Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Christmas Invasion (2005)

Sean Gilder: Sycorax Leader

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• The Doctor : [as Sycorax Leader celebrates cutting The Doctor's hand off]  You cut my hand off! And now I know what sort of man I am. I'm lucky, because quite by chance, I'm still within the first 15 hours of my regeneration cycle, which means I have just enough residual cellular energy to do this.

  [spontaneously grows hand back] 

  Sycorax Leader : Witchcraft?

  The Doctor : Time Lord!

• Sycorax Leader : You stand as this world's champion?

  The Doctor : Thank you. I've no idea who I am, but you've just summed me up.

• Sycorax Leader : I can summon the armada and take this world by force!

  The Doctor : Well, yeah, you *could*, you could do that, course you could, but *why*? Look at these people, these human beings, consider their potential. From the day they arrive on this planet and blinking, step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen, more to do... no, hold on... sorry, that's the Lion King... but the point still stands! Leave them alone!

  Sycorax Leader : Or what?

  The Doctor : Or...

  [grabs Sycorax broadsword] 

  The Doctor : ...I challenge you!

  [the Sycorax roar and shout] 

  The Doctor : Ooh, that struck a chord...

• Sycorax Leader : I can summon the armada and take this world by force.

  The Doctor : Well, yeah, you could. Yeah, you could do that, of course you could. But why? Look at these people: these human beings. Consider their potential. From the day they arrive on the planet, and blinking step into the sun. There is more to see than can ever be seen. More to do than - no, hold on... Sorry, that's the 'Lion King'. But the point still stands.

• Sycorax Leader : If sho pa pass your planet ma we kas champion..."

  Alex : [translating]  "If this is the best your planet has for a champion..."

  Sycorax Leader : Then your world will be gutted...

  Alex : "Then your would will be gutted..."

  Sycorax Leader , Alex : ...and your people enslaved.

  Alex : Hold on, that's English.

  Harriet Jones : He's talking English!

  Rose : You're talking English.

  Sycorax Leader : I would never dirty my tongue with your primitive bile!

  Rose : That's English. Can you hear English?

  Harriet Jones : Yes.

  Mickey Smith : Yeah, that's English.

  Alex : Definitely English.

  Sycorax Leader : [yelling]  I speak only Sycoraxic!

• Sycorax Leader : [shouts]  I demand to know who you are!

  The Doctor : [shouts, imitating him]  I don't know!

  The Doctor : See, there's the thing. I'm the Doctor, but beyond that, I - I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy?

  [he winks at Rose] 

  The Doctor : Am I an old misery? Life and soul? Right-handed? Left-handed? A gambler? A fighter? A coward? A traitor, a liar, a nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob.

• Rose : I, um, I address the Sycorax, um, according to... Article 15 of the Shadow Proclamation. I command you to *leave* this world with all the authority of... the Slitheen Parliament of Raxacoricofallapatorious, and, um, the Gelth Confederacy, as, uh, sanctioned by the Mighty Jagrafess, and, ooh! the Daleks! Now *leave* this planet in *peace*! In peace.

  [long pause] 

  Sycorax Leader : [laughs]  Shoo gon gon flak shkee-re!

  Alex : "You are very very funny."

  Sycorax Leader : Shoo galeah shak sheefflik!

  Alex : "And now you're going to die."