Alex quotes from Doctor Who

He's scared to death of everything.

Pantophobia.

What?

Pantophobia. Not fear of pants, though, if that's what you're thinking. It's the fear of everything. Including pants, I suppose, in that case.

No one is going to tell us how to run our lives. I don't care who you are, or what wheels have been set in motion — we'll sort it.

I'm not just a professional. I'm the Doctor.

What's that supposed to mean?

It means I've come a long way to get here, Alex, a very long way. George sent a message — a distress call, if you like. Whatever's inside that cupboard is so terrible, so powerful, that it amplified the fears of an ordinary little boy across all the barriers of time and space.

Eh?

Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on fire, through empires of glass and civilizations of pure thought, and a whole, terrible, wonderful universe of impossibilities. You see these eyes? They're old eyes... and one thing I can tell you, Alex: monsters are real.

You're not from Social Services, are you?

First things first. You got any jammy dodgers?

Decision: Should we open the cupboard?

Wha-?

Should we? Well, gotta open the cupboard, haven't we? Of course we have. Come on, Alex. Alex, come on. How else will we ever find out what's going on here?

Right. But you said—

Monsters, yeah. Well that's what I do. Breakfast, dinner, and tea. Fight the monsters! So this, this is just an average day at the office for me.

Okay, yeah. You're right.

Or maybe we shouldn't open the cupboard.

Eh?

We have no idea what might be in there. How powerful, how evil that thing might be.

We don't?

Come on, Alex! Alex, come on! Are you crazy? We can't open the cupboard!

God no! No, we mustn't!

Right. That settles it.

Settles what?

We're gonna open the cupboard.

I'm getting demands from Washington, ma'am. The President is insisting that he takes control of the situation.

You can tell the President, and please use these exact words: "he's not my boss, and he's certainly not turning this into a war". [leaves, goes to Alex] What have you got?

[frustrated] Nothing yet. Translating an alien language is going to take time.

How far off is the ship?

About five hours.

What is that?! What's happening?!

[outraged, glaring at Harriet] That was murder.

That was defence. It's adapted from alien technology. A ship that fell to Earth ten years ago.

But they were leaving!

You said yourself, Doctor, they'd go back to the stars and tell others about the Earth. I'm sorry, Doctor, but you're not here all the time; you come and go. It happened today. Mister Llewellyn and the Major, they were murdered. They died right in front of me while you were sleeping. In which case, we have to defend ourselves.

[disgusted] "Britain's Golden Age".

It comes with a price.

I gave them the wrong warning. I should have told them to run, as fast as they can, run and hide, because the monsters are coming: the human race!

Those are the people I represent. I did it on their behalf.

Then I should have stopped you.

What does that make you, Doctor? Another alien threat?

[stepping towards her] Don't challenge me, Harriet Jones! 'Cause I'm a completely new man! I could bring down your government with a single word!

[glaring back at him] You're the most remarkable man I've ever met. But I don't think you're quite capable of that.

No, you're right, not a single word. Just six.

I don't think so.

Six words.

Stop it!

Six. [walks over to Alex and whispers to him] Don't you think she looks tired? [glares at Harriet one more time before leaving with Rose, Jackie and Mickey]

[rushing over to Alex] What did he say?

[nervously] Oh, well, nothing, really--

[frantically] What did he say?!

Uh, nothing, I don't know--

[hysterical] Doctor! Doctor, what did you--?! What was that?! What did he say?! What did you say, Doctor?! Doctor! [quietly, starting to look remorseful] I'm sorry.