Billie Piper credited as playing...
Rose Tyler
- The Editor: It may interest you to know that this isn't actually the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. It's merely a place where humans happen to live...
- [a loud alien growling interrupts]
- The Editor: Sorry... It's a place where humans are allowed to live by kind permission of my client.
- [the Editor points upwards. Rose and The Doctor look up to see a gigantic mass on the ceiling, which screams, showing large pointed teeth]
- Rose Tyler: What is that?
- The Doctor: You mean that thing's in charge of Satellite Five?
- 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]
- The Editor: I call him Max.
- 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 Tyler: D'you want me to come with you?
- Adam Mitchell: No, no. You stick with the Doctor.
- [pause]
- Adam Mitchell: You'd rather be with him.
- [pause]
- Adam Mitchell: It's gonna take a better man than me to get between you two.
- Rose Tyler: I'll let the Doctor describe it.
- The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Planet Earth is at its height, covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion, the centre of a galactic domain that stretches across a million planets and species.
- [Adam faints]
- The Doctor: He's your boyfriend.
- Rose Tyler: Not any more.
- Rose Tyler: That's what comes of showing off; your history's not as good as you think.
- The Doctor: My history is perfect.
- Rose Tyler: Well, obviously not.
- Rose Tyler: Well, you're not a Jagrafess. You're human.
- The Editor: Yes, but being human doesn't pay very well.
- The Doctor: [the Doctor, Rose and Adam watch as news is gathered through Cathica] Compressed information. Streaming into her. Reports from every city, every country, every planet. And they all get packaged inside her head. She becomes part of the software. Her brain is the computer.
- Rose Tyler: If it all goes through her, she must be a genius.
- The Doctor: Nah, she wouldn't remember it. It's too much. Her head would blow up. The brain's the processor. As soon as it closes, she forgets.
- Rose Tyler: [indicating Suki and the others] So, what about all these people round the edge?
- The Doctor: They've all got tiny little chips in their head connecting them to her and they... transmit. Six hundred channels. Every single fact in the Empire beams out of this place. Now, that's what I call power.