Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
The Invasion Of Time – Part 1
Leader: We will conclude formalities. Sign it.
The Doctor: I never sign anything before I've read it.
Leader: Then read it.
The Doctor: You promised complete control over the Time Lords.
Vardan: You will have complete control.
The Doctor: But here in paragraph four sub
Vardan: Lawyer's quibbles, Doctor.
The Doctor: Well, I've heard that before. Almost got me killed once, but of course you know that.
Leader: Sign it!
The Doctor: Complete control.
Leader: My word.
The Doctor: Well, I've signed so many things, one more won't make any difference.
Leader: But it will, Doctor. It will.
(The Doctor puts his sigil on the document and pockets the pen.) The Doctor: I'm honoured to be allowed to serve your glorious cause.
The Invasion Of Time – Part 2
The Doctor: That's funny, I've got a ringing in my head.
Borusa: That's the alarm system.
(Andred enters.) The Doctor: Shush. I've got a ringing in my head. Listen. Can you hear?
Andred: I ordered them to sound the alarm. The girl got away.
(Kelner enters.) Kelner: What is happening? Who ordered the? Oh, your Excellency, you are feeling better.
The Doctor: Yes.
Kelner: I'm very pleased to see this.
The Doctor: So am I.
Kelner: Where is the girl?
Andred: She escaped.
Kelner: Escaped?
Borusa: The President ordered that she be expelled from the Citadel. She got away.
The Doctor: She can be dangerous, Castellan.
Kelner: Very well, I will take charge of the operations myself.
Andred: I'm quite capable of catching her.
Kelner: I will see that she is driven out of the Citadel
The Invasion of Time – Part 3
Leela: There's no point in further discussion. The discussion is for the wise or the helpless, and I am neither.
Rodan; Then what are you going to do?
Leela: Well, if the Doctor wished me banished, I'll be banished.
Rodan: You will surrender?
Leela: No! You talk always of surrender. Are all your tribe like this?
Rodan: We are rational.
Leela: You are cowards. No, if the Doctor wished me banished, it was for a reason.
Rodan: Reason dictates the Doctor is a traitor.
Leela: Never!
Rodan: Reason dictates
Leela: Then reason is a liar!
Rodan: And if I am right?
Leela: Then I am wrong, and I will face the consequence.
The Invasion Of Time – Part 4
The Doctor: No way to go out there and leave. I've got news for you.
Andred: What?
The Doctor: You're stuck here.
Andred: What?
The Doctor: Your pitiful attempt at revolution has failed.
(The Doctor shuts the Tardis doors.) Andred: You're lying.
The Doctor: I'm the living proof I'm not. I don't know what they teach you at the Academy these days, but if you can't pull off a simple palace revolution, what can you pull off, hmm?
Andred: I don't believe you.
(Andred tries to activate the scanner.) It's jammed.
The Doctor: Yes. And it's going to stay jammed until the invaders have gone.
(sotto) You see, while I'm in here, they can't touch me, and they can't read my thoughts.
Andred: You mean they can travel along any form of broadcast wavelength?
The Doctor: Yes, and materialise at the end of it. But until they do materialise, I can't identify their planet of origin and time loop it.
Andred: But you have access to the greatest source of knowledge in the universe.
The Doctor: Well, I do talk to myself sometimes, yes.
Andred: I mean the Matrix.
The Doctor: Oh. Oh, that old thing.
The Invasion Of Time – Part 5
The Doctor: A Sontaran.
Leela: What are these Sontarans?
The Doctor: A race devoted to perpetual war.
Leela: Then I shall kill him.
The Doctor: You don't know how.
Leela: Do you know?
The Doctor: Oh, yes.
Leela: Well, tell me.
The Doctor: Small vent at the back of the neck.
Leela: Is that all?
(She partly covers her mouth and calls in a deep voice.) Over here!
(Her voice echoes down the corridor. The Sontaran turns to look behind him, and she throws her knife straight into his probic vent. The group run down to the body and Leela retrieves her weapon.) The Doctor: Oh, that was a prodigious throw!
Leela: Prodigious?
The Doctor: Well, it was an amazing throw.
Leela: Oh, it was nothing.
The Doctor: Well, yes, I know it's just an old hunting trick.
Leela: That's right.
The Doctor: Come on.
The Invasion of Time – Part 6
The Doctor: Well, ta-ta, everybody. Come on, Leela. Come on. What's the matter?
Leela: I'm staying.
The Doctor: What? Staying? Here? Why?
(Leela takes Andred's hand.) Ah, I see.
Andred: I hope that
The Doctor: Yes, I'm sure you do hope. She'll look after you. She's terribly good with a knife. Come on, K9.
K9: Negative. I remain.
The Doctor: Here?
K9: Affirmative.
The Doctor: Why?
K9: To look after the mistress.
Leela: Doctor?
The Doctor: Yes?
Leela: I will miss you.
(The Doctor smiles and shuts the Tardis door on them all. He leans against the door for a moment.) The Doctor: I'll miss you too, savage.