Polly quotes from Doctor Who

You must come and live with us.

Polly

But we cannot live with you, you're different! You've got no feelings!

Feelings? I do not understand that word.

Emotions! Love! Pride! Hate! Fear! Have you no emotions, sir, hmm?

Polly

What’s happened to you, Doctor?

Oh, I'm not sure my dear. Comes from an outside influence. Unless this old body of mine is wearing a bit thin.

Ben

Hey, come on Doctor, wakey wakey! It's all over now.

Polly

Doctor?

What did you say, my boy? It's all over. That's what you said. No, but it isn't all over. It's far from being all over.

Ben

What are you talking about?

I must get back to the TARDIS... IMMEDIATELY!

Polly

All right, Doctor.

Yes, I must go now.

Ben

Aren't we going to go back to say goodbye or anything?

No. No, I must go at once.

Ben

Oh well, you better have this. We don't want you catching your death of cold.

(Ben hands the Doctor his cloak) Ah, yes! Thank you. It's good. (starts leaving, then turns back) Keep warm.

Polly

[inside the TARDIS, the Doctor is regenerating. Ben and Polly watch in amazement as the frail old man changes into a younger figure. Ben and Polly discuss the "new" Doctor lying on the floor of the TARDIS] His face, his hair. Look at it!

Ben

He's breathing, and the TARDIS seems to be normal.

Polly

Ben, what are we going to do? We can't just leave the Doctor there.

Ben

What, him? The Doctor?

Polly

Well that's who came through the doors - there was no one else outside. Ben, do you remember what he said in the tracking room? Something about "This old body of mine is wearing a bit thin".

Ben

So he gets himself a new one?

Polly

Then whatever happened, happened in here.

Ben

But it's impossible!

Polly

Not so long ago we'd have been saying that about a lot of things.

[the Doctor awakens and mutters to himself] Slower. Slower. Concentrate on one thing. One thing. It's over. Hmm, hmm, hmm. It's over.

Ben

Doctor?

[the Doctor turns and stumbles over the console. Mutters to himself] The muscles are still a bit tight.

Ben

What are we gonna do?

Polly

It is the Doctor. I know it is... - I think.

Ben

It's not just his face that's changed. He doesn't even act like him!

Ben

The Doctor always wore this. If you are him it should fit... That settles it!

I'd like to see a butterfly fit into a chrysalis case after it spreads its wings.

Polly

Then you did change.

Life depends on change, and renewal.

Ben

Oh, that's it, you've been renewed, have you?"

Renewed? Have I? That's it, I've been renewed. It's part of the TARDIS. Without it I couldn't survive.

Lesterson, what have you done? What have you done?

I'll show you. Janley, now!

Ben

It recognised the Doctor. It recognised him!

Polly

What's the matter, Doctor? Are you all right?

The fools. The stupid fools!

Ben

You're scared. What can it do?

Nothing yet.

This creation is called, I understand, a Dalek.

Ben

It knew who you were. It sounds ridiculous, but it did.

It knew who I was.

Ben

The Dalek knows who you are.

Now, look at it. I have merely given it electrical power, but it is capable of storing it. Moreover, it responds to orders. Turn around. [The Dalek obeys] Move that chair. [The Dalek pushes the chair across the room] Stop. [The Dalek stops] You see? Well, just think what this could do for our mining program, our processing, packaging. Dozens of labour jobs, Governor. It may even supply the end to all this Colony's problems.

Yes, it will end the colony's problems, because it will end the colony!

I am your servant.

It, it spoke! Janley, did you hear it? It can actually talk.

It can do many things, Lesterson. But the thing it does most efficiently is exterminate human beings. It destroys them, without mercy, without conscience. It destroys them. Utterly. Completely. It destroys them.

[Trying to drown out The Doctor] I am your servant. I am your servant. I am your servant. I am your servant. I am your servant.

This unit automatically controls the pulse, the temperature and the breathing.

Polly

A sort of electronic doctor.

Yes. Almost got striped trousers!

I simply don't understand it.

Polly

Doctor, it wouldn't, I mean it couldn't possibly have anything to do with Lister, could it?

Lister?

Polly

Well, I mean, you did say that you took your degree in Glasgow in 1888. It does seem an awful long time from now, 2070 or whatever it is.

Polly, are you suggesting that I'm not competent to carry out these tests?

Polly

Oh, no. No, no, no, no. I was just wondering if there was anything that Joseph Lister didn't know in 1888 that might possibly help you now.

Shh! Somebody's coming. It's Mister Hobson, out for blood. Ours. Look busy. Quick!

You say you searched all the base?

Yes. What of it?

Every nook and cranny?

Yes.

No chance of anyone hiding anywhere?

None whatever.

Did your men search in here?

Well...

Did they?

Well...

There are always people in here so they thought that...

[whispering urgently] Did they search in here?

No!

Polly

But there's nowhere in here they could hide.

Polly

Oh no! No! No! Oh no!

There we are! In perfect flight!

Polly

Oh, and look what happened last time!

Oh, and all that a lot of fuss, it was just a bumpy landing, that's all, it won't happen again!

I know...

Ben

What are you up to now?

Let's have a look at the time scanner.

Polly

The what?

The time scanner! Instead of showing us a normal picture of where we are, it, gives us a glimpse of the future.

Jamie

A second sight? Very dangerous...

Oh, nonsense! I, haven't used it much, it's, not very reliable as you can see..

Polly

Doctor... LOOK!

[protesting against something] I... I will tell them. I will tell them. I... I'll do what you say. K-keep away. Don't touch me! I-I'll obey!

Jamie

What's that? What's happening!

Polly

Doctor, that was it? that thing in the picture! That was the claw! They're in control.

Take them out of here. They are condemned to the pits!

Polly

Macra!

Take them away!

Polly

They're in control!!!

Polly

The old shaft. Doctor, that's where Jamie is!

So they're going to pour this gas in the old shaft - gas they value above all else. What do you make of that, Polly?

Polly

For goodness sake, Doctor. What are you going on about?

Don't you see? Control are not pouring this poisonous gas into the old shaft to kill Jamie. They've quite another reason.

Polly

Doctor, you've got to do something to help him.

Before we act, we must think. Now, the Macra that have come to the surface of this planet have not found sufficient gas in the atmosphere, so they've had to get somebody to pump it up from down below.

Polly

But, if it's life and death to them, why do they waste it? Why divert it into the old shaft?

[thinking aloud] That's obvious, Polly, obvious. Because there's something trapped down there they wish to keep alive!