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Billie Piper and David Tennant in Doctor Who (2005)

David Tennant: The Doctor

Rise of the Cybermen

Doctor Who

David Tennant credited as playing...

The Doctor

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Quotes12

  • The Doctor: [Mickey has his finger on a button] Um, what are you doing that for?
  • Mickey Smith: Cause you told me to
  • The Doctor: When was that?
  • Mickey Smith: About half an hour ago
  • The Doctor: Um, you can let go now
  • Mickey Smith: Well how longs it been since I could have stopped?
  • The Doctor: Ten minutes?... twenty... twenty-nine?
  • Mickey Smith: You just forgot me?
  • The Doctor: No, no no! I was just, I was calibrating... I was, no, I know exactly what I'm doing.
  • The Doctor: [Rose has run off] I told you to keep an eye on her!
  • Mickey Smith: She's all right...
  • The Doctor: She goes wandering off! Parallel world; it's like a gingerbread house! All those temptations calling her.
  • Mickey Smith: Oh, so it's just Rose then? Nothing out there to tempt me?
  • The Doctor: Well I dunno, I can't worry about everything! If I could just get this thing to...
  • [he kicks the TARDIS. Hard]
  • Mickey Smith: Did that help?
  • The Doctor: Yes.
  • Mickey Smith: Did that hurt?
  • The Doctor: Yes.
  • [Clutches foot]
  • The Doctor: Ow!
  • Rose Tyler: [On the Cybermen] They're people?
  • The Doctor: They were. Now they've had all their humanity taken away. That's a living brain jammed inside a cybernetic body, with a heart of steel. All emotions removed.
  • Rose Tyler: Why no emotion?
  • The Doctor: Because it hurts.
  • The Doctor: We surrender. There's no need to damage us, we're good stock. We volunteer for the upgrade programme. Take us to be processed.
  • Cyberman: You are rogue elements.
  • The Doctor: But we surrender.
  • Cyberman: You are incomptaible.
  • The Doctor: But this is a surrender.
  • Cyberman: You will be deleted.
  • The Doctor: But we're surrendering! Listen to me, we surrender!
  • Cyberman: You are inferior. Man will be reborn as cyberman, but you will perish under maximum deletion. Delete, delete, delete, DELETE!
  • [the credits roll]
  • [after the TARDIS has crashlanded]
  • The Doctor: We fell out of the vortex, through the Void into nothingness. We're at some sort of no-place, a silent realm, a lost dimension...
  • Mickey Smith: [looking outside] Otherwise known as "London".
  • The Doctor: So this is London?
  • Mickey Smith: Yep.
  • The Doctor: Your city?
  • Mickey Smith: That's the one.
  • The Doctor: Just as we left it?
  • Mickey Smith: Bang on.
  • The Doctor: [looking up] And that includes the zeppelins?
  • [They all look up and see lots of zeppelins moving throughout the sky]
  • Rose Tyler: Those are beautiful.
  • [looking around, we see zeppelins everywhere]
  • Mickey Smith: OK, so it's London with a big international zeppelin festival.
  • The Doctor: This is not your world.
  • Mickey Smith: But the date's the same.
  • The Doctor: You're a very smart man. l'd call you genius except l'm the the room.
  • Rose Tyler: [hugs Ricky] Oh my god, look at you! I thought I'd never see you again!
  • Ricky Smith: Yeah, no offense but who the hell are you?
  • Mickey Smith: Rose! That's not me. That's like, the other one.
  • The Doctor: Oh, as if things weren't bad enough, there's two Mickeys!
  • Cyberman: You will be deleted
  • The Doctor: But we surrender!
  • Mickey Smith: Where was that? What happened?
  • The Doctor: Oh, it was on this... er, planet thing. Asteroid. It's a long story. You had to be there.
  • Cybermen Voices: We have been upgraded.
  • The Doctor: Into what?
  • Cybermen Voices: The next level of mankind. We are Human Point 2. Every citizen will receive a free upgrade. You will become like us.
  • The President: I'm sorry. I'm so sorry for what's been done to you. But listen to me, this experiment ends tonight!
  • Cybermen Voices: Upgrading is compulsory.
  • The President: And if I refuse?
  • The Doctor: Don't.
  • The President: What if I refuse?
  • The Doctor: I'm telling you, don't!
  • The President: What happens if I refuse?
  • Cybermen Voices: Then you are not compatible.
  • The President: What happens then?
  • Cybermen Voices: You will be deleted!
  • [grabs the President by the neck, electrocuting him to death]
  • Cybermen Voices: We have been upgraded.
  • The Doctor: Into what?
  • Cybermen Voices: The next stage of mankind. We are human point two.

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