Doctor Who (TV Series)
The Empty Child (2005)
Billie Piper: Rose Tyler
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Quotes
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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.
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Rose Tyler : So, who are you supposed to be then?
Captain Jack Harkness : [handing her a card] Captain Jack Harkness, 133 Squadron, Royal Air Force. American volunteer.
Rose Tyler : Liar. This is psychic paper. It tells me whatever you want it to tell me.
Captain Jack Harkness : How do you know?
Rose Tyler : Two things. One, I have a friend that uses this all the time, and two, you just handed me a piece of paper telling me you're single and you work out.
Captain Jack Harkness : Tricky thing, psychic paper.
Rose Tyler : Yeah. Can't let your mind wander when you're handing it over.
Captain Jack Harkness : [reading the paper she's just handed back] Oh, you sort of have a boyfriend called Mickey Smith, but you consider yourself to be footloose and fancy-free.
Rose Tyler : What?
Captain Jack Harkness : Actually the word you use is "available".
Rose Tyler : No way.
Captain Jack Harkness : And another one, "very".
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Captain Jack Harkness : So... when you say 'your companion', how disappointed should I be?
Rose Tyler : OK. We're standing in mid-air on a space-ship during a German air-raid. Do you really think now's a good time to be coming on to me?
Captain Jack Harkness : Perhaps not.
Rose Tyler : It was just a suggestion.
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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!
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Captain Jack Harkness : So, this companion of yours. Does he handle the business?
Rose Tyler : Well... I delegate a lot of that, yeah.
Captain Jack Harkness : Well, maybe we should go find him.
Rose Tyler : And how you gonna do that?
Captain Jack Harkness : Easy. I'll just scan for alien tech.
Rose Tyler : Finally, a professional.
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Rose Tyler : You used to be a Time Agent. Now... you're some kind of freelancer.
Captain Jack Harkness : Oh, that's a little harsh. I like to think of myself as a criminal.
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Captain Jack Harkness : [Rose falls from the barrage balloon rope but is caught by a beam of light. Captain Jack speaks to her via loudspeaker] I'm just programming your descent pattern. Stay still as you can and keep your hands and feet inside the light field.
Rose Tyler : Descent pattern?
Captain Jack Harkness : [via loudspeaker] Oh, and could you switch off your cell-phone?
[Rose starts to complain]
Captain Jack Harkness : No, seriously, it interferes with my instruments.
Rose Tyler : You know, no one ever believes that.
[switches phone off]
Captain Jack Harkness : [via loudspeaker] Thank you, that's much better.
Rose Tyler : Oh yeah, that's a real load off, that is! I'm hanging in the sky in the middle of a German air raid with a Union Jack across my chest but, hey, my mobile phone's off!
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[Rose and Captain Jack are standing on his space ship which is tied to Big Ben]
Rose Tyler : Do you have the time?
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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.
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Rose Tyler : You have an invisible spaceship.
Captain Jack Harkness : Yeah.
Rose Tyler : Tethered up to Big Ben for some reason.
Captain Jack Harkness : First rule of active camouflage: Park somewhere you remember.
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Captain Jack Harkness : I've got you. You're fine, you're just fine. The tractor beam, it can scramble your head just a little.
Rose Tyler : Hello.
Captain Jack Harkness : Hello.
Rose Tyler : Hello. Sorry, there was 'hello' twice there. Dull, but, you know, thorough.
Captain Jack Harkness : Are you all right?
Rose Tyler : I'm fine! Why, you expecting me to faint?
Captain Jack Harkness : You look a little dizzy.
Rose Tyler : What about you? You're not even in focus...! Oh, boll...
[faints]
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[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.
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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?
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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.