Doctor Who (TV Series)

Forest of the Dead (2008)

Harry Peacock: Proper Dave

Quotes 

• [repeated line] 

  Proper Dave : Hey! Who turned out the lights?

• 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!