Scenes with Missy 10
(May 2025)
MMissy
Do you have any idea about the consequences of your actions? Do you want to know about the war you started?
MMissy
The Great Time War between Skaro and Gallifrey.
A conflict between the two does seem inevitable.
MMissy
Oh, yes. Because you've already fought the opening skirmishes. You just don't realise it yet. Tell me -- what did you think would happen when you unleashed the Hand of Omega on Skaro's sun and incinerated their homeworld, hm?
I didn't pull the trigger...
MMissy
Oh, no. You manipulated Davros into it. It was masterful. But do you really think that means your hands are clean, given you'd already been on a covert mission to avert the Daleks' very creation? Did you think he'd hesitate? That afterwards, they wouldn't retaliate?
Retaliation? It's a possibility.
MMissy
It's a certainty. I survived it. I watched the universe burn, and all the dark deeds I've ever done pale into insignificance against its death toll.
MMissy
Lord Voltaire's world was obliterated. The oceans vaporised. I once told him there were survivors, but I lied. He was the last of his kind and millions of other worlds suffered the same fate.
Something had to be done! I had to take a stand. The threat was only growing...
MMissy
You lit the blue touchpaper on Armageddon and walked away. You see, we have so much in common. You'd burn worlds to get what you want, and so would I.
MMissy
Hello. I hope you're well. How may I assist you with your death?
Well, there is, er, no immediate hurry. We're just, er. We're just…
MMissy
Please, take all the time you need. At 3W, you always have the rest of your life.
Oh, good. That's good to know, Clara, isn't it?
MMissy
Apologies. Clearly you have not received the official 3W greetings package.
Well, you know, it's just an unexpected—
MMissy
[Missy lunges at the Doctor, pushing him against the wall, kissing him intently. The Doctor grabs the wall for support. Missy kisses his nose thrice and steps back.] Welcome to the 3W institute.
MMissy
You also have not received the official welcome package. [Leans in to Clara]
Oh, I'm good, thanks. No worries.
MMissy
My heart is maintained by the Doctor.
MMissy
[yelling] Dr Chang!
The TARDIS will not be entered. The TARDIS will be destroyed.
Yeah? Well, good luck, because she's indestructible
MMissy
Did the Doctor tell you that? Because you should never believe a man about a vehicle.
I've been at the heart of your empire for forty-two minutes, and I haven't even got out of my chair! Ask me what I want.
Clara Oswald. I want Clara Oswald, safe, alive, and returned to me immediately! You bring her back -- you do that! You do that now! Unharmed, unhurt, alive.
I saw what happened, I was there! And I'm hoping, for all our sakes, that it was a trick!
Because if Clara Oswald is really dead... Then you'd better be very, very careful how you tell me.
[Missy and Clara listen from the sewers.]
MMissy
Listen to that... The Doctor without hope.
Who's going to tell me? Who's going to go first?
MMissy
Nobody's safe now.
All the power Davros had is mine! Everything he had, I have! Who's going to tell me Clara Oswald is really dead?!
MMissy
He'll burn everything. Us, too.
[Missy has revealed her plan to stop the Monks -- turning Bill into a vegetable]
Even if that was the truth, the fact that you're suggesting it shows there's been no change. No hope, no point. We don't sacrifice because it's wrong. Because it's easy.
MMissy
You know, back in the day, I burned an entire city to the ground just to see the pretty shapes the smoke made. I'm sorry your plus one doesn't get a happy ending. But like it or not, I just saved this world because I want to change. Your version of "good" is not absolute. It's vain and arrogant and sentimental. If you're waiting for me to become all that, I'm going to be here for a long time yet.
MMissy
[tearfully] You remember all the people I've killed? Every day, I think of them all. Being bad… being bad. I didn't know I even knew their names. You didn't tell me about this bit.
I'm sorry, but this is good.
MMissy
[trying to hold it together] Okay.
MMissy
I don't even know why I'm crying. Why? Why do I keep doing that now?
I don't know. Maybe you're trying to impress me.
MMissy
Yes. Probably some devious plan. That sounds about right.
The alternative would be much worse.
The alternative is that this is for real, and it's time for us to become friends again.
[Missy reaches for the Doctor but he steps back. He then takes her hands in his.]
I don't know. That's the trouble with hope. It's hard to resist.
JJorg
Hello? Who’s there, hello? Please report status.
MMissy
Ooh, look at this one! You’re probably handsome, aren’t you? Congratulations on your relative symmetry.
MMissy
Well, I'm that mysterious adventurer in time and space, known only as Doctor Who, and these are my disposables - Exposition and Comic Relief.
MMissy
Darling, those were genders.
[Bill has been converted into a Mondasian Cyberman]
Bill? Bill, talk to me. What have they done to you?
Operation Exodus… whatever that is.
MMissy
[from behind them] Well, wrong name, for a start.
CBCyberman Bill
I… waited.
MMissy
[standing at one side of Bill] This is not an exodus, is it? More of a beginning, really, isn't it?
CBCyberman Bill
I… waited.
[from behind the Doctor] In fact, d'you know what I'd call it? [enters and stands on the other side of Bill]
[Realizing who it is, the Doctor looks on in shock.]
MMissy
You've met the ex.
Specifically… the genesis of the Cybermen.
CBCyberman Bill
[pointing at the Doctor] I… waited… for you. [a single tear runs from Bill's left eye and through her cybermask]
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