Mawdryn stared at the Brigadier with such a look of pain and longing. For a moment the old soldier's mind went back thirty-five years to his first taste of action as a young lieutenant in Palestine, with his platoon badly shot up by terrorists, and he remembered the mangled conscript who screamed at the officer to take his rifle and kill him. Peter Grimwade
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Mawdryn stared at the Brigadier with such a look of pain and longing. For a moment the old soldier's mind went back thirty-five years to his first taste of action as a young lieutenant in Palestine, with his platoon badly shot up by terrorists, and he remembered the mangled conscript who screamed at the officer to take his rifle and kill him. This quote is from the Doctor Who episode Mawdryn Undead. The Doctor meets Mawdryn who is about to commit suicide with a hand grenade.

The Brigadier offers him the choice to become immortal, but Mawdryn chooses to die over losing his wife. The Doctor convinces him that he is still loved by Mawdryn's wife, so he leaves with the Brigadier where they are greeted by Mawdryn's wife who was also able to survive.

Source: Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead

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