Top 250 Quotes From Doctor Who

The: Amazing.
Nancy: What is?
The: 1941. Right now, not very far from here the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like Dominoes. Nothing can stop it, nothing until one tiny, damp little island says "no". No, not here. A mouse in front of a lion. You're amazing. The lot of you. Don't know what you do to Hitler, but you frighten the hell out of me. Off you go, then. Do what you got to do. Save the world.

Rose: Okay, so he's vanished into thin air. Why is it always the *great* looking ones who do that?
The: I'm making an effort not to be insulted.
Rose: I mean... men.
The: Okay, thanks, that really helps!

Captain: [refering to the banana that he tosses back to the Doctor] Nice switch.
The: [catches banana; holds it up as he speaks] It's from the groves of Villengard, thought it was appropriate.
Captain: There's really a banana grove in the heart of Villengard? And you did that?
The: [semi-shrug; waving the banana proudly] Bananas are good.

[thanks to Adam, he and Rose are about to die]
The: You and your boyfriends.

The: It's not just energy. That Dalek just absorbed the entire Internet. It knows everything.

The: I'm the Doctor, by the way, what's your name?
Rose: Rose.
The: Nice to meet you, Rose, - run for yer life!

The: [to Adam] The thing is, Adam, time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guide book. You've got to throw yourself in, eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers - or is that just me? Stop asking questions. Go and do it!
[to Rose]
The: Off you go then. Your first date.

The: The past is another country... 1987's just the Isle of Wight.

The: It's called the TARDIS, this thing. T.A.R.D.I.S. That's Time And Relative Dimension In Space.
[Rose starts crying]
The: Culture shock. Don't worry, it happens to the best of us.

Rose: But if we're somewhere else what about that headless thing? Is it still on the loose?
The: It melted with the head. Are you gonna witter on all night?

The: [identifying Jack's weapon] Sonic Blaster. Fifty-first century. Weapons factory at Villengard?
Captain: You've been to the factories?
The: Once.
Captain: Well, they're gone now, destroyed. Main reactor went critical, vaporized the lot.
The: Like I said. Once.
[looking over at Rose; matter-of-factly]
The: There's a banana grove there now.
[looks at Jack; smiling]
The: I like bananas. Bananas are good.

The: Fantastic!

Lynda: You were here a hundred years ago?
The: Yes.
Lynda: Well, you're looking good on it.
The: I moisturize.

Mickey: So, what're you doing down there?
The: [muffled, due to the sonic screwdriver he's holding between his teeth] Rickey.
Mickey: Mickey.
The: [the Doctor takes the sonic screwdriver out of his mouth to make himself clearer] Rickey, If I was to tell you what I was doing to the controls of my frankly magnificent time ship, would you even begin to understand?
Mickey: Well, I suppose not...
The: Well, shut it, then.

Slitheen: Aaaaahhh, Excuse me? Your device will do what? Triplicate the flammability?
The: Is that what I said?
Slitheen: You're making it up!
The: Oh well, nice try. Harriet,
[offers Harriet Jones the decanter]
The: Have a drink. I think you're gonna need it.
Harriet: You pass it to the left first.
The: Sorry.
[hands it to Rose]

Charles: After all these revelations, there's still one mystery you haven't explained. Answer me this... Who are you?
The: Just a friend, passing through.

The: Look at me, I'm stupid!

[repeated line]
The: Fantastic!

Captain: [as The Doctor tries to patch into the computer system, Jack turns to Lynda and smiles, offering his hand] Hey there!
Lynda: [bright friendly smile] Hello.
Captain: [as they shake hands] Captain Jack Harkness.
Lynda: Lynda Moss.
Captain: Nice to meet you, Lynda Moss.
The: [not looking up, sounds annoyed] Do you mind flirting outside?
Captain: [mildly defensive] I was just saying hello.
The: For you, that's flirting.
Lynda: [hand still linked with Jack's] I'm not complaining.
[smiling]
Captain: [smiles back] Muchas gracias.
[kisses her hand]

The: I got the flight a bit wrong.
Rose: I don't care.
The: It's not 1860, it's 1869.
Rose: I don't care.
The: It's not Naples.
Rose: I don't care.
The: [unhappy] It's Cardiff!
Rose: Right...

The: Between you and me, I haven't got a plan. No ideas.
Rose: You'll think of something.

The: [looking at the project banner] How'd you think of the name?
Margaret: What? "Blaidd Drwg"? It's Welsh.
The: I know, but how did you think of it?
Margaret: Chose it at random, that's all. I don't know, just sounded good. Does it matter?
The: [turns around] "Blaidd Drwg."
Rose: What's it mean?
The: Bad Wolf.
Rose: [getting it] But... I've heard that before, "Bad Wolf", I've heard that *lots of times*.
The: Everywhere we go. Two words, following us. "Bad Wolf."
Rose: How can they be following us?
The: [concerned pause, then suddenly grins] Nah. Just a coincidence! Like hearing a word on the radio then hearing it all day. Never mind!

The: Go to your room. I mean it, I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross. Go to your room!
[the mask creatures leave]
The: I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.

The: All right then. If you want orders, follow this one.
[pause]
The: Kill yourself.
Dalek: The Daleks must survive!
The: The Daleks have failed! Why don't you finish the job, and make the Daleks extinct? Rid the universe of your filth! Why don't you just *die*?
Dalek: [evenly] You would make a good Dalek.

Rose: Do you think I should try the hospital? Suki said they had jobs going in the canteen. Is that it then? Dishin' out chips? I could do A-levels. I dunno. It's all Jimmy Stone's fault. If I hadn't left school because of him; look where he ended up. What do you think?
Mickey: [fixed smile disappears] So where did you meet this Doctor?
Rose: I'm sorry, was I talking about me for a second?
Mickey: Because I reckon it all started back at the shop, am I right? Was he something to do with that?
Rose: No.
Mickey: [smile returning] Come on.
Rose: Sort of.
Mickey: [smile goes and returns] What was he doin' there?
Rose: I'm not going on about him, Mickey, really, I'm not, because, I know it sounds daft, but... I don't think he's safe. He's dangerous.
Mickey: But you can trust me, sweetheart. Babe, babe, sugar, babe, sugar. You can tell me anything. Tell me about the Doctor and what he's plannin' and I can help you, Rose. 'Cause that's all I really want to do, sweetheart. Sugar, babe, babe, babe, sugar, sweetheart.
Rose: What are you doing that for?
Waiter: Your champagne.
Mickey: We didn't order any champagne. Where's the Doctor?
Waiter: Madam, your champagne.
Rose: It, it's, it's not ours. Mickey, what is it? What's wrong?
Mickey: I need to find out how much he knows, so where is he?
Waiter: Doesn't anybody want this champagne?
Mickey: [looking up] Look, we didn't order an...
Mickey: [recognizes the Doctor] Ah, gotcha.
The: [shaking bottle] Don't mind me. I'm just toastin' the happy couple. On the house!
[the Doctor pops the cork into Mickey's forehead where it is absorbed in a rubbery way. With plasticky sounds, Mickey dramatically rolls it around and spits it out his mouth]
Mickey: Anyway.
[Mickey's hand turns into a flesh-coloured pizza oven board and smashes the table. A woman screams as Rose backs away. The Doctor puts Mickey into a headlock and pulls at it, again and again and again, until Mickey's head comes clean off with a pop in his hands and the body falls]
The: Yeah!
Mickey: [his eyes pop open and look at the Doctor] Don't think that's gonna stop me.

Dalek: It is the Doctor. He has located us. Open communications channel!
Dalek: The female will stand! Stand!
[the screen comes up]
Dalek: I will talk to the Doctor.
The: Oh, will you? That's nice. Hello!
Dalek: The Dalek stratagem nears completion. The fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene.
The: Oh, really? Why's that then?
Dalek: We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated.
The: No.
[everyone looks at The Doctor, stunned]
Dalek: Explain yourself.
The: I said no.
Dalek: What is the meaning of this negative?
The: It means no!
Dalek: But she will be destroyed!
The: *No*! 'Cause this is what I'm gonna do - I'm gonna rescue her! I'm gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I'm gonna save the Earth, and *then* - just to finish you off - I'm gonna wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!
Dalek: But you have no weapons, no defences, no *plan*!
The: Yeah, and doesn't that scare you to death?
[to Rose]
The: Rose?
Rose: Yes, Doctor?
The: I'm coming to get you.

Captain: Make yourself comfortable. Carry on with whatever it was you were... doing.
The: We were talking about dancing.
Captain: It didn't look like talking.
Rose: It didn't feel like dancing.

The: [Margaret just tried begging the Doctor to take her somewhere besides her homeworld where she would be executed] You've been in that skin suit too long. You've forgotten. There used to be a real Margaret Blaine. You killed her and stripped her and used the skin. You're pleading for mercy out of a dead woman's lips.

The: [answering the Nestene Consciousness] That's not true! I should know. I was there. I fought in the war! It wasn't my fault. I couldn't save your world! I couldn't save any of them!

Rose: Can't I do anything right?
The: Since you asked, no.
[loudly]
The: So don't touch the baby!
Rose: I'm not stupid!
The: Y'could have fooled me!

Nancy: How'd you follow me here?
The: I'm good at followin', me. Got the nose for it!
Nancy: People can't usually follow me if I don't want 'em too.
The: My nose has special powers.
Nancy: Yeah? That why it's... ah.
The: What?
Nancy: Nothing.
The: What?
Nancy: [Smiles] Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?
The: What are you tryin' to say?
Nancy: Good night mister.

The: [to the baby Rose in 1987] Good girl. Yes, you are. You're not gonna bring about the end of the world now are you?

Dalek: Then I shall follow the Primary Order. The Dalek Instinct. To destroy. To conquer!
The: What for? What's the point? Don't you see, it's all gone, everything you were, everything you stood for.

The: Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?

Rose: That was five billion years ago. So... my mum's dead. Five billion years later, and my mum's dead.
The: Bundle of laughs, you are.

Dr. Sato: [Dr. Sato and The Doctor are examining the pig-alien] I just assumed that's what aliens looked like. But you're saying it's an ordinary pig. From Earth.
The: More like a mermaid. Victorian showman used to draw the crowds by taking the skull of a cat, gluing it to a fish and calling it a mermaid. Now, someone's taken a pig, opened up its brain, stuck bits on and they've strapped it in that ship, made it dive-bomb. It must have been terrified. They've taken this animal and turned it into a joke.
Dr. Sato: So, it's a fake. A pretend, like the mermaid. But the technology augmenting its brain... it's like nothing on Earth. It's alien. Aliens are faking aliens. Why would they do that? Doctor?
[Dr. Sato turns round and the Doctor has disappeared]

Rose: So when it says guests, does that mean people?
The: Depends what you mean by people
Rose: I mean people. What do you mean?
The: Aliens.
Rose: What are they doing on board this spaceship? What's it all for?
The: It's not really a spaceship, more like an observation deck. The great and the good are gathering to watch the planet burn.
Rose: What for?
The: Fun. Mind you, when I say "the great and the good," what I mean is the rich.

The: Excuse me, excuse me. Could I have everyone's attention, just for a mo? Be very quick. Hello! It might seem like a stupid question, but has anything fallen from the sky recently?

The: Rose Tyler. I was gonna take you to so many places. Barcelona. Not the city Barcelona, the planet Barcelona. You'll love it, fantastic place, they've got dogs with no noses!
[laughs]
The: Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it's still funny!
Rose: Then, why can't we go?
The: Maybe you will, and maybe I will, but not like this.
Rose: [standing up] You're not making sense.
The: I might never make sense again! I might have two heads! Or no head! Imagine me with no head - and don't say that's an improvement.
[Rose smiles]
The: But it's a bit dodgy, this process.
[her smile fades]
The: You never know what you're gonna end up with.
[a flash of light and the Doctor doubles over in pain]
Rose: Doctor!
The: Stay away!
Rose: Doctor, tell me what's going on.
The: I absorbed all the energy of the time vortex and no one's meant to do that. Every cell in my body's dying.
Rose: Can't you do something?
The: Yeah, I'm doing it now... Time Lords have this little trick, it's sort of a way of cheating death, except, it means I'm gonna change. And I'm not gonna see you again, not like this, not with this daft old face. And before I go...
Rose: Don't say that!
The: Rose, before I go I just wanna tell you - you were fantastic... absolutely fantastic... and d'you know what?
[Rose shakes her head]
The: So was I.
[they both smile at each other for the last time before he is engulfed in light]

The: So you're just about an expert in everything, except the things in your museum. Anything you don't understand, you lock up.
Henry: And you claim greater knowledge?
The: I don't need to make claims. I know how good I am.
Henry: And yet I captured you. Right next to the Cage. What were you doing down there?
The: You tell me.
Henry: The Cage contains my one living specimen.
The: And what's that?
Henry: Like you don't know.
The: Show me.
Henry: You wanna see it?
Rose: Blimey, you can smell the testosterone.

Rose: Where are you from?
The: All over the place.

Driver: [as the coach races down the road after the hearse] Everything in order, Mr. Dickens?
Charles: No it is not!
The: What did he say?
Charles: Let me say this first. I'm not without a sense of humor...
The: Dickens?
Charles: Yes?
The: Charles Dickens?
Charles: Yes.
The: The Charles Dickens?
Driver: Shall I remove the gentleman, Sir?
The: Charles Dickens. You're brilliant you are! Completely one hundred per cent brilliant. I've read them all. "Great Expectation", "Olivier Twist", and whats the other one? The one with the ghost?
Charles: "A Christmas Carol"?
The: No, no, no. The one with the trains. "The Signalman". That's it. Terryfying, The best short story ever written! You're a genius!
Driver: You want me to get rid of him, Sir?
Charles: No, I think he can stay.

Rose: That's what comes of showing off; your history's not as good as you think.
The: My history is perfect.
Rose: Well, obviously not.

The: Right! If we're gonna find their weakness we need to know where they're from. Which planet. So judging by their body shape that narrows it down to about 5,000 planets in travelling distance. Now what else do we know? Information!
Rose: They're green.
The: Yep, Narrows it down.
Rose: Good sense of smell.
The: Narrows it down.
Rose: They can smell adrenaline.
The: Narrows it down.
Harriet: The pig technology.
The: Narrows it down.
Rose: The spaceship in the Thames; you said slipstream engine.
The: Narrows it down.
Mickey: [cut to Mickey facing the door; Sip Slitheen knocks out the mail slot] It's getting in!
[see Sip cutting through the door with his claw]
Rose: They hunt like it's a ritual.
The: Narrows it down.
Rose: Wait a minute! Did you notice when they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't just smell like a fart, if you'll pardon the word, it's something else. What is it? It's more like, um...
Rose: Bad breath.
Harriet: That's it!
The: Calcium decay. Now that Narrows it down!
Rose: We're getting there, Mum!
Mickey: Too late!
[Sip Slitheen growls, see the door cracking apart]
The: Calcium phosphate. Organic calcium. Living calcium. Creatures made out of living calcium. What else - what else? Hyphenated surnames. Yes! That narrows it down to one planet! Raxacoricofallapatorius!
Mickey: [sarcastically] Oh yeah, great! We can write 'em a letter.

Idris: The Lord Mayor says... thank you for popping by to have a chat but, um, she's up to her eyes in paperwork... perhaps if you could make an appointment, for, for next week...?
The: She's climbing out the window, isn't she?
Idris: ...Yes, she is.

Mickey: [after the Doctor explains why the TARDIS resembles a Police Public Call Box] But that's what I meant, there's no police boxes any more so doesn't it get noticed?
The: Ricky, let me tell you something about the human race. You put a mysterious blue box slap-bang in the middle of town, what do they do? Walk past it. Now stop your nagging. Let's go and explore.

Rose: What did you say your name was?
The: I told you; The Doctor.
Rose: Yeah, but, Doctor what?
The: Just The Doctor.
Rose: The doctor?
The: Hello!
Rose: Is that meant to be impressive?
The: Sort of, yeah.

[first lines]
Mask: [with increasing intensity] Mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy.
The: Go to your room.
[mask creatures stop]
The: Go to your room! I mean it. I am very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross. Go... To... Your... Room!
[mask creatures turn and go back to their beds]
The: [sighing] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.

Rose: [on the Steward, after Doctor explains the psychic paper] He's blue!
The: Yeah.
Rose: Okay.

The: [looks up to see Rose in an 1860s dress] Blimey!
Rose: Don't laugh!
The: You look beautiful.
[Rose stops laughing and smiles instead. The Doctor looks away, awkwardly]
The: Considering.
Rose: Considering what?
The: That you're human.
Rose: [amused] I think that's a compliment. Aren't you going to change?
The: I've changed my jumper.
[starts to get up as Rose heads for the TARDIS door]
Rose: You stay there. You've done this before. This one's mine!

[inviting Rose onto the TARDIS]
The: This isn't just a London Hopper, you know. It can go anywhere in the universe, free of charge.
Mickey: Don't! He's an alien! He's a thing!
The: He's not invited.

Cassandra: At Arms!
[attendants raise spray nozzles; both aim at the Doctor]
The: What are you gonna do - moisturize me?
Cassandra: [menacingly] With acid.

The: Take me to your leader!

The: I should have known. It's not about showing you the universe. It never is. It's about the universe doing something for you.

The: And I'm looking for a blonde in a Union Jack. A specific one, mind you, I didn't just wake up this morning with a craving.

Captain: Go back to what you were doing.
The: We were talking about dancing.
Captain: Didn't look like talking
Rose: Didn't feel like dancing.

The: Funny little human brains... How do you get around in those things?
Rose: When he's stressed, he likes to insult species.
The: Rose, I'm thinking.
Rose: Cuts himself shaving, does half an hour on life forms he's cleverer than.

Captain: [about The TARDIS] Much bigger on the inside.
The: You'd better be.
Rose: I think what the Doctor's trying to say is - you may cut in.

Diana: [about the Dalek] It's been on Earth for over fifty years. Sold at private auction, moving from one collection to another. Why would it be a threat now?
The: Because I'm here.

The: I've travelled with a lot of people, but you're setting new records for jeopardy friendly.

Captain: The perfect, self-cleaning con.
The: Yeah. Perfect.
Captain: The London Blitz is nice for self-cleaners. Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it, though. But you've got to set your alarm for Volcano Day.

The: [on Jack] So, where'd you pick this one up, then?
Rose: Doctor...
Captain: She was hanging from a barrage balloon, I had an invisible spaceship.
[smiling]
Captain: I never stood a chance.
[Rose slowly smiles, obviously flattered]

Lynda: I've got a problem.
Dalek: Human female detected.
Lynda: They've found me.
The: You'll be all right, Lynda. Their side of the corridor's reinforced against meteors.
Lynda: I hope so. You know what they say about Earth workmanship.

The: And for my next trick...

The: Why won't you just *die*!

[his first line]
The: Run.

Rose: [Cassandra is dying] Help her.
The: Everything has its time and everything dies.

The: [sticking his hand through the letterbox] Please let me in.
Nancy: [Nancy throws something at the door] You mustn't let him touch you!
The: What happens if he touches me?
Nancy: He makes you like him.
The: And what's he like?
Nancy: I've gotta go.
The: Nancy, what's he like?
Nancy: He's empty.

Rose: The time war ends.
Emperor: I will not die! I cannot diieee!
[we see Rose's eyes light up, and the Dalek Emperor and his entire fleet disappear in an explosion of golden dust]
The: Rose, you've done it, now stop.
[Rose stares straight ahead]
The: Just let go.
Rose: How can I let go of this? I bring life.
[we see Jack start breathing again and open his eyes]
The: But this is wrong! You can't control life and death!
Rose: But I can. The sun and the moon, the day and night... but why do they hurt?
[she is crying]
The: The power's gonna kill you and it's my fault!
Rose: I can see everything... all that is... all that was... all that ever could be.
The: [stands up] But that's what *I* see. All the time. And doesn't it drive you mad?
Rose: [Rose nods, barely able to speak] My head...
The: Come here.
Rose: ...is killing me.
The: I think you need a Doctor.
[He leans down and kisses her, and the golden light transfers from her to him through their lips]

Charles: But you have such knowledge of future times. I don't wish to impose on you, but I must ask you... My books, Doctor. Do they last?
The: Oh, yes.
Charles: How long?
The: Forever.

[first lines]
Rose: What's the emergency?
The: It's mauve.
Rose: Mauve?
The: Universally recognised colour for danger.
Rose: What happened to red?
The: That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings! All those red alerts, all that dancing.

The: Who am I to argue with history?
Rose: Usually the first in line.

The: Time Lord!
The: What?
The: Oh yes. The last of the Time Lords, with his travelling machine. Oh, with his little human girl from long ago.

Henry: The vault is sealed.
The: Rose, where are you? Rose? Did you make it?
Rose: [still inside] Sorry, I was a bit slow.
[the Dalek pursuing her approaches]
Rose: It's the end, Doctor. But it's not your fault... And you know what? I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Mickey: So, what are you doing in Cardiff? And who's Jumpin' Jack Flash? I mean, I don't mind you hanging out with Big Ears up here...
The: Oy!
Mickey: Look in the mirror. But this guy, I don't know, he's kinda...
Captain: Handsome?
Mickey: More like cheesy.
Captain: Early 21st Century slang, is cheesy good or bad?
Mickey: It's bad.
Captain: But bad means good, isn't that right?
The: Are you saying I'm not handsome?

The: I did it again. I picked another stupid ape.

The: Anyone in there?
Rose: Let me out!
The: Oh well, it would be you!

Rose: I'll have to tell his mother.
The: [blank, uncomprehending stare]
Rose: Mickey! I'll have to tell his mother he's dead. And you just went and forgot him - again! You were right - you are alien.
The: Look: if I did forget some kid called Mickey...
Rose: He's not a kid!
The: - it's because I'm busy trying to save the life of every stupid ape blunderin' about on top of this planet! Alright?
Rose: Alright?
The: Yes! It is!

The: You've seen how dangerous it is - do you wanna go home?
Rose: I dunno... I want... Oh, can you smell chips?
The: Yeah!
[laughs]
The: Yeah!
Rose: I want chips.
The: Me too!
Rose: Right then, before you get me back in that box - chips it is - and you can pay.
The: No money.
Rose: What sort of date are you? Come on then, tight wad, chips are on me... we've only got five billion years till the shops close!

The: Who the hell are you?
The: Oh, that's nice. Thanks!
The: But how did you get in?
[sounds affronted]
The: This is a maximum hospitality zone. The guests have disembarked.
[the Doctor reaches into his pocket]
The: They're on their way. Any second now...
The: It's all right, that's me. I'm a guest. Look.
[opening his wallet]
The: I've got an invitation. Look.
[shows the Steward slip of paper inside]
The: There, you see? It's fine. You see?
[points to paper]
The: "The Doctor plus one." I'm the Doctor, this is Rose Tyler. She's my "plus one". Is that all right?
The: Well... obviously.
[humbly]
The: Apologies, et cetera. If you're on board, we'd better start. Enjoy.
[walks to his podium]
The: [waits till Steward is out of range; shows Rose the blank piece of paper in his wallet] The paper's slightly psychic. It shows them whatever I want them to see. Saves a lot of time.

The: [saying goodbye to Charles Dickens] Nice to meet you. Fantastic.
Rose: [shaking his hand] Bye then. And thanks.
[steps forward and kisses him on the cheek]
Charles: [taken aback] Oh, my dear... How modern.
[Rose smiles]

The: Now we're in trouble.

[first lines]
The: So, it's two-hundred thousand, it's a spaceship - no, wait a minute - space station, and, er... go and try that gate over there. Off you go.

The: [Jabe holds the fan control down so that the Doctor can safely get across to the sun shield's manual override button] You can't. The heat's going to vent through this place.
Jabe: I know.
The: Jabe, you're made of wood!
Jabe: Then stop wasting time, Time Lord.

The: [the Doctor believes Rose has been killed by the Dalek] I could have killed that Dalek in its cell. But you stopped me.
Henry: It was the prize of my collection!
The: Your collection? Well, was it worth it? Worth all those men's deaths? Worth Rose? Let me tell you something, Van Statten, mankind goes into space to explore, to be part of something greater.
Henry: Exactly! I wanted to touch the stars!
The: You just want to drag the stars down and stick them underground beneath tons of sand and dirt and label them. You're about as far from the stars as you can get. And you took her down with you.

Cathica: And on the Bad Wolf Channel, The Face of Boe just announced he's pregnant.
The: I get it. You broadcast the news.
Cathica: We are the news. We're the journalists. We write it, package it and sell it. Six hundred channels, all coming out of Satellite Five, broadcasting everywhere.

The: [after the Dalek exterminates Rose] They've killed her.
Henry: I'm sorry.

The: They're insane. Hiding in silence for hundreds of years, that's enough to drive anyone mad. But it's worse then that, driven mad by your own flesh. The stink of humanity. You hate your own existence. And that makes them more deadly than ever.
[to the Emperor]
The: We're going!
Emperor: You may not leave my presence!
Dalek: Stay where you are! Exterminate!
Daleks: [overlapping in increasing cacophony and firing] Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Worship him! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! You will be exterminated!

Lynda: A hundred years ago. What?
[follows him to another door]
Lynda: You were here 100 years ago?
The: [glances back briefly as he walks] Yep.
Lynda: Well, you're looking good on it.
The: [turns around to face her; pointedly] I moisturize.

Rose: My mum's here.
The: Oh, that's just what I need. Don't you dare make this place domestic
Mickey: You ruined my life, Doctor. They thought she was dead. I was a murder suspect because of you.
The: You see what I mean? Domestic!

The: [in reference to the gas creature circling overhead] Did it say anything? Can it speak? I'm the Doctor, by the way.
Charles: Doctor? You look more like a navvy.
The: [tugging his sweater] What's wrong with this jumper?

The: Think of it. Plastic - all over the world - every artificial thing, waiting to come alive. Shop window dummies, phones, the wires, cables...
Rose: The breast implants...

Captain: [stands after ceiling is repaired] Who has a sonic screwdriver?
The: I do!
Rose: [ignores them] Lights.
[starts to move around the room, looking for a switch]
Captain: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "Ooh, this could be a little more sonic"?
The: What, you've never been bored?
Rose: [still searching the room] There's got to be a light switch.
The: Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?
Mask: [Rose finds the lights; turns them on to find the room filled with gasmask creatures; all start chanting] Mummy? Mummy!
Captain: Door.
[all three run towards it]

Rose: She slapped you!
The: Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother.
Rose: Your face!
The: It hurt!
Rose: You're so gay. When you say nine hundred years...
The: That's my age.
Rose: You're nine hundred years old?
The: Yep.
Rose: My mum was right. That is one hell of an age gap.
[jumps down off the wall]
Rose: Every conversation with you just goes mental. And there's no-one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it, and I can't say a word. Aliens and spaceships and things... and I'm the only person on planet Earth that knows they exist.
[At that moment, a large spaceship flies overhead, crashing into Big Ben and landing in the Thames]
Rose: Oh, that's just not fair!
[the Doctor laughs]

Cathica: You're not management, are you?
The: At last she's clever!

Lynda: There's 100 different games
The: Like what?
Lynda: There's 10 floors of Big Brother, there's a different house behind each of these doors, and then beyond that there's all sorts of shows. It's nonstop. There's Call My Bluff, with real guns. Countdown, where you got 30 seconds to stop the bomb going off. Ground Force, which is a nasty one. You get turned into compost. Wipeout, speaks for itself. Oh, and Starts in Their Eyes, literally, stars in their eyes. If you don't sing, you get blinded.
The: And you watch this stuff?

The: [after the spaceship crashes] It's blocked off.
Rose: We're miles from the center. The city must be gridlocked. The whole of London must be closing down.
The: I know. I can't believe I'm here to see this! This is fantastic!
Rose: Did you know this was gonna happen?
The: Nope.
Rose: Do you recognize the ship?
The: Nope.
Rose: Do you know why it crashed?
The: Nope.
Rose: Oh, I'm so glad I've got you.
The: I bet you are. This is what I travel for, Rose, to see history happening right in front of us.
Rose: Well, let's go and see it. Never mind the traffic, we've got the TARDIS.
The: Um, better not. They've already got one spaceship in the middle of London. I don't wanna shove another one on top.
Rose: Yeah, but yours looks like a big blue box. No one's gonna notice.
The: Oh, you'd be surprised. Emergency like this, there'll be all kinds of people watching. Trust me, the TARDIS stays where it is.
Rose: So, history is happening and we're stuck here?
The: Yes, we are.
Rose: We could always do what everybody else does.
[the Doctor looks at her, confused]
Rose: We could watch it on TV.

The: Jackie Tyler, do as I say! Go and check the doors!
[she scoffs and leaves; he smiles]
The: I should have done that a long time ago.

Dalek: And the coward survived.
The: Oh, and I caught your little signal, help me, poor little thing. But there's no-one else coming cause there's no-one else left.
Dalek: I am alone in the universe.
The: Yep.
Dalek: So are you. We are the same.
The: We're not the same! I'm not the... No, wait, maybe we are... Yeah, right, yeah, okay. You've got a point 'cause I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you deserve. Exterminate!
[he flips a switch which begins to electrocute the Dalek]

The: [hologram, speaking towards the console] This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing: we must be in danger, and I mean fatal. I'm dead, or about to die any second with no chance of escape.
Rose: No!
The: And that's OK, I hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doin'. The TARDIS is takin' you home.
Rose: I won't let you.
The: And I bet you're fussing and moaning now, typical. But hold on, and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Programme One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do: let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it, no one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years, the world will move on, and the box will be buried. And if you wanna remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all, one thing.
The: [hologram turns to face Rose, and with a full voice] Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life.

The: The metal is just battle armour. The real Dalek creature is inside.
Henry: What does it look like?
The: A nightmare. It's a mutation. The Dalek race was genetically engineered. Every single emotion was removed except hate.
Henry: Genetically engineered. By whom?
The: [about Davros, the Dalek's creator] By a genius, Van Statten. By a man who was king of his own little world. You'd like him.

The: So that's your secret. You don't just collect this stuff, you scavenge it.
Henry: This technology has been falling to Earth for centuries. All it took was the right mind to use it properly. Oh, the advances I've made from alien junk. You have no idea, Doctor. Broadband? Roswell. Just last year, my scientists cultivated bacteria from the Russian crater and do you know what we found? The cure for the common cold. Kept it strictly within the laboratory, of course. No need to get people excited. Why sell one cure when I can sell a thousand palliatives?
The: Do you know what a Dalek is, Van Statten? A Dalek is honest. It does what it was born to do for the survival of its species. That creature in your dungeon is better than you.
Henry: In that case I would be true to myself and continue.

The: Oh my...
[looks at the earth]
The: I've made this world!

Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas!
The: Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve?
Rose: What?

Mickey: [after hearing Margaret's plan to destroy the planet with her Nuclear power plant] But why would she do that? A great big explosion, she'd only end up killing herself.
Margaret: She's got a name, you know.
Mickey: She's not even a she, she's a thing.
The: Oh, but she's clever.
[pulls a board off the model plant; flips it over to reveal a network of complex circuitry; studying it]
The: Fantastic!
Captain: [looks at the board; impressed] Is that a tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator?
The: Couldn't have put it better myself.

Gabriel: I did the Bishop a favour, once. Made his nephew look like a cherub. Even though he'd been a fortnight in the weir. Perhaps he'll do us an exorcism on the cheap.
[There is a knock at the door. Sneed and Gwyneth look up, alarmed. Sneed tells Gwyneth]
Gabriel: Say I'm not in. Tell them we're closed. Just, just get rid of them.
[In the parlor, Rose is just waking up, and while trying to come to her senses, she does not see a gassy spirit enter Mr. Redpath's body, causing him to sit up in his coffin]
Gwyneth: [opening the door to find the Doctor and Charles Dickens] I'm sorry, sir, we're closed.
Charles: Nonsense! Since when did an undertaker keep office hours? The dead don't die on schedule. I demand to see your master.
Gwyneth: He's not in, sir.
Charles: [tries to force the door open as Gwyneth closes it] Don't lie to me, girl!
Gabriel: I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Dickens, but the mater's indisposed.
[Behind her, a gas lamp flares up and the flames start flickering oddly]
The: Having trouble with your gas?
Charles: What in Shakespeare is going on?
Rose: [suddenly, she notices Mr. Redpath's corpse sitting up in his coffin as he making zombie noises] Are you all right? You're kidding me, yeah? You're just kidding.
[Redpath climbs out of his coffin]
Rose: You are, you're kidding me, aren't ya?
[He takes staggering steps towards her]
Rose: Okay, not kidding!
[She runs to the door and tries to open it. In the hallway, meanwhile, the Doctor has forced his way inside]
Gwyneth: You're not allowed inside, sir.
The: There's something inside the walls.
[Inside the parlor, the corpse of Mrs. Peace also sits up and climbs out of her coffin]
The: The gas pipes. Something's living inside the gas.
[Desparate, Rose throws a vase at Mr. Redpath, but that only causes him to stumble back a bit. She then frantically rattles the doorknob]
Rose: Let me out! Open the door!
The: [outside] That's her.
[He runs off to find her, Charles Dickens following him]
Rose: Please, let me out!
[Mrs. Peace and Mr. Redpath are advancing on her. In the hall, the Doctor and Dickens race past Sneed]
Gabriel: How dare you, sir! This is my house!
[Dickens charges past him too. He shakes his finger at Gwyneth as she runs after them]
Gabriel: I told you!
Rose: [still hammering on the door as the two bodies close in on her] Let me out! Somebody, open the door! Open the door!
[Redpath clasps a hand over her mouth, muffling her scream. At that moment, the Doctor kicks the door in]
The: I think this is MY dance.
[releases Rose from Mr. Redpath's grasp]
Charles: It's a prank? It must be. We're under some mesmeric influence.
The: No, we're not, the dead are walking.
[grins down at the panting Rose]
The: Hi!
Rose: Hi! Who's your friend?
The: Charles Dickens.
Rose: Oh. Okay.
The: [to the corpses] My name's the Doctor. Who are you, then? What do you want?
Redpath: [speaking with a voice overlaid by that of a ghost] We're failing. Open the rift, we're dying. Trapped in this form, cannot sustain. Help us.
[He and Mrs. Peace raise their heads to the ceiling, and the gas leaves them with a wailing shriek, and then the bodies fall to the floor]

The: So what you're saying is, if we get in trouble, there's no one to help us out?
Jabe: I'm afraid not.
The: Fantastic!
Jabe: I don't understand. In what way is that fantastic?

Rose: And where do you think you're going?
The: Nowhere. It's, uh, just a bit human in there for me. History just happened; they're talking about where you can buy dodgey top-up cards for half price. I'm off on a wonder, that's all.

The: The Moxx of Balhoon!
Moxx: My felicitations upon this historical happenstance. I bring you the gift of bodily salivas.
[spits on Rose]
The: Thank you very much.
[laughing on the last word, though he tries not to]

The: We need to find the rift. This house is on a weak spot so there must be a spot that's weaker than any other. Mr. Sneed, what's the weakest part of the house? The place where most of the ghosts have been seen?
Sneed: That would be... the morgue.
Rose: No chance you were gonna say gazebo, is there?

Jackie: [lashing out at Rose] The hours I've sat here, days and weeks and months, all on my own! I thought you were dead! And where were you *travelling*? What the hell does that mean, "travelling"? That's no sort of answer!
[to the Policeman]
Jackie: You ask her. She won't tell me. That's all she says: "travelling."
Rose: That's what I was doing.
Jackie: But your passport's still in the drawer! It's just one lie after another!
Rose: I meant to phone. I really did, I just... I forgot.
Jackie: What, for a year? You forgot for *a year*? And I am left sitting here. I just don't believe you! Why won't you tell me where you've been?
The: Actually, it's my fault. I sort of, uh, employed Rose as my companion.
Policeman: When you say "companion," is this a sexual relationship?
Rose: [they look at each other, and then they simultaneously say] No!
Jackie: [getting in the Doctor's face, rather threateningly] Then what is it? Because *you*, you waltz in here all charm and smiles, and the next thing I know she vanishes off the face of the earth! How old are you then? 40? 45? What, did you find her on the Internet? Did you go online and pretend you're *a doctor*?
The: I *am* a doctor!
Jackie: Prove it! Stitch this, mate!
[slaps him hard across the face. The Doctor groans loudly, and Rose merely rolls her eyes]
Jackie: Did you think about me at all?
Rose: I did! All the time! But...
Jackie: One phone call. Just to know that you were alive!
Rose: I'm sorry. I really am.
Jackie: Do you know what terrifies me, is that you still can't say. What happened to you, Rose? What could be so bad that you can't tell me, sweetheart? Where were you?

Rose: I can't tell her. I can't even begin... she's never gonna forgive me. And I missed a year? Was it good?
The: Middling.
Rose: You're so useless.
The: Well, if it's this much trouble, are you gonna stay here now?
Rose: I dunno. I can't do that to her again, though.
The: Well, she's not coming with us.
[Rose bursts out laughing, as does the Doctor]
Rose: No chance.
The: I don't do families.
Rose: She slapped you!
The: Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother.
Rose: Your face...
The: It hurt!
Rose: You're so gay!
[pause]
Rose: When you say 900 years...
The: That's my age.
Rose: You're 900 years old?
The: Yep.
Rose: My mother was right, that is one hell of an age gap.
[jumps down off the wall]
Rose: Every conversation with you just goes mental. And there's no-one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it, and I can't say a word. Aliens and spaceships and things... and I'm the only person on planet Earth that knows they exist.
[as if on cue, a large spaceship flies overhead. As they watch, it careens across the skyline, heading for Central London. After flying out of control for a few minutes, it crashes into Big Ben and lands in the Thames near Westminster Bridge]
Rose: Oh that's just not fair!
[the Doctor laughs, bewildered]

[the Doctor is killing the last Dalek]
Dalek: Have pity!
The: Why should I? You never did.

The: The rift's getting wider and something's sneaking through.
Rose: What's the rift?
The: A weak point in time and space. A connection between this place and another. That's the cause of ghost stories, most of the time.
Gabriel: That's how I got the house so cheap. Stories going back generations.
[Dickens walks out of the room]
Gabriel: Echoes in the dark. Queer songs in the air. And a feeling like a shadow passing over your soul.
[pause]
Gabriel: Mind you, truth be told, it's been good for business. Just what people expect from a gloomy old trade like mine.

The: Cardiff, early 21st Century, and winds probably from the East. Trust me, safest place in the universe.
Margaret: This nuclear power station right in the heart of Cardiff City will bring jobs for all.

The: What have you done?
Rose: I looked into the TARDIS and the TARDIS looked into me.
The: You looked into the time vortex, Rose, nobody is supposed to see that!
Emperor: This is the abomination!
Dalek: Exterminate!
[Dalek shoots at her with its laser, but Rose lifts up her hand and stops it, reversing it back into the Dalek, the Doctor looks on in surprise]
Rose: I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words...
[Rose lifts her hand and takes the words from the Bad Wolf Corporation sign]
Rose: ...I scatter them, in time and space.
[the words float off away from them]
Rose: A message, to lead myself here.
The: Rose, you've got to stop this, you've got to stop this now! You've got the entire vortex running through your head! You're gonna burn!
Rose: I want you safe, my Doctor. Protected from the false God.
Emperor: You cannot hurt me. I am immortal.
Rose: You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space, every single atom of your existence, and I divide them.
[Rose lifts her hand again, the Dalek that tried to shoot her disappears in an explosion of golden dust]
Rose: Everything must come to dust. All things, everything dies.

[the Doctor is in the Diary Room]
The: You are live on channel 44,000. Please do not swear.
The: You have *got* to be kidding.

Jabe: This facility is purely automatic. It's the height of the upper class. Nothing can go wrong.
The: Unsinkable?
Jabe: If you like. The nautical metaphor is appropriate.
The: [to Jabe] You're telling me. I was on another ship once. They said that was unsinkable. I ended up clinging to an iceberg. It wasn't half cold.

[when seeing his new body for the first time]
The: Ah... Could have been worse. But look at the ears...

The: [the Gelth stream in and wreak devastation] I think it's gone a little bit wrong.

[first lines]
Rose: So, what is it? What's wrong?
The: Don't know, some kind of signal drawing the TARDIS off course.
Rose: Where are we?
The: Earth, Utah, North America. About half a mile underground.
Rose: And... *when* are we?
The: 2012.
Rose: God, that's so close. So I should be... 26.
[the Doctor flicks a switch and lights flood the area]
Rose: Blimey! It's a great big museum!
The: An alien museum. Someone's got a hobby. They must've spent a fortune on this. Chunks of meteorite, moon dust... that's the milometer from the Roswell Spaceship.
Rose: That's a bit of Slitheen! That's a Slitheen's arm, it's been stuffed.
The: [to a classic Cyberman head in a glass case] Ah! Look at you!
Rose: What is it?
The: An old friend of mine... well, enemy. The stuff of nightmares reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting old.
Rose: Is that where the signal's coming from?
The: Nah, it's stone dead. The signal's alive. Something's reaching out. Calling for help.
[the Doctor lightly touches the glass. Immediately, an alarm goes off and they are promptly surrounded by armed security all pointing their guns at them]
Rose: If someone's collecting aliens, that makes you Exhibit A.
[the Doctor grins at them. Cue opening]

Charles: Incredible. Ghosts that are not ghosts, but beings from another world, who can only exist in our realm by inhabiting cadavers.
The: Good system. It might work.
Rose: [about the Gelf] You can't let 'em run around inside of dead people!
The: Why not? It's just like recycling.
Rose: Seriously though, you can't.
The: Seriously though, I can!

The: [runs towards a coach; shouts to the driver] Oi, you! Follow that hearse!
Driver: I can't do that, Sir.
The: [climbs in] Why not?
Charles: [having followed the Doctor] I'll tell you why not!
[stands at the door]
Charles: I'll give you a very good reason why not. Because this is *my* coach!
The: Well, get in, then.
[grabs his arm, pulling him inside, and slams the door]

The: [explaining to Rose about the Autons as he goes through the shop] They're made of plastic. Living plastic creatures. And they're being controlled by a relay device on the roof. Which would be a great big problem, if I didn't have this.
[takes out an explosive device]
The: So I'm going to go upstairs and blow it up, and I might well die in the process, but don't worry about me, no. You go on home.
[guides Rose through the fire-door]
The: go on and have your lovely beans on toast. Don't tell anyone about this 'cause if you do, you'll get them killed.
[slams the door]

Captain: I don't know what's happening here, but believe me I had nothing to do with it.
The: I'll tell you what's happening. You forgot to set your alarm clock. It's Volcano Day.
[air-raid sirens start]

The: It may interest you to know that this isn't actually the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. It's merely a place where humans happen to live...
[a loud alien growling interrupts]
The: Sorry... It's a place where humans are allowed to live by kind permission of my client.
[the Editor points upwards. Rose and The Doctor look up to see a gigantic mass on the ceiling, which screams, showing large pointed teeth]
Rose: What is that?
The: You mean that thing's in charge of Satellite Five?
The: 'That thing', as you put it, is in charge of the human race. For almost a hundred years, mankind has been shaped and guided, his knowledge and ambitions strictly controlled by its broadcast news, edited by my superior, your master and humanity's guiding light, The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe.
[pause]
The: I call him Max.

The: You know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You might have removed all your emotions, but I reckon right down deep in your DNA there's one little spark left. And that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me?

Jackie: I'm in my dressing gown.
The: Yes, you are.
Jackie: There's a strange man in my bedroom.
The: Yes, there is.
Jackie: Well, anything could happen.
The: [shakes his head and smiles] No.

Rose: Is it safe?
The: Perfectly.
[TARDIS console explodes with a shower of sparks, burning the Doctor]
The: Okay, *reasonably* - should have said reasonably, there.

Captain: That's impossible. I know those ships. They were destroyed.
The: Obviously they survived.
Lynda: Who did? Who are they?
The: Two hundred ships. More than two thousand on board each one. That's just about half a million of them.
Male: Half a million what?
The: Daleks.
[cut to the interior of the ship]
Dalek: Alert! Alert! We are detected!

The: [rummaging through some alien weapons] Broken... broken... hair dryer...

The: Now there's an interesting point. Is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's enslaved?
The: Yes.
The: Aw. I was hoping for a philosophical debate, is that all I'm gonna get: "yes"?
The: Yes.
The: You're no fun.
The: Let me out of these manacles and I'll show you how much fun I am.
The: Ooh, he's tough, isn't he?

The: [the phone on the TARDIS has started ringing] What am I supposed to do with a ringing phone?
Nancy: [who has suddenly appeared] Don't answer it. It's not for you.
The: And how do you know that?
Nancy: 'Cause I do. And I'm telling you... don't answer it.

The: [the Doctor takes Adam back home to Earth] The whole of history could have changed because of you.
Adam: I just wanted to help.
The: You were helping yourself.
Adam: And I'm sorry and I've said I'm sorry. And I am, I really am. But you can't just leave me like this!
The: Yes, I can. 'Cause if you show the head to anyone, they'll dissect you in seconds. You'll have to live a very quiet life. Keep out of trouble. Be average. Unseen. Good luck.

The: Now, don't antagonize her - I love a happy medium!
Rose: I can't believe you just said that!

The: [from trailer] D'you wanna come with me? 'Cause if you do then I should warn you; you'll see all sorts of things. Ghosts from the past. Aliens from the future. The day the Earth died in a ball of flame. It won't be safe, it won't be quiet and it won't be calm. But I'll tell you what it will be; the trip of a lifetime!

Rose: And where do you think you're going?
The: Nowhere. It's, uh, just a bit human in there for me. History just happened and they're talking about where you can buy dodgy top-up cards for half price. I'm off on a wander, that's all.
Rose: Right. There's a spaceship on the Thames and you're just wandering.
The: Nothing to do with me. It's not an invasion. That was a genuine crash landing. Angle of descent, colour of the smoke, everything. It was perfect.
Rose: So?
The: So maybe this is it. First contact. The day Mankind officially comes into contact with an alien race. I'm not interfering 'cause you got to handle this on your own. That's when the human race finally grows up. Just this morning you were all tiny and small and made of clay. Now you can expand.

[a Dalek is loose in an underground base]
Henry: I thought you were the great expert, Doctor, if you're so impressive, why not just reason with this Dalek? It must be willing to negotiate, there must be something that it needs, everything needs something.
The: What's the nearest town?
Henry: Salt Lake City.
The: Population?
Henry: One million.
The: All dead. If the Dalek gets out it'll murder every living creature that's all it needs.
Henry: But why would it do that?
The: Because it honestly believes they should die. Human beings are different, and anything different is wrong. It's the ultimate in racial clensing, and you, Van Statten, you've let it loose!

The: [talking to metallic spider] Go on, Jimbo! Go home!

The: [to Captain Jack] Close the door, will you? Your ship's about to blow up - there's gonna be a draft.

Rose: Think about it, though. Christmas 1860. It happened once. Just once, and it's... gone, it's finished. It'll never happen again. Except for you. You can go back and see days that are dead and gone, a hundred thousand sunsets ago. No wonder you never stay still.
The: Not a bad life.
Rose: Better with two.

The: Oi! I'm trying to listen!

The: One day, just one day, maybe, I'm going to meet somebody who gets the whole "don't wander off" thing.

Mickey: I bet you don't even remember my name.
The: Ricky.
Mickey: It's Mickey.
The: No, it's Ricky.
Mickey: I think I know my own name.
The: You think you know your own name? How stupid are you?

The: There you go.
[gives Rose her mobile phone]
The: [the LCD moniter displays 'Mum'; Rose presses 'Call', and dials her mum. Jackie Tyler answers the phone]
Jackie: Hello?
Rose: Mum?
Jackie: [cuts to Jackie taking clothes out of the dryer] Oh, what is it? What's wrong? What have I done, now? Oh, this red top's falling to bits. You should get your money back. Go on! It must be something. You never phone in the middle of the day.
[Rose laughs]
Jackie: What's so funny?
Rose: Nothing. You're alright though?
Jackie: Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?
Rose: What day is it?
Jackie: Wednsday, all day. You got a hangover? Oh, I tell you what. Put a quid in that Lottery syndicate. I'll pay you back later.
Rose: Yeah, um. I was just calling 'cause I might be late home.
Jackie: Is there something wrong?
Rose: No, I'm-I'm fine.
[mildly laughing]
Rose: Top of the world.
Jackie: [Jackie hangs up]
The: Think that's amazing, you want to see the bill?

The: All right. I'm sorry. I wasn't really going to leave you on your own.
Rose: I know.
The: But between you and me, I haven't got a plan. No idea. No way out.
Rose: You'll think of something.
The: The entire Earth's being sterilized. This, and other places like it, are all that's left of the human race. We might hold out for awhile, but nothing can stop those creatures. They'll get through in the end; the walls aren't that old. And there's nothing I can do to stop them. There used to be laws stopping this kind of thing from happening - my people would have stopped this. But they're all gone. And now, I'm going the same way.
Rose: If I'd realized...
The: Just... tell me you're sorry.
Rose: I am. I'm sorry.
[the Doctor cups her cheek, smiles, and he and Rose hug]
Rose: Ah! Have you got something hot?

Margaret: [gasping for breath after failing to escape The Doctor for the third time] This is persecution. Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?
The: You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet.
Margaret: Apart from that.

Dalek: Open the bulkhead, or Rose Tyler dies.
The: You're alive!
Rose: Can't get rid of me.
The: I thought you were dead.
Dalek: Open the bulkhead!
Rose: Don't do it!
Dalek: [to the Doctor] What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love?

The: Listen! That thing down there is going to kill every last one of us!

The: Me? I am the Doctor.

The: [faces her] Where did you want to start?
Rose: Um...
[looking around the TARDIS]
Rose: The inside's bigger than the outside?
The: Yes.
Rose: It's alien?
The: Yep.
Rose: Are you alien?
The: Yes.
[pause]
The: Is that all right?
Rose: [little too quickly] Yeah.

[the Doctor is being introduced to an unknown alien that Van Statten has christened "The Metaltron" which he keeps in a darkened cell]
The: Look, I'm sorry about this. Mr. Van Statten might think he's clever but never mind him. I'm here to help. I'm called The Doctor.
Metaltron: Doc-tor?
The: [shocked] Impossible!
Metaltron: *The* Doctor?
[the lights come up, revealing the alien to be a Dalek]
Dalek: Exterminate! Exterminate!
The: Let me out!
Dalek: EXTERMINATE!
Diana: Sir, it's gonna kill him!
Henry: It's talking!
Dalek: You are an enemy of the Daleks, you must be destroyed!

Mickey: [the Doctor flips through TV channels on the TARDIS view screen] How many channels you get?
The: All the basic packages.
Mickey: You get sports channel?
The: [rolling his eyes] Yes, I get the football.

The: [leafing through Rose's copy of 'Heat' magazine] That won't last. He's gay and she's an alien.

Rose: You've got to tell me what's going on!
The: No, I don't.

The: 10,000 years in the future. Step outside and it's the year 12005, the New Roman Empire.
Rose: You think you're so impressive.
The: I *am* so impressive!
Rose: You wish.

Henry: Who exactly are you?
The: I'm the Doctor and who are you?
Henry: Like you don't know. We're hidden away with the most valuable collection of extraterrestrial artifacts in the world and you just stumbled in by mistake?
The: Pretty much sums me up, yeah.
Henry: Question is, how did you get in? Fifty-three floors down, with your little cat-burglar accomplice. Quite a collector yourself. She's rather pretty.
Rose: She's gonna smack you if you keep calling her 'she'.

The: You'll never get your hands on it - I'll die first!
The: Die all you want.

Rose: What's it all for? I mean, shop window dummies?
[laughs]
Rose: What's that about? Is someone trying to take over Britain's shops?
The: [laughs] No.
Rose: [laughing] Well, yeah.
The: It's not a price war.
[laughs]
The: They wanna overthrow the human race and destroy it. Do you believe me?
Rose: No.
The: But you're still listening.

The: Oh, she's not my wife.
Jabe: Partner?
The: No.
Jabe: Concubine?
The: Nope.
Jabe: Prostitute?
Rose: Whatever I am, it must be invisible - do you mind? Tell you what - you two go and pollenate - I'm gonna catch up with the family.
[points at Cassandra]
Rose: Quick word with Michael Jackson.
The: Don't start a fight.
[offers his arm to Jabe]
The: I'm all yours.
[she accepts his arm; both start to leave]
Rose: [to Doctor] And I want you home by midnight!

Dalek: [scared] Keep back!
The: [the Doctor confronts the Dalek] What for? What're you going to do to me? Because if you can't kill, then what are you good for... Dalek? What's the point of you? You're nothing! What are you doing here? What the hell are you here for?
Dalek: I am waiting for orders.
The: What does that mean?
Dalek: I am a solider, I was bred to receive orders.
The: Well, you're never going to get any. Not ever.
Dalek: I DEMAND ORDERS!
The: Well they're never gonna *come*! Your race is dead! You all burned, all of you. Ten million ships on fire. The entire Dalek race, wiped out in one second.
Dalek: You lie!
The: I watched it happen. I *made* it happen!
Dalek: You destroyed us?
The: [the Doctor walks away from the Dalek] I had no other choice.
Dalek: And what of the Time Lords?
The: [pause] Dead. They burnt with you. The end of the last great Time War. Everyone lost.

Rose: Your machine gets inside my head, it gets inside and it changes my mind and you didn't even ask?
The: I didn't think about it like that.
Rose: No, you were too busy thinking up cheap shots about the Deep South.

Cassandra: [as she is revealed as the mastermind behind the sabotage] I had hoped to manufacture a hostage situation, with myself as one of the victims. The compensation would have been enormous.
The: Five billion years and it still comes down to money.
Cassandra: Do you think it's cheap looking like this? Flatness costs a fortune.

The: [referring to alien object Henry van Statten is holding] I really wouldn't hold it like that.
Diana: Shut it.
The: Really though, that's wrong
Adam: Is it dangerous?
The: No, it just looks silly

The: Funny little human brains. How do you get around in those things?

Rose: Really though, Doctor. Tell me. Who are you?
The: Do you know like we were saying, about the earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid, the first time they tell you that the world is turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it...
[he takes her hand]
The: - the turn of the earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. The entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour. And I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world. And, if we let go...
[He releases her hand]
The: That's who I am. Now forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home.

Lynda: You got chosen.
The: [the Doctor looks confused] Chosen for what?
Lynda: You're a housemate, you're in the house!
[laughs]
Lynda: Isn't that brilliant?
Strood: That's not fair! I've been here all eight weeks, I've played by all the rules and then he just comes swanning in!
Crosbie: If they keep changing the rules like this I'm going to protest, I am. I'm gonna... paint the walls!

Emperor: We waited here in the dark space, damaged but rebuilding. Centuries passed and we quietly infiltrated the systems of Earth, harvesting the waste of humanity: the prisoners, the refugees, the dispossessed; they all came to us. The bodies were filleted, pulped, sifted. The seed of the human race is perverted. Only one cell in a billion was fit to be nurtured.
The: So you created an army of Daleks out of the dead.
Rose: That makes them, half human.
Emperor: [shouts] Those words are blasphemy!
Dalek: Do not blaspheme!
Dalek: Do not blaspheme! Do not blaspheme!
Emperor: Everything human has been purged. I cultivated pure and blessed Dalek.
The: Since when did the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?

The: People have died, Cassandra. You murdered them.
Cassandra: It depends on your definition of 'people'. And that's enough of a technicality to keep your lawyers dizzy for centuries.

Rose: Okay. And this living plastic, what's it got against us?
The: It loves you. You've got such a good planet! Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air... perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. Its food stock was destroyed in the war, all its protein plants rotted, so Earth: dinner!

The: [to Rose] It's not twelve hours, it's twelve months. You've been gone a whole year. Sorry.

The: [after realising the London Eye is the Nestene signalling device] Oh... Fantastic!

The: [with baby Rose] Jackie gave her to me to look after. How times change.

[first lines]
[the TARDIS materializes on the Powell Estate, and the Doctor and Rose step out]
Rose: How long have I been gone?
The: Twelve hours.
[They both laugh]
Rose: Oooh! Right, I won't be long, I'm just gonna see my mum.
The: What're you going to tell her?
Rose: I don't know! I've been to the year 5 billion... and only been gone, what, 12 hours?
[the Doctor gives something between a laugh and a snort]
Rose: No, I'll just tell her I've spent the night at Shareen's. See you later!
[walks off, and then turns back]
Rose: Oh - don't you disappear.
[She runs inside]
Rose: [the Doctor catches a glimpse of a poster on a telephone pole. He looks closer, and notices that it is a Missing Persons notice - for Rose. It says that "Rose Tyler has been missing from her home on the Powell Estate since 6 March 2005. Rose is described as 5'4", slim build, with shoulder-length blonde hair." Upstairs, Rose enters her flat]
Rose: I'm back! It was Shareen. She was all upset again. Are you in?
[Jackie walks out of the kitchen with a cup of tea]
Rose: So, what's been going on? How've you been?
[Jackie looks like she's just seen a ghost]
Rose: What? What's that face for? It's not the first time I've stayed out all night.
[Outside, the Doctor gets the gist of the poster, that they have landed one year ahead of when they intended to land, and runs inside]
Jackie: It's you.
Rose: Of course it's me!
Jackie: [shaken, and teary] Oh, my God. It's you. Oh my God.
[She throws her arms around Rose, who is rather alarmed. Rose looks over her mother's shoulder and sees more variants of the Missing Persons notice that the Doctor has just seen, including, for instance, "It has been more than six months since Rose Tyler went missing from her home."]
The: [suddenly bursts into the apartment] It's not 12 hours, it's er... 12 months. You've been gone a whole year.
[He laughs apologetically while Rose and Jackie both look at him, stunned]
The: Sorry.

Rose: If you are an alien how come you sound like you're from the North?
The: Lots of planets have a North!

Emperor: We have your associate. You will obey, or she will be exterminated.
The: No.
Emperor: Explain yourself.
The: I said "no."
Emperor: What is the meaning of this negative?
The: It means "no."
Emperor: But she will be destroyed.
The: No! Because this is what I'm gonna do - I'm gonna rescue her. I'm gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet. And then, I'm gonna save the Earth. And then, just to finish off, I'm gonna wipe every last stinking Dalek outta the sky!
Emperor: But you have no weapons, no defenses, no plan.
The: Yeah, and doesn't that just scare you to death? Rose!
Rose: [on monitor] Yes, Doctor?
The: I'm coming to get you.
[turns off signal with sonic screwdriver]

Female: If you're not holding us hostage, then open the door and let us out. The staff are terrified!
The: That's the same staff who execute hundreds of contestants every day?
Female: That's not our fault. We're just doing our jobs.
The: And with that sentence, you just lost the right to even talk to me. Now back off!

Doctor: Before this war began, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I'm neither; but I'm still a doctor.
The: Yeah. Know the feeling.

Rose: Is that why we're here? - I mean, is that what you do? Jump in at the last minute and save the Earth?
The: I'm not saving it. Time's up.
Rose: But what about the people?
The: It's empty. They've all gone. No one left.
Rose: [silent; looks at the Earth] Just me then.
The: Who the hell are you?

The: [Listening to a recording of the child] It's afraid. Terribly afraid, and powerful. It doesn't know it yet, but it will do.
The: [laughs softly] It's got the power of a god, and I just sent it to its room!
Rose: [Hearing a whirring, flapping sound] Doctor...
The: I'm here; can't you see me?
Rose: What's that noise?
The: End of the tape. It ran out about 30 seconds ago.
The: I'm here, now! Can't you see me?
The: [realizing] I sent it to its room. *This* is its room!

Rose: So it's OK when *you* go to other times, and *you* save people's lives, but not when it's me saving my dad.
The: I know what I'm doing; you don't. Two sets of us being there made that a vulnerable point.
Rose: But he's alive!
The: My entire planet died, my whole family. Do you think it never occurred to me to go back and save them?
Rose: But it's not like I changed history. Not much. I mean, he's never going to be a world leader. He's not gonna... start World War III or anything.
The: Rose, there's a man alive in the world who wasn't alive before. An ordinary man: that's the most important thing in creation. The whole world's different because he's alive!
Rose: What, would you rather him dead?
The: I'm not saying that!
Rose: No, I get it! For once, *you're* not the most important man in my life.
The: Let's see how you get on without me, then: give me the key. The TARDIS key. If I'm so insignificant, give it me back.
Rose: [fishing out the key] All right then, I will.
[Rose slaps the key into the Doctor's hand]
The: Well, you've got what you wanted, so that's goodbye, then.
[the Doctor heads out]
Rose: [following] You don't scare me! I know how sad you are. You'll be back in a minute. Or you'll hang around outside the TARDIS waiting for me.
[the Doctor walks around Rose and goes out the door]
Rose: And I'll make you wait a long time!
[Rose slams the door]
Pete: [sticking his head out into the hall] Boyfriend trouble?

Rose: I'll let the Doctor describe it.
The: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Planet Earth is at its height, covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion, the centre of a galactic domain that stretches across a million planets and species.
[Adam faints]
The: He's your boyfriend.
Rose: Not any more.

The: You think it'll last forever, the people and cars and concrete. But it won't. One day it's all gone, even the sky. My planet's gone. It's dead. It burned like the Earth. It's rocks and dust before its time.
Rose: What happened?
The: There was a war, and we lost.
Rose: A war with who?
[the Doctor doesn't answer]
Rose: What about your people?
The: I'm a Time Lord. I'm the last of them. They're all gone. I'm the only survivor. I'm left travelling on my own because there's no-one else.
Rose: There's me.

The: [taking Rose's mobile phone] Tell ya what... with a little bit of jiggery pokery...
Rose: Is that a technical term, jiggery pokery?
The: Yeah, I came first in jiggery pokery, what about you?
Rose: Nah, I failed hullabaloo.

The: Tell me who you are.
The: Since that information is keeping us alive, I'm hardly going to tell you, am I?

The: [the Doctor, Rose and Adam watch as news is gathered through Cathica] Compressed information. Streaming into her. Reports from every city, every country, every planet. And they all get packaged inside her head. She becomes part of the software. Her brain is the computer.
Rose: If it all goes through her, she must be a genius.
The: Nah, she wouldn't remember it. It's too much. Her head would blow up. The brain's the processor. As soon as it closes, she forgets.
Rose: [indicating Suki and the others] So, what about all these people round the edge?
The: They've all got tiny little chips in their head connecting them to her and they... transmit. Six hundred channels. Every single fact in the Empire beams out of this place. Now, that's what I call power.

The: Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, everybody lives!

The: The bridge is open. We descend.
[Suddenly, the figure becomes demonic. The gas turns from blue to red]
The: The Gelth will come through in force.
Charles: You said that you were *few* in number!
The: A few billion. And all of us in need of corpses.
[the dead bodies, possessed by the Gelth, begin to rise]
Gabriel: Gwyneth! Stop this! Listen to your master! This has gone far enough. Stop dabbling, child, leave these things alone. I beg of you...
Rose: Mr. Sneed! Get back!
[But it's too late. A corpse strangles Sneed from behind, holding him still to let a Gelth fill his body through the mouth. The Doctor and Rose leap back, and when Sneed looks up again, it is through his blank, dead eyes]
The: I think it's gone a little bit wrong.
Gabriel: I have joined the legions of the Gelth. Come. March with us.
Charles: No!
[the corpses start advancing on the Doctor and Rose]
Gabriel: We need bodies. All of you. Dead. The human race. Dead.
The: Gwyneth, stop them! Send them back! Now!
The: Three more bodies. Make them vessels for the Gelth.
Charles: I - I can't! I'm sorry!
[the Doctor and Rose spot the dungeon door and lock themselves into it]

The: Fascinating history, Downing Street. 2000 years ago, this was marshland. 1730, it was occupied by a Mister Chicken - he was a nice man - 1796, this was the Cabinet Room. If the Cabinet was in session, and in danger, these were about the four safest walls in the whole of Great Britain. End of Lesson.
[hits a switch, activating steel safety doors]
The: Installed in 1991, 3 inches of steel lining every single wall. They'll never get in.
Rose: But how do we get out?
The: [nods] Ah.

The: Now you tell me, God-of-all-Daleks - 'cause there's one thing I never worked out - the words "Bad Wolf", spread across time and space, everywhere, drawing me in: how'd you manage that?
Emperor: I did nothing.
The: Oh, come on, there's no secrets now, your worship.
Emperor: They are not part of *my* design.
[the Doctor looks skeptical]
Emperor: This is the truth of God.

The: [juddering impact] That's not supposed to happen.

The: Jabe, come on. You lot - just chill.

[the Doctor looks right at the "Big Brother" camera]
The: Well, here's the latest update from the Big Brother house. I'm getting out, I'm going to find my friends, and then I'm going to find you!

[the Doctor and Rose come across the head of a Cyberman in Van Statten's museum]
The: Oh, look at you!
Rose: What is it?
The: An old friend of mine, well... enemy. The stuff of nightmares, reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting old.

Slitheen: Who are you, if not human?
Harriet: Who's not human?
Rose: He's not human.
Harriet: He's not human?
The: Can I have a bit of hush?
Harriet: Sorry.
The: [to Slitheen]
The: So what's the plan?
Harriet: [in soft voice, to Rose] But he's got a Northern accent!
Rose: [just as soft] Lots of planets have a North.
The: I said hush!

Rose: [looking at the Earth] How long's it got?
The: About half an hour. Then the planet gets roasted.

The: [Looking at the huge back-pack Rose is carrying] Got enough stuff?
Rose: The first time I stepped in there it was spur of the moment.
[tosses the back-pack at the Doctor, which he's forced to catch]
Rose: Now I'm signing up.
[pointing at him]
Rose: You're stuck with me. Hah!
[laughs]

Rose: What's a Police Public Call Box?
The: It's a telephone box from the 1950s. It's a disguise.

Dalek: Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! You are an enemy of the daleks! You must be destroyed!
[it points the gun. Nothing happens]
The: It's not working!
[laughs]
The: Fantastic. Fantastic! Look at you. Powerless. The great space dust bin! How does it feel?

Dalek: Why do we survive?
The: I don't know.
Dalek: I am the last of the Daleks.
The: You're not even that. Rose did more than regenerate you. You've absorbed her DNA. You're mutating.
Dalek: Into what?
The: Something new. I'm sorry.
Rose: Isn't that better?
The: Not for a Dalek.
Dalek: I can feel. So many ideas. So much darkness. Rose, give me orders. Order me to die.
Rose: I can't do that.
Dalek: This is not life. This is sickness. I shall not be like you. Order my destruction! Obey! *Obey*! O-BEY!
Rose: Do it.
[the Dalek self destructs]

[Captain Jack has just greeted the Doctor as "Mr. Spock"]
The: Mister Spock?
Rose: What was I supposed to say? You don't have a name! Don't you ever get tired of "Doctor"? Doctor Who?
The: Nine centuries in, I'm coping.

Rose: [phone rings; display reads 'TARDIS Calling'] Hello?
The: Right. I'll be a couple of hours, and then we can go.
Rose: You've got a phone?
The: You think I can travel through space and time and haven't got a phone?
[scoffs]
The: Like I said, couple of hours - I've just got to send out this dispersal - there ya go - that's canceling out the Slitheen's advert in case any bargain hunters turn up.
Rose: Um... my mother's cooking.
The: Good! Put her on a slow heat and let it simmer.
Rose: She's cooking tea. For us.
The: I don't do that.
Rose: She wants to get to know you.
The: Tough. I've got better things to do.
Rose: It's just tea.
The: Not to me it isn't.
Rose: She's my mother.
The: She's not mine!
Rose: That's not fair!
The: Well, you can stay there if you want. But right now there's this plasma storm brewing in the Horsehead Nebula. Fires are burning, ten million miles wide. I could fly the Tardis right into the heart of it, then ride the shock wave all the way out. Hurtle right across the sky, and end up anywhere. Your choice.

The: [Nancy locks the door on the Child] What's this, then? It's never easy being the only child left out in the cold, you know.
Nancy: I suppose you'd know.
The: I do, actually, yes.
Nancy: It's not exactly a child.

The: You're very sick.
Doctor: Dying, I should think. I just haven't been able to find the time.

Gabriel: What did you say, Doctor? Explain it again. What are they?
The: Aliens.
Gabriel: Like foreigners, you mean?
The: Pretty foreign, yeah. From up there.
[points upwards]
Gabriel: Brecon?

The: [finishes locking the door with his Sonic screwdriver] Ok, that door should hold it for a bit.
Captain: The Door. The wall didn't stop it!
The: Well it's got to find us first! Come on, we're not done yet! Assets, assets!
Captain: Well, I've got a banana and, in a pinch, you could put up some shelves.
The: Window?
Captain: Barred. Sheer drop outside. Seven storeys.
Captain: [sits in a wheel chair]
Rose: And no other exits.
Captain: Well, the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?

The: What's life. Life's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh. Nothing to a nanogene.

The: The human race. Brainless sheep, being fed on a diet of - mind you, have they still got that program where three people have to live with a bear?
Lynda: Oh, Bear With Me? I love that one!
The: And me. The celebrity edition, where the bear...
The: ...got in the bath!
[both smiling]
The: But it's all gone wrong! I mean, history's gone wrong. Again!

Charles: Who exactly is in that hearse?
The: My friend. She's only 19. It's my fault. She's in my care, and now she's in danger.
Charles: Why are we wasting my time talking about dry old books? This is much more important.
[leans out the window; shouting to the driver]
Charles: Driver, be swift! the chase is on!
[driver answers 'Yes, sir]
The: [smiling] That a boy, Charlie!
Charles: Nobody calls me Charlie.
The: [with a sly grin] The ladies do.
Charles: How do you know that?
The: I told you, I'm your number one...
Charles: Number one fan.
[more to himself]
Charles: I know.

The: It's brilliant, I'm not sure if it's Marxism in action or a West End musical.

The: [after Rose has just been pulled from the clutches of two Gelth-possessed bodies] Hi!
Rose: Hi. Who's your friend?
The: Charles Dickens.
Rose: Okay.

Rose: They all speak English.
The: No you just hear English. Its the gift of the TARDIS - the telepathic field gets inside your brain - translates.
Rose: Its inside my brain?
The: Well, in a good way!

Adam: If they're all human, what about the millions of planets, the millions of species? Where are they?
The: Good question. Actually, that is a good question.

The: It knows I'm here. It's going to get out. Van Statten! I swear, no one on this base is safe! No one on this planet!

Adam: But I want to come with you!
The: I only take the best. I've got Rose.

Charles: Can it be that I have the world entirely wrong?
The: Not wrong. There's just more to learn.
Charles: I've always railed against the fantasist. Oh, I loved an illusion as much as the next man, revelled in them. But that's exactly what they were. Illusions. The real world is something else. I dedicated myself to that, injustices, the great social causes. I hoped that I was a force for good. Now, you tell me that the real world is a realm of spectres and jack-o-lanterns. In which case, have I wasted my brief span here, Doctor? Has it all been for nothing?

The: What you doing 'ere?
Rose: I live here!
The: Well, what you go and do a thing like that for?

Dalek: I fed off the DNA of Rose Tyler. Extrapolating the biomass of a time traveller regenerated me.
The: What's your next trick?
Dalek: I have been searching for the Daleks.
The: Yeah, I saw. Downloading the Internet. What did you find?
Dalek: I scanned your satellites and radio telescopes.
The: And?
Dalek: Nothing. *Where shall I get my orders now*?

Rose: Are the words 'distract the guard' heading in my general direction?
The: I don't think that's such a good idea.
Rose: Don't worry. I can handle it.
Captain: I've gotten to know Algy quite well since I've been in town. Trust me, you're not his type. I'll distract him. Don't wait up.
The: Relax. He's a fifty-first century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to 'dancing'.
Rose: How flexible?
The: Well, by his time, you lot are spread out across half the galaxy.
Rose: Meaning?
The: So many species, so little time.
Rose: What, that's what we do when we get out there? That's our mission? We seek new life and...
[weakly]
Rose: and...
The: [nodding] Dance.
[smiles at his clever pun]

Daleks: [the Doctor steps out of the TARDIS and bumps into a few Daleks] Exterminate! Exterminate!
The: [the Daleks fire wildly at The Doctor but nothing happens] Is that it? Useless.
The: [with French pronunciation] Nul points.
The: [beckons to Jack and Rose] It's all right. Come on out. That force field can hold back anything.
Captain: Almost anything.
The: Yes, but I wasn't gonna tell them that, thanks.
Captain: Sorry.

Rose: Is it always this dangerous?
The: Yeah.

Jackie: The hours I've sat here, days and weeks and months, all on my own! I thought you were dead! And where were you travelling? What the hell does that mean, "travelling"? That's no sort of answer!
[to the police inspector in the apartment]
Jackie: You ask her. She won't tell me. That's all she says: "traveling".
Rose: That's what I was doing.
Jackie: But your passport's still in the drawer! It's just one lie after another!
Rose: I meant to phone. I really did, I just... I forgot.
Jackie: What, for a *year*? You forgot for a year? And I am left sitting here? I just don't believe you! Why won't you tell me where you've *been*?
The: Actually, it's my fault. I sort of, uh, employed Rose as my companion.
Policeman: When you say companion, is this a sexual relationship?
The: [look at each other, and then say] No!
Jackie: [getting in the Doctor's face] Then what is it? Because *you*, you waltz in here all charm and smiles, and the next thing I know she vanishes off the face of the earth! How old are you then? 40? 45? What, did you find her on the Internet? Did you go online and pretend you're a doctor?
The: I am a doctor!
Jackie: Prove it! Stitch this, mate!
[slaps him very hard across the face]
Jackie: [Later, as Jackie embraces Rose]
Jackie: Did you think about me at all?
Rose: I did! All the time! But...
Jackie: One phone call. Just to know that you were alive!
Rose: I'm sorry. I really am.
Jackie: Do you know what terrifies me, is that you still can't say. What happened to you, Rose? What could be so bad that you can't tell me, sweetheart? Where were you?

The: They want to overthrow the Earth and destroy you. Do you believe me?
Rose: No.
The: But you're still listening.

The: Fair do's though, that's a great bit of air conditioning - nice and old fashioned... bet they call it "retro".

Rose: [watches pieces of the destroyed Earth pass the window] The end of the earth. Its gone... we were too busy saving ourselves, no one saw it go. All those years, all that history and no one was even looking. It's just...
The: [holds his hand out to her] Come with me...

Male: [placing a logbook in front of Jack] Use that, it might contain the final numbers. I kept a log of all the unscheduled transmissions.
Captain: [looks up at him; impressed] Nice, thanks.
[offers his hand]
Captain: Captain Jack Harkness, by the way.
Male: [shakes hands with him] I'm Davitch Pavale.
Captain: [smiling; in same tone he used when greeting Lynda] Nice to meet you, Davitch Pavale.
The: [looks down at Jack; annoyed again] There's a time and a place.

The: Alright. I'll hug anyone.

The: [to the Nestene Consciousness] This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learned how to walk but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you, on their behalf, please just go.

The: [talking about firing a missile at 10 Downing street] That's the thing. If I don't dare, everyone dies.
Rose: Do it.
The: You don't even know what it is. You'd just let me?
Rose: Yeah.
Jackie: Please, Doctor, please, she's my daughter, she's just a kid.
The: Do you think I don't know that? 'Cause this is my life, Jackie - it's not fun, it's not smart, it's just standing up and making a decision because nobody else will.
Rose: Then what are you waiting for?
The: I could save the world but lose you.

Rose: Hold on a minute! You can't just go swanning off!
The: Yes I can. Look. Here I am. This is me swanning off. Seeya!

The: The whole thing's jammed. I can't open the door. Stay there. Don't move!
Rose: Where am I gonna go - Ipswich?

Rose: [about the Doctor's alien origins] Who are you then, Doctor? What you called? What sort of alien are you?
The: I'm just the Doctor.
Rose: From what planet?
The: Well, it's not as if you'd know where it is.
Rose: Where are you from?
The: What does it matter?
Rose: Tell me who you are!
The: This is who I am! Right here, right now! Alright? All that counts is here and now and this is me!
Rose: Yeah, and I'm here too 'cause you brought me here. So just tell me!
[Doctor stands and walks quickly to the window; clearly not wanting to say anything more]

Rose: Doesn't the universe implode or something if you dance?
The: Well, I've got the moves, but I wouldn't want to boast.

General: Under the jurisdiction of the Emergency Protocols, I authorize you to execute this man!
[hear guns cocking, all point at the Doctor]
The: Ah, well now, yes, you see, the thing is, if I were you, if I was going to execute someone by backing them against a wall, between you and me, a little word of advice:
[elevator bell dings, doors slide open]
The: don't stand them against the lift!
[steps backward; closes the doors with his Sonic Screwdriver, smiling]

[last lines]
The: By the way, did I also mention it also travels in time?
Rose: [to Mickey] Thanks.
Mickey: Thanks for what?
Rose: Exactly.
[she kisses him, then turns and runs toward the TARDIS]

The: So, tell me, how did you survive the Time War?
Emperor: They survived through me.
[a light comes on revealing a giant Dalek casing guarded by black domed Daleks]
The: Rose, Captain; this is the Emperor of the Daleks.

Captain: Okay, this can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and a triple-fold sonic disruptor. Doc, what you got?
The: I've got a sonic, er, never mind.
Captain: What?
The: It's sonic, okay, let's leave it at that.
Captain: Disruptor? Cannon? What?
The: It's sonic, totally sonic. I am sonicked *up*!
Captain: [yelling] A sonic *what*?
The: [yelling] *Screwdriver*!
[the boy and other gasmask creatures come towards them]
Rose: [grabs Jack's Sonic Blaster and points it at the ground] Going down!
[floor vanishes beneath them and they land in the room below]

Rose: It's not very Spock, is it? Just asking.
The: [listening to a door] Voices, music, people. What d'you think?
Rose: I think you should do a scan for alien tech. Give me some Spock! Just once, would it kill you?

Cathica: Doctor, I think if there was any sort of conspiracy, Satellite Five would have seen it. We see everything.
The: I can see better. This society's the wrong shape. Even the technology.
Cathica: It's cutting-edge!
The: It's backwards. There's a great big door in your head! You shoulda chucked this out years ago.

The: My watch must be wrong.

The: What about me? I saw the Fall of Troy, World War V. I pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party. Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon. In Cardiff!
Rose: It's not just dying...
[the Gelth still press against the gait to reach them]
Rose: We're going to become one of them.
[cut to Charles Dickens moving through the house; extinguishing the lamps, allowing gas to fill the rooms; back to Rose and the Doctor]
Rose: We'll go down fighting, yeah?
The: Yeah.
Rose: Together?
The: Yeah.
[they link hands]
The: [looking at Rose] I'm so glad I met you.
Rose: Me too.
[they smile at each other]

Rose: I can't tell her, I can't even begin. She's never gonna forgive me. And I missed a year. Was it good?
The: Middling.
Rose: You're so useless.

The: They've all got chips in their head, and the chips keep going like puppets.
The: Oh, you're full of information, but its only fair we get some information back, because apparently you're no one. It's so rare not to know something. Who are you?
The: It doesn't matter, cause we're off. Nice to meet you.
[to Rose]
The: Come on!

The: Nancy, there's something chasing you and the other kids. Looks like a boy and it isn't a boy, and it started about a month ago, right? The thing I'm looking for, the thing that fell from the sky, that's when it landed. And you know what I'm talking about, don't you?
Nancy: There was a bomb. A bomb that wasn't a bomb, fell the other end of Limehouse Green station.
The: Take me there.
Nancy: Nah. Soldiers guarding it, barbed wire. You'd never get through.
The: Try me!
Nancy: You sure you want to know what's going on in there?
The: I really want to know.
Nancy: Then there's someone you need to talk to first.
The: And who might that be?
Nancy: The Doctor.

Rose: Alright, then. I'll go to the police. I'll tell everyone. You said, if I did that, I'd get people killed. So, your choice. Tell me, or I'll start talking.
The: Is that supposed to sound tough?
Rose: Sort of.
The: Doesn't work.

The: Must've got the wrong signal... you're not plastic are you?
[taps Rose on the forehead]
The: No. Bonehead. Bye then!

Captain: Aww, sweet, look at these two. How come I never get any of that?
The: Buy me a drink first.
Captain: You're such hard work.
The: But worth it.
[He grins in an extremely self-satisfied way]

Rose: But hold on - they did this once on Newsround Extra - the sun expanding. That takes hundreds of years.
The: Millions! But the planet's now the property of the National Trust. They've been keeping it preserved. See down there? Gravity satellites holding back the sun.
Rose: The planet looks the same as ever! I thought the continents shifted and things.
The: They did, and the Trust shifted them back. That's a classic Earth. But now the money's run out, nature takes over.

The: [to the Nestene Consciousness] If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of Warp Shunt technology... so may I suggest with the greatest respect that you shunt off.
[smug grin]

The: It's ready!
[looks up as loads of Daleks enter the room and surround him]
The: You really wanna think about this, 'cos if I activate the signal, every living creature dies.
Emperor: I am immortal.
The: D'you really wanna put that to the test?
Emperor: I want to see you become like me. Hail, the Doctor, the great exterminator!
The: [hands on the lever] I'll do it!
Emperor: Then prove yourself, Doctor. What are you, coward or killer?
The: [Doctor makes to push the lever down, pauses, and steps away] Coward, any day.
Emperor: Mankind will be harvested because of your weaknesses!
The: And what about me? Am I becoming one of your angels?
Emperor: You are the heathen. You will be exterminated!
The: Maybe it's time.