Why Does He Talk in Such an Extraordinary Way?

DOCTOR :

Are you absolutely positive? 

GULLIVER: 

I would not impose any falsities upon you. 

I adhere strictly to truth. 

DOCTOR: 

Of course. 

This, er, this person who controls this place, The Master? 

GULLIVER: 

The Master, yes. 

DOCTOR: 

Have you seen him? 

GULLIVER: 

Upon occasion he has been pleased to grant me an audience. 

DOCTOR: 

Where might I find him? 

GULLIVER: 

The Master's palace is no ordinary edifice, but a citadel, 

a walled town at the top of a hill or cliff, which is reckoned the highest in the kingdom. 

DOCTOR: 

Yes, now I think I understand. 

May I ask, sir, where you come from? 

Would it not be Nottingham? 

GULLIVER: 

[Smiling]

My father had a small estate in Nottingham, sir. 

I was the third of five sons. 

He sent me to Emmanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I applied myself close to my studies, learning navigation and other parts of the mathematics 

DOCTOR: 

Useful for those who intend to travel 

DOCTOR + GULLIVER: 

As I always believed it would someday or other, my fortune to do,

DOCTOR: 

Now I know who you are, sir. 

Your name is Lemuel Gulliver. 

GULLIVER: 

Your servant. 

ZOE: 

Gulliver? 

DOCTOR: 

Yes, yes. 

Oh, I'm looking forward to a long talk with you one of these days.

GULLIVER: 

I should like that above all things, but it would not be proper at this juncture to trouble you with the particulars of my adventures. 

DOCTOR: 

Oh, I wouldn't dream of detaining you. 

GULLIVER: 

Having been condemned by nature and fortune to a restless and active life, I must take my leave of you. Farewell. 

DOCTOR: 

Farewell. 

(Gulliver leaves.) 

ZOE: 

Why does he talk in such an extraordinary way? 

DOCTOR: 

Well, he can only speak the words that Dean Swift 

gave him to say. 

ZOE: 

But that's ridiculous. 

I mean, there never was such a person as Gulliver. 

He's a fictional character. 

DOCTOR: 

Of course he is. Don't you understand? 

This World that we've tumbled into is a World of Fiction. 

Unicorns, minotaur, Gulliver's Travels, they're all alive here. 

ZOE: 

Then what are we doing here? 

What do they want with us?