 While the Doctor alters part of the command module of Apollo 11 , Canton and Amy visit a nearby orphanage , hoping to find where the girl in the spacesuit was taken from . Amy discovers a nest of the Silence , and a photograph of her and a baby amongst pictures of the little girl from the space suit . The girl enters with the Silence , and Amy is abducted and taken to their time engine control room . Arriving too late , the Doctor and his allies find Amy 's recording device , through which Rory still can hear Amy 's voice confessing her love for one of the group . Canton is able to shoot and wound one of the creatures , and from it the Doctor discovers the creatures are the Silence , a group he was warned about by several of his foes in his recent adventures . Analysing the now @-@ empty space suit , River realises that the girl possesses incredible strength to have forced her way out of it , and that the suit 's advanced life @-@ support technology would have called the President as the highest authority figure on Earth when the girl got scared . The Doctor realises why the Silence have been controlling humanity — by guiding their technological advances , they have influenced humanity into the Space Race for purposes of building a spacesuit , which must somehow be crucial to their intentions . Meanwhile , Canton interrogates the captured Silent in the Area 51 prison , who mocks humanity for treating him when " ... you should kill us all on sight " . Canton records this using Amy 's mobile phone . 
