Quotes
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Rose: What's the emergency?The 9th Doctor: It's mauve.
Rose: Mauve?
The 9th Doctor: Universally recognized color for danger.
Rose: What happened to red?
The 9th Doctor: That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings. All those red alerts, all that dancing.
The 9th Doctor: Know how long you can knock around space without having to bump into Earth?
Rose: Five days? Or is it when we're out of milk?
The 9th Doctor: All the species in all the universe and it has to come out of a cow.
"I think you should scan for alien tech. Give me some Spock. For once, would it kill you?" ~ Rose Tyler
"You know, one day— Just one day, maybe, I'm going to meet somebody who gets the whole 'Don't wander off' thing. Nine hundred years of phonebox travel, it's the only thing left to surprise me." ~ The Ninth Doctor
"Oh yeah, that's real load off, that is. I'm hanging in the sky in the middle of a German air raid with a Union Jack across my chest, but hey! My mobile phone's off!" ~ Rose
"As soon as the sirens go, you find a big fat family meal, still warm on the table with everyone down in the air raid shelter and bingo! Feeding frenzy for the homeless kids of Londontown. Puddings for all. As long as the bombs don't get you." ~ The Ninth Doctor
"1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominos. Nothing can stop it—nothing. Until one tiny, damp little island says 'No'. 'No. Not here'. A mouse in front of a lion. You're amazing, the lot of you. I don't know what you do to Hitler, but you frighten the hell out of me." ~ The Ninth Doctor
The 9th Doctor: You're very sick.
Dr. Constantine: Dying, I should think. I just haven't been able to find the time. Are you a doctor?
The 9th Doctor: I have my moments.
The 9th Doctor: Mr. Spock?
Rose: What was I supposed to say? You don't have a name. Don't you ever get tired of Doctor? Doctor who?
The 9th Doctor: Nine centuries in, I'm coping.
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Trivia
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"The Empty Child" is notable for being the first appearance of Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who.
Steven Moffat's original outline envisaged Jax (masquerading under the alias "Jack Harkness") as an interstellar alien soldier who befriends the Doctor but intimidates Rose. He was to be tracking an escaped child-creature, the story's antagonist.
Although slated to become a companion, John Barrowman's name is not added to the opening credits. The notion of adding a third name to reflect an "expanded roster" would not be introduced until Barrowman's return to the series two years later in Utopia.
Jack Harkness becomes the first ongoing LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender) character in Doctor Who, although actor Barrowman is not the first LGBT actor to be cast in a major role in the series. Matthew Waterhouse, who played Adric, one of the Fifth Doctor's companions, was the first openly gay actor cast by Doctor Who.
When Captain Jack mocks the Doctor and Rose for their out-of-place outfits ("Flag Girl was bad enough - but U-boat captain?"), he is actually spot on - the Doctor's leather jacket is in fact a vintage 1938 German U-boat commander's jacket.
Jack tells Rose about a "fully-equipped Chula warship" that had landed in London. "Chula" is actually the name of a restaurant where writer Steven Moffat first met fellow writers Mark Gatiss, Rob Sherman, and Paul Cornell to celebrate getting the job on Doctor Who.
The hospital where The Doctor meets Dr. Constantine, Albion Hospital, is the same hospital where they took the "Space Pig" in Doctor Who: Aliens of London.
This is the first time the TARDIS telephone rings in the revival series. In the original series, in season 3, during the scene that bridges "The Hall of Dolls" and "The Dancing Floor", the Celestial Toymaker calls Steven & Dodo on the TARDIS phone.
When the Doctor enters the nightclub, the performer is singing "It Had to be You," but the lyrics are modified: "...cause nobody else gave me a thrill, when I uphold your silence still..." When Steven Moffat, this episode's writer takes over as the series' lead in series 5, "The Silence" is a repeating theme and recurring characters.
The scar on the back of the gas-mask zombie's hands also mimics the crack in the universe, which is introduced in series 5 and is a recurring image through series 7.
Early drafts of the adventure included the character of Jamie's father, who would silently and anonymously appear to aid Nancy and the war orphans. The climactic discovery of his true identity would be accompanied by the revelation that he is German, providing an alternative motivation to Nancy's shame.
The nanogenes were originally called "nanites" but this was changed because of concerns about the same term's usage in the Star Trek franchise.
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Trailer
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