Episode Quotes
Rose: (voiceover) Peter Alan Tyler, my dad. The most wonderful man in the world. Born fifteenth September, 1954.
Rose: It’s so weird. The day my father died. I thought it’d be all sort of grim and stormy but it’s just an ordinary day
The Doctor: The past is another country. 1987's just the Isle of Wight.
The Doctor: I did it again. I picked another stupid ape. I should have known. It's not about showing you the universe. It never is. It's about the universe doing something for you.
The Doctor: Rose, there's a man alive in the world who wasn't alive before. An ordinary man. That's the most important thing in creation. The whole world's different because he's alive.
Rose: I think he left me.
Pete: What? A pretty girl like you? If I was going out with you…
Rose: Stop. Right there!
Pete: I'm just saying…
Rose: I know what you're saying, and we're not going there. At no point are we going anywhere near there. You're not even aware that there exists. I don't even wanna think about there and believe me, neither do you. There, for you, is like… like, the Bermuda Triangle.
Jackie Tyler: Another one of yours, is she?
Pete Tyler: She saved my life!
Jackie Tyler: Oh, that's a new one. What was it last time?
Pete Tyler: I didn't even know her. She was a cloakroom attendant. I was helping her look for my ticket. There was three duffel coats all the same, somehow the rack… collapsed. We were under all this stuff.
Rose: Were you playing around?
Jackie Tyler: What's it got to do with you what he gets up to?
Rose: What does he get up to?
Jackie Tyler: You'd know!
Pete Tyler: Oh, cos I'm that stupid? I play around and I then bring her to meet the missus? You silly cow.
Jackie Tyler: But you are that stupid!
Pete Tyler: Can we keep this stuff for back home, just for now?
Jackie Tyler: What, with the rest of the rubbish? You bring home cut-price detergents, tonic water, Betamax tapes and none of it works! I'm drowning in your rubbish! (to Rose) What did he tell you? Did he say he's this big businessman? Cos he's not. He's a failure! Born failure, that one.
The Doctor: The police can’t help you now. No one can. Nothing in this universe can harm those things. Time’s been damaged and they’ve come to sterilize the wound. By consuming everything inside.
Stuart: Excuse me, Mister...
The Doctor: Doctor.
Stuart: You seem to know what's going on.
The Doctor: I give that impression, yeah.
Sarah: And I know we’re not important...
The Doctor: Who said you’re not important? I’ve travelled to all sorts of places, done things you can’t even imagine. But... you two... street corner, two in the morning. Getting a taxi home. I never had a life like that. Yes, I’ll try to save you.
Pete Tyler: Me and Rose were just talking.
Jackie Tyler: Oh yeah? Talking? While the world comes to an end, what do you do? Cling to the youngest blonde.
Rose: You can't tell her.
Pete Tyler: Why?
Rose: I mean, uh, I really don't want you to tell her.
Pete Tyler: What, you don't want people to know?
Rose: Where I come from, Jackie doesn't know how to work the time on the video recorder.
Pete Tyler: I showed her that last week. Point taken.
The Doctor: (to infant Rose) Now, Rose... you're not gonna bring about the end of the world, are you? Are you?
The Doctor: Between you and me, I haven't got a plan. No idea. No way out.
Rose: You'll think of something.
The Doctor: The entire Earth's been sterilized. This and other places like it are all that's left of the human race. We might hold out for a while but nothing can stop those creatures. They'll get through in the end. The walls aren't that old. And there's nothing I can do to stop them. There used to be laws stopping this kind of thing from happening. My people would have stopped this. But they're all gone. And now I'm going the same way.
Pete Tyler: Am I a good dad?
Rose: You told me a bedtime story every night when I was small. You were always there. You never missed one. And, um… you took us for picnics in the country every Saturday. You never let us down. You were there for us all the time. Someone I could really rely on.
Pete: That's not me.
Rose: When time gets sorted out…
The Doctor: Everybody here forgets what happened. Don't worry. The thing that you changed will… stay changed.
Pete Tyler: You mean I'll still be alive. Though I'm meant to be dead. That's why I haven't done anything with my life. Why I didn't mean anything.
The Doctor: It doesn't work like that.
Pete Tyler: Rubbish. I'm so useless I couldn't even die properly.
Pete Tyler: Now it's my fault all this has happened.
Rose: This is my fault.
Pete Tyler: No, love. I'm your dad. It's my job for it to be my fault.