Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
The Unquiet Dead
(The driver cracks the whip and the carriage moves down the street.) The Doctor: Come on, you're losing them.
Driver: Everything in order, Mister Dickens?
Dickens: No! It is not!
The Doctor: What did he say?
Dickens: Let me say this first. I'm not without a sense of humour.
The Doctor: Dickens?
Dickens: Yes.
The Doctor: Charles Dickens?
Dickens: Yes.
The Doctor: The Charles Dickens?
Driver: Should I remove the gentleman, sir?
The Doctor: Charles Dickens? You're brilliant, you are. Completely one hundred percent brilliant. I've read them all. Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and what's the other one, the one with the ghost?
Dickens: A Christmas Carol?
The Doctor: No, no, no, the one with the trains. The Signal Man, that's it. Terrifying! The best short story ever written. You're a genius.
Driver: You want me to get rid of him, sir?
Dickens: Er, no, I think he can stay.
The Doctor: Honestly, Charles. Can I call you Charles? I'm such a big fan.
Dickens: A what? A big what?
The Doctor: Fan. Number one fan, that's me.
Dickens: How exactly are you a fan? In what way do you resemble a means of keeping oneself cool?
The Doctor: No, it means fanatic, devoted to. Mind you, I've got to say, that American bit in Martin Chuzzlewit, what's that about? Was that just padding or what? I mean, it's rubbish, that bit.
Dickens: I thought you said you were my fan.
The Doctor: Ah, well, if you can't take criticism. Go on, do the death of Little Nell, it cracks me up. No, sorry, forget about that. Come on, faster!
Dickens: Who exactly is in that hearse?
The Doctor: My friend. She's only nineteen. It's my fault. She's in my care, and now she's in danger.
Dickens: Why are we wasting my time talking about dry old books? This is much more important. Driver, be swift! The chase is on!
Driver: Yes, sir!
The Doctor: Attaboy, Charlie.
Dickens: Nobody calls me Charlie.
The Doctor: The ladies do.
Dickens: How do you know that?
The Doctor: I told you, I'm your number one
Dickens: Number one fan.
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Sneed: Well, what did you say, Doctor? Explain it again. What are they?
The Doctor: Aliens.
Sneed: Like foreigners, you mean?
The Doctor: Pretty foreign, yeah. From up there.
Sneed: Brecon?
The Doctor: Close. And they've been trying to get through from Brecon to Cardiff but the road's blocked. Only a few can get through and even then they're weak. They can only test drive the bodies for so long, then they have to revert to gas and hide in the pipes.
Dickens: Which is why they need the girl.
Rose: They're not having her.
The Doctor: But she can help. Living on the rift, she's become part of it. She can open it up, make a bridge and let them through.
Dickens: Incredible. Ghosts that are not ghosts but beings from another world, who can only exist in our world by inhabiting cadavers.
The Doctor: Good system. It might work.
Rose: You can't let them run around inside of dead people.
The Doctor: Why not? It's like recycling.
Rose: Seriously though, you can't.
The Doctor: Seriously though, I can.
Rose: It's just wrong. Those bodies were living people. We should respect them even in death.