Doctor Who Season 5 quotes

Victoria

Who are you?

[hissing voice] Varga.

Victoria

Where are you from?

From the red planet.

Victoria

Mars? We thought you were dead and then you came alive.

However, the suspected presence of an alien spacecraft must be investigated, in case of potentially fissionable material.

Jamie

Spacecraft! Hey, do you reckon that's where the warrior's gone back to?

Well he didn't come by Shetland Pony, Jamie.

[Looking at a device in the Ioniser control room] Yes. This is an automatic chemical dispenser, is it not?

Yes.

How does it work?

Clent

Well, you choose the category of the article that you want by indicating it on one of these little chaps here. [Indicates several small buttons] Jolly good. And now you dial the precise chemical formula that you want there.

May I? There's something I need rather desperately. [Dials in a short formula]

Clent

What's that?

Water. [Drinks it]

Clent

Indeed.

Ah, that's better. Now then, let's see. Jamie has vanished, [Does more dialing] Victoria's on her way back to the base, and neither of them can help us with our main problem.

An exact description of the spacecraft's propulsion unit.

That will?

I will.

Clent

With the help of Ammonium Sulphide?

We know these creatures come from Mars, don't we? What do we know about their planet's atmospheric conditions?

Chiefly nitrogen, with virtually no oxygen or hydrogen.

Then they're not going to enjoy this little concoction much, are they?

Clent

What? You mean you intend to use it as a kind of toxic gas?

Well, if I'm going to an alien spaceship, it may come in handy.

Clent

Well, now, gentlemen, you said no traps and we, for our part, have made utterly sure that there are no traps...

I made no promises. I merely warned you not to trick me.

How can we help you?

I will tell you what I want and you will give it to me.

Clent

Oh, come now, Varga. That's not the way to talk. We're both of us in a very difficult situation and at times like this it beholds us both to proceed with mutual respect and, because the whole world could be...

So much for your word.

Clent

That was, that was not planned.

Victoria

Perhaps we've landed in a world of mad men!

They're human beings, if that's what you mean. Indulging their favorite pastime of trying to destroy each other.

I suggested that we meet under a disused jetty by the river.

Disused Yeti?

People spend all their time making nice things and then other people come along and break them!

I can't see anything.

Jamie

Over there, by the trees. Hey, he's armed, too. Get down. Look, I'm going out there, you stay down here. When the rest of the guards come, send them out after me.

Yes, all right. [Jamie goes into the garden] This is just about the end of a perfect day. [A shot rings out] Hey, I know the food's bad, but you don't have to go that far! [More shots, and Griffin hides under the kitchen table] All right, have it your own way! Why did I ever leave Wollamaloo?

Jamie

You must have been a nasty little boy.

Oh, I was. But I had a very enjoyable childhood.

[faint] Help! Somebody help me! [Astrid finds the tunnel entrance] Help! [A short way in, Astrid finds Swann on the floor, with a bad cut on the back of his forehead] Help. Somebody help me.

Who did this to you?

A man named Salamander.

Salamander?

Down there.

Down there?

Jamie

Me Doctor? But you said we were never to touch the controls.

Quite right, Jamie! Welcome to the TARDIS.

Thank you. You're doing so well impersonating me, I thought I might return the compliment.

... And Giles Kent?

...unfortunately, didn't survive the explosion.

We're going to put you outside Salamander. No friends. No safety. Nothing. You'll run, but they'll catch up with you.

May I see your pass, madam?

Pass?

I have instructions that no one is to leave or enter the compound without a written pass from Chief Robson. Not until after the emergency.

But you know who I am. My husband is second in command to Chief Robson.

Yes, Mrs. Harris, I know.

Then let me pass, please.

Sorry, madam. I think you should return to the residential block.

Jamie

You mean to say that this place supplies all the gas for the whole of the south of England?

And for the whole of Wales.

Victoria

What are all those lights for?

Well, that's a plan of the entire compound and each of those lights represents a remote control camera that I can switch through to this screen if I want to look at any particular area. Like this.

Jamie

Oh. Where are all these rigs people talk about?

Well, they're out at sea, of course, but that plan over there shows you the relative position of all the rigs under our command.

Victoria

What's the big one in the middle?

Well, that's the central control rig complex, the sort of the nerve centre of the whole thing. The other rigs feed her with gas and she in turn pumps it to us via the main pipeline, see.

Victoria

How awful to have to live out at sea. And lonely.

Oh, I don't know. Mister Robson once spent four years on one of the early rigs without ever going ashore.

Jamie

Aye, that would account for quite a lot.

There is little time. You know what you must do?

Yes.

You will obey?

If you don't mind my saying so, Mister Van Lutyens, I think this is a very bad idea of yours. You don't know what you're up against.

Jamie

Aye, you wouldn't catch me down there.

Why don't we wait until Mister Harris comes back, sir?

The only way to find out if this weed stuff of yours is blocking the base of the impeller is to go down and have a look.

Look, Mister Van Lutyens, I have no authority to send my men down there.

I realize that. That's why I'm going down.

By yourself?

Oh yes.

I wouldn't go down. Well, I hope you know what you're doing, sir.

I think so.

I wish you wouldn't do this, Mister Van Lutyens.

I can't sit about waiting any longer. I have no position of authority here but I do have the run of the company installations, and if I can do nothing else I can at least inspect the base of the impeller shaft. [puts on a gas mask and steps through the airlock onto the impeller shaft lift platform] Tot straks.

Good luck.

Jamie

Aye, you'll need it.

All right, lower him down.