The Master

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John Simm
John Simm was born on 10th July 1970 in Leeds, West Yorkshire and grew up in Nelson, Lancashire. He ...

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The Master Quotes

	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: I remember the days when the Doctor, oh, that famous Doctor... was waging a Time War, battling Sea Devils, and Axons, he sealed the Rift at the Medusa Cascade, single handed. And look at him now, stealing screwdrivers... How did he ever come to this? Oh yes! Me! The Doctor: I just... need you to listen. The Master: No, it's my turn. Revenge. Best served hot.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: You should've seen it, Doctor. Furnaces burning. The last of humanity screaming at the dark.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Doctor: You've got to! Come on. It can't end like this. You and me, all the things we've done. Axons! Remember the Axons? And the Daleks. We're the only two left. There's no one else... REGENERATE! The Master: Heh... how about that? I win.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Doctor: [the Doctor rejuvenates] One thing you can't do, is stop them thinking. The Doctor: [to the Master] Tell me the human race is degenerate now. Or they can do this! The Master: NO! The Doctor: I'm sorry. The Doctor: I'm so sorry. The Master: [increases the power of the Laser Screwdriver] Then I'll kill them! The Master: [to the Doctor] You can't do this! YOU CAN'T DO THIS! IT'S NOT FAIR! The Doctor: Then you know what happens now. The Master: [scared] No! NO! NO! NO! The Doctor: [serious] You wouldn't listen... The Master: [cowering] NO! The Doctor: [serious] 'Cause you know what I'm gonna say. The Master: [terrified] No! The Doctor: I forgive you.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: Dying in your arms... happy now? The Doctor: You're not dying, don't be stupid. It's only a bullet, just regenerate. The Master: No. The Doctor: One little bullet, come on. The Master: I guess you don't know me so well... I refuse. The Doctor: [desperate] Regenerate. Just regenerate! Please, please! Just regenerate, come on! The Master: And spend the rest of my life imprisoned with you?
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: Ever since I was a child... I looked into the Vortex and that's when it chose me. The Drumming. The Call. To War.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: It's ready to rise, Doctor. The new Time Lord empire, it's good isn't it? Isn't it good? Anything? The Master: No? Anything? Oh, but they broke your hearts, didn't they? Those Toclafane... Ever since you worked out what they really are.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: It's good, isn't it?
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: I ask you, how much hope has this man got? [to the Doctor] Say hello, Gandalf... Except, he's not that old. But he's an alien with a much greater lifespan than you, stunted little apes. What if it showed? [to The Doctor] What if I suspend your capacity to regenerate? All nine hundred years of your life, Doctor. What if we could see them?
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: The human race. Greatest monsters of them all.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: Three minutes to align the black-hole converters. Counting down! I never could resist a ticking clock... My children! Are you ready? Toclafane: We'll fly and blaze and slice! We'll fly and blaze and slice! The Master: At zero, to mark this day, the child Martha Jones will die. [grins] My first blood.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: If I can't have this world, Doctor, then neither can you! We shall stand upon this Earth, together, as it burns!
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: Will it stop, Doctor? The drumming? Will it stop?
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: Now it ends, Doctor. NOW it ends!
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: You still haven't answered the question. What happens to me? The Doctor: You're my responsibility from now on. The only Time Lord left in existence. Captain Jack Harkness: Yeah, but you can't trust him. The Doctor: No. The only safe place for him is the TARDIS. The Master: You mean, you're just gonna... keep me? The Doctor: If that's what I have to do. It's time to change. Maybe I've been wandering for too long. Now I've got someone to care for.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: It's always the women.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: My masterpiece, Doctor. A living TARDIS, strong enough to hold the paradox in place, allowing the past and the future to collide in infinite majesty. The Doctor: But you're changing history. Not just Earth, the entire universe. The Master: I'm a Time Lord. I have that right. The Doctor: But even then... why come all this way just to destroy? Toclafane: We come backwards in time, all to build a brand new empire lasting one hundred trillion years. The Master: With me as their master. Time Lord and humans combined. Haven't you always dreamt of that, Doctor?
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: I took Lucy to Utopia. A Time Lord and his human companion. I took her to see the stars. Isn't that right, sweetheart? Lucy Saxon: Trillions of years into the future, to the end of the universe. The Master: Tell him what you saw. Lucy Saxon: Dying. Everything dying. The whole of creation was falling apart and I thought there's no point. No point to anything. Not ever. The Master: And it's all your fault.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: Tomorrow they launch. We're opening up a rift in the Bracatolian Space. Won't see us coming. Be kind of scary. The Doctor: Then stop. The Master: Once the Empire is established and there's a new Gallifrey in the heavens, maybe then it stops. The drumming. The never-ending drumbeat.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: My people, salutations on this, the eve of war. Lovely woman.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: Didn't you learn anything from the blessed Saint Martha? Siding with the Doctor... is a very dangerous thing to do.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: Martha Jones! I can see you! Come on little girl, come and meet your master.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Last of the Time Lords (3) The Master: And now good companion, your work is done.
	Season 3 / Episode 12: - The Sound of Drums (2) The Master: This country has been sick, this country needs healing, this country needs medicine - in fact I'd go so far as to say that, what this country really needs, right now, is a Doctor.
	Season 3 / Episode 12: - The Sound of Drums (2) Vivien Rook: Mister Saxon, I was just having a little joke with poor little Lucy. The Master: Oh, but you're absolutely right. Harold Saxon doesn't exist. Vivien Rook: Then tell me. Who are you? The Master: I am the Master. And these... The Master: ...are my friends.
	Season 3 / Episode 12: - The Sound of Drums (2) The Master: Laser Screwdriver. Who'd have sonic? And the best part is he isn't dead for long, I get to kill him again!
	Season 3 / Episode 12: - The Sound of Drums (2) President: Saxon, what in God's name are you doing? The Master: I'm taking control, Uncle Sam. Starting with you. The Master: Kill him! The Master: Now then, citizens of the Earth; please attend carefully!
	Season 3 / Episode 12: - The Sound of Drums (2) The Master: And so it came to pass that the human race fell, and the Earth was no more. And I looked down upon my new dominion as Master of all; and I thought it good.
	Season 3 / Episode 12: - The Sound of Drums (2) The Master: A glorious day. Downing Street rebuilt. The cabinet in session. Let the work of government begin.
	Season 3 / Episode 12: - The Sound of Drums (2) The Master: Here come the drums!

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