Preferably short ones

Could you please share your favorite monologue / dialogue from any recorded footage?

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Doctor Who “The Satan Pit”

INT. PIT – BOTTOM OF THE CHASM

(The Doctor stands, torch in hand. His faceplate is cracked. He breathes.)

DOCTOR

I’m breathing. Air cushion to support the fall. You can breathe down here, Ida. Can you hear me, Ida?

(He shines the torch on wall paintings.)

DOCTOR

The history of some big battle. Man against Beast. I don’t know if you’re getting this, Ida. Hope so. Anyway, they defeated the Beast and imprisoned it.

(He sees two bronze urns on pedestals. Matching ones are painted on the wall. He touches one; both light up.)

DOCTOR

Or maybe that’s the key. Or the gate, or the bars.

(An impossibly large horned creature stirs, chained by horns and limbs. It looks at him and roars.)

DOCTOR

I accept that you exist. I don’t have to accept what you are, but your physical existence, I’ll give you that. I don’t understand. I was expected down here. I was given a safe landing and air. You need me for something. What for? Have I got to, I don’t know, beg an audience? Or is there a ritual? Some sort of incantation or summons or spell? All these things I don’t believe in, are they real? Speak to me! Tell me! You won’t talk. Or you can’t talk. Oh, hold on, wait a minute, just let me. Oh! No. Yes! No. Think it through. You spoke before. I heard your voice. An intelligent voice. No, more than that. Brilliant. But, looking at you now, all I can see is Beast. The animal. Just the body. You’re just the body, the physical form. What’s happened to your mind, hmm? Where’s it gone? Where’s that intelligence? Oh, no.

DOCTOR

You’re imprisoned, long time ago. Before the universe, after, sideways, in between, doesn’t matter. The prison is perfect. It’s absolute, it’s eternal. Oh, yes! Open the prison, the gravity field collapses. This planet falls into the black hole! You escape, you die. Brilliant! But that’s just the body. The body is trapped, that’s all. The devil is an idea. In all those civilizations, just an idea. But an idea is hard to kill. An idea could escape. The mind. The mind of the great Beast. The mind can escape! Oh, but that’s it! You didn’t give me air, your jailers did. They set this up all those years ago! They need me alive, because if you’re escaping, then I’ve got to stop you. If I destroy this prison, your body is destroyed. Your mind with it.

(He raises a rock to smash an urn, then lowers it again.)

DOCTOR

But then you’re clever enough to use this whole system against me. If I destroy this planet, I destroy the gravity field. The rocket. The rocket loses protection and falls into the black hole. I have to sacrifice Rose.

DOCTOR

So, that’s the trap. Or the test, or the final judgment, I don’t know. But if I kill you, I kill her. Except that implies in this big grand scheme of Gods and Devils that she’s just a victim. But I’ve seen a lot of this universe. I’ve seen fake gods and bad gods and demi-gods and would-be gods, and out of all that, out of that whole pantheon, if I believe in one thing, just one thing, I believe in her.

(He smashes the first urn. The cavern shakes. He smashes the second.)

DOCTOR

This is your freedom. Free to die. You’re going into that black hole and I’m riding with you.

(The Beast begins to burn as the planet loses orbit.)