In all my travelling throughout the universe, I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here. The oldest civilisation: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power-mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen - they're still in the nursery compared to us. Ten million years of absolute power. That's what it takes to be really corrupt.
IThe Inquisitor
Doctor, these unseemly outbursts will not --
Unseemly outbursts?! If I hadn't visited Ravalox, as I then thought of it, the High Council would've kept this outrage buried, as presumably they have for several centuries!
I must agree. You have an endearing habit of blundering into these things, Doctor, and the High Council took full advantage of your blunder.
IThe Inquisitor
Explain that!
They made a deal with the Valeyard - or as I've always known him, the Doctor - to adjust the evidence, in return for which, he was promised the remainder of the Doctor's regenerations.
VThe Valeyard
This is clearly --
Just a minute! Did you call him... the Doctor?!
There is some evil in all of us, Doctor – even you. The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation, and I may say you do not improve with age.
Madam, this revelation should halt this trial immediately. Surely even Gallifreyan Law must acknowledge that the same person cannot be both prosecutor and defendant!
IThe Inquisitor
The single purpose of this trial is to determine the defendant's guilt or otherwise on the basis of the evidence that has been presented. Anything else is, for the moment, irrelevant!
[utterly speechless] WHAT?!
[to Glitz] How often must I tell you? We're not dealing with reality!
VThe Valeyard
[appears nearby] Why waste your breath on that simple-minded oaf? [vanishes and appears again next to Glitz] You cannot speak as though reality is a one-dimensional concept. [vanishes and appears again, face-to-face with the Doctor] Fortunately, there is a reality that you and I can agree on. The ultimate reality.
VThe Valeyard
"The undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns." [blinks to the Doctor's other side]
"Puzzles the will." Hamlet, Act III, Scene I.
VThe Valeyard
I really must curb these urges. I've no wish to become contaminated by your whims and idiosyncrasies.
Quite so. What I don't comprehend is why you want me dead. No. No, let me rephrase that. It would satisfy my curiosity to know why you should go to such extraordinary lengths to kill me.
VThe Valeyard
Come now, Doctor. How else can I obtain my freedom? Operate as a complete entity, unfettered by your side of my existence? Only by ridding myself of you and your misplaced morality, your constant crusading, your --
VThe Valeyard
[appears behind Glitz] Oafǃ Microbeǃ
GGlitz
Well, pardon me for trying to help. I'm neutral in this setup, you knowǃ
VThe Valeyard
[walks over to the Doctor] Only by releasing myself from the misguided maxims that you nurture can I be free. [vanishes]
GGlitz
Sounds to me like Armageddon's beckoning you, Doc.
VThe Valeyard
[reappears, fading as he speaks] With you destroyed and no longer able to constrain me, and with unlimited access to the Matrix, there will be nothing beyond my reachǃ
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Never mind the Sydney Carton heroics. You're not finished yet.
That trial was an illusion. [the cart vanishes and the Doctor falls to the ground]
