Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Shakespeare Code (2007)

David Tennant: The Doctor

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• Martha Jones : So, magic and stuff? It's a surprise, it's all a bit Harry Potter.

  The Doctor : Wait till you read book seven. Oh, I cried.

• The Doctor : Come on! We can have a good flirt later!

  William Shakespeare : Is that a promise, Doctor?

  The Doctor : Oh, fifty-seven academics just punched the air. Come on.

• William Shakespeare : 'Close up this din of hateful dire decay / Decomposition of your witches' plot! / You thieve my brains, consider me your toy / My doting doctor tells me I am not!'

  Lilith : No! Words of power!

  William Shakespeare : 'Foul Carrionite specters, cease your show / Between the points... '

  [he looks to The Doctor for help] 

  The Doctor : 761390!

  William Shakespeare : '761390! / Banished like a tinker's cuss / I say to thee... '

  [he again looks to The Doctor] 

  The Doctor : Uh...

  [he looks to Martha] 

  Martha Jones : Expelliarmus!

  The Doctor : Expelliarmus!

  William Shakespeare : 'Expelliarmus!'

  The Doctor : Good old JK!

• William Shakespeare : How can a man so young have eyes so old?

  The Doctor : I do a lot of reading.

• The Doctor : Rage, rage, against the dying of the light...

  William Shakespeare : I might use that.

  The Doctor : You can't, it's someone else's.

• [after landing with the TARDIS] 

  Martha Jones : But are we safe? I mean, can we move around and stuff?

  The Doctor : Of course we can. Why not?

  Martha Jones : It's like in those films: if you step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race.

  The Doctor : Then, don't step on any butterflies. What have butterflies ever done to you?

• Lilith : But your heart grows cold / The north wind blows / And carries down the distant... Rose?

  The Doctor : Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!

• Martha Jones : Do you have to pass a test to fly this thing?

  The Doctor : Yes, and I failed it.

• Martha Jones : [referring to the Globe theatre]  It's like your police box; small wooden box, with all that power inside!

  The Doctor : Oh, Martha Jones, I like you.

• The Doctor : Queen Elizabeth I!

  Queen Elizabeth : Doctor!

  The Doctor : [surprised]  What?

  Queen Elizabeth : My sworn enemy!

  The Doctor : What?

  Queen Elizabeth : Off with his head!

  The Doctor : WHAT?

• [about the female roles on stage] 

  Martha Jones : Those are men dressed as women, yeah?

  The Doctor : Nothing ever changes in London.

• The Doctor : Not so different from your time. Look...

  [points to a man who is shovelling dung into a bucket] 

  The Doctor : ... they have recycling.

  [They pass men standing around a barrel of water] 

  The Doctor : Water cooler moments...

  Preacher : And the Earth will be consumed by flames!

  The Doctor : And global warming.

• [after trying to explain psychic paper to Martha, and she doesn't understand] 

  The Doctor : I hate starting from scratch...

• Martha Jones : Am I alright? I'm not going to get carted off as a slave or anything?

  The Doctor : Why ever would you think that?

  Martha Jones : Well, not exactly white, in case you hadn't noticed.

  The Doctor : Well, I'm not exactly human. Just walk round like you own the place, always works for me.

• The Doctor : [after a witch stopped one of his hearts' beating]  Only one heart working... how do you cope like this?

• Martha Jones : Hold on, mister! Two hearts?

  The Doctor : Don't make a habit of it.

  [Martha laughs as The Doctor gets up, seemingly fine, but then he yells out in pain] 

  The Doctor : Aaah! I've only got one heart working! How do you people *cope*? I've gotta get the other one started. Hit me. Hit me on the chest.

  [He gestures with his right arm, so Martha hits him on the right of his chest] 

  The Doctor : Gaaah! Other *side*!

  [Martha hits him on the left of his chest] 

  The Doctor : Urrgh! On the back! On the back!

  [He bends over and she hits him with both hands clasped together on the back] 

  Martha Jones : Uh! Eh! Left a bit!

  [She hits him the same way to the left of his spine] 

  The Doctor : Aaah!

  [cracks his neck and back and stands up] 

  The Doctor : Lovely! There we go! Bada-*boom*-ba!

  The Doctor : [sniffs]  Well, what are you standing there for?

  The Doctor : [runs out]  Come on! The Dome!

• Martha Jones : Thing is, though, am I missing something here? The world didn't end in 1599. It just didn't. Look at me, I'm living proof.

  The Doctor : Oh, how to explain the mechanics of the infinite temporal flux. I know: Back to the Future. It's like Back to the Future.

  Martha Jones : The film?

  The Doctor : No, the novelisation! Yes, the film! Marty McFly goes back and changes history.

  Martha Jones : And he starts fading away- Oh my God, am I gonna fade?

  The Doctor : You and the entire future of the human race. It ends right now in 1599 if we don't stop it.

• [regarding the loss of his only son to the Black Death in his absence] 

  Shakespeare : Made me question everything, the futility of this fleeting existence, to be or not to be.

  [pauses] 

  Shakespeare : Oooh, that's quite good.

  The Doctor : You should write that down.

  Shakespeare : Mmm, maybe not. Bit pretentious?

  The Doctor : Ehm.

• The Doctor : [shouting]  The play's the thing.

  [turning to Shakespeare] 

  The Doctor : And yes, you can use that.

• The Doctor : Just think. When you get back, you could tell everyone that you've seen Shakespeare.

  Martha Jones : Yeah! And then I could get sectioned!

• The Doctor : Mr. Shakespeare, isn't it?

  William Shakespeare : Oh, no. No no no. Who let you in? No autographs, no you can't have yourself sketched with me, and please don't ask where I get my ideas from. Thanks for your interest, now be a good boy and shove...

  [he then notices Martha] 

  William Shakespeare : Hey, nonny nonny!

• Martha Jones : Where's Shakespeare? I wanna see Shakespeare! Author! Author...

  [looks at The Doctor cautiously] 

  Martha Jones : Do they say that? Do they say "Author?"

  Audience : Author! Author!

  [the whole audience begins to chant "Author!] 

  The Doctor : Well... They do now.

• Martha Jones : Where are we? No, sorry. Got to get used to this whole new language, *when* are we?

  The Doctor : [looks up and sees a man about to dump waste out on their heads]  Mind that.

  [He pulls Martha back just before they get pummeled by excrement] 

  The Doctor : Somewhere before they invented the toilet.

• The Doctor : The Carrionites vanished. Where did you go?

  Lilith : The Eternals found the right word to banish us into deep darkness.

  The Doctor : Then how did you escape?

  Lilith : New words, new and glittering, from a mind like no other.

  The Doctor : Shakespeare.

• Lilith : [explaining the Carrionites plan]  And from this world we will lead the universe back into the old ways of blood and magic.

  The Doctor : [walks up to her]  Hmm, busy schedule. But first you've gotta get past me.

  Lilith : Oh, that should be a pleasure.

  [leans in seductively] 

  Lilith : Considering my enemy has such a handsome shape.

  The Doctor : Now that's one form of magic that's definitely not gonna work on me.

  Lilith : Oh, we'll see.

  [cuts a piece of hair off of him] 

  The Doctor : What's that for? What did you do?

  Lilith : Souvenir.

• The Doctor : [finds Lilith floating outside the window]  Well that's just cheating.

  Lilith : Behold, Doctor. Men to Carrionites are nothing but

  [whips out a doll] 

  Lilith : puppets.

  The Doctor : Now you might call that magic, but I call that a DNA replication module.

  Lilith : What use is your science now?

  [stabs the doll] 

  The Doctor : Aah!

  [collapses while Lilith flies off laughing]