Doctor Who (TV Series)

Battlefield: Part One (1989)

Sylvester McCoy: The Doctor

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• Brigadier : Ace?

  Ace : Yes Brigadier?

  Brigadier : I'm getting too old for this sort of thing. He's all yours from now on. I'm going home to Doris.

  The Doctor : Doris?

  Brigadier : Yes, my wife.

  The Doctor : [chuckles]  So she caught you in the end?

• Brigadier : Oh, dear. Women. Not really my field.

  The Doctor : Don't worry, Brigadier. People will be shooting at you soon.

• The Doctor : You haven't won the game yet, Morgaine.

  Morgaine : I could always defeat you at chess, Merlin.

  The Doctor : Who said anything about chess? I've been playing poker. And I have an Ace up my sleeve...

• The Doctor : If this missile explodes, millions will die. YOU will die.

  Morgaine : I will die with honor!

  The Doctor : All over the world fools are poised, ready to let death fly. Machines of death, Morgaine, screaming from above. Light brighter than the sun. Not a war between armies, nor a war between nations, but just death. Death gone mad! A child looks up into the sky, his eyes turn to cinders. No more tears, only ashes. Is this honor? Is this war? Are these the weapons you would use?

• Ancelyn : He has many names, but in my reckoning, he is Merlin.

  The Doctor : Do you recognize my face then?

  Ancelyn : No, it is not your aspect, but your manner that betrays you. Do you not ride the ship of time? Does it not deceive the senses by being larger within than without? Come, Merlin, cease these games.

• The Doctor : [sees the Brigadier's body]  You stupid, stubborn, pigheaded numbskull! You were supposed to die in bed!

  Brigadier : Nonsense, Doctor!... Oh, really, Doctor, do you think I'd be so stupid as to stay inside, do you? Have a little faith!

  [gets up] 

• Lethbridge-Stewart : What was that?

  The Doctor : That Brigadier, was the beginning of the end of the world.

  Lethbridge-Stewart : Same as ever, eh, Doctor?

• Shou Yuing : Can someone tell me what on earth is going on?

  The Doctor : Well if my hunch is right, the Earth could be at the centre of a war that doesn't even belong to this dimension!