Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Satan Pit (2006)

Claire Rushbrook: Ida Scott

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• Ida Scott : Really, though, Doctor. Who are you?

  The Doctor : Oh... the stuff of legends.

• The Doctor : ...Maybe we opened the prison, but not the cell.

  Ida Scott : We should go down. I'd go. What about you?

  The Doctor : Oh, oh in a second! But then again... That's so human. Where angels fear to tread... Even now, standing on the edge, it's that feeling you get, yea? Right at the back of your head. That impulse... That strange little impulse... That mad little voice saying, "Go on! Go on! Go on!... Go over! Go on!..." Maybe it's relying on that... For once in my life, Officer Scott, I'm going to say... retreat. Ugh, now I know I'm getting old.

  [speaks over comm] 

  The Doctor : Rose, we're coming back.

• The Doctor : [Everyone is panicking after the Beast reveals itself. The Doctor causes a whistle of feedback]  You want voices in the dark? Then listen to mine! That thing is playing on very basic fears! Darkness! Childhood! Nightmares! All that stuff!

  Danny Bartock : But that's how the Devil works!

  The Doctor : Or a good psychologist!

  Ida Scott : But how did it know about my father!

  [the Doctor pauses] 

  The Doctor : Okay but what makes his version of the truth any better than mine, hmm? 'Cause I'll tell you what I can see: humans! Brilliant humans! Humans who traveled all the way across space! Flying in a tiny little rocket right into the orbit of a black hole! Just for the sake of discovery, that's amazing! Do you hear me? Amazing! All of you! The Captain! His officer, his elder, his juniors, his friends! All with one advantage: the Beast is alone. We are not. If we can use that to fight against him...

  [the Beast telekinetically snaps the capsule cable, cutting the Doctor off] 

• The Doctor : You get representations of the horned Beast right across the universe in myths and legends of a million worlds. Earth, Draconia, Vel Consadine, Daemos... The Kaled god of war, the same image, over and over again. Maybe, that idea came from somewhere. Bleeding through, a thought of every sentient mind...

  Ida Scott : Originating from here?

  The Doctor : Could be.

  Ida Scott : But if this is the original, does that make it real? Does that make it the actual Devil?

  The Doctor : Well, if that's what you want to believe. Maybe that's what the Devil is, in the end. An idea.

• The Doctor : Neo-Classics, have they got a devil?

  Ida Scott : No. Not as such. Just... the things that men do.

  The Doctor : Same thing, in the end.