Christopher Eccleston credited as playing...
The Rider
- The Rider: Why do you run, boy?
- Will Stanton: Who are you? What do you want?
- The Rider: The Sign.
- Will Stanton: I don't know what you're talking about.
- The Rider: Are you frightened of me? You should be, Will. I'm very angry. All this time it was you. Give me the Sign.
- Will Stanton: What Sign?
- The Rider: Give it me now!
- Will Stanton: I don't know what you're talking about.
- The Rider: You've escaped me once before. A mistake I won't repeat. Now, give me the Sign.
- Dawson: Leave him be.
- Merriman Lyon: Leave the boy alone, Rider. You can't fight us all. You're not strong enough.
- The Rider: Not yet, but I will be. My power rises now. Five days are all I need, then you and all your kind will be destroyed. Merry Christmas, Will.
- Merriman Lyon: Walk with us, Will.
- Will Stanton: Where?
- Merriman Lyon: Through time.
- The Rider: A thousand years of waiting and what was there to show? Nothing! Nothing but a boy who could not do what was asked of him. Generations of hope and promise, all a waste. You know, I have something here you might recognize. Once before I made you an offer, Will. Now here it is again. Give me the signs and the boy will live.
- Will Stanton: I'm not afraid to die. I'm not afraid to die!
- The Rider: Who says it's you?
- Will Stanton: [after his mom leaves, the Rider takes off his glasses; through his teeth and low] Leave me alone!
- The Rider: These old fools would have you do work that they can't, but they haven't told you that you'll fail. Now, give me the Signs, Will.
- Will Stanton: I never forget those who stand with me. Nor those who stand against.
- The Rider: I don't have what you want.
- The Rider: [to Maggie] The boy is more capable than I thought. Return to him, bring me the signs, and you will never age.
- The Rider: Do you want to ever go home with them again? Give me the Signs and they will live. Give me the Signs, Will.
- Will Stanton: No.
- Will Stanton: Tom?
- The Rider: Yes. Poor little Tom. The lone twin. My prisoner these last fourteen years. Imagine how he misses his dear twin brother.
- Merriman Lyon: Resist him, Will! You are Will Stanton! You are the Seeker!
- The Rider: Give them to me.
- Will Stanton: No!
- The Rider: Then your time is at an end.