Date: 200,000 - During the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire
Location: Satellite Five

The Bad Wolf reference in this episode is: One of the channels broadcast from Satellite Five is BAD WOLFTV

The interior of the TARDIS is not seen in this episode.

The Doctor: The thing is, Adam, time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guide book, you gotta throw yourself in. Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double, and end up kissing complete strangers. Or is that just me?

Adam Mitchell: Maybe I could just go and sit on the observation desk. Would that be alright? Soak it in. Y’know, pretend I’m a citizen of the year two hundred thousand.
Rose: D’you want me to come with you?
Adam Mitchell: No, no. You stick with the Doctor. You’d rather be with him. It’s gonna take a better man than me to get between you two.

Suki: You have been lying to the people.
The Editor: Ooh, I love it. Say it again.

Cathica: You’re not management, are you?
The Doctor: At last she’s clever!

Cathica: Doctor, I think if there was any kind of conspiracy, Satellite 5 would have seen it. We see everything.
The Doctor: I can see better. This society's the wrong shape. Even the technology.
Cathica: It's cutting-edge!
The Doctor: It's backwards. There's a great big door in your head.

The Editor: (to the Doctor and Rose) This is fascinating. Satellite 5 contains every piece of information within the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Birth certificates, shopping habits, bank statements. But you two… you don’t exist. There's not a trace. No birth, no job, not the slightest kiss. How can you walk through the world and not leave a single footprint?

The Editor: It may interest you to know that this is not the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. In fact, it’s not actually human at all. It’s merely a place where humans happen to live. (a loud alien growling interrupts) Sorry. It’s a place where humans are allowed to live by kind permission of my client.
(The Editor points upwards to his alien superior)
Rose: What is that?
The Doctor: You mean that thing’s in charge of Satellite 5?
The Editor: "That thing," as you put it, is in charge of the human race. For almost a hundred years, mankind has been shaped and guided, his knowledge and ambitions strictly controlled by its broadcast news, edited by my superior, your master and humanity’s guiding light, The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe. (pause) I call him Max.

The Editor: Create a climate of fear and it’s easy to keep the borders closed. It’s just a matter of emphasis. The right word in the right broadcast repeated often enough can destabilize an economy, invent an enemy, change a vote.

The Editor: Is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's enslaved?
The Doctor: Yes.
The Editor: Oh. I was hoping for a philosophical debate. Is that all I'm gonna get. "Yes"?
The Doctor: Yes.
The Editor: You're no fun.

The Editor: But the chips allow me to see inside their heads; find the smallest doubt and crush it!

The Editor: The human empire is tiny compared to what you've seen in your T - A - R - D - I - S. TARDIS.
The Doctor: Well, you’ll never get your hands on it. I'll die first!
The Editor: Well, die all you like. I don't need you.

The Editor: (to the Jagrafess) Umm, actually, sir, if it's all the same to you, I think I'll resign. Bye now.

The Doctor: The whole of history could have changed because of you.
Adam Mitchell: I just wanted to help.
The Doctor: You were helping yourself.
Adam Mitchell: And I’m sorry and I’ve said I’m sorry. And I am, I really am. But you can’t just leave me like this!
The Doctor: Yes, I can. 'Cause if you show the head to anyone, they’ll dissect you in seconds. You’ll have to live a very quiet life. Keep out of trouble. Be average. Unseen. Good luck.
Adam Mitchell: But I want to come with you!
The Doctor: I only take the best. I've got Rose.