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This page is a collection of quotations from the era of the seventh official incarnation of The Doctor from the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who, during which the role of the Seventh Doctor was played by Sylvester McCoy. 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 largely taken from episodes broadcast on television.
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Season 24 [edit]
Time and the Rani [24.1] [edit]
- (7 September - 28 September 1987)
- The Doctor: You don't understand regeneration, Mel. It's a lottery, and I've drawn the short plank.
- The Doctor: Absence makes the nose grow longer!
- Rani: You going to be much longer in there, Doctor?
- The Doctor: 'Fraid so; more hasta less vista.
- The Doctor: The more I know me, the less I like me.
- Ikona: Well then why the hologram? Why didn't she just release Mel?
- The Doctor: A bird in the hand keeps the Doctor away?
- Ikona: You're probably right.
- The Doctor: Only in this occasion, it'll have the opposite effect.
- The Doctor: Ahh, well every dogma has its day.
- The Doctor: Two wrongs don't make a left turn.
- Ikona: Where there's a will, there's a —
- The Doctor: Beneficiary! Good thinking, Ikona!
- The Doctor: Time and tide melts the snowman.
- Mel: Waits for no man!
- The Doctor: Who's waiting? I'm ready.
Paradise Towers [24.2] [edit]
- (5 October - 26 October 1987)
- Chief Caretaker: I am the chief caretaker.
- The Doctor: And I am —
- Chief Caretaker: No need to tell me, I know who you are. We have been waiting for this momentous visit for so many years. You were the man who brought Paradise Towers to life, the visionary who dreamed up its pools and lifts and squares, and now you have returned to your creation. You will make all those dilapidated lifts rise and fall as they have never done before! All signs of wall-scrawl will disappear from the corridors of Paradise Towers! The floors will gleam, the windows will shine and all will be made as new! Fellow caretakers, you know who this is? This is the great architect, returned to Paradise Towers! Bid him welcome! All hail the great architect, all hail!
- Caretakers: All hail the great architect!
- Caretaker: What should we do with him now chief?
- Chief Caretaker: [beat] Kill him.
- The Doctor: Well Kangs, I must say, there's no place like home... and this is no place like home.
- The Doctor [referring to an antique telephone]: Are these antiques dotted about all over the building? It really is a splendid piece of audioarchitectonicalmetrasynchosity!
- Bin Liner: Hail Pex. Hail the unalive who gave his life for the Tower. In life he was not a Kang, but in death he was brave and bold as a Kang should be.
Delta and the Bannermen [24.3] [edit]
- (2 November - 16 November 1987)
- The Doctor: Love has never been noted for its rationality.
Dragonfire [24.4] [edit]
- Ace: Do you feel like arguing with a can of deodorant that registers nine on the Richter scale?
[after the Doctor has a complicated discussion of metaphysics]
- The Doctor: Not interrupting anything, am I?
- Belazs: [points her gun at him] What are you doing here?!
- The Doctor: That's a very difficult question. Why is everyone around here so preoccupied with metaphysics?
- Glitz: I think she's going to kill us, Doctor.
- The Doctor: Ah! An existentialist.
[after Kane reveals his plans for revenge against his people]
- The Doctor: But where will you find another home planet?
- Kane: You're talking in riddles, Doctor. Proamnon is my home planet
- The Doctor: Was your home planet. Take a look at your navigational equipment. It's fully operative now.
- Kane: There must be something wrong.
- The Doctor: Certainly not. Your entire people, your race was destroyed 1000 years after you were exiled.
- Kane: No, no! It's not possible.
- The Doctor: Look at the sun of Proamnon. When you left it was a cold red giant surrounded by freezing planets.
- Kane: There's nothing there but a neutron star!
- The Doctor: Your sun turned supernova 2000 years ago. The planets were engulfed in the explosion. Your people were annihilated, your planet obliterated. You're too late, Kane, for your revenge. You have no home. Time has flowed by.
- Mel: Oh all right, you win.
- The Doctor: I do? I usually do.
- Mel: I'm going now.
- The Doctor: Yes, that's right, you're going. You've been gone for ages. You're already gone. You're still here. You've just arrived. I haven't even met you yet. It all depends on who you are and how you look at it. Strange business, time.
- The Doctor: Think about me when you're living your life one day after another, all in a neat pattern. Think about the homeless traveller and his old police box, with his days like crazy paving.
- Mel: [in a whisper] Ace doesn't have anywhere to go.
- The Doctor: Nonsense, it's an idyllic place, Perivale! It's got lush green fields — a village blacksmith, um —
- Mel: Doctor, she comes from the twentieth century!
- The Doctor: [thinking of 20th century Perivale] Oh...
- Mel: I'll send you a postcard!
- The Doctor: But I don't have an address.
- Mel: Oh, I'll put it in a bottle and throw it into space! It'll reach you... in time.
- The Doctor: Ace! Where d'you think you're going?
- Ace: [miserable] Perivale...
- The Doctor: Ah yes, but by which route? The direct route with Glitz? Or the scenic route? [Ace begins to smile] Well, do you fancy a quick trip around the twelve galaxies and then back to Perivale in time for tea?
- Ace: [jumps for joy] ACE!
- The Doctor: [suddenly stern, he holds up three fingers] But there are three rules! One: I'm in charge.
- Ace: Whatever you say, Professor!
- The Doctor: [holding up two fingers] Two: I'm not 'the Professor', I'm the Doctor!
- Ace: Whatever you want!
- The Doctor: And the third... [he suddenly smiles] Well, I'll think up the third by the time we get back to Perivale. [they smile at each other]
Season 25 [edit]
Remembrance of the Daleks [25.1] [edit]
- (5 October - 26 October 1988)
- The Doctor: Captain, you're not dealing with human beings here.
- Captain Gilmore: What am I dealing with? Little green men?
- The Doctor: No, little green blobs in bonded polycarbite armour.
- Ace: These dayleks...
- Doctor: Daleks.
- Ace: Oh, Daleks, where are they from?
- Doctor: From Skaro, at least originally. They're the mutated remains of a species called the Kaleds. Left here.
- Ace: Why were they left here?
- Doctor: No, turn left here!
- Ace: Oh, right.
- Doctor: No left, you missed the turning!
- Ace: What turn? Where?
- Doctor: Why don't you concentrate on where you're going?!
- Ace: Look, I'm doing the best I can! If you don't like it, you drive!
- Ace: But this is Earth, 1963. Well someone would've noticed, I'd have heard about it!
- The Doctor: Do you remember the Zygon gambit with the Loch Ness monster? Or the Yetis in the underground?
- Ace: The what?
- The Doctor: Your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity when trying to destroy itself.
- John: Sugar?
- Doctor: Ah. A decision... Would it make any difference?
- John: Would make your tea sweet.
- Doctor: Yes, but beyond the confines of my taste buds, would it make any difference?
- John: Not really.
- Doctor: But what if I could control people's taste buds? What if I decided that no one would take sugar? That'd make a difference to those who sell the sugar and those who cut the cane.
- John: My father, he was a cane cutter!
- Doctor: Exactly. Now if no one had used sugar, your father wouldn't have been a cane cutter.
- John: If this sugar thing had never started, my great grandfather wouldn't have been kidnapped, chained up and sold in Kingston in the first place. I'd be a African.
- Doctor: Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.
- John: Life's like that. Best thing is just to get on with it.
- Undertaker: [On the phone] Hello, governor? Somebody's come to collect that big casket. [pause] Yes, yes the Doctor. [pause] Just one thing, governor: I thought you said he was an old geezer with white hair!
- Group Captain Gilmore: You were hired as a chief scientific adviser, one tends to expect advice from one's adviser.
- Professor Jensen: For one thing, Group Captain, I was not hired, I was drafted. And for another, do you think I'm enjoying having some space vagrant come along and tell me that the painstaking research I have devoted my life to, has been superseded by a bunch of tin-plated pepper pots?!
- [The Doctor explains the history of the Hand of Omega.]
- The Doctor: It's called that because Time Lords have an infinite capacity for pretension.
- Ace: Noticed that.
- [As the Dalek shuttle lands in the school playground]
- The Doctor: I think I might have miscalculated.
- Davros: We shall become all-
- [The Doctor finishes his sentence.]
- The Doctor: Powerful! Crush the lesser races! Conquer the galaxy! UNIMAGINABLE POWER! UNLIMITED RICE PUDDING! Et cetera! Et cetera!
- Doctor: Dalek! You have been defeated. Surrender! You have failed.
- Dalek: Insufficient data.
- Doctor: Your forces are destroyed, your home planet a burnt cinder circling a dead sun.
- Dalek: There is no data.
- Doctor: Even Davros, your creator, is dead. You have no superiors, no inferiors, no reinforcements, no hope, no rescue!
- Dalek: You are lying. There is insufficient data!
- Doctor:You're trapped, a trillion miles and a thousand years from a disintegrated home. I have defeated you. You no longer serve any purpose.
- [During a funeral procession.]
- Ace: Doctor. We did good, didn't we?
- The Doctor: Perhaps. Time will tell, always does.
The Happiness Patrol [25.2] [edit]
- (2 November - 16 November 1988)
- Kandyman: Welcome to the Kandy Kitchen, gentlemen!
- The Doctor: I'm sure the pleasure's all ours...
- Kandyman: I do hope so. I like my volunteers to die with smiles on their faces.
- Gilbert M: Created as you are out of glucose-based substances, your joints need constant movement to avoid coagulation.
- Kandyman: What do you mean?!
- Gilbert M: You're turning into a slab of toffee. I saw this at the planning stage, and then I realised what the solution was.
- Kandyman: And what's that?
- Gilbert M: ... I've forgotten.
- Trevor Sigma: Name?
- The Doctor: I'm the Doctor. Haven't we met?
- Trevor Sigma: I'm sorry, that's classified information.
- The Doctor: You're Trevor Sigma, aren't you?
- Trevor Sigma: Galactic Census Bureau, I ask the questions.
- The Doctor: You ask the questions?
- Trevor Sigma: I'm sorry, that's classified information. Address?
- The Doctor: Which one?
- Trevor Sigma: If you live here, I need a town and a street. If you're an alien, I need a home planet, except when you spend more than half the work year away, in which case I need a planet of origin.
- The Doctor: That's classified information. Name?
- Trevor Sigma: What?
- The Doctor: I ask the questions. Name!
- Trevor Sigma: Trevor Sigma.
- The Doctor: Address?
- Trevor Sigma: Galactic Census.
- Earl Sigma: What's happening Doctor?
- The Doctor: Questionnaire. Occupation?
- Trevor Sigma: Galactic Census Bureau, authorised to enter all Alphan property and to interview all Alphans.
- The Doctor: Good, take me to your leader.
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- Sniper 2: Get back. Or he'll use the gun.
- The Doctor: Yes, I imagine he will. You like guns, don't you?
- Sniper 1: This is a specialised weapon. It's designed for roof duty. Designed for long range. I've never used one up close before.
- Sniper 2: Let him go.
- Sniper 1: No.
- The Doctor: No. In fact... let him come a little closer.
- Sniper 1: Stay where you are.
- The Doctor: Why? Scared? Why should you be scared? You're the one with the gun.
- Sniper 1: That's right.
- The Doctor: And you like guns, don't you?
- Sniper 2: He'll kill you.
- The Doctor: Of course he will. That's what guns are for. Pull a trigger. End a life. Simple, isn't it?
- Sniper 1: Yes.
- The Doctor: Makes sense, doesn't it?
- Sniper 1: Yes.
- The Doctor: A life, killing life.
- Sniper 2: Who are you?
- The Doctor: [To Sniper 2] Shut up. [To Sniper 1] Why don't you do it then? Look me in the eye. Pull the trigger. End my life.
- Sniper 1: No.
- The Doctor: Why not?
- Sniper 1: I can't.
- The Doctor: Why not?
- Sniper 1: I don't know.
- The Doctor: You don't, do you. [The Doctor takes Sniper 1's gun and drops it off the roof. He turns to Sniper 2] Throw away your gun.
- Earl Sigma: You're a nice guy Doctor, but a little weird.
- The Doctor: Enough with the little...
- The Doctor: And where are the Census Bureau going to send you next?
- Trevor Sigma: Earth. Have you been there?
- The Doctor: Once or twice.
- Trevor Sigma: I hear it's a miserable sort of place.
- The Doctor: You’re making me feel nostalgic.
- Earl Sigma: Blissful, isn’t it, Doctor? Silence.
- The Doctor: Aha, not quite. I can hear the sound of empires toppling.
Silver Nemesis [25.3] [edit]
- (23 November 1988 - 7 December 1988)
- Ace: They saved my life!
- The Doctor: Don't thank them yet. We might live to regret it.
- Ace: What are they?
- The Doctor: Cybermen.
- Ace: We can't go nicking stuff in here
- The Doctor: It's only temporary
- Ace: It's probably treason, I'm too young to go to the tower
- The Doctor: This may qualify as the worst miscalculation since life crawled out of the seas on this sad planet.
- The Doctor: I don't suppose you've completely ignored my instructions and secretly prepared any Nitro-9, have you?
- Ace: What if I had?
- The Doctor: And naturally, you wouldn't do anything so insanely dangerous as to carry it around with you, would you?
- Ace: Of course not. I'm a good girl and do what I'm told.
- The Doctor: Excellent. Blow up that vehicle.
The Greatest Show In The Galaxy [25.4] [edit]
- (14 December 1988 - 4 January 1989)
- The Doctor: Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way.
- Ace: It was your show all along, wasn't it, Professor?
- The Doctor: You ain't seen nothing yet!
- Morgana: You have to hang up your travelling shoes and stop wandering sooner or later, don't you?
- The Doctor: So I've been told. Personally, I just keep on wandering.
- Bellboy: [As the robot clowns he built approach menacingly] You were a wonderful clown once: funny, inventive... I'm not helping you any more!
- The Doctor: I've always found circuses a little... sinister.
Season 26 [edit]
Battlefield [26.1] [edit]
- (6 September - 27 September 1989)
- Doris: You don't regret it, do you?
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Giving up teaching?
- Doris: Leaving United Nations Intelligence Taskforce.
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: No. My blood and thunder days are long past.
- Ace: A missile convoy!
- Doctor: A nuclear missile convoy.
- Ace: How can you tell?
- Doctor: It has a graveyard stench.
- The Doctor: Among all the varied wonders of the universe, there's nothing so firmly clamped shut as the military mind.
- Bambera: Well done, Zbrigniev. Two civilians waltz up with a pair of antiquated pass cards and you let them in, why?
- Zbrigniev: Sir...
- Bambera: You know something, what is it?
- Zbrigniev: Off the record, sir?
- Bambera: Off the record.
- Zbrigniev: When I served under Lethbridge-Stewart, we had a scientific advisor called the Doctor.
- Bambera: The man outside?
- Zbrigniev: No, sir, but-
- Bambera: But?
- Zbrigniev: He changed his appearance, several times.
- Bambera: A disguise...
- Zbrigniev: No, sir. The word was he changed his whole physical appearance.
- Bambera: His whole appearance?
- Zbrigniev: And his personality.
- Bambera: How can he be the same man if his appearance and personality have changed?
- Zbrigniev: I don't know, sir.
- Bambera: What do you know, Zbrigniev?
- Zbrigniev: Just that whenever this Doctor turns up....
- Bambera: Yes?
- Zbrigniev: All hell breaks loose.
- [Doris takes a call from 'Geneva']
- Brigadier: Tell them I've retired. Tell them I've decided to fade away.
- Ancelyn: [Discussing The Doctor] He has many many names. But in my reckoning he is Merlin.
- Doctor: You recognise my face then?
- Ancelyn: No. Not your aspect, but your manner that betrays you. Do you not ride the ship of time? Does it not deceive the senses; being larger within than without?
- Ace: What's down there?
- Warmsly: Don't ask me. I've only been excavating this site for ten years.
- Doctor: With any luck, a tunnel.
- Ace: A dark mysterious one?
- Doctor: Probably.
- Ace: Leading to unknown dangers?
- Doctor: Indubitably.
- Ace: Oh, wicked.
- Lieutenant Lavel: Sir, we do not the situation here.
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: The situation, Lavel, is normal. And it doesn't get any worse than that.
- [Morgaine sees The Brigadier for the first time]
- Morgaine: A warrior no less! How goes the day?
- Brigadier: I've had better.
- Morgaine: I am Morgaine, the sun-killer. Dominator of the thirteen worlds and battle queen of the S'Rax. What say you?
- Brigiadier: I am Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Surrender now and we can avoid bloodshed.
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Oh dear. Women. Not really my field.
- The Doctor: Don't worry, Brigadier. People will be shooting at you soon.
- The Doctor:You've got enough weapons here to fight a war.
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: That's the general idea.
- The Doctor: It'll be useless, Brigadier.
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Not this time, Doctor. [Opens an ammo box and holds up a round to show The Doctor] Armour-Piercing, solid core with a Teflon coating; go through a Dalek.
- The Doctor: A non-stick bullet.
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: UNIT's been very busy, Doctor. We've also got high-explosive rounds for Yetis and very efficient armour-piercing rounds for robots. And we've even got gold-tipped bullets for you-know-what.
- The Doctor: No silver?
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Silver bullets?
- The Doctor: Well, you never know...
- Mordred: We know you of old Merlin; you will not kill.
- The Doctor: I wouldn't count on it!
- Mordred: Come then, look me in the eye, end my life.
- [The Doctor struggles for a moment then releases Mordred]
- Mordred: Ha! It is a weakness, this lack of spirit!
- [The Brigadier approaches and points his revolver at Mordred's head]
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Try me.
- Morgaine: [To Mordred via psychic link] Ware this man, Mordred, he is steeped in blood.
- Mordred: My mother will destroy you!
- Brigadier: Just between you and me, Mordred, I'm getting a little tired of hearing about your mother.
- The Doctor: Exotic alien swords are easy to come by, Aces are rare.
- The Doctor: That, Brigadier, was the beginning of the end of the world.
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Same as ever, eh Doctor?
- The Destroyer: Ahh... little man. What do you want of me?
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Get off my world!
- The Destroyer: Pitiful. Can this world do no better than you as their champion?
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Probably. I just do the best I can.
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Ace?
- Ace: Yes Brigadier?
- Bridagier Lethbridge-Stewart: I'm getting too old for this sort of thing. He's all yours from now on. I'm going home to Doris.
- The Doctor: Doris?
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Yes, my wife.
- The Doctor: Haha! So she caught you in the end?!
- The Doctor: If this missile explodes, millions will die. You will die.
- Morgan le Fay: I will die with honour!
- The Doctor: All over the world fools are poised, ready to let death fly. Machines of death, Morgaine, screaming from above. Light brighter than the sun. Not a war between armies, nor a war between nations, but just death. Death gone mad! A child looks up into the sky, his eyes turn to cinders. No more tears, only ashes. Is this honour? Is this war? Are these the weapons you would use?
Ghost Light [26.2] [edit]
- (4 October - 18 October 1989)
- The Doctor [to a beetle]: All civilisation starts with hunting and foraging, but don't worry, you'll soon work your way up.
- Nimrod: At the season when ice floods swamped the pasturelands, we herded the mammoths sunwards to find new grazing.
- Inspector Mackenzie: Tricky things, mammoths.
- Light: I know you. I took you up as the last specimen of the extinct Neanderthal race from Earth. ... At least they knew when to stop evolving.
- Ace: It's true isn't it. This is the house I told you about.
- Doctor: You were thirteen. You climbed over the wall for a dare.
- Ace: That's your surprise isn't it? Bringing me back here.
- Doctor: Remind me what it was that you sensed when you entered this deserted house. An aura of intense evil?
- Ace: Don't you have things you hate?
- Doctor: I can't stand burnt toast. I loathe bus stations. Terrible places. Full of lost luggage and lost souls.
- Ace: I told you I never wanted to come back here again.
- Doctor: And then there's unrequited love. And tyranny. And cruelty.
- Ace: Too right!
- Doctor: We all have a universe of our own terrors to face.
- Ace: I face mine on my own terms.
- The Doctor: Only the madman can see the way clearly through the tangled forest.
- The Doctor: But you evolve too, Light.
- Light: Nonsense.
- The Doctor: Of course you do. You change, you adapt, all the time. Your attitude, your place, your mind... I mean, look at you now: you're no longer your original shape. And I don't think much of your catalogue- it's full of gaps.
- Light: (suddenly alarmed) All organic life is recorded!
- The Doctor: What about the gryphons, the basilisks? You missed the dragons, the bandersnatches... then there are the slithy toves and the crowned Saxe-Coburg. (Strolling into the entrance hall, he casually clicks his fingers and Light immediately appears at the staircase)
- Light: (frantically reviewing his data screen) Where are these items?
- The Doctor: I can't think how you missed them. You have to complete the catalogue before you destroy all life here.
- Light: Control?
- The Doctor: She's no use to you, she's evolved as well.
- Light: No! All slipping away...
- The Doctor: All is change, all is movement. Tell me, Light, haven't you just changed your location?
- Light: (Gritting his teeth) Not yet.
- The Doctor: What's the matter, Light? Changed your mind?
- Light: You are endlessly agitating, unceasingly mischievous, will you never STOP?!
- The Doctor: I suppose I could. It would make a change.
- Light: (desperate) Nimrod- I can rely on you! Assist me now...
- Nimrod: I'm sorry, sir, but my allegiance is to this planet- my birthright.
- Light: (Hysterical) Everything is changing! All in flux! Nothing remains the same!
- The Doctor: Even remains change. It's this planet- it can't help itself.
- Light: I... will not change... I'll wake up soon. No... change... dead... (trails off as he begins to evaporate)
- The Doctor: (To the data screen) Subject for catalogue: file under "imagination, comma, lack of".
The Curse of Fenric [26.3] [edit]
- (25 October - 15 November 1989)
- The Doctor: [Reading a Norse inscription] We hoped to return to the North Way, but the dark curse follows our dragon ship... The Wolves of Fenric shall return for their treasure, and then shall the dark evil rule eternally.
- Ace: You know what's going on, don't you?
- The Doctor: [dismissive] Yes.
- Ace: [gradually getting angrier] You've always known, you just can't be bothered to tell anyone! It's like it's some kind of a game and only you know the rules! You knew all about that inscription being a computer program - but you didn't tell me! You know all about that old bottle and you're not telling me! Am I so stupid-?
- The Doctor: [uncomfortable] No, that's not it!
- Ace: WHY then?! I want to know!
- The Doctor: Evil, evil since the dawn of time!
- Ace: What do you mean?
- The Doctor: Will you stop asking me these questions?!
- Ace: [almost screaming] TELL ME!
- The Doctor: The dawn of time, the beginning of all beginnings. Two forces, only good and evil. Then chaos. Time is born, matter, space. The universe cries out like a newborn. The forces shatter as the universe explodes outwards. Only echoes remain, yet somehow, somehow the evil force survives... an intelligence of pure evil.
- Ace: And that's Fenric.
- The Doctor: No, that's just Millington's name for it. The evil has no name, trapped inside a flask like a genie in a bottle.
- Ace: And the half-time score: Perivale: 600 million; rest of the universe: nil.
- Ace: Can we stop it?
- The Doctor: We need to get that flask.
- Ace: We can release Captain Soren to help us! I can distract the guard!
- The Doctor: [missing her point] How?
- Ace: Professor... I'm not a little girl.
- Ace: There's a wind ripping up. I can feel it through my clothes. Is there a storm coming?
- Question is: are you making all the right moves? or are you going through the motions?
- Soldier: What are you doing here?
- You have to move faster than that if you want to keep up with me. Faster than light.
- Soldier: Faster than the second hand on a watch?)
- We're hardly moving yet. Hardly cruising speed. Sometimes I travel so fast I don't exist any more.
- Soldier: What can you see?
- Undercurrents, bringing things to the surface.
- I can't stay!
- You promised!
- I can't!
- From the extended version
- Fenric: Where is the Time Lord?
- Millington: "Time Lord?"
- Fenric: The one you call "The Doctor."
- Millington: I had him shot.
- Fenric: I can see you've never been hampered by great intelligence.
Survival [26.4] [edit]
- (22 November - 6 December 1989)
- The Doctor: He doesn't have to outrun the lion, only his friend. Then the lion catches up with his friend and eats him. The strong survive, the weak are killed: the law of the jungle! ... Yes, very clever, if you don't mind losing your friend. But what happens when the next lion turns up? I think you'd better get your running shoes on, gentlemen.
- Ace [to the Doctor, about the Master]: Do you know any nice people? Y'know, normal everyday people, not power-crazed nutters trying to take over the universe?
- The Doctor: If we fight like animals, we die like animals!
- Ace: Where have they gone?
- The Doctor: They've been taken back to the wilderness. The place is different, but the hunt goes on ...you know all about the hunt, don't you Ace?
- Ace: I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever.
- The Doctor: The planet's gone, but it lives on inside you, and it always will.
- Ace: [Smiles] Good.
- The Doctor: Where to now, Ace?
- Ace: [Beat]...Home.
- The Doctor: Home?
- Ace: The TARDIS!
- The Doctor: Yes, the TARDIS.
- The Doctor [the final lines of the original series]: There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do.
