A Town Called Mercy Review and Poster Art

Hello Whovians!

        In this episode, we see the Doctor, Amy, and Rory in the American West in a town called Mercy. The towns people are being tormented by an extra-terrestrial cyborg called Kahler-Tek. The Reason for the torment is that another doctor, Kahler-Jex, is seeking refuge in the town, hiding from the cyborg after his (Jex's) ship crash-landed on earth, just outside Mercy. With the technology and power from his crashed ship, Jex gives the town electricity. When the Doctor Introduces himself, Amy, and Rory, the town marshal asks if he is an alien, to which he replies he is. He is then carried by the towns people to the border of Mercy and thrown over the border. Tek now shows up about a hundred yards behind the Doctor and approaches him and the groups of towns people, and Amy and Rory. The gunslinger acknowledges the doctor as an alien doctor and goes away. Later, the doctor (along with his new stetson and the town pastor's  horse named Joshua who calls himself Susan and asks that they respect his life choices) go into the desert and find Jex's crashed ship and the power wire going to the town. When the doctor tries to enter the ship, he sets off the alarm which is detected by the Gunslinger (Tek). The Doctor gets into the ship and shuts off the alarm, only to find out that auto self destruct has been activated. he uses his trusty sonic to deactivate self destruct and gets into the computer and learns why the Gunslinger wants to kill Kahler-Jex. Kahler Jex created the cyborg known as gunslinger. Gunslinger was a monster, full of hatred because of how he was tortured by kahler-jex and his colleagues when they created the cyborgs, which were originally created for war. The Doctor and the Marshal, Isaac, confront Jex with this new found information, and carry him to the border of Mercy and throw him over the line for the Gunslinger to kill. The Doctor has no mercy for Jex. The gunslinger shows up to kill Jex, when Amy tells the Doctor 'Thats not how we roll', to which the Doctor replies that his mercy has gotten so many innocent people killed (the master, the daleks). Amy then says 'So, this is what happens when you travel alone for to long. The Doctor then has a change of heart and pulls Jex back across the line. The Gunslinger then shoots Isaac and kills him, leaving the town without a Marshal. In his last moments, Isaac gives the Doctor his badge and says he is the marshal now. The Doctor says tha the conflic has gone on far too long, to which the Gunslinger tells the Doctor that he is right and that he has until 'Noon Tomorrow' to bring him Kahler-Jex or he kills everyone on the town. The next day everyone in town (exceot Doctor, Amy, Rory, Jex, and an 18 year old is in church. Gunslinger comes to the town and meets the Doctor at noon at the center of town. When Gunslinger finds out Doctor isn't going to let him kill Jex, he becomes angered, at which point, the Doctor (along with Amy, Rory, Jex, and the 18 year old) put their plan into action. They all have Jex's tattoo on their faces as to confuse Gunslinger when the run past him. The real Jex runs into the desert and boards his ship and engages self destruct and kills himself out of guilt over what he did to Tek and all of the others he has wronged. A cloud of fire and smoke is seen rising above the town.
Gunslinger, seeing the cloud of smoke and fire says Jex died with honor. Doctor asks Gunslinger if he will go back to his home world now, to which he replies that he cant because he sees himself as a monster and says he will go out into the desert and wander until he dies and says he is not a man of peace. The doctor then says the least he can protect it and that the toen is still in need of a marshal. In the end we see the once feared Gunslinger as the town's new Marshall, watching over the town and protecting its citizens from harm from the hills above as a silent guardian. We grow closer still to the emotional departure of the Ponds in the mid series finale 'The Angels Take Manhattan'. Next Week's Episode: The Power of Three (we will see a return of Rory's dad!).