“The End of Time” quotes from Doctor Who

It is said that in the final days of planet Earth, everyone had bad dreams. To the west of the north of that world, the human race did gather, in celebration of a pagan rite to banish the dark and the cold. Each and everyone of those people had dreamt of the terrible things to come, but they forgot... because they must. They forgot their nightmares of fire and war and insanity. They forgot, except for one...

Ah, now! Sorry, there you are. So, where we? I was summoned, wasn't I? The Ood in the snow, calling to me. Well, I didn't just have to come straight here; had a bit of fun. You know, traveled about, did this and that, got into trouble, you know me. But it was brilliant. I saw the phosphorous carousel of the Great Magellan Gestadt, saved a planet from the Red Carnivorous Maw, named a galaxy Alison. Got married! That was a mistake. Good Queen Bess. And let me tell you, her nickname is no longer-- [clears throat] anyway, what do you want?

You should not have delayed.

Last time I was here, you said my song would be ending soon. And I'm in no hurry for that.

You will come with me.

Hold on. Better lock the TARDIS. [points the TARDIS key at the TARDIS, which chirps like a sports car as its light flashes. He looks back at Ood Sigma] Eh? Like a car. I l— locked it, like a car. [Ood Sigma looks unamused] That's... funny. No? Little bit? [exhales] Blimey, trying to make an Ood laugh...

[bluntly] I'm going to die.

Well, so am I one day.

Don't you dare!

Alright, I'll try not to! [chuckles]

But I was told: "He will knock four times". That was the prophecy: knock four times and then...

Yeah, but I thought, when I saw you before, your people could change like your whole body...

I can still die. If I'm killed before regeneration, then I'm dead. Even then, even if I change, it feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away... and I'm dead.

And so it came to pass that the players took their final places, making ready the events that were to come. [The Master sits alone in an abandoned warehouse, gnawing on a bone] The madman, sat in his empire of dust and ashes, little knowing of the glory he would achieve, [The Doctor is shown outside, looking into the warehouse] while his saviour looked upon the wilderness, in the hope of changing his inevitable fate. [Cuts to Joshua and Abigail Naismith, drinking champagne and observing the Immortaility Gate] Far away, the idiots and fools dreamt of a shining new future... a future now doomed to never happen. As Earth rolled onwards into night, the people of that world did sleep, and shiver, somehow knowing that dawn would bring only one thing: the final day!

And so it came to pass on Christmas Day, that the human race did cease to exist. But even then, the Master had no concept of his role in greater events. For this was far more than humanity's end! This was the day upon which the whole of creation would change forever!

This was the day... the Time Lords returned. For Gallifrey!

For Gallifrey!

For victory!

For victory!

For the end of Time itself!

For the end of Time itself!

[offering his revolver] Listen, I... I want you to have this. I've kept it all this time, and I thought...

No.

No, but i-if you take it, you could--

No.

You had that gun in the mansion. You could have shot the Master there and then.

Too scared, I suppose.

I'd be proud.

Of what?

If you were my dad. [smiles]

Oh, come on, don't start. But you said... you were told "he will knock four times and then you die". Well, that's him, isn't it? The Master. That noise in his head. The Master is gonna kill you.

Yeah.

[offering the gun again] Then kill him first.

And that's how the Master started. It's not like I'm an innocent. I've taken lives. I got worse, I got clever. Manipulated people into taking their own. Sometimes, I think a Time Lord lives too long...

Now the High Council of Time Lords must vote whether we die here today, or return to the waking world and complete the Ultimate Sanction. For this is the hour when either Gallifrey falls, or... Gallifrey rises!

Gallifrey rises!

Gallifrey rises!

They gone, then? Yeah, good-o. If you could, uh, let me out?

[quiet, choked] Yeah.

Only, this thing seems to be making a bit of a noise.

The Master... left the Nuclear Bolt running. It's gone into overload.

And that's bad, is it?

No... because all the excess radiation gets vented inside there. Vinvocci glass contains it. All five hundred thousand rads, about to flood that thing.

Oh. Well, you'd better let me out, then.

Except it's gone critical. Touch one control, and it floods. [holding up the sonic screwdriver] Even this would set it off.

I'm sorry.

[quietly] Sure.

Look, just leave me.

[angrily walking around the room] Okay, right, then, I will. 'Cos you just had to go in there, didn't you?! You had to go and get stuck, oh yes! Because that's who you are, Wilfred. You were always this. Waiting for me, all this time.

Oh, really, just leave me. I'm an old man, Doctor, I've had my time.

[still angry] Well, exactly, look at you! Not remotely important! But me... I could do so much more! SO MUCH MORE! But this is what I get, my reward. AND IT'S NOT FAIR! [pushes papers off a table in an outburst, but then looks back at Wilfred, remorseful and resigned] Oh... lived too long... [walks towards the booth]

[realizing what he means to do] No. No, no, please, please don't. No, don't, don't! Please don't! Please!

Wilfred... it's my honour. [enters the booth] Better be quick: three, two, one...

We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending, but the story never ends.