SCOOT: Polish Polish

The prophecies of old foretold a war across the stars.

The cosmos torn asunder. Every planet left with scars.

From Skaro to Kasterborous, and Villengard as well —

Some know it as the Time War, but the Time Lords call it Hell.

The seven deaths of Davros, and the slaughter of Skull Moon.

The Neverwhen, the Never-weres, the Never-Gone-Too-Soon.

The war raged on for eons, and it’s only just begun,

Fragmenting space and causing time itself to be undone.

Until a man is born upon the barren sands of Karn,

Until that man confronts himself twice over, in a barn.

Until the Daleks breach the second city, and it falls.

Until that man engraves the words “No More” into the walls.

I am that man, and I will take this Moment to avow:

If once there was a Doctor, there is not a Doctor now.

DOCTOR: 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!

FLOOD: 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.

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: If Time is a memory, then memory is a time machine.

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.

DOCTOR: If Time is memory and memory is Time, then what is the memory of a time machine?

KATE: Well, even without the TARDIS anagram, evil genius with secret alien software is top of our list. God knows we stopped enough of them. Well, except the obvious.

MORRIS: We'll get him.

(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.

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.)

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: 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.

DOCTOR: I have a ship. It's called the TARDIS. That blue box. It harnesses technology that makes it bigger on the inside than on the outside. I could take you all. I could carry you to the stars. I... could find you a home that is safe and clean and everything you want.

LINDY: But... we couldn't travel with you.

RUBY: What? Why... Why not?

LINDY: Because you, sir, are not one of us. I mean, you were kind, although it was your duty to save me, obviously. I mean, screen-to-screen contact is just about acceptable, but... in person? That's impossible.

DOCTOR: I don't care what you think. And you can say whatever you want. You can think absolutely anything. I will do anything if you just allow me to save your lives.

BREWSTER: If you'll turn away, ladies, before you're contaminated.

DOCTOR: You will die out there! And I can save your lives! Now let me!

LINDY: Sorry. I'm sorry, it's just that's the first time I've ever done that.

RICKY: Oh no, well, it's not every day you walk past monsters.

LINDY: No, I mean the hug.

RICKY: That was your first hug?

LINDY: Yeah.

RUBY: * (To Marti)* I'm sorry I took so long, because I think I'll only get one chance and I had to make sure I was right. But I wish I could have helped you. I'm so sorry.

RUBY: But it's taken me all this time to realise what I'm here to do.

RUFUS: Which is what?

RUBY: I'm going to save the world. See ya.

DOCTOR: A sad old man once told me, what survives of us is love.

DOCTOR: I'm a much bigger bang than you bargained for. I'm a lot more explosive than I look, and honey... I know how I look. Put a quantum chain reaction through me and I will shatter this silly little battlefield of yours into dust. All of it, in a heartbeat, into dust.

DOCTOR: I thought that was non-diegetic.

RUBY: Is that a monster?

DOCTOR: No. No, don't be silly, Ruby. There's no such thing as monsters, there's just... just creatures you haven't met yet.

POPPY: We're not meant to be like this. Did we grow up wrong?

DOCTOR: Oh, Poppy. Oh, Popsicle. Look at me. Look at me. Nobody grows up wrong. You are what you are, and that is magnificent.

DOCTOR: Murder isn't just a puzzle, you know, it's about the people too. The lives that are irrevocably changed.

TEGAN: And that's why you're nervous to investigate?

DOCTOR: I'm not nervous. Saddened. Dismayed. When I was a different me I was hardened to that, in this incarnation I think I feel it more.