Doctor Who (TV Series)

Face the Raven (2015)

Peter Capaldi: The Doctor

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• [last lines] 

  The Doctor : What Clara said... about not taking revenge, do you know why she said that?

  Ashildr : She was saving you.

  The Doctor : I was lost a long time ago; she was saving you. I'll do my best, but I strongly advise you to keep out of my way. You'll find that it's a very small universe when I'm angry with you.

• The Doctor : But you can. Fix this. Fix it now.

  Me : It... It's not possible. I... I can't.

  The Doctor : Yes it is, you can, and you will, or this street will be over. I'll show you and all your funny little friends to the whole laughing world. I'll bring UNIT, I'll bring the Zygons. Give me a minute, I'll bring the Daleks and the Cybermen. *You* will save Clara, and you will do it *now*, or I will rain hell on you for the rest of time.

  Clara : Doctor, stop talking like that.

  Me : You can't.

  The Doctor : I can do whatever the hell I like. You've read the stories, you know who I am. And in all of that time, did you ever hear anything about anyone who stopped me?

  Me : I know the Doctor. The Doctor would never...

  The Doctor : *The Doctor is no longer here! You are stuck with me.* And I will end you, and everything you love.

  Clara : Doctor, for God's sake, will you stop!

  The Doctor : *No!*

  Clara : I did this. Do you hear me? I did this. This is my fault!

  The Doctor : I don't care!

  Clara : Liar. You always care. Always have. Your reign of terror will end with the sight of the first crying child and you know it.

  The Doctor : No, I don't.

  Clara : I do.

• Clara : You. Now, you listen to me. You're going to be alone now, and you're very bad at that. You're going to be furious and you're going to be sad, but listen to me. Don't let this change you. No, listen. Whatever happens next... wherever she is sending you, I know what you're capable of. You don't be a warrior. Promise me. Be a Doctor.

  The Doctor : What's the point of being a Doctor if I can't cure you?

  Clara : Heal yourself. You have to. You can't let this turn you into a monster. So... I'm not asking you for a promise. I'm giving you an order. You will not insult my memory. There will be no revenge. I will die, and no-one else, here or anywhere, will suffer.

  The Doctor : What about me?

  Clara : If there was something I could do about that, I would. I guess we're both just going to have to be brave.

• [the Doctor flips through cards] 

  Rigsy : What's he doing?

  Clara : He's making an effort to be nice.

  The Doctor : There's no nice way to say, "You're about to die."

• The Doctor : [to Rigsy whilst scanning him]  If you want your extremities to stay attached, stand absolutely still. If not, we can provide a small bag, you can take them home at the end.

• The Doctor : I never put stock in it. London streets that suddenly disappeared from human view? No. You lot are always overlooking things, but whole streets? That would be excessive, even for you. If the stories are true, though, there should be a street on one of these old maps that no longer exists in the real world.

  Clara : Like a trap street, only not.

  The Doctor : What did you say?

  Clara : A trap street. You know, when someone's making a map, a, um... cartographer, uses a fake street, throws it into the mix, names it after one of his kids or whatever. Then if the fake street, the trap street, ever shows up on someone else's map, they know their work's been stolen. Clever right?

  The Doctor : My God. A whole London street just up and disappeared and you lot assume it's a copyright infringement.

• The Doctor : [to the raven]  You, hold your tongue, we've got 10 minutes left!

• The Doctor : Still saving the world from me, then?

  Me : It's still here, isn't it?

• Ashildr : Don't worry, we're perfectly safe.

  The Doctor : Yes, a phrase I find is usually followed by a lot of screaming and running and bleeding.

• Clara : Okay, we split up, cover more ground. I'm good cop, you're bad cop.

  The Doctor : No, no, no, we don't have... can I not be the good cop?

  Clara : Doctor, we discussed this - your face!

  The Doctor : Oh, yeah.

• The Doctor : There have always been rumours. Stories passed from traveller to traveller, mutterings about hidden streets, secret pockets of alien life right here on Earth. Like a smuggler's cove, only not a cove, because it's right here, right in the middle of the capital.

  Rigsy : The hidden places are in the Great British Library?

  The Doctor : No. The maps are.

• Rigsy : What's happening?

  The Doctor : It's called a quantum shade; it's a kind of spirit. Once it's bound to a victim, you could flee across all of time and all of the universe and it would still find you.

• The Doctor : [looking at Rigsy's tattoo]  Oh, that's not boring. That is very not boring.

• The Doctor : OK, Local Knowledge, you're coming with us. Bring the new human.

  [goes into the TARDIS and immediately comes back out again] 

  The Doctor : No! Don't bring the new human. I'll just get distracted.

• The Doctor : You've already endangered one of my friends. I want your personal guarantee that you will not endanger another.

  Clara : Shut up, I can handle myself.

  Ashildr : I guarantee the safety of Clara Oswald. She will be under my personal protection. That is absolute.

• [first lines] 

  Clara : Oh, I told you it'd work.

  The Doctor : It very nearly ate you for dinner.

  Clara : Oh, admit it, I totally saved your life.

  The Doctor : It wasn't going to eat me.

  Clara : [laughs]  I totally saved you from having to marry that giant sentient plant thing. That bit, where I jumped over the side, that was amazing. Ha! I knew you were impressed.

  The Doctor : The second most beautiful garden in all of time and space and we can never come back here because you, Miss Oswald...

  [they are interrupted by the Tardis console phone ringing] 

• The Doctor : [looking at Rigsy's baby daughter]  Did you make this human?

• The Doctor : At least give him a merciful death.

  Me : Do you think a Cyberman fears a merciful death?

• The Doctor : We need to distract our other senses. Clara, go back to the TARDIS. Pick up all of my most annoying stuff.