Fourth Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

Where are we?

[whispered] A priest hole.

In a Victorian Gothic Folly? Nonsense!

Sarah Jane

Oh, so pedantic at a time like this!

Door. Key.

Sarah Jane

As simple as that?

No, not really.

Sarah Jane

I didn't think so.

Sutekh

No, you will not die yet. Identify yourself.

Just destroy me, Sutekh. Nothing else now is left within your power.

Sutekh

[more forcefully] Identify yourself. It is within my power to choose the manner of your death.[Sutekh's eyes light up and the Doctor screams in pain] I can, if I choose, keep you alive for centuries, racked by the most excruciating pain. Since your interference has condemned me forever to remain a prisoner in the Eye of Horus, it would be a fitting end. You would make an amusing diversion. [slowly lifting his powers] Identify yourself, plaything of Sutekh.

I'm a traveller.

Sutekh

From where?

Gallifrey, in the constellation of Kasterborus.

Sutekh

Names mean nothing. What is the binary location from galactic zero centre?

Ten zero eleven, zero zero by zero two.

Sutekh

I know the planet. Data retrieval. [the monitor shows Gallifrey's location and its details in Osiran] So, you are a Time Lord.

I renounced the society of the Time Lords. Now I'm simply a traveller.

Sutekh

In time and space. [his eyes light up and he asks more aggressively] In time and space?

[screaming] Yes! Yes!

Sutekh

Ah. Approach closer. What are you called, Time Lord?

Doctor.

Sutekh

I offer you an alliance, Doctor. Serve me truly, and an empire can be yours.

Serve you, Sutekh? Your name is abominated in every civilised world, whether that name be Set, Satan, Sados--

Sutekh

Serve me, Doctor.

Never! Agh!

Sutekh

[laughing] You pit your puny will against mine? Kneel!

NO...!

Sutekh

[laughing] Kneel before the might of Sutekh! In my presence you are an ant, a termite. Abase yourself, you grovelling insect!

Sutekh

You are a Time Lord. What interest have you in humans?

All sapient lifeforms are our kith, Sutekh.

Sutekh

Horus held that view. I refute it.

Because you fear that other intelligent lifeforms may grow to rival you in power, so you kill all life wherever you find it.

Sutekh

[amused] Your argument is a cloud, but I see through it into your mind. The human girl - she travels with you.

If you can do that by mental force, Sutekh, then nothing can be beyond you.

Sutekh

Nothing... except to free myself from the Eye of Horus.

You use your powers for evil!

Sutekh

Evil? Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the Destroyer. Where I tread, I leave nothing but dust and darkness... I find that good!

Then I curse you, Sutekh, in the name of all nature. You are a twisted abhorrence! [Sutekh's eyes glow again, making him collapse and cry out in pain]

Sutekh

Any further insolence, Doctor, and I shall shred your nervous system into a million fibres. Is that understood?

Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watch with a hammer and chisel; one false move and you'll never know the time again.

Sarah Jane

Any more comforting thoughts?

No. Just let me know if it starts to get hot.

Sarah Jane

Don't worry. You'll hear me breaking the sound barrier!

It's a robot detector. It lights up in the presence of androids.

...Thing must be faulty!

I don't think so. I see I was just too late.

[Suddenly entering] A pity you had to find out. We didn't want any shooting until our takeover was complete.

Hello, Doctor! We've been waiting for you.

Stand back, Doctor!

You know, the resemblance is astonishing! For a moment, I thought I was seeing double!

Hold it, Doctor! [points gun at the Doctor]

Don't be a fool, Benton! I'm one of you!

But--

Didn't you hear the Colonel just now? The Doctor's not here. He's at large somewhere in the complex!

Oh, yes, of course, sir. I'm sorry, sir.

Oh, that's all right, Benton-- but keep your wits about you. Nobody knows who's who around here!

[seeing the TARDIS] How did you get her here, by the way?

The power of the Sisterhood.

Really? But . . . you mean you still practise teleportation? How quaint! Now if you got yourself a decent forklift truck . . .

You have but a little time left. Will you waste it prattling nonsense, or confess your guilt?

What do you mean, I have but a little time left?

Before you die.

But I'm only seven hundred and forty-nine. Life doesn't begin until seven hundred and fif-

At the next sun, that is agreed.

Not by me, it isn't. I haven't even been consulted!

Sarah

[Finding the Doctor on the floor of the lab] Doctor...!

[Opens eyes and sees Sarah not-blind for the first time] Hello, Sarah! Nice to be seen again!

Sarah

Oh, Doctor!

You thought I was dead, didn't you?

Sarah

Mmm!

You're always making that mistake.

Sarah

How many seconds in a month?

Two million, six hundred and seventy-eight thousand, four hundred-- [stops as he sees Morbius arriving]

Sarah

Short month! [sees Morbius and gasps]

An ingenious idea, Doctor, but ineffectual. Your poison affected only Solon. I have the lungs of a Birastrop.

With a methane filter. What does it feel like to be the biggest mongrel in the universe?

Solon designed this body for efficiency, not for its appearance. To be free again is all that matters!

Free to cause more havoc, more destruction?

The Time Lords will not oppose me again, nor the Sisterhood! When it is learnt that I, Morbius, have returned from the grave, my followers will rise in their millions!

You can't really go on calling yourself Morbius. There's very little of Morbius left! Why don't you think of another name? "Potpourri" would be appropriate!

Sarah

Or how about "Chop Suey"!

Chop Suey, the Galactic Emperor!

[enraged] YOU will be the first to die!

Brain getting a little overheated, is it? Careful, not as strong as it was!

My brain functions perfectly!

I doubt it, Morbius! All that time in a tank, it's gone soft! Do you dare put it to the test?

What test?

We have all the apparatus here. I challenge you to a mindbending contest.

I am a Time Lord of the first rank! What are you?!

Oh, nothing, nothing, a mere nobody! But I don't think you're in the first rank any more.

Very well, Doctor. If that is how you want to die, I accept your challenge!

There's a sporting gentleman!

Sarah

What's mindbending?

Time Lord wrestling. It's usually a game, but it can end in death-lock.

It will, Doctor! I, Morbius, do not play games!

Neither do I. Are you ready?

Sarah

Will they be able to help that man?

I don't know, Sarah. He's halfway towards becoming a Krynoid.

Sarah

Krynoid?

Yes. A progression of the pod.

Sarah

So you recognised it.

Yes, I was fairly certain when I saw the photographs. Now I'm sure.

Sarah

Well, what is a Krynoid? I mean, what does it do?

I suppose you could call it a galactic weed, except it's deadlier than any weed you know.

Sarah

In what way?

Well, on most planets, the animals eat the vegetation, hmm?

Sarah

Mmm hmm.

On planets where the Krynoid gets established, the vegetation eats the animals.

Sarah

But that's terrifying!

Yes.

Sarah

Well, how did it get through space?

An obvious question. I wish I knew the answer. Possibly their planet of origin is turbulent from time to time, any internal explosions could cause surface matter to go shooting into space.

Sarah

So what do we do about Winlett?

I'm thinking, Sarah, I'm thinking.

Okay, start talking.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had perfect pitch...

[referring to corpse] What happened to him?

Who, Wolfgang Amadeus...? Oh, him. Oh, he died.

We're trying to trace the owner.

Isn't it [her painting] yours?

No. We found it in a car boot

A car boot?

A Daimler car boot

The car is immaterial.

Sarah

The driver wasn't. He tried to kill us.

Can you remember who bought this particular painting?

Well, nobody. I haven't finished it yet.

Sarah

No, hang about, not that one. This one, Miss Ducat.

Common snakes-head fritillary.

Oh, that one. Oh, dear me. It was a long time ago. Now what was his name? Something like face? Mace? Lace?

Sarah

Pace?

Base?

That's right. Chase! Of course. Harrison Chase the millionaire. Good lord. He never paid me!

Give the Doctor to us. Your lives will then be spared.

You better think of something quickly, hadn't you, Doctor!

Oh, Scorby, take no notice of it. I've heard that one before.

It sounds like a pretty fair deal to me! How 'bout it, Doctor? You'd lay down your life for others, wouldn't you?

Sarah

Oh, not to save your skin, not after what you did to us!

It's different!

Sarah

Why is it different?!

He'd be sacrificing himself for you, for all of us!

EXCUSE me! Would you mind if I said something?

Sarah

And you'd better listen, because nobody else knows how to fight that creature!

Hear this, humans. You have till daybreak to deliver the Doctor.

Why wait?! Why not now?!

Scorby, if I die, you die.

I'll take a chance on that--

(losing his temper) THERE IS NO CHANCE!