Doctor! Doctor, do you remember me?

Leela! Of course I do. Not even the odd mind-wiping alien or two could manage you out of my memory! [Just the biggest smile.]

How wonderful! It is good to see you again, Doctor.

I'm out here!

Adric?! [ADRIC HAS NOT MANAGED TO DIE YET! It is a miracle!] You're doing well?

Of course I am!

[Why wouldn't he be fine? He doesn't have a tendency to walk straight into harm's way. <<]

[Amazed] And how is your brother?

He's fine. He's been keeping me from getting in too much trouble.

It must be tiring work. Do you pay him well? [Teasing. It must happen.]

Well, I'd pay him in jelly babies, but I haven't been to a planet that has any yet.

Phone home.

That's what I'm doing, yes.

E.T. phone home.

If that's the case I believe you have the wrong number.

Ouuuuch.

Well I meant no harm by it.

E.T. phone home.

If you're a future companion, I have my work cut out for me.

Ouuuch

Professor...?

Ace! Hello. Hide me from me if I'm there. I don't want me to see.

[Ace looks at the screen. Then behind her at something in the TARDIS. Then back again... She should be asking how this is possible, but... This is the Professor.

SUSPICIOUS ACE.]

Did you get dunked in something and multiply? Again...

I swear, you lot have more in common with plankton than humans, half the time.

I'm on the Barge! You remember the Barge, don't you?

That place with all the...

Blimey.

[BUT IS IT BECAUSE SHE WAS TOLD BY YOU OR BECAUSE SHE REMEMBERS? YOU SHALL NEVER KNOW...]

[He knows it wasn't from him because he came after being riddled full of bullets and after she had moved on.] That would be the one.

[THAT'S WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO THINK!]

Thought that's the last place you'd want to end up!

I don't have much choice in residences at the moment. I'll be off to be another me next, if things go awry.

You're not going to discombobulate, are you? You know how the universe reacts to that...

..Oh good lord.

I remember that hat.

...You're a horse.






I'm afraid alternate universes have finally managed to surprise me.

Pony, if you please.


I have to echo the sentiment however. Where are your hooves my good man? However on earth do you handle your sonic bridle? I know it's a bit of a...difficult device to handle but really..

A sonic bridle? How in the cosmos do you keep your teeth in when you use it?

Dampners. Look, it's better then my sonic horse-shoe.

Doctor - look how you've grown!

Have you been naughty or nice this regeneration?

Of course I have! I've been a gem.

[He has not. He deserves all the coal in the world.]

Are you telling the truth to Father Christmas, Doctor?

Yes. [No.]

Well, then, what would you like for Christmas?

[Santa is so on to you, Doctor.]

Aren't we conditioned to write you a letter detailing this sometime in the next month? I'm sure I'll think of something then.

In lieu of that, something for Rex and Tim. [Some genuine niceness there.]

That's something to take up with the Admiral - I would never force you to write to jolly old Saint Nick, you know.

Though I do so enjoy receiving letters. [Hint. Hint.]

Are you really the Doctor?

I am. I just happen to be the Doctor this time around.

You don't look like him.

That's because I'm him... presumably when he's younger. You know how people look quite a bit different at different ages? It's more dramatic for us. [Such a good Scottish rotary consonant there.]

You should like me, though.

He doesn't. How does your accent change?

Unkind names? Well, let's hear some then.

Doctor? You're, ah...

This is some kind of... Time Lord thing, isn't it.