Demon’s Run

Amy: I wish I could tell you that you'll be loved. That you'll be safe and cared for and protected. But this isn't the time for lies. What you are going to be, Melody, is very very brave.
Madame Kovarian (Frances Barber): Two minutes.
Amy: But not as brave as they all have to be. Because there's somebody coming. I don't know where he is, or what he's doing, but trust me. He's on his way.

Twenty Thousand Light Years Away

Amy: There's a man who's never going to let us down. And not even an army can get in the way.

Amy: He's the last of his kind. He looks young but he's lived for hundreds and hundreds of years. And wherever they take you, Melody, however scared you are, I promise you, you will never be alone. Because this man is your father. He has a name, but the people of our world know him better... as the last Centurion.

Rory: I have a message and a question. A message from the Doctor and a question from me. Where is my wife? Oh don't give me those blank looks. The twelfth Cyber Legion monitors this entire quadrant. You hear everything. So you tell me what I need to know. You tell me now and I'll be on my way.
Cyberman: What is the Doctor's message? {the fleet explodes behind Rory}
Rory: Would you like me to repeat the question?

Fat One: Digger says he once chased the Atraxi off the planet. And then called them back for a scolding!

Overhead: Reminder: Do not interact with Headless Monks without divine permission.

Thin One: Why are they called Headless Monks? They can't really be headless.
Lorna Bucket (Christina Chong): They believe the domain of faith is the heart. And the domain of doubt is the head. They follow their hearts, that's all.

Thin One: You're Lorna Bucket, aren't you?
Lorna: Yeah.
Thin One: Hello. I'm the Thin One. This is my husband. He's the Fat One.
Lorna: Don't you have names?
Fat One: We're the Thin Fat Gay married Anglican Marines. Why would we need names as well?

Thin One: What's he like? The Doctor?
Lorna: He said, "Run."
Thin One: Just run?
Lorna: He said it a lot.

Overhead: Welcome Applicant, to the Order of the Headless. It is traditional for visiting armies of other faiths to offer individuals for conversion to our order. You have been selected. Are you ready to make a donation?

London, 1888 A.D.

Madame Vastra: Thank you, Parker, I won't be needing you again tonight.
Parker: Yes, m'lady.

Jenny: You're back early, mum. Another case cracked, I assume?
Madame Vastra: Send a telegram to Inspector Laveline of the Yard. Jack the Ripper has claimed his last victim.
Jenny: How did you find him?
Madame Vastra: Stringy. But tasty all the same. I shan't be needing dinner.
Jenny: Congratulations, mum. However... a matter has arisen in the drawing room. It just appeared. What does it mean?
Madame Vastra: It means a very old debt is to be repaid. Pack the cases, Jenny. We're going to need the swords.

The Battle of Zaruthstra, 4037 A.D.

Arthur: Will I be okay?
Commander Strax: Of course you will, my boy! You'll be up and around in no time. And perhaps one day you and I shall meet on the field of battle and I will destroy you for the glory of the Sontaran Empire.
Arthur: Thanks nurse.

Commander Strax: Captain Harcourt, I hope someday to meet you in the glory of battle where I shall crush the life from your worthless human form. Try and get some rest.

Stormcage

River: Oh! Are you boys dressing up as Romans now? I thought nobody read my memos.

River: It's my birthday. The Doctor took me ice skating on the River Thames in 1814. The last of the Great Frost Fairs. He got Stevie Wonder to sing for me on the London Bridge.
Rory: Stevie Wonder sang in 1814?
River: Yes, he did. But you must never tell him.

Rory: I've come from the Doctor too.
River: Yes, but at a different point in time.
Rory: Unless there's two of them.
River: That's a whole different birthday.

Rory: He needs you.
River: Demon's Run.
Rory: How did you know?
River: I'm from his future. I always know.

Rory: They've taken Amy. And our baby. The Doctor's getting some people together. We're going after her, but he needs you too.
River: I can't. Not yet anyway.
Rory: I'm sorry?
River: This is the Battle of Demon's Run. The Doctor's darkest hour. He'll rise higher than ever before and then fall so much further. And... I can't be with him 'til the very end.
Rory: Why not?
River: 'Cause this is it. This is the day he finds out who I am.

Dorium Maldovar (Simon Fisher-Baker): I admire your courage. {He repositions the barrels aimed at his head} I should like to admire it from afar.
Madame Kovarian: We've been waiting a month. He's done nothing.
Dorium: I don't think so. There are people all over this galaxy that owe that man a debt. By now a few of them will have found a blue box waiting on their doorstep. Poor devils.
Colonel Manton (Danny Sapani): You think he's raising an army?
Dorium: You think he isn't?

Dorium: The asteroid. Where you've made your base. Do you know why they call it Demon's Run?
Colonel Manton: How do you know the location of our base?
Dorium: You're with the Headless Monks. They're old customers of mine.
Madame Kovarian: It's just some old saying.
Dorium: A very old saying. The oldest. “Demon's Run. Where a good man goes to war.”

Dorium: No! No no! Please! Not me! You don't need me! Why would you need me? I'm old! I'm fat! I'm blue! You can't need me!

Colonel Manton: He is not the devil. He is not a god. He is not a goblin or a phantom or a trickster. The Doctor is a living, breathing man. And as I look around this room I know one thing: we're sure as hell gonna fix that.

Colonel Manton: On this day, in this place, the Doctor will fall. The man who talks, the man who reasons, the man who lies will meet the perfect answer. Some of you have wondered why we have allied ourselves with the Headless Monks. Perhaps you should have wondered why we call them headless. It's time you knew what these guys have sacrificed for faith. As you all know it is a level one heresy, punishable by death, to lower the hood of a Headless Monk. But by the Divine Grant of the Papal Mainframe herself, on this one and only occasion I can show you the truth. Because these guys never can be persuaded. They never can be afraid. And they can never ever be—
The Doctor: Surprised!

The Doctor: Hello everyone! Guess who? Please, point a gun at me if it helps you relax. You're only human.

The Doctor: I'm not a phantom.
Colonel Manton: Doctor?
The Doctor: I'm not a trickster.
Colonel Manton: Doctor?
The Doctor: I'm a Monk.
Colonel Manton: Doctor, show yourself!
Cleric: It's him! He's here. It's him!

Colonel Manton: The Doctor is trying to make fools of us. We are soldiers of God. We are not fools.

Madame Vastra: Colonel Manton is regaining control.
Jenny: Where's the Doctor gone?

Commander Strax: Don't slump, it's bad for your spine.

Madame Kovarian: Remember, the Doctor must think he's winning. Right until the trap closes.

Madame Kovarian: I have a crew of twenty. How do expect to gain control of my ship?
Henry Avery (Hugh Bonneville):The ship is ours, m'Lady.

The Doctor: No. Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men "run away."
Colonel Manton: What?
The Doctor: Those words. "Run away." I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Runaway. I want children laughing outside your door, 'cause they've found the house of Colonel Runaway. And when people come to you and ask if trying to get to me through the people I love! {he composes himself}...is in any way a good idea, I want you to tell them your name. Look, I'm angry, that's new. I'm not really sure what's going to happen now.
Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.
The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
Madame Kovarian: Give the order. Give the order, Colonel Runaway.

Rory: Oh god, I was going to be cool. I wanted to be cool. Look at me.
Amy: You're okay. Crying Roman with a baby: definitely cool.

The Doctor: Ew. Kissing and crying. I'll be back in a bit.
Rory: Oy! You! Get in here. Now.

The Doctor: Hello! Hello, ah... baby.
Amy: Melody.
The Doctor: Melody! Hello Melody Pond.
Rory: Melody Williams.
Amy: Is a geography teacher. Melody Pond is a super hero.
The Doctor talking to Melody: Well yes I suppose she does smell nice. Never really sniffed her. Maybe I should give it a go.

The Doctor: It's okay, she's still all yours. And really you should call her mummy, not big milk thing.
Amy: Okay, what are you doing?
The Doctor: I speak baby.
Amy: No you don't.
The Doctor: I speak everything. Don't I, Melody Pond? {straightening his bow tie} No it's not. It's cool.

Rory: It's a cot.
The Doctor: No flies on the Roman.

Rory: So her Flesh avatar was with us all that time. But that means they were projecting a control signal right into the TARDIS, wherever we were in time and space.
The Doctor: Yeah. They're very clever.
Amy: Who are?
Rory: Whoever wants our baby.
Amy: Why do they want her?
The Doctor: Exactly.
Rory: Is there anything you're not telling us? You knew Amy wasn't real, you never said.
The Doctor: I couldn't be sure they weren't listening.
Amy: But you always hold out on us. Please, this time. Doctor, it's our baby. Tell us something. One little thing.
The Doctor: It's mine.
Rory: What is?
The Doctor: The cot. It's my cot. I slept in it.

The Doctor: You've hacked into their software?
Dorium: I believe I sold it to them.
The Doctor: Oh! So what have we learned?
Madame Vastra: That anger is always the shortest distance to a mistake.
The Doctor: I'm sorry?
Madame Vastra: The words of an old friend. Who once found me in the London Underground attempting to avenge my sisters on perfectly innocent tunnel diggers.
The Doctor: Well, you were very cross at the time.
Madame Vastra: As you were today, old friend. Point taken, I hope.

Madame Vastra: Now I have a question. A simple one. Is Melody human?
The Doctor: Sorry? What? Of course she is! Completely human! What are you talking about?
Dorium: They've been scanning her since she was born. I think they found what they were looking for.
The Doctor: Human DNA?
Dorium: Look closer. Human plus. Specifically human plus Time Lord.

Lorna: The only reason I joined the Clerics was so I could meet the Doctor again.
Jenny: You wanted to meet him, so you joined an army to fight him?
Lorna: Well, how else do you meet a great warrior?
Amy: He's not a warrior.
Lorna: Then why's he called the Doctor?

The Doctor: Well how would I know? That's all human and private stuff. It just sort of goes on, they don't put up a balloon or anything!
Madame Vastra: Could the child have begun on the TARDIS, in flight in the Vortex?
The Doctor: No! No! Impossible! It's all running about, sexy fish vampires. And blowing up stuff. And Rory wasn't even there at the beginning. Then he was dead. Then he didn't exist. Then he was plastic. Then I had to reboot the whole Universe—long story. So, technically, the first time they were on the TARDIS together in this version of reality was on their w...
Madame Vastra: On their what?
The Doctor: On their wedding night.

The Doctor: It doesn't make sense. You can't just cook yourself a Time Lord!
Madame Vastra: Of course not. But you gave them one hell of a start and they've been working very hard ever since.
Dorium: And yet they gave in so easily. Does this not bother anyone else?
The Doctor: Amy, she worried the baby would have a Time Head. She said that—
Madame Vastra: Only you would ignore the instincts of a mother.
Dorium: Or the instincts of a coward. This is too easy. There's something wrong.

Madame Kovarian: The child then, what do you think?
The Doctor: What is she?
Madame Kovarian: Hope. Hope in this endless, bitter war.
The Doctor: War. Against who?
Madame Kovarian: Against you, Doctor.

Amy: Rory, no offense to the others, but you let them all die first, okay?
Rory: You're so Scottish.

Commander Strax: It's strange. I have often dreamed of dying in combat. I am not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped.

Amy: So they took her anyway. All this was for nothing.
The Doctor: I am so sorry.
Jenny: Amy, it's not his fault.
Amy: I know.

Madame Vastra: Doctor, there's someone who wants to speak to you. Her name is Lorna. She came to warn us.

The Doctor: Hey. Hello.
Lorna: Doctor.
The Doctor: You helped my friends. Thank you.
Lorna: I met you once. In the Gamma Forest. You don't remember me.
The Doctor: Hey, of course I remember. I remember everyone. Hey, we ran, you and me. Didn't we run, Lorna?

The Doctor: Who was she?
Madame Vastra: I don't know, but she was very brave.
The Doctor: They're always brave. They're always brave.

River: Well then soldier, how goes the day?
The Doctor: Where the hell have you been? Every time you've asked I have been there! Where the hell were you today?
River: I couldn't have prevented this.
The Doctor: You could have tried!
River: And so, my love, could you. {to Amy} I know you're not all right. But hold tight, Amy. Because you're going to be.
The Doctor: You think I wanted this? I didn't do this! This wasn't me!
River: This was exactly you. All this. All of it. You make them so afraid. When you began all those years ago, sailing off to see the Universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name. "Doctor." The word for healer and wise man throughout the Universe. We get that word from you, you know. If you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word Doctor means "Mighty Warrior." How far you've come. And now they've taken a child. The child of your best friends. And they're going to turn her into a weapon just to bring you down. And all this, my love, in fear of you.
The Doctor: Who are you?
River: Oh look! Your cot. I haven't seen that in a very long while!
The Doctor: No, tell me who you are.
River: I am telling you. Can't you read?

The Doctor: Hello.
River: Hello.
The Doctor: But that means!
River: I'm afraid it does.
The Doctor: Oo. But you and I, we've...
River: Yes.
The Doctor: How do I look?
River: Amazing.
The Doctor: I better be.
River: Yes, you'd better be.
The Doctor: Vastra and Jenny, 'til the next time. Rory and Amy, I'm know where to find your daughter and on my life she will be safe! River, get them all home.
Rory: Doctor!
Amy: No! Where are you going? No.

Amy: Where is he going? What did you tell him?
River: Amy, you have to stay calm.
Amy: Tell me what you told the Doctor.
Rory: No, stop it.
River: It's okay, Rory. She's fine. She's good. It's the TARDIS translation matrix. It takes awhile to kick in with the written word. You have to concentrate.
Amy: I still can't read it.
River: It's because it's Gallifreyan. It doesn't translate. {she hands her the leaf} But this will. It's your daughter's name in the language of the Forest.
Amy: I know my daughter's name.
River: Except they don't have a word for pond. The only water in the forest is the river. The Doctor will find your daughter. And he will care for her, whatever it takes. And I know that. It's me. I'm Melody. I'm your daughter.