Tosh: My grandfather’s eighty-eighth birthday today.
Jack: I thought you’d gone to all this trouble for me.
Tosh: Eighty eight is a joyous year for the Japanese. I’m off to London to watch grown men throw rice.
Jack: You can get that in the Balti after stop-tap.
Tosh: Why does that man have your name? I'm lost enough here without you holding back on me!
Jack: It's not my name. It's his. I took his. But I didn't realise he was...so hot!
Tosh: Jack?
Jack: I know too much.
Tosh: Then share.
Jack: You wouldn't want that, trust me.
Jack: I went to war when I was a boy. I was with my best friend. We got caught crossing the border over enemy lines. They tortured him, not me, because he was weaker. They made me watch him die. And they let me go.
Original Jack: Who were they?
Jack: The worst possible creatures you can imagine. I persuaded him to join up. I said it would be an adventure. He hadn't lived.
Original Jack: Have any of us?
Jack: (about Captain Harkness) Tomorrow’s their last training exercise. Just another day. They go out on a sortie and are surprised by two formations of Messerschmitts. He destroys three of the enemy. His men listen to his whoops of joy over the radio. Then it all goes quiet. He can’t bail out because his whole plane is on fire. But his men all make it back to safety.
Owen: Good job you're a crap shot.
Ianto: I was aiming for your shoulder.
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26 June 2013
19 June 2013
Quotes from "Combat"
Owen: Trust me, the bigger the crowd, the more alone I feel.
Jack: You know what they used these warehouses for during World War II? Storing the bodies of dead GIs. Sometimes you can know too much history.
Caller: Don’t interfere in things you don’t understand.
Jack: Oh, I understand this better than you. ‘Cause I know how this is going to end. We’re gonna hunt you down. We’re going to ensure that you’re punished for what happened here. And we’re going to make you surrender that creature that you kidnapped. Is that clear enough?
Gwen: The shittiest part about being a police officer and I can't get away from it. (Owen ignores her) Thank you for your kind words of support.
Owen: What do you want me to say? She'll be all right in the end?
Gwen: "You can always count on Owen, to make you feel better." Tosh mentioned you and Diane. Did you...
Owen: .I didn't want her to go. She went.
Gwen: Why are we still doing this, me and you?
Owen: Fine. Let's not. I was getting bored of your fuck-tricks anyway.
Gwen: You can be such a wanker sometimes Owen, do you know that?
Owen: I do, as a matter of fact!
Jack: In your absence, Toshiko’s had a great idea.
Owen: Well, it had to happen sooner or later.
Tosh: You want to release a Weevil in the middle of Cardiff!
Jack: Not exactly in the middle, a little to the side.
Mark Lynch: You work yourself stupid, get a house, a car, plasma screen. You end up with a workforce, people there specifically to look after your every whim. You’re officially successful, but what does it bring? Nothing. Success has no worth other than itself. Seriously, I could live without all this. It doesn’t define me.
Mark Lynch: Ask yourself, what’s the point of your life?
Owen: Mark, mate, I only came here for a beer.
Mark Lynch: There’s so much more, if you know where to look.
Owen: Is that right?
Mark Lynch: It’s closer than you think. Something’s coming. Out there, in the darkness, something is coming.
Mark Lynch: (about a Weevil) I think it’s us, Owen. You and me, in a thousand years time. This is what we become when all we have left is our rage.
Owen: Who are these blokes?
Mark Lynch: Same as us. Ordinary blokes just trying to find meaning in a world that doesn’t have anyone.
Owen: You don’t really believe that, do you?
Mark Lynch: We’re the dispossessed now, Owen. All the certainties our fathers had are gone. We’re a generation of no faith. In society, in religion, or in life. All we can do is reduce ourselves to the basics.
Owen: So these guys are paying to put their lives at risk?
Mark Lynch: It's the ultimate extreme sport. Too much disposable income, not enough meaning,. That's us.
Owen: So what about Dan Hodges, Mark?
Mark Lynch: He wouldn't come out. Just stood in the middle of the cage and let it maul him. I think he got in there and he realised he didn't want to live enough. He surrendered. None of us could get to him in time.
Owen: And still you all come back.
Mark Lynch: Well, what else is there?
Mark Lynch: When you get in there, when you’re up close with it, take a look into its eyes.
Owen: Open the door!
Mark Lynch: It’s like looking into the darkest recesses of your own soul.
Jack: You know what they used these warehouses for during World War II? Storing the bodies of dead GIs. Sometimes you can know too much history.
Caller: Don’t interfere in things you don’t understand.
Jack: Oh, I understand this better than you. ‘Cause I know how this is going to end. We’re gonna hunt you down. We’re going to ensure that you’re punished for what happened here. And we’re going to make you surrender that creature that you kidnapped. Is that clear enough?
Gwen: The shittiest part about being a police officer and I can't get away from it. (Owen ignores her) Thank you for your kind words of support.
Owen: What do you want me to say? She'll be all right in the end?
Gwen: "You can always count on Owen, to make you feel better." Tosh mentioned you and Diane. Did you...
Owen: .I didn't want her to go. She went.
Gwen: Why are we still doing this, me and you?
Owen: Fine. Let's not. I was getting bored of your fuck-tricks anyway.
Gwen: You can be such a wanker sometimes Owen, do you know that?
Owen: I do, as a matter of fact!
Jack: In your absence, Toshiko’s had a great idea.
Owen: Well, it had to happen sooner or later.
Tosh: You want to release a Weevil in the middle of Cardiff!
Jack: Not exactly in the middle, a little to the side.
Mark Lynch: You work yourself stupid, get a house, a car, plasma screen. You end up with a workforce, people there specifically to look after your every whim. You’re officially successful, but what does it bring? Nothing. Success has no worth other than itself. Seriously, I could live without all this. It doesn’t define me.
Mark Lynch: Ask yourself, what’s the point of your life?
Owen: Mark, mate, I only came here for a beer.
Mark Lynch: There’s so much more, if you know where to look.
Owen: Is that right?
Mark Lynch: It’s closer than you think. Something’s coming. Out there, in the darkness, something is coming.
Mark Lynch: (about a Weevil) I think it’s us, Owen. You and me, in a thousand years time. This is what we become when all we have left is our rage.
Owen: Who are these blokes?
Mark Lynch: Same as us. Ordinary blokes just trying to find meaning in a world that doesn’t have anyone.
Owen: You don’t really believe that, do you?
Mark Lynch: We’re the dispossessed now, Owen. All the certainties our fathers had are gone. We’re a generation of no faith. In society, in religion, or in life. All we can do is reduce ourselves to the basics.
Owen: So these guys are paying to put their lives at risk?
Mark Lynch: It's the ultimate extreme sport. Too much disposable income, not enough meaning,. That's us.
Owen: So what about Dan Hodges, Mark?
Mark Lynch: He wouldn't come out. Just stood in the middle of the cage and let it maul him. I think he got in there and he realised he didn't want to live enough. He surrendered. None of us could get to him in time.
Owen: And still you all come back.
Mark Lynch: Well, what else is there?
Mark Lynch: When you get in there, when you’re up close with it, take a look into its eyes.
Owen: Open the door!
Mark Lynch: It’s like looking into the darkest recesses of your own soul.
12 June 2013
Quotes from "Out of Time"
(arriving at a grocery store's automatic doors)
Diane Holmes: How did it do that?
Ianto: It's automatic. It knows you're there.
Diane Holmes: But how?
Ianto: There are wave bouncing detectors which emit high frequency radio waves and then look for reflections...
Diane Holmes: Bananas!
Ianto: Of course, bananas are far more interesting.
John Ellis: Look at all this. We’d just come rationing in ’53.
Ianto: Yeah, sorry. We are a consumer society.
John Ellis: It’s bloody fantastic!
(finding a gentleman's magazine)
Ianto: Welcome to the world of scantily-clad celebrities.
John Ellis: But, there could be children around here.
Ianto: She's a children's TV presenter.
Owen: I've, uh, I've been reading up on you. England to Australia in four days, 1952, that is impressive.
Diane Holmes: Yeah, terrible wind across the Bengal Bay.
Owen: Something you ate?
Diane Holmes: So what other strides have women made?
Owen: Well, under "strange but true", how about this? You don’t have to have sex to have kids any more.
Diane Holmes: What? How come?
Owen: Get yourself inseminated with a sort of syringe. Cheery little process. Seriously, men donate sperm anonymously. A little shuffle into a pot at a sperm bank. And they say romance is dead.
Diane Holmes: Oh, come on, I wasn’t born yesterday.
Owen: No, but for a bird who's going on 90, you look pretty hot.
Diane Holmes: Do you have a girlfriend?
Owen: No.
Diane Holmes: So who do all those beauty products belong to?
Owen: Uh, me, actually.
Diane Holmes: No?
Owen: Oi, real men can moisturise too, you know.
Owen: I always thought the '50s were uptight, sexually repressed, you know.
Diane Holmes: You didn't invent it, you know.
Jack: There's no puzzle to solve, no enemy to fight, just three lost people who've somehow become our responsibility.
(Jack stops John from killing himself)
Jack: You can’t just throw it away, not without trying!
John Ellis: I’m not as strong as you! You don’t understand.
Jack: I do. I was born in the future. Lived in your past. My time has gone, too.
John Ellis: Why are you doing this? Speaking to me in bloody riddles, keeping me here when my wife is dead, my son is a shell...
Jack: John, you’re still young. You can get work, make friends, start a family.
John Ellis: I did all that, Jack. Years ago. When I was meant to.
Jack: I can’t leave you here.
John Ellis: Then we’ll wait. The sun will rise, we’ll have some breakfast, take a walk...
Jack: Yes. A new day.
John Ellis: And I’ll suffer it all and smile and wag my tail. And then, as soon as your back is turned, I’ll make sure I do it properly. Because I want to die.
Jack: You don’t get reunited, John. It just goes black.
John Ellis: How do you know?
Jack: I died once.
John Ellis: Who are you?
Jack: A man, like you, out of his time, alone and scared.
John Ellis: How do you cope?
Jack: It’s just bearable. It has to be. I don’t have a choice.
John Ellis: But I do. If you want to help me, then let me go with some dignity. Don’t condemn me to live.
Owen: I don't know if I can do this anymore. This isn't how it works for me. I've slept with enough women, I've done the fuck buddies thing. This is not it. I can't concentrate. All I see is you. All I can think about is what you're wearing, what you're thinking, what your... what your face looks like when you come. It's been, what, a week? And, uh... it's like, I don’t know, when I'm not with you, erm, I'm out of focus. How have you done this to me? I'm scared. I'm fucking scared.
Diane Holmes: I love you, too.
Diane Holmes: The thing about love is that you’re always at its mercy.
Owen: I’ll come with you.
Diane Holmes: I fly solo, Owen. I go faster and further than others.
Owen: You have no idea how this Rift works. You could end up anywhere.
Diane Holmes: That’s the beauty of it.
Owen: It’s too dangerous!
Diane Holmes: It’s what I do.
Diane Holmes: How did it do that?
Ianto: It's automatic. It knows you're there.
Diane Holmes: But how?
Ianto: There are wave bouncing detectors which emit high frequency radio waves and then look for reflections...
Diane Holmes: Bananas!
Ianto: Of course, bananas are far more interesting.
John Ellis: Look at all this. We’d just come rationing in ’53.
Ianto: Yeah, sorry. We are a consumer society.
John Ellis: It’s bloody fantastic!
(finding a gentleman's magazine)
Ianto: Welcome to the world of scantily-clad celebrities.
John Ellis: But, there could be children around here.
Ianto: She's a children's TV presenter.
Owen: I've, uh, I've been reading up on you. England to Australia in four days, 1952, that is impressive.
Diane Holmes: Yeah, terrible wind across the Bengal Bay.
Owen: Something you ate?
Diane Holmes: So what other strides have women made?
Owen: Well, under "strange but true", how about this? You don’t have to have sex to have kids any more.
Diane Holmes: What? How come?
Owen: Get yourself inseminated with a sort of syringe. Cheery little process. Seriously, men donate sperm anonymously. A little shuffle into a pot at a sperm bank. And they say romance is dead.
Diane Holmes: Oh, come on, I wasn’t born yesterday.
Owen: No, but for a bird who's going on 90, you look pretty hot.
Diane Holmes: Do you have a girlfriend?
Owen: No.
Diane Holmes: So who do all those beauty products belong to?
Owen: Uh, me, actually.
Diane Holmes: No?
Owen: Oi, real men can moisturise too, you know.
Owen: I always thought the '50s were uptight, sexually repressed, you know.
Diane Holmes: You didn't invent it, you know.
Jack: There's no puzzle to solve, no enemy to fight, just three lost people who've somehow become our responsibility.
(Jack stops John from killing himself)
Jack: You can’t just throw it away, not without trying!
John Ellis: I’m not as strong as you! You don’t understand.
Jack: I do. I was born in the future. Lived in your past. My time has gone, too.
John Ellis: Why are you doing this? Speaking to me in bloody riddles, keeping me here when my wife is dead, my son is a shell...
Jack: John, you’re still young. You can get work, make friends, start a family.
John Ellis: I did all that, Jack. Years ago. When I was meant to.
Jack: I can’t leave you here.
John Ellis: Then we’ll wait. The sun will rise, we’ll have some breakfast, take a walk...
Jack: Yes. A new day.
John Ellis: And I’ll suffer it all and smile and wag my tail. And then, as soon as your back is turned, I’ll make sure I do it properly. Because I want to die.
Jack: You don’t get reunited, John. It just goes black.
John Ellis: How do you know?
Jack: I died once.
John Ellis: Who are you?
Jack: A man, like you, out of his time, alone and scared.
John Ellis: How do you cope?
Jack: It’s just bearable. It has to be. I don’t have a choice.
John Ellis: But I do. If you want to help me, then let me go with some dignity. Don’t condemn me to live.
Owen: I don't know if I can do this anymore. This isn't how it works for me. I've slept with enough women, I've done the fuck buddies thing. This is not it. I can't concentrate. All I see is you. All I can think about is what you're wearing, what you're thinking, what your... what your face looks like when you come. It's been, what, a week? And, uh... it's like, I don’t know, when I'm not with you, erm, I'm out of focus. How have you done this to me? I'm scared. I'm fucking scared.
Diane Holmes: I love you, too.
Diane Holmes: The thing about love is that you’re always at its mercy.
Owen: I’ll come with you.
Diane Holmes: I fly solo, Owen. I go faster and further than others.
Owen: You have no idea how this Rift works. You could end up anywhere.
Diane Holmes: That’s the beauty of it.
Owen: It’s too dangerous!
Diane Holmes: It’s what I do.
05 June 2013
Quotes from "Random Shoes"
(Opening Voiceover)
Eugene Jones: The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second. Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second. Even a sneeze can reach a hundred miles per hour. And as for life? Well... that just bloody whizzes by.
(Voiceover)
Eugene: Now I had the eye and what I realised was if it fell from the sky, it probably, no, no, it almost certainly belonged to an alien. That was the night Dad went away. But it was okay, because I had the eye and the possibility of an alien encounter. I mean, if you leave something really important behind, you come back and get it. Don’t you? God, I wanted that alien to come back and claim his eye more than I wanted anything in my life. I worked out the possible provenance, the lifeform and galaxy, planetary escape velocities, launch windows, necessary fuel capacities and then, I waited.
Gwen: What was (Eugene) doing out on that road?
Owen: Oh, fuck knows. Categorising chevrons? He was a geek.
Gwen: Do you think Eugene committed suicide?
Tosh: There was a road accident and there was no alien involvement
Gwen: See, I'm not so sure because... something seems really odd. I mean I just, I just feel that there's something going on.
Owen: Marvelous, thank you for that Disney moment, now who's making the tea?
Gwen: Yeah well I suppose Eugene's a bit ordinary and local and amateur for you, Owen.
Owen: And why is that only Gwen seems to have a heart, yeah I dunno if you've noticed but the rest of us are human and amazingly we still manage to get on with our jobs
Josh: No disrespect, but Eugene had "loser" written through him like Brighton in a stick of rock. Maybe he just couldn’t live with his... failure.
(Voiceover)
Eugene: Failure? Is that right? Has my life just been one big failure? I mean, maybe I never quite lived up to my early promise as a maths genius but that’s because I was waiting. For the alien to collect his eye and change my life.
Terry: (Eugene) may have been able to square the root of the frigging root, but he couldn't cross the frigging road.
Gwen: What exactly is, uh, a Sixth Eye, I mean, exactly?
Jack: It’s one in the back. Lets you see behind you, where you’ve been. Kind of puts things in perspective. It’s useful, fun, slightly terrifying. That’s why they were in demand.
Josh: I checked the bid history; Mr. C. Blackstaff is a collector of alien ephemera and Nazi memorabilia. Also Beanie Babies. Teeny bit cuckoo, but endearingly rich.
(Voiceover)
Eugene: All those cars. All those lives moving through space. All that humanity whizzing by in a frenzy of burgers and chips, Bank Holiday fun, burst tyres, screaming kids, sudden heart attacks. Now I remember. Apart from a buzzing in my ear, where Josh whacked me, I felt good. I was running across a field on a Saturday morning, the smell of exhaust and banana milkshake, a slight nausea, heart beating too fast 'cause I wasn't that fit; all the stuff that tells you you're alive. By rights, I should be well pissed off. My mates had cheated on me and I didn’t get to meet any aliens. But I realised that when I swallowed the eye at the Happy Cook, I was given a chance to look back on my life and see it for what it really was.
Eugene: You know, twenty-eight is one of those perfect numbers. It’s equal to the sum of its divisors. I’m twenty-eight. I was twenty-eight. I think I’m going to have to go soon, Gwen.
(Voiceover)
Eugene: In an average lifetime, the human heart will beat two million times. You’ll produce over eight thousand gallons of saliva and grow three-hundred-and-fifty miles of hair. You’ll eat the equivalent in weight of six elephants. Oh, isn’t life amazing?
(Voiceover)
Eugene: The average life is full of near misses and absolute hits, of great love and small disasters. It's made up of banana milkshakes, loft insulation, and random shoes. It's dead ordinary and truly truly amazing. What you've got to realise is it's all here now. So breathe deep and swallow it whole because take it from me, life just whizzes by.
Eugene Jones: The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second. Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second. Even a sneeze can reach a hundred miles per hour. And as for life? Well... that just bloody whizzes by.
(Voiceover)
Eugene: Now I had the eye and what I realised was if it fell from the sky, it probably, no, no, it almost certainly belonged to an alien. That was the night Dad went away. But it was okay, because I had the eye and the possibility of an alien encounter. I mean, if you leave something really important behind, you come back and get it. Don’t you? God, I wanted that alien to come back and claim his eye more than I wanted anything in my life. I worked out the possible provenance, the lifeform and galaxy, planetary escape velocities, launch windows, necessary fuel capacities and then, I waited.
Gwen: What was (Eugene) doing out on that road?
Owen: Oh, fuck knows. Categorising chevrons? He was a geek.
Gwen: Do you think Eugene committed suicide?
Tosh: There was a road accident and there was no alien involvement
Gwen: See, I'm not so sure because... something seems really odd. I mean I just, I just feel that there's something going on.
Owen: Marvelous, thank you for that Disney moment, now who's making the tea?
Gwen: Yeah well I suppose Eugene's a bit ordinary and local and amateur for you, Owen.
Owen: And why is that only Gwen seems to have a heart, yeah I dunno if you've noticed but the rest of us are human and amazingly we still manage to get on with our jobs
Josh: No disrespect, but Eugene had "loser" written through him like Brighton in a stick of rock. Maybe he just couldn’t live with his... failure.
(Voiceover)
Eugene: Failure? Is that right? Has my life just been one big failure? I mean, maybe I never quite lived up to my early promise as a maths genius but that’s because I was waiting. For the alien to collect his eye and change my life.
Terry: (Eugene) may have been able to square the root of the frigging root, but he couldn't cross the frigging road.
Gwen: What exactly is, uh, a Sixth Eye, I mean, exactly?
Jack: It’s one in the back. Lets you see behind you, where you’ve been. Kind of puts things in perspective. It’s useful, fun, slightly terrifying. That’s why they were in demand.
Josh: I checked the bid history; Mr. C. Blackstaff is a collector of alien ephemera and Nazi memorabilia. Also Beanie Babies. Teeny bit cuckoo, but endearingly rich.
(Voiceover)
Eugene: All those cars. All those lives moving through space. All that humanity whizzing by in a frenzy of burgers and chips, Bank Holiday fun, burst tyres, screaming kids, sudden heart attacks. Now I remember. Apart from a buzzing in my ear, where Josh whacked me, I felt good. I was running across a field on a Saturday morning, the smell of exhaust and banana milkshake, a slight nausea, heart beating too fast 'cause I wasn't that fit; all the stuff that tells you you're alive. By rights, I should be well pissed off. My mates had cheated on me and I didn’t get to meet any aliens. But I realised that when I swallowed the eye at the Happy Cook, I was given a chance to look back on my life and see it for what it really was.
Eugene: You know, twenty-eight is one of those perfect numbers. It’s equal to the sum of its divisors. I’m twenty-eight. I was twenty-eight. I think I’m going to have to go soon, Gwen.
(Voiceover)
Eugene: In an average lifetime, the human heart will beat two million times. You’ll produce over eight thousand gallons of saliva and grow three-hundred-and-fifty miles of hair. You’ll eat the equivalent in weight of six elephants. Oh, isn’t life amazing?
(Voiceover)
Eugene: The average life is full of near misses and absolute hits, of great love and small disasters. It's made up of banana milkshakes, loft insulation, and random shoes. It's dead ordinary and truly truly amazing. What you've got to realise is it's all here now. So breathe deep and swallow it whole because take it from me, life just whizzes by.
29 May 2013
Quotes from "They keep killing Suzie"
Swanson: Are you always this dressy, for a murder investigation?
Jack: What, you rather me naked?
Swanson: God help me; the stories are true.
("Torchwood" is written in blood at a murder scene)
Swanson: Looks like somebody wants your attention.
Jack: They’ve got it.
Owen: Still, at least we've got a head start. If it’s someone we’ve pissed off, that narrows it down to, oh, four or five million.
Jack: And that’s just the humans.
Jack: Ianto, how many people have we given amnesia pills to?
Ianto: Two thousand and eight.
Owen: Hey, what if they all become psychotic?
Tosh: Do you have to sound so happy?
Owen: You know, we never gave it a cool name.
Tosh: I thought we called it the Resurrection Gauntlet.
Owen: Cool name.
Ianto: What about...the Risen Mitten?
(Jack and Owen both look less than impressed)
Ianto: I think it's catchy.
Ianto: Amazing. She's a natural - 24 seconds.
Owen: Give Ianto a stopwatch and he's happy.
Ianto: It's the button on the top.
Gwen: Have I got this right? When I die, you get to keep all of my possessions? My whole life's gonna get stashed in a locker?
Jack: Rules and regulations.
Gwen: What if I leave all my stuff to Rhys?
Jack: We'll stash him away too.
Suzie: It's my fault, isn't it? It never bloody stops being my fault. Can't you just let me die?
Jack: You don't get off that easy.
Jack: I had a boyfriend who used to walk into rooms like that. The grand entrance. Got kind of boring. Though he was one of twins, so I put up with it. Twin acrobats. Man, I gotta write that book. Maybe even illustrate it. I can talk for a long time, a very long time…
Suzie: That night, my last night on Earth - so I thought - before I shot myself, I shot Jack right through the head. I killed him, stone dead. And then he just stood up and lived. Am I right? Did that happen? Gwen?
Gwen: Yes, it did.
Suzie: So he can survive a bullet through the head?
Gwen: Yes.
Suzie: How?
Gwen: I don't know. He won't explain it properly. He said something happened to him a while back. He said, he said he can't die. Not ever.
Suzie: And he makes judgements about whether I'm allowed to live. It's all very easy for Captain Jack, isn’t it?
Suzie: We're just animals howling in the night, cause it's better than silence.
Jack: Why are you doing this?
Suzie: Because life is all, Jack. You should know! I’d do anything to stay. Anything.
Suzie: Captain, my Captain. Do you want to know a secret? There’s something moving in the dark and it’s coming, Jack Harkness, it’s coming for you.
Ianto: If you're interested, I've still got that stopwatch.
Jack: So?
Ianto: Well. Think about it. Lots of things you can do with a stopwatch.
Jack: Oh yeah! I could think of a few.
Ianto: There's quite a list.
Jack: I'll send the others home early. See you in my office in ten.
Ianto: That's ten minutes and counting.
Ianto: What do you want me to say on the death certificate?
Jack: Good question.
Ianto: She had quite a few deaths in the end.
Jack: I don’t know. "Death by Torchwood".
Ianto: That's the thing about gloves - they come in pairs...
Jack: What, you rather me naked?
Swanson: God help me; the stories are true.
("Torchwood" is written in blood at a murder scene)
Swanson: Looks like somebody wants your attention.
Jack: They’ve got it.
Owen: Still, at least we've got a head start. If it’s someone we’ve pissed off, that narrows it down to, oh, four or five million.
Jack: And that’s just the humans.
Jack: Ianto, how many people have we given amnesia pills to?
Ianto: Two thousand and eight.
Owen: Hey, what if they all become psychotic?
Tosh: Do you have to sound so happy?
Owen: You know, we never gave it a cool name.
Tosh: I thought we called it the Resurrection Gauntlet.
Owen: Cool name.
Ianto: What about...the Risen Mitten?
(Jack and Owen both look less than impressed)
Ianto: I think it's catchy.
Ianto: Amazing. She's a natural - 24 seconds.
Owen: Give Ianto a stopwatch and he's happy.
Ianto: It's the button on the top.
Gwen: Have I got this right? When I die, you get to keep all of my possessions? My whole life's gonna get stashed in a locker?
Jack: Rules and regulations.
Gwen: What if I leave all my stuff to Rhys?
Jack: We'll stash him away too.
Suzie: It's my fault, isn't it? It never bloody stops being my fault. Can't you just let me die?
Jack: You don't get off that easy.
Jack: I had a boyfriend who used to walk into rooms like that. The grand entrance. Got kind of boring. Though he was one of twins, so I put up with it. Twin acrobats. Man, I gotta write that book. Maybe even illustrate it. I can talk for a long time, a very long time…
Suzie: That night, my last night on Earth - so I thought - before I shot myself, I shot Jack right through the head. I killed him, stone dead. And then he just stood up and lived. Am I right? Did that happen? Gwen?
Gwen: Yes, it did.
Suzie: So he can survive a bullet through the head?
Gwen: Yes.
Suzie: How?
Gwen: I don't know. He won't explain it properly. He said something happened to him a while back. He said, he said he can't die. Not ever.
Suzie: And he makes judgements about whether I'm allowed to live. It's all very easy for Captain Jack, isn’t it?
Suzie: We're just animals howling in the night, cause it's better than silence.
Jack: Why are you doing this?
Suzie: Because life is all, Jack. You should know! I’d do anything to stay. Anything.
Suzie: Captain, my Captain. Do you want to know a secret? There’s something moving in the dark and it’s coming, Jack Harkness, it’s coming for you.
Ianto: If you're interested, I've still got that stopwatch.
Jack: So?
Ianto: Well. Think about it. Lots of things you can do with a stopwatch.
Jack: Oh yeah! I could think of a few.
Ianto: There's quite a list.
Jack: I'll send the others home early. See you in my office in ten.
Ianto: That's ten minutes and counting.
Ianto: What do you want me to say on the death certificate?
Jack: Good question.
Ianto: She had quite a few deaths in the end.
Jack: I don’t know. "Death by Torchwood".
Ianto: That's the thing about gloves - they come in pairs...
22 May 2013
Quotes from "Greeks Bearing Gifts"
Jack: Once, just once, I’d like to walk into one of these tents and find it’s a party, with food, and drink, and dancing; a girl crying in the corner.
(finding a skeleton)
Gwen: Any idea what it is.
Jack: Not a clue. Could be a weapon or a really big stapler. Hows our friend there?
Owen: She's dead.
Jack: Yeah, thanks, Quincy.
Gwen: (helping Owen up) Oh you're so light, you're like a girl!
Owen: I’m not light. I’m wiry. The fat girls go mad for it. But I guess I don’t need to tell you that
Owen: You know what, Tosh, sometimes I think even that stick up your arse has got a stick up its arse.
Mary: Toshiko Sato, born in London 1975, moved to Osaka when you were two then back to the UK in 1986. Parents in the RAF, Grandfather worked at Bletchley Park, very impressive. University, blah blah, snapped up by government scientist think-tank when you were twenty, recruited to Torchwood three years ago.
Tosh: What’s most amazing are the similarities with our own culture, but that can be horrible ‘cause we find lots of weapons and it just makes you think "my God, everything wages war". It’s not just a trait of ours, but a trait of existence. And it makes you feel so hopeless. But then there are times, we found this thing, it was about A4 size and it had all these symbols on it and it took me about three months to translate. It was a letter someone had written to his family; to his children to say how much he was missing them. It just made me cry because I thought, "even across these unimaginable distances, there are fundamentals that stay exactly the same". And there’s no-one to talk to about this. I mean, the guys at work, they’re great but, they don’t see it the way I do. (Pauses) I could be fired just for telling you that.
Gwen: (thinking about Tosh) Oh, sweetheart, the jeans and the boots thing has really kind of had its day.
Ianto: (thinking) Can't imagine a time when this isn't everything. Pain so constant, like my stomach's full of rats. Feels like this is all I am now. There isn't an inch of me that doesn't hurt. (aloud; cheerily) I’m about to brew some of Jack’s industrial strength coffee. Would you like a cup?
Tosh: I’m… fine, thanks Ianto.
Gwen: As you may remember, at the building site, Owen said that this was a woman killed by a single gunshot.
Owen: Yeah, I’d been like a minute.
Gwen: Since then he’s had to tweak some of his initial conclusions. This first being that this isn’t in fact a woman, but a man.
Owen: A young man. A very girly man.
Gwen: But, still, ultimately a man. Then there was the cause of death. Owen said GSW. The correct answer was…
Owen: Unidentified trauma. But…
Tosh: Unidentified trauma?
Gwen: You see it in RTAs. When something like a steering column or a post goes into a body at great velocity. But the one thing that could be ruled out was…
Owen: Gunshot wound.
Gwen: Gunshot wound. Was there in fact any part of your prognosis that was right?
Owen: I got that it was… a skeleton.
Owen: So I started looking into devil worship and stuff from that era, see if there’s anything about plucking out hearts. And would you believe it, there’s nothing. They ate eyeballs, they drank blood, they had sex with animals but they did not pluck out each other’s hearts, ‘cause obviously that would have been weird.
Tosh: I’m giving them the pendant.
Mary: Right, let’s...
Tosh: You’re right. It’s not like reading someone’s diary. It’s so much worse, and it makes me feel dirty and ashamed and now I’m spying on my friends.
Mary: Some friends.
Tosh: What’s that supposed to mean?
Mary: They pity you. They exclude you.
Tosh: So I’m shagging a woman and an alien.
Mary: Which is worse?
Tosh: I know which one my parents would say.
Tosh: I can’t stand it anymore. The weight of it, the depravity, the fear, it fills me up. It’s in my mouth, in my hair, my eyes, like I’m drowning in ink. And even when I don’t have the pendant on, it feels like there’s nothing, I can’t forget the things I’ve seen, the things I’ve heard. It’s like a curse, something the gods sent to drive someone mad. I had hope, I’d see something, a little random act of kindness, and make me think we were safe. Some essential good in us. There isn’t. It’s like one of the Weevils, look inside and there’s just a great chilling scream. You were right. Everything you said about us: we’re frightened and callous and I can’t be a part of it any longer. I don’t know what to do. Tell me what to do.
Mary: Get me into Torchwood.
Mary: You smell... different than them.
Jack: That's nothing. It's when you compare teeth with a British guy. That's when it's really scary.
Mary: What are you?
Jack: I don't know.
Tosh: Has she gone home?
Jack: I reset the coordinates.
Tosh: Where to?
Jack: To the centre of the Sun. It shouldn't be hot, I mean, we sent her there at night and everything.
Tosh: You killed her.
Jack: Yes!
Tosh: Why couldn’t I read your mind?
Jack: I don’t know. Though I could feel you scrabbling around in there.
Tosh: I got nothing. It’s like you were… dead.
Tosh: Jack, something Mary said. Probably the only honest thing she ever did say. I asked her why she gave it to me. She said after a while, it gets to you. It changes how you see people. How can I live with it?
Jack: There are some things we’re not supposed to know. You got a snapshot, nothing more.
Tosh: I don’t mean about Gwen and Ianto and Owen. I mean, the whole world.
(finding a skeleton)
Gwen: Any idea what it is.
Jack: Not a clue. Could be a weapon or a really big stapler. Hows our friend there?
Owen: She's dead.
Jack: Yeah, thanks, Quincy.
Gwen: (helping Owen up) Oh you're so light, you're like a girl!
Owen: I’m not light. I’m wiry. The fat girls go mad for it. But I guess I don’t need to tell you that
Owen: You know what, Tosh, sometimes I think even that stick up your arse has got a stick up its arse.
Mary: Toshiko Sato, born in London 1975, moved to Osaka when you were two then back to the UK in 1986. Parents in the RAF, Grandfather worked at Bletchley Park, very impressive. University, blah blah, snapped up by government scientist think-tank when you were twenty, recruited to Torchwood three years ago.
Tosh: What’s most amazing are the similarities with our own culture, but that can be horrible ‘cause we find lots of weapons and it just makes you think "my God, everything wages war". It’s not just a trait of ours, but a trait of existence. And it makes you feel so hopeless. But then there are times, we found this thing, it was about A4 size and it had all these symbols on it and it took me about three months to translate. It was a letter someone had written to his family; to his children to say how much he was missing them. It just made me cry because I thought, "even across these unimaginable distances, there are fundamentals that stay exactly the same". And there’s no-one to talk to about this. I mean, the guys at work, they’re great but, they don’t see it the way I do. (Pauses) I could be fired just for telling you that.
Gwen: (thinking about Tosh) Oh, sweetheart, the jeans and the boots thing has really kind of had its day.
Ianto: (thinking) Can't imagine a time when this isn't everything. Pain so constant, like my stomach's full of rats. Feels like this is all I am now. There isn't an inch of me that doesn't hurt. (aloud; cheerily) I’m about to brew some of Jack’s industrial strength coffee. Would you like a cup?
Tosh: I’m… fine, thanks Ianto.
Gwen: As you may remember, at the building site, Owen said that this was a woman killed by a single gunshot.
Owen: Yeah, I’d been like a minute.
Gwen: Since then he’s had to tweak some of his initial conclusions. This first being that this isn’t in fact a woman, but a man.
Owen: A young man. A very girly man.
Gwen: But, still, ultimately a man. Then there was the cause of death. Owen said GSW. The correct answer was…
Owen: Unidentified trauma. But…
Tosh: Unidentified trauma?
Gwen: You see it in RTAs. When something like a steering column or a post goes into a body at great velocity. But the one thing that could be ruled out was…
Owen: Gunshot wound.
Gwen: Gunshot wound. Was there in fact any part of your prognosis that was right?
Owen: I got that it was… a skeleton.
Owen: So I started looking into devil worship and stuff from that era, see if there’s anything about plucking out hearts. And would you believe it, there’s nothing. They ate eyeballs, they drank blood, they had sex with animals but they did not pluck out each other’s hearts, ‘cause obviously that would have been weird.
Tosh: I’m giving them the pendant.
Mary: Right, let’s...
Tosh: You’re right. It’s not like reading someone’s diary. It’s so much worse, and it makes me feel dirty and ashamed and now I’m spying on my friends.
Mary: Some friends.
Tosh: What’s that supposed to mean?
Mary: They pity you. They exclude you.
Tosh: So I’m shagging a woman and an alien.
Mary: Which is worse?
Tosh: I know which one my parents would say.
Tosh: I can’t stand it anymore. The weight of it, the depravity, the fear, it fills me up. It’s in my mouth, in my hair, my eyes, like I’m drowning in ink. And even when I don’t have the pendant on, it feels like there’s nothing, I can’t forget the things I’ve seen, the things I’ve heard. It’s like a curse, something the gods sent to drive someone mad. I had hope, I’d see something, a little random act of kindness, and make me think we were safe. Some essential good in us. There isn’t. It’s like one of the Weevils, look inside and there’s just a great chilling scream. You were right. Everything you said about us: we’re frightened and callous and I can’t be a part of it any longer. I don’t know what to do. Tell me what to do.
Mary: Get me into Torchwood.
Mary: You smell... different than them.
Jack: That's nothing. It's when you compare teeth with a British guy. That's when it's really scary.
Mary: What are you?
Jack: I don't know.
Tosh: Has she gone home?
Jack: I reset the coordinates.
Tosh: Where to?
Jack: To the centre of the Sun. It shouldn't be hot, I mean, we sent her there at night and everything.
Tosh: You killed her.
Jack: Yes!
Tosh: Why couldn’t I read your mind?
Jack: I don’t know. Though I could feel you scrabbling around in there.
Tosh: I got nothing. It’s like you were… dead.
Tosh: Jack, something Mary said. Probably the only honest thing she ever did say. I asked her why she gave it to me. She said after a while, it gets to you. It changes how you see people. How can I live with it?
Jack: There are some things we’re not supposed to know. You got a snapshot, nothing more.
Tosh: I don’t mean about Gwen and Ianto and Owen. I mean, the whole world.
08 May 2013
Quotes from "Small Worlds"
Estelle: Jack and I have always disagreed about fairies. I only see the good ones; he only ever sees the bad.
Jack: They’re all bad.
Estelle: No, I refuse to believe that!
Gwen: Well, I suppose one person’s good could be somebody else’s evil.
Jack: She calls them fairies. I don’t.
Gwen: What do you call them?
Jack: They’ve never really had a proper name.
Gwen: How come?
Jack: Something from the dawn of time. How could you possibly put a name to that?
Gwen: Are we talking alien?
Jack: Worse.
Gwen: How come?
Jack: Because they’re part of us, part of our world, yet we know nothing about them. So we pretend to know what they look like. We see them as happy. We imagine they have tiny little wings and are bathed in moonlight.
Gwen: But they’re not?
Jack: No. Think dangerous. Think something you can only half see, like a glimpse, like something out of the corner of your eye with a touch of myth, a touch of the spirit world, a touch of reality, all jumbled together, old moments and memories that are frozen in amongst it. Like debris spinning around a ringed planet, tossing, turning, whirling, backwards and forwards through time. That’s them, we have to find them, before all hell breaks loose.
Ianto: I blame it on the magic mushrooms.
Jack: What you do in private is none of our business.
Jack: I spell out the dangers, you keep looking for explanations.
Gwen: That’s what police work’s all about.
Jack: This isn’t police work.
Gwen: All right, then. Science.
Jack: And it’s not science.
Gwen: I know, you told me. It’s that "corner-of-the-eye" stuff.
Gwen: Why the petals in his mouth?
Jack: Just a bit of fun on their part.
Gwen: You call that fun?
Jack: That’s the way these creatures like to do things. They plays games, they torment, then they kill.
Gwen: Why?
Jack: As a punishment or a warning to others. They protect their own. The Chosen Ones. Somehow children and the spirit world, they go together.
Tosh: So how do we stop them?
Jack: First we have to find out who they want. And we can’t trap them. They have control of the elements. Fire, water, the air that we breathe. They can drag that air right out of our bodies. Sometimes I think they’re part Mara.
Tosh: Mara?
Jack: Kind of malignant wraiths. It’s where the word "nightmare" comes from. They suffocate people in their sleep.
Gwen: It wasn't your dad that was in love with her all those years ago, was it? It was you.
Jack: We'd once made a vow; that we'd be with each other until we died. I need a drink.
Gwen: Where did you and Estelle meet?
Jack: In London. At the Astoria ballroom. A few weeks before Christmas. She was seventeen years old and she was beautiful. I loved her at first sight. But nothing lasted back then. Promises were always being broken. Estelle...to have to die like that...
Lynn: So who are they?
Jasmine: Just friends.
Lynn: You should have invited them to the party.
Jasmine: They don’t like parties.
Lynn: I’m not surprised if they live in trees.
Jasmine: Oh, they don’t always live in trees. They can be anywhere and everywhere. They can even be in this room.
Lynn: Where did you meet these friends? Must’ve met them somewhere.
Jasmine: They said they’ll always look after me. Even through time.
Jasmine: Do you know you're walking in the forest? Well, you are. It looks like a very old forest and it's magical. I want to stay in it.
Jack: You can see this forest?
Jasmine: Yes.
Jack: But it's not here. It's just an illusion, Jasmine. It is. Your friends are just playing a game with you. The real forest can never come back.
Jasmine: Oh, it can. When they take me to it.
Gwen: They told you this? But what about your mother, don't you want to stay with her?
(the fairies arrive)
Jack: Come on. The child isn't sure.
Jasmine: I am sure! (Jack grabs her) No!
Jack: Leave her alone. Find another Chosen One.
Fairy: Too late. She belongs with us.
Jack: The child belongs here!
Fairy: No! She lives forever.
Jack: Suppose we make her stay with us.
Jasmine: Then lots more people will die.
Gwen: They tell you that?
Jasmine: They promised.
Fairies: Come away, oh human child.
Jasmine: Next time, they'll kill everybody at my school, like they killed Roy. And that man. And your friend.
Gwen: How do you know these things?
Jasmine: If they want to, they can make great storms, wild seas, they can turn the world to ice, kill every living thing. Let me go!
Jack: The child won’t be harmed?
Gwen: Jack, you can’t...
Jack: Answer me! She won’t be harmed?
Fairy: We told you. She lives forever.
Jasmine: Dead world. Is that what you want?
Jack: What good is that to you? There will be no more Chosen Ones.
Jasmine: They’ll find us, back in time.
Jack: Take her.
Fairies: Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild. With a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Jack: They’re all bad.
Estelle: No, I refuse to believe that!
Gwen: Well, I suppose one person’s good could be somebody else’s evil.
Jack: She calls them fairies. I don’t.
Gwen: What do you call them?
Jack: They’ve never really had a proper name.
Gwen: How come?
Jack: Something from the dawn of time. How could you possibly put a name to that?
Gwen: Are we talking alien?
Jack: Worse.
Gwen: How come?
Jack: Because they’re part of us, part of our world, yet we know nothing about them. So we pretend to know what they look like. We see them as happy. We imagine they have tiny little wings and are bathed in moonlight.
Gwen: But they’re not?
Jack: No. Think dangerous. Think something you can only half see, like a glimpse, like something out of the corner of your eye with a touch of myth, a touch of the spirit world, a touch of reality, all jumbled together, old moments and memories that are frozen in amongst it. Like debris spinning around a ringed planet, tossing, turning, whirling, backwards and forwards through time. That’s them, we have to find them, before all hell breaks loose.
Ianto: I blame it on the magic mushrooms.
Jack: What you do in private is none of our business.
Jack: I spell out the dangers, you keep looking for explanations.
Gwen: That’s what police work’s all about.
Jack: This isn’t police work.
Gwen: All right, then. Science.
Jack: And it’s not science.
Gwen: I know, you told me. It’s that "corner-of-the-eye" stuff.
Gwen: Why the petals in his mouth?
Jack: Just a bit of fun on their part.
Gwen: You call that fun?
Jack: That’s the way these creatures like to do things. They plays games, they torment, then they kill.
Gwen: Why?
Jack: As a punishment or a warning to others. They protect their own. The Chosen Ones. Somehow children and the spirit world, they go together.
Tosh: So how do we stop them?
Jack: First we have to find out who they want. And we can’t trap them. They have control of the elements. Fire, water, the air that we breathe. They can drag that air right out of our bodies. Sometimes I think they’re part Mara.
Tosh: Mara?
Jack: Kind of malignant wraiths. It’s where the word "nightmare" comes from. They suffocate people in their sleep.
Gwen: It wasn't your dad that was in love with her all those years ago, was it? It was you.
Jack: We'd once made a vow; that we'd be with each other until we died. I need a drink.
Gwen: Where did you and Estelle meet?
Jack: In London. At the Astoria ballroom. A few weeks before Christmas. She was seventeen years old and she was beautiful. I loved her at first sight. But nothing lasted back then. Promises were always being broken. Estelle...to have to die like that...
Lynn: So who are they?
Jasmine: Just friends.
Lynn: You should have invited them to the party.
Jasmine: They don’t like parties.
Lynn: I’m not surprised if they live in trees.
Jasmine: Oh, they don’t always live in trees. They can be anywhere and everywhere. They can even be in this room.
Lynn: Where did you meet these friends? Must’ve met them somewhere.
Jasmine: They said they’ll always look after me. Even through time.
Jasmine: Do you know you're walking in the forest? Well, you are. It looks like a very old forest and it's magical. I want to stay in it.
Jack: You can see this forest?
Jasmine: Yes.
Jack: But it's not here. It's just an illusion, Jasmine. It is. Your friends are just playing a game with you. The real forest can never come back.
Jasmine: Oh, it can. When they take me to it.
Gwen: They told you this? But what about your mother, don't you want to stay with her?
(the fairies arrive)
Jack: Come on. The child isn't sure.
Jasmine: I am sure! (Jack grabs her) No!
Jack: Leave her alone. Find another Chosen One.
Fairy: Too late. She belongs with us.
Jack: The child belongs here!
Fairy: No! She lives forever.
Jack: Suppose we make her stay with us.
Jasmine: Then lots more people will die.
Gwen: They tell you that?
Jasmine: They promised.
Fairies: Come away, oh human child.
Jasmine: Next time, they'll kill everybody at my school, like they killed Roy. And that man. And your friend.
Gwen: How do you know these things?
Jasmine: If they want to, they can make great storms, wild seas, they can turn the world to ice, kill every living thing. Let me go!
Jack: The child won’t be harmed?
Gwen: Jack, you can’t...
Jack: Answer me! She won’t be harmed?
Fairy: We told you. She lives forever.
Jasmine: Dead world. Is that what you want?
Jack: What good is that to you? There will be no more Chosen Ones.
Jasmine: They’ll find us, back in time.
Jack: Take her.
Fairies: Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild. With a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
10 April 2013
Quotes from "Everything Changes"
Jack: There you go! I can taste it! Oestrogen. Definitely oestrogen. Take the pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle, feminiaes the fish, goes all the way up into the sky then falls all the way back down onto me. Contraceptives in the rain. Love this planet. Still, at least I won't get pregnant. I'm never doing that again.
Gwen: Who are they, Torchwood?
PC Andy: I'll bet you ten quid they're DNA experts. It's all this CSI crap these days. CSI: Cardiff. I'd like to see that! They'd be measuring the velocity of a kebab!
Jack: Before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name of “Torchwood”?
Owen: Er, yeah, that would be me. Sorry, I’m a twat.
Gwen: I’m getting tired of following you.
Jack: No, you’re not. And you never will.
Jack: The 21st Century is when it all changes, and you've got to be ready.
Jack: That is so Welsh.
Gwen: What?
Jack: I show you something fantastic. You find fault.
Jack: I can’t die.
Gwen: Okay.
Jack: But I can’t. Something happened to me a while back. Long story and far away. But I was killed.... and then I was brought back to life, and ever since then... I can’t die.
Gwen: But how...?
Jack: I don’t know. One day I’ll find a doctor, the right sort of doctor and maybe he can explain it. But until then...
Gwen: Nothing kills you?
Jack: Well, it kinda freaks people out, so best if you don’t say anything.
Gwen: Who are they, Torchwood?
PC Andy: I'll bet you ten quid they're DNA experts. It's all this CSI crap these days. CSI: Cardiff. I'd like to see that! They'd be measuring the velocity of a kebab!
Jack: Before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name of “Torchwood”?
Owen: Er, yeah, that would be me. Sorry, I’m a twat.
Gwen: I’m getting tired of following you.
Jack: No, you’re not. And you never will.
Jack: The 21st Century is when it all changes, and you've got to be ready.
Jack: That is so Welsh.
Gwen: What?
Jack: I show you something fantastic. You find fault.
Jack: I can’t die.
Gwen: Okay.
Jack: But I can’t. Something happened to me a while back. Long story and far away. But I was killed.... and then I was brought back to life, and ever since then... I can’t die.
Gwen: But how...?
Jack: I don’t know. One day I’ll find a doctor, the right sort of doctor and maybe he can explain it. But until then...
Gwen: Nothing kills you?
Jack: Well, it kinda freaks people out, so best if you don’t say anything.
12 March 2012
Series 1 Episode 13: Parting of the Ways
Summary:
The Daleks know that they have been discovered and they are launching their attack. The Doctor and Jack manage to get into one of the Dalek ships and are able to rescue Rose. There they find out how the Daleks were able to rebuild themselves again and the Doctor meets his old enemy the Dalek emperor who survived the Time War. Back on the Game Station, the Doctor tries everything to build up a delta wave to save the people but he knows that he doesn't have enough time. While Jack tries to defend the 500th floor, the Doctor send Rose back into her time to save her. Rose doesn't want to give him up and she finds out that she is Bad Wolf. She has scattered this message throughout time and space because she knows that she can save the Doctor. The Daleks have destroyed the defence of the Game Station and are now in the control room when the Tardis appears with Rose in it. She is able to destroy the Daleks but at what cost?
This episode is a brilliant finale to the first series but unfortunately we have to say goodbye to Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor. He absorbs the energy, which is in Rose to save her again but that leads to his regeneration. I think Jack and the Doctor both love Rose in their own way and they want to see her save although it could mean their death. Rose feels the same for them and I guess that is the reason why she brings Jack back to life while she destroys all the Daleks. The Daleks are great monsters and they always give you a great enemy for an episode of Doctor Who. It is interesting that so many people are willing to follow the Doctor and even die for him when he defends earth or does whatever needs to be done. I guess it still hurts him to loose someone but he has learned to bury it inside of him. That's probably the reason why he always wants to bring events to a good end. I would have liked to see a bit more of Chris Eccleston's Doctor but that is not our thing to decide.
The Daleks know that they have been discovered and they are launching their attack. The Doctor and Jack manage to get into one of the Dalek ships and are able to rescue Rose. There they find out how the Daleks were able to rebuild themselves again and the Doctor meets his old enemy the Dalek emperor who survived the Time War. Back on the Game Station, the Doctor tries everything to build up a delta wave to save the people but he knows that he doesn't have enough time. While Jack tries to defend the 500th floor, the Doctor send Rose back into her time to save her. Rose doesn't want to give him up and she finds out that she is Bad Wolf. She has scattered this message throughout time and space because she knows that she can save the Doctor. The Daleks have destroyed the defence of the Game Station and are now in the control room when the Tardis appears with Rose in it. She is able to destroy the Daleks but at what cost?
This episode is a brilliant finale to the first series but unfortunately we have to say goodbye to Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor. He absorbs the energy, which is in Rose to save her again but that leads to his regeneration. I think Jack and the Doctor both love Rose in their own way and they want to see her save although it could mean their death. Rose feels the same for them and I guess that is the reason why she brings Jack back to life while she destroys all the Daleks. The Daleks are great monsters and they always give you a great enemy for an episode of Doctor Who. It is interesting that so many people are willing to follow the Doctor and even die for him when he defends earth or does whatever needs to be done. I guess it still hurts him to loose someone but he has learned to bury it inside of him. That's probably the reason why he always wants to bring events to a good end. I would have liked to see a bit more of Chris Eccleston's Doctor but that is not our thing to decide.
05 March 2012
Series 1 Episode 12: Bad Wolf
Summary:
All of a sudden the Doctor, Rose and Jack land on board of the Game Station. They are all in a different game and in these games you aren't just out when you loose, you'll be killed. The Doctor and Jack manage to get out of their games but when they want to save Rose she is hit by a disintegration beam. Now the Doctor wants to know who is behind all this because he remembers that he has been on this satellite before and has thought back then that he saved the human race. It got worse than that because the humans haven't noticed which threat is just in front of their eyes. The Daleks are back and want to be the rulers of Earth. Jack finds out that Rose isn't dead and the Doctor promises to save her.
"Bad Wolf" is the first part of the final two-parter of this series. The Doctor, Rose and Jack are back on Satellite 5, which is now called the Game Station. There are games like "Big Brother" or "The Weakest Link" and they are broadcast straight to earth. It is funny to see how Russel T. Davies has managed to portrait these different games and he gave them a deadly twist. I always wonder how natural it is for John Barrowman to stand naked in front of the camera. It's a shame that they weren't allowed to show the take of his backside. In this episode we are stumbling over the words Bad Wolf again and we'll soon find out what the mean. This was an element which connected all of the episodes in this series. The Daleks are back and they are stronger than before and still wiling to kill every human being and the Doctor as well. This episode is a great opener for the series finale.
All of a sudden the Doctor, Rose and Jack land on board of the Game Station. They are all in a different game and in these games you aren't just out when you loose, you'll be killed. The Doctor and Jack manage to get out of their games but when they want to save Rose she is hit by a disintegration beam. Now the Doctor wants to know who is behind all this because he remembers that he has been on this satellite before and has thought back then that he saved the human race. It got worse than that because the humans haven't noticed which threat is just in front of their eyes. The Daleks are back and want to be the rulers of Earth. Jack finds out that Rose isn't dead and the Doctor promises to save her.
"Bad Wolf" is the first part of the final two-parter of this series. The Doctor, Rose and Jack are back on Satellite 5, which is now called the Game Station. There are games like "Big Brother" or "The Weakest Link" and they are broadcast straight to earth. It is funny to see how Russel T. Davies has managed to portrait these different games and he gave them a deadly twist. I always wonder how natural it is for John Barrowman to stand naked in front of the camera. It's a shame that they weren't allowed to show the take of his backside. In this episode we are stumbling over the words Bad Wolf again and we'll soon find out what the mean. This was an element which connected all of the episodes in this series. The Daleks are back and they are stronger than before and still wiling to kill every human being and the Doctor as well. This episode is a great opener for the series finale.
23 January 2012
Series 1 Episode 6: Dalek
Summary:
The Doctor and Rose follow a signal and land in a museum full of alien artefacts. Soon they meet Mr van Statten who has collected everything and is especially proud of his one living alien. The Doctor wants to talk to it but he recognises the alien as his biggest enemy: a Dalek. The Dalek fell through a hole in time during the Time War and crashed on earth. The Doctor tells van Statten to destroy the Dalek as long as it's weak but van Statten doesn't want to hear anything about it. Rose touches the Dalek and he regenerates because of her DNA. It starts to kill people on its way out of the base. Can the Doctor stop the Dalek or not? Will he loose Rose?
This is the first time in the new series that we see the Daleks again, one of the enemies of the Doctor. It is interesting to see how the Doctor changes when he is in the company of the Dalek. Sometimes it seems that he is not better than his enemy and that the only thing he wants to do is kill it. I think Rose speaks for the whole audience when she asks him, "What is wrong with you?"
Rose can see the Dalek with different eyes because she hasn't been in the Time War and doesn't know what has happened there. I think the moments between Rose and Adam are quite nice and it is good to see Rose and the Doctor interact with other characters than with each other. The episode still has its funny moments and I always like the scene when the Doctor looks for a weapon and has a hair-dryer in his hands. In the new series the Daleks have evolved as well because they are able to levitate now and are able to climb stairs as well. So, Stairs are no help anymore when you meet a Dalek.
The Doctor and Rose follow a signal and land in a museum full of alien artefacts. Soon they meet Mr van Statten who has collected everything and is especially proud of his one living alien. The Doctor wants to talk to it but he recognises the alien as his biggest enemy: a Dalek. The Dalek fell through a hole in time during the Time War and crashed on earth. The Doctor tells van Statten to destroy the Dalek as long as it's weak but van Statten doesn't want to hear anything about it. Rose touches the Dalek and he regenerates because of her DNA. It starts to kill people on its way out of the base. Can the Doctor stop the Dalek or not? Will he loose Rose?
This is the first time in the new series that we see the Daleks again, one of the enemies of the Doctor. It is interesting to see how the Doctor changes when he is in the company of the Dalek. Sometimes it seems that he is not better than his enemy and that the only thing he wants to do is kill it. I think Rose speaks for the whole audience when she asks him, "What is wrong with you?"
Rose can see the Dalek with different eyes because she hasn't been in the Time War and doesn't know what has happened there. I think the moments between Rose and Adam are quite nice and it is good to see Rose and the Doctor interact with other characters than with each other. The episode still has its funny moments and I always like the scene when the Doctor looks for a weapon and has a hair-dryer in his hands. In the new series the Daleks have evolved as well because they are able to levitate now and are able to climb stairs as well. So, Stairs are no help anymore when you meet a Dalek.
16 January 2012
Series 1 Episode 5: World War Three
Summary:
The Slitheen have killed all the alien experts but the weren't able to kill the Doctor. Now he is on the run from them, as well as Rose and Harriet Jones. Soon they find together again and lock themselves into the cabinet room, which is build like a panic room with steel doors and walls. From there they try to find out what the Slitheen want but the Doctor needs Mickey's help for that. Mickey has saved Jackie from one of the Slitheens but it followed them back to Mickey's flat. It will kill them if the Doctor can't find a way to save them, which he luckily does. Now they know that the Slitheen send a signal into space because they first want to destroy earth and then sell it piece by piece. Can the Doctor stop them?
In the second part of this two-parter we see that the Slitheen can't kill the Doctor but they have him in a trap in the cabinet room. The Doctor doesn't really know what they are up to and it is fun to watch him when he tries to find an answer to how to kill them when Jackie and Mickey are in danger. You can see that he doesn't like Rose's mother or boyfriend very much but he kind of starts to tolerate them in this episode, especially because he needs their help. We also see, that he doesn't want to put Rose in danger but that he has to when he wants to save the world. I think it's funny that after everything is over the public doesn't believe that the blown up Downing Street 10 has something to do with aliens. People always deny what they can't understand.
The chemistry between the characters is brilliant in this episode and I really like the energy Christopher Eccleston brings into his Doctor. I think the Slitheen are also some of my favourite aliens in the show.
The Slitheen have killed all the alien experts but the weren't able to kill the Doctor. Now he is on the run from them, as well as Rose and Harriet Jones. Soon they find together again and lock themselves into the cabinet room, which is build like a panic room with steel doors and walls. From there they try to find out what the Slitheen want but the Doctor needs Mickey's help for that. Mickey has saved Jackie from one of the Slitheens but it followed them back to Mickey's flat. It will kill them if the Doctor can't find a way to save them, which he luckily does. Now they know that the Slitheen send a signal into space because they first want to destroy earth and then sell it piece by piece. Can the Doctor stop them?
In the second part of this two-parter we see that the Slitheen can't kill the Doctor but they have him in a trap in the cabinet room. The Doctor doesn't really know what they are up to and it is fun to watch him when he tries to find an answer to how to kill them when Jackie and Mickey are in danger. You can see that he doesn't like Rose's mother or boyfriend very much but he kind of starts to tolerate them in this episode, especially because he needs their help. We also see, that he doesn't want to put Rose in danger but that he has to when he wants to save the world. I think it's funny that after everything is over the public doesn't believe that the blown up Downing Street 10 has something to do with aliens. People always deny what they can't understand.
The chemistry between the characters is brilliant in this episode and I really like the energy Christopher Eccleston brings into his Doctor. I think the Slitheen are also some of my favourite aliens in the show.
09 January 2012
Series 1 Episode 4: Aliens of London
Summary:
The Doctor takes Rose back home and tells her that just 12 hours have passed. They soon find out that a whole year has passed and not just a couple of hours. Rose can't tell her mother where she has been because she wouldn't understand it. Right then a spaceship crashes into the Thames and the Doctor wants to find out what kind of alien was in the ship. He soon finds out that the alien has been a fake and Jackie discovers who the Doctor really is. After she sees the inside of the TARDIS and The Doctor tells her that he is an alien, she calls a hotline and soon Rose and the Doctor are brought into Downing Street 10. What is behind the fake alien and is Earth facing an invasion?
"Aliens of London" is the first part of a two parter and it isn't the last one in this series. The open ending often makes everything more exciting and you have to wait for at least a week to find out what happens next.
I just love the character of Harriet Jones in this episode. Every time she tells somebody who she is and flashes her ID at them, I have to grin. I guess that's a bit of a running gag because she still does that in later episodes. The Slitheen are an alien race that is funny and a bit scary at the same time. With their human disguise the always look like fat people who are farting too much and then there is this zipper on their forehead when they want to take their skin off.
You can see that Rose is torn between going with the Doctor and staying with her Mum and her friends and we don't know how she will decide yet. The Doctor gives her the TARDIS key and I think that's a sign that he trusts her and wants to have her around him. With Doctor Sato, the woman in the morgue, we have another person who we will see again later in Torchwood. I really don't know if Tosh already works for Torchwood at this point, so if you know, please drop me a line.
The Doctor takes Rose back home and tells her that just 12 hours have passed. They soon find out that a whole year has passed and not just a couple of hours. Rose can't tell her mother where she has been because she wouldn't understand it. Right then a spaceship crashes into the Thames and the Doctor wants to find out what kind of alien was in the ship. He soon finds out that the alien has been a fake and Jackie discovers who the Doctor really is. After she sees the inside of the TARDIS and The Doctor tells her that he is an alien, she calls a hotline and soon Rose and the Doctor are brought into Downing Street 10. What is behind the fake alien and is Earth facing an invasion?
"Aliens of London" is the first part of a two parter and it isn't the last one in this series. The open ending often makes everything more exciting and you have to wait for at least a week to find out what happens next.
I just love the character of Harriet Jones in this episode. Every time she tells somebody who she is and flashes her ID at them, I have to grin. I guess that's a bit of a running gag because she still does that in later episodes. The Slitheen are an alien race that is funny and a bit scary at the same time. With their human disguise the always look like fat people who are farting too much and then there is this zipper on their forehead when they want to take their skin off.
You can see that Rose is torn between going with the Doctor and staying with her Mum and her friends and we don't know how she will decide yet. The Doctor gives her the TARDIS key and I think that's a sign that he trusts her and wants to have her around him. With Doctor Sato, the woman in the morgue, we have another person who we will see again later in Torchwood. I really don't know if Tosh already works for Torchwood at this point, so if you know, please drop me a line.
19 December 2011
Series 1 Episode 2: The End of the World
The first episode in which the Doctor takes Rose into another time.
Summary:
The Doctor takes Rose into the future onto a space platform. They will see how the earth will burn because the sun expands. It is hard for Rose to comprehend that she is in the future but it is also difficult for her to see all the aliens. Now, Rose is aware of that she doesn't know the Doctor and that she hasn't thought about her decision to go with him. They soon find out that someone wants to sabotage the platform and that all people are going to die when the Doctor can't find a solution for the problem. What has Cassandra to do with everything and is she really the last human?
In this episode Rose starts to think about her decision to go with the Doctor and that she doesn't know him. Here we see some of the other sides of the Doctor, the deep pain that is within him because he is the last Time Lord but he still goes on. He still tries to save everyone who needs help but he can also be merciless. I like the episode because it tells more about the background of the Doctor, especially when you don't know any of the older episodes. It is interesting to see how the writers think the future will look like and how the people have evolved in that time. Definitely a great second episode.
Summary:
The Doctor takes Rose into the future onto a space platform. They will see how the earth will burn because the sun expands. It is hard for Rose to comprehend that she is in the future but it is also difficult for her to see all the aliens. Now, Rose is aware of that she doesn't know the Doctor and that she hasn't thought about her decision to go with him. They soon find out that someone wants to sabotage the platform and that all people are going to die when the Doctor can't find a solution for the problem. What has Cassandra to do with everything and is she really the last human?
In this episode Rose starts to think about her decision to go with the Doctor and that she doesn't know him. Here we see some of the other sides of the Doctor, the deep pain that is within him because he is the last Time Lord but he still goes on. He still tries to save everyone who needs help but he can also be merciless. I like the episode because it tells more about the background of the Doctor, especially when you don't know any of the older episodes. It is interesting to see how the writers think the future will look like and how the people have evolved in that time. Definitely a great second episode.
08 August 2011
Quotes from "The Parting of the Ways"
It's time for some quotes again today. This time I have some from the last episode of the first series for you.
Dalek 1: You know the Doctor. You understand him. You will predict his actions.
Rose: I don't know! And even if I did, I wouldn't tell you!
Dalek 1: Predict. Predict! PREDICT!
Dalek 2: TARDIS detected, in flight.
Dalek 1: Launch missiles! Exterminate!
Rose: You can't! The TARDIS hasn't got any defenses! You're going to kill him!
Dalek 1: You have predicted correctly.
Jack: The extrapolator's working. we've got a fully functional forcefield. Try saying that when you're drunk.
Jack: One minute, they’re the greatest threat in the universe, the next minute they vanished out of time and space.
The Doctor: They went off to fight a bigger war. The Time War.
Jack: 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. Now it turns out they died for nothing.
The Doctor: It's all right, come on out. That forcefield can hold back anything.
Jack: Almost anything.
The Doctor: Yes, but I wasn't gonna tell them that, thanks.
Jack: Sorry.
The Doctor: Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You may 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? So tell me, how did you survive the Time War?
Emperor Dalek: They survived through me.
Jack: It’s been fun, but I guess this is goodbye.
Rose: Don’t talk like that! The Doctor’s gonna do it. You just watch him.
Jack: Rose. You are worth fighting for. (kisses her) I wish I’d never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward. (kisses him) See you in Hell.
The Doctor: There's another thing the TARDIS could do. It could take us away. We could leave; let history take its course. We go to Marbella in 1989.
Rose: Yeah, but you'd never do that
The Doctor: No, but you could ask. Never even occurred to you, did it?
The Doctor: If I'm very clever--and I'm more than clever, I'm brilliant--I might just save the world. Or rip it apart.
Rose: I'd go for the first one.
The Doctor: Me, too.
Rose: I want you safe... my Doctor. Protected from the false god.
Rose: I can see everything. All that is...all that was...all that ever could be.
The (Ninth) Doctor: (his final words) And before I go, Rose...before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And d'you know what? So was I.
The Tenth Doctor: (his first words) Hello. New teeth...that's weird. Now, where was I? Oh, that's right... Barcelona!
Dalek 1: You know the Doctor. You understand him. You will predict his actions.
Rose: I don't know! And even if I did, I wouldn't tell you!
Dalek 1: Predict. Predict! PREDICT!
Dalek 2: TARDIS detected, in flight.
Dalek 1: Launch missiles! Exterminate!
Rose: You can't! The TARDIS hasn't got any defenses! You're going to kill him!
Dalek 1: You have predicted correctly.
Jack: The extrapolator's working. we've got a fully functional forcefield. Try saying that when you're drunk.
Jack: One minute, they’re the greatest threat in the universe, the next minute they vanished out of time and space.
The Doctor: They went off to fight a bigger war. The Time War.
Jack: 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. Now it turns out they died for nothing.
The Doctor: It's all right, come on out. That forcefield can hold back anything.
Jack: Almost anything.
The Doctor: Yes, but I wasn't gonna tell them that, thanks.
Jack: Sorry.
The Doctor: Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You may 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? So tell me, how did you survive the Time War?
Emperor Dalek: They survived through me.
Jack: It’s been fun, but I guess this is goodbye.
Rose: Don’t talk like that! The Doctor’s gonna do it. You just watch him.
Jack: Rose. You are worth fighting for. (kisses her) I wish I’d never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward. (kisses him) See you in Hell.
The Doctor: There's another thing the TARDIS could do. It could take us away. We could leave; let history take its course. We go to Marbella in 1989.
Rose: Yeah, but you'd never do that
The Doctor: No, but you could ask. Never even occurred to you, did it?
The Doctor: If I'm very clever--and I'm more than clever, I'm brilliant--I might just save the world. Or rip it apart.
Rose: I'd go for the first one.
The Doctor: Me, too.
Rose: I want you safe... my Doctor. Protected from the false god.
Rose: I can see everything. All that is...all that was...all that ever could be.
The (Ninth) Doctor: (his final words) And before I go, Rose...before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And d'you know what? So was I.
The Tenth Doctor: (his first words) Hello. New teeth...that's weird. Now, where was I? Oh, that's right... Barcelona!
01 August 2011
Quotes from "Bad Wolf"
Today I have some quotes from the episode "Bad Wolf" for you. Enjoy!
Zu-Zana: Just stand still and let the defrabricator work its magic.
Captain Jack: What's a defabricator? (Jack's clothes disappear) Ah a defrabricator, does exactly what it says on the tin. Am I naked in front of millions of viewers?
Trin-E and Zu-Zana: Absolutely!
Captain Jack: Ladies, your viewing figures just went up.
Anne Droid: So, tell me, Rose, what do you do?
Rose: Um, well, I just travel about, bit of a tourist, I suppose.
Anne Droid: So you're unemployed
Rose: No!
Anne Droid: Have you got a job?
Rose: Well, not really, no...
Anne Droid: Then you're unemployed. And yet you still have enough money to buy peroxide.
The Doctor: I can’t open it.
Lynda: It’s got a deadlock seal. Ever since Big Brother 504, when they all walked out. You must remember that.
The Doctor: What about this?
Lynda: Oh, that’s exoglass. You’d need a nuclear bomb to get through.
The Doctor: Don’t tempt me.
The Doctor: Lynda, you're sweet. From what I've seen of your world, do you think anybody votes for sweet?
Captain Jack: Well, ladies, the pleasure was all mine. Which is the only thing that matters in the end.
The Doctor: Do you mind flirting outside?
Captain Jack: I was just saying hello.
The Doctor: For you that's flirting.
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 executes hundreds of contestants 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!
Dalek: We have your associate! You will obey or she will be exterminated!
The Doctor: No.
Dalek: Explain yourself!
The Doctor: I said no.
Dalek: What is the meaning of this negative?
The Doctor: It means no.
Dalek: But she will be destroyed!
The Doctor: No! 'Cause this is what I'm going to do: I'm going to rescue her! I'm going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I'm going to save the Earth, and then, just to finish off, I'm going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!
Dalek: 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: Alert! ALERT! We are detected!
Zu-Zana: Just stand still and let the defrabricator work its magic.
Captain Jack: What's a defabricator? (Jack's clothes disappear) Ah a defrabricator, does exactly what it says on the tin. Am I naked in front of millions of viewers?
Trin-E and Zu-Zana: Absolutely!
Captain Jack: Ladies, your viewing figures just went up.
Anne Droid: So, tell me, Rose, what do you do?
Rose: Um, well, I just travel about, bit of a tourist, I suppose.
Anne Droid: So you're unemployed
Rose: No!
Anne Droid: Have you got a job?
Rose: Well, not really, no...
Anne Droid: Then you're unemployed. And yet you still have enough money to buy peroxide.
The Doctor: I can’t open it.
Lynda: It’s got a deadlock seal. Ever since Big Brother 504, when they all walked out. You must remember that.
The Doctor: What about this?
Lynda: Oh, that’s exoglass. You’d need a nuclear bomb to get through.
The Doctor: Don’t tempt me.
The Doctor: Lynda, you're sweet. From what I've seen of your world, do you think anybody votes for sweet?
Captain Jack: Well, ladies, the pleasure was all mine. Which is the only thing that matters in the end.
The Doctor: Do you mind flirting outside?
Captain Jack: I was just saying hello.
The Doctor: For you that's flirting.
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 executes hundreds of contestants 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!
Dalek: We have your associate! You will obey or she will be exterminated!
The Doctor: No.
Dalek: Explain yourself!
The Doctor: I said no.
Dalek: What is the meaning of this negative?
The Doctor: It means no.
Dalek: But she will be destroyed!
The Doctor: No! 'Cause this is what I'm going to do: I'm going to rescue her! I'm going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I'm going to save the Earth, and then, just to finish off, I'm going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!
Dalek: 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: Alert! ALERT! We are detected!
25 July 2011
Quotes from "Boom Town"
Today you get quotes from the episode "Boom Town" from series 1.
Jack: Ah, sweet. Look at those two. Why don't I ever get any of that?
The Doctor: Buy me a drink first.
Jack: You're such hard work.
The Doctor: But worth it.
Mickey Smith: I don't mind you hanging out with big ears up there...
The Doctor: Oi!
Mickey Smith: Look in a mirror.
Margaret Blaine: He slipped on an icy patch.
Cathy Salt: He was decapitated.
Margaret Blaine: It was a very icy patch.
Margaret: This is persecution. Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?
The Doctor: You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet.
Margaret: Apart from that?
Margaret Blaine: London doesn't care. The South Wales coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice...Oh! I sound like a Welshman. God help me, I've gone native.
Margaret: This is the technology of the gods.
The Doctor: Don't worship me, I'd make a very bad god. You wouldn't get a day off, for starters.
The Doctor: 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 Doctor: (to Margaret Blaine) It's not just any old power source - it's the TARDIS! My TARDIS - the best ship in the universe...The heart of the TARDIS...This ship's alive. You've opened its soul.
Jack: Ah, sweet. Look at those two. Why don't I ever get any of that?
The Doctor: Buy me a drink first.
Jack: You're such hard work.
The Doctor: But worth it.
Mickey Smith: I don't mind you hanging out with big ears up there...
The Doctor: Oi!
Mickey Smith: Look in a mirror.
Margaret Blaine: He slipped on an icy patch.
Cathy Salt: He was decapitated.
Margaret Blaine: It was a very icy patch.
Margaret: This is persecution. Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?
The Doctor: You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet.
Margaret: Apart from that?
Margaret Blaine: London doesn't care. The South Wales coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice...Oh! I sound like a Welshman. God help me, I've gone native.
Margaret: This is the technology of the gods.
The Doctor: Don't worship me, I'd make a very bad god. You wouldn't get a day off, for starters.
The Doctor: 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 Doctor: (to Margaret Blaine) It's not just any old power source - it's the TARDIS! My TARDIS - the best ship in the universe...The heart of the TARDIS...This ship's alive. You've opened its soul.
18 July 2011
Quotes from "The Doctor Dances"
Something Doctor Who today. I have quotes from the episode "The Doctor Dances" for you.
The Doctor: (to the Empty Children) 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 Empty Children back away) I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.
The Doctor: How was your con supposed to work?
Jack: Simple enough, really. Find some harmless piece of space junk, let the nearest Time Agent track it back to Earth, convince him it's valuable, name a price. And he's put fifty percent up front… oops, German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to see what he's paid for. Never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money and we discuss dumb luck. The perfect self-cleaning con.
The Doctor: There's a banana grove there now. I like bananas. Bananas are good.
The Doctor: Funny little human brains. How do you get around in those things?
Rose: When he's stressed, he likes to insult species.
The Doctor: Go--now! Don't drop the banana!
Jack: Why not?
The Doctor: Good source of potassium!
Jack: Okay, this can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and a triple and full sonic disruptor. Doc, what you got?
The Doctor: I've got a sonic, er, never mind.
Jack: What?
The Doctor: It's sonic, okay, let's leave it at that.
Jack: Disruptor? Cannon? What?
The Doctor: It's sonic, totally sonic, I am soniced up!
Jack: A sonic what?
The Doctor: Screwdriver!
Jack: Who has a sonic screwdriver?
The Doctor: I do!
Jack: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks "that could be a little more sonic"?
The Doctor: What? You never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?
The Doctor: Come on, we're not done yet. Assets, assets!
Jack: Well, I've got a banana and in a pinch you could put up some shelves.
The Doctor: Window?
Jack: Barred. Sheer drop outside, seven stories.
Rose: And no other exits.
Jack: Well, the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?
Rose: (about Jack) Okay, so he's vanished into thin air. Why is it always the great-looking ones that do that?
The Doctor: I'm making an effort not to be insulted.
Rose: Sorry. I meant... men.
The Doctor: Okay, that really helped.
The Doctor: You just assume I don't dance.
Rose: What? Are you telling me you do dance?
The Doctor: Nine hundred years old, me. I've been around a bit. I think you can assume at some point I've danced.
Rose: You?
The Doctor: Problems?
Rose: Doesn't the universe implode or something if you dance?
The Doctor: Well, I've got the moves but I wouldn't want to boast.
Rose: Come on. The world doesn't end because the Doctor dances.
The Doctor: (referring to Jack) Relax, he's a 51st century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing.
The Doctor: Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once! Everybody lives!
The Doctor: History says there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue?
Rose: Usually you're the first in line.
Rose: Look at you. Smiling like you're Father Christmas.
The Doctor: Who says I'm not? Red bicycle when you were twelve.
Rose: What?!?
The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this.
Jack: The last time I was sentenced to death, I ordered four hyper-vodkas for my breakfast. All a bit of a blur after that. I woke up in bed with both of my executioners. Lovely couple, they stayed in touch. Can't say that about most executioners.
The Doctor: (to Jack) Close the door, will you? Your ship's about to blow up; there's gonna be a draft.
The Doctor: (to the Empty Children) 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 Empty Children back away) I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.
The Doctor: How was your con supposed to work?
Jack: Simple enough, really. Find some harmless piece of space junk, let the nearest Time Agent track it back to Earth, convince him it's valuable, name a price. And he's put fifty percent up front… oops, German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to see what he's paid for. Never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money and we discuss dumb luck. The perfect self-cleaning con.
The Doctor: There's a banana grove there now. I like bananas. Bananas are good.
The Doctor: Funny little human brains. How do you get around in those things?
Rose: When he's stressed, he likes to insult species.
The Doctor: Go--now! Don't drop the banana!
Jack: Why not?
The Doctor: Good source of potassium!
Jack: Okay, this can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and a triple and full sonic disruptor. Doc, what you got?
The Doctor: I've got a sonic, er, never mind.
Jack: What?
The Doctor: It's sonic, okay, let's leave it at that.
Jack: Disruptor? Cannon? What?
The Doctor: It's sonic, totally sonic, I am soniced up!
Jack: A sonic what?
The Doctor: Screwdriver!
Jack: Who has a sonic screwdriver?
The Doctor: I do!
Jack: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks "that could be a little more sonic"?
The Doctor: What? You never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?
The Doctor: Come on, we're not done yet. Assets, assets!
Jack: Well, I've got a banana and in a pinch you could put up some shelves.
The Doctor: Window?
Jack: Barred. Sheer drop outside, seven stories.
Rose: And no other exits.
Jack: Well, the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?
Rose: (about Jack) Okay, so he's vanished into thin air. Why is it always the great-looking ones that do that?
The Doctor: I'm making an effort not to be insulted.
Rose: Sorry. I meant... men.
The Doctor: Okay, that really helped.
The Doctor: You just assume I don't dance.
Rose: What? Are you telling me you do dance?
The Doctor: Nine hundred years old, me. I've been around a bit. I think you can assume at some point I've danced.
Rose: You?
The Doctor: Problems?
Rose: Doesn't the universe implode or something if you dance?
The Doctor: Well, I've got the moves but I wouldn't want to boast.
Rose: Come on. The world doesn't end because the Doctor dances.
The Doctor: (referring to Jack) Relax, he's a 51st century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing.
The Doctor: Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once! Everybody lives!
The Doctor: History says there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue?
Rose: Usually you're the first in line.
Rose: Look at you. Smiling like you're Father Christmas.
The Doctor: Who says I'm not? Red bicycle when you were twelve.
Rose: What?!?
The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this.
Jack: The last time I was sentenced to death, I ordered four hyper-vodkas for my breakfast. All a bit of a blur after that. I woke up in bed with both of my executioners. Lovely couple, they stayed in touch. Can't say that about most executioners.
The Doctor: (to Jack) Close the door, will you? Your ship's about to blow up; there's gonna be a draft.
10 July 2011
Quotes from "The Empty Child"
Today you get some quotes from the episode "The Empty Child" where we first met Captain Jack Harkness. Who would have guessed then that he would get his own TV show.
The Empty Children: (repeated line) Are you my mummy?
Rose: What's the emergency?
The Doctor: It's mauve.
Rose: Mauve?
The Doctor: Universally recognized color for danger.
Rose: What happened to red?
The Doctor: That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings! All those "red alerts," all that dancing.
The Doctor: D'you know how long you can knock around space without happening to bump into Earth?
Rose: Five days? Or is that just when we're out of milk?
The Doctor: All the species in all the universe and it has to come out of a cow.
Rose: Not very Spock, is it? Just asking.
The Doctor: Door, music, people. What do you think?
Rose: I think you should do a scan for alien tech. Gimme some Spock! For once, would it kill you?
The Doctor: 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 Doctor: You know, one day, just one day maybe, I'm gonna meet somebody who gets the whole 'don't wander off' thing. Nine hundred years of phone box travel, it's the only thing left to surprise me.
The Doctor: (as the TARDIS police box phone rings) Ringing? What's that about? Ringing? You're not even a real phone and you're ringing?
(while being captured in a strange beam by Capt. Jack, which keeps her from falling to her death)
Jack: Oh, and can you switch off your cell phone.
Rose: Wha…?
Jack: No, seriously, it interferes with my instruments.
Rose: You know, no one ever believes that.
Jack: Thank you, that’s much better.
Rose: Oh yeah, that’s a real load off, that is! I’m hanging in the sky in the middle of a German air raid with a Union Jack across my chest, but, hey, my mobile phone’s off!
(As Rose is suspended in a beam above London)
Jack: Ready for you! … Hold tight!
Rose: To what!
Jack: Fair point.
The Doctor: 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 Jack Harkness: So… when you say 'your companion', how disappointed should I be?
Rose: Okay. We're standing in mid-air on a space-ship during a German air raid. Do you really think now's a good time to be coming on to me?
Captain Jack Harkness: Perhaps not.
Rose: Ah, it was just a suggestion.
Rose: You used to be a Time Agent. Now you're some kind of freelancer.
Captain Jack Harkness: Oh, that's a little harsh. I like to think of myself as a criminal.
Captain Jack Harkness: So, this companion of yours. Does he handle the business?
Rose: Well… I delegate a lot of that, yeah.
Captain Jack Harkness: Well, maybe we should go find him.
Rose: And how you gonna do that?
Captain Jack Harkness: Easy. I'll just scan for alien tech.
Rose: Finally, a professional.
The Doctor: You’re very sick.
Dr Constantine: Dying, I should think. I just haven’t been able to find the time. Are you a doctor?
The Doctor: I have my moments.
Captain Jack Harkness: It's a real pleasure to meet you, Mr Spock.
The Doctor: Mr Spock?
Rose: What was I supposed to say? You don't have a name. Don't you ever get tired of "The Doctor"? Doctor who?
The Doctor: Nine centuries in, I'm coping.
Jack: (to the Doctor) Saw your time travel vehicle. Love the retro look, by the way. Nice panels.
Captain Jack Harkness: (to Rose and the Doctor) Oh, should've known, the way you guys are blending in with the local color. I mean, Flag Girl was bad enough, but u-boat captain?
The Empty Children: (repeated line) Are you my mummy?
Rose: What's the emergency?
The Doctor: It's mauve.
Rose: Mauve?
The Doctor: Universally recognized color for danger.
Rose: What happened to red?
The Doctor: That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings! All those "red alerts," all that dancing.
The Doctor: D'you know how long you can knock around space without happening to bump into Earth?
Rose: Five days? Or is that just when we're out of milk?
The Doctor: All the species in all the universe and it has to come out of a cow.
Rose: Not very Spock, is it? Just asking.
The Doctor: Door, music, people. What do you think?
Rose: I think you should do a scan for alien tech. Gimme some Spock! For once, would it kill you?
The Doctor: 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 Doctor: You know, one day, just one day maybe, I'm gonna meet somebody who gets the whole 'don't wander off' thing. Nine hundred years of phone box travel, it's the only thing left to surprise me.
The Doctor: (as the TARDIS police box phone rings) Ringing? What's that about? Ringing? You're not even a real phone and you're ringing?
(while being captured in a strange beam by Capt. Jack, which keeps her from falling to her death)
Jack: Oh, and can you switch off your cell phone.
Rose: Wha…?
Jack: No, seriously, it interferes with my instruments.
Rose: You know, no one ever believes that.
Jack: Thank you, that’s much better.
Rose: Oh yeah, that’s a real load off, that is! I’m hanging in the sky in the middle of a German air raid with a Union Jack across my chest, but, hey, my mobile phone’s off!
(As Rose is suspended in a beam above London)
Jack: Ready for you! … Hold tight!
Rose: To what!
Jack: Fair point.
The Doctor: 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 Jack Harkness: So… when you say 'your companion', how disappointed should I be?
Rose: Okay. We're standing in mid-air on a space-ship during a German air raid. Do you really think now's a good time to be coming on to me?
Captain Jack Harkness: Perhaps not.
Rose: Ah, it was just a suggestion.
Rose: You used to be a Time Agent. Now you're some kind of freelancer.
Captain Jack Harkness: Oh, that's a little harsh. I like to think of myself as a criminal.
Captain Jack Harkness: So, this companion of yours. Does he handle the business?
Rose: Well… I delegate a lot of that, yeah.
Captain Jack Harkness: Well, maybe we should go find him.
Rose: And how you gonna do that?
Captain Jack Harkness: Easy. I'll just scan for alien tech.
Rose: Finally, a professional.
The Doctor: You’re very sick.
Dr Constantine: Dying, I should think. I just haven’t been able to find the time. Are you a doctor?
The Doctor: I have my moments.
Captain Jack Harkness: It's a real pleasure to meet you, Mr Spock.
The Doctor: Mr Spock?
Rose: What was I supposed to say? You don't have a name. Don't you ever get tired of "The Doctor"? Doctor who?
The Doctor: Nine centuries in, I'm coping.
Jack: (to the Doctor) Saw your time travel vehicle. Love the retro look, by the way. Nice panels.
Captain Jack Harkness: (to Rose and the Doctor) Oh, should've known, the way you guys are blending in with the local color. I mean, Flag Girl was bad enough, but u-boat captain?
02 July 2011
Quotes from "Father's Day"
Some quotes again today. It's been a while since the last ones.
Rose: It’s so weird. The day my father died. I thought it’d be all sort of grim and stormy but it’s just an ordinary day
The Doctor: The past is another country. 1987's just the Isle of Wight.
The Doctor: I did it again. I picked another stupid ape. 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 Doctor: 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: I think he left me.
Pete: What? A pretty girl like you? If I was going out with you…
Rose: Stop. Right there!
Pete: I'm just saying…
Rose: I know what you're saying, and we're not going there. At no point are we going anywhere near there. You're not even aware that there exists. I don't even wanna think about there and believe me, neither do you. There, for you, is like… like, the Bermuda Triangle.
The Doctor: The police can’t help you now. No one can. Nothing in this universe can harm those things. Time’s been damaged and they’ve come to sterilize the wound. By consuming everything inside.
Stuart: Excuse me, Mister...
The Doctor: Doctor.
Stuart: You seem to know what's going on.
The Doctor: I give that impression, yeah.
Sarah: And I know we’re not important...
The Doctor: Who said you’re not important? I’ve travelled to all sorts of places, done things you can’t even imagine. But... you two... street corner, two in the morning. Getting a taxi home. I never had a life like that. Yes, I’ll try to save you.
The Doctor: (to infant Rose) Now, Rose... you're not gonna bring about the end of the world, are you? Are you?
Pete Tyler: Am I a good dad?
Rose: You told me a bedtime story every night when I was small. You were always there. You never missed one. And, um… you took us for picnics in the country every Saturday. You never let us down. You were there for us all the time. Someone I could really rely on.
Pete: That's not me.
Pete Tyler: Now it's my fault all this has happened.
Rose: This is my fault.
Pete Tyler: No, love. I'm your dad. It's my job for it to be my fault.
Rose: It’s so weird. The day my father died. I thought it’d be all sort of grim and stormy but it’s just an ordinary day
The Doctor: The past is another country. 1987's just the Isle of Wight.
The Doctor: I did it again. I picked another stupid ape. 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 Doctor: 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: I think he left me.
Pete: What? A pretty girl like you? If I was going out with you…
Rose: Stop. Right there!
Pete: I'm just saying…
Rose: I know what you're saying, and we're not going there. At no point are we going anywhere near there. You're not even aware that there exists. I don't even wanna think about there and believe me, neither do you. There, for you, is like… like, the Bermuda Triangle.
The Doctor: The police can’t help you now. No one can. Nothing in this universe can harm those things. Time’s been damaged and they’ve come to sterilize the wound. By consuming everything inside.
Stuart: Excuse me, Mister...
The Doctor: Doctor.
Stuart: You seem to know what's going on.
The Doctor: I give that impression, yeah.
Sarah: And I know we’re not important...
The Doctor: Who said you’re not important? I’ve travelled to all sorts of places, done things you can’t even imagine. But... you two... street corner, two in the morning. Getting a taxi home. I never had a life like that. Yes, I’ll try to save you.
The Doctor: (to infant Rose) Now, Rose... you're not gonna bring about the end of the world, are you? Are you?
Pete Tyler: Am I a good dad?
Rose: You told me a bedtime story every night when I was small. You were always there. You never missed one. And, um… you took us for picnics in the country every Saturday. You never let us down. You were there for us all the time. Someone I could really rely on.
Pete: That's not me.
Pete Tyler: Now it's my fault all this has happened.
Rose: This is my fault.
Pete Tyler: No, love. I'm your dad. It's my job for it to be my fault.
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