Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Sound of Drums (2007)

John Barrowman: Captain Jack Harkness

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Quotes 

• The Doctor : [to Martha and Jack]  Oh! I know what it's like. It's like when you fancy someone, and they don't even know you exist. That's what it's like.

  [Martha looks crestfallen, and turns to Jack for support] 

  Captain Jack Harkness : [to Martha]  You too, huh?

• Captain Jack Harkness : But all the legends of Gallifrey made it sound so perfect.

  The Doctor : Well, perfect to look at, maybe. And it was, it was beautiful. They used to call it the Shining World of the Seven Systems. And on the continent of Wild Endeavour, in the mountains of Solace and Solitude, there stood the Citadel of the Time Lords. The oldest and most mighty race in the universe. Looking down on the galaxies below, sworn never to interfere, only to watch. Children of Gallifrey were taken from their families at the age of eight to enter the Academy. Some say that's where it all began, when he was a child. That's when the Master saw eternity. As a novice, he was taken for initiation. He stood in front of the Untempered Schism. It's a gap in the fabric of reality through which could be seen the whole of the vortex. We stand there, eight years old, staring at the raw power of time and space, just a child. Some would be inspired. Some would run away. And some would go mad.

  Martha Jones : What about you?

  The Doctor : Oh, the ones that ran away, I never stopped.

• Captain Jack Harkness : Still, at least we made it. Earth, twenty-first century by the looks of it. Talk about lucky.

  The Doctor : That wasn't luck. That was me.

• Captain Jack Harkness : What do you say I use this perception filter to sneak up behind him and just break his neck?

  The Doctor : Now that sounds like Torchwood.

  Captain Jack Harkness : Still a good plan.

  The Doctor : He's a Time Lord, which makes him my responsibility. I'm not here to kill him. I'm here to save him.

• The Doctor : You work for Torchwood?

  Captain Jack Harkness : I swear to you, it's different. It's changed. There's only half a dozen of us...

  The Doctor : Everything Torchwood did, and you're part of it.

  Captain Jack Harkness : The old regime was destroyed at Canary Wharf. I rebuilt it, I changed it, and when I did that, I did it for you, in your honour.

• Captain Jack Harkness : The moral of the story is if you're gonna get stuck at the end of the universe, get stuck with an ex-time agent and his vortex manipulator.

• The Doctor : You can stop this right now. We can leave this planet. We can fight across the constellations if that's what you want, but not on Earth!

  The Master : It's too late.

  The Doctor : Why do you say that?

  The Master : The drumming.

  [taps out a drumbeat on the table with his fingers] 

  The Master : Can't you hear it?

  [taps the beat again, continuously] 

  The Master : Inside my head. I thought it would stop. But it never does. It never, ever stops. Inside my head. The drumming, Doctor, the constant drumming.

  The Doctor : I can help you. Please, let me help.

  The Master : It's everywhere. Listen. Listen. Listen. Here come the drums... here come... the drums...

  [a young man is loitering, beating out the drumbeat against his legs, just like Martha earlier, just like the beggar earlier, just like the Master... ~tum tum te tum~] 

  The Doctor : What have you done? Tell me, how have you done this? What are those creatures? Tell me!

  The Master : Oooo, look! You're on TV!

  The Doctor : Stop it! Answer me!

  The Master : No, really, you're on telly! You and your little band, which by the way is ticking every demographic box, so congratulations on that. God, there you are.

  [laughs] 

  The Master : You're public enemies 1, 2, and 3. Oh! And you can tell "Handsome Jack" that I've sent his little gang off on a wild goose chase to the Himalayas, so you won't be getting any help from them.

  [the Doctor turns to look at Martha and Jack] 

  The Master : Go on, off you go, why not start out by turning to the...

  [the Doctor turns to the right] 

  The Master : RIGHT!

  The Doctor : [looks up and sees a CCTV camera]  He can see us!

  [He raises his sonic screwdriver and shorts out the CCTV] 

  The Master : Oh! You public menace! Better start running. Go on... run!

  The Doctor : [closes the phone]  He's got control of everything.

  Martha Jones : What do we do?

  Captain Jack Harkness : We've got nowhere to go.

  Martha Jones : Doctor, what do we do?

  The Master : Run, Doctor! Run for your life!

  The Doctor : We run.

  [the Doctor, Martha, and Jack all run] 

  The Master : [screaming into the phone]  I SAID... RUN!

• Captain Jack Harkness : [about The Master]  So Doctor, who is he? How come the ancient society of Time Lords created a psychopath?

  Martha Jones : And what is he to you? Like some sort of colleague or...

  The Doctor : Friend at first.

  Martha Jones : Thought you were going to say he was your secret brother or something.

  [pause] 

  The Doctor : You've been watching too much TV.

• [the Doctor is trying to fix Jack's vortex manipulator] 

  The Doctor : Hold still!

  Captain Jack Harkness : It won't work! I'm telling you, that thing hasn't worked for years.

  The Doctor : That's because you didn't have me.

• [talking about Harold Saxon] 

  Captain Jack Harkness : Former Minister of Defence, first came to prominence when he shot down the Racnoss on Christmas Eve. Nice work by the way.

  The Doctor : Oh, thanks.

• Martha Jones : But this Master bloke, he's got the TARDIS. He could be anywhere in time and space.

  The Doctor : No, he's here. Trust me.

  Martha Jones : Who is he anyway? That voice at the end, that wasn't the Professor.

  Captain Jack Harkness : The Master's a Time Lord. Then he must have regenerated.

  Martha Jones : What does that mean?

  Captain Jack Harkness : It means he's changed his face, voice, body, everything. New man.

  [the Doctor is distracted by a beggar tapping out a repeating rhythm on an enamel mug - ~tum tum te tum, tum tum te tum, tum tum te tum~] 

  Martha Jones : Then how are we going to find him?

  [the tapping starts to echo in the Doctor's head] 

  The Doctor : I'll know him, the moment I see him. Time Lords always do.

• Martha Jones : What's it for? What does a paradox machine do?

  Captain Jack Harkness : More important, can you stop it?

  The Doctor : Not until I know what it's doing. Touch the wrong bit; blow up our solar system.

  Martha Jones : Then we've got to get to the Master.

  Captain Jack Harkness : Yeah, how are we going to stop him?

  The Doctor : Oh, I've got a way. Sorry, didn't I mention it?