Doctor Who (TV Series)
The Name of the Doctor (2013)
Matt Smith: The Doctor
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Quotes
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River Song : How are you even doing that? I'm not really here.
The Doctor : You are always here to me, and I always listen. And I can always see you.
River Song : Then why didn't you speak to me?
The Doctor : Because I thought it would hurt too much.
River Song : I believe I could have coped.
The Doctor : No. I thought it would hurt me... and I was right.
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[last lines]
The Doctor : What I did I did without choice.
The Eleventh Doctor : I know.
The Doctor : In the name of peace and sanity...
The Eleventh Doctor : But not in the name of The Doctor.
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Clara : Who's that?
The Doctor : Never mind, let's get 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 : 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.
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The Doctor : Time travel is damage, it's like a tear in the fabric of reality. That is the scar tissue of my journey through the universe. My path through time and space. From Gallifrey to Trenzalore.
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The Doctor : Trenzalore. I've heard the name, of course. Dorian mentioned it, a few others. I've always suspected what it was, never wanted to find out myself. River would know though. River always knew.
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The Doctor : [the Doctor kisses River's projected image] Since nobody else in this room can see you, God knows how that looked.
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Clara : [voice-over] I don't know where I am.
The Doctor : Clara!
Clara : [voice-over] I just know I'm running. Sometimes it's like I've lived a thousand lives in a thousand places. I'm born, I live, I die. And always there's the Doctor. Always I'm running to save the Doctor again and again and again. And he hardly ever hears me. But I've always been there.
Clara : [speaking to the first Doctor] Doctor.
The Doctor : Yes? What is it? What do you want.
Clara : [voice-over] Right from the very beginning
Clara : [to the first Doctor] Sorry. But you were about to make a very big mistake. Don't steal that one; steal this one. The navigation system's knackered, but you'll have much more fun.
Clara : [voice-over] Right from the day he started running.
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The Doctor : What were you expecting? A body? Bodies are boring. I've had loads of them.
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The Doctor : There is a time to live, and a time to sleep. You are an echo, River. Like Clara, like all of us, in the end. My fault, I know. But you should have faded by now.
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The Doctor : River?
[examines a tombstone with "River Song" on it]
The Doctor : That can't be right.
Clara : No, it can't. She's not dead.
The Doctor : Oh, she's dead, I'm afraid. She's been dead for a very long time.
River Song : Yeah, I probably should have mentioned that. Never the right time.
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Clara : So how come I met your dead wife?
The Doctor : Oh, well. You know how is when you lose someone close to you. I sort of made a backup.
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The Doctor : When the Tardis is dying, sometimes the dimension dams start breaking down. They used to call it a size leak. All the bigger on the inside starts leaking to the outside and it grows.
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The Great Intelligence : The Doctor's life is a open wound. And an open wound can be entered.
The Doctor : No, it would destroy you...
The Great Intelligence : Not at all. It will kill me. It will destroy you. I can rewrite your every living moment. I can turn every one of you victories into defeats. Poison every friendship. Deliver pain to your every breath.
The Doctor : It will burn you up! Once you go through, you can't come back. You will be scattered along my timeline like confetti!
The Great Intelligence : It matters not, Doctor. You thwarted me at every turn. Now you will give me peace, as I take my revenge on every second of your life. Goodbye. Goodbye, Doctor.
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The Doctor : Okay, so that's where I end up.
[looking down at Trenzalore from the Tardis door]
The Doctor : I always thought maybe I'd retire, take up watercolours or beekeeping or something. Apparently not.
Clara : So, how do we get down there? Jump?
The Doctor : Don't be silly! We fall.
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Clara : So who was she? The lady with the funny name and the space hair.
The Doctor : An old... friend of mine.
Clara : What, like an ex?
The Doctor : Yes, an ex.
