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Just then, both the Valeyard and the Doctor are dragged back into the Matrix. Frightened and cold, the Valeyard calls out for the Doctor, telling him that he has killed them both and robbed himself of a future. "A future as ''you''?" says the Doctor, "That's no future at all." The Doctor then starts to reminiscence about the life he led, and the Valeyard asks him bitterly to spare him that. The Doctor answers that he won't spare him, as he would have ended both the Doctor and Time Lord society without a second thought if he had not been stopped: "Frankly, I will die happy if the last words you ever hear are mine. Words in praise of the best of times: [[Peri Brown|Peri]], [[Melanie Bush|Mel]], [[Evelyn Smythe|Evelyn]], [[Flip Jackson|Flip]], [[Charlotte Pollard|Mila]], [[Constance Clarke|Constance]], and all the others!" "And yet, you'll leave Mel to die in your TARDIS?" the Valeyards ask accusingly. The Doctor replies that he knows that the radiation is lethal to Time Lords but not to humans; in the end, Mel and Time Lord civilisation will survive even if he himself will not, and he considers this comfort enough. The Valeyard then desperately shouts that the Doctor can't just let him die as he is a part of him, but the Doctor replies that the Valeyard is nothing to him. "What about your precious moral scruples?!" the Valeyard asks. "They died with me," says the Doctor. | Just then, both the Valeyard and the Doctor are dragged back into the Matrix. Frightened and cold, the Valeyard calls out for the Doctor, telling him that he has killed them both and robbed himself of a future. "A future as ''you''?" says the Doctor, "That's no future at all." The Doctor then starts to reminiscence about the life he led, and the Valeyard asks him bitterly to spare him that. The Doctor answers that he won't spare him, as he would have ended both the Doctor and Time Lord society without a second thought if he had not been stopped: "Frankly, I will die happy if the last words you ever hear are mine. Words in praise of the best of times: [[Peri Brown|Peri]], [[Melanie Bush|Mel]], [[Evelyn Smythe|Evelyn]], [[Flip Jackson|Flip]], [[Charlotte Pollard|Mila]], [[Constance Clarke|Constance]], and all the others!" "And yet, you'll leave Mel to die in your TARDIS?" the Valeyards ask accusingly. The Doctor replies that he knows that the radiation is lethal to Time Lords but not to humans; in the end, Mel and Time Lord civilisation will survive even if he himself will not, and he considers this comfort enough. The Valeyard then desperately shouts that the Doctor can't just let him die as he is a part of him, but the Doctor replies that the Valeyard is nothing to him. "What about your precious moral scruples?!" the Valeyard asks. "They died with me," says the Doctor. | ||
Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor shouts for Mel to hold on to | Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor shouts for Mel to hold on to something—they are being attacked by radiation beams from the planet of [[Lakertya]]. He wonders how he missed the readings and doesn't understand why this is happening; the [[Lakertyan]]s are known to be a peaceful people. As the TARDIS takes damage, a worried Mel asks how deadly the radiation is. He assures her she will be alright before she collapses onto the floor. He laments he couldn't say the radiation is only deadly to Time Lords. | ||
The Doctor, realising what is going to happen, accepts his fate with a sigh and a melancholy "Oh, well..." Collapsing to the floor while groaning in pain, he manages to gain enough composure enough to say some last words: "I've had good innings. All those lives I have lived... I hope the footprint I leave will be... ''light'', but ''apposite''..." But suddenly, he hears a soft voice, touched by a slight Scottish blur, telling him: "It's far from being all over." Asking who said that, the Doctor faintly spots a [[Seventh Doctor|strange figure]], before losing consciousness as he begins to regenerate. | The Doctor, realising what is going to happen, accepts his fate with a sigh and a melancholy "Oh, well..." Collapsing to the floor while groaning in pain, he manages to gain enough composure enough to say some last words: "I've had good innings. All those lives I have lived... I hope the footprint I leave will be... ''light'', but ''apposite''..." But suddenly, he hears a soft voice, touched by a slight Scottish blur, telling him: "It's far from being all over." Asking who said that, the Doctor faintly spots a [[Seventh Doctor|strange figure]], before losing consciousness as he begins to regenerate. | ||
