Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
The Curse Of The Black Spot
Avery: No sign of a struggle, no bones or blood.
Boatswain: We're shark bait, every single one of us. Stuck on the ocean, waiting.
Avery: Until the wind changes.
(There is a thumping from below decks.) What's that?
Boatswain: It's the creature. It's returned.
(The hatch to the hold bursts open.) The Doctor: Yo ho ho! Or does nobody actually say that?
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The Doctor: Our sensors picked you up. Ship in distress.
Avery: Sensors?
The Doctor: Yes. Okay, problem word. Seventeenth century. My ship automatically, er, noticed-ish that your ship was having some bother.
Avery: That big blue crate?
Boatswain: That is more magic, Captain Avery. They're spirits. How else would they have found their way below decks?
The Doctor: Well, er, I want to say multidimensional engineering, but since you had a problem with sensors, I won't go there.
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Avery: To the rigging, you dogs! Let go the sails. Avast ye! Put the bunt into the slack of the clews.
(Amy and Rory pull on the sheets.) Amy: I swear he's making half this stuff up.
Rory: Well, we're going to need some kind of phrase book.
(The Doctor is at the wheel, trying to turn her bow on to the storm.) Avery: Toby! Find my coat. My compass is inside it, boy. Heave ho, you bilge rats.
Rory: Rats was all I could hear.
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The Doctor: Amy, stop. Don't interfere. Don't touch him. Anaesthetic, tissue sample, screen, sterile working conditions. Ignore all my previous theories!
Amy: Yeah? Well, we stopped paying attention a while back.