"My fellow Americans, this is President Richard Milhous Nixon, and this is Doctor Who Confidential." "Doctor Who Confidential are in the US of A." "The team has travelled Stateside to Utah to tell you the story of howDoctor Who created their very own American dream." "We wanted to find a location that said America like nowhere else and these monuments are so identifiable that you just show one shot and you know exactly where you are." "This is the country ofJohn Wayne." "This is the US of A." "I'd like to start on the floor, looking at the floor, then we come up and meet the bus as it's going past." "See the angle that we're at with the road now." "Travel with the bus a little bit and then on to the..." "Yeah, and then let the bus..." "Let it go ahead, and then reveal the monuments." "I think every single year you're trying to say," ""How do we come crashing through the door this time?"" "Howdy, Confidential, and we are in the US of A!" "Yee-ha!" "We start off with Amy and Rory and River Song being summoned by the Doctor, by these special blue envelopes, to a particular point on the map." " Howdy!" " Doctor!" "Look at him, Pond!" "Hello, Pond!" " Come here." " So someone's been a busy boy, then!" " Did you see me?" " Of course." " Stalker." " Flirt." " Husband." " Rory the Roman!" "Come here, you!" "One of the things we wanted to do while we were here is get as many American icons into the story." "So in this scene, the original script had a truck pulling up and the Doctor getting out but we wanted to find a way of getting another of those American icons in, so Toby had the brilliant idea of swapping it for a yellow school bus," "which everybody knows from movies." "It's just another little bit of America that we can't get in the UK." " Day three." " In America." " It's pretty cold." "Here he comes." " I'm snuffling." " Missing the good stuff right here." " Oh, dear." "How's it going out there, Matt?" " It's day three in..." " We've already done that." "I know, I felt a bit left out." " Oh." "Come in, get in this shot, you." " Come on, friend." "It's wonderful, I've got to say." "It's..." "You know, we've got these wonderful locations." "This place is, you've seen it for yourselves, it's just devastatingly vast and epic." "Nearly fell on the seaweed there, well done, Confidential." "Yeah, so, you know," "I think it's going to do something really brilliant for these first two episodes and sort of start us off on a grand scale, you know?" " See you on the other side, dudes." " See you." "We're on Lone Rock Beach, which is a beautiful part of Lake Powell, which is a huge body of water in Arizona." "In fact, it stretches across the state line into Utah as well." "In the scene we're shooting today, and we'll be shooting it tomorrow as well, because it's a huge scene, it's one of the kind of seminal scenes of the episode." "It's a really key moment for the Doctor's story in the episode and across the series." "Of course, Stephen has packed in every element you can imagine." "We've got the four principal cast." "I'm just trying to get in shot here because of your hair, Alex, there." "Oh, it's my hair, is that what it is?" "We've got the first appearance of Canton in his older guise." "We've got an astronaut coming out of the lake, as you do." "An authentic Apollo 11 astronaut, so we've had to get the suit specially fabricated." "It's an absolute replica, right down to the design of the helmet and the badges on it." "Because it's coming out of the water and their suits were designed to be used in space and not in the sea, we've had to adapt it slightly." "But we've got a stuntman inside it." "Action." "Oh, my God!" "You all need to stay back." "Whatever happens now, you do not interfere." "There's no question that Time Lords can die." "There's never been any question about that." "The Doctor is running from real death." "He's not running from the possibility of a new body." "So if you kill him fast enough, then, yes, he won't regenerate." "The Doctor is now standing still, like he's preparing." "So after you've said it and you've agreed to do it, that's when you just stand ready and go, "Okay, it's time now. "" "This is like he's being reassuring." ""It's okay, it's okay, don't worry, it's fine. "" "He then closes his eyes, puts his head back and waits." "The astronaut raises a gloved hand, pointing at him and..." "Bang, like that." "He really does die in that first scene and that really is him." "So I'm going to get my arms back," " I look at you and I'm going to go..." " Exactly." "Action!" "Hello." "It's okay." "I know it's you." "Well, then." "No!" "We have to stay back." "Doctor!" "I'm sorry." "He starts to regenerate and gets shot during that regeneration cycle, so he doesn't live forever and he's not indestructible." "For all the kind of spacemen, cowboys and sort of adventure that Doctor Who has, at the heart of this was a very emotional kind of moment, a true moment of a friend who's gone." "Won't wake up." "You're dead." "It's not possible." "Whatever that was, it killed him in the middle of his regeneration cycle." "His body was already dead." "He didn't make it to the next one." "Maybe he's a clone or a duplicate or something." "Doctor Song, I believe I can save you some time." "That most certainly is the Doctor." "And he is most certainly dead." "He said you'd need this." "Karen, who plays Amy, when we shot the scene, she was incredibly distraught." "Doctor?" "Do you know who this is?" "I know it's a trick, so wake up." "Come on, wake up." "Wake up!" "Please." "Our hearts were in our mouths." "You almost don't want to say cut because she's crying so much." "It was very emotional." "It was very kind of, she was really acting her heart out out there, and it just was, you know, we knew that it was powerful." "It was almost too powerful and we had to pull it back." "I think it's good to see characters at that extreme." "We've seen them be happy and jolly." "We've seen them have adventures." "We rarely see them, we see them more often this year, facing the consequences of that extraordinary lifestyle with the Doctor, that people do die and sometimes it'll be the wrong people and sometimes it'll be the people you love." "We came here a couple of days ago and recced this place and knew we had to shoot a scene at dusk." "We noticed the sun went down over there, which is the wrong direction." "We wanted to have a beautiful sunset over the Doctor's burial, so we figured if we do it in the morning we'll get a perfect, amazing sky and it'll look like evening." "But we won't have enough time to do the whole scene in the morning, so what we did was we split the scenes." "We looked one way in the morning and got a beautiful sky behind Arthur and the Doctor burning." "And then we looked the other way, the day before, and we had beautiful sky behind everybody else." "After the Doctor is dead, they're tasked with burning his body." "We actually put him in a boat, wrap him and put him in a boat, and set him alight like the Vikings." "And it was really, really moving, actually." "Who are you?" " Why have you come?" " For the same reason as you." "Dr Song," "Amy," "Rory," "I won't be seeing you again." "But you'll be seeing me." "It did feel like the end-of-the series moment but it had to feel like this is going to set off the whole of the second series for Matt Smith and Matt Smith's Doctor." ""I'm scared, Mr President. "" "I think we've gone a bit darker." ""I'm scared of the spaceman. "" "I think that's an inevitable function of just lives getting more complicated, the Doctor's continued presence in that young couple's life, when he sort of should have gone by now." "Doctor, I need to tell you something." "There are major twists in the ongoing plot line and it's all about that pregnancy." "I'm pregnant." "There's a lot of things that we're putting into play at the beginning, a lot of clues, things that are going to pay off later in the series." " Who's that?" " Well, now it's starting." "And we are, over the course of these 13 episodes, going to find out who they are and what they want and what they're up to." "You will tell the Doctor." "Answers are coming, big answers are coming." "How can you be okay with this?" "Not to every single question." "The Doctor's death doesn't frighten me." "Nor does my own." "You will find out who River Song is, definitely, yes." "There's a far worse day coming for me." "You do get big and hopefully surprising answers to big questions." "Spoilers."