Doctor Who quotes

It's a robot detector. It lights up in the presence of androids.

...Thing must be faulty!

I don't think so. I see I was just too late.

[Suddenly entering] A pity you had to find out. We didn't want any shooting until our takeover was complete.

Hello, Doctor! We've been waiting for you.

Stand back, Doctor!

You know, the resemblance is astonishing! For a moment, I thought I was seeing double!

Hold it, Doctor! [points gun at the Doctor]

Don't be a fool, Benton! I'm one of you!

But--

Didn't you hear the Colonel just now? The Doctor's not here. He's at large somewhere in the complex!

Oh, yes, of course, sir. I'm sorry, sir.

Oh, that's all right, Benton-- but keep your wits about you. Nobody knows who's who around here!

[points gun at the Doctor]

Don't be a fool, Benton! I'm one of you!

[fires the gun.]

Satisfied?

But he just passed me!

Do you think I don't know the difference between an internal fault and an external influence! No, no, no, there's something going on here. Some dirty work they won't touch with their lily white hands!

[seeing the TARDIS] How did you get her here, by the way?

The power of the Sisterhood.

Really? But . . . you mean you still practise teleportation? How quaint! Now if you got yourself a decent forklift truck . . .

You have but a little time left. Will you waste it prattling nonsense, or confess your guilt?

What do you mean, I have but a little time left?

Before you die.

But I'm only seven hundred and forty-nine. Life doesn't begin until seven hundred and fif-

At the next sun, that is agreed.

Not by me, it isn't. I haven't even been consulted!

If you're going to sit there wallowing in self-pity, I'll bite your nose.

Do you think I care about my ultimate appearance?! Just to walk again, to feel, to see...!

Naturally, that is how you think now, my lord. But when you are once more a physical entity, imagine how you will see yourself then. Think how it will be then!

Solon, I think of nothing else! Trapped like this, like a sponge beneath the sea - yet even a sponge has more life than I! Can you understand a thousandth of my agony?! I, Morbius, who once led the High Council of the Time Lords and dreamed the greatest dreams in history, now reduced to this! To a condition where I envy a vegetable!

Sarah

[Finding the Doctor on the floor of the lab] Doctor...!

[Opens eyes and sees Sarah not-blind for the first time] Hello, Sarah! Nice to be seen again!

Sarah

Oh, Doctor!

You thought I was dead, didn't you?

Sarah

Mmm!

You're always making that mistake.

Sarah

How many seconds in a month?

Two million, six hundred and seventy-eight thousand, four hundred-- [stops as he sees Morbius arriving]

Sarah

Short month! [sees Morbius and gasps]

An ingenious idea, Doctor, but ineffectual. Your poison affected only Solon. I have the lungs of a Birastrop.

With a methane filter. What does it feel like to be the biggest mongrel in the universe?

Solon designed this body for efficiency, not for its appearance. To be free again is all that matters!

Free to cause more havoc, more destruction?

The Time Lords will not oppose me again, nor the Sisterhood! When it is learnt that I, Morbius, have returned from the grave, my followers will rise in their millions!

You can't really go on calling yourself Morbius. There's very little of Morbius left! Why don't you think of another name? "Potpourri" would be appropriate!

Sarah

Or how about "Chop Suey"!

Chop Suey, the Galactic Emperor!

[enraged] YOU will be the first to die!

Brain getting a little overheated, is it? Careful, not as strong as it was!

My brain functions perfectly!

I doubt it, Morbius! All that time in a tank, it's gone soft! Do you dare put it to the test?

What test?

We have all the apparatus here. I challenge you to a mindbending contest.

I am a Time Lord of the first rank! What are you?!

Oh, nothing, nothing, a mere nobody! But I don't think you're in the first rank any more.

Very well, Doctor. If that is how you want to die, I accept your challenge!

There's a sporting gentleman!

Sarah

What's mindbending?

Time Lord wrestling. It's usually a game, but it can end in death-lock.

It will, Doctor! I, Morbius, do not play games!

Neither do I. Are you ready?

If we don't find that pod before it germinates, it will be the end of everything - EVERYTHING, you understand?! Even your pension!

Sarah

Will they be able to help that man?

I don't know, Sarah. He's halfway towards becoming a Krynoid.

Sarah

Krynoid?

Yes. A progression of the pod.

Sarah

So you recognised it.

Yes, I was fairly certain when I saw the photographs. Now I'm sure.

Sarah

Well, what is a Krynoid? I mean, what does it do?

I suppose you could call it a galactic weed, except it's deadlier than any weed you know.

Sarah

In what way?

Well, on most planets, the animals eat the vegetation, hmm?

Sarah

Mmm hmm.

On planets where the Krynoid gets established, the vegetation eats the animals.

Sarah

But that's terrifying!

Yes.

Sarah

Well, how did it get through space?

An obvious question. I wish I knew the answer. Possibly their planet of origin is turbulent from time to time, any internal explosions could cause surface matter to go shooting into space.

Sarah

So what do we do about Winlett?

I'm thinking, Sarah, I'm thinking.

Okay, start talking.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had perfect pitch...

[referring to corpse] What happened to him?

Who, Wolfgang Amadeus...? Oh, him. Oh, he died.

We're trying to trace the owner.

Isn't it [her painting] yours?

No. We found it in a car boot

A car boot?

A Daimler car boot

The car is immaterial.

Sarah

The driver wasn't. He tried to kill us.

Can you remember who bought this particular painting?

Well, nobody. I haven't finished it yet.

Sarah

No, hang about, not that one. This one, Miss Ducat.

Common snakes-head fritillary.

Oh, that one. Oh, dear me. It was a long time ago. Now what was his name? Something like face? Mace? Lace?

Sarah

Pace?

Base?

That's right. Chase! Of course. Harrison Chase the millionaire. Good lord. He never paid me!