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DOCTOR: Oh yes, I’ve got last words! Several billion last words, in fact! It’s high time, Nobody No-one, that you heard exactly what kind of a man I am…

NOBODY NO-ONE: I’m going to kill everything! Everything that crawls, grows, wiggles and swims in all of reality. Bang! The whole lot! Finished! Kaput! Finito-complete-o! Gone! How’s that for a plan?

— Nobody No-One, A Death in the Family

NOBODY: Oh, the powers this place is granting me, Doctor. Just while we’ve been having our little chat, seventy-three people used the phrase “Nobody tells me what to do,” an anxious general said “No one has access to the silo room,” and a lorry driver, who’s a bad poet in his spare time, came up with the line, “Nobody stops the Earth spinning, or tells the sun when it can shine.” I’m going to have so much fun with this planet. Do you want a preview? [...] Hey, Doctor, have you heard? Nobody tells the sun when it can shine. And I say - Stop.

— Nobody No-One, A Death in the Family

DOCTOR: Evelyn. Evelyn, can you hear me?

EVELYN: Oh, it’s you. I thought you might be my Doctor.

DOCTOR: You know me, never knowingly punctual.

EVELYN: You’re not surprised, are you? How did you know?

DOCTOR: Remember that calendar you had in the TARDIS, with all your old friends' birthdays written on it? Let’s just say I have something like that.

DOCTOR: What precisely does he keep saying?

STILLWELL: ‘Nobody’s coming’. He keeps saying ‘Nobody’s coming’ over and over.

DOCTOR: No. Surely not.

ACE. ‘Nobody’s coming’. Doctor, tell me he’s not talking about who I think he’s talking about?

DOCTOR: I have a horrible feeling I’ve just opened a very nasty can of words.

EVELYN: I’m sorry, Doctor, for what I said back then.

DOCTOR: It was a long time ago.

(The Doctor walks to the window.)

DOCTOR: The lights have gone out across the valley. I can’t see much past the edge of town now. How do you feel?

EVELYN: Like I’m watching a sunset from a long way away.

(Pause.)

EVELYN: We had some good times, didn’t we? Caesar’s parents. Charles Darwin. Leaping from steam trains in the Wild West. Me, in a spacesuit, floating in orbit with that poor boy, Brewster…

(A clock chimes.)

DOCTOR: There it is. Half-past four. Four-point-five-hours. Are you ready?

EVELYN: Don’t you worry about me.

DOCTOR: No, I never needed to, did I?

DOCTOR: Nobody, what have you done?

NOBODY NO-ONE: Wasn’t it brilliant?! Nobody No-One, the first being in the whole multiverse to commit ultra-cide! A billion, billion, billion, billion-billion-billion-billion-billion-billion-billion living things wiped out! Annihilated, eradicated and obliterated! By me! Oooh, I’ve got a bit of a God rush!

HENRY: I used to be a respectable person, you know.

ACE: Yep. You met me just in time.