Empire of Death

“I bring Sutekh's dust of death.”

“Doctor, are you there? This is me signing off… with thanks and love. And please send this monster back into hell. Because I have to hope that the birds will sing again. There will be birds.”

“There's nothing we can do… except fight!”

FLOOD: Do you believe in the power of prayer?

CHERRY: I most certainly do.

FLOOD: Then tell your maker I will come to storm down his gates of gold and seize his kingdom in my true name.

CHERRY: Wh… whatcha talkin' about? Who… who are you?

(Mrs Flood puts her arm around Cherry.)

FLOOD: I'm sorry, you tiny little woman. I'm so, so sorry it ends like this. I had such plans…

“If Time is a memory, then memory is a time machine.”

SARAH [Pyramids of Mars]: If Sutekh is so totally evil, why didn't Horus and the other Osirans destroy him?

FOURTH DOCTOR [on screen]: It's against their code. To have killed him would have meant that they were no better than he.

FOURTH DOCTOR [on screen]: So they simply imprisoned him.

DOCTOR: A long time ago, in the England of 1911, Sutekh had been bound and imprisoned for all eternity, but he rose again and I defeated him. I cast you into the Time Vortex. I sent you forward to your own death!

SUTEKH: Instead, I found a home. I clung to your infernal machine. And for so many years I hid. I have travelled with you for all this time, riding the spine of your ship, staring into eternity and evolving into my true godhood. Now I know every beat of the heart of your time machine, and I can bend it to my will. It will stand as my altar, the temple of my Empire of Death. Never yours again, Doctor. Never.

SUTEKH: Every living thing is an abomination. I am come to release them into blessed death, and I find that good.

DOCTOR: Then I damn you, Sutekh. I damn you in the name of life itself! And I swear to you, with both the hearts of the last of the Time Lords, I will stop you. I will defeat you. And I will turn back death.

RUBY: What is it?

DOCTOR: It's a remembered TARDIS. It's bits and pieces of every TARDIS that ever was, held together by hopes and wishes and luck.

MEL: Is this thing safe?

DOCTOR: Absolute deathtrap, Melanie B.

DOCTOR: It's happening over and over again. Every time I landed there. 1999. 1066. 2005. The Earth is dying… so many times.

DOCTOR: Every world that I ever stood upon… all dead. Venus. Telos. Karn. The Ood Sphere. And Skaro.

MEL: The Daleks are dead?

DOCTOR: Everything is dead.

MEL: But there's so many places you haven't been. They must be safe.

DOCTOR: I've travelled so far. Everything caught in that pattern is dying. The whole of Time and Space. I did this.

DOCTOR: Every sun is dead. The universe has come to a halt. And it is my fault, 'cos I travelled to all those worlds. I thought it was fun.

(The Doctor screams into the void.)

DOCTOR: That's very kind of you. I will use this spoon, I promise. I might save the universe with this spoon.

KIND WOMAN: That would be nice.

KIND WOMAN: I think my daughter died, didn't she? And I forgot.

DOCTOR: I think she did. I'm sorry.

RUBY: Yeah, I never understood. What was all that Egyptian stuff?

DOCTOR: Cultural appropriation.

DOCTOR: She died. She died, Ruby. I'm sorry. I loved you, Mel.

SUTEKH-MEL: And what good did love do, Doctor? When did it ever help? Now, give me the name.

RUBY: But what does it mean?

SUTEKH-MEL: Give… Sutekh… the name.

“You great big god of nothing!”

“Into the Vortex!”

“You saw all of Time and Space with me, Sutekh! So I thought, what if you see it again? What happens if you bring death to death? You bring life!”

“We fought a monster. And now… I must become a monster.”

DOCTOR: Sutekh the Destroyer! The Lord God of Death itself! You win! Because I pride myself… I pride myself that I am better than you. Because if you're death… then I must represent life. Surely, that's what I am. Life! And that's how you win, Sutekh. Because you've turned me into this. I am the one that brings death.

SUTEKH: No!

SUSAN: Oh, pet. Anything to help. I don't mind. I'll make the tea.

IBRAHIM: Did you make this tea?

SUSAN: I did, yes.

IBRAHIM: Don't make the tea.

RUBY: That's what I don't understand. She… she's so ordinary.

DOCTOR: She's wonderful.

RUBY: No, she's wonderful and she's ordinary, but I love her for that. I just… How did she stay invisible from a god? She defeated Sutekh.

DOCTOR: She was important… because we think she's important. That's how everything happens, every war, every religion, every love story. We invest things with significance. So while the whole of creation was turning around her, it made her sheer existence more powerful than Time Lords and gods. In the end, the most important person in the universe… was the most ordinary. A scared little girl… making her baby safe.

“God… I always thought I was called Ruby because the social workers chose it, or the paramedics, or whatever, but, no, it was… her. My own mother chose it. My name is Ruby.”

DOCTOR: She's happy. She's got a flat. She's got a fella named Mike. She goes to Spain in three weeks. And the point is is that she has had over 7,000 days to come and find you, and she never has.

RUBY: But I've found her.

DOCTOR: With a time machine. Is that fair?

BARISTA: Ruby?

RUBY: That's me. I was named after a road. Ruby Road. You left me by a church… 19 years ago.

LOUISE: Oh, my God.

RUBY: You left me where I was safe. And I just want to say thank you.

LOUISE: I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

LOUISE: I always thought I should get in touch. Every Christmas I thought, right, this is the year. But every Christmas, I thought, what if she hates me?

CHERRY: There is no hatred in this house, darling.

“Don't be sorry. Don't be sorry at all. Your life… is out there now. I've shown you monsters and planets, and legends… but this… Honey, your adventure is just beginning.”

RUBY: But you could come and see my dad. You don't do that, do you? Will I ever see you again?

DOCTOR: Of course you will. Of course you will.

RUBY: Your own granddaughter. You left her and never went back.

DOCTOR: And that was my mistake. Maybe I'll find her again, one day. But you, Ruby Sunday, I will see again. Because you changed me. I talk about family in a way that I never did before. That's because of you. You have made my life bigger and better. And now, Ruby Sunday… goodbye.

RUBY: I love you.

“And that's how the story of the Church on Ruby Road comes to an end, with a very happy ending for little Ruby Sunday. But life goes on, doesn't it? Ruthlessly. And what happens, you might wonder. Oh, what happens to that mysterious traveller in Time and Space known as the Doctor? I'm sorry to say his story ends in absolute terror. Night, night.”