[Locked to Jack//High security designed to give Donna a migraine if she tries to crack it]

'People like me' are why it ended, Jack.

The Time Lords... reached back in time, and implanted the Master's madness in him. They made him suffer so he could become their weapon in an hour of need. All of his crimes... they go back to that root. Nothing absolves him of his guilt... but all of it is shared. His instability now came because he finally discovered the truth. If I hadn't chosen to hide it from him...

...and that's far from the worst of it.

My people, the guardians of Time since the universe was young, decided that in order to win their war they had to betray that sacred trust, to warp and destroy time itself and ride out Armageddon as creatures of pure consciousness. Never mind that all reality, all history, would simply cease to be. They would win. That's what mattered to them.


And I... I couldn't let that come to pass.

The end of the Time War, the sealing of Gallifrey outside the universe, and the extinction of my people... my doing, Jack. All mine.

When I say that our time is past, Jack, I don't mean it as a regret. It's a blessing.