Dodo Chaplet quotes from Doctor Who

Dodo

Flowers from America. A bird from Africa. A snake from Brazil. And now an elephant from India.

Steven

Look, Dodo, you don't know what you might have found out here. No gravity, poisoned atmosphere, all sorts of things. Look, stop prancing around over there. What happens if you get lost?

Dodo

I catch a bus back.

Steven

A bus? Look, what are you talking about? I mean, just where do you think you are?

Dodo

Ah! Bet you thought you'd caught me, didn't you? Bet you thought I didn't know. Well, I do.

Steven

You do?

Dodo

Of course I do.

Steven

What, this place? I mean, you recognise it? What, with all these strange animals and flowers and things?

Steven

Well, you can't have been here before.

Dodo

Yes, I have. It's just outside London. I came here once with the school. It's called Whipsnade.

Yes, you do, my dear. Now you take care of them because you never know when we might use them. Now, I suggest we take a last look round and we'll get you off to bed.

Dodo

Oh, you're not going to send me home, are you?

Home? Ho, ho! What an idea. I couldn't send you home even if I wanted to.

Dodo

Oh, that's all right, then. I think I'm beginning to enjoy this space travel or whatever it is

No, no, no, dear boy. All this is a spaceship!

Steven

A spaceship?

Yes, exactly!

Dodo

Hey, Doctor? If this is a spaceship what are they?

Well, you did come, my dear, so it's too late to be worry about that. And stop snivelling!

Dodo

I'm not snivelling. It's me nose running again! Anyway, I'm feeling better now but I don't suppose anyone cares.

But of course they care, my dear. Now don't worry. It's not your fault at all. If it's anybody's, it's mine.

Steven

Look, do you think this has happened before? That we've carried an infection from one age to another, or even one planet to another?

Oh, I don't want to think it about it, dear boy. It's too horrifying. Though I must say that we're usually very healthy.

Steven

It'll spread through the whole ship, become an epidemic.

Well, that depends on the strength of the virus infection.

Dodo

If it's half as bad as my cold was, it will.

Oh, do blow your nose, child. It's running all over the place.

Dodo

No, it isn't. I'm crying this time.

Steven

Bless you.

Dodo

Oh, Doctor, don't say you're catching a cold now.

Steven

[Now Steven and Dodo turn toward the Doctor and discover that he's disappeared] Doctor? Well, where are you?

[the Doctor briefly fades in and out of sight but then completely disappears] What do you mean, dear boy? I'm still here, hmm?

Steven

Huh?

Dodo

Doctor, you've vanished!

What? Oh, nonsense, child! Nonsense! Hmm!

Dodo

You have! Do you think this is something to do with the Refusians?

Steven

Why... it must be!

You're wrong! This is something far more serious. We're in grave danger. This is some form of attack!

I promised to take you back safe home and I will do so in my own good time.

Dodo

We're leaving now.

What're you attempting to do with that there offensive weapon?

Dodo

Shoot you if I have to.

[The Doctor and Dodo looking up at the newly completed Post Office Tower in London]: You know there's something alien about that tower! I can sense it.

Dodo

Smells okay to me. Good old London smoke...

I can feel it's got something sort of powerful. It's... Look at my skin. Look at that. I've got that pricking sensation again, the same. Just as I had when I saw the Daleks, those Daleks were near...

Dodo

"Daleks"? Who are they?

Oh, er, yes, of course, you, er, you didn't meet them, did you, child? No. No, and I pray that you never will.

My dear Dodo, you've heard the story about the Greeks hiding in a giant horse so they could get into the city and sack it?

Dodo

Yes...

That was the Doctor's idea! He told them to do that!

Dodo

[gasps] Doctor!

Entirely. Different. Circumstances!