Doctor Who (TV Series)

Hell Bent (2015)

Peter Capaldi: The Doctor

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• The Doctor : Never be cruel, and never be cowardly. And if you ever are, always make amends.

• The Doctor : Stories... are where memories go when they are forgotten.

• The Doctor : When Time Lords die, their minds are uploaded to a thing called the Matrix. This structure is like a living computer, it can predict the future, generate prophesies out of algorithms, ring the cloister bells in the event of impending catastrophe. The Sliders, they're just like the guard dogs - firewall - projections from inside the Matrix itself. The dead manning the battlements.

  Clara : Was I supposed to understand any of that?

  The Doctor : The Time Lords have got a big computer made of ghosts in a crypt guarded by more ghosts.

  Clara : Didn't hurt, did it?

  The Doctor : Tiny bit.

• The Doctor : A long time ago, there was a student at the Academy. He got in here, disappeared for four days. Showed up in a completely different part of the city. Said the Sliders talked to him, they showed him the secret passage out. We just need the code.

  Clara : What, and the kid told you the secret?

  The Doctor : Ah, no. He didn't tell anyone anything. He went completely mad. Never right in the head again... so they say.

  Clara : Okay, that's encouraging.

  The Doctor : The last I heard, he stole the moon and the President's wife.

  Clara : Was she, um, was she nice? The President's wife?

  The Doctor : Ah, well, that was a lie put about by the Sheboglans. It was the President's *daughter*. I didn't steal the moon, I lost it...

  Clara : [smiling]  I'd know you anywhere.

• Clara : Is it a sad song?

  The Doctor : Nothing's sad till it's over; then everything is.

• The Doctor : Never eat pears. They're too squishy and they always make your chin wet. That one's quite important, write it down.

• The Doctor : Get off my planet.

• Clara : You've been travelling?

  The Doctor : Yeah, from time to time.

• The General : Isn't this going a little far?

  The Doctor : Oh. I've barely started.

• The Doctor : Four knocks. It's always four knocks.

• The President : You have nothing, Doctor. Nothing! Do you know what I have, out here in the dry lands, where there's nobody who matters?

  [whispering] 

  The President : No witnesses.

  The Doctor : Me too.

• Clara : So, you went back to your hometown?

  The Doctor : Something like that.

  Clara : Glasgow?

  The Doctor : Ah, well, sort of Glas... "Space Glasgow".

• The Doctor : You're English?

  Clara : You're not.

  The Doctor : How did you get out here?

  Clara : Magic. Or maybe I went to an airport and caught a plane. You?

  The Doctor : Magic.

• The Doctor : [raising weapon]  Everybody, stay exactly where you are! No moving about. On pain of death no one take a selfie!

• The Doctor : We're on Gallifrey! "Death" is Time Lord for "man flu".

• The Doctor : I'm going to need the use of an extraction chamber to talk to an old friend.

• [first lines] 

  Clara : Hi! What can I get you?

  The Doctor : I don't have any money.

  [raises guitar] 

  The Doctor : But I play.

  Clara : OK.

  [the Doctor sits down] 

  Clara : Don't you need to plug that thing in?

  The Doctor : Yeah.

• Ohila : [talking with the Doctor about Rassilon]  Why did you banish him? Was it punishment or for your own protection? Are you just being cruel or just being cowardly?

  The Doctor : Let's see, shall we?

• The Doctor : What do you say to lunch, followed by breakfast, because we're time travelers and that's how we roll.