Knowing of her future as an on-and-off companion, he left a TARDIS-shaped diary as a gift. The Doctor took River to the "best hospital in the universe" to recover. Melody realised that she was the person the Doctor kept calling for help, and reawakened him with a kiss, using all of her remaining regenerations to bring him back to life. Asking who River was, Amy had the Teselecta turned into Melody's new incarnation. Melody then agreed to give a message to River Song from the dying Doctor, and he whispered it in her ear. Convincing her to let him save her parents, the Doctor had Melody pilot the TARDIS to save Amy and Rory. When her parents were in danger of being killed by antibodies, Melody was surprised to see the Doctor ignore his pain for the sake of saving them. The Teselecta, after taking her parents on board, decided to punish River for her murder of the Doctor, but the Doctor stopped them. Melody sacrifices her regenerations and "becomes" River. Having already applied lipstick laced with Judas tree poison, she kissed the Doctor, poisoning him beyond his ability to regenerate, as she cheerily ran amok in Berlin, arming herself with guns from German soldiers and stealing clothes from patrons at the posh Hotel Adlon.
Shortly after regenerating, Melody began examining her new body and, per her programming, began using every obvious means of trying to lure the Eleventh Doctor into a false sense of security. 1.5.4 Meeting the Doctor's friends and family.1.5.2 On and off friendship with Jack Harkness.This data echo desired a true goodbye from the Doctor, and persisted for some time until the time came to say goodbye to her husband. The Tenth Doctor saved her consciousness digitally to the Library's computer system CAL. She was eventually pardoned, due to the Doctor deleting any evidence of his existence, and became a Professor of Archaeology.Īfter a final adventure with the Twelfth Doctor, which ended with them spending a twenty-four year long night at the Singing Towers of Darillium, she died saving the Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, Strackman Lux, and the 4,022 people saved in the computer system in the Library. This confinement was made more bearable by escaping frequently to go out on dates with the Doctor. Though actually unsuccessful, she was convicted of his murder and spent many years in Stormcage Containment Facility for it - to convince the universe and the Silence that her husband actually was dead. Hoping to avoid temporal paradoxes, the Eleventh Doctor gave her a diary to keep track of their meetings and to prevent her from revealing " spoilers" to him about his own future.Īgain forced by the Silence, she made a second attempt on the Eleventh Doctor's life, which led to their eventual marriage. She crossed the Doctor's path on several occasions, across many of their incarnations, and generally with the result that she was meeting them at progressively earlier points in their own time stream. With no connection to her family or the Silence, River became an archaeologist, ostensibly to track the Doctor through time.
The Doctor and her parents left her to make her own way in the universe. After a later regeneration, she killed the Eleventh Doctor, but then broke her mental conditioning to give her remaining regenerations to revive his corpse, after learning that River Song was who she would become. Melody was stolen from her parents as a newborn baby by Madame Kovarian, to become a weapon of the Silence in their crusade against the Doctor. River was one of the very few people who knew the Doctor's true name. She loved the Doctor dearly, and shared a long-lasting relationship with them.
She was then raised and conditioned by the Silence, who used her unique DNA to transform her into the first of several Proto-Time Lords, granting her great strength, a deep understanding of the complex principles of time and space, and the ability to regenerate. She was mostly human, with some Time Lord DNA, and was conceived by her parents, Amy Pond and Rory Williams, aboard the TARDIS as it travelled through the Time Vortex.