Series 5 (2010)
Episode title: The Vampires of VeniceFeaturing: Eleventh Doctor
Companions: Amy Pond, Rory Williams
First shown: 8th May 2010
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Guide: The episode begins with the Doctor gate crashing Rory Williams stag party, to tell him that Amy tried to kiss him (at the end of Flesh and Stone). He takes Rory and Amy away to Venice in 1580 so that the Doctor can figure out the cracks that have been appearing. Unfortunately for the Doctor, trouble is of course waiting for him in the form of Vampires. Guido, a boat-builder informs them of his suspicions about a school for young ladies run by Signora Rosanna Calvierri. The Doctor, Amy and Rory split up to investigate and come to the same conclusion, that Calvierri along with the girls in the school and her son Francesco are all Vampires.
Amy decides to plant herself within the school to investigate from the inside and with the help of Rory, she succeeds. She is instructed to open a gate that leads to the canal that will allow Rory and the Doctor to enter the school. Although she succeeds, she is found by the other girls and they begin to turn her into a Vampire. Naturally she struggles against her bonds, kicking Calvierri’s device that masks her alien form. The Doctor confronts her, confirming they are aquatic creatures with Vampire tendencies from the planet Saturnyne, escaping from cracks in time through which you could only heard silence through some. They plan to sink Venice and convert humans into “Sisters of the Water” and continue their race.
Calvierri activates a device on top of a tower in the school that causes Earthquakes and tsunamis to sink Venice with. The Doctor goes to confront Calvierri again while Rory and Amy race to stop Francesco. The Doctor stops the device in time, saving Venice but ending Calvierri’s species, which she torments him about before she throws herself into the canal and drowns. At the end of the episode, Rory is invited to join the TARDIS crew full time. As they enter the TARDIS, silence falls, which unnerves the Doctor as he remembers Calvierri’s words – “We saw silence, and the end of all things…”