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“The Ark in Space” quotes from Doctor Who

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“The Ark in Space” · Season 12, Episode 2

In this episode: Fourth Doctor (12), Harry Sullivan (6), Sarah Jane Smith (5), Vira (4)

You claim to be Med-Techs?

Well, my Doctorate is purely honorary and Harry is only qualified to work on sailors.

Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable. Indomitable.

I might've been saying something important. (horrified expression) I was saying something important!

The Ark was designed to have a negative fault capacity.

Gremlins can get into everything, old girl. First law of the sea.

[The Doctor corrects the fault]

There you are, what'd I tell you? The Doctor's a first class boffin!

RRogin

There’s been a snitch up. Didn’t I tell you, Lycett, I said five-thousand years ago, I said there’d be a snitch up.

LLycett

[cuts in] Ten thousand.

RRogin

Ohhh, beautiful! I said we should have taken our chance with the solar flares and gone into the thermic shelters. We’d have been happily dead by now.

Doctor, the fate of all humanity might be decided within the next few hours.

Vira, if you fail, your people will die in pain and fear. If I fail, they'll die anyway. But at least only the six of us will know anything about it.

RRogin

We should have stayed on the earth, Lycett. I liked the earth. I like heat!

[Harry is feeding cord to Sarah, who is climbing through tight tunnel; she stops]

How are you doing, old girl?

[hisses back] How do you think I’m doing, twit?

[affronted] Sorry, I thought you were stuck.

[panicking] Oh, Doctor, I can't move!

Of course you can. You've got this far.

No, I'm stuck!

Don't panic, Sarah. Don't panic. Ease round and try again.

I'm jammed. I can't move forward or back. [halfs sobs]

Oh stop whining girl, you're useless!

Oh, Doctor...

[trying to make Sarah angry] "Oh, Doctor!" Is that all you can say for yourself? Stupid, foolish girl. We should never have relied on you, I knew you’d let us down. That's the trouble with girls like you. You think you're tough, but when you're really up against it, you’ve no guts at all. Hundreds of lives at stake, and you lie there blubbing.

[outraged] You…! Wait…! Till I… get… out!

[Sarah's hands emerge from the conduit; the Doctor reaches to help her out, but she bats his hands away]

I can manage! I don't need your help, thank you!

Yes you do, yes you do.

[The Doctor pulls her out of the conduit]

Splendid.

[yanks back] Go away!

You've done marvelously, Sarah. I'm very proud of you. I really am very proud of you.

[shocked] What? ...Conned again, you're a brute!

Me, a brute?

Yes.

Don't be ungrateful. I was only encouraging you. Come on.

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