Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
Partners In Crime
(Granddad is the newspaper seller from Voyage of the Damned, and he has got a nice set-up in his allotment shed. There is also a small telescope and a camp stool nearby. Donna walks up with a thermos.) Wilf: Aye, aye. Here comes trouble.
Donna: Permission to board ship, sir?
Wilf: Permission granted. Was she nagging you?
Donna: Big time. Brought you a thermos.
Wilf: Oh, ta.
Donna: You seen anything?
Wilf: Yeah, I've got Venus, there with an apparent magnitude of minus three point five. At least, that's what it says in my little book.
(Donna puts a tarpaulin on the ground next to him.) Here, come and see. Come on. Here you go. Right?
(Donna looks at the bright evening star.) That's the only planet in the Solar System named after a woman.
Donna: Good for her. How far away is that?
Wilf: Oh, its about twenty six million miles. But we'll get there, one day. In a hundred years time we'll be striding out amongst the stars. Jiggling about with all them aliens. Just you wait.
Donna: You really believe in all that stuff, don't you?
Wilf: It's all over the place these days. If I wait here long enough.
Donna: I don't suppose you've seen a little blue box?
Wilf: Is that slang for something?
Donna: No, I mean it. If you ever see a little blue box flying up there in the sky, you shout for me, Gramps. Oh, you just shout.
Wilf: Do you know, I don't understand half the things you say these days.
Donna: Nor me.
Wilf: No, fair dos. You've had a funny old time of it lately. There was poor old what's his name, Lance, bless him, and that barmy old Christmas. I wish you'd tell us what really happened.
Donna: I know. It's just, the things I've seen, sometimes I think I'm going mad. I mean, even tonight I was in a. Doesn't matter.
Wilf: Well, you're not yourself, I'll give you that. You just, you seem to be drifting, sweetheart.
Donna: I'm not drifting. I'm waiting.
Wilf: What for?
Donna: The right man.
Wilf: Same old story. A man!
Donna: No, I don't mean like that. But, he's real. I've seen him. I've met him, just once, and then I let him fly away.
Wilf: Well, there you are. Go and find him.
Donna: I've tried. He's nowhere.
Wilf: Oi, not like you to give up. Do you know, I remember when you were about six years old, your mother said no holiday this year. So off you toddled, all on your own and you got on a bus to Strathclyde. Ha! We had the police after you and everything. Ha, where's she gone, then. Where's that girl, hey?
Donna: You're right. Because he's still out there, somewhere. And I'll find him, Gramps. Even if I have to wait a hundred years, I'll find him.
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(mouthing words silently and exaggeratedly) The Doctor: Donna?
Donna: Doc-tor!
The Doctor: Wh - what - w - what?
Donna: Oh! My! *God*!
The Doctor: How?
Donna:
(pointing at her face with both hands) It's me!
The Doctor:
(nodding, gesturing to eyes, then Donna) Yeah, I can see that.
Donna:
(pointing to where she's standing, then two thumbs up) Oh, this... is... *brilliant*!
The Doctor: [pointing thrice at Donna] W - wha - what the hell are *you* *doing* *there*?
Donna:
(pointing to eyes, then at The Doctor) I... was looking... for... you!
The Doctor:
(points at self questioningly) What for?
Donna:
(miming reading the paper) Read it...
(typing fingers in the air) ... on the Internet...
(wiggling fingers around mouth) ... so weird...
(walking fingers) ... crept along...
(thumb into room, hand-as-mouth) ... heard them talking...
(ducks down, comes back up, points) ... looked, ah! *You*!
The Doctor:
(imperceptibly nods) Donna:
(thumbs back at Miss Foster, looks, freezes) Th...
(Miss Foster has stopped talking and is staring at Donna. Miss Foster turns and looks right at The Doctor. The Doctor turns to see Miss Foster) Miss Foster:
(aloud) Are we interrupting you?
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Donna: Because I thought, how do you find the Doctor? And then I just thought, look for trouble and then he'll turn up.
(The Doctor sonics the door.) So I looked everywhere. You name it. UFOs, sightings, crop circles, sea monsters. I looked, I found them all. Like that stuff about the bees disappearing, I thought, I bet he's connected. Because the thing is, Doctor, I believe it all now. You opened my eyes. All those amazing things out there, I believe them all. Well, apart from that replica of the Titanic flying over Buckingham Palace on Christmas Day. I mean, that's got to be a hoax.
The Doctor: What do you mean, the bees are disappearing?
Donna: I don't know. That's what it says on the internet. Well, on the same site, there was all these conspiracy theories about Adipose Industries and I thought, let's take a look.
(The Doctor sonics the cradle controls.) The Doctor: In you get!
Donna: What, in that thing?
The Doctor: Yes, in that thing.
Donna: But if we go down in that, they'll just call us back up again.
The Doctor: No, no, no, because I've locked the controls with a sonic cage. I'm the only one that can control it. Not unless she's got a sonic device of her own, which is very unlikely.
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Donna: That's my car! That is like destiny. And I've been ready for this.
(The boot is full of suitcases.) I packed ages ago, just in case. Because I thought, hot weather, cold weather, no weather. He goes anywhere. I've gotta be prepared.
(She unloads the boot into the Doctor's arms.) The Doctor: You've got a, a hatbox.
Donna: Planet of the Hats, I'm ready. I don't need injections, do I? You know, like when you go to Cambodia. Is there any of that? Because my friend Veena went to Bahrain, and she. You're not saying much.
The Doctor: No, it's just. It's a funny old life, in the Tardis.
Donna: You don't want me.
The Doctor: I'm not saying that.
Donna: But you asked me. Would you rather be on your own?
The Doctor: No. Actually, no. But the last time, with Martha, like I said, it, it got complicated. And that was all my fault. I just want a mate.
Donna: You just want to mate?
The Doctor: I just want a mate!
Donna: You're not mating with me, sunshine!
The Doctor: A mate. I want a mate.
Donna: Well, just as well, because I'm not having any of that nonsense. I mean, you're just a long streak of nothing. You know, alien nothing.
The Doctor: There we are, then. Okay.
Donna: I can come?
The Doctor: Yeah. Course you can, yeah. I'd love it.
Donna: Oh, that's just
(They almost hug.) Car keys.
The Doctor: What?
Donna: I've still got my mum's car keys. I won't be a minute.
(Donna runs off. The Doctor starts lugging her bags into the Tardis.)