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Classic Who S3 • Serial 9 · (0/4 episodes intact)

The Savages

Other variations of this story: The Savages (BBC Audio Soundtrack)

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DOCTOR: Well, I must say, young man, I'm very proud of you.

STEVEN: Doctor, I don't know if I-

DOCTOR: I know, I know, my boy. Well, go on, you mustn't keep them waiting.

STEVEN: Goodbye, Doctor.

DOCTOR: Goodbye, Steven, and good luck.

(Steven leaves.)

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(Dodo hugs Steven.)

DODO: Oh, Steven.

STEVEN: I shall miss you both, Dodo.

DODO: I shall miss you.

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JANO: I do not understand you, Doctor. You, who have accepted our honors gladly. How can you condemn this great, artistic and scientific civilization because of a few wretched barbarians?

DOCTOR: So your rewards are only for the people that agree with you?

JANO: No, no of course not, but if you are going to oppose us-

DOCTOR: Oppose you! Indeed I am going to oppose you! Just in the same way that I oppose the daleks or any other menace to common humanity!

JANO: I'm sorry you take this attitude, Doctor. It is most unscientific. You are standing in the way of human progress

DOCTOR: Human progress, Sir. How dare you call your treatment of these people progress!

JANO: They are hardly people, Doctor. They are not like us.

DOCTOR: I fail to see the difference.

JANO: Do you not realise that all progress is based on exploitation?

DOCTOR: Exploitation indeed! This, Sir, is protracted murder!

JANO: We have achieved a great deal merely by the sacrifice of a few savages!

DOCTOR: The sacrifice of even one soul is far too great!

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DOCTOR: You know, my dear, there's something very satisfying about destroying something that's evil, don't you think?

DODO: (enthusiastically) YES!

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