Quotes from Doctor Who

The Tenth Doctor (David Tennant)
(Series Four)

VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED

The Doctor: You dreamt of another sky. New sun, new air, life. A whole Universe teeming with life. Why stand still when there's a whole life out there.
Astrid: snaps out of it So you travel alone?
The Doctor: All the time. Just for fun. Well. That's the plan. Never quite works.
Astrid: Must be rich though.
The Doctor: Haven't got a penny. Stowaway.
Astrid: Kidding!
The Doctor: Seriously!
Astrid: No.
The Doctor: Oh yeah.
Astrid: How'd you get on board?
The Doctor: Accident. I've this sort of ship thing I was just rebuilding her. Left the defenses down. Bumped into the Titanic, here I am. Bit of a party, I thought, Why not.

The Doctor: But um, hold on. Hold on. What was your name?
Banakaffalatta: Banakaffalatta.
The Doctor: Okay, Banakaffalatta. But it's Christmas Eve down there. Late night shopping, tons of people. He's like a talking Conga. No offense, but you'll cause a riot. 'Cause the streets are going to be packed with shopers and parties and people and— beams down to an empty street. Oh.

The Doctor: Bad name for a ship. Either that, or this suit is really unlucky.

The Doctor: If we can get reception I've got a spaceship tucked away, we can all get on board and— oh.
Astrid: What is it? What's wrong?
The Doctor: That's my ship over there.
Astrid: Where?
The Doctor: There, that box. That little blue box.
Astrid: That's a spaceship?
The Doctor: Oy! Don't knock it.
Astrid: It's a bit small.
The Doctor: Bit distant.

The Doctor: First things first. One. We are going to climb through this ship. B. (No.) Two. We are going to reach the Bridge. There. Or C. We are going to save the Titanic. And, coming in a very low Four. Or D. Or that little IV in brackets they use on footnotes. Wine. Well then, follow me.

Mr. Copper: Rather ironic, but this is very much in the spirit of Christmas. It's a festival of violence. They say human beings can only survive depending on whether they've been good or bad. It's barbaric!
The Doctor: Actually, that's not true. Christmas is a time of peace and thanksgiving and— what am I going on about? My Christmasses are always like this.

Astrid: So you look good for 903.
The Doctor: You should see me in the mornings.
Astrid: Okay.

Astrid: Sounds like you do this thing all the time.
The Doctor: Well, not by choice. All I am is a traveller.

The Doctor: Wait wait wait! Security Protocol One! D'you hear me? One! Okay, that gives me three questions. Three questions to save my life. Am I right?
Heavenly Host: Information: Correct.
The Doctor: No, that wasn't one of them. I didn't mean it. That's not fair. Can I start again?
Heavenly Host: Information: No.
The Doctor: No. No no no! That wasn't a question either. Blimey. One question left. One question left. So. You've been given orders to kill survivors. But: survivors must therefore be passengers or staff. But not me. I'm not a passenger, I'm not staff. Scan me. No such bio records. No such person on board. I don't exist. Therefore you can't kill me. Therefore I'm a stowaway. And stowaways should be arrested and taken to the nearest figure of authority. And I reckon the nearest figure of authority is on Deck 31. Final question: Am I right?
Heavenly Host: Information: Correct.
The Doctor: Fine then. Take me to your leader. I've always wanted to say that.

Max Capricorn: Who the hell is this?
The Doctor: I'm the Doctor. Hello.
Heavenly Host: Information: Stowaway.
The Doctor: Well....
Max Capricorn: Kill him!
The Doctor: Wait wait wait! But you can't. Not now. Max, you've given me so much good material. Like how to get ahead in business. See? Head. Head.
Max Capricorn: Oh, the office joker. No one's been funny to me in years.
The Doctor: Well. I can't see why.

The Doctor: So that's the plan? A retirement plan? Two thousand people on this ship. Six billion underneath us. All of them slaughtered. And why? Because Max Capricorn is a loser.
Max Capricorn: I never lose.
The Doctor: You can't even sink the Titanic.

The Doctor: What's your first name?
Alonzo: Alonzo.
The Doctor: You're kidding me.
Alonzo: What?
The Doctor: That's something else I've always wanted to say.
Alonzo: What?
The Doctor: Allons-y, Alonzo!

Mr. Copper: So Great Britain is a part of Europe. And just across the British channel you've got Great France and Great Germany.
The Doctor: No, it's just France and Germany. Only Britain is Great.
Mr. Copper: And they're all at war with the continent of "Hamerica".
The Doctor: No. Well. Not yet. Um. You could argue that one.

Mr. Copper: You know, between you and me, I don't even think this snow is real. I think it's the ballast from the Titanic's salvage entering the atmosphere.
The Doctor: Yeah. One of days it might snow for real.

Partners in Crime

The Doctor to the film projectionist: Health and Safety... Film Department.

The Doctor: What's that for?
Phone Bank Woman: My telephone number. Health and Safety. You be health, I'll be safety.
The Doctor: Ah.. ah, but that contravenes, um, Paragraph 5 subsection C.

The Doctor: Tell me Roger, have you got a cat flap?
Roger: It was here when I bought the house. I never bothered with it really. I'm not a cat person.
The Doctor: No I've met cat people. You're nothing like them.
Roger: Is that what it is then? Cats getting inside the house?
The Doctor: Well, thing about cat flaps is, they don't just let things in, they let things out as well.
Roger: Like what?
The Doctor: "The fat just walks away."

The Doctor: Oh. Fascinating! It seems to be a bio-flip digital switch specifically for—

The Doctor: Donna?
Donna: Doctor!
The Doctor: What are, what are you—?
Donna: Oh. My. God!
The Doctor: How?
Donna: It's me!
The Doctor: I can see that.
Donna: Oh this is brilliant!
The Doctor: What the hell are you doing there?
Donna: Looking for you!
The Doctor: What for?
And then I lost the pantomime. Until...
Miss Foster: Are we interrupting you?

Penny: Is anyone going to tell me what's going on?
The Doctor: What are you a journalist?
Penny: Yes!
The Doctor: Then make it up.

The Doctor: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. One more thing... before dying. Do you know what happens if you hold two identical sonic devices against each other?
Miss Foster: No.
The Doctor: Nor me. Let's find out!

Donna: I must have been mad to turn down that offer.
The Doctor: What offer?
Donna: To come with you.
The Doctor: Come with me?
Donna: Oh yes, please!
The Doctor: Right.

Donna: What are you going to do then? Blow them up?
The Doctor: They're just children. They can't help where they came from.
Donna: Oh, well that makes a change from last time. That Martha must have done you good.
The Doctor: Yeah, she did.

Donna: I'm waving at fat.
The Doctor: Actually as a diet plan it sort of works.

Donna: You're not saying much.
The Doctor: No, it's just— It's a funny old life. In the TARDIS.
Donna: You don't want me.
The Doctor: I'm not saying that.
Donna: But you asked me. Would you rather be on your own?
The Doctor: No. actually no. But. The last time, with Martha—like I said, it got, it got complicated. And that was all my fault. I just want a mate.
Donna: You just want to mate?!

The Fires of Pompeii

Donna: Hold on a minute. That sign over there's in English. Are you having me on? Are we in Epcot?
The Doctor: No no no. That's the TARDIS translation circuits. It just makes it look like English. Speech as well. You're talking Latin right now.
Donna: Seriously? I just said "seriously" in Latin.
The Doctor: Oh yeah.
Donna: What if I said something in actual Latin? Like “Veni, vidi, vici.” My Dad said that when he came back from football. If I said “veni, vidi, vici” to that lot, what would it sound like?
The Doctor: I'm not sure. You have to think of difficult questions, don't you?
Donna: I'm gonna try it.
Seller: Afternoon, sweetheart. What can I get you, my love?
Donna: Um, veni, vidi, vici.
Seller: Huh? Sorry? Me no speak Celtic. No can do, missy.
Donna: Yeah. What does he mean, 'Celtic'?
The Doctor: Welsh. You sound Welsh. There we are. Learned something.

Donna: Don't my clothes look a bit odd?
The Doctor: Nah! Ancient Rome, anything goes. Like SoHo. But bigger.
Donna: Have you been here before, then?
The Doctor: Ages ago. Before you ask, that fire had nothing to do with me. Well a little bit.

Donna: Wait a minute. One mountain. With smoke. Which makes this—
The Doctor: Pompeii. We're in Pompeii. And it's Volcano Day.

Donna: You're kidding. You're not telling me the TARDIS is gone.
The Doctor: Okay.
Donna: Where is it?
The Doctor: You told me not to tell you.
Donna: Oy. Don't get clever in Latin.

The Doctor: You must excuse my friend. She's from... Barcelona.

The Doctor: Consuming the vapors, you say.
Evelina: They give me strength.
The Doctor: It doesn't look like it to me.
Evelina: Is that your opinion. As a doctor?
The Doctor: I beg your pardon.

Lucius: Doctor, she is returning.
The Doctor: Who's "she"?

The Doctor: No sign of him. Nice little bit of allons-y.

Metella: Doctor, or whatever your name is, you bring bad luck on this house.
The Doctor: I thought your son was brilliant. Aren't you gonna thank him?

Spurrina: No man is allowed to enter the Temple of Sibyl!
The Doctor: Oh that's alright. Just us girls.

Donna: They're stone.
The Doctor: Exactly. The people of Pompeii are turning to stone before the volcano erupts. But why?

Spurrina: Sisters, I see into his mind! The weapon is harmless!
The Doctor: Well, yeah, But it's got a sting.

The Doctor: Somethings are fixed, somethings are in flux. Pompeii is fixed.
Donna: How do you know which is which?
The Doctor: Because that's how I see the Universe. Every waking second I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not. That's the burden of the Time Lord, Donna. And I'm the only one left.

The Doctor: But… that's the choice, Donna. It's Pompeii or the world.
Donna: Oh, my God.
The Doctor: If Pompeii is destroyed then it's not just history. It's me. I make it happen.

The Doctor: It's never forgotten, Caecilius. Oh, time will pass. Men will move on, and stories will fade. But one day, Pompeii will be found, again. In thousands of years. And everyone will remember you.

The Doctor: You were right. Sometimes I need someone. Welcome aboard.
Donna: Yeah.

Planet of the Ood

The Doctor: Set the controls to random. Mystery tour! Outside that door could be any planet, anywhere, anywhen, in the whole wide— Are you alright?

The Doctor: Snow! Ah, real snow. Proper snow at last!

The Doctor: His eyes turned red.
Donna: What's that mean?
The Doctor: Trouble.

The Doctor: The Ood are harmless. They're completely benign. Except the last time I meant them there was this force, like a stronger mind. Powerful enough to take them over.
Donna: What sort of force?
The Doctor: Long story.
Donna: Long walk.
The Doctor: It was the Devil.
Donna: If you're gonna take the mickey I'll just put my hood back on.
The Doctor: Must be something different this time though. Something closer to home.

The Doctor: The year 4126. That is the second great and bountiful human Empire.

Donna: Back home, the papers and the telly, they keep saying we haven't got long to live. Global warming. Flooding. All the bees disappearing.
The Doctor: Yeah. That thing about the bees is odd.

The Doctor: Ood, tell me, does 'the circle' mean anything to you?
The Ood: The circle must be broken.
Donna: Whoa, that is creepy.
The Doctor: But what is it? What is the circle?
The Ood: The circle must be broken.
The Doctor: Why?
The Ood: So that we can sing.

Donna: Is that...?
The Doctor: It's a brain. A hind brain. The Ood are born with a secondary brain. Like the amygdala in humans, it processes memory and emotions. You get rid of that, you wouldn't be Donna any more. You'd be like an Ood, a processed Ood.

The Doctor: Funny thing, the subconscious. Takes all sorts of shapes. Came out in the red-eye as revenge. Came out in the rabid Ood as anger. And then there was patience. All that intelligence and mercy focused on Ood Sigma. How's the hair loss, Mr Halpen?
Mr. Halpen: What have you done?
The Doctor: Oh, they've been preparing you for a very long time. And now you're standing next to the Ood Brain. Mr Halpen, can you hear it? Listen.!
Mr. Halpen: What have you...? I'm... not...!
Donna: They... They turned him into an Ood?!
The Doctor: Yup.
Donna: He's an Ood.
The Doctor: I noticed.

Donna: It's weird, being with you, I can't tell what's right and what's wrong any more.
The Doctor: It's better that way. People who know for certain tend to be like Mr. Halpen.

The Doctor: The message has gone out. That song resonated across the galaxies, everyone heard it. Everyone knows. The rockets are bringing them back. The Ood are coming home.
Ood Sigma: We thank you, Doctor Donna. Friends of Oodkind. And what of you now? Will you stay? There is room in the song for you.
The Doctor: Oh, I've... sort of got a song of my own, thanks.
Ood Sigma: I think your song must end soon.
The Doctor: Meaning?
Ood Sigma: Every song must end.

The Sontaran Strategem

Donna: I can't believe I'm doing this!
The Doctor: No, neither can I. Oh oh, careful! Left hand down, left hand down! Getting a bit too close to the 1980s.
Donna: What am I going to do, put a dent in 'em?
The Doctor: Well someone did.

The Doctor: Martha, Donna. Donna, Martha. Please, don't fight. I can't bear fighting.
Donna: You wish. I've heard all about you. He talks about you all the time.
Martha: I dread to think.
Donna: No no, he says nice things. Good things. Nice things. Really good things.
Martha: Oh my god, he's told you everything.
Donna: Didn't take long to get over it, though. Who's the lucky man?
The Doctor: What man? Lucky what?
Donna: She's engaged, you prawn.

Donna: He is too skinny for words. You give him a hug, you get a papercut.
The Doctor: Oh, I'd rather you were fighting.

Donna: What, you used to work for them?
The Doctor: Yeah, long time ago. Back in the seventies. Or was it the eighties? But it was all a bit more home spun back then.

The Doctor: I said no salutes.
Colonel Mace: Now you're giving orders.
The Doctor: Oh, you're getting a bit cheeky aren't you?

The Doctor: Oh, just in time! C'mon, we're going to the country. Fresh air and geniuses. What more could you ask.
Donna: I'm not coming with you. I've been thinking. I'm sorry. I'm going home.
The Doctor: Really?
Donna: I've got to.
The Doctor: Well. If that's what you want. Only. It's a bit soon. I had so many places I wanted to take you. The fifteenth broken moon of the Medusa Cascade. The lightning skies of Cotter Palluni's World. Diamond coral reefs of Kataa Flo Ko. Thank you. Thank you, Donna Noble. It's been brilliant. You've... you've saved my life in so many ways. You're— you're just popping home for a visit, that's what you mean.
Donna: You dumbo.
The Doctor: And then you're coming back.
Donna: Know what you are? A great big, outer space dunce.
The Doctor: Yeah.

The Doctor: This is PE? Wouldn't mind a kick around. I've got my daps on.

Luke: I suppose you're the Doctor.
The Doctor: Hello.
Luke: Your commanding officer phoned ahead.
The Doctor: Ah, but I haven't got a commanding officer. Have you?

The Doctor: With all this technology you could, oh, I don't know. Move to another planet.
Luke: If only that was possible.
The Doctor: "If only that 'were' possible." Conditional clause.

Luke: You're smarter than the usual UNIT grunt, I'll give you that.
The Doctor: He called you a grunt! Don't call Ross a grunt. He's nice. We like Ross.

The Doctor: I was just thinking. What a responsible 18-year-old. Inventing zero carbon cars. Savin' the world...
Luke: It takes a man with vision.
The Doctor: Mm. Blinkered vision. 'Cause Atmos means more people driving. More cars, more petrol. End result the oil's gonna run out faster than ever. The Atmos system could make things worse.
Luke: Yeah, well see. That's a tautology. You can't say Atmos system. 'Cause it stands for Atmospheric Emission System. So you can say "Atmospheric Emission System System." Do you see, Mr. Conditional Clause?
The Doctor: It's been a long time since anyone's said "no" to you, isn't it?

The Doctor: Just looked like a "thing", didn't it? People don't question "things". They just say, "oo... it's a thing."

The Doctor: This isn't typical Sontaran behavior, is it? Hiding, using teenagers, stopping bullets. A Sontaran should face bullets. With dignity. Shame on you!

The Doctor: And your name?
General Staal: General Staal. Of the Tenth Sontaran Fleet. Staal The Undefeated.
The Doctor: Ah, that's not a very good nickname. What if you do get defeated? "Staal the Not-Quite-So-Undefeated Anymore But Nevermind."
Ross: It's like a potato. A baked potato. A talking baked potato.
The Doctor: Now, Ross. Don't be rude. You look like a pink weasel to him.

The Doctor: With only one weakness.
General Staal: Sontarans have no weakness!
The Doctor: No, it's a good weakness.
Luke: Oh, you're meant to be clever. Only an idiot would provoke him.
The Doctor: No, the Sontarans are fed by probic vent in the back of their neck. That's their weak spot. Which means they always have to face their enemies in battle. Isn't that brilliant? They can never turn their back.
General Staal: We stare into the face of death!
The Doctor: Yeah? Well stare at this.

The Doctor: Try going right.
Ross: It said left.
The Doctor: I know. So go right.

The Doctor: Get down! the Atmos sparks a few times and dies. Oh, is that it?

Wilfred Mott: Wilf, sir, Wilfred Mott. You must be one of them aliens.
The Doctor: Yeah, but don't shout it out.

The Poison Sky

The Doctor: Oh, I've never given you a key. Keep that. Go on, that's yours. Quite a big moment really.
Donna: Yeah. Maybe we can get sentimental after the world's finished choking to death.
The Doctor: Good idea.

The Doctor: I'm stuck. On Earth, like... Like an ordinary person. Like a human. How rubbish is that? Sorry, no offense but come on!
Martha: So what do we do?
The Doctor: Well. I mean it's shielded. They could never detect it. pauses
Martha: What?
The Doctor: I was just wondering, have you phoned your family and Tom?
Martha: No. What for?
The Doctor: The gas. Tell them to stay inside.
Martha: Of course... I will, yeah. But what about Donna? I mean, where's she?
The Doctor: Oh... she's gone home. She's not like you. She's not a soldier. Right! So. Avanti!

The Doctor: Change of plan!
Colonel Mace: Good to have you fighting alongside us, Doctor.
The Doctor: I'm not fighting. I’m not-fighting, as in not-hyphen-fighting. Got it?

Colonel Mace: My god. They're like trolls.
The Doctor: Yeah... Loving the diplomacy, thanks. So tell me, General Staal, since when did you lot become cowards?
Staal: How dare you!
Colonel Mace: Oh, that’s diplomacy?
Staal: Doctor, you impugn my honor!
The Doctor: Yeah, I’m really glad you didn’t say "belittle" 'cause then I’d have a field day.

The Doctor: Fifty thousand years of bloodshed. And for what?
Staal: For victory!

The Doctor: Finished?
Staal: You will not be so quick to ridicule when you see our prize. Behold! We are the first Sontarans in history to capture a TARDIS.
The Doctor: Well. As prizes go that's... noble. As they say in Latin, Dona nobis pacem.
Donna: That's me. I'm here!

The Doctor: Big mistake though, showing it to me.
Donna: But who do I phone?
The Doctor: Because I've got a remote control.
Staal: Cease transmission!
Donna: Doctor, what number are you on? You haven't even got a number!

Colonel Mace: Well. That achieved nothing.
The Doctor: Oh, you'd be surprised.

The Doctor: Missiles wouldn't even dent that ship. So why are the Sontarans so keen to stop you. Any ideas?
Martha: How should I know?

The Doctor: He wasn't Greyhound 40. His name was Ross. Now listen to me. And get them out of there!!

The Doctor: Times like this I could do with the Brigadier. No offense.
Colonel Mace: None taken. Sir Alastair is a fine man if not the best. Unfortunately he's stranded in Peru.

Donna: What's happened? Where are you?
The Doctor: Still on Earth. But don't worry, I've got my secret weapon.
Donna: What's that?
The Doctor: You.
Donna: Somehow that's not making me happy.

Donna: But he's going to kill me.
The Doctor: I'm sorry. I swear, I'm so sorry. But you've got to try.

The Doctor: Should be a switch by the side.
Donna: Yeah there is. But it's Sontaran-shaped. You need three fingers.
The Doctor: You've got three fingers.

Martha: You're not going without me.
The Doctor: Wouldn't dream of it.

Colonel Mace: Latest firing stock. What do you think, Doctor?
The Doctor wearing a gas mask: Are you my mummy?
HA!

The Doctor: That's brilliant!
Colonel Mace: Getting a taste for it, Doctor?
The Doctor: No, not at all. Not me.

The Doctor: Am I supposed to be impressed?
Martha: Wish you carried a gun now?
The Doctor: Not at all.
Martha: I've been stopping the nuclear launch all this time.
The Doctor: Doing exactly what I wanted. I needed to stop the missiles just as much as the Sontarans. I'm not having Earth start an interstellar war. You're a triple agent!
Martha: When did you know?
The Doctor: About you? Oh, right from the start. Reduced iris contraction, slight thinning of the hair follicles on the left temple. And frankly you smell. You might as well have worn a t-shirt saying "clone". Although, maybe not in front of Captain Jack. You remember him, don't you? 'Cause you've got all her memories. That's why the Sontarans had to protect her. To keep you inside UNIT. Martha Jones is keeping you alive.

The Doctor: Here we go, the old team back together. Well, the new team.

Luke: He's a genius.
Martha: Just brilliant.
The Doctor: Now we're in trouble.

The Doctor: Right, so. Donna, thank you. For everything. Martha, you too. Oh... so many times. Luke, do something clever with your life.
Donna: You’re saying goodbye.
The Doctor: Sontarans are never defeated. They’ll be getting ready for war. And, well, you know... I’ve recalibrated this for Sontaran air, so...
Martha: You're going to ignite them.
Donna: And kill yourself.
Martha: Just send that thing up, on its own. I don’t know. Put it on a delay.
The Doctor: I can't.
Donna: Why not?
The Doctor: I've got to give them a choice.

The Doctor's Daughter

The Doctor: I don't know where we're going, but my old hand's rather excited about it.
Donna: I thought that was just some freaky alien thing. You telling me it's yours?
The Doctor: Well.
Martha: It got cut off—he grew a new one.
Donna: You are completely impossible.
The Doctor: Not impossible. Just... a bit unlikely.

Soldier: Don't move! Stay where you are. Drop your weapons.
The Doctor: We're unarmed. Look, no weapons. Never any weapons.We've safe.

The Doctor: Something tells me this isn't about to check my blood pressure.

Martha: Where did she come from?
The Doctor: From me.
Donna: From you? How? Who is she?
The Doctor: Well she's... well. She's my daughter.
Jenny: Hello Dad.

The Doctor: Oo! Source? What's that, then? What's the Source? I like a Source. What is it?
Cobb: The breath of life.

The Doctor: Call me old fashioned but if you really wanted peace couldn't you just stop fighting?
Cobb: Only when we have the Source. It'll give us the power to erase every stinking Hath from the face of this planet.
The Doctor: Hang on, hang on. A second ago it was " peace in our time". Now you're talking about genocide.
Cobb: For us, that means the same thing.
The Doctor: Then you need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up genocide. You'll see a little picture of me there, and the caption will read "Over my dead body!".
Cobb: And you're the one that showed us the path to victory. But you can consider the irony from your prison cell. Clyde, at arms!
Donna: Oy! Oy, alright! Cool the beans, Rambo.
Cobb: Take them! I won't have them spreading treason. And if you try anything, Doctor, I'll see that your woman dies first.
The Doctor: We're, we're not a couple.
Donna: I'm not his woman.

The Doctor: You're an echo. That's all. A Time Lord is so much more. A sum of knowledge, a code, a shared history. A shared suffering. Only its gone now, all of it. Gone forever.
Jenny: What happened?
The Doctor: There was a war.
Jenny: Like this one.
The Doctor: Bigger. Much bigger.
Jenny: And you fought? And killed?
The Doctor: Yes.
Jenny: Then how are we different?

Donna: Let me distract this one. I have picked up a few womanly wiles over the years.
The Doctor: Let's... save your wiles for later. In case of emergency.

The Doctor: Listen to me. The killing. After awhile it infects you. And once it does you're never rid of it.
Jenny: But we don't have a choice.
The Doctor: We always have a choice.
Jenny: I'm sorry.

Donna: But that was impossible.
The Doctor: Not impossible. Just a bit unlikely. Brilliant! You were just brilliant!

Donna: Oh I know that look. See it a lot round our way. Blokes with pushchairs and prams. You've got Dad Shock.
The Doctor: Dad Shock?
Donna: Sudden, unexpected fatherhood. Take a bit getting used to.
The Doctor: No it's not that.
Donna: Well what is it then? Having Jenny in the TARDIS, is that it? What's she going to do, cramp your style? Like you've got a sports car, shes's going to turn it into a people carrier.
The Doctor: Donna, I've been a father before.
Donna: What?
The Doctor: Lost all that long time ago. Along with everything else.
Donna: I'm sorry. I didn't know. Why didn't you tell me? You talk all the time but you don't say anything.
The Doctor: I know.

Jenny: Oh, that was close.
The Doctor: It'd be no fun otherwise.

The Doctor: They've mythologized their entire history.

The Doctor: Jenny, be strong now. You need to hold on, you hear me? We've got things to do, you and me. Hey! Hey! We can go anywhere, everywhere. You choose.
Jenny: That sounds good.
The Doctor: You're my daughter, and we've only just got started. You're going to be great. You're going to be more than great. You're going to be amazing.

The Doctor: Two hearts. Two hearts like me. If we wait, we just wait.
Martha: There's no sign, Doctor. There's no regeneration. She's like you, but.... maybe not enough.
The Doctor: No. Too much. That's the truth of it. She was too much like me.

The Doctor: I never would. Have you got that? I never would. Whe you start this new world—this world of Human and Hath—remember that. Make the foundation of this society "A man who never would".

The Doctor: Jenny was the reason for the TARDIS bringing us here. It just got here too soon. We then created Jenny in the first place. Paradox. An endless paradox.

Martha: Goodbye Doctor.
The Doctor: Goodbye Doctor Jones.

The Unicorn and the Wasp

The Doctor: We were thrilled to receive your invitation, my Lady. We met at the Ambassador's Reception.
Lady Eddison: Doctor, how could I forget you? But one must be sure with the unicorn on the loose.
The Doctor: A unicorn? Brilliant. Where?
Lady Eddison: The unicorn. The jewel thief.

Agatha Christie: Agatha Christie.
Donna: What about her?
Agatha Christie: That's me.
Donna: No! You're kidding!
The Doctor: Agatha Christie! I was just talking about you the other day. I said I bet she's brilliant. I'm the Doctor, this is Donna. Oh, I love your stuff. What a mind! You fool me every time. Well, almost every time. Well, once or twice. Well, once. But it was a good one.

The Doctor: Look at the date on this newspaper.
Donna: What about it?
The Doctor: It's the day Agatha Christie disappeared.

Agatha: Someone should call the police.
The Doctor: We don't have to. Chief Inspector Smith from Scotland Yard. Known as The Doctor. Miss Noble is the plucky young girl that helps me out.

The Doctor: Come on. You're ever so plucky.

Agatha: The secret adversary remains hidden. We must look for a motive. Use ze "little grey cells."
The Doctor: Ah yes. "Little grey cells." Good 'ol Poirot. You know, I've been to Belgium. Yeah. I remember. I was deep in the Ardennes, trying to find Charlemagne. He'd been kidnapped by an insane computer.

Agatha: For such an experienced detective you missed a big clue.
The Doctor: What, that bit of paper you nicked out of the fire?
Agatha: You were looking the other way.
The Doctor: Yeah, but I saw you reflected in the glass of the bookcase.
Agatha: You crafty man.

Agatha: Can we return to sanity? There are no such things as giant wasps.
The Doctor: Exactly! So, the question is: what's it doing here?

The Doctor: There's nowhere to run. Show yourself! everyone pops out of their room. Oh... that's just cheating.

The Doctor: I need something salty.
Donna: What about this? Here.
The Doctor: What is it?
Donna: Salt.
The Doctor: Too salty.

The Doctor: Detox. I must do that more often! I mean, the, the detox.

The Doctor: Plenty of people write detective stories, but yours are the best. And why? Why are you so good, Agatha Christie? Because you understand. You've lived. You've fallen, you've had your heart broken. You know about people. Their passions, their hope and despair and anger. All of those tiny huge things that can turn the most ordinary person into a killer. Just think, Agatha. If anyone can solve this, it's you.

The Doctor: She is the best selling novelist of all time.
Donna: But she never knew.
The Doctor: Well no one knows how they're going to be remembered. All we can do is hope for the best. Maybe that's what kept her writing. Same thing that keeps me travelling. Onwards?
Donna: Onwards.

Silence in the Library

The Doctor: Books. People never really stop loving books. 51st century. By now you've got holovids, direct-to-brain downloads, fiction mist. But you need the smell. The smell of books, Donna. Deep breath!

The Doctor: The Library. So big it doesn't need a name. Just a great big "The".
Donna: It's like a city.
The Doctor: It's a world. Literally. A world. The whole core of the planet is the index computer. Biggest hard drive ever. And up here, every book ever written. Whole continents of Jeffrey Archer, Bridget Jones, Monty Python's Big Red Book. Brand new editions, special printings. We're near the equator, so... checks the wind. This must be biographies! I love biographies!
Donna: Yeah, very you. Always a death at the end.
The Doctor: You need a good death. Without death there'd only be comedies. Dying gives us size. Donna picks up a book Oiya! Spoilers.
Donna: What?
The Doctor: These books are from your future. You don't want to read ahead, spoil all the surprises. Not peeking at the end.
Donna: Isn't travelling with you one big spoiler?
The Doctor: I try to keep you away from major plot developments. Which, to be honest, I seem to be very bad at. 'Cause, you know what, this is the biggest library in the universe. So where is everyone? It's silent.
Donna: It's a library.
The Doctor: It's a planet.
Donna: Maybe it's a Sunday.
The Doctor: No. I never land on Sundays. Sundays are boring.

The Doctor: A million million lifeforms. And silence in the library.
Donna: But there's no one here. There's just books. I mean it's not the books, is it? I mean it can't be the books, can it? I mean books can't be alive.

Message: Count the shadows. For god's sake, remember. If you want to live, count the shadows. Message ends.
The Doctor: Donna.
Donna: Yeah?
The Doctor: Stay out of the shadows.
Donna: Why? What's in the shadows?

The Doctor: It's alive.
Donna: You said it was a security camera.
The Doctor: It is. It's an alive one.

The Doctor: Count the shadows.
Donna: One. There. Counted it. One shadow.
The Doctor: Yeah, but what's casting it?

The Doctor: Oh, you're not. Are you? Tell me you're not archaeologists
River Song: Got a problem with archeologists?
The Doctor: I'm a time traveller. I point and laugh at archeologists.

The Doctor: All of you, stay in the light. Find a nice bright spot and stand. If you understand me look very very scared. No. A bit more scared than that. Okay, good for now.

The Doctor: Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark. But they're wrong. 'Cause it's not irrational. It's Vashta Nerada.
Donna: What's Vashta Nerada?
The Doctor: It's what's in the dark. It's what's always in the dark.

River: Thanks.
The Doctor: For what?
River: The usual. For coming when I call.
The Doctor: Oh, that was you?
River: You're doing a very good job acting like you don't know me. I'm assuming there's a reason.
The Doctor: Oh, a fairly good one actually.
River: Okay, should we do diaries then? Where are we this time? Going by your face I'd say it's early days for you, yes? So, um... Crash of the Byzantium. Have we done that yet? Obviously ringing no bells. Alright, um. Picnic at Asgard, Have we done Asgard yet? Obviously not. Blimey, very early days then. Oo! Life with a time traveller, never knew it could be such hard work. Um... Look at you. You're young.
The Doctor: I'm really not, you know.
River: Oh but you are. Your eyes! You're younger than I've ever seen you.
The Doctor: You've seen me before then?
River: Doctor, please tell me you know who I am.
The Doctor: Who are you?

Little Girl: Hello. Are you in my television?
The Doctor: Well, no. I'm— I'm— sort of in space. I was trying to call up the data core of a triple grid security processor.
Little Girl: Would you like to speak to my dad?
The Doctor: Yeah. Or your mum. That'd be lovely.
Little Girl: I know you! You're in my library.
The Doctor: Your library?
Little Girl: My library's never been on television before. What have you done?
The Doctor: Um... I, um... just rerouted the interface.

The Doctor: She's a footprint on the beach. And the tides coming in.

The Doctor: Right, you lot. Let's all meet the Vashta Nerada!

The Doctor: Not everyone comes back out of the dark.

River: So what do we do?
The Doctor: Daleks. Aim for the eyestalk. Sontarans. Back of the neck. Vashta Nerada. Run. Just run.
River: Run? Run where?
The Doctor: This is an index point. There must be an exit teleport somewhere.
Lux: Don't look at me. I haven't memorized the schematics.!
Donna: Doctor, the little shop. They always make you go through the little shop on the way out so they can sell you stuff!
The Doctor: You're right! Brilliant! That's why I like the little shop!

The Doctor to Proper Dave: I'm sorry. I am so so sorry. But you've got two shadows.

Donna: But Doctor, we haven't got any helmets.
The Doctor: Yeah but we're safe anyway.
Donna: How are we safe?
The Doctor: We're not. That was just a clever lie to shut you up.

River: So. What's the plan? Do we have a plan?
The Doctor: Your screwdriver. Looks exactly like mine.
River: Yeah. You gave it to me.
The Doctor: I don't give my screwdriver to anyone.
River: I'm not anyone.
The Doctor: Who are you?
River: What's the plan?
The Doctor: I teleported Donna back to the TARDIS. If we don't go back there in under five hours Emergency Program One will activate.
River: "Take her home", yeah.

Forest of the Dead

River: Doctor. One day I'm going to be someone that you trust. Completely. But I can't wait for you to find that out. So I"m going to prove it to you. And I'm sorry. I'm really very sorry. whispers in his ear. Are we good? Doctor. Are we good?
The Doctor: Yeah, we're good.
River: Good.

The Doctor: Know what's interesting about my screwdriver? Very hard to interfere with it. Practically nothing strong enough. Well, some hairdryers but working on that. So, there is a very strong signal coming from somewhere. And it wasn't there before. So what's new, what's changed? C'mon! What's new? What's different!
Dave: I don't know. Nothing. It's getting dark.
The Doctor: It's a screwdriver. It works in the dark.

The Doctor: Someone somewhere in this Library is alive and communicating with the moon. Or, possibly alive and drying their hair.

River: Oh god they've got inside!
The Doctor: No no. I've just tinted her visor. Maybe they'll think they're already in there, leave her alone.
River: You think they can be fooled like that?
The Doctor: Maybe, I don't know. It's a swarm. It's not like we chat.

The Doctor: Thing about me, I'm stupid. I talk to much. Always babbling on. This gob doesn't stop for anything. Wanna know the only reason I'm still alive? I always stay near the door. uses Captain Jack's sonic to open a spot in the floor.

The Doctor: Spoilers. Nobody can open the TARDIS by snapping their fingers. It doesn't work like that.
River: It does for the Doctor.
The Doctor: I am the Doctor.
River: Yeah. Someday.

The Doctor: "Safe."
Anita: What?
The Doctor: "Saved". You don't say "saved". Nobody says "saved". You say "safe".

River: Gravity Platform.
The Doctor: Bet I like you.
River: Oh, you do.

The Doctor: She's got over four thousand living minds chatting away inside her head. It must like... being, well... me.

The Doctor: I'll hook myself up to the computer, she can borrow my memory space.
River: Difficult. It'll kill you stone dead!
The Doctor: Yes, easy to criticize.
River: It'll stop both of your hearts and don't think you'll regenerate!
The Doctor: I'll try my hardest not to die, honestly. It's my main thing.
Doctor—
The Doctor: I'm right, this works. Shut up.

River: I hate you sometimes!
The Doctor: I know!

The Doctor: You know what? I really liked Anita. She was brave, even when she was crying. And she never gave in. And you ate her. But I'm going to let that pass. Just as long as you let them pass.
River: How long have you known?
The Doctor: I counted the shadows. You only have one now.

The Doctor: Don't play games with me. You just killed someone I liked. That is not a safe place to stand. I'm the Doctor and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.

The Doctor: Oh no no. What are you doing? That's my job!
River: Oh and I'm not allowed to have a career I suppose.
The Doctor: Why am I handcuffed? Why do you even have handcuffs?
River: Spoilers.

The Doctor: River you know my name. You whispered my name in my ear. There's only one way I would ever tell anyone my name. There's only one time I could.
River: Hush now. Spoilers.

Donna: I finally got the perfect man. Gorgeous, adores me, and hardly ever speak a word. What's that say about me?
The Doctor: Everything. Sorry, did I say "everything"? I meant to say nothing. I was aiming for "nothing". I accidentally said "everything".
Donna: What about you? You alright?
The Doctor: I'm always alright.

Donna: Your friend, Professor Song. She knew you in the future but she didn't know me. What happens to me? Because when she learned my name, the way she looked at me—
The Doctor: Donna, this is her diary. My future. I could look you up. What do you think? Shall we peek at the end?
Donna: Spoilers. Right?
The Doctor: Right. he sets the sonic screwdriver on top. C'mon. The next chapter's this way.

The Doctor: Why? Why would I give her my screwdriver? Why would I do that? Thing is Future Me had years to think about it. All those years to think of a way to save her. And what he did was give her a screwdriver. Why would I do that? Oh! Look at that1 I'm very good!
Donna: What have you done?
The Doctor: Saved her!

The Doctor: Stay with me. C'mon! You and me, one last run! Sorry River, shortcut.

Midnight

Donna: I said, "No!"
The Doctor: Sapphire Waterfalls. It's a waterfall made of sapphires! This enormous jewel the size of a glacier reaches the Cliffs of Oblivion and then shatters into sapphires at the edge. They fall a hundred thousand feet into a crystal ravine.
Donna: I bet you say that to all the girls.

The Doctor: Alright. I give up. I'll be back for dinner and we'll try that anti-gravity restaurant. With bibs.
Donna: That's a date. Well not a date. Oh you know what I mean. Oh get off.
The Doctor: See ya later.
Donna: Oi! And you be careful. Alright?
The Doctor: Ah! Taking a big space truck with a bunch of strangers across a diamond planet called Midnight. What could possibly go wrong.

Hostess: I must warn you some products may contain nuts.
The Doctor: That'd be the peanuts.
Hostess: Enjoy your trip.
The Doctor: Oh I can't wait. Allons-y!
Hostess: I'm sorry?
The Doctor: It's French. For "let's go."
Hostess: Fascinating.

The Doctor: I've done plenty of that—travelling on my own. I love it! Do what you want, go anywhere.
Sky Silvestry: I'm still getting used to it. I found myself single rather recently, not by choice.
The Doctor: What happened?
Sky: Oh the usual. She needed her own space, as they say. A different galaxy in fact. I reckon that's enough space, don't you?
The Doctor: Yeah. My friend went to a different universe.
Sky: Well. What's this, chicken or beef?
The Doctor: I think it's both.

The Doctor: I've spoken to the Captain. I can guarantee you, everything's fine. Two loud knocks come from outside the bus.

The Doctor doing inventory: Arms. Legs. Neck. Head. Nose. I'm fine. Everyone else?

The Doctor (and Sky): Now then, Sky. Are you Sky? Is Sky still in there? Mrs. Silvestry? You know exactly what I'm going to say. How are you doing that? Roast beef! Bananas! The Medusa Cascade. Bang! Rose Tyler Martha Jones Donna Noble TARDIS! Shamble bobble dibble dooble. Oh Doctor, you're so handsome. Yes I am! Thank you. A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O...

The Doctor: I think... the more we talk the more she learns. Now I'm all for education but in this case... maybe not.

Professor Hobbes (and Sky): For the last time! Nothing can live on the surface of Midnight.
The Doctor (and Sky): Professor, I'm glad you've got an absolute definition of life in the Universe, but perhaps the Universe has got ideas of its own, hm? Now trust me, I've got previous. I think there might well be some... consciousness inside Mrs. Silvestry, but maybe she's still in there. And it's our job to help her.
Biff (and Sky): Well you can help but I'm not going near.
The Doctor (and Sky): No, I've got to stay back. 'Cause if she's copying us then maybe the final stage is becoming us. I don't want her becoming me, or things could get a lot worse.
Val (and Sky): Oh, like you're so special.
The Doctor (and Sky): As it happens, yes I am.

The Doctor: The Hostess. What was her name?
Hobbes: I don't know.

Donna: Can't imagine you without a voice.
The Doctor: Molto bene.
Donna: Molto bene.
The Doctor: No, don't do that. Don't.... Don't.

Turn Left

The Doctor: Just got lucky, this thing. It's one of the Trickster's Brigade. Changes a life in tiny little ways. Most times the universe just compensates around it, but with you... great big parallel world!
Donna: Hold on. You said parallel worlds are sealed off.
The Doctor: They are. But you had one created around you. Funny thing is, seems to be happening a lot. To you.
Donna: How d'you mean?
The Doctor: Well, the Library. Then this.
Donna: Just goes with the job, I suppose.
The Doctor: Sometimes I think there's way too much coincidence around you, Donna. I met you once. I met your grandfather. Then I met you again. In the whole wide universe, I met you for a second time. It's like something's binding us together.
Donna: Don't be so daft. I'm nothing special.
The Doctor: Yes you are. You're brilliant.
Rose in alt-world flash: He thought you were brilliant.
Donna: She said that.
The Doctor: Who did?
Donna: That woman. I can't remember.
The Doctor: Well, she never existed, now.
Donna: No, but she said... the stars. She said the stars are going out.
The Doctor: Yeah, but that world's gone.
Donna: No, but she said it was all worlds. Every world. She said the Darkness is coming. Even here.
The Doctor: Who was she?
Donna: I don't know.
The Doctor: What did she look like?
Donna: She was... blonde.
The Doctor: What was her name?
Donna: I don't know.
The Doctor: Donna, what was her name?
Donna: But she told me to warn you. She said two words.
The Doctor: What two words? What were they? What did she say?
Donna: "Bad Wolf." What does it mean? Doctor, what is it? What's "Bad Wolf"?
The Doctor: It's the end of the universe.

The Stolen Earth

The Doctor: It's fine. Everything's fine. Nothing's wrong. It's fine. Excuse me, what day is it?
Milk Man: Saturday.
The Doctor: Saturday! Good! Good. I like Saturdays.
Donna: So. I just met Rose Tyler.
The Doctor: Yeah.
Donna: But she's locked away in a parallel world.
The Doctor: Exactly. If she can cross from her parallel world to your parallel world then that means the walls of the universe are breaking down. Which puts everything in danger. Everything. But how?

Donna: Thing is, Doctor, no matter what's happening—and I'm sure it's bad. I get that. But, Rose is coming back. Isn't that good?
The Doctor: Yeah.

The Doctor: The TARDIS is still in the same place but the Earth is gone. The entire planet. It's gone.

Donna: But if the Earth's been moved, they've lost the sun. What about my mum? And Grandad? They're dead. Are they, are they dead?
The Doctor: I don't know, Donna. I just don't know. I'm sorry, I don't know.
Donna: That's my family. My whole world.

Donna: So what do we do?
The Doctor: We've got to get help.
Donna: From where?
The Doctor: Donna, I'm taking you to Shadow Proclamation. Hold tight.

Donna: So go on then, what is this Shadow Proclamation anyway?
The Doctor: Posh name for the police. Outer space police.

Shadow Architect: Time Lords are the stuff of legend. They belong in the myths and whispers of the higher species. You can not possibly exist.
The Doctor: Yeah. More to the point, I've got a missing planet.
Shadow Architect: Then you're not as wise as the stories would say. The picture is far bigger than you would imagine. The whole universe is in outrage, Doctor. Twenty-four worlds have been taken from the sky.
The Doctor: How many? Which ones? Show me!
Shadow Architect: Locations range far and wide. They all disappeared at the exact same moment, leaving no trace.
The Doctor: Callufrax Minor. Jahoo. Shallacatop. Woman Wept. Clom! Clom's gone? Who'd want Clom?
Shadow Architect: All different sizes. Some populated, some not. But all unconnected.
Donna: What about Pyrovillia?
Shadow Architect: Who is the female?
Donna: Donna. I'm a human being. Maybe not the stuff of legend but every bit as important as Time Lords, thank you. Way back, when we were in Pompeii, Lucius said Pyrovillia had gone missing.
Judoon Leader: Pyrovillia is cold case. Not relevant!
Donna: How d'you mean, "cold case"?
Shadow Architect: The planet Pyrovillia cannot be part of this. It disappeared over 2,000 years ago.
Donna: Yes, yes. Hang on. But there's the Adipose Breeding Planet too. Miss Foster said that was lost. But that must've been a long time ago.
The Doctor: That's it! Donna, brilliant! Planets are being taken out of time as well as space. Put this into 3D. Now, if we add Pyrovillia... and Adipose III.... Something missing. Where else, where else where else where else? Lost lost lost lost lost. . . Oh! The Lost Moon of Poosh!
Shadow Architect: What did you do?
The Doctor: Nothing. The planets rearranged themselves into the optimum pattern. Oh, look at that! Twenty-seven planets in perfect balance. Come on, that is gorgeous!
Donna: Oi, don't get all spaceman. What does it mean?
The Doctor: All those worlds fit together like pieces of an engine. It's like a powerhouse! But what for?
Shadow Architect: Who could design such a thing?
The Doctor: Someone tried to move the Earth once before. Long time ago... Can't be.

The Doctor: Donna, c'mon think! Earth. There must have been some sort of warning. Was anything happening back in your day? Like electrical storms, freak weather, patterns in the sky?
Donna: Well how should I know? Um... no. I don't think so, no.
The Doctor: Okay, never mind.
Donna: Although... there were the bees disappearing.
The Doctor: "The bees disappearing"? The bees disappearing. The bees disappearing!
Shadow Architect: How is that significant?
Donna: On Earth we have these insects. Some people said it was pollution or mobile phones.
The Doctor: Or they were going back home.
Donna: Back home where?
The Doctor: Planet Melissa Majoria.
Donna: Are you saying bees are aliens?
The Doctor: Don't be so daft! Not all of them.

The Doctor: I've got a blip! It's just a blip but it's definitely a blip.
Shadow Architect: Then according to the strictures of the Shadow Proclamation I will have to seize your transport and your technology.
The Doctor: Oh. Really? What for?
Shadow Architect: The planet was stolen with hostile intent. We are declaring war, Doctor. Right across the universe! And you will lead us into battle!
The Doctor: Right. Yes. 'Course I will. Just go... get you a key.

The Doctor: It's stopped.
Donna: What d'you mean? Is that good or bad? Where are we?
The Doctor: The Medusa Cascade.

The Doctor: I came here when I was just a kid. Ninety years old. It was the center of a rift in time and space.
Donna: So where are the twenty-seven planets?
The Doctor: Nowhere. Tandocca Trail stops dead. End of the line.
Donna: So what do we do? Doctor, what do we do? Don't do this to me! No, don't. Don't do this to me. Not now. Tell me, what are we going to do. You never give up! Please!

The Doctor: Phone!
Donna: Doctor, phone!
The Doctor: Martha, is that you? Signal!
Donna: Can we follow it?
The Doctor: Oo! Just watch me!

Donna: Twenty-seven planets. And there's the Earth. But why couldn't we see it?
The Doctor: The entire Medusa Cascade has been put a second out of sync with the rest of the Universe. Perfect hiding place. Tiny little pocket of time. But we found 'em! Oo! Oo, what's that? Hold on, hold on! some sort of... subwave network.
Jack: Where the hell have you been? Doctor, it's the Daleks!
Gwen: Oh, he's a bit nice. Thought he'd be older.
Ianto: He's not that young.

The Doctor: Sarah Jane! Who's that boy? That must be Torchwood. Aren't they brilliant! Look at you, all you clever people.
Donna: That's Martha! And who's he?
The Doctor: Captain Jack. Don't... Just... don't.
Rose: Doctor, it's me. I came back.
Donna: It's like an outer space Facebook.
The Doctor: Everybody except Rose.

Davros: Your voice is different. And yet... its arrogance is unchanged.
Sarah Jane: No! But he's dead.
Davros: Welcome to my new empire, Doctor. It is only fitting that you sohuld bear witness to the resurrection and the triumph of Davros. Lord and Creator of the Dalek race.
Donna: Doctor?
Davros: Have you nothing to say?
Donna: Doctor, it's alright. We're in the TARDIS. We're safe.
The Doctor: But you were destroyed. In the very first year of the Time War. The Gates of Elysium. I saw your command ship fly into the jaws of the Nightmare Child. I tried to save you.
Davros: But it took one stronger than you. Dalek Kaan himself.

Davros: I have my children, Doctor. What do you have now?
The Doctor: After all this time—everything we saw, everything we lost—I have only one thing to say to you. Bye!

The Doctor: Think, Donna. When you met Rose in that parallel world, what did she say?
Donna: Just... "the darkness is coming".
The Doctor: Anything else?
Donna: Why don't you ask her yourself.

Rose: I've got you! I missed you. Look, it's me! Look!
The Doctor: Rose.
Rose: Right.
The Doctor: Long time, no see.
Rose: Yes. Been busy, you know. Don't die. Oh my god, don't die! Oh my god, don't die!
Jack: Get him into the TARDIS quick. Move!

Jack: Here we go! Good luck, Doctor.
Donna: Would somebody please tell me what is going on?
Rose: When he's dying his body, it repairs itself. It changes. But you can't!
The Doctor: I'm sorry. It's too late. I'm regenerating.

Journey's End

(NOTE: Quotes from The Second Doctor [or half-human Doctor are on the Other Quotes page)

The Doctor: Now then. Where were we?

The Doctor: You see? Used the regeneration energy to heal myself, but as soon as that was done I didn't need to change. I didn't want to. Why would I? Look at me! So to stop the energy from going all the way, I siphoned off the rest into a handy biometric receptacle. Namely, my hand. My hand there. My hand is my hand. Remember Christmas Day Sicorax. Lost my hand in a sword fight. That's my hand. What do you think?
Rose: You're still you.
The Doctor: I'm still me.

Jack: There's a massive Dalek ship at the center of the planets. They're calling it The Crucible. I guess that's our destination.
Donna: You said these planets are like an engine. But what for?
The Doctor: Rose, you've been in a parallel world. You've seen the future. What was it?
Rose: It's the Darkness.
Donna: The stars were going out.
Rose: One by one. They were just dying. Basically we've been building this, um, travel machine. This, uh, dimension cannon so I could, uh, so I—
The Doctor: What?
Rose: So I could come back. Shut up. Anyway suddenly it started to work. And the dimension started to collapse. And not just in our world, not just in yours, but the whole of reality. Even the void was dead. Something is destroying everything.
Donna: In that parallel world, you said something about me.
Rose: The dimension could measure timelines. And it's weird, Donna, but they all seem to converge on you.
Donna: But why me? I mean, what have I ever done? I'm a temp from Chiswick.

The Doctor: The Dalek Crucible. All aboard.

The Doctor: We'll have to go out. Because if we don't they'll get in.
Rose: You told me nothing could get through those doors.
Jack: You've got extrapolator shielding.
The Doctor: Last time we fought the Daleks they were scavengers and hybrids. And mad. But this is a fully-fledged Dalek Empire. At the height of its power. Experts at fighting TARDIS's. They can do anything. Right now that wooden door. Is just wood.

Rose: Daleks.
Jack trying to be flip : Oh god!
The Doctor: It's been good though, hasn't it? All of us. All of it. Everything we did. to Donna: You were brilliant. to Jack: And you were brilliant. to Rose: And you were brilliant. Blimey!

The Doctor: The Supreme Dalek said "vault". Yeah? As in dungeon. Cellar. Prison. You're not in charge of the Daleks, are you? They've got you locked away down here in the basement like what? A servant? Slave? Court Jester?
Davros: We have... an arrangement.
The Doctor: No no no no. No. I've got the word. You're the Daleks' pet!

Rose: What is that thing?
The Doctor: You've met before. The last of the Cult of Skaro. But it flew into the Time War unprotected
Davros: Caan did more than that. He saw time. Its infinite complexity and majesty raging through his mind. And he saw you. Both of you.
Caan: This hath been foreseen! In the wild and the wind! The Doctor will be here as witness at the end of everything! The Doctor and his precious Children of Time! And one of them will die!

Davros: Why so shy? Show your companion. Show her your true self. Dalek Caan has promised me that too.
Caan: I have seen into the time of ending. The Doctor's soul will be revealed.
The Doctor: What does that mean?
Davros: We will discover it together. Our final journey. Because the ending approaches. The testing begins.
The Doctor: The testing of what?
Davros: The Reality Bomb.

The Doctor: What's the Osterhagen Key?!
Martha: There's a chain of 25 nuclear warheads. Placed at strategic points beneath the Earth's crust. If I use the key, they detonate and the Earth gets ripped apart.
The Doctor: What?! Who invented that— well, someone called Osterhagen, I suppose. Martha, are you insane?!

The Doctor: Donna, you can't even change a plug.
Donna: Do you wanna bet, Time Boy.
Davros: You'll suffer for this.
Donna: Oohhh. Bio electric dampening field with a retrogressive arc inversion.
Davros: Exterminate her!
Daleks: Exterminate! Exterminate! Weapons nonfunctional!
Donna: Wha? Macro transmission of a k-field wavelength blocking Dalek weaponry in a self-replicating semi-bifold matrix?
The Doctor: How did you work that out? You're—
The Human/Doctor: Time Lord. Part-Time Lord.
Donna: Part human. Oh yes. That was a two-way biological metacrisis. Half-Doctor Half-Donna.
The Doctor: The Doctor Donna! Just like the Ood said. Remember? They saw it coming. The Doctor Donna.

Davros: But you promised me, Dalek Caan. Why did you not foresee this?
The Doctor: Oh I think he did. Something's been manipulating the timelines for ages. Getting Donna Noble to the right place at the right time.

Sarah Jane: What about the Earth? It's stuck in the wrong part of space.
The Doctor: I'm on it! Torchwood Hub, this is The Doctor. Are you receiving me?
Gwen: Loud and clear. Is Jack there?
The Doctor: Can't get rid of him. Jack, what's her name?
Jack: Gwen Cooper.
The Doctor: Tell me, Gwen Cooper, are you from an old Cardiff family?
Gwen: Yes. All the way back to the 1800s.
The Doctor: Ah. Though so. Spatial genetic multiplicity. It's a funny old world.

The Doctor: C'mon, Luke. Shake a leg!

Sarah Jane: K-9! Out you come!
The Doctor: Oh! Good dog!

The Doctor: 'Cause you know why this TARDIS is always rattling around this place? It's designed to have six pilots and I have to do it single-handed. But not anymore! Now we can fly this thing like it's meant to be flown!

The Doctor to Jack: I told you! No teleport. And Martha, get rid of that Osterhagen thing. Eh? Save the world one more time.
Consider it done.

The Doctor: Oi! Where you going?
Mickey: Well I'm not stupid. I can work out what happens next. And I had a good time in that parallel world, but my Gran passed away. Nice and peaceful. Spent her last years living in a mansion. There's nothing there for me now. Certainly not Rose.
The Doctor: What'll you do?
Mickey: Anything. Brand new life. Just you watch. See ya Boss! running after Jack and Martha. Hey, you two!
Jack: Oh. Thought I got rid of you.

The Doctor: It's time for one last trip. Dårlig ulv stranden. Better known as [Bad Wolf Bay].
Jackie: Oh, fat lot of good this is. Back of beyond. Bloody Norway. I'm gonna have to phone your father. He's on the nursery run. I was pregnant, do you remember? Had a boy.
The Doctor: Ah! Brilliant. What'd you call him?
Jackie: Doctor.
The Doctor: Really?
Jackie: No, you plum. He's called Tony.

The Human/Doctor: But you made me.
The Doctor: Exactly. You were born in battle. Full of blood and anger and revenge. to Rose. Remind you of someone? That's me, when we first met. And you made me better. Now you can do the same for him.
Rose: But he's not you.
The Doctor: He needs you. That's very me.

Rose: Alright both of you, answer me this. When I last stood on this beach—on the worst day of my life—what was the last thing you said to me? Go on, say it.
The Doctor: I said "Rose Tyler."
Rose: Yeah and? How was that sentence gonna end?
The Doctor: Does it need saying?
Rose: And you, Doctor? What was the end of that sentence. he whispers in her ear and she turns to kiss him as The Doctor and Donna slip away into the TARDIS

Donna: I thought we'd try the planet Fellspoon. Just 'cause. What a good name. "Fellspoon." Apparently it's got mountains that sway in the breeze. Mountains that move. Can you imagine.
The Doctor: And how do you know that.
Donna: Because it's in your head. And if it's in your head, it's in mine.
The Doctor: And how does that feel.
Donna: Brilliant! Fantastic! Molto bene! Great big universe packed into my brain. You know you could fix that Chameleon circuit if you just tried hotwiring it into the fragment-links and superseding the binary— binary— binary— binary— binary— binary— ... I'm fine! Nah! Never mind Fellspoon. You who I'd love to meet? Charlie Chaplin. I bet he's great, Charlie Chaplin. Should we do that? Should we go see Charlie Chaplin? Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chester Charlie Brown. No, he's fiction friction fiction fixing mixing rixon Brixton. Oh my god!
The Doctor: Do you know what's happening?
Donna: Yeah.
The Doctor: There's never been a human-Time Lord metacrisis before now. And you know why.
Donna: Because there can't be. I want to stay.
The Doctor: Look at me. Donna, look at me!
Donna: I was gonna be with you. Forever.
The Doctor: I know.
Donna: Rest of my life. Traveling. In the TARDIS. The Doctor Donna. Oh, my, I can't go back. Don't make me go back. Doctor, please! Please don't make me go back.
The Doctor: Donna. Oh, Donna Noble. I am so sorry. But we had the best of times. The best. Goodbye.
Donna: No! No! Please! No!

Wilfred: That must be her! Donna! Ha ha!
The Doctor: Help me!
Wilfred: Donna?

The Doctor: She took my mind into her own head, but that's a Time Lord consciousness. All that knowledge, it was killing her.
Wilfred: But she'll get better now?
The Doctor: I had to wipe her mind completely. Every trace of me or the TARDIS. Anything we did together, everywhere we went. Had to go.
Wilfred: All those wonderful things she did.
The Doctor: I know. But that version of Donna is dead. 'Cause if she remembers, just for a second, she'll burn up. You can never tell her. You can't mention me or any of it. For the rest of her life.
Sylvia: But the whole world's talking about it. We traveled across space.
The Doctor: It'll just be a story. One of those Donna Noble stories, where she missed it all again.
Wilfred: But she was better with you!
Sylvia: Don't say that!
Wilfred: Well she was!
The Doctor: I just want you know there are worlds out there safe in the sky because of her. And there are people living in the light and singing songs of Donna Noble a thousand million light years away. They will never forget her. While she can never remember. But for one moment, one shining moment, she was the most important woman in the whole wide universe.
Sylvia: She still is. She's my daughter.
The Doctor: Then maybe you should tell her that once in awhile.

Wilfred: Oh, Doctor. What about you now? Who've you got? I mean, all those friends of yours.
The Doctor: They've all got someone else. Still that's fine. I'm fine.
Wilfred: I'll watch out for you, sir.
The Doctor: You can't ever tell her!
Wilfred: No no. But every night, Doctor. When it gets dark, and the stars come out, I'll look up on her behalf. I'll look up at the sky. And think of you.
The Doctor: Thank you.

The Waters of Mars

Captain Adelaide Brooke: State your name, rank and intention.
The Doctor: The Doctor. Doctor. Fun.

Captain Brooke: You can cut the chat everyone.
The Doctor: Actually "chat" is second on my list. The first being "gun". Pointed at my head. Which then puts my head second and chat third I think. Gun head chat. Yeah. I hate lists. But you could hurt someone with that thing. Just, put it done.
Captain Brooke: Oh you'd like that.
The Doctor: Could you find me someone who wouldn't?
Captain Brooke: Why should I trust you?
The Doctor: Because I give you my word. And forty million miles away from home my word is all you've got.

Gadget: Gadget Gadget.
The Doctor: Does it have to keep saying that?
Roman Groom: I think it's funny.
The Doctor: I hate funny robots.

Captain Brooke: As I said, Doctor. Everyone knows our names.
The Doctor: Oh. They'll never forget them.

The Doctor: I should go. I really should go. I'm sorry. I'm sorry with all of my hearts. But it's one of those very rare times when I've got no choice. It's been an honor. Seriously. A very great honor to meet you all. The Martian pioneers. Thank you. Thank you.

Brooke: What's so important about Mia's age? You said she's only 27. Why's it matter? What's that mean?
The Doctor: Oh... I just open my mouth and words come out. They don't make much sense.
Ital: You're telling me.
The Doctor: Thank you, Doctor.
Ital: Any time Doctor.

The Doctor: I hate robots. Did I say?
Groom: Yeah, and he's not too found of you. What's wrong with robots?
The Doctor: It's not the robots, it's the people. Dressing them up and giving them silly voices. Like you're reducing them.
Groom: Yeah. Friend of mine, she made her domestic robot look like a dog.
The Doctor: Ah well, dogs... that's different.

The Doctor using his sonic screwdriver to illuminate the dome: There you go.
Brooke: What's that device?
The Doctor: Screwdriver.
Brooke: You the doctor or the janitor?
The Doctor: I don't know. That sounds like me. The maintenance man of the universe.

The Doctor: Human beings are 60 percent water so that makes them the perfect host.
Brooke: What for?
The Doctor: I dunno. And I never will. Because I've got to go. Whatever's started here, I can't see it to the end. I can't.

The Doctor: This thing's airtight, yeah?
Brooke: And therefore watertight.
The Doctor: Depends how clever the water is.

Brooke: We're safe. It's hermetically sealed. They can't get in.
The Doctor: Water is patient, Adelaide. Water just waits. Wears down the cliff tops, the mountains. The whole of the world. Water always wins.

The Doctor: Blimey, it's a distance. You could do with bikes in this place.
Brooke: Every pound in weight equals three tons of fuel.
The Doctor: Yeah I know. But... bikes!

The Doctor: Of course, the only problem is—
Brooke: Thank you, Doctor. Your space suit will be returned and good luck to you.
The Doctor: The problem is, this thing is clever. It didn't infect the birds or the insects in the biodome. It chose the humans. You were chosen. And I told you, Adelaide, water can wait. Tarak changed straight away. But when Maggie was infected it stayed hidden inside her. No doubt so it could infiltrate the central dome. Which means—
Brooke: Any of us could already be infected. We've all been drinking the same water.
The Doctor: If you take that back to Earth. One drop, just one drop.

The Doctor: All I'm saying is, bikes! Little, foldaway bikes. Don't weigh a thing.

The Doctor: They tell legends of Mars, long ago. A fine and noble race built an empire out of snow. The Ice Warriors.
Brooke: I haven't got time for stories.
The Doctor: Perhaps they found something down there. Used their might and their wisdom to freeze it.

The Doctor: This moment—this precise moment in time—it's like.... I mean it's only a theory, what do I know. But. I think certain moments in time are fixed. Tiny, precious moments. Everything else is in flux, but those certain moments, they have to stand. This base on Mars, with you Adelaide Brooke, this is one vital moment. What happens here must always happen.
Brooke: Which is what?
The Doctor: I don't know. I think something wonderful happens. Something that started 50 years ago. Isn't that right?
Brooke: I've never told anyone that.
The Doctor: You told your daughter. And maybe one day she tells the story to her daughter. The day the Earth was stolen and moved across the universe. And you...
Brooke: I saw the Daleks.

The Doctor: Imagine it, Adelaide, if you began a journey that takes the human race all the way out to the stars. It begins with you. And then your granddaughter, you inspire her. So that in thirty years Susie Fontana Brooke is the pilot of the first lightspeed ship to Proxima Centauri. And then everywhere. With her children, and her children's children, forging the way. To the Dragon Star, the Celestial Belt of the Winter Queen. The map of the Water Snake Wormholes. One day a Brooke will even fall in love with a Tandonian prince. And that's the start of a whole new species. And everything starts with you, Adelaide. From fifty years ago to right here. Today.
Brooke: Who are you? Why are you telling me this, Doctor? Why tell me?
The Doctor: As consolation.

Brooke: Tell me what happens.
The Doctor: I dunno.
Brooke: Yes you do. Nw tell me.
The Doctor: You should be with the others.
Brooke: Tell me! I could ramp up the pressure in that airlock and crush you.
The Doctor: Except you won't. You could have shot Andy Stone but you didn't. I loved you for that. Imagine... Imagine you knew something... Imagine you found yourself somewhere. I don;t know, Pompeii. Imagine you were in Pompeii.
Brooke: What the hell's that got to do with it?
The Doctor: And you try to save them. But in doing so you make it happen. Anything I do just makes it happen.

The Doctor: You're taking Action One. There are four more standard action procedures. And action five is—
Brooke: Detonation.
The Doctor: The final option. The nuclear device at the heart of the central dome. Today, on the 21st of November, 2059 Captain Brooke activates that device taking the base and all her crew members with her. No one ever knows why. But you were saving Earth. That's what inspires your granddaughter. She takes your people out into the galaxy because you die. On Mars. You die today. She flies out there like she's trying to meet you.
Brooke: I won't die. I will not.
The Doctor: But your death creates the future.
Brooke: Help me. Why won't you help, Doctor, if you know all of this? Why can't you change it?
The Doctor: I can't.
Brooke: Why can't you find a way?
The Doctor: I'm sorry but I can't. Sometimes I can. Sometimes I do. Most times I can save someone. Or anyone. But not you. You wondered all your life why that Dalek spared you. I think it knew. Your death is fixed in time forever. And that's right.
Brooke: You'll die here too. What's going to save you?
The Doctor: Captain Adelaide Brooke.
Brooke: Damn you.

The Doctor: Mia! Take this sealant, fix that beam. Yuri! Open the emergency oxygen. Adelaide! Don't just sit there. That's better! The dome's still got integrity. It's ten feet of steel combination made in Liverpool. Magnificent workmanship!
Brooke: It can't be stopped. Don't die with us.
The Doctor: No. 'Cause someone told me just recently. THey said I was gonna die. They said "He will knock four times" and I think I know what that means. And it doesn't mean right here, right now. 'Cause I don't hear anyone knocking, do you? Andy starts banging on the door Three knocks is all you're getting. water and electricity, bad mix! Now then, what else've we got?
Brooke: But there's no way to fight them!
The Doctor: Heat! They use water, so we can use heat. Once against the Ice Warriors, once against the flood.
But you said we die. For the future! For the human race!
The Doctor: Yes, because there are laws. There are laws of time. And once upon a time there were people in charge of those rules. But they died. They all died. So you know who that leaves? Me! It's taken me all these years to realize, the laws of time are mine! And they will obey me!
Environmental controls are down. Sorry Doctor, it looks like history's got other ideas.

The Doctor: We're not just fighting the flood. We're fighting time itself. And I'm gonna win!

The Doctor: Who needs atom clamps? I have a funny robot!

The Doctor: Isn't anyone going to thank me? He's lost his signal. Doesn't know where he is.
Brooke: That's my house.
The Doctor: Don't you get it? This is the 21st of November, 2059. Same day. On Earth. And it's snowing! I love snow.

Brooke: You saved us.
The Doctor: Just think about it. Your daughter and your daughters' daughter. You can see them again. Family reunion.
Brooke: But I'm supposed to be dead.
The Doctor: Not anymore.
Brooke: But. Susie. My granddaughter. Wasn't she supposed to become... Might never exist now.
The Doctor: Nah! Captain Adelaide can inspire her face-to-face. Different details but the story's the same.
Brooke: But you can't know that! And if my family changes the whole of history could change. The future of the human race. No one should have that much power.
The Doctor: Tough.
Brooke: You should have left us there.
The Doctor: Adelaide I've done this sort of thing before. In small ways, saved some little people. But never someone as important as you. Oh, I'm good.
Brooke: Little people?! What, like Mia and Yuri? Who decides they're so unimportant? You?
The Doctor: For a long time I thought I was just a survivor, but I'm not. I'm the winner. That's who I am. The Time Lord Victorious.
Brooke: And there's no one to stop you.
The Doctor: No.
Brooke: This is wrong, Doctor. I don't care who you are. The Time Lord Victorious is wrong.
The Doctor: That's for me to decide. Now you better get home. Aw! It's all locked up. You've been away. Still, that's easy. All yours.
Brooke: Is there nothing you can't do?
The Doctor: Not anymore.

The Doctor seeing Ood Sigma : I've gone too far. Is this it? My death? Is it time?

The End of Time (part one)

The Doctor: Ah! Now, sorry. There you are. So. Where were we. I was summoned, wasn't I? Ood in the snow. Calling to me. Well I didn't exactly come straight here. Had a bit of fun, you know. Travelled about, did this and that. Got in to trouble, you know me. It was brilliant. I saw the Phosphorus Carousel of the Great Magellan Gestalt. Saved a planet from the Red Carnivorous Morg. Named a galaxy Allison. Got married. That was a mistake. Good Queen Bess. And let me tell you, her nickname is no longer... ahem. Anyway, What d'you want?
Ood Sigma: You should not have delayed.
The Doctor: Last time I was here you told me my song would be ending soon. And I'm in no hurry for that.
Ood Sigma: You will come with me.
The Doctor: Hold on. Better lock the TARDIS. See, like a car. I locked it like a car. Like... it's funny. No? Little bit. Blimey, try to get him to laugh.

The Doctor: So how old are you now, Ood Sigma? Ah. Magnificent! Oh come on, that is. Splendid. You've achieved all this in how long?
Ood Sigma: One hundred years.
The Doctor: Then we've got a problem. Because all of this is way too fast. Not just the city, I mean your ability to call me. Reaching all the way back to the 21st century. Something's accelerating your species way beyond normal.

Ood Elder: And there is another. The most lonely of all. Lost and forgotten.
The Doctor: The Master's wife.
Ood Elder: We see so much but understand so little. The woman in the cage, who is she?
The Doctor: She was— It wasn't her fault. She was— The Master, he's a Time Lord like me. I can show you. The Master took the name of Saxon. He married a human. A woman called Lucy. And he corrupted her. She stood at his side while he conquered the Earth. I reversed everything he'd done so it never even happened. But Lucy Saxon remembered. I held him in my arms, I burned his body. The Master is dead.

The Doctor: Please, let me help! You're burning up your own life force.

The Doctor: Who are you?
Wilfred: I'm Wilfred Mott.
The Doctor: No. People have waited hundreds of years to find me and then you manage it in a couple of hours.
Wilfred: Well just lucky I suppose.
The Doctor: We keep on meeting, Wilf. Over and over again like something's connecting us.
Wilfred: What's so important about me?
The Doctor: Exactly. Why you. I'm going to die.
Wilfred: Well, so am I one day.
The Doctor: Don't you dare.
Wilfred: Alright, I'll try not to.
The Doctor: I was told. "He will knock four times". That was the prophecy. Knock four times and then...
Wilfred: Yeah but I thought... when I saw you before you said your people could change, like your whole body.
The Doctor: I can still die. If I'm killed before regeneration then I'm dead. Even then. Even if I change, it feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away. And I'm dead.

Wilfred: I'm sorry but I had to. Look, can't you make her better?
The Doctor: Stop it.
Wilfred: No, but you're so clever. Can't you bring her memory back? Just go to her now. Go on. Just run across the street. Go up and say hello.
The Doctor: If she ever remembers me her mind will burn and she will die.

Wilfred: There he is. Shawn Temple. They're engaged. Getting married in the Spring.
The Doctor: Another wedding.
Wilfred: Yeah.
The Doctor: Hold on, she's not going to be called Noble-Temple. It sounds like a tourist spot.
Wilfred: No it's Temple-Noble.
The Doctor: Right. Is she happy? Is he nice?
Wilfred: Yeah, he's sweet enough. He's a bit of a dreamer. Mind you he's on minimum wage. She's earning tuppence so all they can afford is a tiny little flat. And then sometimes I see this look on her face. Like she's so sad. And she can't remember why.
The Doctor: She's got him.
Wilfred: She's making do.
The Doctor: Aren't we all.
Wilfred: How 'bout you? Who've you got now?
The Doctor: No one. Travelling alone. I thought it would be better but I did some things, it went wrong. I need—
Wilfred: Oh my word. I—
The Doctor: Mm. Merry Christmas.
Wilfred: Yeah. And you.
The Doctor: Look at us.
Wilfred: Don't you see? You need her, Doctor. Look, wouldn't she make you laugh again? Good ol' Donna.

The Master: I had estates. Do you remember my father's land back home? Pastures of red grass stretching far across the slopes of []. We used to run across those fields all day. Calling up at the sky. Look at us now.
The Doctor: Quite eloquent. But how many people have you killed?
The Master: I am so hungry.
The Doctor: Your [] went wrong. That energy, your body's ripped open. Now you're killing yourself.
The Master: That's human Christmas out there! They eat so much. All that roast and meat, cakes and red wine. Hot fat blood food. Pots [], meat, flesh. Grease, juice. Baking burned sticky hot skin. Hot slice.It's mine! It's mine it's mine! Eat it eat it eat it...
The Doctor: Stop it! What if I ask you for help? There's more at work tonight than you or me.
The Master: Oh yeah?
The Doctor: I've been told something is returning.
The Master: And here I am.
The Doctor: No, something more.
The Master: But it hurts!
The Doctor: I was told the end of time—
The Master: It hurts, Doctor. The noise, the noise in my head, Doctor. 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4. Stronger than ever before. Can't you hear it?
The Doctor: Sorry.
The Master: Listen listen listen listen. Every minute, every second, every beat of my hearts. There it is, calling to me. Please listen.
The Doctor: I can't hear it.
The Master: Listen.
The Doctor: I heard it. But there's no noise. It never has been. It's just your insanity. What is it? What's inside your head?
The Master: It's real. It's real!

The Doctor: I lost him. I was unconscious. He's still on Earth—I can smell him—but he's too far away.
Wilfred: You can't park there! What if Donna sees it?
The Doctor: You're the only one, Wilf. The only connection I can think of. You're involved. If I could just work out how.

The Doctor: Oh she's still fighting for it even now. The Doctor-Donna.

The Doctor: Ah. Right. Yes. Bigger on the inside. Do you like it?
Wilfred: I thought it would be cleaner.
The Doctor: Cleaner?! I could take you back home right now.
Wilfred: Listen Doctor. If this is a time machine, that man you're chasing. Why can't you just pop back to yesterday and catch him?
The Doctor: I can't go back inside my own timeline. I have to stay relative to the Master within the causal nexus. Understand?
Wilfred: Not a word.
The Doctor: Welcome aboard.
Wilfred: Thank you.

The Doctor: Nice gate.
Wilfred: Hello! Oh, sorry.
The Doctor: Don't try calling security or I'll tell them you're wearing a shimmer. 'Cause I reckon anyone wearing a shimmer doesn't want the shimmer to be noticed or they wouldn't need a shimmer in the first place.
Addams: I'm sorry. What's a shimmer?
The Doctor: Shimmer!
Wilfred: Oh my lord. She's a cactus.

The Doctor: Now tell me quickly what's going on. The Master. Harold Saxon. Skeletor! Whatever you're calling him. What's he doing up there?

The End of Time (part Two)

The Doctor: That's better. Hello! But really. D'you think I'd leave my best friend without a defense mechanism?

The Doctor: A mind like that, we could travel the stars. It would be my honor. 'Cause you don't need to own the universe. Just see it. To have the privilege of seeing the whole of time and space. That's ownership enough.
The Master: Would it stop then? The noise in my head?
The Doctor: I can help.
The Master: Don't know what I'd be without that noise.
The Doctor: Wonder what I'd be without you.
The Master: Yeah.

The Master: Where's the TARDIS?
The Doctor: Just stop. Just think.
The Master: Kill him! I need that technology, Doctor. Tell me where it is or the old man is dead.
Wilfred: Don't tell him!
The Master: I'll kill him right now!
The Doctor: Actually the most impressive thing about you is that after all this time you're still bone dead stupid.
The Master: Take aim.
The Doctor: Six billion pairs of eyes and you still can't see the obvious, can you?
The Master: I what?
The Doctor: That guard is one inch too tall.

Rossiter: Oh my god I hit him! I've never hit anyone in my life.
The Doctor: Well come on! We need to get out of here.
Wilfred: God bless the cactuses.
The Doctor: That's cacti.
Rossiter: That's racist!

Addams: Come on! We've got to get out.
Rossiter: There's too many buckles and straps.
Addams: Just... wheel him!
The Doctor: No no no! Get me out. NO! Don't don't!
Rossiter: Which way?
Addams: This way!
The Doctor: No no no, the other way. I've got a TARDIS!
Addams: I know what I'm doing.
The Doctor: Just listen to me! Not the stairs. Not the stairs! Worst. Rescue. Ever!

The Doctor: We've gotta close it down!
Rossiter: Not a chance, mate. We're going home.
Addams: We're just a salvage team. Local politics got nothing to do with us. Not unless it's a carnival. The sooner we get back to Vinvocci space the better.
The Doctor: We're not leaving. He fires on the controls and kills the power

Wilfred: I've always dreamt of a view like that. laughing An astronaut. It's dawn over England. Look! A brand new day. My wife's buried down there. I might never visit her again. Do you think he changed them? In their graves?
The Doctor: I'm sorry.
Wilfred: Not your fault. Oh! 1948. I was over there. End of the Mandate in Palestine. Private Mott. Skinny little idiot I was. Stood on this rooftop in the middle of the skirmish. Like a blizzard, all them bullets in the air. The world gone mad. Yeah, you don't want to listen to an old man's tales, do you.
The Doctor: I'm older than you.
Wilfred: Get away.
The Doctor: I'm 906.
Wilfred: Oh really though?
The Doctor: Yeah.
Wilfred: 900 years. We must look like insects to you.
The Doctor: You look like giants.
Wilfred: I want you to have this. I've kept it all this time and I thought— I mean, if you take it you could....
The Doctor: You had that gun in the mansion. You could have shot The master there and then.
Wilfred: Too scared, I suppose.
The Doctor: I'd be proud. If you were my dad.
Wilfred: Don't start. You said you were told, he will knock four times and then you die. Well that's it then. The Master. That noise, in his head. The Master is going to kill you.
The Doctor: Yeah.
Wilfred: Kill him first.
The Doctor: That's how The Master started. It's not like I'm an innocent. I've taken lives. I got worse—I got clever. Manipulated people into taking their own. Sometimes I think the Time Lord lives too long. I can't. I just can't.
Wilfred: If The Master dies, what happens to all the people?
The Doctor: I don't know.
Wilfred: Doctor. What happens?
The Doctor: The template snaps.
Wilfred: They go back to being human. They're alive and human. So don't you dare, sir. Don't you dare put him before them. Now you take this. That's an order, Doctor. Take the gun. You take the gun and save your life! And... please don't die— you're the most wonderful man and I don't want you to die...
The Doctor: Never.

Wilfred: But you said your people were dead. Past tense.
The Doctor: Inside the Time War. And the whole war was time-locked. That sealed the time bubble. It's not a bubble. Just think of a bubble. Nothing can get in or out of the time lock. You see, nothing can get in or out except something that was already there.
Wilfred: The signal! Since he was a kid!
The Doctor: They can follow the signal. They can escape before they die.
Wilfred: Well there'll be a big reunion. We'll have a party.
The Doctor: There will be no party.
Wilfred: But I've heard you talk about your people— how they're wonderful.
The Doctor: That's how I choose to remember them. The Time Lords of old. But then they went to war. An endless war. And it changed them. Right to the core. You've seen my enemies, Wilf. The Time Lords are more dangerous than any of them.
Addams: Time Lords? What Lords? Anyone want to explain?
The Doctor: Right! Yes! You! This is a salvage ship, yes. You've been trawling the asteroid fields for junk.
Addams: Yeah, what about it?
The Doctor: So you've got asteroid lasers!
Rossiter: Yeah, but they're all frozen.
The Doctor: Consider them unfrozen. You there! What's your name— I'm going to need you on navigation. And you there! Get in the laser pod! Wilfred—
Wilfred: Yes sir.
The Doctor: Laser number two. The old soldier's got one more battle.
Rossiter: This ship can't move. It's dead.
The Doctor: Fixed the heating.
Addams: But now they can see us!
The Doctor: Oh yes!

Addams: This is my ship and you're not moving it. Step away from the wheel!
The Doctor: There's an old Earth saying, Captain. A phrase of great power and wisdom and consolation to the soul in times of need.
Addams: What's that then?
The Doctor: Allons y!

Lord President: The approach begins!
The approach of what?
The Doctor: "Something is returning". Don't you ever listen? That was the prophecy. Not some "one", some "thing".
The Master: What is it?
The Doctor: They're not just bringing back the species. It's Gallifrey! Right here. Right now.

The Master: But this is fantastic, isn't it? The Time Lords restored.
The Doctor: You weren't there. In the final days of the war. You never saw what was born. But if the time lock's broken then everything is coming through. Not just the Daleks, but the Star of Degradations. The Horde of Travesties. The Nightmare Child. The Could-Have-Been King with his army of Meanwhile's and Neverwere's. The war turned into hell! And that's what you opened. Right above the Earth. Hell is descending.
The Master: My kind of world.
The Doctor: Just listen! 'Cause even the Time Lords can't survive that.
Lord President: We will initiate the Final Sanction. The end of time will come. At my hand. The rupture will continue until it rips the time vortex apart.
The Master: That's suicide.
Lord President: We will ascend! To become creatures of consciousness alone. Free of these bodies. Free of time. And the cause and effect creation itself ceases to be.
The Doctor: See now. That's what they were planning. In the final days of the war. I had to stop them.
The Master: Then... take me with you, Lord President. Let me ascend into glory!
Lord President: You are diseased. Be it the disease of our own making. No more.

The Doctor: The link is broken. Back into the time war, []. Back into hell!
The Visionary: Gallifrey falling
Lord President: You die with me, Doctor!
The Doctor: I know.

The Doctor: I'm alive. I'm still alive. Four knocks.
Wilfred: They're gone then? Good-o. If you could, let me out.
The Doctor: Yeah.
Wilfred: This thing seems to be making a bit of a noise.
The Doctor: The Master left the nuclear bomb running. Gone into overload.
Wilfred: That's bad is it?
The Doctor: No. 'Cause all the excess radiation gets vented inside there. Vinvocci glass contains it. All five hundred thousand rads about to flood that thing.
Wilfred: Well you better let me out then.
The Doctor: Except it's gone critical. Touch one control and it floods. Even this would set it off.
Wilfred: I'm sorry. Just leave me.
The Doctor: Okay, right them. I will. 'Cause you had to go in there, didn't you? You had to go and get stuck! Oh yes! 'Cause that's who you are, Wilfred. You were always this... waiting for me and all this time.
Wilfred: No really. Just leave me. I'm an old man, Doctor. I've had my time.
The Doctor: Well exactly! Look at you. Not remotely important! But me? I could do so much more! So much more! But this is what I get. My reward. Well it's not fair! silence. I've lived too long.
Wilfred: Oh no please don't. No no! Please don't! Please!
The Doctor: Wilfred. It's my honor. Better be quick! 3-2-1 enters the chamber

Wilfred: Hello.
The Doctor: Hi.
Wilfred: Still with us.
The Doctor: System's dead. I've absorbed it all. Whole thing's kaput. Oh. Now it opens.
Wilfred: There we are then. Safe and sound. Mind you, you're in a hell of a state. You've got some battle scars there. Your— your face. How did you do that?
The Doctor: It's started.

The Doctor: Oo. She's smiling. As if today wasn't bad enough. Anyway. Don't go thinking this is goodbye Wilf. I'll see you again. One more time.
Wilfred: What do you mean? When's that?
The Doctor: Just. Keep looking. I'll be there.
Wilfred: Where are you going?
The Doctor: To get my reward.

Mickey and Martha
Mickey: I told you to stay behind.
Martha: You looked like you needed help. Besides, you're the one that persuaded me to go freelance.
Mickey: Yeah, but— we're being fired at by a Sontoran. In a dump []And this is no place for a married woman.
Martha: Well then. You shouldn't have married me.
The Doctor takes out a nearby Sontoran.
Mickey: Go in here, head down to the factory floor, and down past that corridor. Then we're on our way. Martha sees the Doctor.
Martha: Mickey. Mickey.

Sarah Jane and Luke
Luke: That was the maddest Christmas ever. Mom still doesn't know what happened. She got Mr. Smith to put out this story saying that wifi went mad all across the world giving everyone hallucinations. I mean how else are you going explain everyone with a different face.
The Doctor grabs him just as a car is about to hit him
Luke: It's you. Your— Mum! Mum!
Sarah Jane: What? What is it?
Luke: It's him. It's the Doctor.

Captain Jack (and Alonzo)
Bartender handing a note to Jack: From the man over there. Reads: His name is Alonzo.
Jack sees the Doctor and they salute
Jack: So Alonzo. Goin' my way?
Alonzo: How do you know my name?
Jack: I'm kind of psychic.
Alonzo: Really? Know what I'm thinking right now?
Jack: Oh yeah.

Verity Newman
Verity: No, it's not just a story, no. Every word of it's true. I found my great grandmother's diary in a loft. She was a nurse in 1913. She fell in love with this man, John Smith. except he was a visitor. From another world. She fell in love with a man from the stars. And she wrote it all down. Signing the next book Who's it for?
The Doctor: The Doctor.
Verity: To Doctor. Funny. That's the name he used.
The Doctor: Was she happy? At the end?
Verity: Yes. Yes she was. Were you?

Donna
Nerys: You made me wear peach.
Donna: That's cos you are a peach. Fair skin, stone inside. Going off.

Wilfred: Here you are. Same old face. Didn't I tell you, you'd be alright. Oh! They've arrested Mr. Naismith. It was on the news. "Crimes undisclosed". And his daughter— both of them, locked up. But I keep thinking, Doctor. There's one thing you never told me. That woman. Who was she?
The Doctor: I just wanted to give you this. Wedding present. Thing is, I never carry money so I just popped back in time. Borrowed a quid off a really lovely man. Jeffrey Noble, his name was. "Have it", he says. "Have that on me."

And Rose...
Rose: You alright, mate?
The Doctor: Yeah.
Rose: Too much to drink?
The Doctor: Something like that.
Rose: Maybe it's time you went home.
The Doctor: Yeah.
Rose: Anyway. Happy New Year.
The Doctor: And you. What year is this?
Rose: Blimey, how much have you had? 2005. January the first.
The Doctor: 2005. Tell you what. I bet you're going to have a really great year.
Rose: Yeah? she nods and smiles See ya.

Ood Sigma: We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends.

The Doctor: I don't want to go.

 

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