Doctor Who (TV Series)

Boom Town (2005)

Christopher Eccleston: Doctor Who

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• Captain Jack Harkness : Aww, sweet, look at these two. How come I never get any of that?

  The Doctor : Buy me a drink first.

  Captain Jack Harkness : You're such hard work.

  The Doctor : But worth it.

  [He grins in an extremely self-satisfied way] 

• Margaret Blaine : [gasping for breath after failing to escape The Doctor for the third time]  This is persecution. Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?

  The Doctor : You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet.

  Margaret Blaine : Apart from that.

• Idris Hopper : The Lord Mayor says... thank you for popping by to have a chat but, um, she's up to her eyes in paperwork... perhaps if you could make an appointment, for, for next week...?

  The Doctor : She's climbing out the window, isn't she?

  Idris Hopper : ...Yes, she is.

• Mickey Smith : [after the Doctor explains why the TARDIS resembles a Police Public Call Box]  But that's what I meant, there's no police boxes any more so doesn't it get noticed?

  The Doctor : Ricky, let me tell you something about the human race. You put a mysterious blue box slap-bang in the middle of town, what do they do? Walk past it. Now stop your nagging. Let's go and explore.

• Mickey Smith : [after hearing Margaret's plan to destroy the planet with her Nuclear power plant]  But why would she do that? A great big explosion, she'd only end up killing herself.

  Margaret Blaine : She's got a name, you know.

  Mickey Smith : She's not even a she, she's a thing.

  The Doctor : Oh, but she's clever.

  [pulls a board off the model plant; flips it over to reveal a network of complex circuitry; studying it] 

  The Doctor : Fantastic!

  Captain Jack Harkness : [looks at the board; impressed]  Is that a tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator?

  The Doctor : Couldn't have put it better myself.

• The Doctor : Cardiff, early 21st Century, and winds probably from the East. Trust me, safest place in the universe.

  Margaret Blaine : This nuclear power station right in the heart of Cardiff City will bring jobs for all.

• The Doctor : [looking at the project banner]  How'd you think of the name?

  Margaret Blaine : What? "Blaidd Drwg"? It's Welsh.

  The Doctor : I know, but how did you think of it?

  Margaret Blaine : Chose it at random, that's all. I don't know, just sounded good. Does it matter?

  The Doctor : [turns around]  "Blaidd Drwg."

  Rose Tyler : What's it mean?

  The Doctor : Bad Wolf.

  Rose Tyler : [getting it]  But... I've heard that before, "Bad Wolf", I've heard that *lots of times*.

  The Doctor : Everywhere we go. Two words, following us. "Bad Wolf."

  Rose Tyler : How can they be following us?

  The Doctor : [concerned pause, then suddenly grins]  Nah. Just a coincidence! Like hearing a word on the radio then hearing it all day. Never mind!

• The Doctor : [Margaret just tried begging the Doctor to take her somewhere besides her homeworld where she would be executed]  You've been in that skin suit too long. You've forgotten. There used to be a real Margaret Blaine. You killed her and stripped her and used the skin. You're pleading for mercy out of a dead woman's lips.

• Mickey Smith : So, what are you doing in Cardiff? And who's Jumpin' Jack Flash? I mean, I don't mind you hanging out with Big Ears up here...

  The Doctor : Oy!

  Mickey Smith : Look in the mirror. But this guy, I don't know, he's kinda...

  Captain Jack Harkness : Handsome?

  Mickey Smith : More like cheesy.

  Captain Jack Harkness : Early 21st Century slang, is cheesy good or bad?

  Mickey Smith : It's bad.

  Captain Jack Harkness : But bad means good, isn't that right?

  The Doctor : Are you saying I'm not handsome?