Doctor Who (TV Series)

Robot: Part One (1974)

Elisabeth Sladen: Sarah Jane Smith

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• [first lines] 

  [after brief recap of the previous episode's regeneration scene] 

  Brigadier : [dials operator on telephone]  Get me the medical officer.

  [the Doctor mumbles something] 

  Brigadier : Lieutenant Sullivan, emergency. Come to the lab at once, please.

  The Doctor : ...human history.

  Brigadier : What's he talking about?

  Sarah Jane Smith : It's something that happened when we first met.

  The Doctor : [sits up rapidly]  I tell you, Brigadier, there's nothing to worry about. The brontosaurus is large and placid.

  [the Doctor collapses again. Harry Sullivan enters] 

  Harry : This is the patient, sir?

  The Doctor : And stupid.

  The Doctor : [sits up again, clutching Sarah]  The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the square on the other two sides. Why is a mouse when it spins? Never did know the answer to that one.

  Sergeant Benton : [entering]  Excuse me, sir. The daily reports.

  Harry : Take him to the sick bay, I'll make a proper examination there.

  Sergeant Benton : What's happening, sir? Who's...

  Brigadier : That, Mr. Benton, is the Doctor.

  Sergeant Benton : You mean he's done it again? He's changed?

  Brigadier : Apparently. Saw it happen this time. Lieutenant Sullivan?

  Harry : Yes, sir?

  Brigadier : I'm placing the Doctor in your personal charge. He is to have your full attention.

  Harry : Right-o, sir.

• [last lines] 

  [Back, alone, in the empty lab where she slipped, Sarah notices a fluid on the floor. She rubs her fingertips in it, then smells them] 

  Sarah Jane Smith : [to herself]  It was oil. I knew it.

  [a whirring noise starts up. Sarah looks around to find the Robot walking in] 

  Robot : Who are you? Why are you here?

  [Sarah scrambles up off the floor as the Robot's giant form advances upon her, backing her against the door] 

• [to Harry Sullivan, who'd been locked in a cabinet by the Doctor] 

  Brigadier : Well, where is he?

  [vworp, vworp] 

  Brigadier : [recognizing the TARDIS dematerialization]  Ah, too late.

  Sarah Jane Smith : [to the TARDIS pounding the wood exterior]  Ohh, no! No, Doctor, wait! Doctor, listen! Please, it's Sarah! Doctor...

  [the TARDIS winds down, the Doctor peeks out] 

  The Doctor : Hello. Come to see me off, have you? Well, I hate goodbyes. I'll just slip away quietly.

  Sarah Jane Smith : No, no, Doctor, you *can't* go!

  The Doctor : "Can't"? "*Can't*"? There's no such word as "can't"!

  [the Doctor slams the door] 

  Sarah Jane Smith : [to the Brigadier, heartbroken]  Wha...

  [the Doctor opens the door, taps Sarah's arm] 

  Sarah Jane Smith : Oh!

  The Doctor : Why not?

  Sarah Jane Smith : Well, because you're not... Well, because, um, the Brigadier needs you. Don't you, Brigadier?

  Brigadier : [caught not paying attention]  What? Oh, yes, of course, depending on you.

  The Doctor : What for?

  Sarah Jane Smith : There's been this robbery, hasn't there, Brigadier? Some kind of secret weapon.

  Brigadier : Ah, yes. Very serious business.

  Sarah Jane Smith : I mean, you are still UNIT's scientific adviser. Remember? Well, you can't go rushing off and leave them in the lurch.

  The Doctor : Can't I? Goodbye.

• Miss Winters : That journalist girl is arriving, the one with a UNIT pass.

  [Sarah's car is let through the gate] 

  Jellicoe : Something of a nuisance at the present moment in time.

  Miss Winters : We shall treat Miss Smith exactly like any other visitor.

  Jellicoe : I suppose so. I suppose so.

  [Sarah walks up and reaches past Miss Winters to shake Jellicoe's hand] 

  Sarah Jane Smith : Hello. You know, it's awfully good of you to allow this visit, Director.

  Miss Winters : I hadn't expected male chauvinist attitudes from you, Miss Smith.

  Sarah Jane Smith : I'm sorry?

  Miss Winters : I'm the Director, Hilda Winters.

  [She shakes Sarah's hand] 

  Miss Winters : This is Arnold Jellicoe, my assistant.

  [Sarah smiles, embarrassed]