“Save us, Doctor,” cries the marble merchant, the father of two children, the husband. (The transcript says he says “Gods save us, Doctor,” but I didn’t hear ‘gods’ in what I just watched, though it’s quite possible he does say that, considering the end of the episode.)
And the Doctor just stares at the man and runs, quite literally runs, into the TARDIS, with Donna shouting after him.
And she pleads, “Just save someone”
and he does, grasps the merchant’s hand, saves him and his family, changes something on the edge of a fixed point–
and you cannot tell me that the man who wears that merchant’s face and shouts “I’m the Doctor and I save people” does not remember that merchant
even if that memory is unconscious, buried over a thousand years deep
well damn I wasn’t wrong
I wasn’t wrong at all
YOU WERE VERY CORRECT INDEED