Sophia Myles credited as playing...
Reinette
- Reinette: You and I both know, don't we Rose? The Doctor is worth the monsters... One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
- [last lines, voiceover]
- Reinette Poisson: My Dear Doctor, The path has never seemed more slow and yet I fear I am nearing its end. Reason tells me that you and I are unlikely to meet again, but I think I shall not listen to reason. I have seen the world inside your head and know that all things are possible. Hurry then my love; my days grow shorter now and I am so very weak. Godspeed my lonely angel.
- The Doctor: [the Doctor is searching through Reinette's memories] Sorry, you might find old memories reawakening, side effect.
- Reinette Poisson: Oh, such a lonely childhood!
- The Doctor: It'll pass.
- Reinette Poisson: Oh, Doctor, so lonely, so very very alone!
- The Doctor: What do mean, lonely? You've never been alone in your whole life- wait a minute, when did you start calling me Doctor?
- Reinette Poisson: Such a lonely little boy. Lonely then and lonelier now! How can you bear it?
- The Doctor: [breaking the mental connection] How did you do that?
- Reinette Poisson: A door, once opened, may be stepped through in either direction. Oh, Doctor, my lonely Doctor... dance with me.
- The Doctor: I can't.
- Reinette Poisson: Dance with me.
- The Doctor: This is the night you dance with the king.
- Reinette Poisson: Then first I shall make him jealous.
- The Doctor: I can't.
- Reinette Poisson: Doctor. Doctor who? It's more than just a secret, isn't it.
- The Doctor: What did you see?
- Reinette Poisson: That there comes a time, Timelord, when every lonely little boy must learn how to dance!
- Reinette Poisson: There is a vessel in your world where the days of my life are pressed together like the chapters of a book so that he may step from one to the other without increase of age, while I, weary traveller, must always take the slower path.
- Madame Du Pompadour: It is customary, I think, to have an imaginary friend only during your childhood. You are to be congratulated on your persistence.
- King Louis: What the hell is going on?
- Reinette Poisson: Oh. This is my lover, the king of France.
- The Doctor: Yeah? Well I'm the Lord of Time.
- The Doctor: Reinette, what age are you?
- Reinette Poisson: So impertinent a question so early in the conversation! How promising.
- Reinette Poisson: I have seen your world and I have no desire to set foot there again.
- Clockwork Droid: We do not require your feet.
- The Doctor: [coming back to a different time] Reinette... well, goodness how you've grown.
- Madame Du Pompadour: And you don't appear to have aged a single day. I think that is tremendously impolite of you.
- [32-year-old Reinette barges past Rose and Mickey behind the tapestry and finds herself on the spaceship at the Dagmar Cluster, two and a half galaxies away from Earth, in the 51st Century, roughly 3300 years in her future]
- Reinette Poisson: This is his world.
- [the members of the royal court start screaming somewhere in the distance]
- Reinette Poisson: What was that?
- Mickey Smith: [hesitates, then to Rose] The time window. The Doctor fixed an audio link.
- Reinette Poisson: Those screams... Is that my future?
- Rose Tyler: Yeah, I'm sorry.
- Reinette Poisson: Then I must take the slower path.
- Madame Du Pompadour: [echoing in the halls] Are you there? Can you hear me? I need you, now! You promised! The clock on the mantel is broken!
- Reinette Poisson: [fearful] Th- that's my voice.
- Madame Du Pompadour: It is time!
- Mickey Smith: Rose, come on, we gotta go. There's- there's a problem.
- Rose Tyler: Give me a moment.
- [Mickey hurries down the corridor of the ship]
- Rose Tyler: Are you okay?
- Reinette Poisson: No, I'm very afraid. But you and I both know, don't we Rose? The Doctor is worth the monsters.
- [Reinette returns through the time window behind the tapestry to her own time]
- Madame Du Pompadour: [echoing] Doctor! Doctor!
- [in the ballroom, the clockwork service droids corner the royal court]
- Madame Du Pompadour: [37 years old, speaking into her fireplace] Doctor!
- King Louis: We must go! No one is coming to help us!
- [a clockwork man appproaches and stands in the doorway. Madame Du Pompadour stands, turns, and gasps as memories flash in her mind of him in her bedroom in 1727 as 6-years-old Reinette. Two more costumed droids arrive, flanking him, completely blocking her and King Louis XV's egress]
- Clockwork Man: You are complete. You will come.
- Madame Du Pompadour: You seem to be flesh and blood but this is absurd. Reason tells me you cannot be real
- The Doctor: Oh, you don't want to listen to reason.
- Reinette Poisson: Could everyone please just calm down!
- [slowly the screaming subsides]
- Reinette Poisson: Such distressing noise! Kindly remember that this is Versailles, and we are French!
- Rose Tyler: Are you okay?
- Reinette Poisson: No, I'm not. But you and I both know, don't we, Rose, that the Doctor is worth the monsters.
- [first lines]
- [members of the royal court are running and screaming]
- King Louis: We are under attack! There are creatures - I don't even think they're human - we can't stop them!
- Madame Du Pompadour: [staring at a broken clock on the mantel] The clock is broken. He's coming.
- King Louis: Did you hear what I said?
- Madame Du Pompadour: [she turns and steps up to him] Listen to me: there is a man coming to Versailles. He has watched over me my whole life, and he will not desert me tonight.
- King Louis: What are you talking about? What man?
- Madame Du Pompadour: The only man, save you, I have ever loved.
- Madame Du Pompadour: [King Louis XV's face turns angry and insulted at the revelation] No. Don't look like that. There's no time. You have your duties. I am your mistress. Go to your queen.
- Madame Du Pompadour: [crouches in front of the fireplace and speaks loudly into the fire] Are you there? Can you hear me? I need you, now! You promised! The clock on the mantel is broken! It is time! Doctor! Doctor!
- Reinette Poisson: Would everyone just please calm down. Such a commotion, such distressing noise! Kindly remember that this is Versailles. This is the royal court, and we are French. I have made a decision. And my decision is no. I have seen your world, and I do not desire to set foot there again.
- Clockwork Droid: We do not require your feet.
- Rose Tyler: He will be there when you need him. That's the way it gotta be.
- Madame Du Pompadour: It is the way that has always been. The monster and the doctor. It seems you cannot have one without the other.
- Reinette Poisson: Fireplace Man, you are inside my mind.
- The Doctor: Oh dear, Reinette. You've had some cowboys in here.
- The Doctor: No, tonight is the Yew Tree Ball. Tonight you dance with the king!
- Reinette Poisson: [with suppressed glee] Then first I shall make him jealous.