Dr Who River Song's Future Sonic Screwdriver Toy

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Vastra had a sonic screwdriver that was a gift from the Doctor. She used it to shatter the glass of the Crystal Palace. It had a red tip, and was similar in design to that used by the Doctor's eleventh incarnation. ( COMIC: The Crystal Throne) The Twelfth Doctor kept a framed photograph of River on his desk in his study during the years he spent as a lecturer at St Luke's University, along with a picture of his granddaughter Susan Foreman. ( TV: The Pilot) River met Anne Travers, who offered her assistance. During this time Anne saw her vortex manipulator. ( PROSE: Pure History) The sonic screwdriver, also called a sonic probe or simply “the sonic”, was a highly versatile tool used by many people throughout the universe, the most prominent of them being The Doctor.

Doctor Who Electronic Sonic Screwdriver Collection – Third Doctor". Character Options . Retrieved 12 May 2016. [ permanent dead link]River arrived in 1938 New York City via her vortex manipulator ( TV: The Angels Take Manhattan) and set up the Angel Detective Agency together with her former student Luke Sullieman, investigating the Weeping Angels' invasion of New York. During this time she went by the alias "Melody Malone." The two were hired by Marty Stone, a musician, who claimed to have seen his own death. River went with him to Coney Island, where she found out the Angels had taken over one of the carnivals, turning it into a food resource; they had also the help of the director of a local freak show (actually an alien), Miss Quirke, which had been promised by the Angels to being taken home. River could not save Marty, but together with Luke and Dean Cray, one of the freaks, foiled the Angels' scheme. She then sent Luke home with Dean, while she remained to face the Angels. ( AUDIO: Carnival of Angels) In Let's Kill Hitler, River says she will gradually bring down the age of her body a little "just to freak people out", referring to the fact that a younger Alex Kingston has played later versions of River. The Doctor decided to take River to Darillium, knowing there would be their final meeting. Along the way they encountered his younger self who was currently taking River on her first night out from imprisonment. ( HOMEVID: Last Night) The Doctor ultimately changed his mind and came up with an excuse not to go to Darillium, as he had many times before. ( TV: The Husbands of River Song) From time to time, the sonic screwdriver needed to be recharged. (Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead, The Monsters Inside, Bizarre Zero) It was self-repairing and could send out a homing signal to any parts that had been separated. (A Christmas Carol)

The Doctor had regained consciousness first, emerged from the TARDIS on Darillium, and using the diamond, inspired a man called Alphonse to start a restaurant, so he could travel into the future and book a reservation for a balcony view of the Singing Towers. Dressing formally for River when she awakened, the Doctor gifted her with a sonic screwdriver of her own. River expressed concern about the stories saying that this would be their last date, but the Doctor had accepted that their time must come to an end. The Doctor told River that nights on Darillium lasted 24 years and the two enjoyed the view.River sent the Twelfth Doctor a time-crossed text message through K9 Mark IV while he was stranded on Gallifrey with Bill Potts by the temporal crisis preventing TARDIS usage except between Waypoints. ( GAME: Lost in Time) Matt Smith used the Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver to turn on the Christmas Lights in Cardiff in November 2010. Its appearance was cheered by the crowd. During the Doctor Who panel at San Diego Comic Con in 2018, Jodie Whittaker produced the new sonic screwdriver, prompting applause from the audience. During the Siege of Trenzalore, Tasha Lem noted how one of the Silence's attempts to keep the Doctor from reaching Trenzalore was to engineer a psychopath to kill him. The Doctor told Tasha he never would have made it to Trenzalore without River's help over the years, and realised that the Silence's efforts to stop him from reaching Trenzalore, led him there. ( TV: The Time of the Doctor)

Creating and controlling a sophisticated hologram of the Doctor through a WiFi system (" Before the Flood"). Erasing alien encoding inside people's brains by having them don the glasses for a few minutes ("Before the Flood"). In the 1979 serial City of Death, Count Scarlioni's henchmen use a "sonic knife" to cut the glass in front of the Mona Lisa. While in her afterlife, River wrote My Guide to the Doctors after meeting the Thirteenth Doctor, whom she was surprised to see was a woman. ( PROSE: A Short History of Everyone)The sonic screwdriver was introduced in 1968 in the story Fury from the Deep, and used twice more ( The Dominators and The War Games) during the Second Doctor's tenure. It became a popular tool for the Third Doctor and Fourth Doctor. It was written out of the series in 1982 due to the limitations it caused when writing for the show. It then featured briefly in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie, before making a full return in the 2005 continuation of the series.

While trapped on Apalapucia for thirty-six years, Amy Pond cobbled together a sonic device from various pieces of technology, but insisted upon calling it a sonic probe. She later conceded that it was a "sonic screwdriver". ( TV: The Girl Who Waited) Five years into her imprisonment, River escaped and encountered several Sontarans who shot at and chased her halfway across the galaxy after she asked them if they were on a hen night. She escaped into the TARDIS where the Doctor returned her to Stormcage via her vortex manipulator to prevent her from interacting with her past self and her future self. ( HOMEVID: Last Night)

River learned a hard lesson when she first met Clara Oswald. Surprised to meet the newest companion since her and her parents' deaths, she asked if the Doctor had talked about her. She was very hurt when Clara told her the Doctor had done so in a manner that left her ignorant of River being his wife, having only mentioned that he had known a Professor Song. The Doctor never came to say goodbye to her or rescued her beloved diary from the Library on the day it was safe from the Vashta Nerada. She became a guide and helped Clara when the Doctor went to the Field of Trenzalore, even going as far as revealing some secrets of how she came to be. She saved Clara, the Doctor, and everyone else from the Whispermen by saying the Doctor's real name, first muting her connection with Clara so this secret couldn't be heard by anyone except the TARDIS. ( TV: The Name of the Doctor) River found and boosted ( AUDIO: The Sonomancer) the artron energy of a piece of the Doomsday Chronometer and took it to Phillip Cook's shop in 1998 Calcot, staying at Kate Drury's pub and neglecting to pay. ( AUDIO: Absent Friends) Having been able to destroy one of the Discordia space ship. However, the Sub-captain Melak was able to retrieve the head of a robot duplicate of River Song with a Link to her real self through the vortex. He then hunt her across time and space. With the on their tail, River and her friends run for their lives. Unfortunately, she was the only one able to survive that chase using an emergency medical space station, one of the few she created. Not wanting to lose his prey, Melak let his guard down and allowed the robot head of River Song to be connected to the main computer of his ship, letting it unleash a virus that destroyed his whole fleet. Unfortunately, General Dantey, another Discordia having seen it decided to chase her. ( AUDIO: Kings of Infinite Space)