Doctor Who (TV Series)

City of Death: Part Four (1979)

Julian Glover: Count Scarlioni, Scaroth

Quotes 

• Doctor Who : [speaking rapidly]  Romana, hello, how are you? I see the Count roped you in as a lab assistant. What are you making for him? A model railway? Gallifreyan egg timer? I hope you're not making a time machine. I shall be very angry.

  Count Scarlioni : Doctor, how very nice to see you again. Seems like only 474 years since we last met.

• Duggan : You're mad. Insane. You're inhuman!

  Count Scarlioni : Quite so. When I compare my race to yours, human, I take the word "inhuman" as a great compliment.

• Doctor Who : I can't let you fool about with time.

  Count Scarlioni : What else do YOU ever do?

  Doctor Who : Ah, well, I'm a professional. I know what I'm doing.

• Scaroth : Goodbye, my dear. I'm sorry you had to die, but then, in a short while, you will have ceased ever to have existed.

• Scaroth : Keep out of my way. I must get to the ship.

  Doctor Who : No, Scaroth, you can't!

  Scaroth : I'm in that ship, I'm in the warp control cabin. I must stop myself pressing the button.

  Doctor Who : No, Scaroth, no! You've pressed it once. You've thrown the dice once, you don't get a second throw!

  Scaroth : But I will splinter in time again, and all my people will be killed!

  Doctor Who : No! The explosion that you in there are about to trigger off will give birth to the human race. The moment your race kills itself, another is born. That has happened, it will happen.

  Scaroth : What do I care of the human race? Scum! The tools of my salvation!

  Doctor Who : No, the product of your destruction! History cannot change, it cannot!

  Scaroth : [raising his arms likes he's going to do a karate chop]  I WILL CHANGE IT!

  [Duggan punches him, knocking him to the ground] 

  Doctor Who : Duggan! Duggan... I think that was possibly the most important punch in history.

• Doctor Who : If you're thinking of going back in time, you'd better forget it.

  Count Scarlioni : And why do you say that?

  Doctor Who : Well, because I'm going to stop you.

  Count Scarlioni : No, on the contrary, Doctor, you're going to help me.

  Doctor Who : I am?

  Count Scarlioni : You are indeed. And if you do not, it'll be so much the worse for you, for this young lady, and for thousands of other people I could mention if I happened to have the Paris telephone directory on my person.