“The Name of the Doctor”
In this episode: Eleventh Doctor (3), Clara Oswald (3), First Doctor (1), The War Doctor (1)
It's a hell of a monument.
It's the TARDIS.
I can see that.
No. When a TARDIS is dying, sometimes the dimension dams start breaking down. They used to call it a size leak. All the bigger-on-the-inside starts leaking to the outside. It grows. When I say that's the TARDIS, I don't mean it looks like the TARDIS, I mean it actually is the TARDIS, my TARDIS from the future. What else would they bury me in?
The Doctor's life is a open wound. And an open wound can be entered.
No, it would destroy you--
Not at all. It will kill me. It will destroy you. I can rewrite your every living moment. I can turn every one of you victories into defeats. Poison every friendship. Deliver pain to your every breath.
It will burn you up! Once you go through, you can't come back. You will be scattered along my timeline like confetti!
It matters not, Doctor. You thwarted me at every turn. Now you will give me peace, as I take my revenge on every second of your life. Goodbye. Goodbye, Doctor. [enters the time stream]
[narrating] Sometimes it's like I've lived a thousand lives in a thousand places. I'm born, I live, I die. And always, there's the Doctor. Always I'm running to save the Doctor. Again and again and again. And he hardly ever hears me. But I've always been there.
[The First Doctor and Susan are about to steal a faulty TARDIS]
Doctor?
Yes? What is it? What do you want?
[narrating] Right from the very beginning.
Sorry, but you're about to make a very big mistake. Don't steal that one, steal this one. The navigation system's knackered, but you'll have much more fun.
[narrating] Right from the day he started running.
[As the Doctor hugs Clara, he notices a man in the distance, his back turned to the pair of them. The Doctor's expression turns to one of horror. Clara turns around to see the man.]
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 collapses from exhaustion]
Clara? Clara! Clara!
[The Doctor catches her and picks her up]
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!
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