Doctor Who (TV Series)

Aliens of London (2005)

Jack Tarlton: Reporter Tom Hitchingson

Quotes 

• BBC Newsreader : reports say that the body is of extraterrestrial origin. An extraordinary event unfolding here live here in Central London. The body is being transferred to a secure unit mortuary. The whereabouts is yet unknown. Roads in Central London...

  [the screen suddenly changes to a Blue Peter program] 

  Matt Baker : And when you've stuck your things on, you can cover the whole lot...

  [cuts back to the flat, where the Doctor is wrestling the remote from a toddler] 

  Matt Baker : ... Ooo, look at that. Then, ice it, any colour you want - here's one I made a little bit earlier - and look at that. Your very own spaceship ready to eat. And there's something a little extra special...

  [the Doctor changes the channel back to the news program] 

  BBC Newsreader : ...Albion Hospital.

  Reporter Tom Hitchingson : We still don't know whether it's alive or dead. Whitehall is denying everything. But the body has been brought here, Albion Hospital. The road's closed off - it's the closest to the river.

  [the Doctor shoos away the toddler on his lap] 

  Reporter Tom Hitchingson : I'm being told that's General Asquith now entering the hospital.

  [a police car passes by] 

  Reporter Tom Hitchingson : But the building has been evacuated. The patients have been moved out onto the streets. The police still won't confirm the presence of an alien body contained inside those walls...

• Reporter Tom Hitchingson : [on the TV from outside 10 Downing Street]  Mystery still surrounds the whereabouts of the prime minister. He's not been seen since the emergency began. The opposition are criticising his lack of leadership and... Hold on.

  [a person arrives in a limo] 

  Reporter Tom Hitchingson : Oh, that's Joseph Green, MP for Hartley Dale. He's chairman of the parliamentary commission on the monitoring of sugar standards in exported confectionery, with respect hardly the most important person right now.