Doctor Who (TV Series)

Tooth and Claw (2006)

Pauline Collins: Queen Victoria

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Quotes 

• Queen Victoria : What exactly... I pray, tell me, someone, please... What exactly is that creature?

  The Doctor : You'd call it a werewolf, but technically it's more of a lupine-wavelength haemovariform...

• Queen Victoria : I take it, Sir, that you halted my train to bring me here

  Father Angelo : We have waited so long for one of your journeys to coincide with the moon.

  Queen Victoria : Then you have waited in vain. After six attempts on my life,

  [she reaches into her clutch-bag and pulls out a pistol, aiming it at him] 

  Queen Victoria : I am hardly unprepared.

  Father Angelo : Oh, I don't think so, woman.

  Queen Victoria : The correct form of address is Your Majesty.

  [she shoots] 

• Rose Tyler : Is that the Koh-i-noor?

  The Doctor : Oh yes. The greatest diamond in the world.

  Queen Victoria : Given to me as the spoils of war. Perhaps its legend is now coming true. It is said that whoever owns it must surely die.

  The Doctor : Well, that's true of anything if you wait long enough.

• Queen Victoria : And please excuse the naked girl.

  Rose Tyler : Sorry.

  The Doctor : She's a feral child. I bought her for sixpence in old London Town. It's was her or the Elephant Man, so...

  Rose Tyler : Thinks he's funny but I'm so not amused.

• The Doctor : Come sir! You promised us a tale of nightmares.

  Queen Victoria : Indeed. Since my husband's death I find myself with more of a taste for supernatural fiction.

  The Doctor : You must miss him.

  Queen Victoria : Very much. Or completely. And that's the charm of a ghost story, isn't it? The scares and the chills, that's just for children but the hope of some contact with the great beyond, we all want some message from that place. It's the Creator's greatest mystery that we're allowed no such consolation. The dead stay silent and we must wait. Come! Begin your tale sir Robert. There is a chill in the air, the wind is hollowing through the eaves, tell us of monsters.

• [the Doctor, Rose, and Queen Victoria are trying to escape through a window at the Torchwood Estate, where a werewolf is chasing them] 

  Sir Robert : Excuse my manners, ma'am, but I shall go first, the better to assist her majesty's egress.

  Queen Victoria : A noble sentiment, my Sir Walter Raleigh.

  The Doctor : Yeah, any chance you could hurry it up?

• Queen Victoria : [Rose and the Doctor kneel before Queen Victoria who is armed with a sword]  By the power invested in me by the Church and the state, I dub thee

  [taps the sword on the Doctor's shoulders] 

  Queen Victoria : Sir Doctor of Tardis. By the power invested in me by the Church and the state, I dub thee

  [does the same for Rose] 

  Queen Victoria : Dame Rose of the Powell Estate. You may stand.

  The Doctor : [Rose and the Doctor stand up]  Many thanks, Ma'am.

  Rose Tyler : Thanks. They're never gonna believe this back home.

  The Doctor : Your Majesty, you said last night about receiving no message from the Great Beyond. I think your husband cut that diamond to save your life. He's protecting you even now, Ma'am, from beyond the grave.

  Queen Victoria : [sternly]  Indeed, then you may think on this, also; that I am *not* amused.

  Rose Tyler : [jubilantly]  Yes!

  [the Doctor sighs at having lost his bet with Rose] 

  Queen Victoria : Not *remotely* amused.

  [the Doctor and Rose straighten their faces] 

  Queen Victoria : And henceforth... I banish you.

  The Doctor : [confused]  I'm sorry?

  Queen Victoria : I have rewarded you, Sir Doctor, and now you are exiled from this empire, never to return.

  [she steps towards Rose and the Doctor] 

  Queen Victoria : I don't know what you are, the two of you, or where you're from, but I know that you consort with stars and magic, and think it fun. But your world is steeped in terror and blasphemy and death, and I will not allow it. You will leave these shores and you will reflect, I hope, on how you came to stray so far from all that is good, and how much longer you may survive this terrible life.

  [she briskly steps away from them] 

  Queen Victoria : Now, leave my world and never return!