The 15th Doctor never fails to pull at my heartstrings. And episode 2 of season 2 had a scene that made me sob.
Why? To say that it is timely, would be putting it too lightly.
So instead I’ll just write the dialogue here.
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, Mr. Rogers told us to look for the helpers and it turns out that they can also be fictional.
The Doctor’s words here brought me comfort. I hope they can do the same for you.
For context, he brought a man named Conrad into his TARDIS, and Conrad… well, there’s a lot of people like him out there in the world. And that’s the problem.
The Doctor and Conrad dialogue:
Doctor: …You have to be invited into my TARDIS, Conrad. To be special. But you, you’re special for all the wrong reasons. You see, I’m fighting a battle on behalf of everyday people who just wanna get through their day, and feel safe, and warm, and fed. And then along comes this noise. All day long, this relentless noise. Cowards like you, weaponize lies, taking people’s insecurity and fear, and making it currency. You are exhausting. You stamp on the truth, choke our bandwidth, and shred our patience because the only strategy you have is to wear us down. But the thing is, Conrad, I have energy to burn and all the time in the universe.
Conrad: (laughs) What is this? An intervention? Are you here to save my soul?
Doctor: You betrayed my friend.
Conrad: You’ve had plenty of friends. Have you met Belinda Chandra yet?
Doctor: Who?… You want spoilers? I’ll tell you your future. You die in a prison cell, boiling in anger and poison until your heart packs in at age 49. Alone and unloved. Forgotten. The world carries on. The world gets better. You aren’t even a footnote. Just ashes on the wind.
Conrad: I don’t accept your reality, Doctor. I reject it. So put me back in my prison and get off my world.
Doctor: (stares him down until turning away and snapping his fingers, and Conrad goes right back into his cell)
