A character in Doctor Who
Thirteenth Doctor
Doctor Who · 1,966 quotes
Tied for 7th most-quoted character in Doctor Who: in 75 of its 1,966 quotes
Most scenes with: Graham (18), Yaz (14), Ryan (8)
Stop... Who are you, really? Truly?
I told you, love, I'm the Doctor.
You can't be.
Yeah? And why's that?
Because I'm The Doctor.
You have got to be kidding me! Really?
Yes, really!
[After The Doctor reveals that both she and Ruth are The Doctor to Gat.]
Is there even a word for how dumb you are?
"Doctor"?
[Learning that Gat is from Gallifrey]
Both of you can only be my past. But that's impossible because I know my own past- I lived through it. All of it.
You're wrong.
I'm not wrong! I've seen Gallifrey destroyed. Twice. First by war, second by a lunatic who I'm still trying to find. In my time, Gallifrey doesn't exist. It's gone! Forever. And if you don't know that, you're in my past. So you are only serving for the glory of ash and bone.
Okay, not the exact right time. 77 minutes out. Late.
What!?
Doctor? What are you doing? Where are going?
You're not leaving us!?
I have to find out what he's looking for. Alone.
You need back up! All of us against one!
One Cyberman but then thousands. Humans like all of you changed into empty, soulless shells. No feeling, no control, no way back. I will not [[w:Bill Potts (Doctor Who)| lose anyone else to that!
You appear courageous but your vital signs betray a heightened state of anxiety.
Or as I like to call it, Tuesday.
Shelley's only one life against all those others.
But is he, Ryan? His thoughts, his words, inspire and influence thousands for centuries. If he dies now, who knows what damage that will have on future history? Words matter! One death, one ripple, and history will change in a blink. The future will not be the world you know. The world you came from, the world you were created in, won't exist, so neither will you. It's not just his life at stake, it's yours. You want to sacrifice yourself for this? You want me to sacrifice you? You want to call it? Do it now. All of you. [None of the companions respond] Yeah. Cos sometimes this team structure isn't flat. It's mountainous, with me at the summit in the stratosphere. Alone. Left to choose. Save the poet, save the universe. Watch people burn now or tomorrow. Sometimes, even I can't win.
You saved Shelley, but what does that mean for the future?
It means I put it in the gravest danger.
Please, tell me that was part of the plan.
Yes. A last-minute, imperfect, all-I've-got plan. Saving Shelley was step one.
What's step two?
Fix the mess I created in step one.
We know where you are. We will find you.
Yeah, yeah. Have you not asked that great slab of Cyber AI you absorbed, about me? I’m the Doctor. Consult the Cyberium, mate. I have stopped you lot so many times before. And I'll do it again. Time after time after time.
No. The Cyberium does know you. Both you, and humanity, will be destroyed. And I shall bring the Cyber race to its greatest ever glory.
Quite a grudge you have against humanity. Especially considering you used to be one.
When the glorious Cyber Empire arrived, I was a willing recruit. But as I took my rightful place, as I began my blessed ascension I was denied. At first I cursed myself. Hid in the shadows, ashamed. But now, I understand. I was not discarded.I was chosen. To revive the glory of the Cyber race.
(Inside the Matrix)
What happened to the Child!?
Oh Doctor, really? Haven't you worked this out yet? The child is you. You are the Timeless Child.
No. No, I'm not.
You always have been.
Can't be...
Get out of here. I know the Matrix has blown your mind... maybe you could return the compliment. (vanishes)
No, wait. Are you still there? Of course she's still there. If you were me, you're buried within me, buried within... Too many thoughts. All right, first things first, what did she say? Mind blown. Yes! Of course! All this history, all these lies, it's too much stimulus. It might work. I've fought the Matrix before, denied its reality, I can do it again. Maybe. Well, you know what they say, Doctor, nothing ventured, nothing blown. Oh! I'm talking to myself again. That's a good sign. Thanks, Doctor. Still here. No, shut up, I need to concentrate. Er... All right. Have a blast of this, Matrix.
(Fast sequences of images: The Master, Ashad and his Cyberguards, herself absorbing the Cyberium and Team TARDIS, Rakaya, Gat, the Fugitive Doctor and Captain Jack Harkness, herself running from Praxeus infected birds, Nikola Tesla and the Queen of the Skithra, a Dreg, the TARDIS beside the ruined Capitol, a Kasaavin, the reconnaissance scout Dalek, the Ux, the Solitract as Grace O'Brien and Team TARDIS in the fjord, a Morax and herself chained down, Umbreen and Prem's wedding, a Kerb!am Man, the Pting, giant spider's webs, Rosa Parks, the TARDIS and remnants on Desolation, Tzim-Sha, herself choosing an outfit, Davros, Rose Tyler, the Sycorax Leader, Donna Noble, a Slitheen, Amy Pond, the Abzorbaloff, River Song, a scarecrow, Wilfred Mott, Clara Oswald, General Staal, Bill Potts, an Ood, Martha Jones, Mickey Smith, the Empress of the Racnoss, Rory Williams, Jatt of the Sisters of Plenitude, Sarah Jane Smith, the Twelfth, Eleventh, Tenth, Ninth, War, Eighth, Seventh, Sixth, Fifth, Fourth, Third, Second and First Doctors, a Sea Devil, the Master, Sil, Missy, Sharaz Jek, an Auton, the Master, a Voc robot, the Master, Sutekh, an Ogron, the Master, the Master, Scaroth, the Timeless Child's incarnations, the Morbius Doctors, Brendan and the Fugitive Doctor, and the Matrix explodes.)
Where are we going?
Half a league onwards.
Sea Devil.
Land Parasite!
All right, let's not get into the name-calling! How would you prefer to be addressed?
Where is it?
Mister Where-Is-It? Lord Where-Is-It?
You're not the same as the other Land Crawlers.
Correct. Crawled in from a different land. I've met your species in the future. Your people are conflict-averse, honourable! So what's this, then? Is this how you develop? Or are you just the bad egg of the species?
Yaz... I can't fix myself to anything, anywhere or anyone. I've never been able to. That's what my life is.
Yeah, of course.
Not because I don't want to... because I might. But if I do fix myself to somebody... I know, sooner or later, it'll hurt.
My nani says courage is knowing something will hurt and doing it anyway. Mind you, she also said it's the definition of stupidity.
[They share a chuckle]
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