[on video message] The Earth was burning. Our sun had turned on us and every other nation had fled to the skies. Our children screamed as the skies grew hotter. And then it came, like a miracle - the last of the Star Whales. We trapped it, we built our ship around it, and we rode on its back to safety. If you wish our voyage to continue, then you must press the Forget button. Be again the heart of this nation, untainted. If not, press the other button. Your reign will end, the Star Whale will be released, and our ship will disintegrate. I hope I keep the strength to make the right decision.
I voted for this. Why would I do that?
Because you knew if we stayed here, I'd be faced with an impossible choice. Humanity or the alien. You took it upon yourself to save me from that. [sternly] And that was wrong. You don't ever decide what I need to know.
I don't even remember doing it!
You did it. That's what counts.
I'm... I'm sorry.
Oh, I don't care. When I'm done here, you're going home. [heads for the controls]
Why? Because I made a mistake? One mistake? I don't even remember doing it! Doctor!
[dismissive] Yeah, I know. You're only human.
What are you doing?
The worst thing I'll ever do. I'm going to pass a massive electrical charge through the Star Whale's brain - should knock out all its higher functions, leave it a vegetable. The ship will still fly, but the Whale won't feel it.
[horrified] That'll be like killing it.
Look, three options: One, I let the Star Whale continue in unendurable agony for hundreds more years. Two, I kill everyone on this ship. Three, I murder a beautiful, innocent creature as painlessly as I can... and then I-- I find a new name, because I won't be "The Doctor" anymore.
There must be something we can do, some other way--
Nobody talk to me; nobody HUMAN HAS ANYTHING TO SAY TO ME TODAY!
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