Ray Embrey:
What about you, buddy? You're from another planet, aren't you?
Hancock:
No man, I'm from Miami.
Ray Embrey:
You didn't come on in, like, a meteor or...
Hancock:
Nope. Woke up at a hospital, first thing I remember.
Ray Embrey:
Government hospital. Yes? Experimenting on you and...
Hancock:
No, Ray. Regular old Miami emergency room.
Ray Embrey:
Come on.
Hancock:
Yeah, uh, my skull was fractured. They told me I tried to, uh, stop a mugging.
Ray Embrey:
Somebody knocked you out.
Hancock:
Guess I was a regular guy before and when I woke up, I was changed. Uh, and the hospital nurse tried to put a needle in my arm and it just broke against my skin. And then my skull healed, in, like in an hour. The doctors were astounded and, uh, they wanted to know my story. Just like you. But, uh, I couldn't tell 'em. I don't know who I am.
Mary Embrey:
Amnesia. You know, the blow to the head.
Hancock:
Yeah, well, that's what they figure.
Ray Embrey:
You don't remember anything?
Hancock:
No. Only thing I had in my pocket was bubble-gum, two movie tickets. Boris Karloff. Uh, Frankenstein. Uh... But no ID, nothing. I went to sign out. The, uh, nurse asked me for my John Hancock. And, uh... I actually thought that's who I was.
When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever for one moment, accepts it. Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. (In the library, the Doctor walks back to the TARDIS. He stops, looking at the doors. Then he raises his hand, and stands there poised like that for a long moment. Finally he snaps his fingers. The doors open. He smiles slowly and walks in, joining Donna. Then he snaps his fingers again, and the doors close. River's voice continues over this.) Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call... everybody lives.
