Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Lazarus Experiment (2007)

David Tennant: The Doctor

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• Professor Richard Lazarus : I find that nothing's ever exactly like you expect. There's always something to surprise you. Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act...

  The Doctor : Falls the shadow.

  Professor Richard Lazarus : So the mysterious Doctor knows his T.S. Eliot. I'm impressed

  The Doctor : Wouldn't have thought you'd have time for poetry, Lazarus, what with you being so busy defying the laws of nature and everything.

  Professor Richard Lazarus : You're right, Doctor. One lifetime's been too short for me to do everything I'd like. How much more I'll get done in two, or three, or four.

  The Doctor : It doesn't work like that. Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.

  Professor Richard Lazarus : But if it's the right person, what a gift that would be.

  The Doctor : Or what a curse. Look at what you've done to yourself.

  Professor Richard Lazarus : Who are you to judge me?

• The Doctor : [sees Martha's mother walking towards them; smiles]  Ah, Mrs. Jones; we never finished our chat.

  Francine Jones : [without preamble she slaps the Doctor round the face] 

  Francine Jones : Keep away from my daughter!

  Martha Jones : Mum, what are you doing?

  The Doctor : [rubbing his jaw]  Always the mothers! Every time!

• The Doctor : You're a joke, Lazarus. A footnote in the history of failure!

• The Doctor : Black tie... Whenever I wear this, something bad always happens.

  [thinking about the events of "Rise of the Cybermen"] 

  Martha Jones : That's not the outfit, that's just you. But anyway, I think it suits you. In a... James Bond kinda way.

  The Doctor : *James Bond*? Really...

• The Doctor : [playing the organ]  Need to turn this up to eleven.

• The Doctor : Really shouldn't take that long just to reverse the polarity. I must be a bit out of practice.

• The Doctor : [spots tray of hors d'oeuvres]  Ooh, they've got nibbles! I love nibbles.

• Tish Jones : He's a science geek, I should've known.

  The Doctor : Science geek, what's that mean?

  Martha Jones : That you're obsessively enthusiastic about it.

  The Doctor : [grins]  Oh, nice.

• The Doctor : Lovely to meet you, Mrs. Jones. I've heard a lot about you.

  Francine Jones : Have you. What have you heard, then?

  The Doctor : Oh, y'know, that you're Martha's mother, and... Uhm... no, actually, that's about it. We haven't had much time to chat. You know, been... busy.

  Francine Jones : Busy? Doing what, exactly?

  The Doctor : Oh, y'know... stuff.

• The Doctor : This isn't about improving, this is about you and your customers living a little longer!

  Lazarus : Not a little longer, Doctor. A lot longer. Perhaps indefinitely.

• Lazarus : Why don't you come out and face me?

  The Doctor : Have you looked in the mirror lately? Why would I want to face that, hmm?

• [Reacting to Professor Lazarus's statement on the news] 

  The Doctor : No, I'm sorry, did he say he was going to change what it means to be human?

• The Doctor : [about to play the organ]  I hope there's a good acoustic in here.

• [to all the guests] 

  The Doctor : Listen to me! You people are in serious danger. You need to get out of here, right now!

  Olive Woman : Don't be ridiculous. The greatest danger here is choking on an olive.

  [the mutated Lazarus breaks in] 

• The Doctor : Oh, look, they've got nibbles! I love nibbles.

• The Doctor : Using hypersonic soundwaves to create a state of resonance... That's inspired.

  Professor Richard Lazarus : You understand the theory then.

  The Doctor : Enough to know that you couldn't possibly have allowed for all the variables.

  Professor Richard Lazarus : No experiment is entirely without risk.

  The Doctor : That thing nearly exploded. You might as well have stepped into a blender.