Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Girl in the Fireplace (2006)

Sophia Myles: Reinette

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Quotes 

• Reinette : You and I both know, don't we Rose? The Doctor is worth the monsters... One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

• [last lines, voiceover] 

  Reinette Poisson : My Dear Doctor, The path has never seemed more slow and yet I fear I am nearing its end. Reason tells me that you and I are unlikely to meet again, but I think I shall not listen to reason. I have seen the world inside your head and know that all things are possible. Hurry then my love; my days grow shorter now and I am so very weak. Godspeed my lonely angel.

• The Doctor : [the Doctor is searching through Reinette's memories]  Sorry, you might find old memories reawakening, side effect.

  Reinette Poisson : Oh, such a lonely childhood!

  The Doctor : It'll pass.

  Reinette Poisson : Oh, Doctor, so lonely, so very very alone!

  The Doctor : What do mean, lonely? You've never been alone in your whole life- wait a minute, when did you start calling me Doctor?

  Reinette Poisson : Such a lonely little boy. Lonely then and lonelier now! How can you bear it?

  The Doctor : [breaking the mental connection]  How did you do that?

  Reinette Poisson : A door, once opened, may be stepped through in either direction. Oh, Doctor, my lonely Doctor... dance with me.

  The Doctor : I can't.

  Reinette Poisson : Dance with me.

  The Doctor : This is the night you dance with the king.

  Reinette Poisson : Then first I shall make him jealous.

  The Doctor : I can't.

  Reinette Poisson : Doctor. Doctor who? It's more than just a secret, isn't it.

  The Doctor : What did you see?

  Reinette Poisson : That there comes a time, Timelord, when every lonely little boy must learn how to dance!

• Reinette Poisson : There is a vessel in your world where the days of my life are pressed together like the chapters of a book so that he may step from one to the other without increase of age, while I, weary traveller, must always take the slower path.

• Madame Du Pompadour : It is customary, I think, to have an imaginary friend only during your childhood. You are to be congratulated on your persistence.

• The Doctor : Reinette, what age are you?

  Reinette Poisson : So impertinent a question so early in the conversation! How promising.

• King Louis : What the hell is going on?

  Reinette Poisson : Oh. This is my lover, the king of France.

  The Doctor : Yeah? Well I'm the Lord of Time.

• Reinette Poisson : I have seen your world and I have no desire to set foot there again.

  Clockwork Droid : We do not require your feet.

• The Doctor : [coming back to a different time]  Reinette... well, goodness how you've grown.

  Madame Du Pompadour : And you don't appear to have aged a single day. I think that is tremendously impolite of you.

• Reinette Poisson : One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

• Madame Du Pompadour : You seem to be flesh and blood but this is absurd. Reason tells me you cannot be real

  The Doctor : Oh, you don't want to listen to reason.

• Reinette Poisson : Could everyone please just calm down!

  [slowly the screaming subsides] 

  Reinette Poisson : Such distressing noise! Kindly remember that this is Versailles, and we are French!

• [32-year-old Reinette barges past Rose and Mickey behind the tapestry and finds herself on the spaceship at the Dagmar Cluster, two and a half galaxies away from Earth, in the 51st Century, roughly 3300 years in her future] 

  Reinette Poisson : This is his world.

  [the members of the royal court start screaming somewhere in the distance] 

  Reinette Poisson : What was that?

  Mickey Smith : [hesitates, then to Rose]  The time window. The Doctor fixed an audio link.

  Reinette Poisson : Those screams... Is that my future?

  Rose Tyler : Yeah, I'm sorry.

  Reinette Poisson : Then I must take the slower path.

  Madame Du Pompadour : [echoing in the halls]  Are you there? Can you hear me? I need you, now! You promised! The clock on the mantel is broken!

  Reinette Poisson : [fearful]  Th- that's my voice.

  Madame Du Pompadour : It is time!

  Mickey Smith : Rose, come on, we gotta go. There's- there's a problem.

  Rose Tyler : Give me a moment.

  [Mickey hurries down the corridor of the ship] 

  Rose Tyler : Are you okay?

  Reinette Poisson : No, I'm very afraid. But you and I both know, don't we Rose? The Doctor is worth the monsters.

  [Reinette returns through the time window behind the tapestry to her own time] 

  Madame Du Pompadour : [echoing]  Doctor! Doctor!

  [in the ballroom, the clockwork service droids corner the royal court] 

  Madame Du Pompadour : [37 years old, speaking into her fireplace]  Doctor!

  King Louis : We must go! No one is coming to help us!

  [a clockwork man appproaches and stands in the doorway. Madame Du Pompadour stands, turns, and gasps as memories flash in her mind of him in her bedroom in 1727 as 6-years-old Reinette. Two more costumed droids arrive, flanking him, completely blocking her and King Louis XV's egress] 

  Clockwork Man : You are complete. You will come.

• Rose Tyler : Are you okay?

  Reinette Poisson : No, I'm not. But you and I both know, don't we, Rose, that the Doctor is worth the monsters.

• [first lines] 

  [members of the royal court are running and screaming] 

  King Louis : We are under attack! There are creatures - I don't even think they're human - we can't stop them!

  Madame Du Pompadour : [staring at a broken clock on the mantel]  The clock is broken. He's coming.

  King Louis : Did you hear what I said?

  Madame Du Pompadour : [she turns and steps up to him]  Listen to me: there is a man coming to Versailles. He has watched over me my whole life, and he will not desert me tonight.

  King Louis : What are you talking about? What man?

  Madame Du Pompadour : The only man, save you, I have ever loved.

  Madame Du Pompadour : [King Louis XV's face turns angry and insulted at the revelation]  No. Don't look like that. There's no time. You have your duties. I am your mistress. Go to your queen.

  Madame Du Pompadour : [crouches in front of the fireplace and speaks loudly into the fire]  Are you there? Can you hear me? I need you, now! You promised! The clock on the mantel is broken! It is time! Doctor! Doctor!

• Reinette Poisson : Would everyone just please calm down. Such a commotion, such distressing noise! Kindly remember that this is Versailles. This is the royal court, and we are French. I have made a decision. And my decision is no. I have seen your world, and I do not desire to set foot there again.

  Clockwork Droid : We do not require your feet.

• Reinette Poisson : This is my lover, the king of France.

  The Doctor : Well I'm the lord of time.

• Rose Tyler : He will be there when you need him. That's the way it gotta be.

  Madame Du Pompadour : It is the way that has always been. The monster and the doctor. It seems you cannot have one without the other.

• Reinette Poisson : Fireplace Man, you are inside my mind.

  The Doctor : Oh dear, Reinette. You've had some cowboys in here.

• The Doctor : No, tonight is the Yew Tree Ball. Tonight you dance with the king!

  Reinette Poisson : [with suppressed glee]  Then first I shall make him jealous.

• The Tenth Doctor : Just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry about it. Everyone has nightmares. Even monsters from under the bed has nightmares, don't you, monster?

  Reinette : What do monsters have nightmares about?

  The Tenth Doctor : Me.