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PETION: Ace, perhaps it would be better if I asked the questions. I admit you did well against those guards, but –

ACE: I’m in a bad mood, Petion, so if you’re about to say anything like “But you’re only a woman,” I’ll shoot you too.

DOCTOR: General Etienne’s going to murder a couple of hundred people any day now. ACE + BENNY: What?

DOCTOR: Political prisoners he’ll have executed.

ACE: Is this another of your mystical observations?

DOCTOR: A simple matter of history, but one which occurred in such an out of the way corner of your planet that people took no notice.

ACE: I’m taking notice.

DOCTOR: No! This is a matter of recorded history: it has happened; it will happen; it must happen. None of us can stop it, and we must not even try.

DOCTOR PHILLIPS: You got your degree in Edinburgh, I take it?

DOCTOR: Glasgow actually. Why did you ask if it was Edinburgh?

DOCTOR PHILLIPS: Your accent, of course. Where else would a Scotsman get the best medical teaching?

DOCTOR: Ah, of course. Actually I’m not Scots, I’m from Gallifrey originally.

DOCTOR PHILLIPS: Gallifrey? Oh, Ireland then.

DOCTOR: No! If I had a grotzit for every time an Earthman thought that…

FROEBE: I thought my guards had killed you.

ACE: Perhaps this is my second life.

DUBOIS: What is that girl doing?

DOCTOR: Ending Mait’s reprehensible ways, with any luck.

DUBOIS: She knows that much of the ways of vodoun?

DOCTOR: No, she knows the ways of ka‐boom would be a more accurate description.