MARGARET I promise you, I've changed since we last met, Doctor. There was this girl... just today... young thing. Something of a danger. She was getting too close. I felt the blood lust rising, just as the family taught me, I was going to kill her without a thought. And then... I stopped. She's alive somewhere right now, she's walking around this city because I CAN change - I DID change. I know I can't prove it--
THE DOCTOR (calmly) I believe you.
MARGARET Then you know I'm capable of better.
THE DOCTOR It doesn't mean anything.
MARGARET I spared her life.
THE DOCTOR You let one of them go, but that's nothing new. Every now and then, a little victim's spared. Because she smiled... because he's got freckles... 'cos they begged... and that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions. Because once in a while, on a whim, if the wind's in the right direction... you happen to be kind.
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Date: 2012-06-15 11:47 am (UTC)I promise you, I've changed since we last met, Doctor. There was this girl... just today... young thing. Something of a danger. She was getting too close. I felt the blood lust rising, just as the family taught me, I was going to kill her without a thought. And then... I stopped. She's alive somewhere right now, she's walking around this city because I CAN change - I DID change. I know I can't prove it--
THE DOCTOR
(calmly)
I believe you.
MARGARET
Then you know I'm capable of better.
THE DOCTOR
It doesn't mean anything.
MARGARET
I spared her life.
THE DOCTOR
You let one of them go, but that's nothing new. Every now and then, a little victim's spared. Because she smiled... because he's got freckles... 'cos they begged... and that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions. Because once in a while, on a whim, if the wind's in the right direction... you happen to be kind.
MARGARET
(coldly)
Only a killer would know that.
Doctor Who 1x11, "Boom Town."