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Doctor Who — Incarnations of The Doctor : 1st - 2nd - 3rd - 4th - 5th - 6th - 7th - 8th - 9th - 10th - 11th
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Adversaries : Cybermen · Daleks · The Great Intelligence · The Master · Rassilon

This page is a collection of quotations from the era of the ninth official incarnation of The Doctor from the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who, during which the role of the Ninth Doctor was played by Christopher Eccleston. As Doctor Who stories in other media (such as books, audio plays, etc) are the subject of intense debate as regarding their place in the series' overall canon, these quotations are taken entirely from episodes broadcast on television.

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.

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Catchphrase [edit]

Fantastic!

Fantastic!

In Rose when realizing the London Eye was a giant transmitter.
In The End of the World when realizing there was no other captain or help on Platform One.
In The Unquiet Dead when first seeing the Gelth and when bidding farewell to Charles Dickens.
In Aliens of London after seeing the spaceship crash.
In Dalek at the Dalek's inability to shoot The Doctor.
In Father's Day when receiving a battery.
In The Doctor Dances after resolving the nanogene crisis.
In Boom Town when discovering the extrapolator.
In The Parting of the Ways when saying goodbye (twice) to Rose.

Series 1 [edit]

Everywhere we go, two words following us. Bad Wolf.
Previous to the 2005 season, series were numbered continuously, starting with the First Doctor. But given "Doctor Who"'s long absence from television, the production team chose to restart the series numbering from one.

Series 1 Trailer [edit]

The Doctor: Do you wanna come with me? 'Cause if you do, then I should warn you — you're gonna 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 quiet, it won't be safe, and it won't be calm. But I'll tell you what it will be: The trip of a lifetime!

Rose [1.1] [edit]

(26 March 2005)
The Doctor: [to Rose] Run.
Rose: Who are you, then? Who's that lot down there? [The Doctor ignores her] I said, who are they?!
The Doctor: They're made of plastic. Living plastic creatures. They're being controlled by a relay device on the roof. Which would be a great big problem if — [he pulls a bleeping bomb out of his coat] — I didn't have this. So I'm gonna go upstairs and blow it up. And I might well die in the process. But don't worry about me, no. You go home, go on! Go and have your lovely beans on toast. [suddenly serious] Don't tell anyone about this, 'cos if you do, you'll get them killed. [closes the door, then opens it again] I'm the Doctor, by the way. What's your name?
Rose: Rose.
The Doctor: Nice to meet you, Rose. [holds up the bomb, shaking it slightly while grinning.] Run for your life!
Jackie: I'm in my dressing gown.
The Doctor: Yes, you are.
Jackie: There's a strange man in my bedroom.
The Doctor: Yes, there is.
Jackie: Anything could happen.
The Doctor: No. [walks away]
Rose: You can't just go swanning off!
The Doctor: Yes I can! Here I am, this is me, swanning off! See ya!
Rose: That arm was moving, it tried to kill me!
The Doctor: Ten out of ten for observation.
Rose: You can’t just walk away, that’s not fair. You — You've got to tell me what's going on!
The Doctor: No I don't!
Rose: Who are you?
The Doctor: [turns around] Do you know like we were sayin'? About the Earth revolving? [walks towards Rose] It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standin' still. [looks at Rose] I can feel it. [takes Rose's hand] The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinnin' at 1,000 miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're fallin' through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go... [lets go of Rose's hand] That's who I am.
Clive: The Doctor is a legend woven throughout history. When disaster comes, he's there. He brings a storm in his wake and he has one constant companion.
Rose: Who is that?
Clive: Death.
The Doctor: The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried.
The Doctor: It's called the TARDIS, this thing. T-A-R-D-I-S. That's Time And Relative Dimension In Space. [Rose starts crying] That’s okay. Culture shock. Happens to the best of us.
Rose: If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?
The Doctor: Lots of planets have a north!

The End of the World [1.2] [edit]

(2 April 2005)
Steward: [introducing the guests as they enter the room] Hurry now! Thank you, as quick as we can! Come along, come along! And now, might I introduce the next honoured guest, representing the Forest of Cheem, we have Trees. Namely, Jabe, Lute and Coffa. There will be an exchange of gifts representing peace. If you can keep the room circulating, thank you. Next, from the Solicitors Jolco and Jolco, we have the the Moxx of Balhoon. And next, from Financial Family Seven, we have the Adherents of the Repeated Meme. The inventors of Hyposlip travel systems, the Brothers Hop Pyleen. Thank you! Cal 'Spark Plug' MacNannovich. Mr. and Mrs. Pakoo. The Ambassadors from the City State of Binding Light.
[Jabe approaches the Doctor]
Jabe: The Gift of Peace. [takes a cutting, hands it to the Doctor] I bring you a cutting of my Grandfather.
The Doctor: Thank you! [hands Jabe's cutting to Rose] Yes, gifts, um... [clearing his throat] I give you, in return, air from my lungs. [blows into Jabe's face]
Jabe: [surprised] How...intimate.
The Doctor: There's more where that came from.
Jabe: I bet there is.
Rose: Tell me who you are!
The Doctor: This is who I am, right here, right now, all right? All that counts is here and now, and this is me!
The Doctor: [opening Rose's phone] Tell you what. With a bit of jiggery pokery—
Rose: Is that a technical term, "jiggery pokery"?
The Doctor: Yeah, I came first in jiggery pokery, what about you?
Rose: [playing along] Nah, I failed hullabaloo.
Jabe: Perhaps you could tell a story or two. Perhaps a man only enjoys trouble when there's nothing else left.
The Doctor: [disgusted] Five billion years and it still comes down to money.
The Doctor: Everything has its time and everything dies.
The Doctor: You think it'll last forever: people and cars and concrete. But it won't. One day it's all gone. Even the sky. [long pause] My planet's gone. It's dead. It burned, like the Earth. It's just rocks and dust. Before its time.
Rose: What happened?
The Doctor: There was a war, and we lost.
Rose: A war with who? [The Doctor doesn't answer, seemingly lost in thought.] What about your people?
The Doctor: I'm a Time Lord. I'm the last of the Time Lords. They're all gone. I'm the only survivor. I'm left traveling on my own, 'cause there's no one else.
The Doctor: You've seen how dangerous it is — do you want to go home?
Rose: I don't know...I want...Oh, can you smell chips?
The Doctor: Yeah. [laughs] Yeah!
Rose: I want chips.
The Doctor: Me too.
Rose: Right then, before you get me back in that box, chips it is. And you can pay.
The Doctor: [pats down his pockets] No money.
Rose: [laughs slightly] What sort of date are you? Come on then, tight wad, chips are on me...we've only got five billion years 'til the shops close!

The Unquiet Dead [1.3] [edit]

(9 April 2005)
[Rose enters wearing a Victorian dress]
The Doctor: Blimey!
Rose Tyler: Don't laugh!
The Doctor: You look beautiful! [Rose stops laughing and smiles instead. The Doctor looks away awkwardly] ...considering.
Rose: Considering what?
The Doctor: That you're human.
Rose: [amused] I think that's a compliment. Aren't you going to change?
The Doctor: I changed my jumper. Come on!
Charles Dickens: What the Shakespeare is going on?
Rose: Who's your friend?
The Doctor: Charles Dickens.
Rose: Oh, okay.
Charles Dickens: Stop it! Can it be that I have the world entirely wrong?
The Doctor: Not wrong, there's just more to learn!
Charles Dickens: I've always railed against the fantasists. 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?
Gwyneth: And you've come such a long way.
Rose: What makes you think so?
Gwyneth: You're from London, I have seen London in drawings, but never like that. All those people rushing about, half-naked for shame. And the noise, and the metal boxes racing past, and the birds in the sky — no, no they're metal as well. Metal birds with people in them, people are flying. And you, you have flown so far, further than any one. The things you’ve seen — the Darkness, The Big Bad Wolf!
[Before having a séance.]
Charles Dickens: I can't take part in this.
The Doctor: Humbug? Come on, open mind.
Charles Dickens: This is precisely the sort of cheap mummery I strive to unmask. Séances? Nothing but luminous tambourines and a squeeze box concealed between the knees. This girl knows nothing!
The Doctor: Now, don't antagonize her. I love a happy medium!
Rose: I can't believe you just said that.
Mr. Sneed: What are they?
The Doctor: Aliens.
Mr. Sneed: Like foreigners, you mean.
The Doctor: Pretty foreign, yeah. [He points up] From up there.
Mr. Sneed: Brecon?
The Doctor: Close.
[Masses of Gelth swarm through the Rift]
Gelth: The bridge is open. We descend. [takes on a more evil appearance, with a more fearsome voice] The Gelth will come through in force!
Charles Dickens: You said that you were few in number!
Gelth: A few billion! And all of us in need of corpses!
Gelth: Give yourselves to glory! Sacrifice your lives to the Gelth!
The Doctor: I trusted you! I pitied you!
Gelth: We don't want your pity! We want this world and all its flesh!
The Doctor: Not while I'm alive.
Gelth: Then live no more!
The Doctor: I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

Aliens of London [1.4] [edit]

(16 April 2005)
Rose: She slapped you!
The Doctor: Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother.
Rose: Your face!
The Doctor: [defensively] It hurt!
Rose: [to the Doctor] 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 who knows they exist. [a large spaceship crashes into Big Ben and lands in the Thames] Oh, that's just not fair. [the Doctor laughs delightedly and pulls her toward the crash]
Rose: And where do you think you're going?
The Doctor: Nowhere! It's 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 Doctor: Nothing to do with me! It's not an invasion! That was a genuine crash landing. Angle of descent, colour of smoke, everything! It's perfect!
Rose: So...
The Doctor: So maybe this is it! First contact! The day mankind officially comes into contact with an alien race. I'm not interfering because you've 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! You don't need me — go and celebrate history. Spend some time with your mum.
Dr. Sato: [Dr. Sato and The Doctor are examining the Pig Mutant] I just assumed that's what aliens looked like. But you're saying it's an ordinary pig. From Earth.
The Doctor: 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? [Dr. Sato turns around and the Doctor has disappeared] Doctor?
Rose: My mum's here.
The Doctor: Oh, that's just what I need! Don't you dare make this place domestic!
Mickey Smith: You ruined my life, Doctor. [the Doctor turns and looks at him, irritated] They thought she was dead, I was a murder suspect because of you!
The Doctor: [looks at Rose] See what I mean? Domestic!
Mickey: I bet you don't even remember my name!
The Doctor: Ricky.
Mickey: It's Mickey!
The Doctor: No, it's Ricky.
Mickey: I think I know my own name!
The Doctor: You think you know your own name? How stupid are you?
Mickey Smith: So, what're you doing down there?
The Doctor: [muffled, due to his holding the sonic screwdriver between his teeth] Ricky —
Mickey Smith: Mickey.
The Doctor: [takes the sonic screwdriver out of his mouth] Ricky, if I was to tell you what I was doing to the controls of my frankly magnificent timeship, would you even begin to understand?
Rose Tyler: So, in twelve months, have you been seeing anyone else?
Mickey Smith: No.
Rose Tyler: [she smiles to herself] Okay.
Mickey Smith: [dryly] Mainly because everyone thinks I murdered you.
Rose Tyler: [her smile vanishes] Right.
Mickey Smith: So now that you've come back, are you gonna stay?
The Doctor: Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?

World War Three [1.5] [edit]

(23 April 2005)
[The Doctor speaking to the military police inside 10 Downing Street.]
The Doctor: I think you'll find the Prime Minister is an alien in disguise, and— [Glances at military police leader.] That’s never gonna work, is it?
Policeman: [shakes his head] Nope.
The Doctor: Fair enough. [runs]

[The Doctor is surrounded by armed policemen.]

General Asquith (Slitheen): Under the jurisdiction of the Emergency Protocols, I authorize you to execute this man!
The Doctor: Ah, well, now, you see, uh, the thing is, if I was you, if I was gonna, uh, execute someone by backing them against the wall, between you and me, a little word of advice: [there is a ping and the lift door slides open behind the Doctor] don't stand him against the lift! [steps backwards and the lift door closes]
The Doctor: Installed in 1991. Three inches of steel lining every single wall. They'll never get in. [smiles triumphantly]
Rose: And how do we get out?
The Doctor: [still smiling, looks around and then nods] Ah. [keeps smiling]
Harriet Jones: When they fart—if you'll pardon the word—it doesn't smell like a fart—pardon the word—it's like something else. What is it? It's more like, um...
Rose: Bad breath!
Harriet Jones: That's it!
The Doctor: Calcium decay! Now that narrows it down! Calcium phosphate. Organic calcium — living calcium — creatures made out of living calcium, what else? What else? Hyphenated surname! YES! That narrows it down to one planet: Raxacoricofallapatorius!
Mickey Smith: [dryly] Oh yeah, great! We can write 'em a letter!
The Doctor: Who, exactly, are the Slitheen?
Harriet Jones: They're aliens.
The Doctor: Yeah, I got that. Thanks.
The Doctor: [handing a decanter to Harriet who's to his right] Harriet, have a drink. think you're gonna need it.
Harriet Jones: You pass it to the left first.
The Doctor: [passing it to Rose on his left] Sorry.
Slitheen: Who are you, if not human?
Harriet Jones: [aside to Rose] Who's not human?
Rose: [indicating the Doctor calmly] He's not human.
Harriet Jones: [sounding slightly panicked] He's not human?
The Doctor: [over his shoulder to her] Can I have a bit of hush?
Harriet Jones: Sorry.
The Doctor: [to Slitheen] So, what's the plan?
Harriet Jones: [whispering to Rose] But he's got a Northern accent!
Rose: [whispering back] Lots of planets have a North.
The Doctor: [over his shoulder again] I said hush.
Rose: My mother's cooking.
The Doctor: Good. Put her on a slow heat and let her simmer.
The Doctor: [looking at backpack Rose is carrying to the TARDIS] Got enough stuff?
Rose: The first time I stepped in there, it was spur of the moment. [tosses backpack to the Doctor, which he is forced to catch] Now I'm signing up. [pointing at him as she steps toward the TARDIS] You're stuck with me. Hah!
The Doctor: [calling Rose on TARDIS phone] Right, I'll be a couple of hours, and then we can go.
Rose: You've got a phone?
The Doctor: You think I can travel through space and time and I haven't got a phone? [scoffs]

Dalek [1.6] [edit]

(30 April 2005)
The Doctor: Oh, look at you! [camera shows the head of a metal man, a Cyberman's head, which the Doctor finds very intriguing]
Rose: What is it?
The Doctor: An old friend of mine. Well, enemy. The stuff of nightmares reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting old.
Simmons: What're you going to do? Sucker me to death?

[The Dalek extends its suction arm and suckers him to death.]

Van Statten: I thought you were the great expert, Doctor. If you're so impressive, then why not just reason with this Dalek? It must be willing to negotiate; there must be something it needs! Everything needs something!
The Doctor: What's the nearest town?
Van Statten: Salt Lake City.
The Doctor: Population?
Van Statten: One million.
The Doctor: All dead. If the Dalek gets out, it'll murder every living creature. That's all it wants!
Van Statten: [almost hysterical] But why would it do that?!
The Doctor: Because it honestly believes they should die. Human beings are different, and anything different is wrong. It's the ultimate in racial cleansing, and you, Van Statten, you've let it loose!
Dalek: I shall speak only to the Doctor.
The Doctor: [snidely] You're gonna get rusty.
Dalek: I fed off the DNA of Rose Tyler. Extrapolating the biomass of a time traveller regenerated me.
The Doctor: What's your next trick?
Dalek: I have been searching for the Daleks.
The Doctor: Yeah, I saw. Downloading the Internet. What did you find?
Dalek: I scanned your satellites and radio telescopes.
The Doctor: And?
Dalek: Nothing. WHERE SHALL I GET MY ORDERS NOW!?
The Doctor: [coldly] You're just a soldier without commands.
Dalek: Then I shall follow the Primary Order. The Dalek instinct to destroy, to conquer!
The Doctor: [angry and solemn] What for!? What's the point!? Don't you see it's all gone!? Everything you were, everything you stood for.
Dalek: [confused] Then what should I do?
The Doctor: All right, then. If you want orders, follow this one. [tense silence] Kill yourself.
Dalek: The Daleks must survive!
The Doctor: The Daleks have failed! Now 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: [pauses in consideration] You would make a good Dalek.

[The Doctor is left speechless by this remark.]

The Doctor: [digging through a bin of alien weapons] Broken...broken...hairdryer... [pulls a big gun out of the bin] Oh, yes! Lock-and-load!

The Long Game [1.7] [edit]

(7 May 2005)
[The Doctor and Rose exit the TARDIS first]
The Doctor: So, it's 200,000, it's a spaceship—no, wait a minute—space station, and uh... go try that gate over there. Okay, off you go.
Rose: 200,000? [The Doctor nods, and leans back against the wall as Adam exits the TARDIS]
Adam: Where are we?
Rose: Good question. Let's see. So, um, judging by the architecture, I'd say we're around the year [looks at the Doctor] 200,000? If you listen, engines. We're on some sort of space station. Yeah, definitely a space station. It's a bit warm in here. They could turn the heating down. Tell you what, let's try that gate. Come on.
Rose: [Looking out over the earth] That's...well, I'll let The Doctor explain, he does it better.
The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle.
[Adam faints]
The Doctor: [leans towards Rose, still looking out over the Earth] He's your boyfriend.
Rose: [monotone] Not anymore.
The Doctor: The thing is, Adam, time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guidebook, you've got to throw yourself in! Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers! [beat] Or is that just me?
The Editor: It may interest you to know that this isn't actually the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. It's hardly human at all! It's a place where humans happen to live — [unseen creature protests] — sorry, are allowed to live, by kind permission of my client. [points upwards]
[The Doctor and Rose follow his finger and notice a huge alien creature with ferocious-looking jaws on the ceiling.]
Rose: ...What is it?
The Doctor: You mean that thing's in charge of Satellite Five?
The Editor: "That thing", as you put it, is in charge of the human race. For almost a hundred years, mankind has been guided and shaped. Its knowledge and ambition strictly controlled, through its broadcast news — edited by my superior, your master, and humanity's guiding light: The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe! [Grins] I call him Max.
Rose: [Adam has decided to go sit on the observation deck to absorb things] D'you want me to come with you?
Adam Mitchell: No, no, you stick with the Doctor. [pause] You'd rather be with him. [longer pause] It's gonna take a better man than me to get between you two.

Father's Day [1.8] [edit]

(14 May 2005)
The Doctor: The past is another country. 1987's just the Isle of Wight.
The Doctor: Your wish is my command. But be careful what you wish for.
The Doctor: (to Rose as a baby) Now, Rose — you're not going to bring around the end of the world, are you? (no reply) Are you?
[first lines]
Rose Tyler: Peter Alan Tyler — my dad. The most wonderful man in the world. Born 15th of September 1954.
[Pete and Rose narrowly avoid hitting the hit-and-run car that was supposed to kill Pete]
Pete Tyler: It was right in front of us, where's it gone? [catches Rose's eye] You called me 'dad', what did you say that for?
Jackie Tyler: [appears carrying Young Rose in a carry-tot] Oh, wonderful. Here he is, the accident waiting to happen! You'd be late for your own funeral, and it nearly was!
Pete Tyler: No damage done.
Jackie Tyler: [glances disdainfully at Adult Rose] And who's this? [Rose keeps staring at her] What're YOU looking at with your mouth open?!
Rose Tyler: Your hair.
Jackie Tyler: What?!
Rose Tyler: I've never seen it like — I mean... it's lovely, your hair's lovely. [taking a few steps closer towards the carry-tot with her baby self] And that baby you're holding...
Jackie Tyler: [to Pete] Another one of your [affair]s, is she?
Pete Tyler: She saved my life!
Jackie Tyler: Oh, that's a new one! What was it LAST time?
Pete Tyler: I didn't even know her. She was a cloakroom attendant. I was helping her look for my ticket. There were three duffel coats all the same, somehow the rack collapsed. We were under all this stuff.
Rose Tyler: Were you playing around?!
Jackie Tyler: What's it got to do with YOU what he gets up to?!
Rose Tyler: [her voice is increasing in volume as her anger builds up] What DOES he get up to?
Jackie Tyler: You'd know!!
Pete Tyler: Oh, 'cos I'm that stupid! I play around and then bring her home to meet the missus! You silly cow...
Jackie Tyler: But you are that stupid!
Pete Tyler: Can we keep this stuff back home? Just for now?
Jackie Tyler: What, with the rest of the rubbish?! You bring home cut-priced detergents, tonic water, Betamax tape and NONE of it works! I'm DROWNING in your rubbish! [turns to Rose] What did he tell you? Did he say he's this big businessman? 'Cos he's not. He's a failure! Born failure, that one. Rose needs a proper father —
Pete Tyler: [talking over her] Jackie, I'm making a living, it keeps us fed, don't it?
Rose Tyler: Stop it!
[last lines]
Rose Tyler: Peter Alan Tyler — my dad. The most wonderful man in the world. Died 7th of November 1987.

The Empty Child [1.9] [edit]

(21 May 2005)
Rose: What's the emergency?
The Doctor: It's mauve!
Rose: Mauve?
The Doctor: Universally recognized colour for danger.
Rose: What happened to red?
The Doctor: Oh, that's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, those misunderstandings—all those Red Alerts, all that dancing.
[Jack Harkness to Rose while she is caught in his tractor beam.]
Capt. Jack Harkness: Could you switch off your cell phone? No, seriously, it interferes with my instruments.
Rose: [as she turns it off] You know, no one ever believes that.
The Doctor: Amazing.
Nancy: What is?
The Doctor: 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. I don't know what you did to Hitler, but you frighten the hell out of me, go on, do what you've got to do, save the world.
Doctor Constantine: Are you a doctor?
The Doctor [grinning]: I have my moments.
Doctor Constantine: Before this war began, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I'm neither, but I'm still a doctor.
The Doctor: Yeah. I know the feeling.
The Doctor: It's my nose; it has special powers.
Nancy: Yeah? That why it's so...?
The Doctor: What?
Nancy: Nothing.
The Doctor: What?
Nancy: Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?
The Doctor: [to a cat, after discovering that Rose has disappeared] One day, just one day, maybe I'll meet somebody who gets the whole 'don't wander off' thing.
The Doctor: [asking about Rose's whereabouts] And I'm looking for a blonde in a Union Jack. A specific one, mind, I didn't just wake up this morning with a craving.
Captain Jack Harkness: [having caught Rose in his tractor beam] Hold on!
Rose: To what?
Captain Jack Harkness: [short pause] Fair point.
The Doctor: [to the ringing police phone on the outside of the TARDIS] Ringing? What's that about, ringing? What am I supposed to do with a ringing phone?
The Doctor: [having been greeted by Captain Jack as 'Mr. Spock', turns to Rose] Mister Spock?
Rose: What was I supposed to tell him; you don't have a name! Don't you ever get tired of 'Doctor?' Doctor who?
The Doctor: Nine centuries in, I'm coping.
Captain Jack Harkness: [regarding the Doctor and Rose's clothes] I should have known, the way you guys are blending in with the local colour. I mean, Flag Girl was bad enough, but U-Boat Captain?
Rose: [about the TARDIS following the space junk] Is it safe?
The Doctor: Perfectly safe! [TARDIS control panel explodes in sparks, burning the Doctor's hand] Okay, reasonably, should have said reasonably there!

The Doctor Dances [1.10] [edit]

(28 May 2005)
[The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.]
The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM! [The children lurch away and obey him.] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.
The Doctor: There isn't a little boy born who wouldn't tear the world apart to find his mother. And this little boy can.
Capt. Jack Harkness: Damn it! It's the special features, they really drain the battery.
Rose: The battery? So lame!
Jack: I was going to send for another one but somebody has got to blow up the factory!
Rose: Oh, I know. First day I met him, he blew my job up. That's practically how he communicates.
Rose: Okay, so he's vanished into thin air. Why is it always the great looking ones who do that?
The Doctor: I'm making an effort not to be insulted.
The Doctor: [to the crowd of people] Right, you lot, lots to do; beat the Germans, save the world, don't forget the welfare state! [to Rose as he fiddles with the ship's controls] Setting this to self-destruct as soon as everyone's clear. History says there was an explosion here, and who am I to argue with history?
Rose: Usually the first in line! [the pair grin at each other]
Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas!
The Doctor: Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve?
Rose: [shocked] What?
The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this! Go on, ask me anything; I'm on fire!
The Doctor: Could you hurry up and close the door? Your ship's about to blow up; there's gonna be a draught.
Rose: [talking to the Doctor about dancing] Doesn't the universe implode or something if you dance?
Patient/Ex-Zombie: Doctor Constantine! My leg's grown back! When I come to the hospital, I had one leg, and now it's grown back!
Doctor Constantine: [equally confused by events] Well, there is a war on. Is it possible you miscounted?
The Doctor: [regarding the origin of Captain Jack's blaster] Weapons factory at Villengard?
Captain Jack Harkness: You've been to the factories?
The Doctor: Once.
Captain Jack Harkness: Well, they're gone now, destroyed. Main reactor went critical, vaporized the lot.
The Doctor: Like I said, once. [looks at Rose matter-of-factly] There's a banana grove there now. [looks back at Jack and smiles] I like bananas. Bananas are good.
The Doctor: Funny little human brains; how do you get around in those things?
Rose: [to Captain Jack] When he's stressed, he likes to insult species.
The Doctor: Rose, I'm thinking.
Rose: Cuts himself shaving and does half an hour on life forms he's cleverer than.

Boom Town [1.11] [edit]

(4 June 2005)
Mickey [after he, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, and The Doctor have just exited the TARDIS]: That old lady's staring.
Jack: [to the Doctor] Probably wondering what four people were doing in a small box.
Mickey: [Disdainful look at Jack] What are you Captain of, the "Innuendo Squad"?
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 anymore, so doesn't it get noticed?
The Doctor: 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.
The Doctor: Hello, I've come to see the Lord Mayor.
Idris Hopper: Have you got an appointment?
The Doctor: No, just an old friend passing by, bit of a surprise. Can't wait to see her face!
Idris Hopper: Well, she's just having a cup of tea.
The Doctor: Just go in there and tell her "the Doctor" would like to see her.
Idris Hopper: Doctor who?
The Doctor: Just "The Doctor". Tell her exactly that, "The Doctor".
Idris Hopper: Hang on a tic.

[Idris goes inside. There is the sound of a teacup smashing and Idris returns.]

Idris Hopper: The Lord Mayor says "thank you f-for popping by." She'd love to have a chat, but, um, she's up to her eyes in paperwork. Perhaps you would like to make an appointment for next week...
The Doctor: [happily] She's climbing out the window, isn't she?
Idris Hopper: Yes, she is.
Margaret Blaine: Why can't you just leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?
The Doctor: You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet.
Margaret Blaine: Apart from that.
Margaret Blaine: We're in Cardiff. London doesn't care, the south-west coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice... [catches herself] Oh, I sound like a Welshman. God help me, I've gone native.
Rose: [regarding Margaret Blaine] We've got a prisoner. The police box is really a police box.

Bad Wolf [1.12] [edit]

(11 June 2005)
The Doctor: Lynda, you're sweet. From what I've seen of your world, do you think anybody votes for sweet?
Trin-E: Just stand still and let the Defabricator work its magic.
Jack: What's a Defabricator?
[Jack's clothes are disintegrated.]
Jack: Okay, Defabricator. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Am I naked in front of millions of viewers?
Zu-Zana: Absolutely!
Jack: Ladies, your viewing figures just went up.
Jack: Now hold on, ladies, I don't want to have to shoot either one of you.
Trin-E: But you're unarmed!
Zu-Zana: And you're naked!
[Jack reaches behind him briefly, and returns holding a very small gun.]
Zu-Zana: But that's a compact laser deluxe.
Trin-E: Where were you hiding that!?
Jack: You really don't wanna know.
Dalek 1: We will speak to the Doctor.
The Doctor: Oh will you? That's nice. Hello!
Dalek 1: The Dalek Stratagem nears completion. The fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene.
The Doctor: Oh, really? And why's that?
Dalek 1: [glances at Rose] We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated!
The Doctor: No.
[Pause. The Daleks glance at each other in confusion.]
Dalek 1: Explain yourself.
The Doctor: I said no.
Dalek 1: What is the meaning of this negative?
The Doctor: It means no.
Dalek 1: But she will be destroyed!
The Doctor: 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 off, I'm gonna wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!
Dalek 1: But you have no weapons! No defences! No plan!
The Doctor: Yeah! And doesn't that scare you to death? Rose?
Rose: Yes, Doctor?
The Doctor: I'm coming to get you.
Dalek 1: The Doctor is initiating hostile action!
Dalek 2: The Stratagem must advance! Begin the invasion of Earth!
Dalek 3: The Doctor will be exterminated!
Dalek Army: EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
Female Programmer: If you're not holding us hostage, then open the door and let us out. The staff are terrified!
The Doctor: That's the same staff who execute hundreds of people every day?
Female Programmer: That's not our fault! We're just doing our jobs!
The Doctor: And with that sentence, you just lost the right to even talk to me. Now, back off!
Female Programmer: [Captain Jack is about to open the door to Archive 6] You're not allowed in there. [authoritatively and loudly] Archive 6 is out of bounds!
Captain Jack Harkness: [raises two large guns; shouting] Do I look like an 'out of bounds' kind of guy?

The Parting of the Ways [1.13] [edit]

(18 June 2005)


Jack Harkness [about the Daleks]: One minute, they're the greatest threat in the Universe; the next minute, they just vanished out of time and space.
The Doctor: They went off to fight a bigger war. The Time War.
Jack Harkness: [awed] I thought that was just a legend!
The Doctor: I was there. The war between the Daleks and the Time Lords, with the whole of creation at stake. My people were destroyed, but they took the Daleks with them. I almost thought it was worth it. [bitterly] Now it turns out they died for nothing.
Daleks: [simultaneously] Exterminate! Exterminate!
[They fire their weapons, none of which so much as touch the Doctor]
The Doctor: Is that it? Useless! Nul points! [to Rose and Jack] It's all right, you can come out; that forcefield can hold back anything!
Jack Harkness: Almost anything. [pause]
The Doctor: Yes, but I wasn't going to tell them that. Thanks.
The Doctor: Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You might have removed all of your emotions, but I reckon right deep down in your DNA, there's still one little spark left. And that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me?
The Doctor: [as a hologram] 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. And that's okay. Hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you home. [Rose protests] 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. [turns to Rose, his voice no longer sounding projected] Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life.
Rose: But what do I do every day, Mum? Get up. Go to work. Catch the bus, eat chips, and go to bed.
Mickey: It's what the rest of us do.
Rose: But I can't.
Mickey: Because you’re better than us?
Rose: No, I didn’t mean that. But it was, it was a better life. I don’t mean all the travelling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things. That don't matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. [To Mickey] You know, he showed you too. [continues] You don't just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand. You say "no." You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away! and I just can't...!
[The Daleks have cornered the Doctor after he finishes the Delta Wave]
The Doctor: You really wanna think about this. 'Cos if I activate this signal, every living creature dies.
Dalek Emperor: I am immortal.
The Doctor: Do you wanna put that to the test?
Dalek Emperor: I want to see you become like me. Hail, the Doctor, the Great Exterminator!!!
The Doctor: [angrily grasps the lever] I'LL DO IT!
Dalek Emperor: Then prove yourself, Doctor! What are you? Coward, or killer?
[The Doctor seems ready to push the lever down, but hesitates, then finally steps away]
The Doctor: Coward. Any day.
Dalek Emperor: Mankind will be harvested because of your weakness!
The Doctor: And what about me? Am I becoming one of your angels?
Dalek Emperor: You are the heathen. You will be exterminated!
The Doctor: Maybe it's time.
[Rose arrives in the TARDIS just before the Daleks try to kill The Doctor. She has absorbed the energy from the time vortex]
The Doctor: What have you done?!
Rose: I looked into the TARDIS, and the TARDIS looked into me.
The Doctor: You looked into the time vortex, Rose, no one's meant to see that!
Dalek Emperor: This is the abomination.
Dalek: Exterminate! [Fires laser at Rose, which she blocks]
Rose: I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words, I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here.
The Doctor: 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.
Dalek 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 begins dematerializing the Daleks.] Everything must come to dust, all things. Everything dies. The Time War ends.
Dalek Emperor: I will not die. I cannot die! [Dalek Emperor and remaining Daleks are dematerialized.]
The Doctor: Rose, you've done it, now stop. Just let go!
Rose: How can I let go of this? I bring life! [Rose revives Captain Jack Harkness]
The Doctor: 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?
The Doctor: 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 Doctor: [Realizing, suddenly rises] That's what I see. All the time. Doesn't it drive you mad?
Rose: My head!
The Doctor: Come here.
Rose: It's killing me!
The Doctor: I think you need a doctor. [They kiss and The Doctor absorbs the energy from the time vortex.]
Rose: It's like...there was this singing.
The Doctor: That's right. I sang a song and the Daleks ran away.
The Doctor: [upon realising he is about to regenerate] Rose Tyler. I was going to take you to so many places. Barcelona! Not the city Barcelona, the planet Barcelona. You'd love it, fantastic place! They've got dogs with no noses! [Laughs] 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 Doctor: Maybe you will. And maybe I will. But not like this.
Rose: You're not making sense.
The Doctor: I might never make sense again! I might have two heads, or no head. Imagine me with no head, ha! And don't say that's an improvement... [suddenly serious] But it's a bit dodgy, this process. [pause] You never know what you're going to end up with.
[A burst of regenerative energy erupts from the Doctor's torso.]
Rose: Doctor!
The Doctor: Stay away!
Rose: Doctor, tell me what's going on—
The Doctor: I absorbed all the energy of the time vortex, and no one's meant to do that... [looks up at her] Every cell in my body's dying.
Rose: Can't you do something?
The Doctor: Yeah. I'm doing it now. Time Lords, we have this little trick. It's sort of a way of cheating death. Except... it means I'm going to change. And I'm not going to see you again... Not like this. Not with this daft old face. And before I go—
Rose: Don't say that!
The Doctor: Rose... before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? [Pause] So was I!
[The TARDIS lights up with energy as the Doctor regenerates into his tenth incarnation.]
The Tenth Doctor: Hello! Okay— [The Doctor pauses and swallows uncomfortably] New teeth. That's weird. So where was I? Oh, that's right. Barcelona! [Grins]

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