DOCTOR: You are being mansplained by a briefcase.

JOY: I thought I was being mansplained by you.

DOCTOR: Honey, the Doctor's in the room - it's the mansplain central.

DOCTOR: (sotto) Say anything.

(Rogue goes down on one knee and holds up a ring.)

DOCTOR: Sorry. I c... I ca...

CARLA: You know I can't stop her. And I wouldn't want to do that. And if anyone deserves to see it all, feel it all, it's Ruby. But I'm still her mum. I need to know she'll be okay. You'll keep her safe?

DOCTOR: I will keep her safe. I promise.

ROGUE: They'll kill us. Then this house. Then London. Then the world. You know that. You absolutely know it. So can you do it? Can you lose your friend to save the world?

DOCTOR: No.

ROGUE: I know.

(Rogue kisses the Doctor and takes the trigger off him. He pushes Ruby out of the triform and takes her place.)

ROGUE: Find me.

RUBY: Can't we use the TARDIS and go find him?

DOCTOR: There are as many dimensions as there are atoms in the universe. Don't even know his real name.

RUBY: I'm sorry.

DOCTOR: Anyway. It is what it is, so onwards. Fine. Next. Off we go. Where shall we go? Anywhere.

RUBY: Doctor, you don't have to be like this.

DOCTOR: I have to be like this, 'cos this is what I'm like. Onwards. Upwards. New horizons. Moving on. It's fine.

RUBY: Okay, can you just shut up a second?

(She gives him a hug.)

DOCTOR: It's good to have you back, Ruby.

RUBY: And you, Doctor. Hmm.

RUBY: Oh, that's a tall glass of heartbreak. Ah...

BARTON: Your Grace, where have you been hiding this absolute delight, with hair like golden strands, spun in the rays of the evening sun?

RUBY: Oh, you're not a tall glass at all. You're half a pint of shandy.

DOCTOR: Brooding. Good look. D'you practise in a mirror? Bit more frown, maybe.

ROGUE: I didn't know the Duchess employed a court jester.

DOCTOR: Well, I'm hilarious.

DUCHESS: People look to me as an arbiter of taste.

CHULDUR LEADER: What, in that dress?

DOCTOR: You cad!

DOCTOR: We need to get the Duchess outside, on her own, and if there's one thing that attracts her, it's scandal. And outrage and plot twists. So, come on, Rogue. Shall we?

ROGUE: I don't see how us dancing will create a scene.

DOCTOR: Then you should have researched this era a little more, because we are scandalous.

ROGUE: This is a murder far beyond the technology of Planet Earth. It could only be done by someone brilliant.

DOCTOR: And monstrous.

ROGUE: And ruthless.

DOCTOR: Contemptible.

BOTH: You. You. No, you.

DOCTOR: You are a bounty hunter? That is so... cool. Catching monsters, getting into scrapes. Meeting handsome strangers.

DOCTOR: Where do you hide a spaceship in 1813?

ROGUE: It's cloaked, past that shed.

DOCTOR: Shed? That's my ship.

ROGUE: You travel in a shed?

DOCTOR: Love the shed.

ROGUE: Why isn't it cloaked?

DOCTOR: It's behind a tree.

DOCTOR: Oh, I see. My name's bond, molecular bond.

(The Doctor uses his sonic as a magnifier, spots a set of dice.)

DOCTOR: Ah ha. Did you get your name from Dungeons and Dragons?

ROGUE: Roll for Insight.

DOCTOR: Rogue, I am telling you, you've got the wrong man, okay? And I can prove it. This authenticates me as non-Chuldur.

(Psychic paper.)

ROGUE: It says you're hot.

DOCTOR: Does it? I'm sorr... No, it's broken.

ROGUE: Is it you're hot, or I'm hot?

DOCTOR: No, it is just that it's...

ROGUE: Who's hot, Doctor?

DOCTOR: It means the temperature.

ROGUE: It suits you, flustered. It's a good look. You should try it more often.

DOCTOR: I'm not a Chuldur. I'm something much older and far more powerful. I'm a Lord of Time from the lost and fallen planet of Gallifrey. Now, let me go, bounty hunter. We have work to do.

DOCTOR: (sings) Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of pure imagination. Take a look and you'll see, into your imagination.

DOCTOR: You lost someone.

ROGUE: How do you know that?

DOCTOR: Because I know.

ROGUE: There was... Yeah. We travelled together. We had fun, y'know? And then a day came along, and at the end of that day... I lost them. What about you?

DOCTOR: I lost everyone.

ROGUE: At the party, I saw you with that woman.

DOCTOR: Mmm. My best friend.

ROGUE: Do you ever wonder... why keep going?

DOCTOR: Because we have to. We have to live each day because they can't. You don't have to stay a bounty hunter, Rogue. You could travel with me. Oh, the worlds I could show you, Rogue.

ROGUE: And what if I like what I do? Would you travel with me?

DOCTOR: That is quite an argument. I'll tell you what. When we both get out of this, let's argue across the stars.

ROGUE: I'd like that.

RUBY: Oh, my Bridgerton! This is my actual dream!