Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Cave of Skulls (1963)

William Russell: Ian Chesterton

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• Susan Foreman : We've left 1963.

  The Doctor : Oh, yes, undoubtedly. I'll be able to tell you where presently. Zero? That's not right. I'm afraid this yearometer is not calculating properly. Hm! Well, anyway, the journey's finished.

  [looking at Ian on the ground] 

  The Doctor : What are you doing down there?

  Barbara Wright : What have you done?

  Ian Chesterton : Barbara, you don't believe all this nonsense.

  Susan Foreman : Well, look at the scanner screen.

  The Doctor : Yes, look up there. They don't understand and I suspect they don't want to. Well, there you are. A new world for you.

  Ian Chesterton : Sand and rock?

  The Doctor : Yes. That's the immediate view outside the ship.

  Barbara Wright : But where are we?

  Ian Chesterton : You mean that's what we'll see when we go outside?

  Susan Foreman : Yes, you'll see it for yourself.

  Ian Chesterton : I don't believe it.

  The Doctor : You really are a stubborn young man, aren't you?

  Ian Chesterton : All right, show me some proof. Give me some concrete evidence. I'm sorry, Susan. I don't want to hurt you, but it's time you were brought back to reality.

  Susan Foreman : But you're wrong, Mr. Chesterton.

  The Doctor : They are saying I'm a charlatan. What concrete evidence would satisfy you? Hmm?

  Ian Chesterton : Just open the doors, Doctor Foreman.

  The Doctor : Eh? Doctor who? What are you talking about?

• Ian Chesterton : Just a minute. You say we've gone back in time?

  The Doctor : Yes, quite so.

  Ian Chesterton : So that when we go out of that door, we won't be in a junkyard in London in England in the year 1963?

  The Doctor : That is quite correct. But your tone suggests ridicule.

  Ian Chesterton : But it is ridiculous. Time doesn't go round and round in circles. You can't get on and off whenever you like in the past or the future.

  The Doctor : Really? Where does time go, then?

  Ian Chesterton : It doesn't go anywhere. It just happens and then it's finished.

• Barbara Wright : You're very quiet.

  Ian Chesterton : I was wrong, wasn't I?

  Barbara Wright : Oh, look, I don't understand it anymore than you do. The inside of the ship, suddenly finding ourselves here. Even some of the things Doctor Foreman says...

  Ian Chesterton : That's not his name. Who is he? Doctor who? Perhaps if we knew his name, we might have a clue to all this.

• Ian Chesterton : Strange.

  Barbara Wright : What?

  Ian Chesterton : This sand. It's cold. It's nearly freezing.

  Za : It's good to have someone to laugh at!

• The Doctor : I'm sorry, it's all my fault. I'm desperately sorry.

  Susan Foreman : Don't blame yourself grandfather.

  The Doctor : Look at that. Look at it.

  Ian Chesterton : They're all the same... They've been split wide open.