[The Doctor steps out of the TARDIS]
Exterminate! Exterminate!
[They fire their weapons, which are stopped by a force-field extending a good three metres out from the Tardis]
Is that it? Useless! Nul points! [to Rose and Jack] It's all right, you can come out; that force-field can hold back anything.
Yes, but I wasn't going to tell them that, thanks.
Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek Homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You might've removed all your emotions but I reckon right down deep in your DNA, there's one little spark left, and that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me? So tell me. How did you survive the Time War?
They survived through me.
[The Doctor turns to the sound of the voice, the lights then come on revealing the Dalek Emperor and his army]
[shocked] Rose...Captain...This is the Emperor of the Daleks.
You destroyed us, Doctor. The Dalek race died in your inferno, but my ship survived. Falling through time, crippled but alive.
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Do not interrupt!
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Do not interrupt!
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Do not interrupt!
I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor, and If there's one thing I can do, it's talk! I've got five billion languages, and you haven't got one way of stopping me. So if anyone's gonna shut up, [turns around and angrily yells at the Daleks] IT'S YOU!
[The Daleks back up from the Doctor's outburst. The Doctor turns back to the Emperor, his face once again calm]
[cheerfully] Okie-doke! So, where were we?
[as a hologram] This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, now listen. This is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger, and I mean fatal. I'm dead, or about to die any second with no chance of escape. And that's okay. Hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you home. [Rose protests] And I bet you're fussing and moaning now. Typical! But hold on and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do: let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it. No one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world will move on and the box will be buried. And if you wanna remember me, then you can do one thing, that's all, one thing. [turns to Rose, his voice no longer sounding projected] Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life.
But what do I do every day, Mum? Get up. Go to work. Catch the bus, eat chips, and go to bed.
It's what the rest of us do.
Because you’re better than us?
No, I didn't mean that. But it was, it was a better life. I don’t mean all the travelling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things. That don't matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. [to Mickey] You know, he showed you too. [continues] You don't just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand. You say "no." You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away, and I just can't...! [runs out in tears]
[The Daleks have cornered the Doctor]
You really wanna think about this. 'Cos if I activate this signal, every living creature dies.
Do you wanna put that to the test?
I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor, the great exterminator!
[gripping the switch] I'LL DO IT!
Then prove yourself, Doctor! What are you? Coward or killer?
[hesitates, then finally steps away] Coward. Any day.
Mankind will be harvested because of your weakness.
And what about me? Am I becoming one of your angels?
You are the heathen. You will be exterminated!
Rose Tyler. I was going to take you to so many places. Barcelona. Not the city Barcelona, the planet Barcelona. You'd love it. Fantastic place! They've got dogs with no noses! [Laughs] Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke and it's still funny!
Maybe you will, and maybe I will. But not like this.
I might never make sense again! I might have two heads, or no head. Imagine me with no head, ha! And don't say that's an improvement... But it's a bit dodgy, this process. You never know what you're going to end up with. [he gasps as a burst of regenerative energy erupts from his torso]
Doctor, tell me what's going on.
I absorbed all the energy of the time vortex, and no one's meant to do that! [chuckles, but then looks up at her seriously] Every cell in my body's dying.
Yeah. I'm doing it now! Time Lords have this little trick. It's sort of a way of cheating death. Except... it means I'm going to change. And I'm not going to see you again. Not like this. Not with this daft old face. And before I go--
Rose, before I go, I just want to tell you you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? So was I! [The Doctor regenerates.]
The Doctor [first words after regenerating]: Hello! Oka-- [gulp, nauseated expression] New teeth. That's weird. So where was I? Oh, that's right: Barcelona! [grins]
