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The Girl Who Waited

The Doctor: Hands! Hello Hands! Robot with hands, Rory.
Hand Bot: Welcome to the Two Streams facility. Will you be visiting long?

Hand Bot: Will you be visiting long?
Rory: Good question. Bit sinister. What's the answer to not get us killed?

Voice of Interface (Imelda Staunton): Welcome to the Two Streams Facility.
Amy: Um, who are you and why can't I see you?
Voice: I am the interface between yourself and the systems of the Two Streams facility. I will be your guide, your teacher, your friend.

Check-in Girl (Josie Taylor): Welcome to Two Streams. What is your name please?
Amy: Amy. Amy Pond.
Check-in Girl: Welcome Amy Pond. I see you are travelling alone.

Check-in Girl (Josie Taylor): As a resident, you will now have access to all of the entertainment zones inside. For a taste of adventure, why not try the mountain zone, and explore Appalapachia's famous glass mirror mountains. Or try our roller coaster zone. Authentically modeled on the famous Warp Speed Death Ride at Disneyland Klom. All that you could wish for and more is through the departure bay. Provided for you, with kindness.

Interface: Unexpected Visitor, welcome. Please seek assistance.
Amy: Hello? Hey! Hi. Wait.
Hand Bot: You are carrying unregistered bacteria. Please let me help you.
Amy: No. I'm not from this world. Your medicine will kill me.
Hand Bot: Statement rejected. Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness.
Amy: No no, please! I hate needles!

Hand Bot: Secondary delivery system engaged. Unauthorized infection on check-in. Version 223.

Interface: Unauthorized resident detected.

Hand Bot: This is a kindness. Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness.

Hand Bot: No residents detected. No residents detected.

Amy: Interface?
Interface: Amy Pond.
Amy: Listen, I need somewhere safe to hide and wait for my friends. Where in Two Streams is safe?
Interface: Two Streams is a safe, nurturing environment.
Amy: You know what I mean. Where can I go so the Hand-Bots can't find me? {silence}. Um. Before, I was stood by a sort of vent and there was light and smoke and the Hand-Bots couldn't see me. Why not? {silence}. Okay, I will put it another way. What were those vent thingies?
Interface: The vents channel the exhaust fumes from the temporal engines that hold the multiple time streams in place.
Amy: And these temporal engines mess up the hand bots sensors so where's the temporal engines?
Interface: Temporal engines held within.

Hand Bot: Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness.
Future Amy: Interface?
Interface: I am here, Amy Pond.
Future Amy: Show me Earth. Show me home. Did I ever tell you about this boy I met there, who pretended to be in a band....

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The God Complex

Lucy Hayward (Sarah Quintrell): My name is Lucy Hayward. And I'm the last one left. It's funny. You don't know what's going to be in your room until you see it. And then you realize it could never have been anything else. The gaps between my worship are getting shorter. This is what happened to the others. It's all so clear now. I'm so happy. Praise him. Praise him.

The Doctor: Woah! That was quick.
Gibbis (David Walliams): We surrender.
Rory: No, it's okay.
Gibbis: We surrender!
The Doctor: A chair leg!
Rory: We're nice.
The Doctor: She threatened me with a chair leg!
Rita (Amara Karan): Who are you?
Howie Spraggs (Dimitri Leonidas): Oh god, we're back in reception.
Gibbis: We surrender.
The Doctor: I've never been threatened with a chair leg before. No. Hang on. I tell a lie.
Amy: Did you just say, "It's okay, we're nice"?
Rita: Okay, I need everyone to shut up now!
Howie: Rita, be careful, yeah?
Rita: Pupils are dilated. They're even more surprised than we are. Besides which, if it is a trick it'll tell us something.
The Doctor: Oh you're good. Oh, she's good. Amy, with regret, you're fired.
Amy: What?
The Doctor: I'm kidding.

The Doctor: I take it from the pathological compulsion to surrender you're from Tivoli.
Gibbis: Yes, the most invaded planet in the galaxy. Our anthem is called, "Glory to [insert name here]."

The Doctor: You with the face, Howie. You said you were surprised to be back in reception.
Howie: The walls move. Everything changes.
The Doctor: You. Clever one. What's he talking about?
Rita: The corridors twist and stretch. Rooms vanish and pop up somewhere else. It's like the hotel's alive.
The Doctor turning off the music: Quite enough of that.
Howie: Yeah, and it's huge. It's like no way out.
Rory: Have you tried the front door.
Rita: No. In two days it never occurred to us to try the front door. Thank god you're here.

The Doctor: They're not doors. They're walls. Walls that look like doors. Door-walls if you like. Or dwalls. Walls even. Though you probably got it when you said they're not doors. I mean even the windows are— Right. Big day for a fan of walls.
Rita: It's not just that. The rooms have things in them.
The Doctor: Things? Hello! What kind of things? Interesting things? I love things. Ask anyone.
Rita: Bad dreams.
The Doctor: Well that killed the mood.

The Doctor: How did you get here?
Rita: I don't know. I'd just started my shift. I must have passed out because suddenly I was here.
Howie: I was blogging, next thing this.
Gibbis: I was at work. I'm in town planning. We're lining all the highways with trees so invading forces can march in the shade.
Rory: Oh.
Gibbis: It's nice, isn't it.
Rory: Yeah.

The Doctor: Hello. I'm the Doctor.
Joe Buchanan (Daniel Pirrie): We're going to die here.
The Doctor: Well they certainly didn't mention that in the brochure. Is Joe there? Can I have a quick word.
Joe: No, it's still me, Doctor, but I've seen the light. I lived a blasphemous life but he has forgiven my inconstancy and soon he shall feast.
The Doctor: Well you've been here for two days. What's "he" waiting for?
Joe: We weren't ready. We were still raw.
The Doctor: But now you're what? Cooked?
Joe: If you like. Soon you will be too. Be patient. First: find your room.
The Doctor: My room.
Joe: There's a room here for everyone, Doctor. Even you.

The Doctor: You said you'd seen the light now.
Joe: Nothing else matters anymore. Only him. And these things. I used to hate them. They make me laugh now. {he starts laughing} Gottle o'geer! Gottle o'geer!

Joe: You should go. He'll be here soon.
The Doctor: I think you should come with me.

The Doctor: Where are you from? I don't understand. Aside from all the other things I don't understand.
Gibbis: What does it matter? Sooner or later someone will come along and rescue us. Or enslave us.

The Doctor: Something to add, Joe?
Joe: "Here comes a candle to light you to bed/Here comes a chopper to chop off your head." Chop chop chop chop.
Howie: Can we do something about him?!

Gibbis: Personally I think you have the right idea. At times like this I think of my old school motto. "Resistance is exhausting."

Howie: I've worked out where we are.
Rory: Hm?
Howie: Norway.
Rory: Norway?
Howie: See, the US government has entire cities hidden in the Norwegian mountains. You see, earth is on a collision course with another planet. And this is where they're going to send all the rich people when it kicks off.
Rory: Amazing.
Howie: It's all there on the internet.
Rory: No, it's amazing you've come up with a theory even more insane than what's actually happening.

Rita's Father (Rashid Karapiet): A B in mathematics? You are lazy! You understand me, girl? Lazy.
Rita: I'm sorry. Daddy, I'm so sorry.

Amy: Don't blink.
Howie: What?

Amy: If it's any consolation I've met the Weeping Angels. So I know how... In fact, I thought that room was for me.
Gibbis: Joe was right. Whatever it is in here, it actually wants to kill us. Not oppress us or enslave us. Kill us!

Gibbis: Of course, if the Weeping Angels were meant for me, then your room is still out there. Somewhere.

Rita: This is Jahannam.
The Doctor: You're a Muslim!
Rita: Don't be frightened.
The Doctor: You think this is hell?
Rita: The whole 80s hotel thing took me by surprise though.
The Doctor: All these fears and phobias, wandering about. Most of them completely unconnected to us. So why are they still here?
Rita: Maybe the cleaners have gone on strike.
The Doctor: Ha. I like you. You're a right clever clock. But this isn't Hell, Rita.
Rita: You don't understand. I say that without fear. Jahannam will play its tricks and there'll be time when I'll want to run and scream, but I've tried to live a good life and that knowledge keeps me sane, despite the monsters and the bonkers rooms.

Rita: Gibbis is an alien, isn't he?
The Doctor: Yep.
Rita: Okay. I'm going to file that under "Freak out about it later."

The Doctor: Howie, you're next. We're all dead jealous. So tell us. How do we get a piece of the action? Why isn't he possessing all of us?
Howie: You guys have got all these distractions. All these obstacles. It'd be so much easier if you just let it go, you know? Give up.
Amy: You want it to find you, even though you know what it's gonna do?
Howie: Are you kidding? He's going to kill us all. How cool is that?

Rita: Why is it up to you to save us? That's quite a God Complex you have there.
The Doctor: I brought them here. They say it was their choice, but offer a child a suitcase full of sweets and they'll take it. Offer someone all of time and space and they'll take that too. Which is why you shouldn't. Which is why grown-ups were invented.
Rita: "All of time and space,", eh?
The Doctor: Oh yeah. And when we get out of this I'll show you too.
Rita: I don't know what you're talking about, but whatever it was I have a feeling you just did it again.

The Doctor: You started to praise it, didn't you? {she nods}. Rita, come back please. We'll find away to stop it, I swear.
Rita: No, I need to get as far away from you all as possible.
The Doctor: No no no. The creature only wants whoever's praising it.
Rita: And then you'll put yourself in its way.
The Doctor: I'm coming to get you. Block out the fear and stay focused on your belief.
Rita: The hotel will keep us apart. I'll likely be fifty miles away by now.
The Doctor: I want you to do one last favor, Doctor. I can feel the Rapture approaching like a wave. I don't want you to witness this. I want you to remember me the way I was.

Rita: You stay where you are. Please, let me be robbed of my faith in private.
The Doctor: Look, Rita! Look!, go into the room, lock the door.
Rita: I'm not frightened, I'm blessed, Doctor. I'm at peace. I'm gonna hang up.
The Doctor: No no no!
Rita: Goodbye Doctor. Thank you for trying.
The Doctor: Rita please! Please!

The Doctor: Okay. It preys on the people's fear it possesses. But Rita wasn't afraid. She was brave and kind. Maybe it's something to do with the people. Some connection between the four of you that will tell me how to fight it.
Gibbis: Yes, you keep on saying that but you never do. And while we wait people keep dying and we'll be next!
Amy: Look, he'll work it out. He always does. Just let him riff and move anything expensive out of his way.

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Closing Time

Sophie (Daisy Haggard): I've labeled the food and sort of numbered it.
Craig Owens (James Corden): Sophie, you don't need to number food.
Sophie: It's just a suggestion.

Craig: I can cope on my own! Now please go and have a rest. You need it. I love you.
Sophie: I love you too. And thank you for this. And I do know you can cope on your own. And I may have drawn some arrows in the fridge.
Craig: Okay, really have to go now.

Craig: Mum, it's not just you, I'm phoning everybody. I'm texting the world. "Craig Owens can do it on his own"! No one is coming to help me. {there's a knock at the door}. Mum, I'm going to have to call you back. {to himself} I'm coping, I'm coping on my own. I'm coping on my own. I'm coping on my own—
The Doctor: Hello Craig. I'm back!
Craig: She didn't— How could she phone you?
The Doctor: How did who phone me? Nobody phoned me, I'm just here.

Craig: Doctor, what are you doing here?
The Doctor: Social call. Thought it about time I tried one out. How are you?
Craig: I'm fine.
The Doctor: This is the bit where I say "I'm fine too", isn't it? "I'm fine too." Good. Love to Sophie. 'Bye! {the lights flicker} Something's wrong.

The Doctor: On your own you said, but you're not. You're not on your own. Increased sulfur emissions... and look at the state of this place. What are you not telling me?
Craig: Doctor, please—
The Doctor: Shush!
Craig: No you shush!
The Doctor: Shush!
Craig: Shush!
The Doctor: No you shush!

The Doctor: Whoever you are, get off this planet! {the baby starts crying}
Craig: You've woken him.

The Doctor: So when you say, "on your own"...
Craig: I meant on my own with the baby, yes. Because no one thinks I can cope on my own with the baby. Which is so unfair because... I can't cope on my own with him. I can't! He just cries all the time. I mean, do they have off switches?
The Doctor: Human beings, no. Believe me, I've checked.

Craig: You read all the books and they tell you you'll know what to do if you follow your instincts. I have no instinct.

The Doctor: So what did you call him? Will I blush?
Craig: No, we didn't call him "The Doctor."
The Doctor: No, I didn't think you would.
Craig: He's called Alfie.

Craig: What are you doing here anyway?
The Doctor: Yes, he likes that, Alfie. Though personally he prefers to be called Stormaggedon, Dark Lord of All.
Craig: Sorry, what?
The Doctor: That's what he calls himself.
Craig: How d'you know that?
The Doctor: I speak baby.
Craig: Of course you do.

The Doctor: No! He's your dad, you can't just call him "Not Mum."
Craig: Not mum?
The Doctor: That's you. "Also Not Mum". That's me. And everybody else is... "peasants". That's a bit unfortunate.

Craig: What are you here for? What's happening?
The Doctor: Just popped in to say hello.
Craig: You don't do that. I checked the upstairs when we moved in. It's real. And next door, both sides. They're humans. Is it the fridge? Are there aliens in my fridge?
The Doctor: I just want to see you, Craig. Cross my hearts. Been knocking around on my own for a bit. Bit of a farewell tour.

Craig: You've noticed something. You've got your noticing face on. I have nightmares about that face.
The Doctor: Nope! Given all that up. Done noticing things. {the light flickers} Didn't even notice that, for example.

Craig: Can you do the shushing thing?
The Doctor: No, it only works once and only on life forms with underdeveloped brains.
Craig: How— You said "farewell tour". What do you mean farewell—?
The Doctor: Shush!

Craig: You're here for a reason, aren't you? You've noticed something and you're investigating. And because it's you it's going to be dangerous and alien.
The Doctor: Might not be.

The Doctor: Here's the lift!
Craig: It says it's out of order.
The Doctor: Not anymore. See? "Here to help."
Craig: It says "danger."
The Doctor: Oh rubbish! Lifts aren't dangerous.
Craig: Do I look like I'm stupid? {the baby gurgles}.
The Doctor: Quiet, Stormy!

The Doctor: Just between you, me and Stormy—don't want to frighten any punters. Someone's been using the teleport below right here in the shop. Missing people last seen here in this area. Before you ask: CCTV's been wiped.
Craig: But teleport? A big— A teleport? Like a "beam-me-up" teleport like you see in Star Trek?
The Doctor: Exactly! Someone's been using a beam-me-up Star Trek teleport. Could be disguised as anything.

Craig: Was that the lights again?
The Doctor: Yes, that's it. That's all. It's always the lights.
Craig: Why did you say it like that?
The Doctor: Like what? {trying to lower his voice} Like what what what?
Craig: Like that. In that high-pitched voice?

Craig: Doctor, are you going to kiss me?
The Doctor: Yes, Craig. Yes I am. would you like that? Bit out of practice but I've had some wonderful feedback.

Craig: What is happening?!
The Doctor: Well first of all, I don't really love you. Except as a friend.
Craig: What is that?!
The Doctor: Quick reverse.
Craig: Okay, what the hell just happened?!
The Doctor: They must have linked the teleport relay to the lift. But I've fused it. They can't use that again. They're stuck up there in their spaceship.
Craig: What were those things?
The Doctor: Cybermen.
Craig: A ship. Space ship. We were in space.

The Doctor: Craig, take Alfie and go.
Craig: No.
The Doctor: No?
Craig: No. I remember from last time. People got killed. People that didn't know you. I know where it's safest for me and Alfie and that's right next to you.
The Doctor: Is that so?
Craig: Yeah, you always win. You always survive.
The Doctor: Those were the days.

Craig: I can help you. I'm staying.

Craig: Where am I investigating?
The Doctor: Look around. Ask questions. People like it when you're with a baby. Babies are sweet. People talk to you. That's why I usually take a human with me.
Craig: So I'm your baby.
The Doctor: You're my baby!

Val (Lynda Baron): Hope you don't mind my saying, Doctor, but I think you look ever so sweet. You and your partner and your baby.
The Doctor: Partner. Yes. I like it. Is it better than companion?
Val: Companion. Sounds old fashioned. There's no need to be coy these days.

The Doctor: Silver rat. Glowing red eyes.
Val: Yes. Then it zizzed off! I wanted to get one for my nephew but stockroom say there's no such item.
The Doctor: Oh I bet they do.

Craig: I bet you excrete some sort of gas that makes people love you.
The Doctor: Would that I could, Craig.

The Doctor: Well you love me. I've never excreted any weird alien gasses into you.
Craig: I don't love you. Don't start that again.
The Doctor to Alfie: Yeah, I know. Of course he does. Of course you do! We're partners.
Craig: Yeah, but I did exactly what you would have done and I nearly got arrested.
The Doctor: Stormy thinks you should believe in yourself more.
Craig: Great, so now my baby's reviewing me.

The Doctor: A cyberman took Shona.
Craig: A cyber man? I thought he was a little silver rat.
The Doctor: He's not a rat. It's a cybermat.
Craig: All right. Have a go at me just 'cause I don't know their names.

Craig: Metal rat! Real mouth! Metal rat! Real mouth!

Craig: We've gotta go. We've gotta get back to base.
The Doctor: We've got a base? When did we get a base?

The Doctor: No. I am a stupid selfish man. Always have been. I should have made you go. I should never have come here.
Craig: What would have happened if you hadn't come? Who else knows about cybermen and teleports.
The Doctor: I put people in danger.
Craig: Stop beating yourself up! If it weren't for you, this whole planet would be in absolute ruin.

Craig: I'm sorry, Alfie. I can't leave you here on your own. There's something up with the Doctor and we are in. I wouldn't have you or mummy if it wasn't for him. He needs someone. He always needs someone. He just can't admit it.

Cyberman: He must be the new leader.
Cyberman: No. He is not like us. Brain and binary vascular system incompatible. They will be discarded. Other body parts may be of use.

Cyberman: You are compatible. You are intelligent.
Craig: I'm not intelligent! You don't want me!
Cyberman: Do not fear. We will take your fear from you. You will be like us. You will be more than us.

Cyberman: Emotions eradicated. Conversion complete. {beeping} Alert! Emotional subsystems rebooting. This is impossible.
The Doctor: He can hear him. He can hear Alfie. Oh please, just give me this. Craig, you wanted a chance to prove you're a dad. You are never gonna get a better one than this.

Cyberman: What is happening?
The Doctor: What's happening, you metal moron, a baby is crying. And you better watch out! Because guess what? Ha ha! Daddy's coming home!

The Doctor: That was another review. Ten out of ten!
Craig: The Cybermen. They blew up. I blew 'em up with love.
The Doctor: No. That's impossible. And also grossly sentimental and over-simplistic. You destroyed them because of the deeply-ingrained hereditary human trait to protect one's own genes. Which in turn triggered a... a... Um. Yeah. Love. You blew them up with love.

The Doctor: The building should be totally safe, structurally. And of course the bonded desillium contained the explosion.
Kelly (Holly Dempsey): Right. Why are you telling me all this?
The Doctor: I don't know. Shush.

Val: Are you two married then?
Craig: No. We talked about it, but it's just a piece of paper isn't it.
The Doctor: Thank you for your help, Val. Good noticing. Keep 'em peeled.
Val: I will. I'm glad you two made up for baby's sake.
Craig: How'd you mean?
Val: It's nice for baby to have two daddies who love each other.
Craig: Wait, hang on a sec. Two daddies. You think I'm...
Val: His companion.
Craig: Doctor...
Val: Oh. Now where's he rushed off to?
Craig: He's gone.

The Doctor: See. I do come back.
Craig: How did you... ?
The Doctor: Time machine. But even with time travel, getting glazers on a Sunday... tricky.
Craig: You went back in time. That means you used up your hours. what about Exidor?
The Doctor: What about you being in trouble with Sophie when she comes back? I couldn't let that happen.
Craig: You used up your time for me?
The Doctor: Of course I did. You're me mate.

The Doctor: Alfie. He prefers the name Alfie now. And he's very proud of his dad.
Craig: He calls me dad?
The Doctor: Yeah, of course he does. Now.

The Doctor: Well. Now it's time. I have to go.
Craig: Doctor, I know that something's wrong. I can help you.
The Doctor: Nobody can help me. I hope Sophie won't mind. I need these {he grabs the too-familiar blue envelopes}.
Craig: Where are you going to go?
The Doctor: America.
Craig: Sophie will be home any second. Are you sure?
The Doctor: I can't miss this appointment, Craig. Goodbye, mate.
Craig: Wait there. One second. {he comes back with a Stetson}

Sophie: Hello hello, I forgot my key!
Craig: Oh, I missed you so much.

Sophie: Has anything happened? You look different.
Craig: Nothing happened, nothing weird.
Sophie: Look at you two, thick as thieves. {to Alfie} Who's daddy's little boy then?
Alfie: Doctor.
Sophie: What? Craig?

Girl: It was funny. He seemed so happy but so sad at the same time.
Boy: I was just a kid. I thought maybe he was a cowboy on his way to a gun fight.
Second Girl: I really liked his hat.

Madame Kovarian (Frances Barber): "Tick tock goes the clock. And what now shall we play? Tick tock goes the clock. Now summer's gone away."
River: Hello?
Madame Kovarian: Such a lovely old song. But is it about him?
River: You know about the Doctor?
Madame Kovarian: So very well. Oh don't try and remember me. We've been far too thorough with your dear little head.
River seeing the Silence: What are they? What are those things?
Madame Kovarian: Your owners.
River: My what?

Madame Kovarian: So they made you a doctor today, did they? Doctor River Song. How clever you are. {looking at the date} You understand what this is, don't you?
River: According to some accounts, it's the day the Doctor dies.
Madame Kovarian: By Silencio Lake. On the Plain of Sighs. An impossible astronaut will rise from the deep. And strike the Time Lord dead.
River: It's a story.
Madame Kovarian: And this is where it begins.

Madame Kovarian: You never really escaped us, Melody Pond. We were always coming for you.
River: How do you know who I am?
Madame Kovarian: I made you what you are. The woman who kills the Doctor.

Madame Kovarian: "Tick tock goes the clock, and all the years they fly. Tick tock and all too soon, your love will surely die."

Tick tock goes the clock, He cradled her and he rocked her. Tick tock goes the clock, Even for the Doctor.

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The Wedding of River Song

London 5:02pm 22nd April, 2011

And it's another beautiful day in London. There are reports of sun spot activity and solar flares causing interference across all radio signals, so apologies for that.

Londinium Cotide: War of the Roses Enters Second Year

Bill Turnbull: So do you think you can top last year's Christmas special?
Sian Williams: Yes, and can you tell us anything about it?
Charles Dickens (Simon Callow): All I can say now is it involves ghosts in the past and the present and the future all at the same time.
Sian Williams: Oh, we love a ghost story!

Meredith Viera: Crowds lined the mall today as the Holy Roman Emperor Winston Churchill returned to the Buckingham Senate on his personal mammoth.

Doctor Malokeh (Richard Hope): Not too many late nights in Gaul I hope.
Emperor Winston Churchill (Ian McNeice): Just the one. I had an argument with Cleopatra. Dreadful woman. Though excellent dancer.
Dr. Malokeh: I can tell from your blood pressure.
Emperor Churchill: What time do you have, Doctor?
Dr. Malokeh: Two minutes past five, Caesar.
Emperor Churchill: It's always two minutes past five. Day or night, it's always two minutes past five in the afternoon. Why is that?
Dr. Malokeh: Because that is the time, Caesar.
Emperor Churchill: And the date is always the twenty-second of April. Does it not bother you?
Dr. Malokeh: The date and the time have always been the same, Caesar. Why should it start bothering me now?
Emperor Churchill: I want to see the soothsayer. Where is he?
Dr. Malokeh: In the tower. Where you threw him the last time.
Emperor Churchill: Get him!

Emperor Churchill: "Tick tock goes the clock," as the old song says. But they don't, do they? The clocks never tick. "Something has happened to time." That's what you say. What you never stop saying. "All of history is happening at once." But what does that mean? What happened? Explain to me in terms that I can understand. What happened to time?
The Doctor: A woman.

Earlier...

The Doctor: The crowd are getting restless. They know the queen is your only legal move. Except you've already moved it twelve times, which means there are now four million volts running through it. {the crowd grows impatient} That's why they call it live chess. Even with the gauntlet, you'll never make it to bishop four alive.
Gantok (Rondo Haxton): I'm a dead man unless you concede the game.
The Doctor: But I'm winning.
Gantok: Name your price.
The Doctor: Information.
Gantok: I work for the Silence. They would kill me.
The Doctor: They're going to kill me too, very soon. I was just going to lie down and take it. But you know what? Before I go, I'd like to know why I have to die.
Gantok: Dorium Maldovar. He's the only one that can help you.
The Doctor: Dorium's dead. The monks beheaded him at Demon's Run.
Gantok: I know. Concede the game, Doctor, and I'll take you to him.

Gantok: Seventh transept. Where the Headless Monks keep the leftovers. Watch your step, there are traps everywhere.
The Doctor: I hate rats.
Gantok: There are no rats in the transept.
The Doctor: Good.
Gantok: The skulls eat them.

Gantok: The Headless Monks behead you alive, remember?
The Doctor: Why are some of them in boxes?
Gantok: Because some people are rich. And some people are left to rot. Dorium Maldovar was always very rich.

Dorium Maldovar (Simon Fisher-Becker): Hello? Is someone there? Ah! Doctor! Thank god it's you. The monks, they turned on me.
The Doctor: Well. I'm afraid they rather did. A bit.
Maldovar: Give it to me straight, Doctor. How bad are my injuries?
The Doctor: Well... {Dorium starts laughing}
Maldovar: Oh! Your face!
The Doctor: Oh you...

Churchill: This is absurd. Other worlds, carnivorous skulls. Talking heads. I don't know why I'm listening to you.
The Doctor: Because in another reality you and I are friends. And you sense that. Just as you sense there is something wrong with time.
Churchill: You mentioned a woman.
The Doctor: Yes. I'm getting to her.
Churchill: What's she like? Attractive, I assume.
The Doctor: Hell. In high heels.
Churchill: Tell me more.

Maldovar: Oh it's not so bad, really, as long as they get your box the right way up. I got a media chip fitted in my head years ago and the WiFi down here is excellent. So I keep myself entertained.
The Doctor: I need to know about the Silence.
Maldovar: Oh. They're a religious order of great power and discretion. The sentinels of history, as they like to call themselves.
The Doctor: And they want me dead?
Maldovar: No, not really. They just don't want you to remain alive.
The Doctor: That's okay then. I was a bit worried for a minute there.
Maldovar: You're a man with a long and dangerous past. But your future is infinitely more terrifying. The Silence believe it must be averted
The Doctor: You know, you could have told me this last time we met.
Maldovar: It was a busy day and I got beheaded!
The Doctor: What's so dangerous about my future?
Maldovar: On the Fields of Trensilore, on the Fall of the Eleventh, when no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer, a question will be asked. A question that must never ever be answered.
The Doctor: "Silence will fall when the question is asked."
Maldovar: "Silence must fall" would be a better translation. The Silence are determined that the questions will never be answered, that the Doctor will never reach Trensilore.
The Doctor: I don't understand, what's it got to do with me?
Maldovar: The first question—the oldest question in the universe hidden in plain sight. would you like to know what it is?
The Doctor: Yes.
Maldovar: Are you sure? {the skulls start turning} Very very sure?
The Doctor: Of course.
Maldovar: Then I shall tell you. But on your own head be it.

Maldovar: They haven't got WiFi here. I'm bored already. And my nose is hurting. We all have to die, Doctor. But you more than most, you do see that, don't you? You know what the question is now. You do see that you have to die.

Churchill: But what was the question? Why did it mean your death?
The Doctor: Suppose there was a man who knew a secret. A terrible, dangerous secret that must never be told. How would you erase that secret from the world—destroy it forever—before it can be spoken?
Churchill: If I had to, I'd destroy the man.
The Doctor: "And Silence would fall." All those times I heard those words, I never realized it was my silence. My death. The Doctor will fall.

The Doctor: Why are we here?
Churchill: This—this is the Senate room.
The Doctor: Why did we leave you office?
Churchill: Well. We wanted a stroll, didn't we.
The Doctor checking his pulse: I think I've been running. Why do you have your revolver?
Churchill: Well. You're dangerous company, soothsayer.
The Doctor noticing a mark on his arm: Yes. I think I am.
Churchill: Resume your story.

Maldovar: Doctor, please. Open my hatch. I've got an awful headache. Which to be honest means more than it used to. It's like some terrible weight pressing down on my— {realizes he's upside down} Oh. I see.
The Doctor: Why Lake Silencio? Why Utah?
Maldovar: It's a still point in time. Makes it easier to create a fixed point. And your death is a fixed point, Doctor. You can't run away from this.
The Doctor: I've been running all my life. Why should I stop?
Maldovar: Because now you know what's at stake, why your life must end.
The Doctor: Not today.
Maldovar: What's the point in delaying? How long have you delayed already?
The Doctor: Been knocking about, bit if a farewell tour. Things to do, people to see. There's always more. I can invent a new color, save the dodo, join the Beatles. {on the phone} Hello, it's me! Get him, tell him we're going out and it's all on me except for the money and the driving! {to Dorium} I have got a time machine, Dorium. It's all still going on. For me it never stops. Liz the First is still waiting in a glade to elope with me. I could help Rose Tyler with her homework. I could go on all Jack's stag parties in one night.
Maldovar: Time catches up with us all, Doctor!
The Doctor: Well it has never laid a glove on me!

The Doctor: Hello.
Nurse (Katharine Burford): Doctor, I'm so sorry. We didn't know how to contact you. I'm afraid Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart passed away a few months ago. Doctor?
The Doctor: Ah... Yes, yes.
Nurse: It was very peaceful. Talked a lot about you if that's any comfort. Always made us pour an extra brandy in case you came 'round one of these days.

Maldovar: Doctor, what's wrong?
The Doctor: Nothing, I just... {he takes the TARDIS blue envelopes from his pocket} It's time. It's time.

Carter: Surely you could deliver the messages yourself.
The Doctor: It would involve crossing my own time stream. Best not.
Carter: According to our files, this is the end for you. Your final journey. We'll deliver your messages. You can depend on us.
The Doctor: Thank you.

Carter: Doctor. Whatever you think of the Teselecta, we are champions of law and order, just as you've always been. Is there nothing else we can do?

Churchill: Why would you do this? Of all the things you've told me, this I find hardest to believe. Why? To invite your friends to see your death?
The Doctor: I had to die. I didn't have to die alone.

Churchill: Well? What happened?
The Doctor: Nothing.
Churchill: Nothing?
The Doctor: Nothing happened. And then it kept happening. Or if you'd prefer, everything happened at once and it won't ever stop. Time is dying. It's going to be five-oh-two in the afternoon for all eternity. The needle's stuck on the record.
Churchill: A record? Good lord, man, have you never heard of downloads?
The Doctor: Said Winston Churchill.

Churchill: Gun smoke. That's gun smoke. {looking at his revolver} Oh. I appear to have fired this.
The Doctor: We seem to be defending ourselves.
Churchill: I don't understand.
The Doctor: The creatures that lead the Silence. Remarkable things, and memory-proof.
Churchill: But what does that mean?
The Doctor: Well you can't remember them. The moment you look away you forget they were ever there. Don't panic! In small numbers they're not too difficult.

The government has again apologized for extensive radio interference caused by solar flare and sun spot activity.

Dr. Kent (Emma Campbell-Jones): You were right. Just his presence in the building caused the loop to extend by nearly four chronons.

The Doctor: Hi honey, I'm home.
River: And what sort of time do you call this?
Madame Kovarian: The death of time. The end of time. The end of us all. Oh, why couldn't you just die?
The Doctor: Did my best, dear. I showed up. You just can't get good psychopaths these days.

Madame Kovarian: Oh they're flirting. Do I have to watch this?

The Doctor: The pyramid above us. How many Silents have you got trapped inside it?
Madame Kovarian: None. They're not trapped. They never have been. They've been waiting. For this, Doctor. For you.
They're out! All of them!

Madame Kovarian: And you're wearing iDrives based on mine, I think.

Madame Kovarian: The Silence would never allow an advantage without taking one themselves. The effects will vary from person to person. Either death. Or debilitating agony. But they will take you all. One by one.

Madame Kovarian: What are you doing? {zzt} No, it's me. Don't be stupid. {zzt} You need me! {zzt} Stop it! Stop that! Get it off me!

Silent: Rory Williams. The man who dies and dies again. Die one last time, and know she will never come back for you.

Madame Kovarian: Amy. Help me.
Amy: You took my baby from me and hurt her. And now she's all grown up and she's fine. But I'll never see my baby again.
Madame Kovarian: But you'll still save me though. Because he would. And you'd never do anything to disappoint your precious Doctor.
Rory: Ma'am, we have to go. Now.
Amy: The Doctor is very precious to me, you're right. But do you know what else he is, Madame Kovarian? Not here. {she puts her iDrive back on her} River Song didn't get it all from you. Sweetie.

Dorium: Who's carrying me. I demand to know. I'm a head. I have rights. I want my doors open this time. I demand that my doors are open! Is it you? It is, isn't it? It is you! I can sense it! But how did you do it? How could you have possibly escaped?

Carter: Is there nothing else we can do?
The Doctor: Actually, thinking about it.

The Doctor: The Teselecta. A Doctor in a Doctor suit. Time said I had to be on that beach so I dressed for the occasion. Barely got singed in that boat.
Dorium: So you're going to do this—let them all think you're dead?
The Doctor: it's the only way. Then they can all forget me. I got too big, Dorium. Too noisy. Time to step back into the shadows.
Dorium: And Doctor Song, in prison all her days?
The Doctor: Her days, yes. And her nights... well. That's between her and me, eh?
Dorium: So many secrets, Doctor. I'll help you keep them of course.
The Doctor: Well you're not exactly going anywhere are you?
Dorium: But you're a fool nonetheless. It's all still waiting for you. The Fields of Trensilore. The Fall of the Eleventh. And the question.
The Doctor: Goodbye Dorium.
Dorium: The first question! The question that must never be answered! Hidden in plain sight! The question you've been running from all your life! "Doctor Who." "Doctor Who." "Doctor Who"!

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