Peri quotes from Doctor Who

Peri

Perhaps you should see a doctor.

Androzani Major was becoming quite developed last time I passed this way.

Peri

When was that?

...I don't remember. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the future.

Peri

Doctor, why do you wear a stick of celery in your lapel?

Does it offend you?

Peri

No, just curious.

Safety precaution. I'm allergic to certain gases in the praxis range of the spectrum.

Peri

Well, how does the celery help?

If the gas is present, the celery turns purple.

Peri

And then what do you do?

I eat the celery. If nothing else, I'm sure it's good for my teeth.

Peri

There must be something I can do, tell me!

Too late, Peri. Going soon. Time to say goodbye.

Peri

Don't give up! You can't leave me now!

I might regenerate! I don't know.

Peri

(off-screen) Please...

Feels different this time.

Tegan

What was it you always told me, Doctor? Brave heart? You'll survive, Doctor.

Turlough

You must survive. Too many of your enemies would delight in your death, Doctor.

Turlough speaks the truth, Doctor.

Nyssa

You're needed. You mustn't die, Doctor.

Turlough

Too many of your enemies would be delighted.

Adric

You know that, Doctor.

Nyssa

You mustn't die, Doctor.

Adric

You know that, Doctor.

Adric?

Adric

You know that, Doctor.

Nyssa

You mustn't die, Doctor.

No, my dear Doctor, you must die! Die, Doctor! DIE, DOCTOR! [laughs wickedly]

Peri

Doctor?

— You were expecting someone else?

Peri

I — I — I —

That's three I's in one breath — makes you sound a rather egotistical young lady.

Peri

What's happened?

Change, my dear. And it seems not a moment too soon.

Ahhh... a noble brow. Clear gaze. At least it will be, given a few hours sleep. A firm mouth. A face beaming with a vast intelligence. My dear child, what on Earth are you complaining about? It's the most extraordinary improvement.

Peri

Improvement?! On what?!

My last incarnation... oh, I was never happy with that one. It had a sort of feckless "charm", which simply wasn't me

Peri

What absolute rubbish! You were almost young, and you were sweet.

"Sweet?!" [scoff] Effete! Sweet? Sweet? That says it all. No, this has been a timely change. [Pauses, and stares into space] Change? What change? There is no change... no time, no rhyme, no place for space, nothing! Nothing but the grinding engines of the universe, the crushing boredom of eternity! [Collapses into a rack of coats and starts laughing hysterically, while Peri looks concerned]

Peri

He's not himself.

Then who am I?

Peri

I wish you wouldn't keep wandering off like that!

See it more as a mental stroll in a park of psychic tranquility!

I would suggest, Peri, that you wait a little before criticizing my new persona. You may well find it isn't quite as disagreeable as you think.

Peri

Well, I hope so.

Whatever else happens, I am... the Doctor. Whether you like it... or not.

Peri

Do you mean the TARDIS is malfunctioning again?

Malfunctioning? [pause] Malfunctioning? MALFUNCTIONING!? After all the work I've done on it!?

Peri

Well, I only asked a simple question!

Indeed you did, and it was the wrong question!

Peri

[throws a stone into the lake the Doctor is fishing from]

DON'T DO THAT!! You'll frighten the fish!

[after being hunted by Shockeye but defeating him with Oscar's discarded Lepidopteran equipment] I believe he's now been, moth-balled.

[after summoning his TARDIS] Jamie?

Jamie

[To the Second Doctor] Um after you, Doctor.

Oh no. After you Jamie.

Jamie

Bye Peri.

Peri

Bye.

Jamie

[To the Sixth Doctor] Um Doctor.

Jamie. And keep an eye on the old gentlemen, will you?

[Lifting Peri up onto a wall] I'll be lucky if I can lift you, the amount you weigh!

Peri

[Offended] Watch it, Porky!

Dah! Ambush! A woman's way for fighting!

Peri

: Thanks a lot.

If these guards of the Mentors were real men, they would show their banners and fight in the open!

Peri

Let's get away from here and find the others, huh?

: She has a point.

RETREAT?! I AM KING YRCANOS!

Peri

Yes, I know. Whereas it terrifies me, I'm just not so sure it's going to have the same effect on whoever caused that rockfall.

If there is victory to be had, great king, it would be in prudence this day!

YOU ARE A GREAT DOG OF WAR! I mean, a... a great warrior, whose advice I trust and value. Oh, very well! Today, prudence shall be our watchword. Tomorrow, I shall soak the land in blood!

Peri

Look Doctor, ever since you regenerated, i-it's as if your memory has been put through the meat grinder. I mean, it's all there, but in a pile of unrelated bits and pieces.

That's a horrible simile.

Peri

It's true, though. In the past couple of days, you've called me Tegan, Zoe, Susan...On one occasion, you even referred to me as Jamie.

Peri

But Doctor, you said it was gunfire!

I heard me.