Fourth Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

Leela

There was a sort of glow all around you!

There was? Well, a kind of St. Elmo's fire; it happens at sea.

Leela

St. Elmo's?

Yes, it causes a sort of halo effect around the masts of ships.

Leela

Halo?

Why do you keep repeating everything I say? You're not a parrot, are you?

Leela

Parrot?

[incredulous] Yes. A parrot's a bird that repeats things. Move over.

Leela

[sarcastic] Move over!

That's it!

Leela

I thought you said there was nothing wrong!

Well, there isn't anything wrong. Well, there isn't anything important wrong, but I've got to check, haven't I?

Leela

I can still feel it.

Come on, old thing. come on.

Contact has been made.

I said, 'I'm perfectly alright, thank you, Lalee'..

Leela

But my name is 'Leela'.

I know your name. "Leela"...

Leela

What happened?!

I must have had a bot of a shick...

Leela

Eugh, what's that?

That is why my brain is so much superior to yours!

What do you know about brains, anyway?

Leela

All right, all right, don't get excited!

I'll get excited if I want to! It's my brain! I'll tell you something about brains-- do you want to know something?

Leela

Not much.

I'll tell you anyway. Someone once tried to build a machine as efficient as the brain. The only problem was, it would have had to be bigger than London-- do you remember London?-- and powered by the entire European grid. And that was just a human brain. Mine's much more complex.

[Slapping dangling bits of his brain material together in desperation] OW!

Leela

What did you do?

I think I told them my liver was disintegrating, I think.

[finding something strange in his brain] Who are you?

I am the Nucleus.

You're trespassing, you know. Treading on my unconscious, affecting my metabol... Nucleus of what?

The Nucleus of the Swarm.

Oh. Oh, I see. Why did you choose my brain?

Because of your intelligence.

Oh well, I can understand that, but you realise you have no right-

I have every right! It is the right of every creature across the universe to survive, multiply and perpetuate its species. How else does the predator exist? We are all predators, Doctor. We kill, we devour to live! Survival is all, you agree?

Oh yes, I do, I do. And on your argument - I have the perfect right to dispose of you.

Hahahaha! That was a good idea of mine, K-9, to blow it up!

Affirmative!

Leela

What do you mean, it was a good idea of yours? It was my idea!

What was?

Leela

To blow it up!

Then you should be feeling very happy.

Leela

What will happen?

I wish I knew.

Leela

Can we get free?

That depends on this misunderstood, unmanagable old machine!

You both must've escaped from somewhere, didn't you!

Frequently!

Leela

There's a guard... I shall kill him!

No.

Leela

Why not?

You'll upset the dog.

Leela

He came armed and silent.

You must have been sent by providence.

No, I was sent by the council to cut the verges.

Leela

Your council should choose its warriors more carefully.

There are four thousand million people here on your planet, and if I'm right, within a year, there will just be one left alive. Just one.

What are you exactly, some sort of wandering Armageddon pedlar?

Are you saying that about twelve million years ago, on a nameless planet which no longer exists, evolution went up a blind alley? Natural selection turned back on itself, and a creature evolved which prospered by absorbing the energy wavelengths of life itself? It ate life, all life, including that of its own kind?

Yes. In other words, the Fendahl. Then the Time Lords decided to destroy the entire planet, and hid the fact from posterity. They're not supposed to do that sort of thing, you know.

How do ye know so much?

I read a lot.

Check, Master.

What?

"Machine mind" computes mate in six moves.

Rubbish!

Leela

Doctor!

Leela, keep still!

Leela

But Doctor--

And shut up, I'm trying to concentrate.

Your move, Master.

I know it’s my move, don’t flash your eyes at me.

Wrong square.

What?

Your king, Master. Wrong square.

Really, are you sure?

Affirmative.

Leela

Doctor, can I speak now?

What? All right, if you must. What is it?

Leela

Well, the column has stopped moving.

So?

Leela

It is not important?

WHAT?! We might have gone right through the time spiral, why didn’t you tell me?

Leela

I tried to, but you wouldn’t let me.

You didn’t!

Leela

I did!

You didn’t!

Leela

I did!

You didn’t!

Leela

I did!