Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Wedding of River Song (2011)

Matt Smith: The Doctor

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• The Doctor : The Teselecta. The Doctor in a Doctor-suit. Time said I had to be on that beach, so I dressed for the occasion. Barely got singed in that boat.

  Dorium Maldovar : So you're going to do this, let them all think you're dead?

  The Doctor : It's the only way, then they can all forget me. I got too big, Dorium, too noisy. Time to step back into the shadows.

  Dorium Maldovar : And Doctor Song? In prison all her days?

  The Doctor : Her days, yes. Her nights... well, that's between her and me, eh?

  Dorium Maldovar : So many secrets, Doctor.

  [chuckles] 

  Dorium Maldovar : I'll help you keep them, of course.

  The Doctor : Well, you're not exactly going anywhere, are you?

  Dorium Maldovar : But you're a fool nonetheless. It's all still waiting for you: the fields of Trenzalore, the fall of the Eleventh, and the question!

  The Doctor : [salutes]  Goodbye, Dorium!

  Dorium Maldovar : [as Doctor exits]  The first question! The question that must never be answered, hidden in plain sight. The question you've been running from all your life. Doctor who? Doctor who? Doc-tor *who*?

• River Song : I can't let you die...

  The Doctor : But I have to die.

  River Song : Shut up! I can't let you die, without knowing you are loved. By so many, and so much. And by no one more than me.

• Winston Churchill : Well? What happened?

  The Doctor : Nothing.

  Winston Churchill : Nothing?

  The Doctor : Nothing happened. And then it kept happening. Or, if you prefer, everything happened at once, and it won't ever stop. Time is dying. It's going to be 5:02 in the afternoon for all eternity. A needle stuck on a record.

  Winston Churchill : A record? Good Lord, man, have you never heard of downloads?

  The Doctor : Said Winston Churchill.

• The Doctor : If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.

• Madame Kovarian : Oh, why couldn't you just die?

  The Doctor : Did my best, dear. I showed up. You just can't get good psychopaths these days.

• The Eleventh Doctor : They want me dead?

  Dorium : No, not really. They just don't want you to remain alive.

  The Eleventh Doctor : That's okay, then. I was a bit worried for a minute there.

• River Song : There are so many theories about you and I, you know?

  The Doctor : Idle gossip.

  River Song : Archaeology.

  The Doctor : Same thing!

• River Song : [Pointing to the Doctor]  Cuff him!

  The Doctor : Oh, why do you always have handcuffs?

• Emperor Winston Churchill : What happened to time?

  The Doctor : A woman.

• The Doctor : Love what you've done with the pyramids! How did you score all this?

  River Song : Hallucinogenic lipstick. Worked wonders on President Kennedy. And Cleopatra was a real pushover.

  The Doctor : I always thought so.

  River Song : She mentioned you.

  The Doctor : And what did she say?

  River Song : "Put down that gun."

  The Doctor : And did you?

  River Song : Eventually.

• The Doctor : Why Lake Silencio? Why... Utah?

  Dorium Maldovar : It's a still point in time. Makes it easier to create a *fixed* point. And your death is a fixed point, Doctor. You can't run away from this.

  The Doctor : Been running all my life. Why should I stop?

  Dorium Maldovar : Because now you know what's at stake. Why your life must end.

  The Doctor : Not today.

  Dorium Maldovar : What's the point in delaying? How long have you delayed already?

  The Doctor : Been knocking about. Bit of a farewell tour. Things to do, people to see. There's always more! I could invent a new color, save the dodo, join the Beatles!

  [to phone] 

  The Doctor : Hello, it's me! Get him, tell him we're going out, and it's all on me, except for the money and the driving!

  [to Dorium] 

  The Doctor : I have got a time machine, Dorium. It's all still going on for me, it never stops. Liz the First is still waiting in a glade to elope with me. I could help Rose Tyler with her homework! I could go on all of Jack's stag parties in one night!

  Dorium Maldovar : Time catches up with us all, Doctor!

  The Doctor : Well, it has *never* laid a glove on me!

  [to phone] 

  The Doctor : Hello!

  Nurse : Doctor, I'm so sorry. We didn't know how to contact you. I'm afraid Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart passed away a few months ago. - Doctor?

  The Doctor : ...Ye - eh, uh, yes. Yes. Uh, uhh...

  Nurse : It was very peaceful. He talked a lot about you, if that's any comfort. Always made us pour an extra brandy, in case you came round one of these days.

  Dorium Maldovar : Doctor? What's wrong?

  The Doctor : ...Nothing, nothing. Just...

  [Long pause. The Doctor takes the envelopes out of his pocket and looks at them] 

  The Doctor : It's time. It's time.