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Old 5th September 2019, 06:41 AM
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Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
The Fires Of Pompeii
(The Tardis has landed in a small curtained-off alcove. The Doctor and Donna step out into the sunshine. The streets are lined with vendors of various goods.)
The Doctor: Ancient Rome. Well, not for them, obviously. To all intents and purposes, right now, this is brand new Rome.
Donna: Oh, my God. it's, it's so Roman. This is fantastic.
The Doctor: Ha, ha.
Donna: I'm here, in Rome. Donna Noble in Rome. This is just weird. I mean, everyone here's dead.
The Doctor: Well, don't tell them that.
Donna: Hold on a minute. That sign over there's in English. (Painted on the side of a barrow is two amphorae for the price of one.) Are you having me on? Are we in Epcot?
The Doctor: No, no, no, no. That's the Tardis translation circuits. Just makes it look like English. Speech as well. You're talking Latin right now.
Donna: Seriously?
The Doctor: Mmm.
Donna: I just said seriously in Latin.
The Doctor: Oh, yeah.
Donna: What if I said something in actual Latin, like veni, vidi, vici? My dad said that when he came back from football. If I said veni, vidi, vici to that lot, what would it sound like?
The Doctor: I'm not sure. You have to think of difficult questions, don't you?
Donna: I'm going to try it.
(Donna goes to a fruit seller.)
Stallholder: Afternoon, sweetheart. What can I get you, my love?
Donna: Er, veni, vidi, vici.
Stallholder: Huh? Sorry? Me no speak Celtic. No can do, missy.
Donna: Yeah. (She walks away.) How's he mean, Celtic?
The Doctor: Welsh. You sound Welsh. There we are. Learnt something.
(A young woman with a white painted face and wearing a red cloak watches them leave.)
Donna: Don't our clothes look a bit odd?
The Doctor: Nah. Ancient Rome, anything goes. It's like Soho, but bigger.
Donna: You've been here before then?
The Doctor: Mmm. Ages ago. Before you ask, that fire had nothing to do with me. Well, a little bit. But I haven't got the chance to look around properly. Coliseum, Pantheon, Circus Maximus. You'd expect them to be looming by now. Where is everything? Try this way.
(The young woman follows them through the streets until they come out into a piazza.)
Donna: Not an expert, but there's seven hills of Rome, aren't there? How come they've only got one?
(One big, bare-headed mountain. Then the ground shakes.)
Man: Here we go again.
(The vendors hang onto their stalls as pottery falls and breaks.)
Donna: Wait a minute. One mountain, with smoke. Which makes this
The Doctor: Pompeii. We're in Pompeii. And it's volcano day.

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Lucius: The Mountain God marks your words. I'd be careful, if I were you.
The Doctor: Consuming the vapours, you say?
Evelina: They give me strength.
The Doctor: It doesn't look like it to me.
Evelina: Is that your opinion as a doctor?
The Doctor: I beg your pardon?
Evelina: Doctor. That's your name.
The Doctor: How did you know that?
Evelina: And you. You call yourself Noble.
Metella: Now then, Evelina. Don't be rude.
The Doctor: No, no, no, no. Let her talk.
Evelina: You both come from so far away.
Lucius: The female soothsayer is inclined to invent all sorts of vagaries.
The Doctor: Oh, not this time, Lucius. No, I reckon you've been out-soothsayed.
Lucius: Is that so, man from Gallifrey?
The Doctor: What?
Lucius: The strangest of images. Your home is lost in fire, is it not?
Donna: Doctor, what are they doing?
Lucius: And you, daughter of London.
Donna: How does he know that?
Lucius: This is the gift of Pompeii. Every single oracle tells the truth.
Donna: That's impossible.
Lucius: Doctor, she is returning.
The Doctor: Who is? Who's she?
Lucius: And you, daughter of London. There is something on your back.
Donna: What's that mean?
Evelina: Even the word Doctor is false. Your real name is hidden. It burns in the stars, in the Cascade of Medusa herself. You are a Lord, sir. A Lord of Time.

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Donna: You have got to be kidding me.
(Donna is tied to the altar, and Spurrina is standing over her with a knife.)
Spurrina: The false prophet will surrender both her blood and her breath.
Donna: I'll surrender you in a minute. Don't you dare.
Spurrina: You will be silent.
Donna: Listen, sister, you might have eyes on the back of your hands, but you'll have eyes in the back of your head by the time I've finished with you. Let me go!
Spurrina: This prattling voice will cease forever.
(Promises, promises. Spurrina raises the blade.)
The Doctor: Oh, that'll be the day.
Spurrina: No man is allowed to enter the Temple of Sibyl.
The Doctor: Well, that's all right. Just us girls. Do you know, I met the Sibyl once. Yeah, hell of a woman. Blimey, she could dance the Tarantella. Nice teeth. Truth be told, I think she had a bit of a thing for me. I said it would never last. She said, I know. Well, she would. You all right there?
Donna: Oh, never better.
The Doctor: I like the toga.
Donna: Thank you. And the ropes?
The Doctor: Yeah, not so much.

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Donna: You can't just leave them!
The Doctor: Don't you think I've done enough? History's back in place and everyone dies.
Donna: You've got to go back. Doctor, I am telling you, take this thing back. It's not fair.
The Doctor: No, it's not.
Donna: But your own planet. It burned.
The Doctor: That's just it. Don't you see, Donna? Can't you understand? If I could go back and save them, then I would. But I can't. I can never go back. I can't. I just can't, I can't.
Donna: Just someone. Please. Not the whole town. Just save someone.
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