A character in Doctor Who
In 19 of the 1,966 quotes from Doctor Who
Most scenes with: Fifteenth Doctor (13), Kate Stewart (3), Mel (2)
I presume she must be gone, my mother. No one ever told me. And I didn't find my birth mother. It never snowed again. But I keep thinking I know why. The woman! And I've been thinking about it my whole life. Why is she here? And I think, at the end, I have hope. 'Cause that's very you, isn't it, my old friend? I dare to hope.
(3 May 2025)
I think I'm in shock. Like... PTSD? Because what happened last year was just not... normal. I mean, I fought gods. Like, actual gods. And I was eaten by a double bass, and kidnapped by goblins. I dangled on a rope ladder above London. And I watched the world turn to dust. And it's just like... every day is, like, fight or flight, and I'm just waiting for something to go wrong.
No, but who are you? Why are you an expert in time-traveling goblins and--
Oh! Pssh... They are not time-travelers, excuse me! Time travelers are great. Like, the best -- like, wow. This lot's just bimble.
Who are you?
I'm the Doctor, you don't have to stand over there, come and have a look, it's called the TARDIS.
(The Doctor clicks his figures and the round things light up)
Ooh! nice, but hold on, I can't call you doctor, no I want to know your name.
Yeah that's uh, that's tricky, because I was adopted and the planet that took me in, they were kind of... they were kinda posh, they'd use titles like the Doctor, or the Bishop, or The Rani or the Conquistador, say doctor for a thousand years and it becomes my name
How do you keep going?
For days like this, Ruby Sunday. I don't have a people, I don't have a home... But I don't have a job, either. I don't have a boss, or taxes, or rent, or bills to pay. I don't have a purpose, or a cause, or a mission, but I have... freedom. That's why I keep moving on, to see the next thing, and the next, and the next. And sometimes... It looks even better through your eyes.
Is that a monster?!
No. No, don't be silly -- There's never any such thing as monsters, they're just... Just creatures you haven't met yet.
In the past, right now, I live in a place called Totter's Lane. 1963, I parked the TARDIS in a junkyard, and I lived there with my granddaughter, Susan.
Oh...!
Okay?
Your what?
My granddaughter.
Susan?
We could go and have a look, but y'know... timelines, [mimics explosion]
Well, y-- you've got children?
I did have -- I will have. Time Lords get a bit complicated.
Yeah, but you've got a granddaughter! Like, now? Like, today? Back in our time? My time. Gah! Where is she?!
I don't know.
How do you not know?
Time Lords were murdered. Genocide rolled across time and space like a great big cellular explosion; maybe it killed her, too.
Doctor! God...
Where are we?
In the middle of a war.
Oh. I was kind of hoping for a beach.
Ah! What do you think this is?
It's not a beach!
Give it time. Everywhere's a beach eventually.
We're all dead eventually. There's hardly any time that we're not dead. Which is a a good thing, too! We've got to keep the pace up, otherwise nothing would get done. Dying defines us. Snow isn't snow until it falls.
Snow?
Yeah, snow. We all melt away in the end. But something stays. Maybe the best part. A sad old man once told me, "What survives of us, is love."
Mind you, Roger ap Gwilliam. That's a bad example of the Welsh, terrifying.
Oh, yeah?
The most dangerous Prime Minister in history. He led the world to the brink of nuclear... Wait, what year are you from?
2024!
Oh. Yikes, sorry, he was 2046. Sorry, spoilers! Forget I said anything.
Mum, what does she look like?
She looks like what she looks like.
What does that mean?
She looks like what she is.
We miss you so much, darling. But I'd pay for the whole moon to make you happy. Just look up at the sky and wave to us on the Homeworld. Happy Finetime, Lindy-Loo! And don't forget, you're only a Bubble away.
...who is that?
I told you, it's Mummy.
Hold on, I've seen her before.
Yeah, she's, like, she's the face of the ambulance on Kastarion III.
No, no, no, I've seen her somewhere else...
Now we can go out there to this planet, and we can fight it and tame it and own it. We'll be pioneers, just like our ancestors.
Or... you could come with us.
[turns towards him and Ruby] We could what?
Come with us!
Yeah, we helped you escape, didn't we? So we could get you out of here, in the blink of an eye.
I-- I have a ship, it's called the TARDIS. That blue box. It harnesses technology that makes it bigger on the inside than on the outside. I could take you all! I could carry you to the stars, I... could find you a home that is safe, and-- and clean, and everything you want.
[amused] But... It's-- We couldn't travel with you.
What? Wh-- Why not?
[to the Fifteenth Doctor] Because you, sir, are not one of us. I mean, sir, you were kind. But it was your duty to save me, obviously. I mean, screen-to-screen contact is just about acceptable, but in person? That's impossible.
Ay. You have a magic box? Seriously...
"Bigger on the inside"?
Excuse me, sir -- that's Voodoo. And it doesn't matter where we end up living, because it is our God-given duty to maintain the standards of Finetime, forever. Now thank you. And goodbye.
Ugh, I can't even...
I don't care what you think! Look, you can say whatever you want. You can think absolutely anything. I will do anything... if you just allow me to save your lives.
If you'll turn away, ladies? Before we're contaminated.
[desperately] BUT YOU WILL DIE OUT THERE! AND I CAN SAVE YOUR LIVES! NOW LET ME!
[Lindy turns away, getting on the boat out. The Doctor starts laughing, incredulous, and puts his hands on his thighs, doubling over, before screaming in frustration.]
DAMN!
There are as many dimensions as there are atoms in the universe. Don't even know his real name. Any...way! It is what it is, so onwards, fine, next. Off we go. Where shall we go? Anywhere!
Doctor, you don't have to be like this.
I have to be like this cos this is what I'm like. Onwards. Upwards. New horizons. Moving on. It's fine.
But who am I?!
There is the Toymaker, the god of games. There is Trickster, the god of traps. There is Maestro, the god of music. There is Reprobate, the god of spite.
[Susan falls to her knees, wailing, and Bailey tries to comfort her]
No, no, no! Get away from her! Don't touch her!
There is the Mara, the god of beasts, and the threefold deity of malice and mischief and misery.
Warning. Manifestation.
There are gods of skin and shame and secrets.
[A black cloud is forming around the TARDIS]
Doctor, she needs you!
There is Incensor, the god of disaster, and her children called Doubt and Dread. And standing on high is the mother and father and other of them all.
Whatever it is... here it comes.
For the god of all gods has returned. And his names are many. His name has been Set, and Seth, and Sithifer. And his one true name for evermore is... Sutekh!
...It was the wrong anagram.
[The cloud materializes into a snarling, jackal-like creature looming over the TARDIS]
Probable trap... 100%.
Mel, get away from her. Both of you, don't let her touch you!
Bailey, get back. Leave her alone.
You said you were a doctor! Why don't you try to help...?
[Susan's face snaps up at him, now red-eyed and skull-like]
Sutekh is the god of death, and by his hand, all creation shall fall into dust and ashes and ruin!
[Susan grabs Bailey's arm, and he immediately dissolves into sand; Sutekh laughs cruelly]
I bring Sutekh's gift of death... to all humanity.
I am Sutekh, the god of death. I am the night. I am the terror. I am the loss.
[approached by a robed, hooded figure] Mum?
And all life will perish at my hand! [laughs]
Did you think I was family, Doctor? I bring Sutekh's gift of death... for you, and for all in your tiny, vile, incessant universe!
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