Catherine Tate credited as playing...
Donna Noble
- The Doctor: You know what? This is the biggest library in the universe. So where is everyone?
- [looks around]
- The Doctor: It's silent...
- Donna Noble: The library?
- The Doctor: The planet. The whole planet.
- Donna Noble: Maybe it's a Sunday?
- The Doctor: No, I never land on Sundays. Sundays are boring.
- Professor River Song: Pretty boy! With me, I said!
- [Donna looks at the Doctor suggestively]
- The Doctor: [pause] Oh, I'm pretty boy!
- Donna Noble: Yes! Oh, that came out a bit quick.
- The Doctor: Pretty?
- [Donna and the Doctor shrug]
- [the Doctor shows Donna the message]
- The Doctor: Maybe it's a cry for help?
- Donna Noble: [takes the message and looks at it] A cry for help?
- [turns the message round]
- Donna Noble: With a kiss?
- Donna Noble: Couldn't she help?
- Other Dave: Trust me, I just four days with her on the ship, she's, uh...
- Anita: Couldn't tell the difference between the escape pod and the bathroom. We had to go back for her... twice.
- Miss Evangelista: No, they're right, though. I'm a moron, me. My dad said I had the IQ of plankton, and, I was pleased.
- Donna Noble: [laughs] See, that's funny!
- Miss Evangelista: No. No, I really was pleased. Is that funny?
- Donna Noble: No, no.
- The Doctor: This must be the biographies. I love biographies.
- Donna Noble: Yeah, very you. Always a death at the end.
- The Doctor: You need a good death. Without death there'd only be comedies. Death gives us size.
- The Doctor: Nice door skills, Donna.
- Donna Noble: Yeah, well, you know. Boyfriends. Sometimes you need the element of surprise.
- Donna Noble: So, we weren't just in the neighborhood.
- The Doctor: Yeah, I kind of, sort of... lied a bit. I got a message on the psychic paper.
- [the Doctor shows Donna the psychic paper]
- Psychic paper: [appearing as hand-printed text] The Library. Come as Soon as you can. X
- The Doctor: What do you think: cry for help?
- Donna Noble: [taking the paper] Cry for help, with a kiss?
- The Doctor: Oh, we've all done that.
- Donna Noble: Who's it from?
- The Doctor: No idea.
- Donna Noble: [a "buzz-tink" sounds down the hall as she speaks] So why did we come here? Why did you-?
- The Doctor: Donna?
- ["Buzz-tink." Down the hall, "buzz-tink," a bank of lights go out. "Buzz-tink," and another]
- Donna Noble: What's happening?
- The Doctor: *Run*!
- [They run down the hall as more lights "buzz-tink" off. They arrive at a set of doors and try to get them open]
- Donna Noble: What? Is it locked?
- The Doctor: Jammed! The wood's warped!
- Donna Noble: Sonic it! Use the thingy!
- The Doctor: I can't, it's wood!
- Donna Noble: Oh! What, it doesn't do wood?
- The Doctor: Hang on, hang on, if I can vibrate the molecules, fry the bindings, I can shatterline the interface...
- Donna Noble: Oh, get out of the way!
- [With a mighty kick from Donna, she and the Doctor barge in. They quickly close the door and the Doctor bars it with a book through the handles. Leaning against the door and relaxing briefly, they notice they're not alone]
- The Doctor: Oh! Hello! Sorry to burst in on you like this. Okay if we stop here for a bit?
- The Girl: [gasps and her eyes fly open in her living room; in The Library an ornately carved floating wooden sphere where she was standing shuts its lens cover and drops to the floor]
- Professor River Song: [smiling at the Doctor through her space helmet] Hello, sweetie.
- The Doctor: Get out!
- Donna Noble: Doctor...
- The Doctor: All of you, turn around, get back in you rocket and fly away. Tell your grandchildren you came to the Library and lived. They won't believe you.
- Professor River Song: Pop your helmets, everyone, we got breathers.
- [Donna tries to look at a book, but the Doctor snatches it away]
- The Doctor: Spoilers!
- Donna Noble: What?
- The Doctor: These are books from your future. You don't want to read ahead, spoil all the surprises. It's like peeking at the end.
- Donna Noble: Isn't travelling with you one big spoiler?
- The Doctor: Now, the rest of you, helmets back on and sealed up. We'll need everything we've got.
- Donna Noble: But Doctor, we haven't got any helmets.
- The Doctor: Yeah, but we're safe anyway.
- Donna Noble: How are we safe?
- The Doctor: We're not. That was a clever line to shut you up.