Doctor Who Season 2 quotes

[after successfully fending off an assassin] All right? Of course I'm all right, my child. You know, I am so constantly outwitting the opposition, I tend to forget the delights and satisfaction of the arts, the gentle art of fisticuffs.

My ship...my TARDIS...

This sector seems to be paralysed.

Barbara

Oh, look, this is the Doctor’s astral map.

Does it work?

Barbara

Yes, I think so.

Can we speak to the invasion force with it?

Barbara

Yes, if I can just find the right frequency. Where would you want it set?

To the planet Pictos, there.

Barbara

Now, try that.

Vortis to main force. Vortis to main force. Warning, repeat, warning, Electron guns useless against the Zarbi. Isop Plateau heavily ambushed. Wait for instructions. Reply.

Either it hasn’t heard, or it doesn’t trust us.

Barbara

Or I didn’t set it right. I don’t know, there’s something wrong. This thing ought to light. Prapillus, look. It’s the Isop-tope. The Doctor, he must have been captured.

Then we must take it to the centre ourselves.

Barbara

But why would...?

There’s no time to lose.

Hilio will take care of the Doctor.

Barbara

Hilio.

Hurry!

Vicki

Why have I got to keep pretending I'm a boy? Why can't I be a girl again?

[about the Doctor] There's something new in you, yet something older than the sky itself. I sense that I can trust you.

Vicki

Time, like space, although a dimension in itself, also has dimensions of its own.

Ian

Doctor, why do you always show the greatest interest in the least important things?

The least important things, sometimes, my dear boy, lead to the greatest discoveries.

Barbara

The Doctor's curious, that means we stay.

Ian

Doctor, I'd just come face to face with myself! I wasn't counting the buttons on my jacket!

Our greatest enemies have left the planet Xeros. They are once again in time and space.

They cannot escape! Our time machine will soon follow them. They will be exterminated! Exterminated! Exterminated!

Now you've squashed my favorite Beatles!

Ian

[to Vicki] Don't just stand there and scream, you little fool, RUN!

We're trying to defeat the Daleks, not start a jumble sale!

Barbara

We're not idiots! We want to go home!

Ian

Yes! Home! I want to sit in a pub and drink a pint of beer again! I want to walk in a park, and watch a cricket match. And above all, I want to belong somewhere, and do something! Instead of this aimless drifting around in space!

AIMLESS?! I tried for two years to get you both home!

Ian

Well you haven't been successful, have you?

How dare you, young man! HOW DARE YOU, SIR! I didn't invite you into the ship in the first place! You both thrust yourselves upon me!

Barbara

OH, DOCTOR! STOP IT!

Oh, for heaven's sake! I've never heard such nonsense!

Barbara

Look. I know we've thrust ourselves upon you! But we've been through a great deal since then! And all we've been through will remain with us always! It could be the most exciting part of my life. Look, Doctor, we're different people. And now we have a chance to go home. We want to take that chance. Will you help us work that machine?

...No. No! I will not aid and abet suicide!

Ian

Oh, he's as stubborn as ever!

Vicki

Doctor.

[Trying to avoid her, turns away].. Hmm?

Vicki

Doctor, you've got let them go if they want too. They want to be back in their own time.

Don't you want to go with them, child? Hmm?

Vicki

What for? Why would I want to be back in their time for? I want to be with you! Doctor... You've got to help them.

Don't you realise, child, of the enormous risks?

Vicki

But it's up to them!

[turns back towards Ian and Barbara] Do both realize the enormous risks?

Ian

Yes, Doctor. We still want to go.

Oh, very well. Follow me. [Heads towards the machine and prepares to unlock it, then turns around] But you must follow my instructions implicitly. Understood? Implicitly! [brief pause] You'll both have about a 50/50 chance.