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“A Good Man Goes to War”

In this episode: Eleventh Doctor (4), Amy (1), River Song (1), Strax (1), Jenny (1)

[Colonel Manton is showing his troops why the Headless Monks are called "headless".]

CMColonel Manton

[pulling back the cowl of a monk] These guys never can be... persuaded. [pulling back another cowl] They never can be... afraid. [approaches a third monk] And they can never, ever be...

[The 'monk' pulls back his own cowl, showing the face of the Doctor.]

Surprised!!

[Colonel Manton, Madame Kovarian, and most of the troops react in shock, while Amy and Lorna Bucket are delighted.]

Hello, everyone! Guess who? Please. Point a gun at me if it helps you relax.

[The troops all cock their weapons and point them at the Doctor, and the Headless Monks charge their energy swords.]

You're only human.

Colonel Manton, you will give the order for your men to withdraw.

No. Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to run away.

CMColonel Manton

You what?

Those words. "Run away." I want you to be famous for those exact words. [increasingly angry] I want people to call you "Colonel Run Away." I want children laughing outside your door because they've found the house of Colonel Run Away, and when people come to you and ask if trying to get to me through [shouting] THE PEOPLE I LOVE... [calmer] is in any way a good idea... I want you to tell them your name. [pause] Oh, look, I'm angry. That's new. I'm really not sure what's going to happen now.

MKMadame Kovarian

The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men... have too many rules.

Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.

[to Melody Pond] It's okay, she's still all yours. And really you should call her "Mummy", not "Big Milk Thing".

APAmy Pond

Okay, what are you doing?

I speak Baby.

APAmy Pond

No, you don't.

I speak everything. Don't I, Melody Pond? [Melody gurgles, the Doctor straightens his bow tie] No, it's not. It's cool.

LLorna

The only reason I joined the Clerics was so I could meet the Doctor again.

You wanted to meet him, so you joined an army to fight him?

LLorna

Well, how else do you meet a great warrior?

He's not a warrior.

LLorna

Then why is he called the Doctor?

[furious] Where the hell have you been? Every time you asked, I have been there! Where the hell were you today?!

I couldn't have prevented this.

The Doctor You could have tried!

And so, my love, could you. [looks toward Amy and Rory] I know you're not all right, but hold tight, Amy, because you're going to be.

You think I wanted this?! I didn't do this! This... this wasn't me!

This was exactly you. All this, all of it. You make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name? "Doctor" - the word for "healer" and "wise man" throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word "doctor" means "mighty warrior". How far you've come. And now they've taken a child. The child of your best friends. And they're going to turn her into a weapon, just to bring you down. And all this, my love... in fear of you.

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