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[usedreturn]

Hello there, Johto. How are you all doing?

[He wears a smile, calm and cheerful. But beneath that oh-so-thin layer of calm friendliness, there was a strange spark to his eyes, a smoldering flame ignited within by some unknown catalyst. Emotion invoked by something he could not, would not stand for

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[audio]

[justicepuns]

[Apollo, by contrast, just sounds upset. He's more worried about Phoenix than angry at Dahlia...so far.]

What're you going to do?

[video]

[usedreturn]

I'm going to do what's right and hand her in to the proper human authorities.

[It's kiiiind of hard for the Doctor to remember he's not dealing with a huge invading alien force like he usually would.]

That's normal, right?

[audio]

[justicepuns]

It won't work.

[video]

[usedreturn]

Well. Aren't you just a ray of sunshine.

Why not?

[audio]

[justicepuns]

The warrants here only last fourteen days. If she can duck the police for that long, she's home free. Besides, there aren't any courts. The police decide if she's guilty or not. I don't even know if they gather evidence.

[Now he sounds like he's holding back anger. Or tears. Or both:] It's not justice.

[video]

[usedreturn]

[He listened to that and, unbelievably, a smile broke out on his face.]

Buck up, bunny ears. That horrid little girl with horrid little shoes isn't getting away no matter what she does.

[audio]

[justicepuns]

[Ohhh, wrong thing to say. Now he's definitely angry.]

Buck up? She's going to get torn apart by Phoenix's friends or she'll end up in the hands of a justice system that isn't just! What the hell about that is good?!

[video]

[usedreturn]

That won't happen because I'm here.

I'm the Doctor. And I'll stop this from happening again if it means I have to follow her around for the rest of my life.

Which, by the way, is a very long time.

[audio]

[justicepuns]

We were following her and look how much good that did.

[audio]

[usedreturn]

You didn't have me around, now did you?

Now why don't you settle down and listen to me, because I'll only say this bit once. I have seen the end of the universe, I've witnessed the ends of two great, beautiful, terrible civilizations and fought things that even I didn't know what they were. I have lived for nine hundred and seven years and spent basically all of them saving lovely humans like you from the things you don't know about.

One woman with no common decency and a little poison is nothing. Literally nothing.

So stop being a pessimist and show me some of that lovely determination you humans have so much of.

[audio]

[justicepuns]

[There's a moment of silence.]

Why? I can't help him. I can't even do my job when it matters the most! And you're just going to follow her. She'll kill you too!

[video]

[usedreturn]

Because you're human. You are part of one of the greatest species in the entirety of time and space. Even if you have no idea of the scope of what your race can accomplish, even as individuals you're downright brilliant.

The only person stopping you from being useful is yourself.

And dying? Me? Not a chance. I just did it, I'm not due for quite a while.

[audio]

[justicepuns]

You're not understanding any of this, are you? She's either going to walk free or be killed herself, and I can't stop either! There's no court system, I'm not a doctor, what do you expect me to do?

Everyone can die, and it's not something to joke about.

[audio]

[usedreturn]

I'm understanding perfectly. It's you that isn't. First of all, I'm not joking. I died quite recently, maybe a day or so before coming here. The fact that my people cheat death notwithstanding, the experience is still there every time it happens. I've been shot, died of old age, irradiated twice, and dealt with spectrox toxaemia. There was also that one time I hit my head, but that's a touch embarrassing.

Death is not high on my list of things to worry about right now. Which brings me to my second point: all I'm worried about is stopping that woman from getting killed--if the people living here want to deal out justice, we're going to do it the right way.

Is any of this getting through to you? People want to take justice into their own hands, and if the system here is so flawed then have the people take care of things correctly. Revenge does nothing, eye for an eye is useless. So we stop her. Period.

[audio]

[justicepuns]

And what's your idea of justice?

[video]

[usedreturn]

People getting what they deserve without some form of violent, bloody revenge.

But at the moment you're practically interrogating someone who wants to help rather than find this Dahlia before someone kills her or she kills someone else? Is that what you call 'justice'?