Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Doctor Dances (2005)

Billie Piper: Rose Tyler

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Quotes 

• The Doctor : Hanging from a rope, thousands of feet above London, not a cut, not a bruise.

  Rose Tyler : Yeah, I know. Captain Jack fixed me up.

  The Doctor : Oh, we're calling him Captain Jack now, are we?

  Rose Tyler : Well, his name's Jack and he's a captain.

  The Doctor : He's not really a captain, Rose.

  Rose Tyler : Do you know what I think? I think you're experiencing 'Captain Envy'. You'll find your feet at the end of your legs. You may care to move them.

  The Doctor : If ever he was a captain, he's been defrocked.

  Rose Tyler : Yeah? Shame I missed that!

  [the Doctor and Rose have been teleported to Jack's ship] 

  Captain Jack Harkness : Actually, I quit. Nobody takes my frock! Most people notice when they've been teleported. You guys are so sweet!

• [last lines] 

  Rose Tyler : Actually, Doctor, I thought Jack might like this dance.

  The Doctor : I'm sure he would, Rose, I'm absolutely certain. But who with?

  [she laughs, and steps forward to dance with the Doctor] 

• Rose Tyler : Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas!

  The Doctor : Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve?

  Rose Tyler : What?

• Rose Tyler : Okay, so he's vanished into thin air. Why is it always the *great* looking ones who do that?

  The Doctor : I'm making an effort not to be insulted.

  Rose Tyler : I mean... men.

  The Doctor : Okay, thanks, that really helps!

• Captain Jack Harkness : Okay, this can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and a triple-fold sonic disruptor. Doc, what you got?

  The Doctor : I've got a sonic, er, never mind.

  Captain Jack Harkness : What?

  The Doctor : It's sonic, okay, let's leave it at that.

  Captain Jack Harkness : Disruptor? Cannon? What?

  The Doctor : It's sonic, totally sonic. I am sonicked *up*!

  Captain Jack Harkness : [yelling]  A sonic *what*?

  The Doctor : [yelling]  *Screwdriver*!

  [the boy and other gasmask creatures come towards them] 

  Rose Tyler : [grabs Jack's Sonic Blaster and points it at the ground]  Going down!

  [floor vanishes beneath them and they land in the room below] 

• The Doctor : Who am I to argue with history?

  Rose Tyler : Usually the first in line.

• Captain Jack : [when he realizes his Sonic Blaster's stopped working]  Damn it! It's the special features, they really drain the battery.

  Rose Tyler : The battery?

  [both run through the door the Doctor just opened; after she stops] 

  Rose Tyler : It's so lame.

  Captain Jack : I was going to send for another one but *somebody's*

  [looking at the Doctor] 

  Captain Jack : got to blow up the factory.

  Rose Tyler : Oh, I know. First day I met him, he blew my job up. That's practically how he communicates.

• Rose Tyler : Are the words 'distract the guard' heading in my general direction?

  The Doctor : I don't think that's such a good idea.

  Rose Tyler : Don't worry. I can handle it.

  Captain Jack Harkness : I've gotten to know Algy quite well since I've been in town. Trust me, you're not his type. I'll distract him. Don't wait up.

  The Doctor : Relax. He's a fifty-first century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to 'dancing'.

  Rose Tyler : How flexible?

  The Doctor : Well, by his time, you lot are spread out across half the galaxy.

  Rose Tyler : Meaning?

  The Doctor : So many species, so little time.

  Rose Tyler : What, that's what we do when we get out there? That's our mission? We seek new life and...

  [weakly] 

  Rose Tyler : and...

  The Doctor : [nodding]  Dance.

  [smiles at his clever pun] 

• The Doctor : Funny little human brains... How do you get around in those things?

  Rose Tyler : When he's stressed, he likes to insult species.

  The Doctor : Rose, I'm thinking.

  Rose Tyler : Cuts himself shaving, does half an hour on life forms he's cleverer than.

• The Doctor : [Listening to a recording of the child]  It's afraid. Terribly afraid, and powerful. It doesn't know it yet, but it will do.

  The Doctor : [laughs softly]  It's got the power of a god, and I just sent it to its room!

  Rose Tyler : [Hearing a whirring, flapping sound]  Doctor...

  The Empty Child : I'm here; can't you see me?

  Rose Tyler : What's that noise?

  The Doctor : End of the tape. It ran out about 30 seconds ago.

  The Empty Child : I'm here, now! Can't you see me?

  The Doctor : [realizing]  I sent it to its room. *This* is its room!

• The Doctor : [finishes locking the door with his Sonic screwdriver]  Ok, that door should hold it for a bit.

  Captain Jack Harkness : The Door. The wall didn't stop it!

  The Doctor : Well it's got to find us first! Come on, we're not done yet! Assets, assets!

  Captain Jack Harkness : Well, I've got a banana and, in a pinch, you could put up some shelves.

  The Doctor : Window?

  Captain Jack Harkness : Barred. Sheer drop outside. Seven storeys.

  Captain Jack Harkness : [sits in a wheel chair] 

  Rose Tyler : And no other exits.

  Captain Jack Harkness : Well, the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?

• Captain Jack Harkness : [stands after ceiling is repaired]  Who has a sonic screwdriver?

  The Doctor : I do!

  Rose Tyler : [ignores them]  Lights.

  [starts to move around the room, looking for a switch] 

  Captain Jack Harkness : Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "Ooh, this could be a little more sonic"?

  The Doctor : What, you've never been bored?

  Rose Tyler : [still searching the room]  There's got to be a light switch.

  The Doctor : Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?

  Mask Creatures : [Rose finds the lights; turns them on to find the room filled with gasmask creatures; all start chanting]  Mummy? Mummy!

  Captain Jack Harkness : Door.

  [all three run towards it] 

• Captain Jack : Make yourself comfortable. Carry on with whatever it was you were... doing.

  The Doctor : We were talking about dancing.

  Captain Jack : It didn't look like talking.

  Rose Tyler : It didn't feel like dancing.

• Rose Tyler : 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.

• The Doctor : [on Jack]  So, where'd you pick this one up, then?

  Rose : Doctor...

  Captain Jack : She was hanging from a barrage balloon, I had an invisible spaceship.

  [smiling] 

  Captain Jack : I never stood a chance.

  [Rose slowly smiles, obviously flattered] 

• Captain Jack : [about The TARDIS]  Much bigger on the inside.

  The Doctor : You'd better be.

  Rose : I think what the Doctor's trying to say is - you may cut in.