LARRY: Moving where? Three of them? Moving where? SALLY: I'm going to look around. LARRY: Three? SALLY: They were upstairs before, but I think I heard them moving. We're okay if we just keep staring at this one statue. LARRY: There's just one, right, there's just this one. They back away.) SALLY: Keep looking at it. (The Angel is towering over them, reaching out, mouth wide open. SALLY: What good would that do? You're not looking at the statue. (The picture freezes.) SALLY: No! Don't! You can't! LARRY: I'll rewind him. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. But listen, your life could depend on this. I don't know what stopped you talking, but I can guess. There's no more from you on the transcript, that's the last I've got. SALLY: How? How? DOCTOR : And that's it, I'm afraid. There is a world of time energy in there they could feast on forever, but the damage they could do could switch off the sun. SALLY: What am I supposed to do? DOCTOR : The blue box, it's my time machine. Their greatest asset is their greatest curse. (There is an Angel close by.) DOCTOR : That's why they cover their eyes. But then you turn your head away, then you blink, and oh yes it can. Of course, a stone can't kill you either. In the sight of any living thing, they literally turn to stone. The moment they are seen by any other living creature, they freeze into rock. They don't exist when they're being observed. No one quite knows where they came from, but they're as old as the universe, or very nearly, and they have survived this long because they have the most perfect defence system ever evolved. SALLY: What does that mean? DOCTOR : The lonely assassins, they used to be called. SALLY: What do you mean, angels? You mean those statue things? DOCTOR : Creatures from another world. That's my favourite, I've got it on a t-shirt. They have taken the blue box, haven't they? The angels have the phone box. You can do shorthand? LARRY: So? DOCTOR : What matters is, we can communicate. You're reading aloud from a transcript of a conversation you're still having. SALLY: Okay, let me get my head round this. SALLY: How can you have a copy of the finished transcript? It's still being written. DOCTOR : I've got a copy of the finished transcript. That way I've got a complete transcript of the whole conversation. What are you doing? LARRY: I'm writing in your bits. (Where Larry is sitting on the floor, writing.) LARRY: What does he mean by look to your left? I've written tons about that on the forums. SALLY: How can you know what I'm going to say? DOCTOR : Look to your left. LARRY: Always gives me the shivers, that bit. It's brilliant! DOCTOR : Well, not hear you, exactly, but I know everything you're going to say. SALLY: Next thing you're going to say is, well I can hear you. You said that sentence got away from you. DOCTOR : People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. And don't patronise me because people have died, and I'm not happy. SALLY: Then what is it? DOCTOR : Complicated. SALLY: How? How is this possible? Tell me.
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