Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Satan Pit (2006)

Shaun Parkes: Zachary Cross Flane

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• The Beast : [lights are all turned off]  This is the darkness. This is my domain. You little things that live in the light, clinging to your feeble suns, which die in the end...

  Zachary Cross Flane : That's not the ood. Somehing's talking through them.

  The Beast : ...only the darkness remains.

  Zachary Cross Flane : This is Zachary Cross Flane of Sanctuary Base 6 representing the Torchwood Archive. You will identify yourself.

  The Beast : You know my name.

  Zachary Cross Flane : What do you want?

  The Beast : You will die here, all of you. This planet is your grave.

  The Doctor : If you are the Beast, then answer me this: Which one, hmm. Because the universe has been busy since you've been gone. These's more religions than there are planets in the sky. There's the Arkaphets, Christianity, Pash-Pash, New Judaism, San Claar, Church of the Tin Vagabond, which devil are you?

  The Beast : All of them!

  The Doctor : Then you're... what? The truth behind the myth?

  The Beast : This one knows me, as I know him: the killer of his own kind.

  The Doctor : [pause]  How did you end up on this rock?

  The Beast : The Disciples of the Light rose up against me and chained me in the pit for all eternity.

  The Doctor : When was this?

  The Beast : Before time.

  The Doctor : What does "Before time" mean?

  The Beast : Before time and light and space and matter. Before the calaclysm. Before this universe was created.

  The Doctor : That's impossible. No life could have existed back then.

  The Beast : Is that your religion?

  The Doctor : [pause]  It's a belief.

  The Beast : You know nothing. All of you, so small.

  [to Zach] 

  The Beast : The captain, so scared of command.

  [to Jefferson] 

  The Beast : The soldier, haunted by the eyes of his wife.

  [to Ida] 

  The Beast : The scientist, still running from daddy.

  [to Danny] 

  The Beast : The little boy who lied.

  [to Toby] 

  The Beast : The virgin.

  [to Rose] 

  The Beast : And the lost girl, so far away from home. The valiant child, who will die in battle, so very soon.

  Rose : Doctor, what does that mean?

  The Doctor : Rose, don't listen.

  Rose : What does it mean!

  The Beast : You will die... and I will live!

• Mr. Jefferson : Might I ask, if you can't add oxygen to this section, could you speed up the process of its removal?

  Zachary Cross Flane : I don't understand, what do you mean?

  Mr. Jefferson : If I might choose the manner of my departure, sir, lack of air seems more natural than, let's say "death by ood"

  [raises voice] 

  Mr. Jefferson : I'd appreciate it, sir.

  Zachary Cross Flane : God speed, Mr Jefferson.

  Mr. Jefferson : [relieved]  Thankyou, sir.

• Zachary Cross Flane : [after hearing that the Doctor fell down a pit and there is very little time left to escape the planet]  We're leaving.

  Rose : I'm not going.

  Zachary Cross Flane : Rose, there's space for you.

  Rose : No, I'm gonna wait for the Doctor, just like he'd wait for me.

  Zachary Cross Flane : I'm sorry, but he's dead.

  Rose : You don't know him.

  [beginning to cry] 

  Rose : 'Cause he's not. I'm telling you, he's not. And even if he was, how could I leave him... all on his own, all the way down there? No, I'm... I'm gonna stay.

  Zachary Cross Flane : Then I apologize for this.

  [to his crew] 

  Zachary Cross Flane : Danny, Toby, make her secure.

  Rose : [Struggling and hysterical as she is grabbed and sedated]  No! No! No! Stop! No! Let me go! Get off me! I'm not leaving! No!

  Zachary Cross Flane : [to the now unconscious Rose]  I have lost too many people. I am not leaving you behind.

• Danny Bartock : [as Rose wakes up from sedation]  Captain, I think we're gonna have a problem passenger.

  Zachary Cross Flane : Keep an eye on her.

  Danny Bartock : It's all right, Rose. We're safe.

  Rose : I'm not going anywhere! Get me out of this thing. Get me out!

  Zachary Cross Flane : [as the rocket blasts off]  And liftoff!

  Rose : [Grabbing a gun and pointing it at the Captain]  Take me back to the planet.

  [No response] 

  Rose : Take me back!

  Zachary Cross Flane : Or what?

  Rose : [Quietly]  Or I'll shoot.

  Zachary Cross Flane : Would you, though? Would you really? Is that what your Doctor would want?

  Rose : [slowly puts the gun down]