Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Devil's Chord (2024)

Ncuti Gatwa: The Doctor

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• Maestro : Go on, then. Do it. Can you find it? The lost chord? Are you enough of a genius?

  The Doctor : Oh, I would never call myself that, Maestro. But I have lived. And I have loved. And I can only smile like this because I have lost so much, I've experienced everything, every single thing, and if that's where music comes from... I can find the chord to banish you.

• Ruby Sunday : I wanna see the Beatles recording their very first album.

  The Doctor : [long pause]  Seriously?

  Ruby Sunday : [rapidly]  Well, you asked! If we could go anywhere in time and space that's where I'd go because my mum, she had a girlfriend, Claire. And I loved Claire, and she was dead into vinyl. She had all the Beatles' albums, so we'd play 'em every day after school. Ten years old I was. We had Revolver, The White Album. So yeah, if I could go anywhere that's where I'd go.

  The Doctor : That... is... AMAZING!

  Ruby Sunday : Oh, wait, seriously?

  The Doctor : People always say the Titanic, or Mars, or Bethlehem! But the Beatles? Why have I never done that before? Come on!

• The Doctor : Maestro!

  Maestro : That was you in '63, wasn't it, sweetcheeks? You stepped from one time to another, like... the Lord Temporal, who trapped my father and bound him in salt, yes?

  The Doctor : Child of the Toymaker.

  Maestro : C'est moi, mon cher! I should thank you, Doctor. Daddy was so bad to me!

• Ruby Sunday : Thing is, without music, dance must be gone. No one dances any more! I mean, can you dance without music?

  The Doctor : I mean, you can, but do you want to?

• The Doctor : At this moment in time, Ruby Sunday, you are the only music in the world. Let's see what happens if you bring music back.

  Ruby Sunday : Right, I'll just... no pressure.

• The Doctor : Yeah, one trick, once. That's all you get with the gods.

• The Doctor : I'm sorry... but the power of these creatures is so vast, the whole world could slide into the pit.

• The Doctor : I think without music, the human race goes sour. Without any way of expressing a broken heart, they go to war without even knowing why.

• The Doctor : But there is one thing that I should warn you about, Ruby. And this is really very serious. With all of my adventures throughout time and space, I have to tell you... there is always a twist at the end.