Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
Face The Raven
(Clara runs through the door, followed by the Doctor, who closes it on the bright yellow light outside.) Clara: I told you it'd work!
The Doctor: It very nearly ate you for dinner.
Clara: Oh, admit it. I totally saved your life.
The Doctor: It wasn't going to eat me.
Clara:
(laughs) I totally saved you from having to marry that giant sentient plant thing. That bit when I jumped over the side? That was amazing.
(The Doctor snorts and grins.) Ha! I knew you were impressed.
The Doctor: The second most beautiful garden in all of time and space, and we can never come back here because you, Miss Oswald, decided...
(The Tardis console phone rings. They stare at it, then the Doctor gestures for Clara to answer it.) Clara: Hello?
Rigsy [OC]: Clara? Finally. It's Rigsy.
Clara: Oh. Rigsy. Hey. What's wrong?
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The Doctor:
(looking at Rigsy's baby daughter ) Did you make this human?
Rigsy: Lucy? Yeah, she's mine.
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The Doctor: Your pre-frontal cortex is marinating in it. Ooo, there's something else. Something. Er, not good. Weird.
(The Doctor walks around the console and picks up his cue cards. The top one reads I Could Be Wrong. Lets Try It Your Way. He goes to the next card. Clara stares at him.) Rigsy: What's he doing?
Clara: He's making an effort to be nice.
The Doctor: There is no nice way to say you're about to die.
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(A familiar woman enters, hair up in large curls 1940s style, and escorted by two police officers.) Ashildr: Of course he does, now that you've told him.
(Rump and Kabel bow.) Rump: Mayor Me.
Clara: Ashildr.
Ashildr: Ashildr?
The Doctor: That's your name. I keep telling you that.
Ashildr: Do you? Infinite lifespan, finite memory. It makes for an awkward social life. You must be Clara Oswald. You're as beautiful as your photos.
Clara: We met.
Ashildr: Yes, I know. It's in my diaries. Oh, don't look like that. I enjoyed our conversations. I've read them many times.
Clara: Okay, that's slightly odd, but nice. Er, hang on, so this is where you've been. That's why he lost track of you.
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Clara: Okay, we split up. Cover more ground. I'm good cop, you're bad cop.
The Doctor: No, no, no, we don't have. Can I not be the good cop?
Clara: Doctor, we've discussed this. Your face.
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Ashildr: Rigsy, your neck.
Rigsy: Clara, what are you playing at? The chronolock!
Clara: Take the teleport off him first.
(Ashildr reaches for Rigsy's neck.) Rigsy: I don't have it, I'm telling you. Clara does.
(Clara shows Ashildr the back of her neck.) Ashildr: No. No, you didn't.
[Countdown] (008.) Clara: Go on, then. Take it off.
The Doctor: Clara, you didn't!
(The Doctor turns Clara around and stares at the numbers in horror.) Ashildr: I had no idea she'd do something so stupid. I swear, I never meant for anyone to get hurt. Look, what were you thinking? Sacrificing yourself?
Clara: I wasn't sacrificing anything. It was strategy. Backup plan, to buy us more time.
The Doctor: Who told you to give it to her?
Clara: Nobody did. I did. Rump said
The Doctor: What exactly did Rump say?
Clara: He said the death is locked in. You can pass it on, but you
(Clara realises her folly.) The Doctor: But what?
Clara: But
Ashildr: But you can't cheat it altogether.
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Clara: You. Now, you listen to me. You're going to be alone now, and you're very bad at that. You're going to be furious and you're going to be sad, but listen to me. Don't let this change you. No, listen. Whatever happens next, wherever she is sending you, I know what you're capable of. You don't be a Warrior. Promise me. Be a Doctor.
The Doctor: What's the point of being a Doctor if I can't cure you?
Clara: Heal yourself. You have to. You can't let this turn you into a monster. So, I'm not asking you for a promise, I'm giving you an order. You will not insult my memory. There will be no revenge. I will die, and no one else, here or anywhere, will suffer.
The Doctor: What about me?
Clara: If there was something I could do about that, I would. I guess we're both just going to have to be brave.
The Doctor: Clara.
(They hug.) Clara: Everything you are about to say, I already know. Don't do it now. We've already had enough bad timing.
(The Raven caws close by.) The Doctor: Don't run. Stay with me.
Clara: Nah. You stay here. In the end, everybody does this alone.
The Doctor: Clara
Clara: This is as brave as I know how to be. I know it's going to hurt you, but, please, be a little proud of me.
(She touches his cheek. He takes her hand and kisses it.) Goodbye, Doctor.
(The Raven caws. Clara steps out into the deserted street. The Raven lands on a nearby stall and caws. She walks towards it as other passers-by run away. The Doctor steps out of the doorway.) (sotto) Let me be brave. Let me be brave.
(The Raven launches itself from its perch. Clara opens her arms wide and it flies into her stomach. She opens her mouth wide in a silent scream - or at least one completely drowned out by the music - then relaxes and the Quantum Shade smoke comes out of her mouth as she falls to the ground.)
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Ashildr: I'm sorry, Doctor. I truly am.
(Ashildr steps up to the stasis chamber control panel and makes it beep, then steps away again.) The Doctor: What Clara said about not taking revenge. Do you know why she said that?
Ashildr: She was saving you.
The Doctor: I was lost a long time ago. She was saving you. I'll do my best, but I strongly advise you to keep out of my way. You'll find that it's a very small universe when I'm angry with you.