Kaecilius: How long have you been at Kamar-Taj, Mister...
Dr. Stephen Strange: Doctor!
Kaecilius: Mr. Doctor?
Dr. Stephen Strange: It's Strange.
Kaecilius: Maybe. Who am I to judge?
[repeated line]
Dr. Stephen Strange: Dormammu, I've come to bargain!
Dr. Stephen Strange: I'm not ready.
The Ancient One: No one ever is. We don't get to choose our time.
[takes his hand]
The Ancient One: Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short. You'd think after all this time, I'd be ready. But look at me. Stretching one moment out into a
thousand... just so that I can watch the snow.
Dr. Stephen Strange: Dormammu, I've come to bargain!
Dormammu: You've come to die. Your world is now my world. Like all worlds.
[He disintegrates Strange easily]
Dr. Stephen Strange: Dormammu, I've come to bargain!
Dormammu: You've come to die. Your world is now my... What is this? Illusion?
Dr. Stephen Strange: No, this is real.
Dormammu: Good.
[he kills Strange again]
Dr. Stephen Strange: [bored] Dormammu, I've come to bargain.
Dormammu: What is happening?
Dr. Stephen Strange: Since you gave Kaecilius power from your dimension, I brought some power from mine. This
is time. Endless, looped time!
Dormammu: You dare?
[he kills Strange again]
Dr. Stephen Strange: Dormammu, I've come to bargain!
Dormammu: You cannot do this for ever.
Dr. Stephen Strange: Actually, I can. This is how things are now! You and me. Trapped in this moment. Endlessly.
Dormammu: Then you will spend eternity dying!
Dr. Stephen Strange: Yes, but everyone on Earth will live.
Dormammu: But you will suffer!
Dr. Stephen Strange: Pain's an old friend.
[Dormammu kills Strange again. And again. And again...]
Dormammu: End this! You will never win.
Dr. Stephen Strange: No. But I can lose. Again. And again. And again. Forever. That makes you my prisoner.
Dormammu: No! Stop! Make this stop! Set me free!
Dr. Stephen Strange: No! I've come to bargain!
Dormammu: What do you want?
Dr. Stephen Strange: Take your zealots from the
Earth. End your assault on my world. Never come back. Do it and I'll break the loop.
Christine Palmer: Where have you been?
Dr. Stephen Strange: Well, after Western medicine failed me, I headed east, and I ended up in Kathmandu.
Christine Palmer: Kathmandu?
Dr. Stephen Strange: Yeah.
Christine Palmer: What? Like the Bob Seger Song?
Dr. Stephen
Strange: 1975, Beautiful Loser, side A. Yeah. And I went to a place called Kamar-Taj and I... talked to someone called "The Ancient One." And I...
Christine Palmer: Oh. So you joined a cult.
Dr. Stephen Strange: No, I didn't. No, not exactly. No. I mean... They did teach me to tap into powers that I never even knew existed.
Christine Palmer: Yeah. That sounds like a cult.
Dr. Stephen Strange: It's not a cult.
Christine Palmer: Well, that's what a cultist would say.
The Ancient One: [on magic] You cannot beat a river into submission; you have to surrender to its current, and use its power as your own.
Dr. Stephen Strange: I control it by surrendering control? That doesn't make any sense.
The Ancient One: Not everything does. Not everything has to. Your intellect has taken you far in life, but it
will take you no further. Surrender, Stephen.
Wong: How's your Sanskrit?
Dr. Stephen Strange: I'm fluent in Google Translate.
[after credits]
[Pangborn senses someone in his workshop]
Jonathan Pangborn: Can I help you?
Baron Mordo: They carried you into Kamar-Taj on a stretcher. Look at you now, Pangborn.
Jonathan Pangborn: Mordo. So what can I do for you, man?
Baron Mordo: I've been away for many months now and I've
had a revelation. The true purpose of a sorcerer is to twist things out of their proper shape. Stealing power. Perverting nature. Like you.
Jonathan Pangborn: I've stolen nothing. This is my power. Mine.
Baron Mordo: Power has a purpose.
[Pangborn picks up a crowbar and tries to attack Mordo, who strips him of his powers and restores his
paralysis]
Jonathan Pangborn: Why are you doing this?
Baron Mordo: Because I see, at long last, what's wrong with the world. Too many sorcerers.
Dr. Stephen Strange: What did you just do to me?
The Ancient One: I pushed your astral form out of your physical form.
Dr. Stephen Strange: What's in that tea? Psilocybin? LSD?
The Ancient One: It's just tea... with a little honey.
Dr. Stephen Strange: What just happened?
The Ancient One: For a moment, you entered the astral dimension.
Dr. Stephen Strange: The what?
The Ancient One: A place where the soul exists apart from the body.
Dr. Stephen Strange: Why are you doing this to me?
The Ancient One: To show you just how much you don't know. Open your
*eye*.
[She touches Strange's forehead and blasts him into an odyssey across dimensions]
The Ancient One: [as Doctor Strange is being moved through various dimemsions of the Multiverse] You think you know how the world works? You think that this material universe is all there is? What is real? What mysteries lie beyond the reach of your senses? At the root of existence, mind and matter meet. Thoughts shape reality. This universe is only one of an infinite number.
Worlds without end. Some benevolent and life giving. Others filled with malice and hunger. Dark places where powers older than time lie ravenous... and waiting. Who are you in this vast multiverse, Mr. Strange?
[Strange is experimenting with time manipulation using the Eye of Agamotto]
Baron Mordo: [bursting in] Stop! Tampering with continuum probabilities is forbidden!
Dr. Stephen Strange: I-I-I was just doing exactly what it said in the book!
Wong: And what did the book say about the dangers of performing that ritual?
Dr. Stephen Strange: I don't know, I hadn't gotten to that part yet.
Baron Mordo: Temporal manipulations can create branches in time. Unstable dimensional openings. Spatial paradoxes! Time loops! You wanna get stuck reliving the same moment over and over forever or never having existed at all?
Dr. Stephen Strange: They really should
put the warnings before this spell.