Kahler-Tek

Season 7 episode 3, A Town Called Mercy, is quite possibly my favorite episode of Matt's.

The humor, drama and thrills in this episode make it one of the best.

The Doctor, Amy and Rory were a little off from Mexico, and landed in Mercy, Nevada. A place that looks like it came directly from an old western movie, except "the locals are hostile to strangers, and a border of stone and wood surrounds the town. As the Doctor soon finds out, a gunslingers behind this, and not just an ordinary one."


The Gunslinger is from a species called Kahler, but his name is Kahler-Tek. The Kahler were a technologically gifted race who suffered from a terrible war that wiped out 50% of the planet. A group of scientists, including Kahler-Jex, had the job of restoring peace. They experimented on volunteers and turned them into cyborg killers.

Kahler-Jex

 Kahler-Tek is half man, half machine and he seeks revenge on the scientists who turned him into a cyborg. Kahler-Jex is the last one of the scientists, and he just happens to be in Mercy.

Jex really does regret what he had to do to those poor men during the war. He stays in Mercy, Nevada as a way to atone for his sins.

Kahler-Tek is a disturbing looking man with a laser for an arm, a tattoo on his face, scars everywhere and he even has a Cybernetic eye with built in censors.

Kahler-Tek

Kahler-Tek forces everyone in Mercy to stay behind the barrier, anyone who crosses is killed, and demands that they hand over Kahler-Jex or he will kill them all anyway.

The episode takes a series of dramatic turns, Amy fires a weapon, the Doctor holds a gun to someone's head and there was even a sacrifice. I'm going to include one of my favorite scenes as well as the trailer, below.

Amy takes things into her own hands

Handbots

In season 6 episode 10, The Doctor, Amy and Rory encounter the Handbots.

They are medical robots designed to look after people suffering from the fatal Chen 7 plague that was located in the Two Streams facility on a planet called Apalapucia. In case you're trying to pronounce the name of the planet, watch below.

These robots did not have a huge range of motion and they were also quite lacking in intelligence. But they were made with hypodermic needles and darts to administer the medicine. They walk around with their hands up to sense bacteria in the area, as well as see.

Handbots

The Handbots are unable to tell that a human body would not be able to cope with their medicine, and this is what makes them villains. They are only trying to help, but really they could kill Amy and Rory. Amy gets trapped for 36 years with these Handbots chasing her, and surprisingly, she holds her own.  

Amy protecting herself from the Handbots

Amy even makes a Rory-bot, he is adorable. 

Rory-bot

The most awkward part of the episode is when the two Amy's meet each other, but you know, it's wobbly wobbly, timey, wimey.