Doctor Who (TV Series)

Silence in the Library (2008)

David Tennant: The Doctor

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Quotes 

• 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.

• [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?

• 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 : [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!

• 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.

• 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?

• [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] 

• The Doctor : Nice door skills, Donna.

  Donna Noble : Yeah, well, you know. Boyfriends. Sometimes you need the element of surprise.

• 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.