Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Three Doctors: Episode One (1972)

Roy Purcell: President of the Council

Quotes 

• President of the Council : Is The Doctor holding out?

  Time Lord : We're giving his TARDIS all the energy we can spare, My Lord.

  President of the Council : And the hostile?

  Time Lord : Unidentified, so far, My Lord.

  Chancellor : Hmm. And the source of this beam?

  President of the Council : You see, Chancellor. A black hole.

  Chancellor : That's a nowhere, no place, a void. According to all known laws, nothing can exist there.

  President of the Council : Yet somehow through this black hole, cosmic energy is draining away in spite of all we can do to check it.

  Time Lord : Already the time travel facility is in danger, My Lord.

  President of the Council : Without it we shall be helpless. Unless the energy loss is stopped, the whole fabric of space time will be destroyed. We are being consumed and we can find no way to fight back.

  Chancellor : Are you telling me we're up against an adversary, a force equal to our own?

  President of the Council : Equal and opposite to our own.

  Chancellor : A force which inhabits a universe, where by definition even we cannot exist?

  President of the Council : Yes. A force in the universe of antimatter.

  Chancellor : But that's too terrible to contemplate. Someone must go and help The Doctor.

  President of the Council : I agree but no-one can be spared, Your Excellency. Everyone is needed to combat the energy drain.

  Chancellor : Are you saying we can't help him?

  President of the Council : Yes I am. But perhaps he can help himself.

  [Turns to Time Lord] 

  President of the Council : Show me the Doctor's time stream, the section for his earlier self before he changed his form.

  Chancellor : You cannot allow him to cross his own time stream. Apart from the enormous energy it would need, the first law of time expressly forbids him to meet his other selves.

  President of the Council : I am aware of that, Your Excellency but this is an emergency.

  Chancellor : But you can't.

  President of the Council : Your Excellency, I have to.

  Chancellor : Be it on your own head.