Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
The Invasion – Episode 1
(The Doctor and Jamie arrive at a large skyscraper and enter the deserted reception area. There is one door labelled IE - no unauthorised entry - so the Doctor goes through. Outside, two men in a car watch them. The Doctor comes face to face with computer bank complete with magnetic tape and flashing lights.) The Doctor: I thought so.
Jamie: What?
The Doctor: More stupid computers. Automatic receptionists. Right.
Woman: International Electromatic Company. State your business.
The Doctor: I would like, please, to speak with Professor Watkins.
Woman: One moment. Party not available.
The Doctor: Then I would like to speak with someone in authority.
Woman: Your request will be considered and your appointment arranged. Please state your name and address.
The Doctor: That's no good. I wish to speak with somebody now.
Woman: I am sorry. All personnel are engaged.
The Doctor: But I insist. This is an emergency!
Woman: State the nature of the emergency.
The Doctor: It's a private matter.
Woman: Private matters have no emergency status.
The Doctor: Oh shut up, you stupid machine! Diabolical inventions.
Jamie: What now?
The Doctor: Come on.
Jamie: Where are we going?
The Doctor: Well, there must be somebody else in this building except these stupid machines. Come on.
(The Doctor and Jamie go out and down a back alley, watched by security cameras.) The Invasion – Episode 2
(Jaguar drives across RAF Fairford to where a Hercules transport plane is lowering its access ramp. Military personnel put out a pair of smaller ramps and it drives straight up and onboard. Jamie and the Doctor walk through a door in a glass map of the northern hemisphere centred on the North Pole into an area where military personnel in grey uniforms with UNIT shoulder flashes are working. Benton and Tracy follow.) Jamie: Would you mind telling us what all this is about?
Benton: You'll find out, sir.
Jamie: Sir?
(An officer comes out of a forward compartment.) Brigadier: All right, Benton, thank you.
Benton: Sir.
Tracy: NAAFI break, sir?
Brigadier: Very well.
(Benton and Tracy leave.) How nice to see you again, Doctor.
The Doctor: It's Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart!
Brigadier: Ah, Brigadier now. I've gone on up in the world.
Jamie: Oh course, the Yetis. We met you in the underground
Brigadier: That's right, McCrimmon, in the underground. Must be four years ago now.
Jamie: That long. It only seems about a couple of weeks ago, doesn't it.
The Doctor: I've told you over and over again, Jamie. Time is relative.
Brigadier: Are you still making a nonsense of it. Doctor, in your, what was it called? Tardis?
The Doctor: Yes, we're still travelling. Yes.
Brigadier: Yes, Mister Travers told me all about it. It's er, well it's, to say the least, an unbelievable machine.
The Doctor: Any more unbelievable than the Yetis?
Brigadier: No, true. I'm not quite so much of a sceptic as I was since that little escapade.
The Invasion – Episode 3
Packer: I'd think about it if I was you, Professor. After all, she's a pretty girl. It'll be a shame to spoil all that.
Watkins: What a vicious sadist, you are, Packer. I don't believe you anyway.
Packer: I don't make idle threats, Professor, as you well know. If you want to see that girl again in one piece I suggest you do as Mister Vaughn asks.
The Invasion – Episode 4
Jamie: That thing in there, it moved. In the crate, there's something alive in there.
The Doctor: Alive? Jamie, the darkness plays funny tricks with the imagination.
The Invasion – Episode 5
Zoe: Doctor, any luck? What did you find out?
Jamie: Some old friends of ours are here, Zoe.
Zoe: Who?
Jamie: The Cybermen.
The Doctor: Yes, I'm afraid it's true, Zoe.
Zoe: That's what you suspected, wasn't it?
Isobel: What on Earth are Cybermen?
The Doctor: They're from another world. Inhuman killers.
Turner: You mean they're from space, or something.
The Doctor + Zoe: Yes.
Zoe: And that spaceship we saw on the other side of the Moon was obviously their craft.
Isobel: What are they? Little green men? Oh, you're serious?
Zoe: We've met Cybermen before and seen what they can do.
Turner: Where exactly are they and how many?
Jamie: At Vaughn's headquarters in London.
The Doctor: Oh, there's hundreds of them, possibly thousands.
The Invasion – Episode 6
Turner: Penny for them?
Isobel: It's all so peaceful.
Turner: Do you think the Doctor could be wrong this time? I mean about the invasion.
Isobel: Well, he's been right up to now.
Turner: Yes, true, but, well, I don't know. Look.
Isobel: Yeah, I know what you mean. Why, it's just incredible, isn't it? Looking at all that peace out there, it's so difficult to imagine.
The Invasion – Episode 7
The Doctor: And you trust them?
Vaughn: Doctor, I've worked with the Cybermen for five years preparing this invasion. I know them, the way they think, the single-mindedness of their purpose.
The Doctor: Then you must know what ruthless and inhuman killers they are.
Vaughn: Of course. But then, they are my allies, not my enemies.
The Doctor: Do you really think they'll honour any bargain that you make with them?
Vaughn: Oh, I've planned this whole operation in great detail, allowing for every possible factor. It was I who contacted them in deep space, provided the means by which they travelled to Earth, and masterminded the whole operation from A to Z. They have merely provided their advanced scientific skills, their might and strength.
The Doctor: What do they get out of all this?
Vaughn: What they want, and what they're going to get, are two entirely different things.
The Doctor: Oh, you're a fool, Vaughn. When they get here, they'll take over.
Vaughn: All Cybermen here are conditioned to obey my orders. They are directly under my command.
The Doctor: Oh, possibly. But what about the others, out there in space? Are they conditioned to obey your commands?
Vaughn: If they're not, I'll destroy them.
The Doctor: With the Professor's machine?
Vaughn: Yes.
The Doctor: With one machine?
Vaughn: I'll have more made.
The Doctor: But you'll have to have the Professor's help to do that, won't you? We've got the Professor.
Vaughn: They'll be under my command, exactly like the others.
The Doctor: But you can't be sure of that, can you?
The Invasion – Episode 8
Vaughn: But if you do, you'll destroy everything here. Even your own Cybermen!
Planner: The sacrifice will be small.
Vaughn: You can't do this! I won't let you!
Planner: You cannot stop us. No one can.
The Doctor: Now you're beginning to understand the Cybermen, Vaughn, you can't make bargains with them!
Vaughn: I won't let them take over. I won't! You think you're indestructible? Well, I can destroy all of you!
(Vaughn aims Walter's device at the Planner and turns it on.) Planner: Opposition is useless