1. A long time ago, back in the village
when I was a small boy,Copy !req
2. a fire was eating the forest.Copy !req
3. People running and screaming.Copy !req
4. But me, I ran to the river
with my little cup to get water.Copy !req
5. They laughed at me.
"What are you doing?"Copy !req
6. "What I can!" I shouted
and ran back to pour it on the fire.Copy !req
7. Suddenly, a blue box appeared
in the skies over the fire.Copy !req
8. And a man stood at the door
with a hosepipe.Copy !req
9. Spraying and sprayingCopy !req
10. until all the fires went out.Copy !req
11. He landed the box
in the middle of the burnt forestCopy !req
12. and started scattering fresh seeds.Copy !req
13. I went over to thank him.Copy !req
14. "Are you a farmer?" I asked.Copy !req
15. "No. I am the Doctor."Copy !req
16. We shook hands. And that's how we met.Copy !req
17. - Nice. Good. Great…Copy !req
18. Great story.Copy !req
19. And you're sure
that this Doctor will come?Copy !req
20. Yes.Copy !req
21. He always comes when needed.Copy !req
22. - Hey!
- Walahi!Copy !req
23. The Doctor…
we need him now. It needs feeding.Copy !req
24. You need to get me home.Copy !req
25. I promise I am doing everything I can to—Copy !req
26. Wait.Copy !req
27. Oh, why did I not think of this before?Copy !req
28. Ah, we can boost the Vindicator
if we go to…Copy !req
29. - Of course!
- Go where?Copy !req
30. Lagos, Nigeria.Copy !req
31. It has the largest communications
technology market in Africa.Copy !req
32. And it's near Omo's Palace.Copy !req
33. - Omo's Palace?
- My favourite barbershop.Copy !req
34. Omo, the owner, is a friend of mine.
We met in a fire.Copy !req
35. Barbershop? But the TARDIS does your hair.Copy !req
36. It does. It does.Copy !req
37. Uh, I don't go there for cuts.
It's hard to explain.Copy !req
38. Okay… Try explaining.Copy !req
39. Ah. 2019. A great year.Copy !req
40. I'm not human.Copy !req
41. I am an evolved life-form.Copy !req
42. And, uh…Copy !req
43. …my body changes a lot.Copy !req
44. It's the first time
I've had this Black body.Copy !req
45. In some parts of the Earth
I'm now treated differently.Copy !req
46. But here, in Africa, in that barbershop,
I'm accepted.Copy !req
47. I'm able to forget.Copy !req
48. We…Copy !req
49. Boy, we…Copy !req
50. we laugh. We tell stories. They…Copy !req
51. Treat you like one of their own?Copy !req
52. Yeah.Copy !req
53. My nan took me to India whenever she could
for the same reason.Copy !req
54. You say you're not human, but that's
the most human thing ever, Doctor.Copy !req
55. Go on then. Take as long as you need.Copy !req
56. This is gonna look so nice on you.
So nice.Copy !req
57. - Auntie!Copy !req
58. - Oh!Copy !req
59. I'm good, my guy.Copy !req
60. Brother!Copy !req
61. Hey!
- Hey! How are you?Copy !req
62. Uncle.Copy !req
63. How far, now?
- How far, now? You're good?Copy !req
64. Yeah.Copy !req
65. And that is why
the tortoise has a cracked shell.Copy !req
66. Omo?
Doctor.Copy !req
67. - Hey!
Come in.Copy !req
68. I told you he would come.Copy !req
69. You! You ruined the end now.Copy !req
70. - It might not be enough.
- Excuse you?Copy !req
71. Omo, who does he think he's talking to?Copy !req
72. Wait.
You're on the missing posters.Copy !req
73. All of you. They're on the walls outside.Copy !req
74. Rashid, Tunde, Obioma.Copy !req
75. Doctor, you haven't come in years.Copy !req
76. And standards have slipped.
Damp and misty outside, dusty in here.Copy !req
77. It's not me.Copy !req
78. New management.Copy !req
79. Welcome.Copy !req
80. I've been expecting you.Copy !req
81. Welcome to my establishment.Copy !req
82. Your establishment?
Why's the street deserted?Copy !req
83. Why isn't Obioma leaving?Copy !req
84. Why are they on all the missing posters?Copy !req
85. They cannot leave.Copy !req
86. No one can.Copy !req
87. You are the all-knowing Doctor
who is supposed to save usCopy !req
88. and you don't know anything, huh?Copy !req
89. Save you from what?Copy !req
90. Rest… …Obioma.
He hasn't been in years.Copy !req
91. He doesn't know.
He never makes appointments.Copy !req
92. Yes. Besides,
appointments never work in Africa.Copy !req
93. What are you talking about?Copy !req
94. Who's next?Copy !req
95. Your hair.Copy !req
96. We're running out of stories!Copy !req
97. Look at his hair.Copy !req
98. Me. I've got this.Copy !req
99. Once upon a time,
a great musician Yo-Yo Ma,Copy !req
100. was travelling through Botswana
collecting local music,Copy !req
101. when he heard a shaman singing.Copy !req
102. Yo-Yo Ma said,
"Stop. Wow. I have to write this down."Copy !req
103. He wrote a bit, then said, "Carry on."Copy !req
104. But the shaman
sang a completely different song.Copy !req
105. Yo-Yo Ma said, "No. Sing the first one."Copy !req
106. The shaman said, "I cannot.Copy !req
107. The first time,
an antelope was in the distance.Copy !req
108. Clouds covered the sun.Copy !req
109. The second time, clouds had gone,
antelope disappear, so the song changed."Copy !req
110. You see, in the old days,
music was a live thing.Copy !req
111. But after industrial revolution,Copy !req
112. people became obsessed with producing
identical things to package time.Copy !req
113. But not in Africa.Copy !req
114. That is why we say we will come at 1:00
but won't arrive till 3:00.Copy !req
115. So, appointments, bad idea.Copy !req
116. I don't know how much more I can take.
The tension is getting unbearab—Copy !req
117. Wow. Wow.Copy !req
118. Incredible.Copy !req
119. The drawings in the window
are a visual interpretation of his story.Copy !req
120. Cool, right?Copy !req
121. Dalek. Cybermen. Weeping Angels.Copy !req
122. Uh, you need to be getting a cut
for that to work.Copy !req
123. They're all connected.
The windows, chairs, his clippers.Copy !req
124. And you must tell a story, Doctor.Copy !req
125. We must feed it. It is always hungry.Copy !req
126. What is hungry, Omo?Copy !req
127. The Barber controls it. Him and Abby.Copy !req
128. Uh…Copy !req
129. Are we under attack? TARDIS? Hello?Copy !req
130. Thank you again, Abby.Copy !req
131. Abby?Copy !req
132. Every day she brings us food.
We'd be lost without her.Copy !req
133. I know that face.Copy !req
134. Why do I know your face?Copy !req
135. What have I done to—Copy !req
136. We know who you are.Copy !req
137. Intergalactic busybody Time Lord.Copy !req
138. Last of his kind and so on.Copy !req
139. So you told them, Omo?Copy !req
140. How could I not?
You're the greatest story I know.Copy !req
141. Well, if you put it like that.Copy !req
142. But why do I know her face? Abby.Copy !req
143. The Barber's assistant?Copy !req
144. She told me that
they both used to work for her father,Copy !req
145. but he was mean, so they left.Copy !req
146. Her father?Copy !req
147. And they're keeping you here?Copy !req
148. Until we reach their destination.Copy !req
149. We're travelling?Copy !req
150. This is…Copy !req
151. Oh, Omo, what is going on?Copy !req
152. It's the Barber.Copy !req
153. He turned up one day and offered
to give me a haircut in my own shop.Copy !req
154. I thought it was a nice thing.
I said, "Okay."Copy !req
155. He brought out his own clippers.Copy !req
156. And as soon as they touched me, a sort of
current just ran through the whole shop.Copy !req
157. And like magic, like witchcraft, it seemed
to transfer itself, its soul to him.Copy !req
158. I tried to open the door.
My keys didn't work.Copy !req
159. Tried to stop my clients,
but the shop demanded a select few.Copy !req
160. The ones who love this place.
They pushed in.Copy !req
161. These are men I've known for years.Copy !req
162. Decades. They're like sons to me.Copy !req
163. I came to get a trim
for my child's naming ceremony.Copy !req
164. My wife…Copy !req
165. We'd been married for less than a year.Copy !req
166. I'm an athlete. Relay, 100 metres.Copy !req
167. I came to get a cut for the championship.Copy !req
168. I miss my team and my big sister.
She trained me.Copy !req
169. My mother is in hospital.Copy !req
170. Omo was lending me money for her medicine.Copy !req
171. I wanted a fresh cut to see her.Copy !req
172. There's someone waiting
for me too, Doctor.Copy !req
173. The girl with the blue earrings
the day we met.Copy !req
174. We both came to the city together,Copy !req
175. but I spent most of my time in hereCopy !req
176. and not enough with her.Copy !req
177. So, whose story
will enchant us now?Copy !req
178. I don't— I don't have anything.
- You don't have to say anything.Copy !req
179. I'll speak.Copy !req
180. Let me out.Copy !req
181. Tell a story.Copy !req
182. - It's the only way.
- I changed my mind.Copy !req
183. Doctor, tell it for us.
It will be easier for you. A big story.Copy !req
184. Okay. You want a story
about Weeping Angels and Ice Warriors,Copy !req
185. but nothing is more vivid
than an ordinary life.Copy !req
186. One person. Belinda.Copy !req
187. On any given day, nurses are knackered,
and after a 13-hour shift, she was done.Copy !req
188. His pictures are alive.Copy !req
189. She was going home,
but she heard something.Copy !req
190. Oh, uh, Belinda,
could you take her obs?Copy !req
191. We need bloods,
X-ray for her chest and IV fluids.Copy !req
192. Hypotensive, systolic's at 89.Copy !req
193. Tachycardic is under 100.
Vomited a few times.Copy !req
194. Oh, it's okay.Copy !req
195. Infection?
Maybe gastroenteritis.Copy !req
196. Have you considered steroids?Copy !req
197. What, for a chest infection?Copy !req
198. No, her fingers.
She's got rheumatoid arthritis.Copy !req
199. Might have put herself
in an Addisonian crisis.Copy !req
200. Here. Hyperpigmentation.Copy !req
201. No, it's too subtle. It's barely there.Copy !req
202. Dehydration, nausea, vomiting.Copy !req
203. An Addisonian crisis
can present like this.Copy !req
204. It happened to my nan.
Without steroids she could die.Copy !req
205. You're right. She's yours.Copy !req
206. It's my nan's birthday.Copy !req
207. All night,
she guarded that frail life.Copy !req
208. Sacrificing her own joy…Copy !req
209. We're speeding up?Copy !req
210. …fighting her tiredness.Copy !req
211. Until the doctors wheeled her away.Copy !req
212. Two weeks later, Belinda was leaving work.Copy !req
213. - Hi, Belinda. Just picking up my pills.
- Hi.Copy !req
214. Don't be silly. I'll be there around 7:00.
Love you, Nan.Copy !req
215. Oh.Copy !req
216. It's you. Up on your feet. Wow.Copy !req
217. I know what you did for me.Copy !req
218. Well, the doctors took over,
but you saved my life.Copy !req
219. Thank you.Copy !req
220. The batteries are full.
Fullest they've been since the early days.Copy !req
221. First time is the hardest.Copy !req
222. From now,
it will be as easy as getting a haircut.Copy !req
223. What is happening?Copy !req
224. You were right, Omo.Copy !req
225. His stories alone
can super-power the engine.Copy !req
226. You see? Look.Copy !req
227. Look how much his hair has grown.
You can let us go now.Copy !req
228. This changes everything.Copy !req
229. We'll get there sooner.Copy !req
230. You can finally take the throne
and rule fairly. Justly.Copy !req
231. I must recalibrate the engine.Copy !req
232. Such raw power.Copy !req
233. Check the stasis field
for structural damage.Copy !req
234. Then let's meet in the engine room.Copy !req
235. - It's okay. Just relax, okay?Copy !req
236. TARDIS, locate origin! Show source!Copy !req
237. The barbershop?Copy !req
238. - …now, look at this.
- Oh, no. I don't want any. Thank you.Copy !req
239. I'm in a rush. Sorry.Copy !req
240. I will give you discount.Copy !req
241. Oh!Copy !req
242. Ah! Madam, you must pay for this.Copy !req
243. Sorry, I…Copy !req
244. I have no money.Copy !req
245. Who they cause trouble?Copy !req
246. You planned this, Omo?Copy !req
247. I have to get these men home.Copy !req
248. And because I have no home, I'm what?
I'm expendable?Copy !req
249. Their families need them.Copy !req
250. And I have none, so I don't matter?Copy !req
251. No. No, Doctor. Doctor, you have stories.
That's all I was thinking.Copy !req
252. I love this shop.Copy !req
253. I loved you, Omo.Copy !req
254. I thought it was a home for me.Copy !req
255. I was safe.Copy !req
256. So, he's not here now.
Open the door and go.Copy !req
257. We can't.
You can.Copy !req
258. - There's nowhere to go.
- I opened it from the outside.Copy !req
259. It's different from inside.Copy !req
260. - Doctor, Doctor, Doctor—
- Do not talk to me ever again.Copy !req
261. I trusted you with both of my hearts,
with everything that I am.Copy !req
262. How could you?Copy !req
263. Look, it doesn't matter. If he opens
that door, none of us are getting out—Copy !req
264. - Got it.
- No!Copy !req
265. No!Copy !req
266. What the hell is this?Copy !req
267. You are confused, aren't you, Doctor?Copy !req
268. The shop is in outer space
and in Lagos at the same time.Copy !req
269. How?Copy !req
270. And that… that structure that I saw?Copy !req
271. The Nexus.Copy !req
272. I used to call it the World Wide WebCopy !req
273. until the humans
named something far uglier after that.Copy !req
274. There is a time-space compressor
that goes between,Copy !req
275. that is built into the door frame.Copy !req
276. That only lets her and myself out.Copy !req
277. We control it.Copy !req
278. And we're travelling on a spider?Copy !req
279. Wait, you saw the beast?Copy !req
280. Impossible, but true.Copy !req
281. A spider that they control.Copy !req
282. Where are we going?Copy !req
283. You'll find out soon enough.Copy !req
284. Doctor.Copy !req
285. It took you long enough.Copy !req
286. Alarms on the TARDIS
must have been going off.Copy !req
287. Yeah. Nearly blew my ears off.Copy !req
288. You're the nurse from his story.Copy !req
289. Your companion?Copy !req
290. So where have you been?
Did he leave you behind?Copy !req
291. Tell you to wait?Copy !req
292. No. I told him to go actually.Copy !req
293. Wait. You're all missing.Copy !req
294. Doctor, what's going on?Copy !req
295. - And who is that?
I'm still figuring that one out.Copy !req
296. All he has done is stomp around,
giving people awful haircuts.Copy !req
297. And… And they are all scared of him.Copy !req
298. He…Copy !req
299. who hides his identity like a coward.Copy !req
300. A troll on the web.Copy !req
301. Don't be scared.Copy !req
302. We will leave here.Copy !req
303. There is nothing that he can do.Copy !req
304. He has no real power.Copy !req
305. You want to know who I am?Copy !req
306. I go by many names.Copy !req
307. Anansi, the man-spider.Copy !req
308. Saga, the Norse goddess.Copy !req
309. Bastet.Copy !req
310. Dionysus, the Greek god of theatre.Copy !req
311. Even Loki, god of mischief.Copy !req
312. I have been them all.Copy !req
313. In many cultures,
in many worlds, in many incarnations.Copy !req
314. It does not matter what I am called.Copy !req
315. It matters who I am, what I do.Copy !req
316. - And what is it that you do?
I begin all things!Copy !req
317. I am the voice in the empty void.Copy !req
318. I am the spark.Copy !req
319. The seed. The dark nucleus.Copy !req
320. The lie that tells the truth.Copy !req
321. The well of words.Copy !req
322. The Godfather Griot.Copy !req
323. The djeli before.Copy !req
324. The tall tale itself.Copy !req
325. And this, Doctor…Copy !req
326. this…Copy !req
327. is my domain.Copy !req
328. This barbershop?Copy !req
329. Our barbershop?Copy !req
330. - Yes.
- And you were all those Story Lords?Copy !req
331. Yes.Copy !req
332. All those gods. You?Copy !req
333. Are you sure?Copy !req
334. Yes.Copy !req
335. Why are you laughing? What's so funny?Copy !req
336. I don't know.Copy !req
337. He's lying to you. He's lying.Copy !req
338. I met Dionysus.Copy !req
339. We drank so much wine,
we caused a drought in Athens.Copy !req
340. Saga and I watched Marvel movies
up until Endgame.Copy !req
341. She didn't like Thor.
Muscles were too small.Copy !req
342. I played chess with Bastet.Copy !req
343. I let her think that
she let me let her win.Copy !req
344. She kicked my ass thoroughly.Copy !req
345. And Anansi purposely lost a bet
to make me marry one of his daughters.Copy !req
346. I know the gods.Copy !req
347. You are not them.Copy !req
348. Tell the truth.Copy !req
349. Who are you?Copy !req
350. You don't have to answer them.Copy !req
351. Look at me. Don't let him get to you.Copy !req
352. Who are you?Copy !req
353. I was the one behind them all.Copy !req
354. It was me.Copy !req
355. I was once human.Copy !req
356. Whenever we told stories,
the storytelling gods would grow in power.Copy !req
357. The gods needed to strengthen
their bonds with humanity.Copy !req
358. Wherever they told stories, I went.Copy !req
359. I told their myths, their legends.Copy !req
360. Cleaned them up, printed them in books
so that the gods could be worshipped.Copy !req
361. That was my job.Copy !req
362. They only exist now…Copy !req
363. because of me.Copy !req
364. My work.Copy !req
365. - And the Nexus?
- He built that too.Copy !req
366. I wanted something
like the brain.Copy !req
367. Flexible, strong, that could expand
and make connections between ideas.Copy !req
368. So I took a strand of their gods' blood
and essence, and built a model.Copy !req
369. A web-like structure that they expanded
to what you saw now,Copy !req
370. cross-connecting concepts,
cultures and ideas.Copy !req
371. The Nexus.Copy !req
372. How did you collect the stories?Copy !req
373. I started small.Copy !req
374. A pub lit by candles,Copy !req
375. a Catholic church confession box,Copy !req
376. a coal-powered theatre,Copy !req
377. an electric cinema, a space opera.Copy !req
378. Until I had the idea to power the vehicle
with stories itself.Copy !req
379. I worked for centuries,Copy !req
380. and all I wanted was to be recognised.Copy !req
381. They told me that I should know my place.Copy !req
382. I primed the Nexus so well
that it worked without me.Copy !req
383. So they threw me out.
Out of my life's work.Copy !req
384. All I salvaged was my Story Engine.Copy !req
385. We will have vengeance, Doctor.Copy !req
386. We have stopped moving.Copy !req
387. The engine burned too much energy holding
us together when he forced the door open.Copy !req
388. Typical Doctor. Irresponsible.Copy !req
389. I have never… Wait.Copy !req
390. That's it.Copy !req
391. Abby, the daughter of Anansi.Copy !req
392. Abena. That is your full name, isn't it?Copy !req
393. Don't you dare speak it.Copy !req
394. Oh, oh.
- You are not worthy.Copy !req
395. I grew up trapped with Anansi,Copy !req
396. terrified someone would win me in a bet.Copy !req
397. I'd heard about you
travelling through time.Copy !req
398. I had faith you would help.Copy !req
399. Instead, you left me.Copy !req
400. I'm here because of you.Copy !req
401. You humiliated me, Doctor.Copy !req
402. You look so different now.Copy !req
403. I am sorry
that I couldn't take you with me.Copy !req
404. I was a fugitive back then.Copy !req
405. Anansi was wrong to offer that bet.Copy !req
406. And, frankly, darling,Copy !req
407. I was busy in a different story
that might be finished one day.Copy !req
408. You actually took that bet?
- I tried to lose.Copy !req
409. Sit, Doctor. Talk now.Copy !req
410. Where are we going?Copy !req
411. - To the heart of the Nexus.
To do what?Copy !req
412. To install the shop thereCopy !req
413. and make him storyteller supreme,Copy !req
414. a trustworthy and careful God.Copy !req
415. That is what he's told you?Copy !req
416. That he's gonna become everything
that he hates and despises?Copy !req
417. And you believe him?Copy !req
418. He would not lie to me.Copy !req
419. We need a story, now!Copy !req
420. I know vengeance, and I can taste his.Copy !req
421. It is bile black and bitter.Copy !req
422. You are planning something.Copy !req
423. What? What? There's nothing I can do.Copy !req
424. I'm trapped here. Tell me.Copy !req
425. Tell me!Copy !req
426. To cut them out of memory!Copy !req
427. The gods. All of them.Copy !req
428. Severing the gods from the story web,Copy !req
429. cutting them from their essence
will destroy them.Copy !req
430. Destroy?Copy !req
431. As in kill, die, dead as a doornail.Copy !req
432. Done. All the gods, gone.Copy !req
433. That would destroy your father.Copy !req
434. This is my gift to you.Copy !req
435. Abena, remember what he did to you.Copy !req
436. Betting you. His own child.Copy !req
437. Humans are tied to the gods.Copy !req
438. Destroying them would harm
the very essence of humanity.Copy !req
439. A world without stories.
How would they pass on tradition?Copy !req
440. - You knew about this plan?
- No, no.Copy !req
441. Is this what you want, Abena?Copy !req
442. We need power. Now!Copy !req
443. Doctor, you need to sit and talk.Copy !req
444. Doctor, please.
Okay, do what he says, okay?Copy !req
445. We have to get back home. Our families.Copy !req
446. - I can't help him do this.
- Please.Copy !req
447. Abena, hurt people hurt people.Copy !req
448. Your father hurt you.Copy !req
449. The difference between good and evil
is what we do with that pain.Copy !req
450. - Enough. Put him in the chair.
With pleasure.Copy !req
451. - Rashid, come.
No, no, no, no, no. Wait.Copy !req
452. - No. Rashid, please, wait!
- I promise I will get you home.Copy !req
453. Please, Doctor.
- I will get you home.Copy !req
454. You do not want to do this!Copy !req
455. - Doctor!
- Hold him down. Hold him down.Copy !req
456. We have to get back home. Okay? I'm sorry!Copy !req
457. Stop! Stop! Stop!Copy !req
458. I will talk. I will tell a story.Copy !req
459. Please, Doctor.Copy !req
460. Trust me.Copy !req
461. In a time of slavery and deep suffering,Copy !req
462. the slaves who broke their chains
and escapedCopy !req
463. would return to try to free others.Copy !req
464. Slaves were not allowed to carry paper.Copy !req
465. They were always stopped and searched.Copy !req
466. But the women were very clever.Copy !req
467. They could make their hair
into many shapes and patterns,Copy !req
468. and in one style,
hair could be braided to the scalp,Copy !req
469. bending and curling like roads or paths.Copy !req
470. So the women would weave maps
into their hair and pass it on.Copy !req
471. Mothers to daughters.Copy !req
472. Slave to slave.Copy !req
473. Plantation to plantation.Copy !req
474. And the slave masters
never checked their hair,Copy !req
475. so they shared routes like this
and escaped to freedom.Copy !req
476. Mm-hmm. Exactly.Copy !req
477. There. All done.Copy !req
478. And battery levels are good.Copy !req
479. For now.Copy !req
480. You look good.Copy !req
481. Oh.Copy !req
482. So good I could kiss myself.Copy !req
483. It's a shame I might have to ruin it.Copy !req
484. Why?
You'll find out soon enough.Copy !req
485. Belinda, now.Copy !req
486. Took you long enough.Copy !req
487. Oi! Just trying to concentrate.Copy !req
488. Abena gave me the map to freedom.Copy !req
489. This way. Come on.Copy !req
490. Stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop.Copy !req
491. This way. Run.Copy !req
492. You did this?Copy !req
493. I'm revoking your access.Copy !req
494. - No!Copy !req
495. You lied to me for all these years.Copy !req
496. I will handle the others.Copy !req
497. The map leads to here.Copy !req
498. The Story Engine.Copy !req
499. A beating heart inside a brain?Copy !req
500. Brilliant. What else is a story?Copy !req
501. What else could hold all stories?Copy !req
502. Quick. Quick. That control desk.Copy !req
503. Start ripping out all of the wires, yeah?Copy !req
504. I need to disrupt the flow of power.Copy !req
505. Get away from my heart.Copy !req
506. You have done nothing. Nothing!Copy !req
507. We are still on track,
and then I will cut them off.Copy !req
508. All the gods!
They will shrivel up and die!Copy !req
509. You did all this to kill them?Copy !req
510. Of course. They deserve it.Copy !req
511. Rubbish! This is your ego.Copy !req
512. - Wanna hear a story?
- No,Copy !req
513. - don't give him any more power.
- Really short! Really short.Copy !req
514. You know Hemingway?Copy !req
515. I saw some of his books back there.
I met him.Copy !req
516. I wanted to see how good he was,
so I challenged him.Copy !req
517. "Hemmy, baby,
write me the shortest story you can."Copy !req
518. He wrote it in six words.
Short as hell. Do you wanna hear mine?Copy !req
519. I'm born.Copy !req
520. I die.Copy !req
521. I am born!Copy !req
522. You are giving me power? But how, huh?Copy !req
523. I am not connected to you!Copy !req
524. No. The engine is connected to me,Copy !req
525. my stories, my voice.Copy !req
526. Look. On!Copy !req
527. …universe can do what we're doing.Copy !req
528. Just this once!Copy !req
529. I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord.Copy !req
530. When you fire that first shot,
no matter how right you feel,Copy !req
531. you have no idea who's going to die.Copy !req
532. When people need help, I never refuse.Copy !req
533. My body is like a barbershop.Copy !req
534. All of them inside,
telling their stories, bickering.Copy !req
535. I will not fail them.Copy !req
536. You told a never-ending story?Copy !req
537. And gave me never-ending power?Copy !req
538. He's taken out a third of the engine.Copy !req
539. You can't process that power.Copy !req
540. Your engine could overload and explode!Copy !req
541. We'll all be sucked into space!Copy !req
542. You will not do that?Copy !req
543. You will not!Copy !req
544. No! No!Copy !req
545. Would you?Copy !req
546. Eh?Copy !req
547. The stories say you protect life—Copy !req
548. That is what I am doing.Copy !req
549. You destroy the gods,
you wreck seven billion lives!Copy !req
550. - Seven billion, or us!
No. No!Copy !req
551. I control the engine,
you control the doors.Copy !req
552. Let them out.Copy !req
553. You were once mortal.Copy !req
554. Their lives and their stories will end
because of you.Copy !req
555. Do you want that?Copy !req
556. Do you?Copy !req
557. The shop is compressing.
The corridor is now a straight line.Copy !req
558. Go. You go.Copy !req
559. I will be right behind you. Yeah?Copy !req
560. Belinda, I will be right behind you.Copy !req
561. - Okay? Okay?
- Okay.Copy !req
562. I'll wait for you!Copy !req
563. Go!
Go!Copy !req
564. What are you doing?Copy !req
565. Listen to me.Copy !req
566. What would your six-word story be?Copy !req
567. What would the essence of your life be?Copy !req
568. I want you to live long enough
to write it.Copy !req
569. Don't let this be how your story ends.Copy !req
570. - Doctor! Doctor!
- Go back! Go back!Copy !req
571. No! Where is he?
He'll make it. He'll make it.Copy !req
572. There they are!
- Come, come, come quick! Come!Copy !req
573. Doctor! Doctor!Copy !req
574. Okay. All right.Copy !req
575. Thank you for keeping
your promise, Doctor.Copy !req
576. Abby, he rescued us, but you…Copy !req
577. you kept us alive.Copy !req
578. Rise.Copy !req
579. And, little brother, run, like the wind.Copy !req
580. - Go, go, go.Copy !req
581. Run. Greet your families for me.Copy !req
582. I'll win all the races!Copy !req
583. I'm going to find
my wife and child! And my mother!Copy !req
584. All I wanted was
to be credited for my work.Copy !req
585. I've spent my entire existence
serving the gods.Copy !req
586. What will I do now?Copy !req
587. What you do best. Keep collecting stories.Copy !req
588. Start your own barbershop.Copy !req
589. No need. I'm retiring.Copy !req
590. I shouldn't have…
I thought you could handle anything.Copy !req
591. I can because you look after me too.Copy !req
592. But you are part of my community.
I should have protected you. Eh?Copy !req
593. I'm sorry.Copy !req
594. I'm sorry too.Copy !req
595. Hmm.Copy !req
596. Yeah.Copy !req
597. Take care.Copy !req
598. Let all this settle and continue.Copy !req
599. Me? I don't belong here.Copy !req
600. I don't even have a name
for people to trust.Copy !req
601. Try "Adétòkundbo."Copy !req
602. My father's name.Copy !req
603. Thank you.Copy !req
604. I don't deserve this kindness.Copy !req
605. So what will you do now?Copy !req
606. Anything I want.Copy !req
607. I understand if you hate him.Copy !req
608. I won't have that in my heart.Copy !req
609. What did you say?Copy !req
610. "Hurt people hurt people."Copy !req
611. Hmm! Imagine. A mortal teaching
a god life lessons?Copy !req
612. Thank you, Doctor.Copy !req
613. I will be back for a haircutCopy !req
614. and for that six-word story.Copy !req
615. Good luck.Copy !req
616. Did you see a child?Copy !req
617. A child?Copy !req
618. Yeah. I saw a spooky kid back there.Copy !req
619. I didn't see anything.Copy !req
620. But the stories were leaking out,
getting mixed up.Copy !req
621. Okay. Well, you have to tell me about Omo.Copy !req
622. Ah, Omo! Hmm!Copy !req
623. It's a long story, but…Copy !req
624. once upon a time…Copy !req
625. Welcome to the 803rd
Interstellar Song Contest.Copy !req
626. At arms.
I will survive. I will find you.Copy !req
627. You can still
help those people.Copy !req
628. Pop.Copy !req
629. Can't we call for rescue?Copy !req
630. Doctor!Copy !req