10 Doctor Who Deleted Scenes That Would Have Changed Everything

Peter Capaldi is, not to mince words, a bloody good actor.

Capable of comedy, drama, and everything in between, the Scot commands the screen in everything he does, and his time as the Doctor was no exception.

Perhaps his finest piece of acting came in the Series 9 episode The Zygon Inversion. During a tense stand-off between Kate Stewart and a Zygon disguised as Clara, the Twelfth Doctor unleashes a tirade against them both, all about the dangers and futility of war.

It's a moving, timeless speech, framing conflict as a pointless endeavour while promoting the positives of diplomacy. Capaldi delivers every line perfectly, balancing the character's rage with the guilt of the Doctor's past actions on the battlefield.

But as good as the finished product is, more of this monologue exists.

According to writer Peter Harness, the speech was scripted to be way longer than it actually was, with sections of it cut from the final episode. Capaldi himself read some of the dropped lines at a convention in New Zealand in 2015.

You can have too much of a good thing though. The speech is perfect as-is, and an elongated version would've risked ruining one of the greatest moments in the show's history.