TEXT: INT.??? Someone types away on an old-fashioned typewriter as a MAN speaks in film noir style with a New York accent. MAN: (V.O.) New York, the city of a million stories. Half of them are true. The other half? Just haven't happened yet. EXT. NEW YORK CITY, NIGHT We see a number of statues throughout Manhattan as thunder sounds. As the rain starts, we see a statue of a mother and child in a park across from a row of fine houses. MAN: (V.O.) Statues, the man said. Living statues that moved in the dark. INT. GRAYLE MANSION, STUDY, NIGHT GRAYLE: So, will you take the case, Mr. Garner? (throws a packet of money on the desk) GARNER: Sure. Why not? GRAYLE: Because you don't believe me. GARNER: For $25 a day, plus expenses, I'll believe any damn thing you like. GRAYLE: But you don't believe that statues can move. (chuckles) And you're right, Mr. Garner, they can't. Of course they can't. (looks out the window at the statue) When you're looking. GARNER: Goodnight, Mr. Grayle. GARNER takes the money from the desk and heads for the door, putting on his fedora as he does. He is followed out by one of GRAYLE'S men. GRAYLE looks out the window and watches GARNER as he crosses the street to his car. He closes the curtain, takes a few steps, then turns back and looks out. The woman part of the statue is missing. INT.??? The typewriter is superimposed over EXT. NEW YORK CITY, NIGHT GARNER drives to the address GRAYLE gave him. GARNER: (V.O.) The address Grayle gave me was an apartment block near Battery Park. (gets out of the car) He said it where the statues lived. I asked him why he didn't go look himself. He didn
SUMMARY:
The Doctor takes Amy and Rory to Central Park. While the Doctor is reading Amy a novel about Melody Malone, Rory is taken by a Weeping Angel on his way back from getting coffee. In 1938 New York City, Rory meets River Song, the author of the novel. The Doctor and Amy use the novel to break their way into 1938 and find Rory, while he and River investigate the Angels' takeover of Manhattan. At the Winter Quay hotel, they find an aged Rory on his deathbed. The Angels created the hotel in order to keep their victims and maintain a constant source of potential energy. To escape his fate, Rory and Amy jump off the top of the building to their deaths, creating a paradox. Waking up in a graveyard with the TARDIS, Rory is transported by a surviving Angel. As the Doctor begs Amy to come back into the TARDIS, she bids him a tearful farewell and allows the Angel to send her back to Rory. Later, the devastated Doctor reads an afterword by Amy in the novel, telling him all is well, as well as requesting he visit young Amelia Pond as she waits for him.