Quotes
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"Just the one. I had an argument with Cleopatra. Dreadful woman. Excellent dancer." ~ Winston Churchill
"Tick tock goes the clock, as the old song says. But they don't, do they? The clocks never tick. Something has happened to time. That's what you say. What you never stop saying. All of history is happening at once. But what does that mean? What happened? Explain to me in terms that I can understand what happened to time." ~ Winston Churchill
"Imagine you were dying. Imagine you were were afraid and a long, long way from home, and in terrible pain. Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, you looked up and saw the face of the devil himself. Hello, Dalek." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Hello again, the Teselecta time-travelling shape-changing robot powered by miniaturised people. Never get bored of that." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"There are no rats in the transept. The skulls eat them." ~ Gantok
"On the Fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no living creature can speak falsely, or fail to answer, a question will be asked. A question that must never, ever be answered." ~ Dorium Maldovar
"Suppose there was a man who knew a secret; a terrible, dangerous secret that must never be told. How would you erase that secret from the world, destroy it forever, before it can be spoken?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Been running all my life. Why should I stop?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"I had to die. I didn't have to die alone. Amy and Rory. The last Centurion and the girl who waited. However dark it got, I'd turn around, and there they'd be. If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"And you've got an office on a train. That is so cool. Can I have an office? Never had an office before. Or a train. Or a train slash office." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"She said that you were a Mister Hottie-ness, and that she would like to go out with you for texting and scones." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
River: Hallucinogenic lipstick. Works wonders on President Kennedy. And Cleopatra was a real pushover.
The 11th Doctor: I always thought so.
River: She mentioned you.
The 11th Doctor: What did she say?
River: Put down that gun down.
The 11th Doctor: Did you?
River: Eventually.
"It was such a basic mistake, wasn't it, Madame Kovarian? Take a child, raise her into a perfect psychopath, introduce her to the Doctor...who else was I going to fall in love with?" ~ River Song
River: Am I the woman who marries you, or the woman who murders you?
The 11th Doctor: I don't want to marry you.
River: I don't want to murder you.
"Rory Williams, the man who dies and dies again. Die one last time and know she will never come back for you." ~ The Silence
"Tick tock goes the clock, he gave all he could give. Tick tock goes the clock, now prison waits for River." ~ Children
Dorium: And Doctor Song, in prison all her days?
The 11th Doctor: Her days, yes. Her nights? Well, that's between her and me, eh?
"The first question. The question that must never be answered, hidden in plain sight. The question you've been running from all your life. Doctor who? Doctor who? Doctor Who." ~ Dorium Maldovar
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Trivia
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This episode pays tribute to Nicholas Courtney, who died in February. The Doctor learns his character, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, died peacefully in his sleep, fulfilling the prophecy made by the Seventh Doctor in the 1989 episode Battlefield. The episode also contains scenes in which "everybody was wearing an eyepatch"; this is a reference to an anecdote Courtney recounted frequently at Doctor Who fan events, about an incident while recording of the 1970 serial Inferno.
Meredith Vieira, co-host of the American morning news/chat programme Today, filmed her cameo during a visit to the Upper Boat Studios as part of a profile of Doctor Who produced for Today. The profile aired on 9 May 2011, contained several minor spoilers for this episode. It revealed the cameo appearance by Richard Hope as Malohkeh and the return of Ian McNeice as Winston Churchill. Appearances by several Cybermen served as a "false flag" spoiler suggesting they might also appear in the episode. They did not.
In The Impossible Astronaut the versions of the Doctor give their ages as 909 and 1103. The Doctor has apparently lived for almost two hundred years between these two episodes. Writer Gareth Roberts indicated in an interview that this is indeed two hundred years after The God Complex for the Doctor and he spent these years "waving" at Amy and Rory through history books
This was the last episode to be covered by Doctor Who Confidential due to that series' cancellation. Starting with The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, the official Doctor Who website would feature short making-of videos after each episode's transmission.
Mark Gatiss played Gantok in this episode, although he is credited onscreen as "Rondo Haxton".
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Trailer
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