There have been rumours of Amy being killed off as far back as Series 5 and now that it's officially confirmed that both Amy and Rory will be leaving the show for good in the upcoming Series 7 we have been led to believe that we're in for some heartache; with Steven Moffat himself describing their final story as a heartbreaking one and Karen Gillan wanting her departure to be important and to mean something.
Now before I go on I would like to say that yes, the trifecta of Smith, Gillan and Darvill is near perfect in my eyes but I am in no way in denial about Amy and Rory leaving and Moffat being ready to tear out our hearts in the process; this is merely speculation based on something that has been bugging me since rewatching the Series 6 episode Closing Time earlier this year.
You may remember that, from the Doctor's point of view at least, Closing Time is set after he has left Amy and Rory with a new life and we get a sweet moment when the Doctor briefly glimpses them seemingly living that new life as they are out doing some shopping in the Colchester branch of Sanderson & Grainger were the Doctor, for reasons not important here, is currently working.
During their cameo appearance in this episode we learn that Amy is the model for a perfume named "Petrichor" which, given the tagline "for the girl who's tired of waiting", we can also assume might be her own perfume (I'm no expert on the perfume industry but were she just a model I'm sure she wouldn't get to have a say in the marketing of the product let alone be allowed to write the tagline).
The problem with all this is that "Petrichor" is a reference to the Neil Gaiman penned episode, The Doctor's Wife, from earlier in the series but, thanks to some wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimeyness for everyone but the Doctor, Closing Time is set prior to his "death" at Lake Silencio on 22nd April 2011 meaning that for Amy and Rory they have yet to be trapped inside the dead TARDIS by the mysterious House and yet to hear the word "Petrichor" which is used as part of the key to gain access to the back-up control room.
Of course you could argue that they already know the word 'petrichor' but re-watching The Doctor's Wife I get the distinct impression that it is new to both of them and certainly neither Amy nor Rory indicate being familiar with it prior to Idris blurting out the word.
And in case there was any doubt that Closing Time definitely takes place before the Doctor's "death" at Lake Silencio a newspaper seen in the episode clearly establishes that we are in April 2011.
So unless this is just a massive oversight could this be Moffat somehow showing us that for some reason future Amy & Rory end up living slightly in their own past? And if so will the heartache be them leaving the Doctor and not, as we fear, losing each other?
Or is this some other plot waiting to be explored before time is once again rewritten and we lose one, or even both, of the TARDIS' first married couple? I can't help but think back to when we glimpsed a future Amy and Rory from the year 2020 in The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood and we were reminded by the Doctor that the future is not set in stone.
Whatever happens I suspect it will be brilliant and I fear it will turn out to be as heartbreaking as we're being led to believe but I'm also willing Steven Moffat on to surprise me... either way "In Moffat We Trust"! :)
Quick addendum to this - having just rewatched The Doctor's Wife to double check they don't already know the word "Petrichor" the penultimate scene were Rory wants a bedroom without the bunk beds this time made me remember that the episode was originally meant to be part of Series 5 (and the bit about getting rid of the bunk beds would be the perfect lead in to Amy being pregnant for Series 6)... so could all this just be Moffat and Gaiman not tweaking the episode accordingly after it was bumped to Series 6? Hopefully time will tell!
Addendum 2! The easiest in-show explanation is that when the Doctor drops Amy and Rory off at the end of "The God Complex" he dropped them off pre-April 2011; which would also explain why he gives them a new house as there would already be an Amy & Rory living in Leadworth! But why would the Doctor purposefully leave them in a time zone they already exist in?
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