Nicholas Briggs credited as playing...
Voice of the Cybermen
- Bill: [a little girl enters the barn carrying something] Is that it?
- [Alit puts down something covered in a rough cloth]
- Bill: I really wouldn't harm you, you know.
- Alit: I know
- [But she still backs away as Bill steps forward and picks it up, then uncovers it and turns it over. It is a mirror, and her reflection reveals that she is really still Cyber-Bill]
- Cyber-Bill:: That is not me.
- Alit: I'm sorry.
- Cyber-Bill:: I am Bill Potts.
- Alit: I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
- [She attempts to run out of the barn, but runs into the Doctor as he is entering the barn]
- Twelfth Doctor: Hey, hey, hey, hey!
- [Cyber-Bill puts down the mirror]
- Twelfth Doctor: Hello, Bill Pott.s
- Cyber-Bill:: Doc-tor.
- Alit: I'm sorry. I gave her a mirror.
- Twelfth Doctor: Oh no, don't be sorry. You were being kind. Nothing wrong with kind. Jelly baby?
- Alit: Thank you.
- Twelfth Doctor: You're welcome.
- Alit: Bye.
- Twelfth Doctor: Toodle-oo
- [Alit leaves and closes the barn door behind her. We see Bill as her human self again. The Doctor walks towards Bill, but has a bit of a limp]
- Bill: What was that, in the mirror?
- Twelfth Doctor: Er, a Cyberman.
- Bill: What's a Cyberman?
- Twelfth Doctor: A technologically augmented human being, designed to survive in a hostile environment. Perfectly sound idea. Unfortunately all they want to do is to turn everyone else into Cybermen too. They go viral.
- Bill: Why?
- Twelfth Doctor: They consider themselves to be an improvement, an upgrade.
- Bill: No. Why do I see a Cyberman in the mirror?
- [Long pause]
- Twelfth Doctor: What do you remember?
- Bill: There's quite a lot, you know? I was down there for ten years.
- Twelfth Doctor: And then one day, they took you to the Conversion Theatre. Do you remember that?
- Bill: No. Bit's of it. You turned up.
- Twelfth Doctor: Do you remember what they did to you?
- Bill: Nothing. Look at me, I'm fine. I'm fine!
- [But as she touches her forehead, she sees a Cyber-hand]
- Twelfth Doctor: You are so strong. You're amazing. Your mind has rebelled against the programming. It's built a wall around itself. A castle made of you, and you are standing on the battlements, saying no. No, not me.
- Bill: What are you talking about?
- Twelfth Doctor: All that time, living under the Monks, you learned to hang on to yourself.
- Bill: But I'm, I'm fine. Look at me!
- Twelfth Doctor: Bill, what you see is not you. Your mind is acting like a perception filter. You still see yourself as you used to be.
- Bill: Used to be?
- Twelfth Doctor: It won't last forever.
- Bill: What do you mean, used to be?
- [She advances, he retreats. Then she sees her Cyberman shadow cast on the wall]
- Twelfth Doctor: Bill, I'm sorry, but you can't be angry any more. A temper is a luxury you can no longer...
- Bill: Why can't I? Why can't I be angry?
- Bill: Bill, please!
- Cyber-Bill:: You left me alone for ten...
- Bill: ...years! Don't tell me I can't be angry!
- [Her helmet weapon blasts the barn door to firewood. The children scream]