Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
The Name Of The Doctor
Andro: Something wrong?
Fabian: It's the repair shop. What kind of idiot would steal a faulty Tardis?
(The monitor screen shows a white-haired old man in a black frock coat and a teenaged girl getting into a non-camouflaged Type 40.)
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Strax [OC]: Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha!
(Strax and a big man go flying through a window.) Archie: Come here while I kill ye, ya filthy wee midden.
Strax: Prepare to die in agony for the glory of the Sontaran Empire!
Messenger Boy: Excuse me. Mister Strax?
Strax: What is it, girl? Can't you see I'm trying to crush the brains of this stinking primitive? Sorry about this.
Archie: No problem.
Messenger Boy: It's a telegram, sir. Very urgent.
(Strax reads it.) Strax: Conference call. Sorry, Archie. I'm going to have to ask you to render me unconscious.
Archie: Fine.
(Archie raises his large mallet.) Strax: Better use this.
(Strax's even larger shovel.) It might take a while.
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River: So what else did this DeMarco tell you? He didn't just buy his life with some coordinates. How did he prove their value?
Vastra: One word, only.
River: What word?
Vastra: A word I've heard in connection with the Doctor before. Trenzalore.
River: How exactly did he describe what he was giving you?
Holo-DeMarco: The Doctor has a secret, you know. He has one he will take to the grave. And it is discovered.
River: You misunderstood.
Jenny: Ma'am, I'm sorry. I just realise I forgot to lock the doors.
Vastra: It doesn't matter, Jenny. What misunderstanding? Tell me.
Jenny: No, ma'am, please. I should've locked up before we went into the trance.
Vastra: Jenny, it doesn't matter!
Jenny: Someone's broken in. Someone's with us. I can hear them.
Vastra: Jenny, are you all right?
Jenny: Sorry, ma'am. So sorry. So sorry. So sorry. I think I've been murdered
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Strax: This base is surrounded! Lay down your weapons and your deaths will be merciful!
Vastra: Jenny. Jenny!
(Vastra runs to her wife's body.) Strax: This planet is now property of the Sontaran Empire. Surrender your women and intellectuals.
Vastra: Strax, please! She's dead.
(He scans Jenny.) Strax: No heart beat. Complete cardio-collapse, shock induced.
Vastra: Get her back for me. Get her back for me now or I will cut you into pieces.
Strax: Unhand me, ridiculous reptile.
(He uses his medi-scanner to transmit an electric pulse, and Jenny coughs.) There we go. Just a standard electro-cardio restart. She'll be fine.
Vastra: Are you all right, my love? Can you hear me?
Strax: The heart is a relatively simple thing.
Vastra: I have not found it to be so.
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The Doctor: Hey, it's okay. You're fine. The dimensioning forces this deep in the Tardis, they can make you a bit giddy.
Clara: I know, I know. How do I know? How do I know that?
The Doctor: Clara, it's okay. You're fine.
Clara: Have we, have we done this before? We have. We have done this before. Climbing through a wrecked Tardis. You said things, things I'm not supposed to remember.
The Doctor: We can't do this now. The Tardis is a ruin. The telepathic circuits are awakening memories you shouldn't even have.
The Doctor [memory]: Why do I keep meeting you?
The Doctor: Clara.
The Doctor [memory]: The Dalek Asylum. There was a girl in a shipwreck and she died saving my life. And she was you.
The Doctor: Clara.
The Doctor [memory]: In Victorian London there was a governess, who was really a barmaid, and she died. And she was you.
The Doctor: Clara? Clara, what's wrong?
Clara: What do you mean, you keep meeting me? You said I died. How could I die?
The Doctor: That is not a conversation you should even remember.
Clara: What do you mean I died?
Whisper Men: The girl who died he tried to save. She'll die again inside his grave.
The Doctor: Run. Run!
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Clara: What's that?
The Doctor: What were you expecting, a body? Bodies are boring. I've had loads of them. Nah, that's not what my tomb is for.
Vastra: But what is the light?
Jenny: It's beautiful.
Strax: Should I destroy it?
Vastra: Shut up, Strax.
Clara: Doctor, explain. What is that?
The Doctor: The tracks of my tears.
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Clara: I have to go in there.
The Doctor: Please, please, no.
Clara: But this is what I've already done. You've already seen me do it. I'm the Impossible Girl, and this is why.
River: Whatever you're thinking of doing, don't.
Clara: If I step in there, what happens?
River: The time winds will tear you into a million pieces. A million versions of you, living and dying all over time and space, like echoes.
Clara: But the echoes could save the Doctor, right?
River: But they won't be you. The real you will die. They'll just be copies.
Clara: But they'll be real enough to save him. It's like my mum said. The souffle isn't the souffle, the souffle is the recipe. It's the only way to save him, isn't it?
Vastra: The stars are going out. And Jenny and Strax are dead. There must be something we can do.
Clara: Well, how about that? I'm souffle girl after all.
The Doctor: No. Please.
Clara: If this works, get out of here as fast as you can. And spare me a thought now and then.
The Doctor: No, Clara.
Clara: In fact, you know what? Run. Run, you clever boy, and remember me.
The Doctor: No. Clara!
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(The Doctor looks forward to where a man is standing with his back to them.) Clara: Who's that?
The Doctor: Never mind. Let's go back.
Clara: But who is he?
The Doctor: He's me. There's only me here, that's the point. Now let's get back.
Clara: But I never saw that one. I saw all of you. Eleven faces, all of them you. You're the eleventh Doctor.
The Doctor: I said he was me. I never said he was the Doctor.
Clara: I don't understand.
The Doctor: Look, my name, my real name, that is not the point. The name I chose is the Doctor. The name you choose, it's like, it's like a promise you make. He's the one who broke the promise.
(Clara faints.) Clara? Clara? Clara!
(The Doctor picks up Clara in his arms.) He is my secret.
Not Doctor: What I did, I did without choice.
The Doctor: I know.
Not Doctor: In the name of peace and sanity.
The Doctor: But not in the name of the Doctor.
(The Doctor turns and carries Clara away. The figure turns around... to introduce John Hurt as the Doctor.)