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4x09 Forest of the Dead (Part 2)

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First Aired: Jun. 07, 2008 on BBC One

Summary: Location: The Library
Date: 51st Century
Enemies: Vashta Nerada

While Donna finds herself in a normal life with a husband and two children, the Doctor and Professor Song's archaeological party attempt to stay ahead of the carnivorous Vashta Nerada while determining the fate of the…
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Main Characters in this Episode



Guest Stars

Dr Moon played by Colin Salmon
Proper Dave played by Harry Peacock
Strackman Lux played by Steve Pemberton
Anita played by Jessika Williams
Other Dave played by O.T. Fagbenle
The Girl played by Eve Newton
Dad played by Mark Dexter
Lee played by Jason Pitt

Episode Quotes

Proper Dave: Hey! Who turned out the lights?
River Song: Everyone knows that everyone dies. And nobody knows it like the doctor. But I do think that all the skies in all the worlds might just turn dark, if he ever accepts it.
River Song: If you die here, it will mean I never met you!
The Doctor: Time can be rewritten!
River Song: Not those times. Not one line. Don't you dare.

Mistakes/Goofs

  • Goof (plot holes): In Part One, The Silence of the Library, the Expedition Director says that it has taken three generations for them to break through the library's cryptography, yet at the end of Part Two, he notes that Cal is his grandfather's daughter (his aunt), meaning that it is impossible for it to have been three generations of work on the library's computer systems.

Trivia

  • According to Steven Moffat, the squareness gun is the sonic blaster used by Jack Harkness in season 1. After Jack leaves it in the TARDIS, River Song will take the gun in the Doctor's future.
  • "Forest of the Dead" was initially announced under the title "River's Run", before its name was changed relatively late in production.
  • The characters Joshua and Ella are respectively named after Steven Moffat's son and his son's friend.
  • The wedding dress Donna wears in this episode is the same dress she wore in "Doctor Who" (2005) {The Runaway Bride (#3.0)}.