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"Last of the Time Lords" (Series 3)

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Last of the Time Lords

Tom Milligan: How long since you were last in Britain?
Martha: 365 days. It's been a long year.

Tom: There's a lot of people depending on you. You're a bit of a legend.
Martha: What does the legend say?
Tom: That you sailed the Atlantic, walked across America. That you were the only person to get out of Japan alive. "Martha Jones," they say, "she's gonna save the world." Bit late for that.

Tom: Story goes that you're the only person on Earth that can kill him. That you can kill the Master stone dead.

The Doctor: I have one thing to say to you. You know what it is.
The Master: Oh no you don't!

Martha: I've been out there, Tom, in space, before all this happened. And there's a thousand different civilizations all around us with no idea of what's happening here. The Master can build weapons big enough to devastate them all.
Tom: You've been in space?
Martha: Problem with that?
Tom: No, just, wow. Anything else I should know?
Martha: I've met Shakespeare.

Jack: Oh, here we go again!

The Master: Didn't you learn anything from the blessed Satan Martha? Siding with the Doctor is a very dangerous thing to do.

Professor: Obviously the Archangel Network would seem to be The Master's greatest weakness. Fifteen satellites all around the Earth, still transmitting. That's why there's so little resistance. It's broadcasting a telepathic signal that keeps people scared.
Tom: We could just take them out.
Professor: We could. Fifteen ground-to-air missiles. You got any on you?

Professor: Whoever thought we'd miss Bill Gates.

The Master: The drumming, the never-ending drum beat. Ever since I was a child, I looked into the Vortex, that's when it chose me. The drumming, the call to war. Can't you hear it? Listen, it's here now, right now! Tell me you can hear it, Doctor. Tell me.
The Doctor: It's only you.

Tom: Martha, tell us. What are they?
Martha: They're us. They're humans. The human race from the future.

The Master: I took Lucy to Utopia. A Time Lord and his human companion. I took her to see the stars. Isn't that right, sweetheart?
Lucy: Trillions of years into the future. To the end of the Universe.
The Master: Tell him what you saw.
Lucy: Dying, everything dying. The whole of creation was falling apart. And I thought, there's no point to anything. Not ever.
The Master: And it's all your fault.

Martha: The Utopia project was the last hope. Trying to find a way to escape the end of everything.
The Sphere: There was no solution, no diamonds, just the dark and the cold.
The Master: All that human invention that had sustained them across the ions. It all turned inward. They cannibalized themselves.

Tom: What about us? We're the same species. Why do you kill so many of us?
The Sphere: Because it's fun!

The Master: The human race. Greatest monsters of them all.

Martha: Point is, it's not so easy to kill a Time Lord. They can regenerate. Literally bring themselves back to life.
Professor: Ah, the Master's immortal. Wonderful.
Martha: Except for this. Four chemicals slotted into the gun. Inject him, kills a Time Lord permanently.

Professor: Martha, could you do it? Could you actually kill him?
Martha: I've got no choice.
Professor: You might be many things, but you don't look like a killer to me.

Tom: Come on, just leave her alone. She's exhausted.
Martha: No, it's okay. They want me to talk. And I will.

Martha: I traveled across the world, from the ruins of New York to the fusion mills of China. Right across the radiation pits of Europe. And everywhere I went, I saw people just like you, living as slaves. But if Martha Jones became a legend, then that's wrong because my name isn't important. There's someone else. The man who sent me out there, the man who told me to walk the Earth. And his name is the Doctor. He has saved your lives so many times and you never even knew he was there. He never stops, he never stays, he never asks to be thanked. But I've seen him, I know him, I love him. And I know what he can do.

The Master: And now, good companion, your work is done.

The Master: But you, when you die, the Doctor should be witness.

The Master: I never could resist a ticking clock.

The Master: At zero to mark this day, the child Martha Jones will die. My first blood. Any last words? No? Such a disappointment, this one. Days of old, Doctor, you had companions who could absorb the Time Vortex. This one's useless.

The Master: What's so funny?
Martha: The gun.
The Master: What about it?
Martha: The gun in four parts.
The Master: Yes. And I destroyed it.
Martha: The gun in four parts, scattered across the world. I mean c'mon, did you really believe that?

Martha: Don't you wanna know what I was doing, travelling the world?
The Master: Tell me.
Martha: I told a story, that's all. No weapons, just words. I did just what the Doctor said. I went across the continents, all on my own. And everywhere I went I found the people and I told them my story. I told them about the Doctor. And I told them to pass it, to spread the word so that everyone would know about the Doctor.
The Master: Faith and hope. Is that all?
Martha: No. 'Cause I gave them an instruction. Just as the Doctor said. I told them that if everyone thinks of one word, at one specific time—
The Master: Nothing will happen. Is that your weapon? Prayer?
Martha: —right across the world. One word, just one thought, at one moment, but with fifteen satellites.
The Master: What?
Jack: The Archangel Network.
Martha: The telepathic field, binding the whole human race together. With all of them, every single person on Earth, thinking the same thing at the same time. And that word is "Doctor."

The Master: Stop it. No no no, you don't.

The Doctor: I've had a whole year to tune myself into the psychic network, integrate with its matrixes.

The Doctor: One thing you can't do, is stop them thinking.

The Doctor: Tell me the human race is degenerate now, when they can do this.

The Doctor: I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

The Doctor: And you know what happens now.
The Master: No! No!
The Doctor: You wouldn't listen. 'Cause you know what I'm going to say. I forgive you.

The Master: If I can't have this world, Doctor, neither can you. We shall stand upon this Earth, together, as it burns.

Guard: We can't get in, we'll get slaughtered!
Jack: Yeah. Happens to me a lot.

The Doctor: Weapon after weapon after weapon. All you do is talk and talk and talk. But over all these years and all these disasters, I've always had the greatest secret of them all. I know you. Explode those ships, you kill yourself. And that's the one thing you could never do.

The Doctor: The paradox is broken. We've reverted back! One year and one day. Two minutes past eight in the morning.

The Doctor: Oh hello! You must be Mr. Jones. We haven't actually met!

The Doctor: The only safe place for him is the TARDIS.
The Master: You mean you’re just going to keep me?
The Doctor: If that’s what I have to do. It's time to change. Maybe I've been wandering for too long. Now I've got someone to care for.

The Master: Always the women.

The Master: Dying in your arms. Happy now?
The Doctor: You're not dying, don't be stupid. It's only a bullet. Just regenerate.
The Master: No.
The Doctor: One little bullet. C'mon.
The Master: I guess you don't know me so well. I refuse.

The Master: How about that? I win.

Martha: Time was, every single one of these people knew your name. Now they've all forgotten you.
The Doctor: good.
Jack: Back to work.
The Doctor: I really don't mind, though. Come with me.
Jack: I've had plenty of time to think that past year—the year that never was—and I kept thinking about that team of mine. Like you said, Doctor: "responsibility".
The Doctor: Defending the Earth. Can't argue with that.
Jack: Hey, I need that!
The Doctor: I can't have you walking around with a time traveling teleport. You could go anywhere. Twice! The second time to apologize.
Jack: And what about me? Can you fix that? Will I ever be able to die?
The Doctor: Nothing I can do. You're an impossible thing, Jack.
Jack: Been called that before.

Jack: Used to be a poster boy, when I was a kid, living in the Boeshane peninsula. Tiny little place. I was the first one ever to be signed up for the Time Agency. They were so proud of me. The Face of Boe, they called me.

The Doctor: Okay.
Martha: I just can't.
The Doctor: Yeah.

The Doctor: Martha Jones, you saved the world.
Martha: Yes I did. I spent a lot of time with you thinking I was second best, but you know what? I am good.

Martha: I told her, I always said to her, time and time again I said, "Get out." So this is me, getting out.

Martha: I'll see you again, Mister.