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In 40 of the 1,966 quotes from Doctor Who
Most scenes with: Tenth Doctor (26), Fourteenth Doctor (10), Rose Tyler (2)
[The Doctor shuts down the Empress' roboforms]
Guess what I've got, Donna? [holds up the roboform remote control] Pockets!
[surprised] How did that fit in there?
They're bigger on the inside.
Roboforms are not necessary. My children may feast on Martian flesh!
Oh, but I'm not from Mars.
Then where?
My home planet is far away and long since gone. But its name lives on: Gallifrey.
[After spending all day hiding in a toilet stall, Donna emerges, but then gets a call from her mother, and hides back in the stall.]
Not now!
I need the car. Where is it?
[whispering] The car went missing!
Why are you whispering?
I'm in church.
What would you do in church?
I'm praying.
[scoffs] A bit late for that, I imagine.
[mouthing] Donna?
[also mouthing] Doctor!
Wha... Wha... What?
Oh! My! God!
How?
[pointing at herself] It's me!
I can see that!
Oh this is brilliant!
What the hell are you doing there?
You! I was looking for you!
What for?!
[miming in a surreal sense while the Doctor looks more and more confused] I was reading... on the internet. This place is weird. Crept along... Heard them talking. [She mimes peeking through the window] You! [Donna gestures and looks toward Miss Foster, who is staring at her]
[out loud] Are we interrupting you?
[mouthing] Run!
[As they are levitated up into a ship, the newly born Adipose children wave to the Doctor and Donna, who can only wave back]
[in disbelief] I'm waving at fat...
Actually, as a diet plan, it sort of works. [sees "Miss Foster" also being beamed up] There she is! Matron Cofelia, listen to me!
Oh, I don't think so, Doctor. And if I never see you again, it'll be too soon.
[exasperated] Oh, why does no one ever listen?! I'm trying to help! Just get across to the roof! Can you shift the levitation beam?
What? So that you can arrest me?
Just listen! I saw the Adiposian instructions - they know it's a crime, breeding on Earth. So what's the one thing they want to get rid of? Their accomplice!
[smugly] I'm far more than that. I'm nanny, to all these children.
Exactly! Mum and Dad have got the kids now, they don't need the nanny anymore!
[The ship's levitation beam switches off; Miss Foster is left suspended for a moment, looking shocked, then falls to her death with a scream and a splat]
[still tied to her chair] Oi! You two, you're just mad! Do you hear me?! Mad! And I'm going to report you for... madness! [storms off]
[shaking her head] You see, some people just can't take it.
Nope.
And some people can. [looks at him, beaming] So, then! TARDIS! Come on!
With Martha, like I said, it got... complicated. And that was all my fault. I just want a mate.
You just want to mate?!
I just want a mate!
You're not mating with me, sunshine!
A mate! I want A mate!
Well, just as well, cos I'm not having any of that nonsense! You're just a long streak of nothing! Alien nothing!
Who are you?
I am...Spartacus.
And so am I.
Mr. and Mrs. Spartacus?
Oh, no-no-no-no-no, we're not married.
Oh, brother and sister? Yes, of course, you look very much alike.
[The Doctor and Donna look at each other.]
[together] Really?!
[Donna is tied to a sacrificial altar.]
This prattling voice will cease forever!
[sardonically] Oh, that'll be the day.
No man is allowed to enter the Temple of Sybil!
[Note: Keep in mind that the original Sybil was a soothsayer.]
Oh that's all right. [mocking] Just us girls. You know, I met the Sybil once. Hell of a woman! Blimey, she could dance a tarantella! Nice teeth... Truth be told, I think she had a bit of a thing for me. I said it would never last, she said "I know". Well, she would. [to Donna, who is still tied to the altar.] You all right there?
[sarcastic] Oh, never better.
I like the toga.
Thank you. And the ropes?
Eh, not so much.
[While confronting the Pyroviles within Mount Vesuvius]
There is nowhere to run, Doctor, and daughter of London!
Now then, Lucius, my Lords Pyrovillian! Don't get yourselves in a lather! [pauses] In a "lava"? No? No... But if I might beg the wisdom of the gods before we perish? Once this new race of creatures is complete, then what?
My masters will follow the example of Rome itself! An almighty empire, bestriding the whole of civilisation!
But if you've crashed, and you've got all this technology, why don't you just go home?!
The Heaven of Pyrovillia is gone.
What do you mean "gone", where's it gone?
It was taken! Pyrovillia is lost. But there is heat enough in this world for a new species to rise.
Yeah, I should warn you, it's 70% water out there--
Water can boil! And everything will burn, Doctor!
Then the whole planet is at stake - thank you, that's all I needed to know.
But if there's aliens setting off the volcano, doesn't that make it all right? For you to stop it?
Still part of history.
Well, I'm history to you. You saved me in 2008, you saved us all. Why's that different?
Some things are fixed, some things are in flux. Pompeii is fixed.
How do you know which is which?
[The Doctor turns around and looks Donna right in the eye.]
'Cause that's how I see the universe. Every waking second, I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not. That's the burden of a Time Lord, Donna. And I'm the only one left.
You've got to go back! Doctor, I am telling you, take this thing BACK! It's not fair!
The Doctor (quietly): No, it's not.
Donna (near tears): But your own planet...it burned...
That's just it. Don't you see, Donna? Can't you understand? If I could go back and save them, then I would, but I can't! I can never go back. I just can't.
Donna (crying now): Just someone. Not the whole town. Just save someone. Please...
(and he realises Donna's right, that he should do something. So he manipulates controls, and the TARDIS rematerialises in the villa)
The Doctor (to Caecilius and his family, who are all convinced they're doomed): Come with me.
Donna, do they know where you are? I mean, your family, that you're travelling with the Doctor?
Not really, although my granddad sort of waved us off. I didn't have time to explain.
You just left him behind?
Yeah.
I didn't tell my family. I kept it all so secret, and it almost destroyed them.
In what way?
They ended up imprisoned. They were tortured, my mum, my dad, my sister. It wasn't the Doctor's fault, but you need to be careful, because you know the Doctor's wonderful and he's brilliant, but he's like fire. Stand too close, and people get burned.
[The Doctor's hand is forced into a machine.]
It's taken a tissue sample, and extrapolated it. Some kind of accelerator?
Are you alright?
Well that, that's just... [Jenny appears out of the machine]
[handing Jenny a weapon] Arm yourself.
Where did she come from?
From me.
From you? How? Who is she?
Well, she's... Well, she's my daughter.
[smiling] Hello, Dad. [cocks gun]
[The TARDIS materializes outside a country estate.]
[Stepping out of the TARDIS] Ah! Smell that air! Grass and lemonade! And a little bit of mint. Just a hint of mint. Must be the 1920s.
You can tell what year it is just by smelling?
Oh, yeah.
Or, maybe, that big vintage car coming up the drive gave it away.
It's a murder, a mystery and Agatha Christie!
So? Happens to me all the time.
I know but isn't that a bit weird? Agatha Christie didn't walk around surrounded by murders, not really. That's like meeting Charles Dickens surrounded by ghosts at Christmas!
Well...
Oh come on! It's not like we could drive across country and find Enid Blyton having tea with Noddy! Could we? Noddy's not real—is he? Tell me there's no Noddy!
There's no Noddy.
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