David Tennant credited as playing...
The Doctor
- The Doctor: Oh, you're not, are you? Tell me you're not archaeologists.
- Professor River Song: Got a problem with archaeologists?
- The Doctor: I'm a time traveler. I point and laugh at archaeologists.
- Professor River Song: [offering handshake] Ah. Professor River Song, archaeologist.
- 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?
- The Doctor: [reacting to the ghosting of Miss Evangelista] She's a footprint on the beach and the tide's coming in.
- The Doctor: [jumps up] Ah! I'm thick! Look at me, I'm old and thick! Head's too full of stuff! I need a bigger head!
- Professor River Song: You're doing a very good job acting like you don't know me. I'm assuming there's a reason.
- The Doctor: Well, a fairly good one, actually.
- Professor River Song: OK, shall we do diaries then? Where are we this time? Ah, going by your face, I'd say it's early days for you, yeah? So, um - crash of the Byzantium. Have we done that yet?
- [pause]
- Professor River Song: Obviously ringing no bells. Right, um - oh, picnic at Asgard. Have we done Asgard yet?
- [pause]
- Professor River Song: Obviously not. Blimey, very early days, then. Hoo! Life with a time traveler - never knew it could be *such* hard work. Um...
- [pause]
- Professor River Song: [whispering] Look at you.
- Professor River Song: [gasp] You're *young*.
- The Doctor: I'm really not, you know.
- Professor River Song: No, but you *are*.
- Professor River Song: [reaches to The Doctor's face and strokes his hair as Donna looks on] Your eyes. You're younger than I've ever seen you.
- The Doctor: You've... seen me before then?
- [the Doctor glances at her familiar touch]
- Professor River Song: [hand moves to his shoulder, concerned] Doctor. Please tell me you know who I am.
- The Doctor: [looks at her hand, then back to her face] Who are you?
- 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.
- [first lines]
- Dr. Moon: Close your eyes and tell me what you see.
- The Girl: [fade in to POV of drifting outside and above] The Library.
- [the Girl looks down, sees herself suspended in the air, drifting above The Library]
- Dr. Moon: Open your eyes again. Where are you now.
- The Girl: [as if this is obvious] My living room, Dr. Moon.
- Dr. Moon: When you close your eyes...?
- The Girl: [finishing] I go to The Library.
- Dr. Moon: [we see Dad seated behind Dr. Moon's right, concerned] Go to The Library now.
- [the Girl closes her eyes again, and this time she's drifting down into a large, open-topped room of The Library]
- Dr. Moon: Are you back there?
- The Girl: Yes.
- Dr. Moon: The same part?
- The Girl: No, it's always different. The Library goes on forever.
- Dr. Moon: How do you move around?
- The Girl: [she touches down and looks up adoringly at the books on the shelves] By wishing.
- [Suddenly there's frantic pounding on the door to the room. Startled, she turns around as the doors shake to the pounding they receive from outside]
- Dr. Moon: [in the living room] What's wrong?
- The Girl: [eyes tightly closed, distressed] Something's here! Someone's got in! No one is supposed to get in!
- Dad: She's never mentioned anyone else. She's always been alone.
- The Girl: Someone's in my library! No, no, please, it's not allowed! It's not allowed!
- Dr. Moon: Listen to me: The Library is in your mind.
- The Girl: I *know* it's in my mind, but something's got inside!
- The Doctor: [More pounding and shaking, then, with a mighty kick, Donna Noble 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] 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]
- [end theme music begins]
- Professor River Song: I trust that man to the end of the Universe. And, actually, we've been.
- The Doctor: [to River Song] Who *are* you?
- Dr. Moon: And then, you forgot.
- The Doctor: You just killed someone I like. That is not a safe place to stand!
- The Girl: Aah!
- The Doctor: This planet's going to crack like an egg.
- The Girl: Daddy! No! Daddy!
- Professor River Song: I hate you sometimes!
- The Doctor: [hurdling over bookcase] I know!
- [an atmospheric disturbance in The Girl's home]
- The Doctor: Don't play games with me.
- Strackman Lux: We need to stop this. We've got to save CAL!
- The Doctor: What is it, what is CAL?
- Professor River Song: Spoilers.
- The Doctor: Spoilers.
- The Girl: [panicked] No, don't tell, you mustn't tell!
- [credits roll]
- 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.
- Professor River Song: You think there's danger here?
- The Doctor: Something came to this library and killed everything in it. Killed a whole world. Danger? Could be.
- Professor River Song: That was 100 years ago. The library's been silent for 100 years. Whatever came here is long dead.
- The Doctor: Bet your life?
- Professor River Song: Always.
- [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.