We ll Never Rest Again Until Every Nazi Dies

Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doc. But I exercise think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he e'er, for one moment, accepts it.

Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are then, so blest. Some days, nobody dies at all. At present so, Every in one case in a very long while, every mean solar day in a million days, when the current of air stands fair and the Physician comes to call, everybody lives.

River Song is a fictional grapheme played by Alex Kingston in the British scientific discipline-fiction series Doctor Who. Inside the series' narrative, River Song is an experienced companion of the Medico. Because she and the Doctor are both time travelers, their adventures together are largely experienced out of sequence in the chronology of each other's lives, resulting in surprising consequences for them and their unusual romantic life together, including the fact that the first time he meets her, is the final time she meets him, every bit she sacrifices her life to salvage his. In the 2011 episode A Expert Man Goes to War information technology is revealed that she was born Melody Pond, the girl of Amy Pond and Rory Williams, and in the following episode, Let's Impale Hitler, it is revealed she spent years of her life as Mels, the childhood friend of her mother — and thus was in fact named after herself.

Quotes [edit]

Hello, Sweetie.
- How she greets the Medico. She carved it in Loftier Gallifreyan into the dwelling box of a category 4 Starliner likewise as the oldest cliff in the universe, along with space time coordinates, in order to summon the Physician.
- Rephrased in what seems to be, from River's point of view, her last good day to the Md: "Goodbye, Sweetie."
- Used by the 12th Doc to identify himself to River, who doesn't recognize him initially every bit the Doctor.

Spoilers.
- Recurring admonition that she and the Doctor should not reveal what they know of each other'due south future, and her final word to the Doctor before her corporeal death.
- Showtime time she heard it was after regenerating into River Song. (Let's Kill Hitler)
- Learned to utilize the give-and-take from the Doctor, as seen in the First Nighttime/Terminal Night minisode.
- It appears that the Doctor had first learned to use the word from her. (Silence in the Library)
- Used by the 12th Doctor to keep from telling River her future (The Husbands of River Vocal).

Oh I hate you lot.
- Recurring phrase said to the Doctor when she pretends to be angry with him, to which he replies "No, you don't."
- The Tenth Medico unknowingly alters this pattern during his encounter with River by proverb "I know" after River tells him she hates him (Forest of the Dead).

Dialogue [edit]

I'm a time traveller. I betoken and laugh at archaeologists.

Silence in the Library [iv.eight] [edit]

(31 May 2008) This is the episode in which the Medico, in his 10^th incarnation first meets River, from his perspective — and the commencement of their last run across, from her perspective.

River: Hullo, Sweetie.

The Doctor: Get out!

Anita: How do you lot know they're non androids.

River: Because I've dated androids. They're rubbish.

Mr. Lux: Who is this? You said nosotros were the only trek. I paid for exclusives.

River: I lied. I'k always lying. Jump to exist others.

The Doctor: Oh, y'all're non, are y'all...? Tell me yous're not archaeologists.

River: Got a problem with archaeologists?

The Doc: I'm a time traveller. I point and laugh at archaeologists.

River: Ah! [extending her hand for the Physician to shake] Professor River Song. Archeologist.

River: You remember in that location's danger here?

The Physician: Something came to this library and killed everything in it. Killed the whole world. Danger? Could be!

River: That was a hundred years ago. The Library'southward been silent for a hundred years. Whatever came here is long expressionless.

The Doctor: Bet your life?

River: Always.

Mr. Lux: Professor Vocal, why am I the only one wearing my helmet?

River: I don't fancy you.

River: Pretty Boy. With me, I said.

[The Dr. sees Donna staring at him and finally comprehends.]

The Doctor: Oh, I'm Pretty Boy.

Donna: Yep. Oh, that came out a flake quick.

The Physician: Pretty?

Donna: Meh...

River: Thanks.

The Doctor: For what?

River: The usual. For coming when I phone call.

The Physician: That was you?

River: You're doing a very good task acting like you don't know me. I'g assuming there's a reason.

The Doc: Oh, a fairly expert 1 actually.

River: Okay, should we do diaries then? [pulls out a periodical] Where are nosotros this time? Ah, going by your face I'd say it's early days for you, yeah? Then, um... Crash of the Byzantium. Have nosotros done that however? [the Doctor's face is blank] ...Obviously ringing no bells. Alright, um. Picnic at Asgard, Have we done Asgard nevertheless? [once again, no reaction from the Doc] ...Plainly not. Blimey, very early days so. Oo! Life with a time traveller, never knew information technology could be such hard work. Um... [stops, and really looks at him] Look at you. You're young.

The Doctor: I'm really not, you know.

River: Oh but you are. Your eyes! Yous're younger than I've e'er seen you.

The Dr.: Yous've seen me before then?

River: [pause] Doctor, please tell me you lot know who I am.

The Doctor: ...Who are you lot?

[River looks heartbroken]

River: Lamentable, you're not allowed to see within the volume. It's confronting the rules.

The Doc: What rules?

River: Your rules.

Mr. Lux: I'm protecting my family's pride.

The Doctor: Well, funny matter, Mr. Lux. I don't want to see anybody in this room dead because some idiot thinks his pride is more than important.

River: Then why don't you sign his contract? [the Doctor freezes] I didn't either. I'm getting worse than you.

River: There was one other affair in the last message.

Mr. Lux: That's confidential.

River: I trust this man with my life. With everything.

Mr. Lux: You've only just met him.

River: Nope, he's only just met me.

River: Any did this to her, whatever killed her, I'd like a discussion with that.

The Doctor: I'll introduce you.

The Medico: What's in that volume?

River: Spoilers.

The Doctor: Who are you?

River: Professor River Song, Academy of —

The Doctor: To me. Who are you to me?

River: Again: spoilers.

The Doctor: What's that?

River: It's a screwdriver.

The Doctor: Information technology'south sonic.

River: Yeah, I know. Snap. So. What'due south the programme? Do nosotros have a programme?

The Doctor: Your screwdriver. Looks exactly similar mine.

River: Yeah. You gave it to me.

The Doctor: I don't give my screwdriver to anyone.

River: I'm not anyone.

The Dr.: Who are you?

Forest of the Dead [4.9] [edit]

(7 June 2008)

Dave: Who is he? Y'all haven't even told us. You just await us to trust him.

River: He's the Physician.

Mr. Lux: And who is "The Doctor"?

River: The simply story you'll ever tell. If you survive here.

Anita: You say he's your friend, merely he doesn't even know who you are.

River: Heed, all you need to know is this, I trust that man to the terminate of the Universe. And actually, we've been.

Anita: He doesn't human activity like he trusts you.

River: At that place's a tiny trouble. He hasn't met me yet.

River: What's wrong with information technology?

The Medico: At that place's a signal coming from somewhere interfering with it.

River: Use the crimson settings.

The Doctor: It doesn't have a red setting.

River: Well employ the dampers.

The Doctor: It doesn't have "dampers."

River: It will do 1 24-hour interval.

The Doctor: And then some time in the future I merely give you my screwdriver.

River: Yeah.

The Medico: Why would I do that?

River: I didn't pluck it from your cold expressionless hands if that's what you're worried near.

The Doctor: And I know that because?

River: Mind to me, you've lost your friend—you're angry, I understand. Just y'all demand to be less emotional, Doctor. Right now—

The Doctor: Less emotion— I'm not emotional!

River: At that place are v people in this room still alive. Focus on that. Dear god, y'all're hard work young.

The Dr.: Young— Who are yous?!

Mr. Lux: Oh for heaven's sake! Look at the pair of you. We're all going to die correct hither and yous're only squabbling like an old married couple!

River: Doctor. One day I'm going to exist someone that you trust. Completely. But I tin can't wait for yous to detect that out. And then I'g going to show information technology to you. And I'm deplorable. I'm really very sorry. [whispers in his ear] Are we adept? Doctor. Are we good?

The Doctor: [subdued] Aye. We're practiced.

River: Good.

The Doctor: Professor, go ahead. Find a safe spot.

River: It's a carnivorous swarm in a suit! You can't reason with it.

The Physician: V minutes.

River: You know when you run into a photograph of someone you know, but it's from years before you knew them. It's like they're not quite finished; they're not washed yet. Well, yes, the Doctor'due south here. He came when I called just similar he e'er does, but not "my" Md. At present, my Md, I've seen whole armies plough and run away, and he'd just swagger off back to his TARDIS and open the doors with a snap of his fingers. The Physician in the TARDIS. Side by side stop: everywhere.

The Doc: Spoilers! Nobody can open up the TARDIS by snapping their fingers. It doesn't work like that.

River: Information technology does for the Doctor.

The Doc: I am the Doctor.

River: Yep. Someday.

River: Gravity Platform.

The Doctor: Bet I like you.

River: Oh, you exercise.

River: I detest you sometimes!

The Dr.: I know!

The Dr.: Oh no no. What are you doing? That'south my job!

River: Oh and I'g not allowed to have a career I suppose.

The Medico: Why am I handcuffed? Why would y'all even have handcuffs?

River: [playfully flirtatious] Spoilers.

River [speaking to the handcuffed Doctor, as she realizes she must sacrifice her own life to keep the Doctor from sacrificing his]: Funny thing is, this means you've always known how I was going to die. All the time nosotros've been together, you lot knew I was coming hither. The final fourth dimension I saw you, the existent you — the future you, I hateful — you turned up on my doorstep, with a new haircut and a suit. You lot took me to Darillium to see the singing towers. Oh, what a night that was! The towers sang and you cried. You wouldn't tell me why, simply I suppose you lot knew it was time. My time. Future to the Library. You even gave me your screwdriver; that should've been a clue. [The Doctor tries unsuccessfully to achieve their sonic screwdrivers] There'southward nothing you can do.

The Doctor: You can let me do this!

River: If you die here, information technology'll mean I've never met y'all!

The Md: Time tin can be rewritten!

River: Not those times. Not i line! Don't you dare! Information technology's okay. It'south okay, it's non over for you. Yous'll meet me again. Yous've got all of that to come. You and me, time and space. You watch us run! [River starts to weep]

The Doctor: River, y'all know my name. Yous whispered my proper name in my ear! There's only one reason I would e'er tell anyone my name. There'due south only one time I could.

River: [smiles sweetly at the Doctor as the countdown reaches zip] Hush, now — spoilers.

River'south narration: [every bit the Medico walks away from the Library] When you run with the Doctor, information technology feels similar it'll never terminate, but however difficult y'all endeavour you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows information technology similar the Doctor, but I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might but turn dark if he ever, for i moment, accepts it.

[The Doctor runs back and picks up River's sonic screwdriver]

The Doctor: Why? Why would I give her my screwdriver? Why would I do that? The thing is, future me had years to recall about it. All those years to think of a manner to save her, and what he did was give her a screwdriver! Why would I do that?! [peels dorsum a panel to reveal a set of greenish lights like on the suits, realizing why his future self has given River the screwdriver] Oh, oh, oh! Await at that! I'thousand very adept!

Donna: What have you done?

The Doctor: Saved her! [runs with River'due south consciousness in the screwdriver] Stay with me! Y'all can do information technology! Stay with me! Come on!! You and me, i last run! [pointing his screwdriver at the Gravity Platform, turning it off] Lamentable River, brusk cut!

[He jumps into the entrance and freefalls to the eye of the figurer system while the data ghost indicator lights begin to exit. He continues to run]

River'due south narration: Everybody knows that everybody dies, just non every day. Not today. [The Medico uploads her into CAL, where she is "saved" in a virtual reality, forth with her beau expeditioners killed by the Vashta Nerada] Some days are special. Some days are so, so blest. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and so, every in one case in a very long while, every 24-hour interval in a million days, when the current of air stands fair and the Doctor comes to telephone call, everybody lives.

The Fourth dimension of Angels [five.4] [edit]

(24 April 2010)

River: They've gone into warp drive. We're losing them. Stay close.

The Physician: I'm trying!

River: Use the stabilizers.

The Doctor: Information technology doesn't take stabilizers!

River: The blue switches.

The Doctor: The blueish switches don't practise anything! They're just blue.

River: Yes, they're bluish. They're the blueish stabilizers! [she flips them and the TARDIS stabilizes] See?

The Doctor: Yeah. Well, merely boring at present, isn't it? They're boringers. They're blueish boringers.

Amy: Doctor, how come up she can wing the TARDIS?

The Dr.: Y'all phone call that flying the TARDIS? Ha!

River: Okay, I've mapped the probability vectors, washed a total background temporal isometry, charted the ship to its destination and...parked us correct alongside.

The Doctor: "Parked us"? Nosotros haven't landed.

River: Of course we've landed. I only landed her.

The Medico: But...information technology didn't make the noise.

River: What noise?

The Doctor: You know the... [attempts to imitate the wheezing, groaning noise the TARDIS ordinarily makes when it lands]

River: It's not supposed to make that noise. You go out the brakes on.

The Doctor: Aye, well, information technology'south a brilliant noise. I love that noise.

Amy: How come you can fly the TARDIS?

River: Oh, I had lessons from the very best.

The Physician: [flattered] Well...yeah.

River: It'southward a shame y'all were busy that day.

River Vocal: [preparing to inject Amy] At present, this won't hurt a bit.

Amy: Ow!

River Song: See? I lied.

Amy: You're so his wife.

River: Oh, Amy, Amy, Amy. This is the Doctor we're talking nearly. Do you really recall it could exist anything that simple?

Amy: Yep.

River: Yous're expert. I'm not proverb y'all're right. But yous are, very ...good.

Flesh and Stone [5.5] [edit]

(one May 2010)

Begetter Octavian [almost the Dr.]: Dr. Song, I've lost good clerics today. You lot trust this man?

River: I absolutely trust him.

Father Octavian: He's non some kind of madman, then?

River: [pause] I admittedly trust him.

River: Begetter Octavian, when the Doctor's in the room, your one and but mission is to keep him alive long plenty to get everyone else domicile. And trust me, information technology's not easy. At present if he'due south dead back there, I'll never forgive myself. And if he'due south alive, I'll never forgive him. And Doctor, you're continuing right behind me aren't y'all?

The Doctor: Yeah.

River: [lovingly] I hate y'all.

The Doctor: Yous don't.

The Doctor: River Song, I could encarmine kiss you!

River: Oh well. Maybe when y'all're older.

River: Yous. Me. Handcuffs. Must it ever end this manner?

The Doctor: What now?

River: The prison house ship's in orbit. They'll beam me upward any second. I might have done plenty to earn a pardon this time. We'll encounter.

The Doctor: Octavian said you killed a man.

River: Yes, I did.

The Doctor: A proficient man.

River: A very good man. The best man I've always known.

The Doctor: Who?

River: It's a long story, Doctor. Can't exist told, has to be lived. No sneak previews. Well, except for this i: You'll see me again quite presently, when the Pandorica opens.

The Doctor: The Pandorica. [laughs] [Leans in to River Vocal and whispers in her ear] That's a fairy tale.

River: [laughs] Oh, Doctor. Aren't we all? [smiles] I'll run into y'all there.

The Doctor: I look forrard to information technology.

River: I remember it well.

Amy Pond: [Amy walks upwardly] Bye, River.

River Song: See you, Amy.

The Physician: Can I trust yous, River Vocal?

River: If you like. But where'due south the fun in that? [laughs] [River is beamed upwardly to the prison send]

Amy Pond: What are yous thinking?

The Doctor: [looks thoughtfully out at the ocean] Time can be rewritten.

The Pandorica Opens [5.12] [edit]

River: [The Doctor walks in River's tent] Hello, Sweetie.

Amy Pond: River. Hi.

The Doc: You graffitied the oldest cliff face in the universe.

River: Yous wouldn't answer your telephone!

The Medico: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior -- a nameless, terrible affair, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the creation, and cipher could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One twenty-four hours information technology would merely drop out of the sky and tear downward your world.

Amy: How did it end upward in there?

The Physician: You know fairy tales. A good sorcerer tricked it.

River: [to Amy] I detest good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him.

The Doctor: River! River, what's happening?

River: I don't know. It's the engines. Doctor, there's something incorrect with the TARDIS. Similar something else is controlling it.

The Doctor: Y'all're flight it incorrect!

River: I'one thousand flying information technology perfectly! You taught me!

River: [upon realising she's trapped] I'm deplorable, my beloved.

The Big Bang [5.13] [edit]

(26 June 2010)

The Physician: Hello, honey. I'thousand home.

River: [looks at her watch] And what sort of time practise you telephone call this?

[The Doc transports them to Amy and Rory]

River: Amy. [sees Rory] And the plastic Centurion.

The Doctor: Information technology's okay, he'south on our side.

River: Really? I dated a Nestene indistinguishable once; swappable head. It did keep things fresh. Right, then. I take questions, but number i is this: what in the proper noun of sanity take you got on your caput?

The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

[River and Amy exchange a look. Amy snatches the fez and throws it into the air. River blasts it into smithereens]

Dalek: You lot will be exterminated!

River: Non yet. Your systems are however restoring, which means your shield density is compromised. One blastoff-meson burst through your eyestalk would kill yous stone expressionless.

Dalek: Records indicate you will show mercy. You are an associate of the Doctor'south.

River: I'm River Song. Check your records once more. [aims for the eye-stalk]

Dalek: [uneasily] Mercy?

River: Say information technology once more?

Dalek: Mercy!

River: One more time.

Dalek: Mercy!!!

[After the Md's supposedly dead trunk vanishes]

Amy But he was dead!

River: Who told yous that?

Amy: He did.

River: Dominion 1: The Doctor lies.

Amy: Where's the Dalek?

River: [coldly] It died.

River: Did y'all trip the light fantastic toe? Well, you e'er dance at weddings, don't you?

The Doc: I don't know. You tell me.

River: Spoilers.

The Doctor: [returns her diary and vortex manipulator] The writing's all dorsum. I didn't peek.

River: Cheers.

The Doctor: Are y'all married, River?

River: Are you asking?

The Doctor: Yes.

River: Yes.

The Doctor: No, hang on, did you think I was asking yous to marry me or asking if you were married?

River: Yep.

The Medico: No, but was that yeah or [pauses] yes.

River: Aye.

The Doc: River, who are you?

River: You lot're going to find out very soon now, and I'grand sad, but that's when everything changes.

The Incommunicable Astronaut [half dozen.1] [edit]

(23 April 2011)

[The Dr. and River quickly turn pages in their diaries]

River: All correct, and then. Where are we? Accept we done Easter Isle yet?

The Physician: Um, yes!! I've got Easter Island!

River: They worshipped you there. Have you seen the statues?

The Md: I'thou being extremely clever up here and there'due south no ane standing effectually to wait impressed! What's the point in having you lot all?!

River: Couldn't you merely slap him sometimes?

Amy Swimming: River, nosotros tin't just let him die. We have to stop it! How can you be okay with this?

River: The Doctor's death doesn't frighten me, nor does my own. There's a far worse day coming for me.

The Doctor: I'm your new undercover agent on loan from Scotland Yard. Codename: The Doctor. These are my meridian operatives, [indicates Amy, Rory, and River in plow] The Legs, The Nose, and Mrs. Robinson.

River: I hate y'all.

The Dr.: No, you don't.

The Physician: [smugly, simply subsequently explaining how he determined where the mysterious phone calls to President Nixon were originating from] ...And Doctor Song, you've got that face up on again.

River: [bemused] What face?

The Medico: The 'He's-hot-when-he's-clever' face.

River: This is my normal face!

The Medico [even more smugly]: Yep it is.

River: Oh, shut up.

The Md: [smiling] Not a risk.

The Md: Exist conscientious!

River: Conscientious. Tried that once. Ever so irksome.

The Md: Shout if you lot get into trouble.

River: Don't worry, I'k quite the screamer. [climbs into the tunnel.] Now 'there'southward a spoiler for you!

Canton: So, what'due south going on hither?

The Doctor: Er... Nil. She's just a friend.

Rory: I think he'south talking about the possible alien incursion.

Rory: What did y'all mean, what you said to Amy? There's a worse day coming for you?

River: When I starting time met the Doc, a long, long time ago, he knew all almost me. Recall most that. An impressionable young girl, and suddenly this homo but drops out of the sky, and he's clever, and mad, and wonderful, and knows every terminal thing about her. Imagine what that does to a girl.

Rory: I don't actually have to.

River: Trouble is, information technology'due south all dorsum to forepart. My past is his futurity. We're traveling in opposite directions. Every time we come across, I know him more, he knows me less. I live for the days when I see him, merely I know that every time that I do he'll be one stride further away. The day is coming when I'll look into that man's eyes, my Doc, and he won't have the faintest idea who I am. And I think it'south going to kill me.

Solar day of the Moon [vi.two] [edit]

(thirty April 2011)

The Doc: Oh, and this is my friend, River. Nice hair. Clever. Has her own gun. And unlike me, she really doesn't heed shooting people. I shouldn't like that. Kinda do, a chip.

River: Thank you, sweetie.

The Md: I know you're team players and everything, but she'll definitely impale at least the beginning 3 of you.

River: Oh, the first seven, easily.

The Doctor: 7, really?

River: Oh, eight for yous, honey.

The Dr.: [flirtatiously] Finish it.

River: [flirtatiously] Make me.

The Physician: Aye, well, maybe I will!

Amy: [tied to a chair] Is this really important, flirting? 'Crusade I feel like I should be higher on the list right at present!

The Dr.: Don't permit them build to full power!

River Vocal: I know! There'southward a reason why I'chiliad shooting, honey! What are you doing?

The Doctor: Helping!

River Song: You've got a screwdriver, go build a chiffonier!

The Doctor: That's really rude!

River: Shut upwardly and drive!

River: [having slaughtered a group of Silence] My erstwhile fella didn't see that, did he? He gets always so cross.

Rory: Then...what kind of doctor are you?

River: Archæology. [casually shoots another Silence] Beloved a tomb.

The Doctor: You could come with us.

River: I escape often enough, give thanks you. And I take a promise to alive up to. You'll understand soon enough.

The Md: Okay. Up to yous. See you next time. Call me!

River: What? That's information technology? What'southward the thing with you?

The Doc: Have I forgotten something?

River: Oh… shut up. [she kisses him]

The Dr.: Right. Okay. Interesting.

River: What's incorrect? You're acting like we've never done that before.

The Doctor: We haven't. Oh, look at the time. Must be off. But it was very nice. Information technology was good. It was unexpected. You know what they say, "There's a first time for everything."

River: And a last time.

A Good Man Goes To War [vi.7] [edit]

(four June 2011) In this episode The Doctor, Amy and Rory starting time larn that River was born Melody, the girl of Amy and Rory

River: [lifts the telephone off the wall to speak to the guards of Stormcage] Oh, plough it off. I'thou breaking in non out. This is River Song, back in her cell. Oh, and I'll have breakfast at the usual time. Thank you! [dances forward, only to encounter a man standing in shadow] Oh, are you boys dressing as Romans at present? I thought nobody read my memos.

Rory: Dr. Vocal, it's Rory. Sorry, take we met yet? Timestreams, I'm not quite sure where we are.

River: Yes. Yes, nosotros've met. How-do-you-do, Rory.

Rory: What's wrong?

River: It's my altogether. The Doctor took me ice skating on the river Thames in 1814, the concluding of the great Frost Fairs. He got Stevie Wonder to sing for me under London Span.

Rory: Stevie Wonder sang in 1814?

River: Aye, he did, only yous must never tell him.

Rory: I've come from the Dr. too.

River: Yes, just from a different point in time.

Rory: Unless there's two of them.

River: That'southward a whole different birthday.

Demons run when a adept man goes to war.

Nighttime will fall and drown the sun,

When a adept man goes to war.

Friendship dies and true beloved lies.

Night will autumn and the night volition rise,

When a practiced man goes to war.

Demons run, but count the toll.

The battle'due south won, merely the child is lost.

River describing the battle of Demon'south Run

River: Well then, soldier, how goes the twenty-four hour period?

The Physician: Where the hell accept you been?! Every time you lot've asked I have been there. Where the hell were you lot today?

River: I couldn't take prevented this.

The Medico: You could have tried!

River: And so, my love, could you. [looks toward Amy and Rory] I know yous're non all right, but concur tight, Amy, considering yous're going to be.

The Doctor: You think I wanted this? I didn't do this! This wasn't me!

River: This was exactly you; all this. All of it. Y'all make them so afraid. When you lot began all those years ago, sailing off to run into the universe, did you ever think you lot'd get this? The human being who can turn an army effectually at the mention of his name: Doctor. The word for healer and wise human throughout the universe. Nosotros get that word from you, you know, but if you lot carry on the way you are, what might that give-and-take come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word "doc" means "mighty warrior." How far you've come, and now they've taken a kid. The kid of your best friends, and they're going to plow her into a weapon, only to bring you downward. And all this, my love, in fear of you.

The Doctor: ...Who are you?

River: Oh expect, your cot! Oasis't seen that in a very long while!

The Doctor: No, you tell me. You tell me who you are!

River: [places his hand on the cot] I am telling you. Tin't you read?

[The Md seeming stares at the cot, then looks at River in daze, then delight]

The Dr.: Howdy!

River: [smiles] Hello.

The Dr.: [laughs] Just that means --

River: I'thou afraid information technology does.

The Doctor: [looks at Amy and Rory, then turns dorsum to River] But you and I, nosotros, nosotros - [makes kissing noises]

River: Yes.

The Doctor: [looks at Amy and Rory once again, then rubs hands together in glee] How do I expect?

River: Amazing.

The Medico: I'd better be.

River: Yes, you'd ameliorate be.

River: [giving Amy the prayer foliage in the cradle] It's your daughter's name, in the language of the forest.

Amy: I know my daughter's proper name!

River Song: Except they don't have a word for "pond," because the only water in the forest is the river. The Md will find your girl and he will care for her, whatever it takes, and I know that. [slowly, the writing on the prayer leaf is translated into English, revealing the child'due south name: River Song] It's me. I'1000 Tune. I'm your daughter.

Let's Kill Hitler [six.viii] [edit]

(27 August 2011) In this episode Mels, the childhood friend of Amy Swimming, is revealed to have been an previous incarnation of River

Mels: Penny in the air. [she begins regenerating with Fourth dimension Lord energies] The penny drops.

Rory: What the hell is going on?

The Md: Dorsum! Back! Get back!

Mels: The concluding time I did this I ended up a toddler — in the middle of New York.

Amy: Okay, Doctor, explicate what is happening — please.

The Physician: [having realized the threads of destinies] "Mels", short for --

Mels: [nods in affirmation] Tune.

Amy: Yeah. I named my daughter later her.

The Doctor: You named your daughter — after your daughter.

Mels: [to Rory] Oh, shut up, Dad. I'm focusing on a dress size! [screams as the regeneration procedure begins]

The last words of Mels before regenerating.

Melody: [breathless later transforming] Right. Let's see, then. [looks downward at herself] Ooo, information technology's all going on down in that location, isn't it? [puts her hands in her hair] The pilus! The hair! [rushes to a mirror] It just doesn't terminate, does it? Look at that. Everything changes! Oh, just I beloved it. I honey it!. I'm all sorts of...mature. [spots the Doctor, puts a leg up on a chair.] Hello, Benjamin.

[The Doctor covers his eyes in embarrassment. Then, realizing, whispers "Who's Benjamin?"]

Tune: [continuing] [clicking her teeth] The teeth. The teeth. The teeth. Oh, look at them. [goes right up to the Doctor] [flirtatious] Sentry out. That bow tie! Excuse me, yous lot. I demand to weigh myself. [Dashes out of the room.]

The first words of the woman who will go River Song, upon her regeneration.

The Physician: If you were in a hurry you could take killed me in the cornfield!

Melody: We'd simply just met! I'1000 a psychopath. I'1000 not rude. [attempts to shoot the Doctor, but he has stolen the magazine from her gun]

Amy: Y'all're non a psychopath! [to the Doctor] Why would she be a psychopath?

Tune: Oh, Mummy, Mummy — pay attending. I was trained and conditioned for one purpose: I was built-in to kill the Doctor.

The Doctor: Demon'south Run, call back? My bespoke psychopath.

Tune: I'm all yours, sweetie. [kisses him]

The Doctor: But River Vocal gets to phone call me that.

Melody: And who is River Vocal?

The Dr.: An old friend of mine.

Tune: Stupid name.

Nazi officer: What are yous doing here?

Melody: Well, I was on my style to this gay gypsy Bar Mitzvah for the disabled, when I suddenly thought, "Gosh, the Third Reich's a bit rubbish — I retrieve I'll kill the Führer." Who's with me?

Nazi officer: Shoot her.

Melody: [after having been shot to no consequence by a patrol of Nazis] Tip for yous all — never shoot a daughter while she's regenerating.

Melody: You're dying, and you stopped to change?

The Md: Oh, you lot always waste fourth dimension when you don't take any. Time is not the boss of you! Rule 408. Amelia Pond, Judgement Death Auto, why am I not surprised? [holds up a cane] Sonic pikestaff!

Melody: Are y'all serious?

The Md: Never knowingly be serious. Rule number 27. You might want to write these down.

Tune: [having rescued Amy and Rory in the TARDIS] I seem to be able to wing her. She showed me how. She taught me. The Dr. says I am the child of the TARDIS. What does he hateful?

Amy: Where is he?

[Melody returns them to the buffet, where the Doctor is dying]

Amy: [crouching over the Doctor] You tin't die now. I know you lot don't dice now.

The Doctor: Oh, Swimming. You've got a schedule for everything.

Amy: That doesn't make any sense.

Rory: Medico, what practise we do? Come on. How do nosotros aid y'all?

The Doctor: I'1000 sad, Rory, you can't. Nobody tin can. Ponds, simply listen to me. I need to talk to your girl. [Tune crouches closely over the Doctor] Find her. Notice River Song and tell her something for me.

Tune: Tell her what? [the Doctor whispers in her ear] Well, I'm certain she knows.

Amy: Y'all're safe now. Apparently y'all used all your remaining regenerations in ane go. You shouldn't have done that.

River: Female parent, I had to endeavour.

Amy: I know.

River: He said no one could save him — but he must take known I could.

The Doctor: Rule one: The Doctor lies.

Nurse: She but needs to remainder. She'll exist admittedly fine.

The Doctor: No, she won't. She will be amazing.

Endmost Time [6.12] [edit]

(24 September 2011) In this episode, Madame Kovarian and the Silence track River down, and force her into a spacesuit at Lake Silencio, in order to kill the Doctor

Madame Kovarian: And so they made yous a doctor today, did they? [mockingly] Doctor River Song. How clever you lot are. [indicating a date in River's diary] You understand what this is, don't you?

River: According to some accounts, it'southward the mean solar day the Doctor dies.

Madame Kovarian: Past Silencio Lake. On the Apparently of Sighs. An impossible astronaut will rise from the deep, and strike the Time Lord dead.

River: Information technology's a story.

Madame Kovarian: And this is where it begins.

Madame Kovarian: You never actually escaped united states, Melody Swimming. Nosotros were e'er coming for you lot.

River: [frightened] How do you know who I am?!

Madame Kovarian: I made you lot what you are. The woman who kills the Doctor.

The Wedding ceremony of River Song [vi.thirteen] [edit]

(1 October 2011) In this episode, the Dr. marries River Vocal, in order to persuade her to impale him, thus restoring time

[River wearing an astronaut arrange, about to kill the Doctor at Lake Silencio]

The Doctor: Well and so. Here we are at last.

River: I can't stop information technology. The suit'due south in command.

The Doctor: Yous're non supposed to. This has to happen.

River: Run.

The Doc: Did run. Running brought me hither.

River: I tried to fight it, simply I can't. It's besides stiff.

The Physician: I know. It's okay. This is where I dice. This is a fixed point. This must happen — this ever happens. Don't worry. You lot won't even remember this. Expect over in that location.

River: It'due south me. How can I be at that place?

The Dr.: That's yous from the future. Serving time for a murder you lot probably can't call back. My murder.

River: Why would you lot do that? Brand me watch?

The Doc: So that you know this is inevitable. And y'all are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven.

River: Please, my love. Please, please. Just run.

The Dr.: Can't.

River: Time tin be rewritten.

The Doctor: Don't yous dare.. Goodbye, River.

[The Doctor closes his eyes, and flinching as he hears energy discharges, cautiously opens them as he realizes he is still live]

River: [grin] Hi, sweetie.

The Dr.: What take you done?!

River: Well, I think I just drained my weapons systems.

The Doctor: Merely this is fixed! This is a stock-still point in time!

River: Fixed points can exist rewritten.

The Doctor: [furious] No, they can't, of course they can't!! Who told you —

[time collapses]

River: Am I the woman who marries you? Or the woman who murders you?

The Dr.: I don't want to marry you.

River: I don't want to murder you.

River: Such a basic mistake, Madame Kovarian: take a child, heighten her into the perfect psychopath, innovate her to the Dr.. Who else was I going to fall in love with?

River: Those reports of the sunspots and the solar flares, they're wrong. It's not the Sun, information technology's you. The heaven is full of a million million voices saying, "Aye, of class nosotros'll help." You've touched so many lives, saved and so many people...did you think when your time came, yous'd actually have to practice more than just enquire? Yous've decided that the universe is better off without you — But the universe doesn't agree.

The Doctor: River, no one can help me. A stock-still point has been altered. Time is disintegrating.

River: I tin't let you die...

The Doctor: I accept to dice!

River: Shut up! I tin can't permit you die ...without knowing you are loved — by then many and then much — and by no i more than than me.

The Md: River, you and I, we know what this ways: We are Ground Nix of an explosion that will engulf all reality. Billions on billions will endure and die.

River: I'll suffer if I have to impale y'all.

The Doctor: More than every living thing in the universe?

River: Yes.

[River tells Amy and Rory that the Doctor is however alive]

Rory: Are you sure? Are you actually certain?

River: Of grade I'k certain, I'm his wife!

Amy: And I'm... [stops of a sudden, realizing (and probably remembering the fourth dimension she tried to seduce him)] his mother-in-police force.

River: [bemused] Father dear, I call up mummy might demand another potable.

The Angels Have Manhattan [7.five] [edit]

(29 September 2012)

River: When one's in dearest with an ageless god who insists on the face of a twelve-year-old, i does one's best to hide the impairment.

The Doctor: It must injure. Come here.

River: Yes. The wrist is pretty bad, as well.

Amy: That gravestone, Rory's...in that location's room for one more name, isn't at that place?

The Doctor: What are you lot talking virtually? Dorsum away from the Affections. Come back to the TARDIS. Nosotros'll figure something out.

Amy: The Angel – would it send me back to the same time, to him?

The Md: I don't know. Nobody knows.

Amy: Just it'due south my all-time shot, yeah?

The Doctor: No!

River: Doctor, shut up! Yeah! Yes, information technology is!

The Doctor: Amy...

Amy: Well, then. I only take to glimmer, right?

The Md: No!

Amy: It'll be fine. I know it will. I'll- I'll- I'll exist with him, similar I should exist. Me and Rory together. [pauses] Melody?

The Doctor: Stop it! Just- Just terminate it!

[River comes frontwards and stands behind Amy, taking her paw]

Amy: [crying] Yous await after him, and you be a good girl, and you expect after him. [River kisses her paw]

The Doctor: You lot are creating fixed fourth dimension! I will never be able to run across you over again!

Amy: [sobbing harder] I'll exist fine. I'll be with him.

The Physician: [Also crying now] Amy, please, just come up dorsum into the TARDIS. Come along, Swimming, please.

Amy: Raggedy man, [Amy turns to look the Doctor in the heart] good day!

[Amy vanishes as she is sent to the past past the angel. Amy'due south proper noun appears alongside Rory's on the gravestone]

The Doctor: [sobbing] No!

[The Md is mourning the loss of Amy and Rory, as River flies the TARDIS.]

The Physician: River. They were your parents. Deplorable. Didn't fifty-fifty think.

River: Doesn't matter.

The Doctor: Course it matters.

River: [serious] What matters is this... Doctor. Don't travel lone.

The Doctor: Travel with me, so.

[They regard one another. River smiles warmly.]

River: Whenever and wherever you lot desire. But non all the time. Ane psychopath per TARDIS, don't you think?

River: Okay. This book I've got to write, Melody Malone. I presume I send it to Amy to get it published?

The Md: Yes. Yes.

River: I'll tell her to write an afterword. For yous. Possibly you'll listen to her.

The Name of the Doctor [vii.14] [edit]

(18 May 2013)

[During the Dreamtime 'conference call', River transforms the tea into champagne.]

Jenny Flintstone: How did yous do that?

River: Disgracefully.

River: Physician, delight listen to me. At least hear me.

[The Doctor speaks to Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax, seemingly unaware of River'south presence.]

The Doctor: Now, if I don't come back, and I might not –

River: Doctor!

The Doctor: Go to the TARDIS. The Fast Return Protocol should exist on. She'll take you domicile and shut herself down.

River: There has to be another fashion. Use the TARDIS. Utilize something! Salve her, yes, just for God's sake, be sensible!

[River tries to slap the Doctor, but he catches her wrist]

River: How are you even doing that? I'm not really hither.

The Medico: You lot're always hither to me. And I always heed. And I can always encounter you.

River: Then why didn't y'all speak to me?

The Doctor: Because I thought information technology would hurt too much.

River: I believe I could have coped.

The Doctor: No, I thought it would hurt me. And I was correct [he kisses her passionately] Since no 1 in this room tin can run into y'all, God knows how that looked. [Vastra, Jenny and Strax wait awkwardly at each other] There is a time to live and a time to sleep. Yous are an echo, River, similar Clara, similar all of us in the end. My fault, I know. Only you should have faded by now.

River: It's hard to leave when you haven't said goodbye.

The Md: And then tell me, considering I don't know – how do I say it?

River: There's just one way I'd take. If you ever loved me, say it similar you're going to come back.

[The Physician thinks for a moment]'

The Doc: Well then...Meet you lot around, Professor River Song.

River: [smiles] Till the next time, Doc.

The Physician: Don't expect up.

River: Oh, and there'due south one more than thing.

The Doctor: Isn't at that place always?

River: I was mentally linked with Clara. If she'south really expressionless, and so how can I nonetheless be hither?

The Doctor: Okay. How?

River: Spoilers! Goodbye, sweetie.

[River fades abroad. The Physician looks at her for a last moment, before turning and stepping into his timestream]

The Husbands of River Song [10.X] [edit]

(25 December 2015)

The Doc: Yous're talking nearly murdering someone!

River: No, I'grand non! I'm really murdering someone.

The Doc: [referring to River's diary] Is it sad?

River: Why would a diary be sad?

The Doctor: I don't know, information technology's just that… yous look sad.

River: It's nearly full.

The Doctor: And so?

River: The man who gave me this was the sort of human being who'd know exactly how long a diary you were going to need.

The Dr.: He sounds atrocious.

River: I suppose he is. I've never really thought virtually it.

The Doctor: Not somebody special and then?

River: No. Just terribly useful every now and so.

Flemming: You're the woman he loves!

River: No, I'm not.

Flemming: She'southward lying!

River: The Doctor does not, and has never loved me. I'm not lying.

Hydroflax: {scans River} Confirmed. The lifeform is non lying.

Flemming: I-im-impossible! This is a trick!

River: No, information technology isn't.

Flemming: My information is correct! You are the adult female who loves the Doctor!

River: Yes, I am. I never denied information technology. But whoever said that he loved me back? He'southward the Doctor. He doesn't going around falling in love with people! And if you think he'due south anything that modest or that ordinary, and so you haven't the first idea of what y'all're dealing with.

Flemming: Y-y-your Majesty, I assure y'all. She is the perfect bait. When this woman is in danger, the Doctor will always come.

River: Oh, you are a moron. No, he won't!

Flemming: He's probably already here!

River: No, he isn't! Of course he isn't!

Flemming: Possibly on this transport!

River: Well, become on! Browse it, then! Continue, why don't yous?!

The Doctor: Uh, River...

River: Two hearts, stupid clothes? You tin't miss him!

The Physician: River...

River: Keep, scan the whole parsec! He's not here! God knows where he is right now, just I promise yous he's doing whatever the hell he wants and not giving a damn nearly me! And I'k simply fine with that! When y'all beloved the Doctor, it'southward like loving the stars themselves. Yous don't expect a sunset to admire you dorsum! And if I happen to discover myself in whatever danger, permit me tell you... the Doctor isn't stupid enough or sentimental enough and he is certainly not in dearest plenty to discover himself standing in information technology with me...

{River stops and stares at the Dr. for a brief moment, equally he smiles back at her}

The Doc: Hello, sweetie.

River: Yous are and so doing those roots.

The Md: What, the roots of the sunset?

River: Don't you dare.

The Doctor: I'll have to cheque with the stars themselves.

River: Oh, shut up! I was simply keeping them talking until it kicks off.

The Doctor: So... Hydroflax

River: Oh. How many times? I married the diamond.

The Medico: So you say.

River: Elizabeth I.

The Dr.: Ramone.

River: Marilyn Monroe!

The Doctor: Stephen Fry.

River: Cleopatra.

The Physician: Same affair.

[At the Singing Towers of Darillium]

The Doc: Times terminate, River, because they have to. Because there's no such thing as happy ever subsequently. Information technology's just a prevarication we tell ourselves considering the truth is then difficult.

River: No, Md. Y'all're incorrect. Happy always after doesn't mean forever. It just ways time. A footling time. Simply that's not the sort of matter y'all could always sympathise, is it?

The Doctor: Mmm. What do you remember of the towers?

River: I honey them.

The Doctor: So why are you ignoring them?

River: They're ignoring me. But, then, you tin can't expect a monolith to love you lot dorsum.

The Physician: No, you can't. They've been there for millions of years, through storms and floods and wars and… time. Nobody really understands where the music comes from. It's probably something to do with the precise positions, the altitude between both towers. Even the locals aren't sure. All anyone volition ever tell you lot is that when the wind stands fair and the night is perfect… when you least expect it… just always… when you lot need it the almost… at that place is a Song.

River: And so, assuming tonight is all we take left…

The Doctor: I didn't say that.

River: How long… is a dark on Darillium?

The Doctor: 24 years.

River: [she gasps] I hate y'all.

The Doc: No, you don't.

Quotes nearly River Song [edit]

Fourth dimension of Angels [5.4] [edit]

(24 April 2010)

Amy: Explain. Who is that and how did she do that museum thing?

The Doctor: Information technology's a long story and I don't know most of it. Off nosotros become.

Amy: What are you doing?

The Dr.: Leaving. She'south got where she wants to go, let's become where we want to go.

Amy: Are y'all basically running away?

The Physician: Yep.

Amy: Why?

The Doctor: 'Cause she'southward the future. My future.

Amy: And you lot run away from that?

The Doctor: I tin can run away from anything I similar. Time is not the boss of me.

Amy: Is River Song your wife? 'Cause she's someone from your future. And the way she talks to you lot, I've never seen anyone practise that. She's kind of like, yous know... "Heel, male child." She'due south Mrs. Doctor from the future, isn't she? Is she going to be your wife one day?

Flesh and Rock [v.5] [edit]

(1 May 2010)

Father Octavian: Listen to me! It's important. You can't trust her.

The Doc: Trust who?

Father Octavian: River Song. You call up you know her, but yous don't. You don't empathise who or what she is.

The Doctor: Then tell me.

Begetter Octavian: I've told you more than I should. Now please. You lot accept to go. It's your duty to your friends.

The Doc: Merely tell me why she was in Stormcage.

Father Octavian: She killed a human being. A good human. A hero to many.

The Doctor: Who?

Father Octavian: Y'all don't want to know, sir, you really don't.

The Impossible Astronaut [6.i] [edit]

(23 April 2011)

River: Y'all're going to have to trust us this time.

The Physician: Trust yous? Sure. [goes right up to River] Merely first of all, Dr. Song, but one affair: who are you? [River doesn't reply.] You're someone from my future, guessing that, but who? [River even so doesn't answer.] Okay. Why are you in prison? Who did you kill? Hmm? [Still no answer.]

The Physician: [softly] Now, I love a bad daughter, me. Merely trust yous? Seriously?

Day of the Moon [6.two] [edit]

(30 April 2011)

Canton: What about Doctor Song? She dove off a rooftop!

The Doctor: Don't worry! She does that.

The Nuptials of River Song [vi.13] [edit]

(1 Oct 2011)

Emperor Churchill: "Tick tock goes the clock," as the one-time vocal says. But they don't, do they? The clocks never tick. "Something has happened to fourth dimension." That's what you say. What you never stop saying. "All of history is happening at in one case." But what does that mean? What happened? Explain to me in terms that I can sympathize. What happened to time?

The Doctor: A adult female.

Emperor Churchill: Y'all mentioned a woman.

The Doctor: Yes. I'chiliad getting to her.

Emperor Churchill: What's she like? Attractive, I assume.

The Doctor: Hell. In high heels.

Emperor Churchill: Tell me more.

The Medico: [frustrated by River'due south continued refusal to allow time to resume] River, River. Why practice you accept to exist this? Tune Swimming. [to Amy and Rory] Your daughter. I hope you lot're both proud.

Rory: [to Amy] I'yard non certain I completely empathize.

Amy: Nosotros got married and had a kid and that's her.

Rory: Okay.

The Proper name of the Medico [seven.14] [edit]

(18 May 2013)

[during the Dreamtime "briefing call"]

Madame Vastra: We are pending just one more participant.

Strax: [bellyaching] Oh, no. Not the i with the gigantic caput.

Jenny: It's hair, Strax.

Strax: Hair.

[River Song appears at the briefing.]

The Husbands of River Vocal [10.X] [edit]

(25 Dec 2015)

{River has simply caught a diamond in the cleavage of her dress.]

The Doctor: The diamond.

River: Skilful, aren't I?

The Doctor: I'm non sure "good"'s the discussion.

River: Improve not exist.

{on a crashing spaceship]

The Medico: Get back in the TARDIS. This is my job.

River: This is my task.

The Medico: I've been doing it longer.

River: I practise information technology better.

The Doctor: River, not ane person on this ship, not one living matter is worth you .

River: Or you.

The Return of Doctor Mysterio [ten.X] [edit]

(25 Dec 2016)

Nardole: Her name... was River Song. They were together for a while and were very happy. And and so, she died, a long time ago, in a Library.

Extremis [10.6] [edit]

Hooded Priest: Greetings, sinner. [quoting] But in darkness are we revealed.

The Dr.: I didn't send for you.

Hooded Priest: [continuing] Goodness is not goodness that seeks advantage. Good is good in the final hour. In the deepest pit. Without hope. Without witness. Without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis. This is what he believes. And this is the reason, above all, I love him. My husband. My madman in a box. My Doctor.

[The priest is shown to exist reading from River Song's diary, which he closes. He pulls dorsum his hood to reveal himself as Nardole.]

Nardole: Your missus wouldn't corroborate.

The Doctor: [shocked, aroused] How the hell did you lot get here?

Nardole: Followed you from Darillium. On the explicit orders of your tardily married woman, River Song. Warning: I accept total permission to kick your arse.

External links [edit]

Profile of River Song at BBC
Profile at the TARDIS index file

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Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/River_Song