Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Sound of Drums (2007)

Freema Agyeman: Martha Jones

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Quotes 

• Captain Jack Harkness : But all the legends of Gallifrey made it sound so perfect.

  The Doctor : Well, perfect to look at, maybe. And it was, it was beautiful. They used to call it the Shining World of the Seven Systems. And on the continent of Wild Endeavour, in the mountains of Solace and Solitude, there stood the Citadel of the Time Lords. The oldest and most mighty race in the universe. Looking down on the galaxies below, sworn never to interfere, only to watch. Children of Gallifrey were taken from their families at the age of eight to enter the Academy. Some say that's where it all began, when he was a child. That's when the Master saw eternity. As a novice, he was taken for initiation. He stood in front of the Untempered Schism. It's a gap in the fabric of reality through which could be seen the whole of the vortex. We stand there, eight years old, staring at the raw power of time and space, just a child. Some would be inspired. Some would run away. And some would go mad.

  Martha Jones : What about you?

  The Doctor : Oh, the ones that ran away, I never stopped.

• Martha Jones : It's the day after the election. That's only four days after I met you.

  The Doctor : We went flying all around the Universe while he was here all the time.

  Martha Jones : Are you going to tell us who he is?

  The Doctor : He's a Time Lord.

  Martha Jones : And the rest of it? I mean, who'd call themselves the Master?

  The Doctor : That's all you need to know.

• The Doctor : You can stop this right now. We can leave this planet. We can fight across the constellations if that's what you want, but not on Earth!

  The Master : It's too late.

  The Doctor : Why do you say that?

  The Master : The drumming.

  [taps out a drumbeat on the table with his fingers] 

  The Master : Can't you hear it?

  [taps the beat again, continuously] 

  The Master : Inside my head. I thought it would stop. But it never does. It never, ever stops. Inside my head. The drumming, Doctor, the constant drumming.

  The Doctor : I can help you. Please, let me help.

  The Master : It's everywhere. Listen. Listen. Listen. Here come the drums... here come... the drums...

  [a young man is loitering, beating out the drumbeat against his legs, just like Martha earlier, just like the beggar earlier, just like the Master... ~tum tum te tum~] 

  The Doctor : What have you done? Tell me, how have you done this? What are those creatures? Tell me!

  The Master : Oooo, look! You're on TV!

  The Doctor : Stop it! Answer me!

  The Master : No, really, you're on telly! You and your little band, which by the way is ticking every demographic box, so congratulations on that. God, there you are.

  [laughs] 

  The Master : You're public enemies 1, 2, and 3. Oh! And you can tell "Handsome Jack" that I've sent his little gang off on a wild goose chase to the Himalayas, so you won't be getting any help from them.

  [the Doctor turns to look at Martha and Jack] 

  The Master : Go on, off you go, why not start out by turning to the...

  [the Doctor turns to the right] 

  The Master : RIGHT!

  The Doctor : [looks up and sees a CCTV camera]  He can see us!

  [He raises his sonic screwdriver and shorts out the CCTV] 

  The Master : Oh! You public menace! Better start running. Go on... run!

  The Doctor : [closes the phone]  He's got control of everything.

  Martha Jones : What do we do?

  Captain Jack Harkness : We've got nowhere to go.

  Martha Jones : Doctor, what do we do?

  The Master : Run, Doctor! Run for your life!

  The Doctor : We run.

  [the Doctor, Martha, and Jack all run] 

  The Master : [screaming into the phone]  I SAID... RUN!

• Captain Jack Harkness : [about The Master]  So Doctor, who is he? How come the ancient society of Time Lords created a psychopath?

  Martha Jones : And what is he to you? Like some sort of colleague or...

  The Doctor : Friend at first.

  Martha Jones : Thought you were going to say he was your secret brother or something.

  [pause] 

  The Doctor : You've been watching too much TV.

• Martha Jones : But this Master bloke, he's got the TARDIS. He could be anywhere in time and space.

  The Doctor : No, he's here. Trust me.

  Martha Jones : Who is he anyway? That voice at the end, that wasn't the Professor.

  Captain Jack Harkness : The Master's a Time Lord. Then he must have regenerated.

  Martha Jones : What does that mean?

  Captain Jack Harkness : It means he's changed his face, voice, body, everything. New man.

  [the Doctor is distracted by a beggar tapping out a repeating rhythm on an enamel mug - ~tum tum te tum, tum tum te tum, tum tum te tum~] 

  Martha Jones : Then how are we going to find him?

  [the tapping starts to echo in the Doctor's head] 

  The Doctor : I'll know him, the moment I see him. Time Lords always do.

• [Martha has just heard Tish being taken over her mobile] 

  Martha Jones : [angrily to the Doctor]  It's your fault, it's all your fault!

• Martha Jones : What's it for? What does a paradox machine do?

  Captain Jack Harkness : More important, can you stop it?

  The Doctor : Not until I know what it's doing. Touch the wrong bit; blow up our solar system.

  Martha Jones : Then we've got to get to the Master.

  Captain Jack Harkness : Yeah, how are we going to stop him?

  The Doctor : Oh, I've got a way. Sorry, didn't I mention it?

• Martha Jones : Oh my life; you gotta trust me. Go to Boxer, stay with him, don't tell anyone, just hide.

  [we see Mr. Saxon listening in to the phonecall] 

  The Master : Ooh, a nice little game of hide and seek. I love that. But I'll find you Martha Jones. Been a long time since we saw each other. Must be what, a hundred trillion years?

  Martha Jones : Let them go Saxon!

• [Martha, Jack and the Doctor materialise on Earth] 

  Martha Jones : Ow, my head!

  The Doctor : Time-travel without a capsule. That's a killer.

• Martha Jones : But hold on. If he can be anyone... we missed the election. But it can't be.

  [a huge TV displays the news] 

  BBC Newsreader : Mister Saxon has returned from the palace, and is greeting the crowds inside Saxon headquarters.

  Martha Jones : I said I knew that voice. When he spoke inside the TARDIS, I've heard that voice hundreds of times. I've seen him, we all have. That was the voice of Harold Saxon!

• Martha Jones : What about you?

  The Doctor : Oh, the ones that ran away! I never stopped.

• The Doctor : Martha? What are you doing?

  Martha Jones : [frantically dialing her mobile]  He knows about me; what about my family?

  The Doctor : Don't tell them anything!

  Martha Jones : [angry]  I'll do what I like!

• Martha Jones : [of her parents]  I've got to help them!

  The Doctor : That's exactly what they want; it's a trap!

  Martha Jones : [seethingly angry]  *I don't care!*

• Martha Jones : Dad, just say yes or no. Is there someone else there?

  [pause] 

  Clive Jones : Yes! Just run!