River Song

River Song meets the Doctor in the wrong order and dies in her first episode. Watch it as it aired and you get the trick the character was built for: every time he learns something new about her, she has already lived it.

Broadcast order below. Her own timeline runs close to backwards, which is the point, and worth a second pass once you know where it ends.

1. Silence in the LibraryS4E8. She knows his name. He has never met her.
2. Forest of the DeadS4E9. Saved, and what that costs.
3. The Time of AngelsS5E4. Out of a prison ship, into a crash, with a pardon she has not earned yet.
4. Flesh and StoneS5E5. The first real hint of who she killed.
5. The Pandorica OpensS5E12. Every enemy he has, in one field, for him.
6. The Big BangS5E13. A wedding gets mentioned. Nobody explains it.
7. The Impossible AstronautS6E1. A lake, an astronaut, and a body that burns.
8. Day of the MoonS6E2. Tally marks on skin, and a girl regenerating in an alley.
9. A Good Man Goes to WarS6E7. Demons Run, and the answer to who she is.
10. Let’s Kill HitlerS6E8. The childhood friend turns out to be the weapon.
11. The Wedding of River SongS6E13. All of time at once because she refused to fire.
12. The Angels Take ManhattanS7E5. A gravestone with both her parents’ names on it.
13. The Name of the DoctorS7E13. Trenzalore, and the last conversation she gets.
14. The Husbands of River Song2015 Christmas special. The night that lasts twenty-four years, and the diary runs out.