Artist Ryan Rigby revisits a quiet moment between Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor and Karen Gillan's Amy Pond from her heartbreaking Doctor Who final story, "The Angels Take Manhattan." The episode aired in 2012 and brought the first half of season 7 to a close, as Gillan and co-star Arthur Darvill made their final regular appearances and companions Amy and Rory. In the episode, The Doctor, Amy, Rory, and River Song (Alex Kingston) uncover a sinister plot involving the terrifying Weeping Angels in New York, taking them back to the 1930s.

Ahead of Doctor Who's 60th anniversary, and just over a decade since "The Angels Take Manhattan" first aired, Rigby revisited the emotional Doctor Who story in a recent piece of artwork that depicts one of the quieter, peaceful moments between the Eleventh Doctor and his first companion.

The artwork above centers on the Eleventh Doctor and Amy in the opening moments of the episode, where the pair and Rory spend a quiet afternoon in Central Park. Rigby's artwork captures a calm, pleasant, but bittersweet moment between the Doctor and companion in a beautiful depiction of the duo's final moments together.

How Doctor Who Season 7 Built Up To Amy And Rory's Heartbreaking Exit

During Doctor Who season 7's first half, the series began to set up the departure of Amy and Rory by gradually expanding on their lives at home. While the season began with the pair on the verge of divorce, the Doctor's return to their lives saw them rekindle their romance, and many of their subsequent final adventures involved more of their home life. Between Rory's father Brian (Mark Williams) being caught up in an adventure involving Silurians, intergalactic poachers, and Dinosaurs, and an unusual invasion of black boxes, the Pond's final adventures saw them gradually move away from adventures in space and time to live their own lives.

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Despite the series slowly seeing the Ponds move on, no one anticipated that what would finally drive them away from the Doctor would be so upsetting. Even though they just narrowly dodged the Weeping Angel's schemes by creating a paradox, Rory was sent back in time by an Angel, with Amy choosing to join him when it became clear the Doctor would be unable to recover him. Though Amy and Rory would live out their lives together and try their best to ease the Doctor's broken heart, the Time Lord was left so distraught that he retired from traveling until Doctor Who's 2012 holiday special "The Snowmen".

Amy and Rory's Doctor Who departure is one of the modern revival's most heartbreaking moments, as not only did the story see the duo leave the show, but in tragic circumstances that saw the Doctor fail to save two of his closest friends. As such, "The Angels Take Manhattan" continues to stand out as one of the show's most significant, emotional episodes. Despite this, Rigby's piece is a warm, stunning depiction of one of the Doctor and Amy's most heartwarming, wholesome final moments together.

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