Sixth Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

[Lifting Peri up onto a wall] I'll be lucky if I can lift you, the amount you weigh!

Peri

[Offended] Watch it, Porky!

This part of the galaxy is developing quickly. Famine was one of its major problems.

You turned them into food?

A scheme which has earned me great acclaim.

But did you bother to tell anyone that they might be eating their own relatives?

Certainly not! That would have created what I believe is termed... "consumer resistance".

Ah, I see you have been busy.

Whereas you have been stupid, Doctor.

Prerogative of a Time Lord.

Quickly, Mel! Press the red button! Get the message on the screen.

Press it! Press it!

I am!

You said red.

Did I? It must be the carrot juice making me colour blind!

In all my travelling throughout the universe, I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here. The oldest civilisation: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power-mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen - they're still in the nursery compared to us. Ten million years of absolute power. That's what it takes to be really corrupt.

Take it easy, Doc...

Doctor, these unseemly outbursts will not --

Unseemly outbursts?! If I hadn't visited Ravalox, as I then thought of it, the High Council would've kept this outrage buried, as presumably they have for several centuries!

I must agree. You have an endearing habit of blundering into these things, Doctor, and the High Council took full advantage of your blunder.

Explain that!

They made a deal with the Valeyard - or as I've always known him, the Doctor - to adjust the evidence, in return for which, he was promised the remainder of the Doctor's regenerations.

This is clearly --

Just a minute! Did you call him... the Doctor?!

There is some evil in all of us, Doctor – even you. The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation, and I may say you do not improve with age.

Madam, this revelation should halt this trial immediately. Surely even Gallifreyan Law must acknowledge that the same person cannot be both prosecutor and defendant!

The single purpose of this trial is to determine the defendant's guilt or otherwise on the basis of the evidence that has been presented. Anything else is, for the moment, irrelevant!

[utterly speechless] WHAT?!

[to Glitz] How often must I tell you? We're not dealing with reality!

[appears nearby] Why waste your breath on that simple-minded oaf? [vanishes and appears again next to Glitz] You cannot speak as though reality is a one-dimensional concept. [vanishes and appears again, face-to-face with the Doctor] Fortunately, there is a reality that you and I can agree on. The ultimate reality.

Death?

"The undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns." [blinks to the Doctor's other side]

"Puzzles the will." Hamlet, Act III, Scene I.

I really must curb these urges. I've no wish to become contaminated by your whims and idiosyncrasies.

Quite so. What I don't comprehend is why you want me dead. No. No, let me rephrase that. It would satisfy my curiosity to know why you should go to such extraordinary lengths to kill me.

Come now, Doctor. How else can I obtain my freedom? Operate as a complete entity, unfettered by your side of my existence? Only by ridding myself of you and your misplaced morality, your constant crusading, your --

Idiotic honesty?

[appears behind Glitz] Oafǃ Microbeǃ

Well, pardon me for trying to help. I'm neutral in this setup, you knowǃ

[walks over to the Doctor] Only by releasing myself from the misguided maxims that you nurture can I be free. [vanishes]

Sounds to me like Armageddon's beckoning you, Doc.

[reappears, fading as he speaks] With you destroyed and no longer able to constrain me, and with unlimited access to the Matrix, there will be nothing beyond my reachǃ

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Never mind the Sydney Carton heroics. You're not finished yet.

[whispers] Go away, Mel.

That trial was an illusion. [the cart vanishes and the Doctor falls to the ground]

Peri

Look Doctor, ever since you regenerated, i-it's as if your memory has been put through the meat grinder. I mean, it's all there, but in a pile of unrelated bits and pieces.

That's a horrible simile.

Peri

It's true, though. In the past couple of days, you've called me Tegan, Zoe, Susan...On one occasion, you even referred to me as Jamie.

Peri

But Doctor, you said it was gunfire!

I heard me.

Peri

I only hope it believes you.

Well, if it doesn't, I shall beat it into submission... with my charm.

You murder a police officer you'll get thirty years!

Handful of heartbeats to a Time Lord!

You're bonkers.

That's debatable.

Emotion... is a weakness.

I don't think so.

It brought you back for your friend. And it will cost you your life.

It didn't go very well, did it?

Peri

Earth's safe. So is history and the web of time.

I meant on a personal level. I don't think I've ever misjudged anybody quite as badly as I did Lytton.

Well. You’re obviously one of the more determined of us. Hm?

I'm sorry?

You refused to pass through. Quite the strength of character, this incarnation.

The question is, what are we going to do about it now?

Do about what?

Our predicament. This is supposed to get handed on - you can’t just ruin it for the next one.

And you were doing so well.

Um - where am I, exactly? Cos the last thing I remember, is being forced to regenerate.

That’s why we’re here. To stop you moving through any further. You’re not finished. We are not finished.

We being?

The Doctor.

Vestiges of your consciousness.

Fragments of yourself.

From the past.

Guardians of the Edge.

Why are you not...?

I don't do robes.

There's always one. Has to be different.

I am a manifestation of our consciousness. I can wear what I like.

Could we just focus on this? Whatever this is. You said Guardians of the Edge. The edge of what?

Existence.

It’s symbolic, obviously. Consciousness will do that. But this is the place you pass through, during the process of regeneration. Go past here, there’s no way back.

But time’s running out. We cannot let the Master permanently hijack our existence.

Yes. Very aware of that. But I’m thinking, in the immediate aftermath of regeneration, the body’s weak. Unstable, while it reforms.

Ah good, yes! Even more so, with a forced regeneration.

So until it’s settled, he may be vulnerable. We’d need help on the outside. But that’s easier said than done.

Unless one of us, or all of us, was very clever. I mean, that’s why you’ve manifested here, to remind me: there’s always a way. Things will work out. Right?