“Hide”
In this episode: Eleventh Doctor (3), Clara Oswald (2)
[The Doctor is leaving Clara alone in the TARDIS]
Back in a mo'. You alright?
Totally. Peachy keen.
Okay, then. Well, don't press any buttons or pull any levers or make funny faces. Actually, don't move. Stand completely still. Don't breathe. Well... you can breathe, but shallow breaths.
[Clara stands still, slowly raising a hand in a thumbs up gesture with a stiff and amused smile on her face]
Have we just watched the entire life cycle of Earth, birth to death?
Yes.
And you're okay with that?
Yes...
How can you be?
The TARDIS. She's... time. We... wibbly vortex and so on.
That's not what I mean.
Okay. Some help? Context? Cheat sheet? Something?
I mean one minute you're in 1974 looking for ghosts, but all you have to do is open your eyes and talk to whoever's standing there. To you, I haven't been born yet. And, to you, I've been dead a hundred billion years. [Clara looks at the ruined Earth of the distant future displayed on the TARDIS scanner] Is my body out there somewhere? In the ground?
Yes. I suppose it is.
But here we are, talking, so I am a ghost. To you, I'm a ghost. We're all ghosts to you. We must be nothing.
No. No. You're not that.
Then what are we? What can we possibly be?
You are the only mystery worth solving.
Doctor, will it hurt?
No. Well, yes, probably. A bit. Well, quite a lot. I don't know. It might be agony. To be perfectly honest, I'll be interested to find out.
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