Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
The Green Death – Episode 1
Brigadier: But, Doctor, it's exactly your cup of tea. This fellow's bright green apparently, and dead.
The Green Death – Episode 2
Jo: I can hardly feel his pulse. Have you ever seen anything like it before?
Bert: No, never.
Jo: What could have caused it?
Bert: Dunno. I tell you what though
Jo: What?
Bert: Whatever it was, it's still down here with us.
The Green Death – Episode 3
Computer: Intruder in the area. Section two. Visual identification available.
(A monitor shows Jo and the Doctor climbing up inside the pipe.) Elgin: It's that Doctor chap, and there's a girl with him.
(Fell uses an internal phone.) Fell: Intruders located. Unauthorised entry into pipe.
Elgin: You mean they're actually in the pipe? Well, we've got to get them out.
Fell: Tank voiding operations completed. Waste disposal underway.
Elgin: Waste? You're putting the waste into that pipe? You'll kill them!
Fell: They are intruders.
Elgin: Turn it off, damn you!
Fell: I can't. The operation is automatic
The Green Death – Episode 4
The Doctor: Well, they're all over the place.
Jo: You mean they've tunnelled their way out?
The Doctor: The maggots are some sort of larvae and not the finished product. Trying to find their way to daylight.
Jones: They must be coming up some of the old shafts in the mine, breaking through the last few feet of earth.
Jo: But how did it happen?
Jones: Oil waste from Global Chemicals must have contaminated some of the maggots causing an atavistic mutation.
Jo: Giant maggots? What kind of insects are they going to turn into?
The Doctor: That's a very good question, Jo.
The Green Death – Episode 5
BOSS: Well, Doctor, have you nothing to say?
The Doctor: Why should I want to talk to a machine?
BOSS: Oh really, Doctor. As far as I can gather from your computer record at UNIT, the difficult thing is to stop you talking. No, no, no, you won't provoke me so easily.
The Doctor: You're still a machine.
BOSS: And you? And your human friends? Aren't you machines? Inefficient and organic machines?
The Doctor: No.
BOSS: No?
The Doctor: Then yes. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We are more than machines.
BOSS: Ah! Thank you. Because in that case, so am I.
The Doctor: What are you then?
BOSS: I am the first Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor.
The Doctor: B, O, double S. The BOSS.
BOSS: Precisely.
The Doctor: Ha!
BOSS: My designers also found it amusing. I find it suitable.
The Doctor: You're still nothing but a gigantic adding machine like every other computer.
BOSS: Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I am the only computer ever to be linked to a human brain.
The Doctor: Stevens?
BOSS: Yes, Stevens. And I learned from him that secret of human creativity is inefficiency. The human brain is a very poor computer indeed. It makes illogical guesses which turn out to be more logical than logic itself.
The Doctor: Yes, infuriating, isn't it.
BOSS: I programmed Stevens to programme me to be inefficient. I am now self-controlling, I am self-sufficient, I am the greatest being this planet has ever seen. I am the BOSS!
The Doctor: Today Llanfairfach, tomorrow the world, eh?
BOSS: How well you understand me, Doctor.
The Doctor: A machine. A megalomaniac machine, but still a machine!
BOSS: And as such, uniquely fitted to carry out my prime directive.
The Doctor: And that is?
BOSS: Efficiency, productivity and profit for Global Chemicals, of course. Nothing and nobody can be allowed to stand in the way of that. Not even you, Doctor.
The Green Death – Episode 6
Jo: Well, you're feeling better all right.
Jones: Aye.
The Doctor: Well, Jo, we'd better get back to UNIT HQ. We've got a report to make out.
Jo: Doctor.
(Jones nods at Jo.) I don't think I'll be going back just yet.
The Doctor: Oh? Are you thinking of staying here?
Jo: Well, not here exactly. Only you see, Cliff is going on this expedition to look for this fantastic fungus.
The Doctor: Where?
Jones: The upper reaches of the Amazon.
Jo: And he's asked me to go with him.
The Doctor: And you want to go?
Jo: More than anything else in the world.
The Doctor: I see. When?
Jones: Well, very soon now. We'll just stop off in Cardiff, pick up our supplies, get married and
Jo: Married?
Jones: Aye.
(Jo and Jones gaze into each other's eyes.) The Doctor: Er, look, will you excuse me? I do think I'm going to be wanted on the telephone.