( TV: The Time of Angels)ĭuring her imprisonment, the Eleventh Doctor visited his wife and asked, for the first time, to break their rules and read her diary, because he was charged with war crimes he couldn't remember and he had to find out the truth. The Eleventh Doctor, who had yet to experience many events recounted in it, told her to stay away from it he called the diary "her past, my future" before going on to explain their timelines rarely intersect in the right order. ( TV: The Impossible Astronaut)Īfter the crash of the Byzantium, Amy asked River what her diary was. She seemed fond of Jim when the Doctor mentioned him. By this point, she'd visited Easter Island and met Jim the Fish. At this point in his time stream, the Doctor had a similar diary. In 2011, River and an 1103-year-old version of the Eleventh Doctor compared diaries. By this point, she'd already been to Demons Run in her past and revealed her identity to the Doctor and her parents. She checked her diary to be sure of where the Eleventh Doctor was in his timeline. On returning from a trip with the Doctor for her birthday, River met Rory at Stormcage he wondered if they'd met yet in her timeline, letting River know that he still didn't know she was his daughter. ( TV: The Time of Angels, The Husbands of River Song) ( GAME: The Eternity Clock)Īt some point or another, River also learned about the War Doctor and obtained a picture of him, ( TV: The Husbands of River Song) as well as pictures of every other incarnation of the Doctor up to the end of his first regeneration cycle. She noted an opinion of each incarnation. Hearing Susan call for her grandfather, River left, not ready to know if she'll be the mother of one of Susan's parents she had no clue if this Doctor was one she'd meet. However, she ended up getting caught by his first incarnation before he left Earth with Ian and Barbara. River spied on the Doctor's first nine known incarnations, learning what her husband looked like in his past to help her identify him for their future meetings. Later, the Doctor returned the diary to River, telling her that all the writing had returned, but he hadn't peeked foreknowledge is dangerous. ( TV: The Pandorica Opens)Īfter the Eleventh Doctor reset the universe at the cost of his own erasure from existence, River temporarily gave Amy Pond her diary as a wedding present to bring him back. In the 52nd century, in Stormcage, River was writing about one of her outings with the Doctor before taking a phone call from Winston Churchill and escaping to help her husband. The Doctor explained his rules for the diary: River was to use it to keep track of their meetings and adventures together. River brought her diary with her on a trip with the Eleventh Doctor shortly after she had been imprisoned in the Stormcage Containment Facility. While River Song was studying at the Luna University, she did research on the Doctor, and learned a story he was going to die at 5:02pm on 22 April 2011, at Lake Silencio she recorded this in her diary. Tucked inside the diary she found a business card for Professor Arthur Candy from the Department of Antiquities at Luna University and numbers for a comlink code.
Since pens were not readily available in the 52nd century, the nurses had to order her one from an antique shop so she could write in her journal. The day after her admission to the hospital, River described that the only things she was left with were a bag of clothes with too many short skirts and her diary. This was done to make sure she kept track of their meetings to keep their timelines from becoming corrupted. It was there that the Doctor gave her the diary. Upon saving the Eleventh Doctor's life (after killing him) by giving up her remaining regenerations, River ended up in the best hospital in the universe.