Harry Peacock credited as playing...
Proper Dave
- The Doctor: The Vashta Nerada live on all the worlds in this system, but you hunt in forests. What are you doing in a library?
- Other Dave: We should go. Doctor!
- The Doctor: In a minute. You came to a library to hunt, why? Just tell me why.
- Proper Dave: We... did not.
- The Doctor: Oh, hello.
- Proper Dave: We did not.
- The Doctor: Take it easy, you'll get the hang of it. "Did not" what?
- Proper Dave: We... did not... come... here.
- The Doctor: Well, of course you did, of course you came here.
- Proper Dave: We come *from* here.
- The Doctor: "From here"?
- Proper Dave: We hatched here.
- The Doctor: But you hatch from trees, from spores in trees.
- Proper Dave: These are our forests.
- The Doctor: You're nowhere near a forest, look around you.
- Proper Dave: [insistent] These are our forests.
- The Doctor: You're not in a forest, you're in a library. There are no trees in a... library.
- Other Dave: We should go. Doctor!
- The Doctor: [realizing] Books. You came in the books. Microspores in a million, million books.
- Other Dave: We should go. Doctor!
- The Doctor: [looks out to the endless city of bookshelves] Oh, look at that. The forests of the Vashta Nerada, pulped and printed and bound. A million million books, hatching shadows.
- Other Dave: We should go. Doctor!
- The Doctor: [noticing the repetition, the Doctor turns to find that Other Dave has also been consumed: another skeleton inside a suit, neural relay blinking] Oh... Dave! Oh, Dave, I'm so sorry.
- Proper Dave: [advancing from one side] Hey! Who turned out the lights?
- Other Dave: [advancing from the other side] We should go. Doctor!