Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Empty Child (2005)

Christopher Eccleston: Doctor Who

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• [Captain Jack has just greeted the Doctor as "Mr. Spock"] 

  The Doctor : Mister Spock?

  Rose Tyler : What was I supposed to say? You don't have a name! Don't you ever get tired of "Doctor"? Doctor Who?

  The Doctor : Nine centuries in, I'm coping.

• The Doctor : Amazing.

  Nancy : What is?

  The Doctor : 1941. Right now, not very far from here the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like Dominoes. Nothing can stop it, nothing until one tiny, damp little island says "no". No, not here. A mouse in front of a lion. You're amazing. The lot of you. Don't know what you do to Hitler, but you frighten the hell out of me. Off you go, then. Do what you got to do. Save the world.

• The Doctor : It's brilliant, I'm not sure if it's Marxism in action or a West End musical.

• The Doctor : D'you know how long you can knock around space without happening to bump into Earth?

  Rose Tyler : Five days? Or is that just when we're out of milk?

  The Doctor : All the species in all the universe and it has to come out of a cow!

• The Empty Child : [sticking his hand through the letterbox]  Please let me in.

  Nancy : [Nancy throws something at the door]  You mustn't let him touch you!

  The Doctor : What happens if he touches me?

  Nancy : He makes you like him.

  The Doctor : And what's he like?

  Nancy : I've gotta go.

  The Doctor : Nancy, what's he like?

  Nancy : He's empty.

• The Doctor : One day, just one day, maybe, I'm going to meet somebody who gets the whole "don't wander off" thing.

• The Doctor : Ringing? What's that about? Ringing? You're not even a real phone and you're ringing?

• The Doctor : And I'm looking for a blonde in a Union Jack. A specific one, mind you, I didn't just wake up this morning with a craving.

• The Doctor : Excuse me, excuse me. Could I have everyone's attention, just for a mo? Be very quick. Hello! It might seem like a stupid question, but has anything fallen from the sky recently?

• Nancy : How'd you follow me here?

  The Doctor : I'm good at followin', me. Got the nose for it!

  Nancy : People can't usually follow me if I don't want 'em too.

  The Doctor : My nose has special powers.

  Nancy : Yeah? That why it's... ah.

  The Doctor : What?

  Nancy : Nothing.

  The Doctor : What?

  Nancy : [Smiles]  Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?

  The Doctor : What are you tryin' to say?

  Nancy : Good night mister.

• Captain Jack Harkness : Go back to what you were doing.

  The Doctor : We were talking about dancing.

  Captain Jack Harkness : Didn't look like talking

  Rose Tyler : Didn't feel like dancing.

• Doctor Constantine : Before this war began, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I'm neither; but I'm still a doctor.

  The Doctor : Yeah. Know the feeling.

• The Doctor : You're very sick.

  Doctor Constantine : Dying, I should think. I just haven't been able to find the time.

• The Doctor : [Nancy locks the door on the Child]  What's this, then? It's never easy being the only child left out in the cold, you know.

  Nancy : I suppose you'd know.

  The Doctor : I do, actually, yes.

  Nancy : It's not exactly a child.

• The Doctor : [the phone on the TARDIS has started ringing]  What am I supposed to do with a ringing phone?

  Nancy : [who has suddenly appeared]  Don't answer it. It's not for you.

  The Doctor : And how do you know that?

  Nancy : 'Cause I do. And I'm telling you... don't answer it.

• [first lines] 

  Rose Tyler : What's the emergency?

  The Doctor : It's mauve.

  Rose Tyler : Mauve?

  The Doctor : Universally recognised colour for danger.

  Rose Tyler : What happened to red?

  The Doctor : That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings! All those red alerts, all that dancing.

• Rose Tyler : It's not very Spock, is it? Just asking.

  The Doctor : [listening to a door]  Voices, music, people. What d'you think?

  Rose Tyler : I think you should do a scan for alien tech. Give me some Spock! Just once, would it kill you?

• Rose Tyler : Is it safe?

  The Doctor : Perfectly.

  [TARDIS console explodes with a shower of sparks, burning the Doctor] 

  The Doctor : Okay, *reasonably* - should have said reasonably, there.

• The Doctor : Nancy, there's something chasing you and the other kids. Looks like a boy and it isn't a boy, and it started about a month ago, right? The thing I'm looking for, the thing that fell from the sky, that's when it landed. And you know what I'm talking about, don't you?

  Nancy : There was a bomb. A bomb that wasn't a bomb, fell the other end of Limehouse Green station.

  The Doctor : Take me there.

  Nancy : Nah. Soldiers guarding it, barbed wire. You'd never get through.

  The Doctor : Try me!

  Nancy : You sure you want to know what's going on in there?

  The Doctor : I really want to know.

  Nancy : Then there's someone you need to talk to first.

  The Doctor : And who might that be?

  Nancy : The Doctor.

• Doctor Constantine : Are you a doctor?

  The Doctor : I have my moments.