Victoria quotes from Doctor Who

There we are! Well, what do you think?

Victoria

I don't know... I can't believe it! [The Doctor chuckles] It's so big! Where are we?

Well it's the TARDIS! It's my home! At least it has been for a considerable number of years...

Victoria

What are all these knobs?

What, these? [Flicks a panel of levers] Instruments.

Jamie

These are for controlling our flight.

Victoria

[Laughs] Flight?!

Jamie

Well, yes! You see, we travel around in here through time and space!

Oh, no, no, no, no, don't laugh, it's true! Your father and Maxtible were working on the same problem! But I have, perfected a, rather special model, that allows me to travel through the universe of time.

Victoria

How can you? I mean, if what you say is true, then you must be about, well.... how, old..?

Well, if we counted Earth terms, I suppose I must be about 400.... yes, about 450 years old! Quite...

Now, I think Victoria might find that dress a little impractical if she's going to join us on our adventures. Jamie, show her where she can find some new ones.

Jamie

Oh, aye, it's this way.

Jamie

And try to give us a smooth takeoff Doctor, we don't want to frighten her.

A smooth takeoff...? A SMOOTH TAKEOFF? WHAT A NERVE! [He dematerialises the TARDIS, clearly annoyed with what Jamie had said]

You look very nice in that dress, Victoria.

Victoria

Thank you. Don't you think it's a bit...

A bit short? Oh, I shouldn't worry about that. Look at Jamie's.

Jamie

[offended] Hey, I'll have you know that- [looks at his kilt] Oh, aye.

Are you happy with us, Victoria?

Victoria

Yes, I am. At least, I would be if my father were here.

Yes, I know, I know.

Victoria

I wonder what he would have thought if he could see me now.

You miss him very much, don't you?

Victoria

It's only when I close my eyes. I can still see him standing there, before those horrible Dalek creatures came to the house. He was a very kind man, I shall never forget him. Never.

No, of course you won't. But, you know, the memory of him won't always be a sad one.

Victoria

I think it will. You can't understand, being so ancient.

Eh?

Victoria

I mean old.

Oh.

Victoria

You probably can't remember your family.

Oh yes, I can when I want to. And that's the point, really. I have to really want to, to bring them back in front of my eyes. The rest of the time they... they sleep in my mind and I forget. And so will you. Oh yes, you will. You'll find there's so much else to think about. To remember. Our lives are different to anybody else's. That's the exciting thing! There's nobody in the universe can do what we're doing.

Well, I hope they know what they're doing. I've been down there once and I don't reckon to go again.

Victoria

That's all right, Captain. It's comforting to know that we have your superior strength to call on, should we need it.

Red state emergency. Evacuation phase three. Phase three evacuate. Transport section leaders report now. Phase three evacuation.

Something's wrong.

Victoria

It seems safe enough.

We're discovered. [She pins labels on the travellers] Oh, thank you.

Jamie

Thank you. Excuse me, miss, I'm Jamie McCrimmon, do you think you could tell us where we are?

She doesn't want to know, Jamie.

Victoria

Hey, this says we're on evacuation flight seven.

That's rather inhospitable. We've only just arrived.

Jamie

Hey, and this tag, it says I'm a scavenger. And yours does too! Here, we're not beggars.

Hush, Jamie.

Victoria

What is it, Doctor?

It sounds like electronic machinery. Like a computer. But there's something wrong with its pitch.

Victoria

Oh, no. Now look, it might be dangerous. Now let's leave it.

No.

Victoria

Doctor.

[Smiles mischievously] Let's go in!

Jamie

Victoria?

Victoria

What?

Jamie

Did you see how those lassies were dressed?

Victoria

Yes, I did. And trust you to think of something like that.

Jamie

Well, I couldn't help thinking about it.

Victoria

Well, I think it's disgusting, wearing that kind of… thing.

Jamie

Oh, aye, so it is, so it is. You, eh, you don't see yourself dressed like that then?

Victoria

Jamie!

Jamie

Oh, I'm sorry. It was, eh, just an idea.

Victoria

We will now change the subject, please. I want to look at this man.

Victoria

Who are you?

[hissing voice] Varga.

Victoria

Where are you from?

From the red planet.

Victoria

Mars? We thought you were dead and then you came alive.

Victoria

Perhaps we've landed in a world of mad men!

They're human beings, if that's what you mean. Indulging their favorite pastime of trying to destroy each other.

Jamie

You mean to say that this place supplies all the gas for the whole of the south of England?

And for the whole of Wales.

Victoria

What are all those lights for?

Well, that's a plan of the entire compound and each of those lights represents a remote control camera that I can switch through to this screen if I want to look at any particular area. Like this.

Jamie

Oh. Where are all these rigs people talk about?

Well, they're out at sea, of course, but that plan over there shows you the relative position of all the rigs under our command.

Victoria

What's the big one in the middle?

Well, that's the central control rig complex, the sort of the nerve centre of the whole thing. The other rigs feed her with gas and she in turn pumps it to us via the main pipeline, see.

Victoria

How awful to have to live out at sea. And lonely.

Oh, I don't know. Mister Robson once spent four years on one of the early rigs without ever going ashore.

Jamie

Aye, that would account for quite a lot.

Queen Victoria

Since my husband's death, I find myself with more of a taste for supernatural fiction.

You must miss him.

Queen Victoria

Very much. Oh, completely. And that's the charm of a ghost story, isn't it? Not the scares and chills, that's just for children, but the hope of some contact with the great beyond. We all want some message from that place. It's the Creator's greatest mystery that we're allowed no such consolation. The dead stay silent, and we must wait.

Queen Victoria

By the power invested in me by the Church and the state, I dub thee [taps the sword on the Doctor's shoulders] Sir Doctor of Tardis. By the power invested in me by the Church and the state, I dub thee [does the same for Rose] Dame Rose of the Powell Estate. You may stand.

Many thanks, Ma'am.

They're never gonna believe this back home.

Your Majesty, you said last night about receiving no message from the Great Beyond. I think your husband cut that diamond to save your life. He's protecting you even now, Ma'am, from beyond the grave

Queen Victoria

[sternly] Indeed, then you may think on this, also; that I am not amused.

[jubilantly] Yes!

Queen Victoria

Not remotely amused. [The Doctor and Rose straighten their faces] And henceforth...I banish you.

I'm sorry?

Queen Victoria

I have rewarded you, Sir Doctor, and now you're exiled from this empire, never to return. [she steps towards Rose and the Doctor] I don’t know what you are, the two of you, or where you’re from, but I know that you consort with stars and magic, and think it fun. But your world is steeped in terror, and blasphemy, and death, and I will not allow it. You will leave these shores and you will reflect, I hope, on how you came to stray so far from all that is good, and how much longer you may survive this...terrible life. [she angrily steps away from them] Now leave my world, and never return!

Queen Victoria

What will you do? Will you stay here?

I don't think I could. I'd sell it, or I'd pull this place down.

Queen Victoria

Although we may not speak of these events in public, they will not be forgotten. I promise you that. Your husband's sacrifice, the ingenuity of his father; they will live on.

But how?

Queen Victoria

I saw, last night, that Great Britain has enemies beyond imagination, and we must defend our borders on all sides. I propose an Institute to investigate these strange happenings and to fight them. I would call it Torchwood; the Torchwood Institute. And if this Doctor should return, then he should beware, because Torchwood will be waiting.