Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Pandorica Opens (2010)

Matt Smith: The Doctor

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• The Doctor : [transmitting to the alien fleet at and using Stonehenge with the local effect as though through a loud speaker]  Sorry, sorry, dropped it. Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica takes the Universe! But, bad news everyone, 'cause guess who! Ha! Except, you lot, you're all whizzing about, it's really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute because

  [shouts louder] 

  The Doctor : *I* *am* *talking*!

  [all ships stop] 

  The Doctor : Now, the question for the hour is, "Who's got the Pandorica?" Answer: I do. Next question: "Who's coming to take it from me?"

  [the Doctor gestures widely to all of the ships] 

  The Doctor : Come on, look at me! No plan, no backup, no weapons worth a damn, oh, and something else I don't have: anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little space ships with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, *and then*, do the smart thing!

  [pause] 

  The Doctor : [with normal tone but still amplified]  Let somebody else try first.

  [all ships flee] 

  Rory Williams : [impressed]  Phew!

  The Doctor : [tosses communicator to Rory]  That'll keep 'em squabbling for half an hour.

• The Doctor : You graffitied the oldest cliff face in the universe!

  River Song : You wouldn't answer your phone!

• The Doctor : Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case always ignore a coincidence.

• The Doctor : Does it ever bother you, Amy, that your life doesn't make any sense?

• The Doctor : Planet One, the oldest planet in the Universe, and there is a cliff of pure diamond, and, according to legend, on the cliff there's writing, letters 50 feet high, a message from the dawn of time, and no one knows what it says because no one's ever translated it. 'Til today.

  Amy Pond : What happens today?

  The Doctor : Us. The TARDIS can translate anything. All we have to do is open the doors and read very first words of recorded history.

  [They step out of the TARDIS. The Doctor's face transitions immediately from gleeful anticipation to flat disappointment] 

  Writing on cliff face : HELLO SWEETIE

  Writing on cliff face : [followed by the Greek letters]  Theta-Sigma Phi Gamma-Upsilon-Delta-Qorra

  Amy Pond : [laughs]  "Vavoom."

  [the corner of The Doctor's mouth turns up in a smirk] 

• Rory Williams : But I don't understand. Why am I here?

  The Doctor : Because you are. The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and... ridiculous and sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles, and... that's a theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.

• The Doctor : People fall out of the world sometimes, but they- they always leave traces, little things you can't quite account for: faces in photographs; luggage; half-eaten meals... ; rings. Nothing is ever forgotten, not completely, and, if something can be remembered, it *can* come back.

• The Doctor : [upon being imprisoned in the Pandorica, The Doctor addresses his enemies in disbelief]  Now you lot... working together... an alliance? How is that possible?

  Dalek : The cracks in the skin of the Universe.

  Commander Stark : All of reality is threatened.

  Cyber Leader : All universes will be deleted.

  The Doctor : [confused]  What? And you... you've come to me for help?

  Commander Stark : [aggressively]  No! We will save the Universe. From you!

  The Doctor : [blankly]  From me?

  Cyber Leader : All projections correlate. All evidence concurs: The Doctor will destroy the Universe.

  The Doctor : [frightened]  No. No. No, you've got it wrong.

  Cyber Leader : The Pandorica was constructed to ensure the safety of the Alliance.

  Dalek : A scenario was devised from the memories of your companion.

  Commander Stark : A trap The Doctor couldn't resist!

  Dalek : [as The Doctor bows his head at his own stupidity]  The cracks in time are the work of The Doctor - it is confirmed!

  The Doctor : No, no, no, not me, the TARDIS, and I'm not in the TARDIS, am I?

  Dalek : [with measured contempt]  Only The Doctor can pilot the TARDIS.

  The Doctor : [fearful]  Please! Listen to me!

  Dalek : [raising its voice]  You will be prevented!

  The Doctor : [desperately, almost in tears]  Total event collapse - every sun will supernova at every moment in history! The whole Universe will never have existed. *Please* listen to me!

  Cyber Leader : Seal the Pandorica.

  The Doctor : [pleadingly]  No! Please listen to me! The TARDIS is exploding right now and I'm the only one who can stop it!

  The Doctor : [screaming until the Pandorica seals him inside]  Listen to me!

• The Doctor : I'm missing something obvious, Rory! Something big, something right slap in front of me, I can feel it.

  Rory Williams : Yeah, I think you probably are.

• The Doctor : Think of the fear that went into making this box. What could inspire that level of fear? Hello, you. Have we met?

• Amy Pond : What was that?

  The Doctor : Okay, need a better look. Gotta draw its fire, give it a proper target.

  Amy Pond : How?

  The Doctor : Well, you know how sometimes I have really brilliant ideas?

  Amy Pond : Yeah...

  The Doctor : I'm sorry!

  The Doctor : [jumps out from behind the Pandorica]  Hey look at me, I'm a target!

• The Doctor : Come on, look at me. No plan, no backup, no weapons worth a damn, oh, and something else I don't have: anything to lose! So, if you are sitting up there in your silly little spaceships with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, *and then* do the smart thing! Let somebody else try first.

• Amy Pond : What is that?

  The Doctor : Cyber arm, arm of a Cyberman.

  Amy Pond : Um, Cyberman?

  The Doctor : Well, sort of part-man, part-robot. The organic part's died out years ago. Now the robot-part is looking for, well... fresh meat.

  Amy Pond : What, us?

  The Doctor : Yeah, it's just like being an organ donor, except you're alive and sort of... screaming.

• The Doctor : [walking away from the Pandorica]  Yes, OK, OK, OK, OK. Dalek fleet. Minimum twelve thousand battleships armed to the teeth.

  The Doctor : [turns around and walking back]  Aaaah! But we've got surprise on our side. They'll never expect three people to attack twelve thousand Dalek battleships.

  The Doctor : [turns again]  'Cos we'd be killed instantly, so it would be a fairly short surprise.

  The Doctor : [taps forehead with sonic screwdriver]  Forget surprise.

• Roman Soldier : The Pandorica is ready.

  The Doctor : What, do you mean it's opened?

  Supreme Dalek : You have been scanned, assessed, understood, Doctor.

  The Doctor : Scanned? Scanned by what, a box?

  Cyber Leader : Your limits and capacities have been extrapolated.

  Judoon : [grumbling] 

  Commander Stark : The Pandorica is ready!

  The Doctor : Ready for what?

  Supreme Dalek : Ready for you.

• The Doctor : There was a goblin, or a... trickster. Or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or... reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.

• River Song : Doctor, this once - just this one time, please, you have to run!

  The Doctor : Run where?

  River Song : Fight how?