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2	'''Twelfth Doctor Era'''\
3	'''Series 9:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice 1]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E2TheWitchsFamiliar 2]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E3UnderTheLake 3]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E4BeforeTheFlood 4]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied 5]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived 6]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E7TheZygonInvasion 7]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion 8]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E9SleepNoMore 9]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven 10]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent 11]] \| [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent 12]] \| '''CS'''\
4	'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath <<< Series 8]]''' \| '''[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio Series 10 >>>]]''']]-]]]
5	!The Husbands of River Song
6	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dw_914_the_husbands_of_river_song.jpg]]
7	[[caption-width-right:350:The DamselInDistress[[note]]Yes, we mean the Doctor.[[/note]] and the Professor versus the (headless) Butcher of the Bone Meadows.]]
8	[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the RadioTimes magazine poster for this episode:]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thehusbandsofriversong.jpg Carol singers '''will''' be criticized.]][[/labelnote]]
9	->Written by Creator/StevenMoffat\
10	Directed by Douglas Mackinnon\
11	'''Air date:''' 25 December 2015
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13	->''"When you love the Doctor, it's like loving the stars themselves. You don't expect a sunset to admire you back. And if I happen to find myself in danger, let me tell you, the Doctor is not stupid enough, or sentimental enough, and he is certainly not in love enough to find himself standing in it with me!"''
14	-->-- '''River Song''', [[RightInFrontOfMe not knowing that he is standing right next to her.]]
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16	JustForFun/{{The one\|With}} [[BookEnds that closes the book on the tale of River Song...]] [[WhereItAllBegan from where it all began.]]
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18	Also, [[SwappedRoles the Doctor]] [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat finally gets to show]] [[BiggerOnTheInside the proper way to react]].
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20	The 2015 ''Series/DoctorWho'' ChristmasEpisode.
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22	It's Christmas Day, 5343, on the human colony Mendorax Dellora. A man walks up to the TARDIS and knocks on the door, despite the sign warning away any carolers. The Doctor, when he opens the door, turns out to have been unwittingly given holographic antlers. Nardole, the man who knocked on the door, is a bit confused about that. He's come looking for the surgeon -- there's a medical emergency. So the Doctor agrees to come see what the emergency is. After they leave, a man walks into the street, asking if someone called for a surgeon.
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24	There's a spaceship crashed outside of town. When the Doctor and Nardole arrive, a woman in a long, red hooded cloak comes down the ramp to greet them. She's the one who called for a surgeon. She's also Professor River Song, and her husband is dying. The Doctor is understandably surprised by this news. River is not pleased that the surgeon she hired knows who she is and addresses her by name -- she's trying to keep her identity secret -- and threatens to remove the organs of the next person who calls her by name. In alphabetical order. The Doctor wants to know which alphabet.
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26	River's dying husband turns out to be the tyrannical King Hydroflax. He has bodyguards with genetically-engineered anger problems, and is practically worshipped by his billions of terrified subjects, who are watching to see the results of the surgery. Hydroflax has the universe's most valuable diamond lodged in his brain. It got stuck there while he was leading a raid. River turns out to have married him because she wants to steal it. She's even arranged a buyer. The surgeon she hired, who was in on the plot, was supposed to remove the diamond, that's all. River would rather Hydroflax didn't survive this. The Doctor is rather disturbed by this plan, and also surprised River hasn't realized who he is yet.
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28	It's at this point in the conversation that Hydroflax angrily intrudes, and reveals himself to be a head attached to a robot body. River and the Doctor wind up taking the head hostage and teleporting away, leaving the robot body with a terrified Nardole to interrogate. River and the Doctor land in the forest, and River's not too pleased at the Doctor's amusement about the fact that they're being threatened by a head in a bag. Shortly, River's other accomplice, Ramone, turns up. River married him, too, and then wiped his memory of the marriage because he was "getting annoying". Ramone tells River that there's no sign of "Damsel" in town. The Doctor is rather taken aback to discover that's River's code name for ''him''.
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30	The Doctor and River head for the TARDIS, parked in town. Hydroflax's robot body follows in pursuit, having taken Nardole's head hostage. At the TARDIS, River reveals she's "borrowed" the TARDIS without the Doctor's knowledge on many previous occasions, to his surprise. She also gives him the most unnecessary forewarning in the history of the show about the [[BiggerOnTheInside discrepancy]] between the inside and outside of the ship. The Doctor takes advantage of this, and River's continuing ignorance of his identity, to give the [[LargeHam hammiest]] ever "reaction" to the TARDIS' interior. He thinks that's how everyone ought to react. It also transpires that River has a liquor cabinet behind a roundelle in the console room he didn't know about.[[note]]In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon A Time]]" it is learned that the First Doctor had a similar one in his console room, so the Twelfth Doctor may just not have realized it was still there or that River knew about it.[[/note]]
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32	The TARDIS can't take off with only Hydroflax's head on board. The rest of his body's caught up, however, and the Doctor tricks it into getting on board. The TARDIS takes off for River's destination, the interstellar cruise liner ''Harmony and Redemption'', where she's planning to meet the buyer for the diamond. The ship is a haven for the wealthiest murderers around, where genocide comes to kick back and relax. Even the staff are required to have a history of indiscriminate slaughter.
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34	River's buyers aren't after what she thinks they are. So how will the Doctor and River escape the ship? And when will she finally realize who the Doctor is?
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37	This episode has several elements of note:
38	* It is effectively the coda to the Twelfth Doctor's character arc in Series 9, airing less than three weeks after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]" did.
39	* It is the debut story for Nardole, who by the time of the ''next'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]" has become a companion to the Twelfth Doctor (his first since Clara Oswald, not counting various ExpandedUniverse characters).
40	* It also introduces as secondary antagonists the Shoal of the Winter Harmony, who go on to be the villains of "The Return of Doctor Mysterio".
41	* Perhaps most importantly, it brings the story of River Song full circle, depicting the circumstances of her and the Doctor's last night together before [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor his tenth self]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary met her in a certain Library]].
42	* The aftermath of this episode is ''hugely'' important to the {{Backstory}} of Series 10.
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45	!!Tropes featured in ''The Husbands of River Song'' include:
46	* TenMinuteRetirement: Just like [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen his last post-companion period]], the Doctor is in solitary mourning only to be yanked back into action.[[note]]''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' comics would seem to suggest that this story takes place quite some time after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]", with him first travelling solo and later with original companions in the interim, but ExpandedUniverse comics are not regarded as hard canon.[[/note]]
47	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: River eventually agrees that Hydroflax's head ranting within the bag is a pretty funny sight.
48	* AffablyEvil: Flemming, the maître d'. He is continually polite to River, though as she says even the staff aboard the ''Harmony and Redemption'' are required to have a history of indiscriminate killing.
49	* AIIsACrapshoot: Hydroflax's robot body destroys Hydroflax's head (and thus kills Hydroflax) once it determines that the head is irreparably damaged. The body proceeds to claim Hydroflax's throne for itself.
50	* AlwaysNight: Played with. We hear that the nights on Darillium are 24 years long.
51	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: River admits that she loves the Doctor but she honestly doesn't believe that he loves her back. Fortunately, this episode proves her ''very'' wrong, much to our (and her) relief.
52	* ArcWords: Two Series 9 arc words and concepts are revisited, subtly.
53	** ''Hybrid'': River Song, the Child of the TARDIS, is effectively a human-Time Lord hybrid, while WordOfGod confirms that the Doctor was half of the Hybrid of a Gallifreyan prophecy, Clara Oswald being the other half.
54	** ''Story'': It turns out that River's heard stories about their night together on Darillium being the last one they'll have together. And where "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E7TheZygonInvasion The Zygon Invasion]]" opened with the text "OnceUponATime", this one ends on the text "And they lived HappilyEverAfter".
55	* AsideComment: After the Doctor gives an epic speech about how the TARDIS is bigger on the inside, he says "Sorry, I've always wanted to see that done properly" directly to the camera.
56	* AssholeVictim:
57	** Hydroflax's head berates everyone and has the list of horrible things he has done quoted repeatedly, so when he's disintegrated later in the episode there's no hard feelings for him at all.
58	** The entire passenger and crew complement of the ''Harmony and Redemption'' are mass murderers or worse, one and all. Thus, the Doctor and River don't feel ''too'' bad about not saving them.
59	* BaitAndSwitch: River stating that her husband is dying can lead many viewers, and possibly the Doctor himself, to assume that she is referring to some past or future incarnation of the Doctor.
60	* BaldOfEvil: Scratch is a ruthless body snatcher, who is bald because of said body snatching.
61	* BelatedHappyEnding: River last appeared in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor The Name of the Doctor]]" (set after her death) two-plus years prior, and while it had been suggested that Eleven had made that date with her on Darillium, it was not depicted onscreen. Turns out that he didn't make the date with her after all, leaving Twelve to do the job in a way that finally grants her the precious, and ''long'', time with her sweetie she'd so long desired.
62	* BigBad: King Hydroflax.
63	* BigNo: King Hydroflax is in the middle of one of these as his body vaporizes his head.
64	* BigOMG: The Doctor gives an ''[[LargeHam almighty]]'' one in his "reaction" to the TARDIS interior.
65	* BittersweetEnding: The episode ends with the Doctor taking River to dinner at the Singing Towers of Darillium, the location of the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead last night they spend together before her death]]. On the other hand, a night on Darillium is twenty-four years long.
66	-->'''River:''' I ''hate'' you.\
67	'''The Doctor:''' No, you don't.
68	* BodySurf: Inverted, Hydroflax's body goes through several different ''heads'' over the course of the episode.
69	* BookEnds: In River's last on-screen appearance, we finally get to see the Singing Towers she mentioned in her first one. The episode was nearly this for the whole Moffat era, given her first story was the one Moffat wrote after he knew he'd be getting the top job.
70	* BondOneLiner: Discussed.
71	-->'''The Doctor:''' He [Hydroflax's body] had a bad day on the market. ''[leaves, then returns to observer]'' Sorry, I appreciate that wasn't really funny but I couldn't help saying it.
72	* BorrowedCatchphrase:
73	** When River finally realizes that the man's she's been with all episode is the Doctor, he responds with a "Hello, sweetie." Later, when she asks him whether or not their night on Darillium is to be the last one they will ever have together as she's heard tell of, he can only say "Spoilers."
74	** The Doctor unwittingly uses Clara's "Seriously?" when River fails to realize his identity after he drops a particularly blatant hint.
75	** And of course, he gets to do his own version of "It's BiggerOnTheInside", for which he is normally the PhraseCatcher.
76	* BreatherEpisode: A story that's mostly comic, albeit with an ''extremely'' poignant denouement. After everything that happened in the last series, which had no breather episodes for the Twelfth Doctor, this was warranted.
77	* BrickJoke: In a "blink and you'll miss it" moment, River pulls a fez out of her bag, eliciting absolutely no response from the Doctor. The Eleventh Doctor loved fezzes so much that Clara once commented "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor Someday you could just walk past a fez.]]" to which Eleven replied "Never gonna happen."
78	* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Inverted. River shows the Doctor her diary (which is almost filled up by this point), and says that he was the sort of man who'd know exactly how long a diary you were going to need. The Doctor replies, [[HeelRealization "He sounds awful."]]
79	* TheCaligula: Hydroflax is a brutal, murderous dictator.
80	* CallBack: We get to see River's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "spotter's guide"]] for the Doctor which confirms that River knows about all of the Doctor's incarnations by this point, including the War Doctor (who is supposed to be a secret from everyone). In retrospect, this means she only knew of the Doctors of his first regeneration cycle (plus Twelve), as there are no images of any future Doctors.
81	* CallForward: The Doctor finally [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary gives River]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead a sonic]].
82	* CatchPhrase:
83	** River's "Spoilers" and "Hello, sweetie" return -- but this time the Doctor gets to say them.
84	** Although the character likely doesn't realize it, having wiped most of his memories of her, the Doctor nonetheless utters Clara's catchphrase, "Seriously?" in the same way as his lost companion.
85	** And the show's longstanding "It's bigger on the inside" reaction gets lampshaded and spoofed by the Doctor.
86	* CharacterDevelopment:
87	** The Doctor's actions in the climax and denouement of this story reflect how the events of the final stretch of Series 9 changed him. As a man who doesn't like endings, he was long unwilling to see through his final night with River Song; indeed, had Clara not intervened in the climax of "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]", his previous self would have ''died'' having never having seen it through and likely caused a RealityBreakingParadox! Eventually he came to love and depend upon Clara all too much, was DrivenToMadness in the wake of her unjust death, and attempted to fulfil a TragicDream of bringing her back to life and perhaps staying with her forever -- which threatened the universe much the way River choosing not to shoot the Doctor in Series 7 did. But "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]" ended with him understanding at last that the loss of loved ones can only be accepted; he even endured MindRape of his personal memories of Clara to be his best self again and regain his lost sanity. With this, upon realizing how much he's hurt River by never fully returning her love to the point that she doubts he's even capable of the emotion (and realizing that they're not as different as he might have once thought) he finally makes an effort to do so. Instead of trying to flee or change fate, he faces it and creates the best final night possible for them. Thus he is finally able to [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn his happy ending]].
88	** River gets some too -- she's crashed a spaceship into a human colony ''BUT AWAY FROM ANY PEOPLE'' so no-one gets hurt, gets on board a ship due to be destroyed by meteor strikes (which results in the death of many bad guys) and, finally, comes to terms with her final night with the Doctor. This also ties into ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary Silence in the Library]]'' & ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of The Dead]]'': She knows the Doctor ''does'' love her and that he ''will'' come if she asks -- so when she gets sent to a mysterious and abandoned library she calls for him, knowing he'll come. Only it's the wrong Doctor who turns up; Ten shows up - she's expecting ''Twelve'', who could ''easily'' defuse the matter as he knows to trust River.
89	* ChekhovsGun: The bank transfer orb given to River to facilitate payment for her delivery of the diamond. In the climax the Doctor winds up with it and convinces the body of Hydroflax to hook itself up to it. He has realized that the robot will be regarded as, effectively, a would-be hacker by all the financial institutions of the universe once a connection is made. Sure enough, it's attacked by all their respective security systems ''and'' the constantly fluctuating stock markets, and the data overload renders it unable to attack.
90	* ChewingTheScenery:
91	** River Song's SickeninglySweethearts charade, before her actual intentions for Hydroflax are revealed, requires her to be at least as hammy as her royal husband. It helps that she ''is'' playing to an intergalactic audience. And, of course, that she's Amy and Rory's child and the Doctor's wife -- all three are hammy, so she's picked ''something'' up!
92	** The Doctor is even hammier than usual when faking a newcomer's BiggerOnTheInside realisation, not to mention revealing King Hydroflax's head to his admirers in the space liner's restaurant later.
93	* ChristmasCarolers: Referenced; the Doctor has a sign on his TARDIS door that says "Carol Singers Will Be Criticised". Creator/StevenMoffat must dislike carolers since Amy Pond threatens them with a water gun in a [[Recap/DoctorWho2011CSTheDoctorTheWidowAndTheWardrobe previous Christmas special]].
94	* ChristmasEpisode: It's a Christmas special! Though the fact it takes place at Christmas is pretty much waved off after the first five minutes and is only briefly mentioned in the last five.
95	* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: With the Doctor keeping his identity secret, he ends up becoming a companion to River herself, who has to deal with the Doctor having too much fun during their shenanigans.
96	-->'''River:''' This is a serious mission in a critical phase. There is nothing to laugh about here.\
97	'''The Doctor:''' But we're being threatened by a ''bag!'' By a head in a bag!
98	* ContinuityNod:
99	** The Doctor doesn't like being sure about things!
100	--->'''The Doctor:''' One minute you're sure, the next minute [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath everyone turns into lizards and a piano falls on you]]. It's been a long day.
101	** At one point the Doctor says, in disbelief, "Seriously?" This had been Clara Oswald's catchphrase towards him.
102	** The Doctor says he can't bow to an important figure because of the strain on his back, just as he did in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E4MarcoPolo Marco Polo]]". In this case, however, it's more of an excuse for him to segue into a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
103	** [[Recap/DoctorWho2014CSLastChristmas "Every Christmas is last Christmas."]]
104	** River carries a sonic trowel. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship Her grandfather thought trowels were essential tools.]]
105	** Among River's diary entries, Flemming notes [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan Manhattan]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens the Pandorica]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels the crash of the]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone Byzantium]]'' and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut Jim the Fish]].
106	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven Like Kate Stewart, River thinks the Doctor needs to colour his roots.]]
107	** During her rant about expecting the Doctor to find a way around her death, she mentions "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar the time]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32HVBSNightAndTheDoctor there were two of you]]".
108	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut "I hate you." "No you don't"]].
109	* ContinuitySnarl: The fact River has not yet been sent to her death by the Doctor causes issues with the 2013 Christmas special, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]", in which the Doctor prepares to die -- and expects to die -- at the end of his current incarnation, without having resolved River's timeline. It's difficult to HandWave this away when one considers the ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent episode immediately preceding this one]]'' was built around the fact that preventing a fixed point in time -- which could have happened had Clara not convinced the Time Lords to give the Doctor another life and he'd died without taking River to the Singing Towers -- would have been catastrophic for the universe.
110	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment:
111	** The Doctor leaves a note on the TARDIS saying that carol singers will be ''criticised''.
112	** Overlapping with CruelAndUnusualDeath, River's threat that the next person to use her name will have their organs removed in alphabetical order. Though she never specified which alphabet!
113	* CurseCutShort: When the Doctor tricks River into being teleported back into the TARDIS, she shouts "You--!" as she fades out. However, anyone watching her lips move can clearly tell that she's shouting "You bastard!"
114	* DarkReprise: The Doctor and River's conversation on Darillium is accompanied by a slow, deep rendition of "The Mad Man with a Box", one of the Eleventh Doctor's leitmotifs.
115	* ADayInTheLimelight: For River Song. It's her first appearance in the series without another companion alongside her, the episode's plot is carried by her, not the Doctor, and the episode sets up some of the details that will [[ADeathInTheLimelight lead to her death]] in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]", which occurs shortly after the events of this episode (for her). It also reveals more about what she's like, and what she does, when the Doctor isn't around -- to both him and the audience.
116	* DissonantSerenity: "The starship ''Harmony and Redemption'', minimum ticket price one billion credits, plus the provable murder of multiple innocent life forms. Suites are reserved for planet-burners... Even the staff are required to have a verifiable history of indiscriminate slaughter. This is where genocide comes to kick back and relax. Do try the fish."
117	* TheDitz: Nardole. In this episode, he's not too bright and something of a ButtMonkey.
118	* DramaticIrony: For the majority of the episode, River didn't know Twelve was the Doctor, not knowing he had gained more regenerations past his Eleventh incarnation. This led to poignant moments when she spoke about him in his own presence. It also led to some amusing moments when she finally realized it.
119	* EarnYourHappyEnding: The ending of this story may be more bittersweet than outright happy, but it grants both River Song and the Twelfth Doctor a great measure of mutual happiness each of them has long, long needed given their individual journeys -- especially after the trope was denied for Twelve in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]". Indeed, it's ''because'' he's learned so much about love and letting go through his unhappy experience trying to save Clara that he can finally become the sweetie River longed for.
120	* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When the bad guys want to use River as bait to lure in the Doctor, she explains at ''great'' length how he's too large and important to be bothered with coming to rescue her. She ends saying that the last place they'd find him is next to her when she's in trouble. It's right then that she realizes he's been with her the whole time.
121	-->'''The Doctor:''' ''[smiles]'' Hello, Sweetie.
122	* EvilIsHammy: The various villains of this episode each embody this trope in distinct ways: Hydroflax's constant shouting, his body's deep-voiced robotic menace, Flemming's sliminess, Scratch and his compatriots' hissing...
123	* FlyingSaucer: At the beginning, River arrives at Mendorax Dellora in a red one that looks like it was taken straight from the pages of a retro sci-fi pulp magazine.
124	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
125	** At the start of the episode, the Doctor is brought to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead River's doorstep, sporting a haircut and suit]]. This foreshadows the eventual journey to Darillium.
126	** When the Doctor gives River her sonic, he quickly grabs it and scans her, foreshadowing their first/last adventure in the Library (and how the screwdriver was holding her telepathic imprint).
127	** When River's sonic screwdriver is first revealed, the Series 4 soundtrack for the Library actually plays, creating a musical nod and overtone to where this is all going to play out. The initial premiere of the story itself on BBC America was proceeded by a double feature of "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead" just to bring things full circle.
128	* GallowsHumour: Discussed -- The Doctor, stalling for time when he realizes he's expected to operate on Hydroflax, winds up indulging in a bit of this and notes it probably isn't appropriate under the circumstances.
129	* GonnaNeedMoreX: The Doctor remarks that explaining how he and River have interacted usually requires a flowchart; after she throws him a conversational curveball, he says "I'm going to need a bigger flowchart."
130	* GoodScarsEvilScars: Scratch and the other members of the Shoal of the Winter Harmony have a diagonal scar running across their face. It turns out this is so they can open up their heads; the bank transfer orb is stored inside Scratch's. (The Doctor notes upon the reveal of this ability "you probably shouldn't do that in a restaurant.")
131	* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: While the Doctor doesn't see himself as a particularly good man, he's the Good character in this story, compared to River, the Bad girl who's prepared to kill Hydroflax for profit, and Hydroflax and everyone else on board the ''Harmony and Redemption'', who are almost cartoonishly Evil mass-murderers.
132	* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: River is able to change her clothes for an occasion just by spraying herself with a perfume.
133	* GrandRomanticGesture: The Doctor not only finally decides to see through his date with River Song on Darillium after centuries of running away from it, but via StableTimeLoop ensures that there's a restaurant overlooking the Singing Towers in the first place. If it's going to be their last night together, it will be as lovely as possible for her.
134	* TheGrinch: ''Carol singers will be criticised''. The Doctor is a temporary, downplayed example as the story begins. He usually loves the Christmas season, but in the wake of all the heartache he's been through since what turned out to really be his "[[Recap/DoctorWho2014CSLastChristmas Last Christmas]]" with Clara, he isn't up for the usual hijinks of UsefulNotes/AVeryBritishChristmas this year. It takes less time than it took Eleven to get over it in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]".
135	* HandWave:
136	** In-universe, River is more than happy to accept "a thing happening" as the explanation for the Doctor's thirteenth regeneration.
137	** So if the starship ''Harmony and Redemption'' is so exclusive and caters only to mass-murderers... how did River get a ticket and is so familiar with Flemming? Curiously, her "worse than Hitler" reputation from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler Let's Kill Hitler]]" is not mentioned.
138	* HappilyEverAfter: Discussed in the closing conversation between River and the Doctor. As a response to the Doctor gently explaining to her that nothing lasts forever and that this trope is a lie people tell themselves, River argues that it isn't about unending happiness, but rather making the most of the time one has. With the revelation that they will have twenty-four years together after so much suffering on their individual journeys, the episode ends on the text "And they both lived happily ever after..." -- which dissolves first to "And they both lived happily" and then to "happily".
139	* HaveWeMetYet: While River Song knows full well who the Doctor is by this point in her timeline, she's never met ''this'' incarnation, has no knowledge of his existence since Eleven was supposed to be the last Doctor, and can't recognize her sweetie in him.
140	* HeartbrokenBadass: The Doctor is coming off of a TraumaCongaLine in Series 9 that included Clara's senseless death and his own people betraying him, which drove him to the DespairEventHorizon. He wound up going too far to save her and this led to him getting his memories of her appearance, etc. wiped, though not his adventures with her, so he's currently alone and and a bit broody. The same could be said for River, as it's mentioned that her last trip with the Doctor was the one where her parents died.
141	* HeelRealisation:
142	** When River points out that the Doctor's gift of her diary implies he knew exactly how long it needed to be. His response makes it clear he didn't even think of it that way.
143	** When River gives her big speech about how little the Doctor cares about her, the Doctor can be clearly seen in the background realising what he's done to her her whole life just by being himself -- unable to say "I love you", unable to accept endings...
144	* HeldGaze: River and the Doctor share at least three, with the penultimate one hinting at an AlmostKiss when they're looking at the Towers of Darillium.
145	* HistoryRepeats:
146	** This is the ''sixth'' ChristmasEpisode that comes directly after an episode in which the Doctor parts ways with one or more companions, and the second (after "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]") that sees him in a broody "don't bother me" mood initially as a result.
147	** This is the ''third'' ChristmasEpisode involving the threat of a spaceship crashing, the others being "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]" (Tenth and Eleventh Doctor adventures, respectively). In fact, the climax of this one is a reversal of the climaxes of the other two -- the Doctor and River give up on trying to save the ''Harmony and Redemption'' upon realizing that not only will they probably fail, its passengers aren't worth the trouble. As for Nardole and Ramone, the only characters even close to "good" amongst the other people on board (their presence being ''highly'' reluctant), they are apparently the only survivors of the crash after a fashion, whereas poor Astrid Peth was one of several good characters who perished in "Voyage of the Damned".
148	** Once again, the customers of a fine dining establishment -- aside from the Twelfth Doctor and his friend -- [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath are not who they seem to be]] at first glance.
149	** Again, the Twelfth Doctor spends a [[Recap/DoctorWho2014CSLastChristmas Last Christmas]] with a loved one, even quoting that episode in the final scene.
150	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius This isn't the first time the Doctor was at risk of losing his head to an enemy that wanted it for its own]].
151	** River Song is ''sure'' that the Doctor has a plan to prevent their night on Darillium from being their last night together, because he ''always'' has a plan. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven Face the Raven]]", Clara believed that too, and thus was certain he could save her from death by quantum shade if no-one else could. Yet he had to admit that he couldn't in that case, and he sadly tells River that he can't change their situation either.
152	* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Before River works out who the Doctor is, she brings him into the TARDIS and he excitedly fakes his own "BiggerOnTheInside" moment because he's always wanted it done properly.
153	* TheILoveYouStigma: In keeping with a tradition established in 2006 and most recently invoked in the Series 9 finale in which the Doctor does not say "I love you" to Clara but rather uses other phrases, euphemisms, or shows it by his actions, the Doctor never actually says these three words on screen, not even to his wife. The fact this has left River feeling uncertain as to his feelings about her is addressed directly on screen.
154	* IdiotBall: Even though she believes the Eleventh Doctor was the last, and is also a bit distracted by the number of moving pieces in her plan, it still takes River a lot longer than one would think to realize the "doctor" she's talking to is in fact ''the'' Doctor. Especially with all the hints he drops, such as:
155	-->'''River:''' You are very quick!\
156	'''The Doctor:''' Yes... ''for a Doctor.''\
157	'''River:''' Yes! ''[walks away still oblivious]''\
158	'''The Doctor:''' [[LampshadeHanging Seriously?]]
159	* ImAHumanitarian:
160	** Hydroflax is infamous for devouring his enemies, human or otherwise, [[EatenAlive sometimes while they are still alive.]] Which is impressive for a guy without a throat.
161	** Apparently the ''Harmony and Redemption'' has a lot of guests who qualify as this trope, as Flemming initially assumes the Doctor will serve as River Song's meal instead of her dining companion -- and was going to suggest he be fattened up via force-feeding first.
162	* InsectoidAliens: Flemming and another crew member are blue insectoid humanoids with barbels.
163	* IronicName: The starship ''Harmony and Redemption'' sells tickets exclusively to the murderous and genocidal.
164	* ItAmusedMe: Since River doesn't think the Twelfth Doctor ''is'' the Doctor at all, he acts like a random citizen who got involved in River's antics, including faking his own "BiggerOnTheInside moment" when they both enter the TARDIS, simply to amuse himself.
165	* KarmicJackpot: A young man on Darillium investigates the crashed spaceship, trying to rescue any survivors. The Doctor assures him there aren't any (and they wouldn't be worth saving anyway), but gives him the most valuable gemstone in the universe for his trouble. Even just the reward for returning it, rather than selling it, is a ''lot'' of money. The Doctor's only condition is that he use the money to build a restaurant on the spot -- which will quickly earn even more money.
166	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Ramone doesn't recall that he married River because she mind-wiped him of that event! (He was getting "annoying", according to her.)
167	* LighterAndSofter: ''By far'' the lightest, wackiest story for the Twelfth Doctor yet, even with its bittersweet denouement.
168	* LongLived: River mentions that she is two hundred years old, meaning, though she gave up her future regenerations, she retains the individual long life-span of a Time Lord.
169	* LoopholeAbuse: Played with. River expects the Doctor to have a way to prevent their inevitable separation. He doesn't, but he does give her the sonic screwdriver that will allow him to save her consciousness in the Library... and in the meantime, this last "night" will last ''twenty-four years''.
170	* LosingYourHead: When Hydroflax's robot wants to question someone, it removes their head and attaches it to its own body.
171	* MeaningfulEcho: One only the Doctor is aware of, because it's spoken by two different characters. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]", Ashildr told the Doctor that Clara's death on the trap street was both sad and beautiful, "But that's not something you would understand, is it?" When River explains to him that "HappilyEverAfter doesn't mean forever. It just means time. A little time," she follows it up with "But that's not the sort of thing you could ever understand, is it?" Both women know by this point that the Doctor doesn't like, and ''refuses to accept'', endings. But his experiences in "Hell Bent" taught him that he must accept them, and he ''does'' understand what River means now. This is why he's finally seeing through that final night together, which will also be sad and beautiful...but in a much sweeter way.
172	* MistakenForSpecialGuest: The plot kicks off when Nardole mistakes the Doctor for the surgeon River hired.
173	* MoodWhiplash: On multiple levels.
174	** The plot goes from slapstick comedy caper to bittersweet romantic ending within the space of five minutes or so.
175	** That BittersweetEnding notwithstanding, the episode is shockingly lighthearted and colourful coming directly on the heels of Series 9, a season with quite a bit of horror content, no {{Breather Episode}}s, and a climactic quarter that chronicled the Doctor's temporary transformation into a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds in the wake of a TraumaCongaLine.
176	** River's AnguishedDeclarationOfLove is followed up by a heartwarming {{Reveal}}, and then by some cheeky flirty SnarkToSnarkCombat. TearJerker to Heartwarming Moment to Funny Moment in the space of about three minutes.
177	* MonstrousCannibalism: It is apparently normal for the children of Flemming's species to eat their mother. On the other hand, this ''is'' a ship for villains...
178	* MoreHeroThanThou: The Doctor and River argue over which one of them should stay behind to save the ship. It's subverted when they both remember that everyone on the ship except for themselves is a monster who deserves to die, and escape together on the TARDIS.
179	* {{Motifs}}: River mind-wiping Ramone's memory of their getting married picks up the Series 9 motif of characters remembering and/or forgetting things -- often because someone else alters their memory.
180	* MundaneUtility: After the spaceship has crashed and the TARDIS has landed at the Singing Towers, the Doctor uses a series of quick time jumps to wait out the fire, give the diamond to a random aid worker so he'll build a restaurant, reserve a table at the restaurant four years in advance, and finally take River to dinner. Because of the time machine, this all happens in about two minutes.
181	* MustMakeAmends: The Doctor choosing to see through his final night with River Song after years upon years of avoiding it is clearly his way of making amends for not truly returning her love before, once he's heard her AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. This is in line with his recent CharacterDevelopment; his parting advice to Clara (as he underwent the mind wipe) in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]" included "Never be cruel and never be cowardly. And if you ever are, always make amends."
182	* MySkullRunnethOver: When the cyborg body connects to the payment orb to access various banks, it is overloaded by the respective security systems ''and'' the constantly fluctuating stock markets.
183	* MythologyGag:
184	** The ''Fourth'' Doctor was to face a villain named Scratch in an [[WhatCouldHaveBeen unproduced movie]] titled ''Doctor Who Meets Scratchman''.
185	** Doctor, or Damsel in Distress? Now [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJIDFsJE8GA why does this sound familiar]]...
186	** A sonic trowel was previously carried by the ''other'' AdventureArchaeologist companion, in the novel ''Professor Franchise/BerniceSummerfield and the Tree of Life''.
187	* NoEndorHolocaust: King Hydroflax's citizens are left hanging after the operation is aborted, with River professing of their loyalty to him, claiming that they hope and pray for his survival. We don't ever see how they'll react when they find out that he's been killed. However, given how cruel and bizarrely punishing Hydroflax is, maybe some of those people will actually be ''relieved'' to no longer be under his reign.
188	* NoodleIncident:
189	** This is apparently not the first time River has taken the TARDIS without the Doctor knowing and returned it before he realized it was missing.
190	** River gets Flemming to deadlock the door to the baggage hold with one rhetorical question:
191	--->"Do you remember that time I was transporting dragon eggs?"
192	** Jim the Fish gets [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut another]] mention.
193	** A LongList of people who married either River or the Doctor includes Creator/StephenFry!
194	* ObfuscatingStupidity: According to WordOfGod from Steven Moffat in April 2017, the explanation for Nardole's ditzy behaviour in this episode is that he's pretending to be so.
195	* OhCrap:
196	** River is quite confident that her deal will go smoothly, despite the fact that the item she's trading is lodged inside a king's head... until she finds out that she is doing business with people ''working for that king'' and unaware she intended to kill him.
197	** As noted above, she has another long moment of this when she finally twigs to who The Doctor really is, though it's more "absolute humiliated mortification" than "fear".
198	* OracularHead: King Hydroflax is a head atop his robot bodyguard, the former ending up stolen by River and the Doctor.
199	* {{Prequel}}: This special sets up the story of, and is set before "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary Silence in the Library]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]" -- at least, from River's perspective.
200	* PortalCut: The TARDIS has a safeguard in place to avert this by preventing the doors from engaging and the TARDIS dematerializing if it detects a lifeform as being inside the TARDIS and outside at the same time. This prevents River and the Doctor's immediate getaway until Hydroflax's body enters the TARDIS.
201	* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Alex Kingston is finally mentioned in the opener. She carries the episode after all.
202	* TheRealHeroes: After the crash, the Doctor steps out and meets a young man who appears to be a construction worker who has been digging through the wreckage looking for survivors. The Doctor breaks it to him that there won't be any, comforts him that none of them were worth looking for anyway, then rewards him for his efforts by gifting him the diamond MacGuffin so he can open a restaurant at the base of the famous singing towers of Darillium.
203	* RefugeInAudacity: When it is revealed that the buyer River has set up for the diamond (which is still in King Hydroflax's head) is in fact doing this in honour of King Hydroflax, and that they are surrounded by his devout followers, the Doctor steps in to reveal the head while loudly lamenting the "tragedy" of his decapitation, and that this can only be properly respected by ... converting the sale to an ''auction''. As the Doctor and River pretend that the bids are coming in fast, one of the followers even bids surreptitiously!
204	* ReplacementGoldfish: This is a tricky example. Although technically River Song predates Clara Oswald as a love interest of the Doctor, the timing of this story, coming off three seasons of the Doctor/Clara relationship and airing only three weeks after the events of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]", casts River in this role, emphasized by the fact the Doctor has at this point lost his emotional memories of Clara.
205	* RetCon:
206	** In the Series 6 DVD special feature, a mini-episode entitled "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32HVBSNightAndTheDoctor Last Night]]" a future River said that a future Eleven was taking her to the Singing Towers. River mentions this occasion [[ContinuityNod towards the end of the episode]], implying he found a way to wrangle himself out of it. However this episode further retcons the Series 7 episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor The Name of the Doctor]]" in which the Eleventh Doctor supposedly makes his final goodbye to River's "data ghost" and, more severely, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]" in which it is made explicit that the Doctor expects to die at the end of his current incarnation, yet if this is the case he went to his (assumed) death without having resolved River's timeline, which would have caused a universe-ending paradox of the ''exact same nature'' of the one narrowly averted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]", the episode immediately preceding "Husbands".
207	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]" it was heavily implied, if not outright stated, that River's sonic screwdriver was a future version of the Doctor's own sonic screwdriver. Here, it is definitely a completely separate sonic that the Doctor gave her, though it's possibly still made from ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour what's left of]]) the old 9/10 casing.
208	** Similarly, River was completely unprepared for a Doctor who didn't know her in "Forest of the Dead", and notes that the Doctor never told her why he was so sad that night on Darillium. Here, she goes into it knowing it's almost certainly the last time they'll have together.
209	* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When River threatens the next person that uses her name with [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment having their organs removed in alphabetical order]] "Any questions?", the Doctor asks "Which alphabet?"
210	* RightBehindMe: River gives an anguished speech about the Doctor's indifference to her, not realising that he is the man standing next to her. He teases her about it.
211	-->'''River:''' You are so doing those roots.\
212	'''The Doctor:''' What, the roots of the sunset?\
213	'''River:''' Don't you dare!\
214	'''The Doctor:''' I'll have to check with ''the stars themselves''.\
215	'''River:''' Shut up!
216	* RobotMaid: Well, Cyborg Waiter. Hydroflax's robot body survives the spaceship crash along with Nardole and Ramone's heads, the nasty part of the body being gone. They then begin working at the restaurant.
217	* SecondLove: Clara Oswald was the Twelfth Doctor's first love, carrying over from Eleven's burgeoning affection for her, but she died and even after rendering her OnlyMostlyDead he couldn't keep her without giving up everything that made him the Doctor. In this story, River Song becomes Twelve's second love. Yes, Eleven was the man who ''married'' River, and they had offscreen adventures together... but after all that, it turns out that River still never believed the Doctor truly ''loved'' her. As soon as Twelve first recognizes her, he's delighted to have crossed her path again, is subtly jealous of her other husbands, and at last returns her love in ways that Eleven could not, and both end up bittersweetly happy for it.
218	* SerialSpouse: Both the Doctor and River, to the point where the lists ''overlap'' at least once (Cleopatra).
219	* ShipSinking: While the Doctor and River reel off their respective lists of romantic partners, Romana (who until River came along was arguably the closest to being the Doctor's romantic partner) isn't mentioned. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFk7PwiA0Ns So that one time they got married isn't canon]].
220	* ShooOutTheClowns: The hammy villains are all destroyed or nullified when the climax is done and dusted, allowing for the denouement to focus on River and the Doctor's bittersweet night together. However, one clown stuck around; a loose end is tied up with quieter humour with the reveal that the body of Hydroflax was pulled from the wreckage, and with its original AI gone it's now jointly controlled by Ramone and Nardole, serving as a waiter in the restaurant at the Singing Towers.
221	* ShoutOut:
222	** To ''Series/RedDwarf'': The Doctor's antlers are not holographic, they're hologrammatic.
223	** To ''Franchise/StarTrek'': The cruise ship is traveling at "Warp Factor 12".
224	** Pointed out in ''New York Magazine'''s [[http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/doctor-who-recap-season-9-episode-13.html review]] is that King Hydroflax's line "Come to me, my body!" is a lift from TheEighties BMovie ''Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight''.
225	** To Creator/MaeWest -- when River catches the diamond in her cleavage, she brags about being good. The Doctor's response? "I'm not sure 'good' is the word." In other words, goodness had nothing to do with it.
226	* SickeninglySweethearts: Subverted. River and King Hydroflax's relationship looks to be an over-the-top version of this, and the Doctor (already feeling cuckolded) is unable to contain his disdain for River's scenery-chewing declarations of love and ''oh-so-noble'' efforts to save her dying husband by any means possible. But it's all an act on her part to get access to that head and the diamond within it, and for it to be convincing, she has to be at least as hammy as Hydroflax is by nature.
227	* SpecialEditionTitle: As with "[[Recap/DoctorWho2014CSLastChristmas Last Christmas]]", since it's a ChristmasEpisode the Twelfth Doctor title sequence is decorated accordingly with snow and Christmas ornaments flying through the time vortex.
228	* StableTimeLoop: Twelve finally takes River to the famous Towers of Darillium and gives her own Sonic Screwdriver, setting up her appearance in Series 4. Even better, he ensures that there is a restaurant at the towers.
229	* StealthPun: Doubles as a MeaningfulName. Hydroflax loses his head, and gains two more, like a decapitated hydra.
230	* StopOrIShootMyself: Played with. Hydroflax's robot holds a gun to its current head, one of River's companions, threatening to shoot if her other companion doesn't comply.
231	* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Prior to River asking how long a night on Darillium lasts, this looks to be another story in which the day is won for the forces of good, yet hope and/or happiness are snatched from the Twelfth Doctor in its denouement, in the tradition of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E7KillTheMoon Kill the Moon]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven Death in Heaven]]", and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]". Sure, this episode is largely lighthearted, but so were "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied The Girl Who Died]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven Face the Raven]]" before things took a turn for the tragic. But the final few lines of this episode reveal that in its way the last night River and the Doctor have together is really the new beginning of their relationship. As in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2014CSLastChristmas Last Christmas]]", which also teases a sadder ending before a final twist, he has been granted a second chance with someone he loves.
232	* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: River inadvertently gives the Doctor one by not realising he is her husband, inverting the early dynamic between them where he didn't know she was his wife. She also kisses other people and reveals herself to have multiple spouses -- much as the Doctor himself has done!
233	* ThemeMusicPowerUp: "A Good Man? (Twelve's Theme)" underscores the Doctor and River's attempts to stop the starliner from crashing and save each other at the same time.
234	* ThrowTheDogABone: The Twelfth Doctor suffered horrifically in the final stretch of Series 9 and ended up alone, so now he has a BreatherEpisode escapade with River Song. Yes, it has a BittersweetEnding... but twenty-four years together is a juicy bone.
235	* UnwillingRoboticisation: A humourous version of this happens when Nardole and Ramone have their heads removed and placed in Hydroflax's body. Years later they are still there, but have grown used to this.
236	* UrineTrouble: Discussed. When Nardole starts to panic, the Doctor tells him to try not to make any puddles. A moment later the Doctor tells him he should get a mop.
237	* VictoriasSecretCompartment: At one point the diamond MacGuffin is falling through the air and River catches it in her dress, right between her.. ahem... upper lady things.
238	* VitriolicBestBuds: The TARDIS has apparently taken to putting Hologramatic antlers on the Doctor's head to cheer him up on bad days... he, on the other hand, has taken to insulting her and calling her a machine. It doesn't turn her against him.
239	* WhamLine:
240	** First off:
241	--->'''River:''' Hang on a minute. I recognize that planet.\
242	'''The Doctor:''' Well, that's nice! Maybe they'll name the crater after us!\
243	'''River:''' That's ''Darillium''!
244	** Also, the Doctor's response to River asking him how long a night on Darillium is -- "Twenty-four years." -- is clearly this to her, and to anyone in the audience who didn't suspect that time on that planet might run a ''little'' differently than it does on Earth; it significantly shifts the tone of the BittersweetEnding, as in a sense their relationship is just ''beginning''.
245	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The ''real'' surgeon turns up in Mendorax Dellora just as the Doctor and Nardole head off. We never see him again, which becomes particularly odd when it's revealed that he was an accomplice to River's plot to murder the king.
246	* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: The view of Darillium that the Doctor and River witness is just ''awe-inspiring''.
247	* WretchedHive: The starship ''Harmony and Redemption'' is reserved exclusively for wealthy mass-murderers, and serves as a business destination for shady dealings. Even the staff members are required to have committed genocide. It also means that, when all the shit inevitably hits the fan, the Doctor and River have no obligations to save them.
248	* XanatosSpeedChess: River is pulling this throughout the episode, trying to murder her husband and sell a diamond, then when things go disastrously wrong and the Doctor gets involved (and she knows it's him), they're ''both'' planning ways out within minutes of disaster occuring... again.
249	* TheXOfY: '''The''' Husbands '''of''' River Song. The 126[[superscript:th]] episode of ''Doctor Who'' to bear this naming scheme overall, and the second involving River after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]", appropriately enough.
250	----
251	-->''And they all lived happily ever after...\
252	And they all lived happily\
253	happily''

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