Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Empty Child (2005)

Florence Hoath: Nancy

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• 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 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.