Doctor Who (TV Series)

Hell Bent (2015)

Jenna Coleman: Clara

Quotes 

• Clara : Tomorrow is promised to no-one, Doctor, but I insist upon my past. I am entitled to that. It's mine.

• 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.

• Clara : You've been travelling?

  The Doctor : Yeah, from time to time.

• 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.

• [last lines] 

  Clara : Why does everybody think I am so scared. We all face the raven in the end; that is the deal. If I go back to Gallifrey they can put back, right? On Trap street, the moment they took me out.

  Ashildr : Of course.

  Clara : Mind you... seeing as I'm not actually aging,, there's still a tiny little bit of wiggle room, isn't there?

  Ashildr : Wiggle room?

  Clara : Wiggle room. Yeah, you know. Wiggle room. We could, um, you know, stop off. On the way.

  Ashildr : Where are we going?

  Clara : Gallifrey. Like I said: Gallifrey.

  [She starts the TARDIS] 

  Clara : The long way round.

• Ohila : What did you say to him?

  Clara : Oh, nothing I'm going to tell you or anybody else. Except maybe this one part. I said, 'Don't worry, Doctor. They'll all be looking at me.'

• [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.