Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
A Good Man Goes To War
Amy: There's a man who's never going to let us down, and not even an army can get in the way. He's the last of his kind. He looks young, but he's lived for hundreds and hundreds of years. And wherever they take you, Melody, however scared you are, I promise you, you will never be alone. Because this man is your father. He has a name, but the people of our world know him better
[OC]: As the Last Centurion.
Rory: I have a message and a question. A message from the Doctor and a question from me. Where is my wife? Oh, don't give me those blank looks. The Twelfth Cyber Legion monitors this entire quadrant. You hear everything. So you tell me what I need to know. You tell me now, and I'll be on my way.
Cyberleader: What is the Doctor's message?
(Outside, all the other ships in the Legion explode.) Rory: Would you like me to repeat the question?
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Strax: All airlocks sealed. Resistance neutralised.
The Doctor: Sorry, Colonel Manton. I lied. Three minutes forty two seconds.
Strax: Colonel Manton, you will give the order for your men to withdraw.
The Doctor: No. Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to run away.
Manton: You what?
The Doctor: Those words. Run away. I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Run Away. I want children laughing outside your door, because they've found the house of Colonel Run Away. And, when people come to you, and ask if trying to get to me through the people I love is in any way a good idea, I want you to tell them your name. Oh, look, I'm angry. That's new. I'm really not sure what's going to happen now.
Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.
The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
Kovarian: Give the order. Give the order, Colonel Run Away.
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Amy: Rory? Rory, is that you.
Rory [OC]: Yeah, it's me. Look, hang on a minute.
(It sounds like Rory is trying to sonic his way in.) Amy: They took her. Rory, they took our baby away.
(The door opens. Rory is carrying Melody.) Rory: Now, Mrs Williams, that is never, ever going to happen.
Amy: Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Where's she been? What have they done to her?
Rory: She's fine. Amy, she's fine. I checked. She's beautiful. Oh God, I was going to be cool. I wanted to be cool. Look at me.
Amy: You're okay. Crying Roman with a baby. Definitely cool. Come here, you.
The Doctor: Urgh. Kissing and crying. I'll, I'll be back in a bit.
Rory: Oi, you. Get in here, now. My daughter. What do you think?
The Doctor: Hello. Hello, baby.
Amy: Melody.
The Doctor: Melody? Hello, Melody Pond.
Rory: Melody Williams.
Amy: Is a geography teacher. Melody Pond is a superhero.
The Doctor: Well yes, I suppose she does smell nice. Never really sniffed her. Maybe I should give it a go. Amelia Pond, come here.
Amy: Doctor.
The Doctor: I'm sorry we were so long.
Amy: It's okay. I knew you were coming. Both of you. My boys.
The Doctor: It's okay. She's still all yours. And really, you should call her mummy, not big milk thing.
Amy: Okay, what are you doing?
The Doctor: I speak Baby.
Amy: No, you don't.
The Doctor: I speak everything, don't I, Melody Pond. No, it's not. it's cool.
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The Doctor: But she's human. She's Amy and Rory's daughter.
Vastra: You've told me about your people. They became what they did through prolonged exposure to the time vortex. The Untempered Schism.
The Doctor: Over billions of years. It didn't just happen.
Vastra: So how close is she? Could she even regenerate?
The Doctor: No, no. I don't think so.
Vastra: You don't sound so sure.
The Doctor: Because I don't understand how this happened.
Vastra: Which leads me to ask when did it happen?
The Doctor: When?
Vastra: I am trying to be delicate. I know how you can blush. When did this baby begin?
The Doctor: Oh, you mean
Vastra: Quite.
The Doctor: Well, how would I know? That's all human-y, private stuff. It just sort of goes on. They don't put up a balloon, or anything.
Vastra: But could the child have begun on the Tardis in flight, in the vortex.
The Doctor: No! No! Impossible! It's all running about, sexy fish vampires and blowing up stuff. And Rory wasn't even there at the beginning. Then he was dead, then he didn't exist, then he was plastic. Then I had to reboot the whole universe. Long story. So, technically the first time they were on the Tardis together in this version of reality, was on their w
Vastra: On their what?
The Doctor: On their wedding night.
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River: Well then, soldier. How goes the day?
The Doctor: Where the hell have you been? Every time you've asked, I have been there. Where the hell were you today?
River: I couldn't have prevented this.
The Doctor: You could have tried!
River: And so, my love, could you. I know you're not all right. But hold tight, Amy, because you're going to be.
The Doctor: You think I wanted this? I didn't do this. This, this wasn't me!
River: This was exactly you. All this. All of it. You make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name. Doctor. The word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word Doctor means mighty warrior. How far you've come. And now they've taken a child, the child of your best friends, and they're going to turn her into a weapon just to bring you down. And all this, my love, in fear of you.
The Doctor: Who are you?
River: Oh look, your cot. Haven't seen that in a very long while.
The Doctor: No, no, you tell me. Tell me who you are.
River: I am telling you. Can't you read?
(The Old High Gallifreyan on the cot.) The Doctor: Hello.
River: Hello.
The Doctor: But but that means
River: I'm afraid it does.
The Doctor: Ooo. But you and I, we, we, we, er
(kiss kiss) River: Yes.
(The Doctor is getting all excited with anticipation.) The Doctor: How do I look?
River: Amazing.
The Doctor: I'd better be.
River: Yes, you'd better be.
The Doctor: Vastra and Jenny, till the next time. Rory and Amy, I know where to find your daughter, and on my life, she will be safe. River, get them all home.
Rory: Doctor!
Amy: No! Where are you going?
(The Doctor takes down the forcefield around the Tardis and goes inside.) No!
(The Tardis dematerialises.) Where's he going and what did you tell him?
River: Amy, you have stay calm.
(Amy picks up a gun.) Amy: Tell me what you told the Doctor.
Rory: Amy, no. Stop it!
River: It's okay, Rory. She's fine. She's good. It's the Tardis translation matrix. It takes a while to kick in with the written word. You have to concentrate.
Amy: I still can't read it.
River: It's because it's Gallifreyan and doesn't translate. But this will.
(The prayer leaf.) It's your daughter's name in the language of the Forest.
Amy: I know my daughter's name.
River: Except they don't have a word for Pond, because the only water in the forest is the River. The Doctor will find your daughter, and he will care for her whatever it takes. And I know that. It's me. I'm Melody. I'm your daughter.