History Recap / DoctorWhoS39E4FluxChapterFourVillageOfTheAngels

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* AwfulTruth: Mrs. Hayward has to break it to poor Peggy that she will never escape from 1907... because Mrs. Hayward is Peggy herself, having lived a full life in the village for over 66 years.

---> "You are observed! That is my power over you!"

---> "I've seen many things beyond my comprehension, Doctor. [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil I was one of the first British soldiers into Belsen at the end of the war.]] If you think a few stone statues will disturb my equilibrium, you are mistaken."

** Multiple to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels The Time of Angels]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone Flesh and Stone]]", the two-part episode that first established the Angels' abilities to appear from images and to implant themselves within people through their line of sight and take them over from the inside. Most prominently, the Doctor repeats the passage that she (he at the time) read from a book saying, "That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel".

* RogueSoldier: The Weeping Angel inside Claire. The other Angels aren't trying to ''rescue'' it-- they're trying to ''capture'' it.

"Village of the Angels"[[note]]official title "Flux Chapter Four: Village of the Angels"[[/note]] is the fourth episode of Series 13, and the fourth installment in the ''Flux'' story arc. It was written by Maxine Alderton & Creator/ChrisChibnall, and debuted on November 21st, 2021.

* YourMindMakesItReal: The rogue Angel is able to [[DemonicPossession manifest inside Claire]] because, as a {{seer}}, she saw its image in her mind.

* ArmorPiercingResponse: What gives great-uncle Gerald's wife the right to talk to him like that? 47 painful years, that's what. And the fact he is a vile and virtueless excuse of a human.
* AssholeVictim: Nobody is particularly cut up when great-uncle Gerald dies by touching an angel for the second time. Not even Peggy, who has lost the only family she had left (her great-aunt died at the same time).
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: When Jericho announces his full name to the Doctor, she marvels at the awesomeness of the name, before wintering on about how she can use that to win at ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}''.

* BatmanGambit: The rogue Weeping Angel inside Claire pulls one off. It knows the Doctor would try to save Claire, uses her as bait and ends up with a bargaining chip against its pursuers. Something more valuable to the Division than a rogue Angel, [[RogueAgent a rogue Time Lord.]]
* BigEntrance: Like the Cybermen before them, the Angels get into somewhere ''by smashing the door down.''
* BodyHorror: The Doctor's graphic transformation into an Angel at the end of the episode. Granted, New-Who has done more terrifying transformations than this one, but this one is spine-chilling to say the least.
* BreakThemByTalking: The Angels try to do this to Jericho. (See TheReasonYouSuckSpeech below.) [[DefiedTrope It doesn't take]].

*** "Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow." The first part has been uttered by past incarnations and companions every once in a while during the Classic and New Who eras, while the last time the Doctor said the full line was in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied The Girl Who Died]]". This makes Jodie Whittaker the fifth incarnation of the doctor to utter the full phrase, following Creator/JonPertwee, Creator/PeterDavison, Creator/MattSmith, and Creator/PeterCapaldi's incarnations. Pertwee was most well known for saying that line. Even though he only said the full phrase twice!
*** She tells Jericho, "When I say run, run!" (And, as a variation, also uses "When I say blink, blink".) Another classic line that many Doctors have uttered, but made the most famous by Troughton's incarnation back in the 60s.
** We once again see the results of the Angel's powers of sending people back in time to "live to death" through Mrs Hayward, the elderly version of Peggy who was sent back to 1901 and stayed in that time for 66 years. We've seen examples of this before with Kathy Nightingale and Billy Shipton in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]", and Detective Garner, Amy and Rory in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels take Manhattan]]".

* EvilUncle: Not literally ''evil'', but Peggy's great-uncle Gerald comes across as very unfeeling and harsh to her, showing a lack of care. Sadly TruthInTelevision, as seniors in the 60s often treated children in such a way; even Peggy isn't particularly broken up at him being killed.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: The Doctor blinks in front of the Weeping Angel ''just'' before she realizes that it's not coming after her.

* LiterallyShatteredLives: Gerald and his wife suffer this fate when they're touched by a Weeping Angel (after they have already been sent into the past by a different one), causing them to petrify and crumble into dust.

* LivingStructureMonster: Images of the Angels on the walls in the escape tunnel become hands that reach out to grab people. Even the ''dust'' is itself an Angel, with a bit that gets into Jericho's eye becoming an Angel that then displaces him.

* NoSympathy: Peggy sheds no tears for her great aunt Jean even though she comes across as much nicer than her husband.

* TheReveal:
** Claire [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E1FluxChapterOneTheHalloweenApocalypse recognised the Doctor and the Weeping Angel]] because she has psychic visions of the future.
** It was already well-known that if a Weeping Angel touches you, it can send you back in time. Here, if ''you'' touch one, it can also send you back.
** It wasn't shown what happens if you get caught by a Weeping Angel twice after it's fed off your energy from temporal displacement. If it happens, you turn to stone and crumble into dust. Yikes!

* SeriesContinuityError: When Gerald and Jean are grabbed by the Angel in 1901, they petrify and [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter]] instead of going back in time again, and Peggy grimly remarks that no one survives it twice. However, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan]]", Rory, who had been sent back to 1938 by an Angel, encountered a future version of himself who had been sent back a second time and was dying of old age. This could be explained as being a result of the quantum extraction only having 1901 as a past destination and there's nowhere else to go before that time, whereas being touched twice by an angel ''per se'' in a normal timeline of events, the Angels can usually keep a hold of their prey and continue to feast on their potential energy.

* UniformityException: The Weeping Angel which hijacked the TARDIS and communicates with the Doctor has a distinguishing scar/crack running across its face.
* WhamEpisode: ''The Doctor becomes a Weeping Angel!'' Does more need to be said?
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We do not see what happens to Reverend Shaw after the Angel sends him back in time (though it is possible that he met the same fate as Gerald and Jean, since Peggy already knows what happens when an Angel catches someone twice).
* WhyIsntItAttacking: The Doctor wonders this when she tries to outrun an Angel and isn't grabbed, knowing that it was a fool's errand when she did it. Even blinking doesn't move them. She realizes too late that it's because more are above the exit of the tunnel, and they don't want to displace her, but capture her.
* YourMindMakesItReal: The rogue Angel is able to [[DemonicPossession manifest inside Claire]] because as a {{seer}} she saw its image in her mind.

The one where the Doctor finds more in common with the Weeping Angels than she wanted.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: When Jericho announces his full name to the Doctor, she marvels at the awesomeness of the name, before wintering on about how she can use that to win at Scrabble.

* SeriesContinuityError: When Gerald and Jean are grabbed by the Angel in 1901, they petrify and [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter]] instead of going back in time again, and Peggy grimly remarks that no one survives it twice. However, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan]]", Rory, who had been sent back to 1938 by an Angel, encountered a future version of himself who had been sent back a second time and was dying of old age. This could be explained as being a result of the quantum extraction only having 1901 as a past destination and there's nowhere else to go before that time, whereas being touched twice by an angel ''per se'' in a normal timeline of events, the angels can usually keep a hold of their prey and continue to feast on their potential energy.

* BalefulPolymorph: The Doctor's transformation into an Angel at the end of the episode.

---> "I've seen many things beyond my comprehension, Doctor. I was one of the first British soldiers into Belsen at the end of the war. If you think a few stone statues will disturb my equilibrium, you are mistaken."

* YouMindMakesItReal: The rogue Angel is able to [[DemonicPossession manifest inside Claire]] because as a {{seer}} she saw its image in her mind.