The War Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

You may have changed your appearance, but I know who you are.

Oh, do you?

Your machine is a TARDIS. You're too familiar with its controls to be a stranger.

I had every right to leave.

Stealing a TARDIS? Oh, I'm not criticising you. We are two of a kind.

We most certainly are not.

We were both Time Lords. And we both decided to leave our race.

I had reasons of my own.

Just as I had.

Who's that?

Never mind. Let's go back.

But who is he?

He's me. There's only me here. That's the point. Now let's get back.

But I never saw that one. I saw all of you. Eleven faces, all of them you! You're the eleventh Doctor!

I said he was me. I never said he was the Doctor.

I don't understand.

My name, my real name - that is not the point. The name I chose is the Doctor. The name you choose, is like... it's like a promise you make. He's the one who broke the promise.

Clara? Clara! Clara!

He is my secret.

What I did, I did without choice.

I know.

In the name of peace and sanity.

But not in the name of the Doctor!

Did you ever count?

Count what?

How many children there were on Gallifrey that day?

I have absolutely no idea.

How old are you now?

Uh, I don't know, I lose track. Twelve hundred and something, I think, unless I'm lying. I can't remember if I'm lying about my age, that's how old I am.

Four hundred years older than me and in all that time you never even wondered how many there were. You never once counted?

Tell me, what would be the point?

[angry at The Eleventh Doctor] Two point four seven billion!

You did count!

[to The Eleventh Doctor] You forgot! Four hundred years, is that all it takes?!

I moved on!

Where?! Where can you be now that you can forget something like that?!

Spoilers.

No, no, no. For once, I would like to know where I'm going.

No, you really wouldn't.

...you're not seriously suggesting we change our own history.

We change history all the time! I'm suggesting something far worse.

What, exactly?

Gentlemen. I have had four hundred years to think about this... I've changed my mind!

Just about ready to do it.

Ready to do what?

We're going to freeze Gallifrey.

I'm sorry, what?

Using our TARDISes, we're gonna freeze Gallifrey in a single moment in time.

You know, like those stasis cubes? A single moment in time held in a parallel pocket universe.

Except we're going to do it to a whole planet.

And all the people on it.

What? Even if that were possible—which it isn't—why would you do such a thing?

Because the alternative is burning.

And I've seen that.

And I never want to see it again.

We'd be lost in another universe. Frozen in a single moment. We'd have nothing.

You would have hope. And right now that is exactly what you don't have.

It's delusional! Why, the calculations alone would take hundreds of years!

Oh, hundreds and hundreds.

But don't worry. I started a very long time ago.

Calling the War Council of Gallifrey: This is the Doctor!

You might say, I've been doing this all my lives.

I have no desire to survive this.

Then that's your punishment. If you do this, if you kill them all, then that's the consequence. You... live. Gallifrey... you're going to burn it... and all those Daleks with it, but all those children too. How many children on Gallifrey right now?

I don't know.

One day, you will count them. One terrible night.

Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?

[waves hands] Yes. No. [turns back to the guards] I demand to be incarcerated in the Tower immediately with my co-conspirators, Sandshoes and Grandad.

Grandad?!

They're not sandshoes!

Yes, they are!

I don't know who you are, either of you. I haven't got the faintest idea!

They're you. They're what you become if you destroy Gallifrey: the man who regrets... and the man who forgets.

How many worlds has his regret saved, do you think? Look over there -- humans and Zygons, working together in peace. How did you know?

Your eyes. They're so much younger.

...then it's time I grew up.

You know the sound the TARDIS makes? That wheezing, groaning. That sound brings hope wherever it goes.

Yes... yes, I like to think it does.

To anyone who hears it, Doctor. Anyone. However lost. [The TARDIS sound begins.] Even you.

Well, gentlemen, it has been a honour and a privilege.

Likewise.

[pointedly] Doctor.

And if I grow to be half the man that you are, [turns to Clara] Clara Oswald, I shall be happy indeed.

That's right. Aim high.

I won't remember this, will I?

The time streams are out of sync. You can't retain it, no.

So I won't remember that I tried to save Gallifrey, rather than burn it. And I have to live with that. [His mood brightens slightly.] But for now, for this moment...I am the Doctor again. Thank you.