Episode Quotes
Dalek 1: You know the Doctor. You understand him. You will predict his actions.
Rose: I don't know! And even if I did, I wouldn't tell you!
Dalek 1: Predict. Predict! PREDICT!
Dalek 2: TARDIS detected, in flight.
Dalek 1: Launch missiles! Exterminate!
Rose: You can't! The TARDIS hasn't got any defenses! You're going to kill him!
Dalek 1: You have predicted correctly.
Jack: The extrapolator's working. we've got a fully functional forcefield. Try saying that when you're drunk.
Jack: One minute, they’re the greatest threat in the universe, the next minute they vanished out of time and space.
The Doctor: They went off to fight a bigger war. The Time War.
Jack: I thought that was just a legend.
The Doctor: I was there. The war between the Daleks and the Time Lords, with the whole of creation at stake. My people were destroyed, but they took the Daleks with them. I almost thought it was worth it. Now it turns out they died for nothing.
The Doctor: It's all right, come on out. That forcefield can hold back anything.
Jack: Almost anything.
The Doctor: Yes, but I wasn't gonna tell them that, thanks.
Jack: Sorry.
The Doctor: Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You may have removed all your emotions, but I reckon right down deep in your DNA there's one little spark left, and that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me? So tell me, how did you survive the Time War?
Emperor Dalek: They survived through me.
Emperor Dalek: You destroyed us, Doctor. The Dalek race died in your inferno, but my ship survived. Falling through time, crippled but alive.
The Doctor: I get it.
Daleks: Do not interrupt! Do not interrupt! Do not interrupt!
The Doctor: I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor and if there's one thing I can do, it's talk. I've got five billion languages and you haven't got one way of stopping me. So if anybody's going to shut up, it's you! Okey-dokey, so where were we?
Emperor Dalek: Everything human has been purged. I cultivated pure and blessed Dalek.
The Doctor: Since when did the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?
Emperor Dalek: I reached into the dirt and made new life. I am the God of all Daleks.
Daleks: Worship him! Worship him! Worship him!
The Doctor: They're insane. Hiding in silence for hundreds of years, that's enough to drive anyone mad. But it's worse than that. Driven mad by your own flesh, the stink of humanity. You hate your own existence. And that makes them more deadly than ever.
Jack: It’s been fun, but I guess this is goodbye.
Rose: Don’t talk like that! The Doctor’s gonna do it. You just watch him.
Jack: Rose. You are worth fighting for. (kisses her) I wish I’d never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward. (kisses him) See you in Hell.
The Doctor: There's another thing the TARDIS could do. It could take us away. We could leave; let history take its course. We go to Marbella in 1989.
Rose: Yeah, but you'd never do that
The Doctor: No, but you could ask. Never even occurred to you, did it?
The Doctor: If I'm very clever--and I'm more than clever, I'm brilliant--I might just save the world. Or rip it apart.
Rose: I'd go for the first one.
The Doctor: Me, too.
The Doctor: This is Emergency Program 1. Rose, now listen, this is important. If this message has activated, then it can only mean one thing: we must be in danger, and I mean fatal. I'm dead, or about to die any second with no chance of escape.
Rose: No!
The Doctor: And that's okay, I hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you home...
Rose: I won't let you.
The Doctor: : ...and I bet you're fussing and moaning now. Typical. But hold on and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Program 1 means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do. Let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it, no one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years the world will move on, and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me, you can do one thing. That's all, one thing: Have a good life. Do that for me Rose. Have a fantastic life.
Jack: The Delta Wave. Is it ever going to be ready?
Emperor Dalek: Tell him the truth, Doctor. There is every possibility the Delta Wave could be complete, but no possibility of refining it. The Delta Wave must kill every living thing in its path, with no distinction between human and Dalek. All things will die. By your hand
Jack: Doctor, the range of this transmitter covers the entire Earth.
Emperor Dalek: You would destroy Daleks and humans together? If I am God, the creator of all things, then what does that make you, Doctor?
The Doctor: There are colonies out there. The human race would survive in some shape or form, but you're the only Daleks in existence. The whole universe is in danger if I let you live. D'you see, Jack? That's the decision I've got to make for every living thing. Die as a human or live as a Dalek. What would you do?
Rose: That fight is happening right now. And he's fighting for us, for the whole planet, and I'm just sitting here eating chips!
Jackie Tyler: Listen to me. God knows I have hated that man, but right now I love him. And do you know why? Cos he did the right thing. He sent you back to me.
Rose: But what do I do every day, Mum? What do I do? Get up, catch the bus, go to work, come back home, eat chips and go to bed? Is that it?
Mickey Smith: It's what the rest of us do.
Rose: Well, I can't.
Mickey Smith: Why? Cos you're better than us?
Emperor Dalek: I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor, the great exterminator.
The Doctor: I'll do it!
Emperor Dalek: Then prove yourself, Doctor. What are you? Coward, or killer?
(the Doctor considers activating the trigger, then stops)
The Doctor: Coward. Any day.
Rose: I want you safe... my Doctor. Protected from the false god.
Rose: I can see everything. All that is...all that was...all that ever could be.
The Doctor: Rose Tyler. I was going to take you to so many places. Barcelona. Not the city Barcelona, the planet Barcelona. You’d love it. Fantastic place. They’ve got dogs with no noses. Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it’s still funny.
Rose: Then why can’t we go?
The Doctor: Maybe you will. Maybe I will. But not like this.
Rose: You’re not making sense.
The Doctor: I might never make sense again. I might have two heads. Or no head! Imagine me with no head. And don’t say that’s an improvement. But it’s a bit dodgy, this process. You never know what you’re going to end up with.
Rose: Doctor!
The Doctor: Stay away!
Rose: Tell me what’s going on.
The Doctor: I absorbed all the energy of the Time Vortex and no-one’s meant to do that (grimaces) Every cell in my body’s dying.
Rose: Can’t you do something?
The Doctor: Yeah, I’m doing it now. Time Lords have this little trick, it’s sort of a way of cheating death. Except… it means I’m gonna change. And I’m not gonna see you again. Not like this. Not with this daft old face.
The (Ninth) Doctor: (his final words) And before I go, Rose...before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And d'you know what? So was I.
The Tenth Doctor: (his first words) Hello. New teeth...that's weird. Now, where was I? Oh, that's right... Barcelona!