Jessika Williams: Anita

Forest of the Dead

Anita

Professor River Song: Just keep it together okay?
Anita: I am keeping it together. I'm only crying. I'm about to die, it's not an overreaction.

River Song: You know, it's funny, I keep wishing the Doctor was here.
Anita: The Doctor is here, isn't he? He is coming back, right?
River Song: You know when you see a photograph of someone you know, but it's from years before you knew them. and it's like they're not quite finished. They're not done yet. Well, yes, the Doctor's here. He came when I called, just like he always does. But not my Doctor. Now my Doctor, I've seen whole armies turn and run away. And he'd just swagger off back to his Tardis and open the doors with a snap of his fingers. The Doctor in the Tardis. Next stop, everywhere.
The Doctor: Spoilers. Nobody can open a Tardis by snapping their fingers. It doesn't work like that.
River Song: It does for the Doctor.
The Doctor: I am the Doctor.
River Song: Yeah. Some day.

Other Dave: Who is he? You haven't even told us. You just expect us to trust him.
River Song: He's the Doctor.
Strackman Lux: And who is the Doctor?
River Song: The only story you'll ever tell, if you survive him.
Anita: You say he's your friend, but he doesn't even know who you are.
River Song: Listen, all you need to know is this: I'd trust that man to the end of the universe. And, actually, we've been.
Anita: He doesn't act like he trusts you.
River Song: Yeah, there's a tiny problem. He hasn't met me yet.

Anita: What about the Vashta Nerada?
The Doctor: These are their forests. I'm going to seal Charlotte inside her little world, take everybody else away. The shadows can swarm to their hearts' content.
Anita: So you think they're just going to let us go?
The Doctor: Best offer they're going to get.
Anita: You're going to make them an offer?
The Doctor: They'd better take it, because right now I'm finding it very hard to make any kind of offer at all. You know what? I really liked Anita. She was brave, even when she was crying. And she never gave in. And you ate her.
[opens her visor to reveal a skull]
The Doctor: But I'm going to let that pass, just as long as you let them pass.
Anita: How long have you known?
The Doctor: I counted the shadows. You only have one now. She's nearly gone. Be kind.
Anita: These are our forests. We are not kind.
The Doctor: I'm giving you back your forests. But you are giving me them. You are letting them go.
Anita: These are our forests. They are our meat.
[shadows begin to emerge from Anita's corpse and stretch towards the Doctor]
The Doctor: Don't play games with me. You just killed someone I liked. That is not a safe place to stand. I'm the Doctor, and you're standing in the biggest library in the universe. Look me up.
[shadows pause, then withdraw]
Anita: You have one day.