Ace quotes from Doctor Who

Mike

Ace.

Ace

Go away.

Mike

Ace, I didn't know it was the Daleks. I was just doing Mister Ratcliffe a favour.

Ace

Do me a favour and drown yourself.

Mike

I thought it was the right thing. Mister Ratcliffe had such great plans. [grabs Ace's arms]

Ace

[wrenches herself free] Shut up.

Mike

Ace, I never really wanted to hurt anybody. It's just you have to protect your own, keep the outsiders out just that your own people can have a fair chance.

Ace

[hits Mike] I said shut up! You betrayed the Doctor, you betrayed me! I trusted you! I even liked you, and all the time, you... [runs off]

Ace

Doctor?

Yes?

Ace

We did good, didn't we?

Perhaps. Time will tell. It always does.

Ace

They saved my life!

Don't thank them yet. We might live to regret it.

Ace

What are they?

Cybermen.

Ace

We can't go nicking stuff in here

It's only temporary

Ace

It's probably treason! I'm too young to go to the Tower!

I don't suppose you've completely ignored my instructions and secretly prepared any Nitro-9, have you?

Ace

What if I had?

And naturally, you wouldn't do anything so insanely dangerous as to carry it around with you, would you?

Ace

Of course not. I'm a good girl and do what I'm told.

Excellent. Blow up that vehicle.

Ace

Professor?

Yes?

Ace

Have you seen my Nitro-9?

Isn't it in your rucksack?

Ace

Yeah, but where's my rucksack?

Interesting question...

Ace

Things don't just vanish.

[inexplicably loses a juggling ball] No....

Ace

A missile convoy!

A nuclear missile convoy.

Ace

How can you tell?

It has a graveyard stench.

Ace

What's down there?

Don't ask me. I've only been excavating this site for ten years.

With any luck, a tunnel.

Ace

A dark mysterious one?

Probably.

Ace

Leading to unknown dangers?

Indubitably.

Ace

Oh, wicked.

Ace?

Ace

Yes Brigadier?

I'm getting too old for this sort of thing. He's all yours from now on. I'm going home to Doris.

Doris?

Yes, my wife.

Hahaha! So she caught you in the end?!

Ace

It's true isn't it. This is the house I told you about.

You were thirteen. You climbed over the wall for a dare.

Ace

That's your surprise isn't it? Bringing me back here.

Remind me what it was that you sensed when you entered this deserted house. An aura of intense evil?

Ace

Don't you have things you hate?

I can't stand burnt toast. I loathe bus stations. Terrible places. Full of lost luggage and lost souls.

Ace

I told you I never wanted to come back here again.

And then there's unrequited love. And tyranny. And cruelty.

Ace

Too right!

We all have a universe of our own terrors to face.

Ace

I face mine on my own terms.

Ace

You know what's going on, don't you?

[dismissive] Yes.

Ace

[gradually getting angrier] You've always known, you just can't be bothered to tell anyone! It's like it's some kind of a game and only you know the rules! You knew all about that inscription being a computer program - but you didn't tell me! You know all about that old bottle and you're not telling me! Am I so stupid-?

[uncomfortable] No, that's not it!

Ace

WHY then?! I want to know!

Evil, evil since the dawn of time!

Ace

What do you mean?

Will you stop asking me these questions?!

Ace

[almost screaming] TELL ME!!

The dawn of time, the beginning of all beginnings. Two forces, only good and evil. Then chaos. Time is born, matter, space. The universe cries out like a newborn. The forces shatter as the universe explodes outwards. Only echoes remain, yet somehow, somehow the evil force survives... an intelligence of pure evil.

Ace

And that's Fenric.

No, that's just Millington's name for it. The evil has no name, trapped inside a flask like a genie in a bottle.

Ace

Can we stop it?

We need to get that flask.

Ace

We can release Captain Sorin to help us! I can distract the guard!

[missing her point] How?

Ace

Professor... I'm not a little girl.

Ace

There's a wind ripping up. I can feel it through my clothes. Is there a storm coming?

I wasn't expecting one.

Ace

The question is, is he making all the right moves, or only going through the motions?

What are you doing here?

Ace

You have to move faster than that if you want to keep up with me. Faster than light.

Faster than the second hand on a watch?

Ace

We're hardly moving yet. Hardly cruising speed. Sometimes I travel so fast I don't exist any more.

What can you see?

Ace

Undercurrents, bringing things to the surface. [Beat] I can't stay!

You promised!

Ace

I can't!

Kneel if you want the girl to live!

Kill her.

The Time Lord finally understands.

Do you think I didn't know? The chess set in Lady Peinforte's study? I knew.

Earlier than that. Before Cybermen, ever since Ice World, where you first met the girl.

I knew. I knew she carried the evil inside her. Do you think I'd have chosen a social misfit if I hadn't known? She couldn't even pass her chemistry exams at School, and yet she manages to create a time storm in her bedroom. I saw your hand in it from the very beginning.

Ace

[Horrified] Doctor, no.

She's an emotional cripple. I wouldn't waste my time on her, unless I had to use her somehow.

Ace

[Falls to her knees in despair] NO!

We'll be safe over there. Safe from the Cheetahs, and the Master.

Ace

"Master?" Who's he?

An evil genius. One of my oldest and deadliest of enemies.

Ace

Do you know any nice people? Y'know, normal everyday people, not power-crazed nutters trying to take over the galaxy?