“The Fires of Pompeii”
In this episode: Tenth Doctor (6), Donna (5), Fourth Doctor (1)
Who are you?
I am...Spartacus.
And so am I.
Mr. and Mrs. Spartacus?
Oh, no-no-no-no-no, we're not married.
Oh, brother and sister? Yes, of course, you look very much alike.
[The Doctor and Donna look at each other.]
[together] Really?!
[Donna is tied to a sacrificial altar.]
This prattling voice will cease forever!
[sardonically] Oh, that'll be the day.
No man is allowed to enter the Temple of Sybil!
[Note: Keep in mind that the original Sybil was a soothsayer.]
Oh that's all right. [mocking] Just us girls. You know, I met the Sybil once. Hell of a woman! Blimey, she could dance a tarantella! Nice teeth... Truth be told, I think she had a bit of a thing for me. I said it would never last, she said "I know". Well, she would. [to Donna, who is still tied to the altar.] You all right there?
[sarcastic] Oh, never better.
I like the toga.
Thank you. And the ropes?
Eh, not so much.
[discussing the earthquake of AD 62] After the great earthquake seventeen years ago... An awful lot of damage, but we rebuilt.
Didn't you think of moving away? On, no, then again, San Francisco.
That's a new restaurant in Naples, isn't it?
[While confronting the Pyroviles within Mount Vesuvius]
There is nowhere to run, Doctor, and daughter of London!
Now then, Lucius, my Lords Pyrovillian! Don't get yourselves in a lather! [pauses] In a "lava"? No? No... But if I might beg the wisdom of the gods before we perish? Once this new race of creatures is complete, then what?
My masters will follow the example of Rome itself! An almighty empire, bestriding the whole of civilisation!
But if you've crashed, and you've got all this technology, why don't you just go home?!
The Heaven of Pyrovillia is gone.
What do you mean "gone", where's it gone?
It was taken! Pyrovillia is lost. But there is heat enough in this world for a new species to rise.
Yeah, I should warn you, it's 70% water out there--
Water can boil! And everything will burn, Doctor!
Then the whole planet is at stake - thank you, that's all I needed to know.
But if there's aliens setting off the volcano, doesn't that make it all right? For you to stop it?
Still part of history.
Well, I'm history to you. You saved me in 2008, you saved us all. Why's that different?
Some things are fixed, some things are in flux. Pompeii is fixed.
How do you know which is which?
[The Doctor turns around and looks Donna right in the eye.]
'Cause that's how I see the universe. Every waking second, I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not. That's the burden of a Time Lord, Donna. And I'm the only one left.
You've got to go back! Doctor, I am telling you, take this thing BACK! It's not fair!
The Doctor (quietly): No, it's not.
Donna (near tears): But your own planet...it burned...
That's just it. Don't you see, Donna? Can't you understand? If I could go back and save them, then I would, but I can't! I can never go back. I just can't.
Donna (crying now): Just someone. Not the whole town. Just save someone. Please...
(and he realises Donna's right, that he should do something. So he manipulates controls, and the TARDIS rematerialises in the villa)
The Doctor (to Caecilius and his family, who are all convinced they're doomed): Come with me.
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