What if I'd've told them, Clyde? Maybe none of this would have happened!
Maybe it wouldn't have made any difference. Look, I know Sarah Jane doesn't believe in fate, but I reckon that Time and the Universe... They're not random. Everything's sort of tied together by these invisible strings. Like your mum joining BURPSS, or Ocean Waters having that disk thing.
You mean if something's gonna happen, it's gonna happen?
Yeah. [Rani and Clyde are holding hands; they both notice and Clyde lets go, moving away] Well... s-some things, anyway. But we're going to save your mum now, so if it's the Universe against Clyde Langer, then the Universe had better bring some mates! [cringes]
[Sarah Jane and Jo Grant are looking for the others]
I think there's something wrong.
Wrong? You mean...as in, "Just like the old days" sort of wrong?
Oh, exactly like the old days!
Good, so gosh, that was different. Hello, everyone!
Who are you? Where's Clyde?
Come on, Rani, use your brain; Clyde and I swapped places, yes? So I'm where he was, he's where I was, which means right now— oh. He's in a lot of trouble...
It's you, isn't it? Oh, you've done it again!
[smiles] Hello, Sarah Jane.
Doctor? [the Doctor nods]
[gapes] That's the Doctor?
What, Doctor? The Doctor?! My Doctor?!
Well, he can change his face-
Oh, I know...but into a baby's?
Oi, imagine it from my point of view! Last time I saw you Jo Grant, you were, what, twenty? Twenty-one? It's like someone baked you!
[The Doctor and Sarah Jane are repairing the Doctor's space-time swapping device using Sarah Jane's sonic lipstick. Jo Jones is in the background]
[applies the sonic lipstick] Does it hurt?
I mean the regeneration. That last body of yours, was he okay, I mean?
It always hurts. And there.
So how did you end up in this place?
The Shansheeth lured me; a mighty old battlefield just begging to be explored, 'cause I'm travelling with Amy Pond now, and Rory. Then they got married, so I dropped them off on a honeymoon planet, which isn't what you'd think; It's not a planet for a honeymoon, it's a planet on a honeymoon. It married an asteroid. [Sarah Jane and the Doctor laugh] And they nicked the TARDIS. The Shansheeth, not Amy and, err... Fortunately, I had all this wreckage to build a space swapping doodah-thingy-whatsit.
So you have a married couple in the TARDIS.
I only left you because I got married.
[quietly, to Sarah Jane] And there.
Did you think I was stupid?
Well, I was a bit dumb; still am, I suppose.
[turning to face Jo] Now what in the world would make you think that, ever, ever, ever?
We had been travelling down the Amazon for months and we reached a village in Crystalline, and it was the only place in thousands of miles that has a telephone, so I called you; I just wanted to say hello. And they told me that you left, left U.N.I.T, never came back, so I waited and waited, because you said you would see me again; you did; I asked you and you said yes, you promised, so I thought one day I would hear that sound, deep in the jungle; I would hear that funny wheezing noise and a big blue box right in the middle of the rainforest, because you wouldn't just leave; not forever, not me. [starts to cry] I've waited my whole, silly life.
No, but don't you see? How could I ever find you? You've spent the past 40 years living in huts, climbing up trees, tearing down barricades. You've done everything from flying kites on Kilimanjaro to sailing down the Yangtze in a tea-chest. Not even the TARDIS could pin you down!
Hold on... I did sail down the Yangtze in a tea-chest! How did you know?
And that family! All 7 kids, 12 grandchildren, 13th on his way. He's dyslexic, but that'll be fine; great swimmer.
So you've been watching me? All this time?
No. Because you're right. I don't look back. I can't. But the last time I was dying, I looked back on all of you. Every single one. And I was so proud.
Listen to me, both of you. I want you to remember.
We are remembering - That's the trouble!
No no no no no no no. I want you to remember everything. Every single day with me. Every single second.
CKColonel Karim
What's he doing?
Because your memories are more powerful than anything else on this planet. Just think of it, Sarah. Remember it, Jo. But properly. Properly. Give the Memory Weave everything. Every planet. Every face. Every mad man. Every loss. Every sunset. Every scent. Every terror. Every joy. Every Doctor. Every me.
There’s a woman called Tegan in Australia, fighting for Aboriginal rights. There’s Ben and Polly, in India, running an orphanage there. There was Harry. Oh, I loved Harry. He was a doctor, he did such good work with vaccines. He saved thousands of lives. There was a Dorothy something. She runs that company, A Charitable Earth. She’s ...raised billions. And this couple in Cambridge. Both professors. Ian and Barbara Chesterton. Rumour has it, they’ve never aged. Not since the sixties. I wonder… echoes of the Doctor, all over the world. With friends like us, he’s never going to die, is he?
