"Make sure this episode of Confidential is not corny." "Make sure it's cream of the crop." "I say that, you're going against the grain." " Oh!" " Oh." "That's why they pay us a medium to average wage." "A beautiful summer's day in Cardiff." "The sun has got his hat on, the birds are singing." "And in the middle of a meadow, there's a Mini..." "We're in a corn field." "We're just trying to work out what corn is." "What corn is for." "Karen said, "Is it for the cattle?"" "I said, "Is it for burgers?"" "Well, it's corn!" " And Arthur said, "It's sweetcorn. "" " It's corn!" " No, but what does corn make?" "Yeah, but what other sort of properties does it then go on to..." "Yeah, because they can't have all of that for just sweetcorn." " Ah, no." " Sweetcorn?" "All this corn, peace and tranquillity is about to be disrupted, Doctor Who stylee." "We wanted a big, exciting moment when all three characters come back together and I wanted to kick off the story of Mels, without giving away who she really is." "So, to make her entrance, Mels picked some seriously hot wheels." "Action!" "You said he was funny." "You never said he was hot." "Got that." "Me and Matt are going to go on a road trip." "We've just got to get rid of Karen first." "Right, come to rehearsal, please." " She brings down our level of cool." " Yeah, definitely." "You know what, if I had an Aston Martin with an ejector seat, I'd eject you." " Right, let's roll!" " All right." "Shall we have a wee rehearsal, ladies and gents?" "Yes." "Here we go, and action." "And that's me, out of time." "Mels!" "What are you doing?" "For God's sake!" "I need to get out of here, now." " Anywhere in particular?" " Well, let's see, you've got a time machine, I've got a gun." "What the hell?" "Let's kill Hitler." "Cut there, thank you." "And as luck would have it, that's exactly where they went next." "With the Tardis having made such an impression..." "Look at this, Confidential." "Hey, guys." "That looks great." "What a set." "...the crew quickly find the clues to which party they've crashed." "We are meant to come out of the Tardis and not realise we're in Nazi Germany." "I don't know if you've noticed, but there's great big signs with swastikas on them." "Sorry, is this your office?" "Had a sort of collision with my vehicle." "Fault's on both sides, let's say no more about... it." "Maybe we're alljust a bit hazy from the smoke from the Tardis." "Taking it a bit too far, Kaz." "I'm, uh, I'm about to punch Hitler in the face, which is... which is not something that happens every day." "And action!" "I didn't think I'd get to punch Hitler in the face when I got this job." "Yeah, when I read it in the script, I did go," ""That's probably the coolest line I've ever been given. "" " He was going to kill me." " Shut up, Hitler!" "126, Take 2, A camera." "I, Mels, die and regenerate into River Song, which is quite mad." "When I was little, I was going to marry you." "Ooh!" "Good idea, let's get married." "You stay alive and I'll marry you, deal?" " Cross your heart and hope to die?" " Yeah, of course." "Twice." "She regenerates into River and we suddenly work out what's going on." "It's a huge revelation for us and for, you know, everyone at home." "Okay, Doctor, explain what's happening, please." "Mels." "Short for..." "Melody." "Yeah, I named my daughter after her." "You named your daughter after your daughter." "Mels, who has been Amy's childhood friend, is, in fact, Melody Pond." "And Melody Pond then regenerates into River Song." "You're Melody?" "But if she's Melody, that means that she's also..." "Oh, shut up, Dad." "I'm focusing on a dress size." "Right." "Let's see, then." "Ooh, it's all going on down there, isn't it?" "She's almost like a snake who's shed a skin, or, I guess, like one of the Time Lords, who sheds a skin and becomes somebody else." "She's suddenly learning to live in this new body, new look, new personality, even." "Look at that!" "Everything changes!" "Oh, but I love it." "I'm all sort of... mature." "Well, it's her, all right." "Melody Pond." "The woman who kills the Doctor." "She's been programmed and brainwashed to be the woman who kills the Doctor." "So the first thing she wants to do when she sees him is kill him." "So, that's what she was brought up and reared to be." "I was trained and conditioned for one purpose." "I was born to kill the Doctor." "Demon's Run." "Remember?" "This is what they were building." "My bespoke psychopath." " I'm all yours, sweetie." " Only River Song gets to call me that." " And who's River Song?" " An old friend of mine." "Stupid name." "In this episode, she kisses him because she's poisoning him." "I'm all yours, sweetie." "Kiss, kiss." "This is the start of her story." "Where she gets the blue book from, we realise now, it's the Doctor." "Why she becomes an archaeologist?" "'Cause it's the only decent way she can think of to find the Doctor." "So it's the beginning, it's the start, it's the beginning of the River." "We've got a lot to do this afternoon." "We've got to get this finished because we need this location, and if we don't, we're in trouble, 'cause we can't come back here and it will cost loads of money and... yeah." "So wish us luck, Confidential." "Your marker." "So we're nearing the end of the sequence here at the Temple of Peace." "It's looking great and we got some really good stuff." "We're just gearing up to shoot the sequence where River gives her regeneration energy to the Doctor to save his life." "And it's quite an emotional sequence, so the cast are getting really stuck into it, they were really great in rehearsal." "Yeah, it's been a tough day today, but it's been wonderful." "It's always exciting." "It's been quite hot in there and I've had to do a lot of dying acting, which is weirdly tiring because you're having to be quite tense and taut." "But I've enjoyed it, as I do every day." "It's Doctor Who." "You still care." "Doctor!" "That scene is a huge, you know, turning point for River, because in the dining room, over the period of that sort of 10 minutes, she goes from an assassin who has basically achieved her mission" "and killed her target, her victim, and she goes, you know, from that to deciding to sacrifice her immortality to save the very man that she's spent her whole life being programmed to kill." "I need to talk to your daughter." "What she's giving up are all her future regenerations." "Because she knows, in the end..." "Imagine if you are told that yourself," ""That man you just killed is going to become the love of your life,"" "you think, "Okay, I might spend the rest of my life" ""knowing that this man, who I'll fall in love with more" ""every time I see him, is the man I have already killed. "" "Find River Song and tell her something from me." "Tell her what?" "This man is dying in front of her and she knows somehow that he is more important to her than she really understands." "She then is shown a Tesselecta of herself." "Show me River Song." "And she realises from seeing this image of herself who she really is and what the Doctor really means to her." "River takes matters into her own hands and says, "I'll bring him back. "" "It's predestined." "She sort of thinks," ""Well, that's it." "That's my man and I believe it." ""I believe it's true. "" "River, what are you doing?" "Just tell me." "The Doctor..." "Is he worth it?" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Mmm-hmm." "He is." "And she then makes somewhat of a sacrifice in order to keep him alive." "For a moment, the Doctor is there with a lady Time Lord who loves him." "For a moment, for a brief moment, and then it all goes wrong, but there you go, that's relationships for you."