Doctor Who (TV Series)

Last of the Time Lords (2007)

John Simm: The Master

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• The Doctor : [the Doctor rejuvenates]  One thing you can't do, is stop them thinking.

  [the Doctor hovers upwards and Martha and Jack exclaim] 

  The Doctor : [to the Master]  Tell me the human race is degenerate now. Or they can do this!

  [Martha runs to her family] 

  The Master : NO!

  [the Master shoots the Doctor with his Laser Screwdriver, but it has no effect] 

  The Doctor : I'm sorry.

  [the Master fires his Laser Screwdriver at the Doctor again but it has no effect] 

  The Doctor : I'm so sorry.

  The Master : [increases the power of the Laser Screwdriver]  Then I'll kill them!

  [the Master points it at Martha and her family, but the Doctor puts his hand out and the Laser Screwdriver flies out of the Master's hand] 

  The Master : [to the Doctor]  You can't do this! YOU CAN'T DO THIS! IT'S NOT FAIR!

  The Doctor : Then you know what happens now.

  [the Doctor starts to hover towards the Master] 

  The Master : [scared]  No! NO! NO! NO!

  The Doctor : [serious]  You wouldn't listen...

  The Master : [cowering]  NO!

  The Doctor : [serious]  'Cause you know what I'm gonna say.

  The Master : [terrified]  No!

  [the Doctor touches down, the glow of light vanishes, the Doctor kneels next to the Master and puts his arms around him] 

  The Doctor : I forgive you.

• The Master : The human race. Greatest monsters of them all.

• The Master : You still haven't answered the question. What happens to me?

  The Doctor : You're my responsibility from now on. The only Time Lord left in existence.

  Captain Jack Harkness : Yeah, but you can't trust him.

  The Doctor : No. The only safe place for him is the TARDIS.

  The Master : You mean, you're just gonna... keep me?

  The Doctor : If that's what I have to do. It's time to change. Maybe I've been wandering for too long. Now I've got someone to care for.

• The Master : I took Lucy to Utopia. A Time Lord and his human companion. I took her to see the stars. Isn't that right, sweetheart?

  Lucy Saxon : Trillions of years into the future, to the end of the universe.

  The Master : Tell him what you saw.

  Lucy Saxon : Dying. Everything dying. The whole of creation was falling apart and I thought there's no point. No point to anything. Not ever.

  The Master : And it's all your fault.

• The Master : I remember the days when the Doctor, oh, that famous Doctor... was waging a Time War, battling Sea Devils, and Axons, he sealed the Rift at the Medusa Cascade, single handed. And look at him now, stealing screwdrivers... How did he ever come to this? Oh yes! Me!

  The Doctor : I just... need you to listen.

  The Master : No, it's my turn. Revenge. Best served hot.

• The Master : It's ready to rise, Doctor. The new Time Lord empire, it's good isn't it? Isn't it good? Anything?

  [the Doctor stares blankly at the Toclafane] 

  The Master : No? Anything? Oh, but they broke your hearts, didn't they? Those Toclafane... Ever since you worked out what they really are.

• [last words] 

  The Master : Will it stop, Doctor? The drumming? Will it stop?

• The Master : I ask you, how much hope has this man got?

  [to the Doctor] 

  The Master : Say hello, Gandalf... Except, he's not that old. But he's an alien with a much greater lifespan than you, stunted little apes. What if it showed?

  [to The Doctor] 

  The Master : What if I suspend your capacity to regenerate? All nine hundred years of your life, Doctor. What if we could see them?

• The Master : Dying in your arms... happy now?

  The Doctor : You're not dying, don't be stupid. It's only a bullet, just regenerate.

  The Master : No.

  The Doctor : One little bullet, come on.

  The Master : I guess you don't know me so well... I refuse.

  The Doctor : [desperate]  Regenerate. Just regenerate! Please, please! Just regenerate, come on!

  The Master : And spend the rest of my life imprisoned with you?

• The Master : You should've seen it, Doctor. Furnaces burning. The last of humanity screaming at the dark.

• The Doctor : You've got to! Come on. It can't end like this. You and me, all the things we've done. Axons! Remember the Axons? And the Daleks. We're the only two left. There's no one else... REGENERATE!

  The Master : Heh... how about that? I win.

• The Master : Ever since I was a child... I looked into the Vortex and that's when it chose me. The Drumming. The Call. To War.

• [repeated line to the Doctor when showing off his evil works] 

  The Master : It's good, isn't it?

• [Lucy shoots the master] 

  The Master : It's always the women.

• [on the Paradox machine] 

  The Master : My masterpiece, Doctor. A living TARDIS, strong enough to hold the paradox in place, allowing the past and the future to collide in infinite majesty.

  The Doctor : But you're changing history. Not just Earth, the entire universe.

  The Master : I'm a Time Lord. I have that right.

  The Doctor : But even then... why come all this way just to destroy?

  Toclafane : We come backwards in time, all to build a brand new empire lasting one hundred trillion years.

  The Master : With me as their master. Time Lord and humans combined. Haven't you always dreamt of that, Doctor?

• The Master : Tomorrow they launch. We're opening up a rift in the Bracatolian Space. Won't see us coming. Be kind of scary.

  The Doctor : Then stop.

  The Master : Once the Empire is established and there's a new Gallifrey in the heavens, maybe then it stops. The drumming. The never-ending drumbeat.

• [the Master points his laser screwdriver at Martha] 

  The Master : And now good companion, your work is done.

• The Master : Three minutes to align the black-hole converters. Counting down! I never could resist a ticking clock... My children! Are you ready?

  Toclafane : We'll fly and blaze and slice! We'll fly and blaze and slice!

  The Master : At zero, to mark this day, the child Martha Jones will die.

  [grins] 

  The Master : My first blood.

• The Master : If I can't have this world, Doctor, then neither can you! We shall stand upon this Earth, together, as it burns!

• The Master : Now it ends, Doctor. NOW it ends!

• The Master : My people, salutations on this, the eve of war. Lovely woman.

• The Master : Didn't you learn anything from the blessed Saint Martha? Siding with the Doctor... is a very dangerous thing to do.

• The Master : Martha Jones! I can see you! Come on little girl, come and meet your master.