! Yes.
Really lovely. I'd quite like to go blonde, actually.
See what that's like, see if you do have more fun.
Laters, Conf. Bye, Confidential. Thank you. Bye. See you.
In the Doctor Who studios, the siren's sickbay is nearly set.
All that's needed now are some patients.
Right, SAs, come on in.
So this is the set that you guys are going to be playing bodies in today.
So just watch your feet on the floor. We don't want to get it too grubby.
But we just wanted to show you to give you an idea of the heights
that you're going to be performing dead at.
Cool. Marvellous.
Yes, very exciting.
And it's nice and warm in here. I can see they've warmed the studio up.
Our poor SAs are going to be... and our cast as well,
are all naked down to their waists,
so...yeah, there's more flesh than Doctor Who usually sees. Great!
All right, mate? You all right?
Very comfortable.
Any advice?
Be still. And control your breathing.
Are you just going to lie here all afternoon? Absolutely, yeah.
You might hear some very loud snoring going on in half an hour.
Yeah, I bet.
5-12 hours, maybe.
Nice!
Lots of half-naked men around. Again... Let's have a little look.
Is there anyone for you? Maybe you could go out with that one there.
How I'm not going to fall asleep, though! We're going to be here for hours.
I've got to now sleep for the rest of the day, I think, in that bed.
No difference to your usual performances, to be honest!
So this is a lot of hard work.
I mean, really, we're just lying down...with our eyes closed...
..which takes a lot of focus, you see,
so, as you can see, there's people all here prepping
to put in all the hard work of lying down.
Here we go.
Turn over, please!
174, take 3, A camera.
And action!
All the supporting artists had to lie extremely still for about three or four hours
and regulate their breathing, because it would make the beds move
a little bit if they breathed too hard,
so it was, "Shallow breaths, everyone!"
McGrath, he's one of my men. He's still breathing.
'That scene involved lying down all day.'
My entire crew is here.
I thought, "I just have to be doing things!" I get quite restless. But, actually, it was quite peaceful.
One big larder, packed with fresh supplies.
Planning meals in advance.
It was on strings, so it had a slight rock to it, and wasn't wholly uncomfortable.
And action! Toby! Rory!
I thought I'd never see you again.
I did actually fall asleep a couple of times...
which I'm quite good at doing, I'm quite good at sleeping.
His brain is still active,
but all its activities are suspended. It's not a curse...
I don't know, it was a day at work where sleeping was allowed. That was good.
Good rules for that day.
Help me get him up?
But there's a rude awakening in store.
She's coming.
175, take 2, A camera.
And action!
When a supermodel siren arrives on set, there's only one thing to do.
And that's to shoot her!
No!
OK, let's hold it there.
This is the weapon. It's a modern reproduction Sea Service Pistol.
We obviously wouldn't use a real antique one.
They're worth hundreds if not thousands of pounds.
Not the sort of thing to throw around a set.
This is the powder, gunpowder, that we keep in here.
I'll just do a little flash in the pan for you so you can see this go.
Just put a little bit of powder... Hopefully it's not too damp. It's raining outside.
You're going to get a little flash.
OK, so cock it all the way back... Here we go, then.
Flash in the pan, as they say.
All right, just finishing off checks. Stand by to go again.
OK, here we go.
176, take 3, A and B camera mark.
Here we go. Cameras, set, action!
PIERCING SHRIEK
The Doctor sneezes...
A-choo!
..and suddenly the siren starts to come after him.
Fire...actually, what does fire do?
And as this is happening he is going...
Yes...destroy...what else?
Sterilise! You see, I...
I-I sneezed, I've got germs here.
Then, suddenly, in the nick of time, he realises, "No, she's not a killer..."
She's a doctor!
This monster who we think has been killing everybody
for the last 30, 40 minutes of the story is actually a healer.
This is an automated sickbay.
It's teleporting everyone onboard. The crew are dead and so the sickbay's had nothing to do.
It's been looking after humanity whilst it's been idle.
There is a big scene for Amy and Rory in the sickbay when...when Rory wakes up.
Where am I? You're in a hospital.
If we leave, you might die.
If Rory leaves the sickbay...
he'll, you know...he won't be better, he'll be still drowning.
I'm a nurse. What? I can teach you how to save me.
Whoa, hold on! I was drowning, you just have to resuscitate me.
"Just"? You've seen them do it loads of times in films!
It's a bit of a responsibility to bring your partner back to life.
OK, what if you don't come back to life? What if... I trust you.
It was actually quite a good revelation about the relationship.
You could actually really see the faith they have in each other.
Why do I have to save you?
Because I know you'll never give up.
OK.
Rory just places all of his trust in Amy.
And I think at that moment, he's, like...
"I know that you're going to save me." He has to believe it completely.
Of course, if you muck it up, I am going to be really cross...
and dead.
I'll see you in a minute.
And she has to just do it, you know, there's no other option.
There's not an option B.
BEEPING
And she does...
but, you know, it's not easy for her.
It's a pretty tough thing to do.
It could have been Rory was a goner again,
so quite pleased that that didn't happen.
Amy!
Amy, you did it, you did it!
You have such sensible hair.
Next time on Confidential...
This is Neil Gaiman on Confidential.
That was Matt Smith.
Writer Neil Gaiman takes us on a backstage tour.
Of course, Neil is one of the sort of premier if not the premier fantasy novelist on the planet.
The immediate urge upon entering the TARDIS is simply steal it,
take off and explore the whole of space and time.
Is this your first visit? It is. I get to come in and see the TARDIS.
It's the TARDIS with a twist.
What you really want is to be able to follow somebody,
and you want to follow them into the TARDIS all the way.
You want to be able to go up these stairs and just keep going.