Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Invisible Enemy: Part One (1977)

Louise Jameson: Leela

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Quotes 

• Doctor Who : 5000 AD... That was the year of The Great Breakout.

  Leela : Great what?

  Doctor Who : Mmm. When your forefathers went leapfrogging across the solar system on their way to the stars. Eh, asteroid belt's probably teeming with them now. New Frontiersmen. Pioneers waiting to spread across the galaxy like a tidal wave, or a disease.

  Leela : Why "disease?" I thought you liked humanity.

  Doctor Who : Oh, I do, I do. Some of my best friends are humans. When they get together in great numbers, other life forms sometimes suffer.

• Leela : We've never been in here before.

  Doctor Who : [correcting]  *You've* never been in here before.

  Leela : What is it?

  Doctor Who : Number two control room, been closed for redecoration. I don't like the colour.

  Leela : White isn't a colour.

  Doctor Who : That's the trouble with computers, always think in black and white. No aquamarines, no blues

  [the Doctor leans in close to the console] 

  Doctor Who : no imagination!

  [the TARDIS's time rotor switches off] 

• Leela : What was that?

  Doctor Who : Static. Nothing important.

  Leela : There was a sort of glow all around you.

  Doctor Who : There was? Oh. Well, a kind of St. Elmo's fire. It happens at sea.

  Leela : Saint Elmo's?

  Doctor Who : Yes, it causes a sort of halo effect around the masts of ships.

  Leela : Halo?

  Doctor Who : [looks pointedly]  Why do you keep repeating everything I say? You're not a parrot, are you?

  Leela : Parrot?

  Doctor Who : [summons a little more patience]  Yes, a parrot's a bird that repeats things. Move over.

  Leela : [mockingly]  Move over!

  Doctor Who : That's it.