That Means YOURS is In There TOO.

“It was no Sacrifice to give back the MBE because it was an EMBARRASSMENT..!!”

"So let Us infect Them.

Infect Them to the point where They become Us.

Where there’s nothing left in This World, but Us.

And then Some Kid’ll come up and fuck That up as well.

And That’ll be Exactly What We Need at The Time.”

DOCTOR: 

Shush, shush. 

Quiet, I'm thinking. 

(The Doctor comes back in from the kitchen.) 

DOCTOR: 

I'm thinking — and it •depresses• me. 

Skagra's little zombie gang have got the brain power of the greatest intellects in the universe shared out among them. The Think Tank —

CLARE: 

The who? 

DOCTOR: 

Never mind about that. 

Just believe me —

All the minds that Skagra's stolen are now in the melting pot along with his own, and operating As One. 

And with the Professor's, I mean with Salyavin's mind in there too, 

They can now control ANYONE. 

They can control EVERYONE. 

They'll be invincible.

ROMANA: 

Doctor? 

DOCTOR: 

Yes? 

ROMANA: 

May I just remind you of something? 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. 

ROMANA: 

If ALL the minds that Skagra's stolen are in the melting pot....

DOCTOR: 

YES —

ROMANA: 

....that means YOURS is In There TOO. 

DOCTOR: 

Yes.....! 

....Romana? 

ROMANA: 

Yes, Doctor? 

DOCTOR: 

Romana, I want you to do something for me. 

Stand there. 

Romana, I want you to wear this. 

(The Doctor pins a medal — in the script, it’s a badge that says I AM A GENIUS — on Romana's blouse then kisses her on both cheeks. They salute each other.)

DOCTOR: 

Well — now, I can think.

“But above all: let’s become plex-creatures. Complex, superplex – be able to take on new personality traits; able to take on new ideas; able to adapt; able to extend our boundaries into what was previously the ‘enemy territory’ – until the point where we become what was once our enemy, and they are us, and there is no distinction.

Mad Cow Disease, or BSE, or CJD – Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease; it’s very interesting. It’s hitting the headlines; people are interested in these new 21st-century fucked up diseases that are gonna wipe us all out, apparently.

This is a disease – I’ve been studying this, coz it seems like a really good metaphor to use – CJD is a disease that attacks the brain and central nervous system and utterly demolishes them. Completely; you’re fucked. You will slide down a ramp like a stupid cow. You’ll fall on the concrete; you won’t be able to walk; your brain will turn to sponge. You’ll be eaten to bits.

You know that CJD does that without the immune system noticing? The immune system can’t detect CJD. By the time you’re slipping down the ramp like a cow, it’s all over. The immune system suddenly says: “Oh fuck; we’re in trouble.” Too late, mate.

So what happens if we act like BSE and CJD? 

What if we colonise the culture? What if we give it something it can’t swallow?

And this is a little bit like what Doug [Rushkoff] was saying earlier: we go in there; they want us. They’re desperate for us, because they think we know this shit; we know something they don’t know. We’re attached; we’re connected in some way that they don’t.. “they”, whoever “they” are; these poor bastards. They’re looking at us, like – coz I’ve got a leather jacket, I know something, y’know?!

But that’s what they think. And what I think has actually happened here is: the culture’s getting weirder and weirder.

Back home in Britain, Tony Blair is putting up cameras in every street corner. And he’s talking about putting cameras in peoples’ homes. He’s gotten rid of trial by jury. This is like, fascist Britain 1999, y’know?

But the more he does this, the weirder things get.

The more cameras you put up, the more people will start to act like movie stars. The more people start to act like movie stars, the weirder things get. And then the *more* cameras they put up to try and deal with it! 

And the weirder it gets!

So let ‘em bring the cameras; I’ll fucking act the shit out of these bastards! Let’s have the cameras. Let’s have cameras everywhere. And we’ll show them what we can do.

And they’ll be watching, going: “Man, that guy’s getting fucked; I wish I was.”

And they want in. They want in on this. So let’s, like Doug said, invite them in. Let’s take them in. Let’s be like the diseased prion that destroys its host, and CJD.

Let’s go in there and give them something they cannot digest. Something they cannot process. Something so toxic, so dangerous, so powerful.. that it will breed, and destroy them utterly.

Not destroy them – turn them into us. 

Because that’s what we want. We want everybody to be cool. We don’t want to go in and think: “That guy over there’s gonna kill me; that guy hates me; that guy’s got some fucking weird agenda.”

Don’t we just wanna talk? And let it all go, and just say: “Hey, I’m interested in you; what have you got to tell me?”

That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? We communicate; we join up; we make networks; we make things happen.

And there are some people in the world who don’t wanna do that.

So let us infect them.

Infect them to the point where they become us.

Where there’s nothing left in this world, but us.

And then some kid’ll come up and fuck that as well.

And that’ll be exactly what we need at the time.

And that’s me finished, so thank you very much.