NuWho - Series 8, Episode 6 - The Caretaker (Season 34, Story 246)

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Clara: There's no way out of this. We're going to die here.
The 12th Doctor: Pass me the vibro-cutters.
Clara: They're in my pocket.
The 12th Doctor: Come on then, pass them to me.
Clara: In my other jacket. At home.
The 12th Doctor: Why have you got two jackets? Is one of them faulty?

"Of course we won't starve. The sand piranhas will get us long before that." ~ The Twelfth Doctor

The 12th Doctor: I'm the new caretaker. John Smith.
Danny: Welcome to Coal Hill, Mister Smith.
The 12th Doctor: Thanks. Yes, John Smith's the name. But, you know, here's a thing. Most people just call me the Doctor.

Clara: Deep cover in my school? Why? Where's Atif, what have you done with him?
The 12th Doctor: He's fine. Hypnotised. He thinks he's got the 'flu. Also a flying car and three wives. It's going to be a rude awakening.

The 12th Doctor: Listen, it's lovely talking to you, but I've really got to get on. I'm a caretaker now. Look, I've got a brush.
Clara: Doctor, is there an alien in this school?
The 12th Doctor: Yes, me. Now, go. The walls need sponging and there's a sinister puddle.

Clara: You can't do this. You cannot pass yourself off as a real person among actual people.
The 12th Doctor: I lived among otters once for a month. Well, I sulked. River and I, we had this big fight...
Clara: Human beings are not otters!
The 12th Doctor: Exactly. It'll be even easier.

The 12th Doctor: Go and sing with the otters.
Clara: I hate you.
The 12th Doctor: That's fine. That's a perfectly normal reaction.

The 12th Doctor: Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in 1796.
Clara: This is Mr. Smith, the temporary caretaker and he's a bit confused.
The 12th Doctor: Not in 1797, because she didn't have the time, she was so busy doing...
Clara: Oh, I suppose she as your bezzie mate, was she and you went on holidays together and then you got kidnapped by Boggons from space, and then you formed a band and met Buddy Holly!
The 12th Doctor: No. I read the book. There's a bio at the back.

The 12th Doctor: I'm sure I won't need you, Sergeant. Fully qualified. (sparks) You best get back to your PE class.
Danny: Oh, I teach maths.
The 12th Doctor: Do you? What, in emergencies?
Danny: No. I'm a maths teacher.

The 12th Doctor: Can't you read?
Courtney: Course I can read. Read what?
The 12th Doctor: The door. It says, Keep Out.
Courtney: No, it says, Go Away Humans.
The 12th Doctor: Oh, so it does. Never lose your temper in the middle of a door sign.

"Oh, listen, there's the bell. Off you go. Haven't you got shoplifting to go to?" ~ The Twelfth Doctor

The 12th Doctor: I used to have a teacher exactly like you once.
Clara: You still do. Pay attention.

Blitzer: Range one point four nine scan complete problem problem.
The 12th Doctor: Listen. I'm unarmed. I'm peaceful. Don't you understand? I, I know that you shouldn't be on this planet but I can help you with that. I...
Blitzer: Problem solution destroy.

"Oh, oh, well done, PE, brilliant work. What's this? A chronodyne generator? I'll just deactivate that, shall I? I've got a swimming certificate so that qualifies me to meddle with higher technology. Never mind that some people are actually trying to save the planet. Oh, no. There's only room in my head for cross-country and the offside rule." ~ The Twelfth Doctor

"Clara, why are you talking to him like that? Why are you using words like chronodyne? Was that thing a space thing? Oh. Oh, my God, you're from space. You're a spacewoman. You said you were from Blackpool." ~ Danny Pink

Danny: How stupid do you think I am?
The 12th Doctor: I'm willing to put a number on it.
Danny: I'm not a moron, Clara. And he's not the caretaker. He's your dad. Your space dad.
The 12th Doctor: Oh, genius. That is, that is really, really brilliant reasoning. How can you think that I'm her dad when we both look exactly the same age?
Clara: We do not look the same age.
The 12th Doctor: I was being kind.

The 12th Doctor: And when this is all over, you can finish the job.
Clara: How do you mean?
The 12th Doctor: Well, you've explained me to him. You haven't explained him to me.

The 12th Doctor: Now you mention it, being a Time Lord, I can feel a light shield aura when it's right next to me.
Danny: Oh ho, ho. Time Lord? Might have known.
The 12th Doctor: Might have known what?
Danny: Well, the accent's good, but you can always spot the aristocracy. It's in the, the attitude.

"Humans. I never learn." ~ The Twelfth Doctor

Danny: You're using her like a decoy?
The 12th Doctor: No, not like a decoy. As a decoy. Don't they teach you anything at stupid school?
Danny: Well, is there anything I can do?
The 12th Doctor: Yes. Yes, and this is very, very important. Leave us alone!

Clara: Why's it listening to you?
The 12th Doctor: Listening to its superior. This is a rough copy. It thinks I'm its general. Initiate input. Commence shutdown protocol. No conflict. Conclusion?
Blitzer: Problem solution.
The 12th Doctor: Conclusion. 
Blitzer: Final input code missing. Emergency terminate. Initiate self-destruct in nine eight...

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Jane Austen began writing the novel Pride and Prejudice after staying at Goodnestone Park in Kent with her brother Edward and his wife in 1796. The novel was originally titled First Impressions by Jane Austen, and was written between October 1796 and August 1797. So in the context of this story, both the Doctor and Clara are equally correct.

Clara speculates that The Doctor and Jane Austen were kidnapped by "Blogons," causing him to criticize the made-up race's name. "Blogons" is the name of an enemy alien race in "Inspector Spacetime," the Doctor Who spoof featured in several installments of "Community."

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NuWho - Series 8, Episode 5 - Time Heist (Season 34, Story 245)

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The 12th Doctor: Are you taller?
Clara: Heels.
The 12th Doctor: What, do you have to reach a high shelf?
Clara: Right, got to go. Going to be late.
The 12th Doctor: For a shelf?

Architect [OC]: The Bank of Karabraxos is impregnable.
(The Doctor takes a mobile phone sized item from the case.)
Guard [OC]: Please stand away from the door. We do not wish to hurt you before incineration.
Architect [OC]: The Bank of Karabraxos has never been breached. You will rob the Bank of Karabraxos.
(Glass shatters.)

The 12th Doctor: Mutant human. What kind of mutant?
Saibra: Like he says, why are you in charge now?
The 12th Doctor: It's my special power. What's yours?

The 12th Doctor: Question one. Robbing banks is easy if you've got a Tardis. So why am I not using it?
Clara: Question two, where us the Tardis?
The 12th Doctor: Okay, that probably should be question one.

Psi: Ever tried not thinking about something?
Clara: No.
Porrima: You may have to.

The 12th Doctor: There must be a plan.
Clara: What if the plan is, we're blowing up the floor for someone else? What if we're not supposed to make it out alive?
The 12th Doctor: Oh, don't be so pessimistic. It'll affect team morale.
Saibra: What, and getting us blown up won't?
The 12th Doctor: Well, only very, very briefly.

Psi: No, no, no. This guy, your mate, is a lunatic.
The 12th Doctor: What do you want, Psi, more than anything else? Whatever it is, it's in this bank. You agreed to rob the most impregnable bank in history. You must have had a very good reason. We all must have. Picture the thing you want most in the universe, and decide how badly you want it. Well?
Psi: Still don't understand why you're in charge.

Saibra: Ah, so that's it. That's your plan?
The 12th Doctor: Yep.
Saibra: A thing will happen?
The 12th Doctor: A thing. Probably.

Saibra: Do we have time for this?
The 12th Doctor: Well, why not? There's no immediate threat.
(An alarm sounds.)
Computer: Warning. Intruders detected.
The 12th Doctor: I should stop saying things like that.

Saibra: Mutant gene. No one can touch me. If they do, I transform. Touch me, Doctor, and you'll be looking at yourself. I am alone.
The 12th Doctor: Why?
Saibra: Could you trust someone who looked back at you out of your own eyes?

Saibra: When you meet the Architect, promise me something. Kill him.
The 12th Doctor: I hate him, but I can't make that promise.
Saibra: A good man. I left it late to meet one of those.

Clara: Hey. You okay?
The 12th Doctor: No, I'm an amnesiac robbing a bank. Why would I be okay?

"Come on! Come and find me! Every thief and villain in one big cocktail. I am so guilty! Every famous burglar in history is hiding in this bank right now in one body. Come and feast!" ~ Psi

Clara: How would he know when a storm would hit?
The 12th Doctor: (laughs) Of course. Stupid, stupid Doctor. Of course, of course.
Clara: Of course, what?
The 12th Doctor: Whoever planned all this, they're in the future. This isn't just a bank heist, it's a time travel heist. We've been sent back in time to the exact moment of the storm, to be in exactly the right place when it hits, because that's the only time the bank is vulnerable.

"It explains why we're not here in the Tardis. The solar disruption would have made navigation impossible. The one time the bank is vulnerable is the one time we can't just land." ~ The Twelfth Doctor

"Must be noisy inside its head. Painful to listen to so much chatter, so many secrets. Must drive it wild. How can you force it to obey?" ~ The Twelfth Doctor

Karabraxos: Fired? I put all of the used clones into the incinerator. Can't have to many of moi scattered around.
Psi: Sorry, you don't get on with your own clone?
The 12th Doctor: She hates her own clones. She burns her own clones. Frankly, you're a career break for the right therapist.

The 12th Doctor: Shut up. Just shut up, shut up, shut up, shutetty up up up. What, what did you say? What did you say? What did you say about your own eyes? De-shut up. Say it again. 
Saibra: How can you trust someone if they look back at you out of your own eyes?

Karabraxos: What in the name of sanity is going in this room now?
The 12th Doctor: We're getting sanity judgment from the self-burner.

"What have I told you about pessimism? That's it, that's it. There are so many memories in here. Feast on them. Tuck in. Big scarf, bow tie, bit embarrassing. What do you think of the new look? I was hoping for minimalism, but I think I came up with magician. In the last few days, there's been a block. Can you see the block? Tell me why I'm here. Show me why I'm here. Show me!" ~ The Twelfth Doctor

"So much mental traffic in the universe. Solitude is the only peace." ~ The Twelfth Doctor

The 12th Doctor: Don't worry. Calories consumed on the Tardis have no lasting effect.
Clara: What? Are you kidding?.
The 12th Doctor: Of course I'm kidding. It's a time machine, not a miracle worker.

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The script and rough-cut of this episode were leaked online before it was broadcast.

Keeley Hawes (Ms Delphox) is not credited as Karabraxos.

Mr. Porrima, the bank customer copied by Saibra to gain access to the safety deposit boxes, is only identified in the credits, not in dialogue.

The episode contains an image of Abslom Daak, a character who originated in comic stories. This is one of the few examples of a TV episode referencing a character who originated outside of the TV series itself. Daak's image appears among a number of other characters from past seasons of Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures. An image of James Marsters as Captain John Hart is also seen.

This is the third series 8 episode to not feature Missy, the first was Robot of Sherwood and the second was Listen.


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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 13 - Nightmare in Silver - Season 33, Story 237

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"Well, here we are. Hedgewick's World. The biggest and best amusement park there will ever be, and we've got a golden ticket. Eh? Eh? Fun." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"No need to panic, my young friends. We all know there are no more living Cybermen. What you are seeing is a miracle. The six hundred and ninety ninth wonder of the universe, as displayed before the Imperial court, and only here to destroy you at chess." ~ Webley

The 11th Doctor: Insects. Funny insects. I should a them to my funny insect collection.
Clara: You collect funny insects?
The 11th Doctor: Yeah, I'm starting to, right now.

"Don't wander off. Now, I'm not just saying don't wander off, I mean it. Otherwise you'll wander off and the next thing you know, somebody's going to have to start rescuing somebody." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Cybermen. Technologically upgraded warriors. We couldn't win. Sometimes we fought to a draw, but then they'd upgrade themselves, fix their weaknesses and destroy us. It's hard to fight an enemy that uses your armies as spare parts." ~  Porridge

"That was a Cyberman. But they're extinct." ~ Captain Alice Ferrin

"I'm getting Angie, finding Artie and looking for funny insects. Stay alive. And you lot, no blowing up this planet!" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Firstly, if anybody's watching this, those children are under my protection. I'm coming to get them. And secondly, little metal machine, you are beautiful.  Not even a Cybermat any more, eh? Cybermites." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"We needed children, but the children had stopped coming. You brought us children. Hail to you, the Doctor, saviour of the Cybermen!" ~ Webley

Clara: I trust the Doctor.
Captain: You think he knows what he's doing?
Clara: I'm not sure I'd go that far.

"There. That was easy. The game has just started. Doctor, why is there no record of you anywhere in the databanks of the Cyberiad? Oh, you're good. Oh, you've been eliminating yourself from history. You know you could be reconstructed by the hole you've left." ~ The Cyber-Doctor

Porridge: You knew it was me.
Captain: I was in the Imperial Guard on Caspertine. Mostly just parades, but I had the honour to guard the old Emperor during the ice picnic.
Porridge: When the snow bears came and danced for us. That was a day.

Cyber-Doctor: Actually, he has no better than a twenty five percent chance of winning at this stage in the game. Some very dodgy moves at the beginning. Hello, flesh girl. Fantastic. I'm the Cyberplanner.
Clara: Doctor?
Cyber-Doctor: Afraid not. I'm working the mouth now. Allons-y. Oh, you should see the state of these neurons. He's had some cowboys in here. Ten complete re-jigs.

"It's time to get up. Wakey, wakey, boys and girls. Wakey, wakey." ~ The Cyber-Doctor

"Your move. But before you take it, just so you know, sacrificing my queen was the best possible move I could have made. The Time Lords invented chess. It's our game. And if you don't avoid my trap, it gives me mate in three moves." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Please stand by. You will be upgraded. Welcome to the Cyberiad. You will be upgraded. Welcome to the Cyberiad. You will be upgraded." ~ Cyberman

Clara: Do you think I'm pretty?
The 11th Doctor: No. You're too short and bossy, and your nose is all funny.
Clara: Good enough.

"Oh yeah. Nice ship. Bit big. Not blue enough." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Impossible girl. A mystery wrapped in an enigma squeezed into a skirt that's just a little bit too tight. Oh yeah. What are you?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

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The working title for this episode was The Last Cyberman.

According to "Behind the scenes...", the Cybermen were redesigned for this episode and got a variety of new abilities and features. These new Cybermen share several similarities with the Borg of Star Trek franchise - which were in turn originally based somewhat upon the Cybermen. The Cybermen's ability to adapt to attacks is reminiscent of the Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Additionally, the Borg used nanoprobes to convert individuals, similar to the cybermites, and Webley's cyber-appearance is reminiscent of the Borg's "half machine, half human" face. And as of "Star Trek: First Contact" they, like these Cybermen, assimilated new members by use of something coming out of their wrists. Voice notifications for individuals to convert were also typical for the Borg and the Cybermen, both new and old.

This episode uses a camera technique known as "Bullet Time", popularised in the science fiction film The Matrix to frame out the high-speed movements of the new Cybermen, as shown in the "Behind the Scenes" featurette for Nightmare in Silver.

The Cyber-Planner makes its first appearance within the revived series. However, this is not the first time it has been incorporated into the elements of the revived timeline. Cyber-Planners previously appeared in the video game The Eternity Clock.

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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 8 - The Rings of Akhaten - Season 33, Story 232

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"Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way in that exact place so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And if just one of those tiny little things had never happened, I'd never have met you. Which makes this the most important leaf in human history." ~ Dave Oswald

"She's just a girl. How can she be? She can't be. She is. She can't be. She's not possible." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Clara: I don't know. You know when someone asks you what's your favourite book and straight away you forget every single book that you've ever read?
The 11th Doctor: No. Totally not.

The 11th Doctor: Do you know, I forget how much I like it here. We should come here more often.
Clara: You've been here before?
The 11th Doctor: Yes, yes, yes. I came here a long time ago with my granddaughter.
Clara: Hang on!

"You're a thousand years old. You must have something you care about." ~ Clara

"Listen. There's one thing you need to know about travelling with me. Well, one thing apart from the blue box and the two hearts. We don't walk away." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Clara: Did you just lock us in with the soul eating monster?
The 11th Doctor: Yep.

"All the elements in your body were forged many, many millions of years ago, in the heart of a far away star that exploded and died. That explosion scattered those elements across the desolations of deep space. After so, so many millions of years, these elements came together to form new stars and new planets. And on and on it went. The elements came together and burst apart, forming shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings. Until eventually, they came together to make you. You are unique in the universe." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Clara: I say leg it.
The 11th Doctor: Leg it where, exactly?
Clara: Don't know. Lake District?
The 11th Doctor: Oh, the Lake District's lovely. Let's definitely go there. We can eat scones. They do great scones in 1927.

"I walked away from the last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No time. No space. Just me. I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a mad man. I've watched universes freeze and creations burn. I've seen things you wouldn't believe. I have lost things you will never understand. And I know things. Secrets that must never be told. Knowledge that must never be spoken." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Well, come on then. Eat up. Are you full? I expect so, because there's quite a difference, isn't there, between what was and what should have been. There's an awful lot of one, but there's an infinity of the other. And infinity's too much, even for your appetite." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

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Unlike the previous episodes of Series 7, this episode does not introduce a new variation of the Doctor Who logo.

This is the first episode since her departure that does not have Amy Pond referenced and inadvertently affecting the plot or story. The word 'Pond' was what got the Doctor to come out of retirement in The Snowmen and an image on the cover of the book she wrote, Summer Falls, became a manifestation for a Spoonhead in The Bells of Saint John.

This is the first episode in Doctor Who history to have a musical theme.

The Doctor mentions bringing his granddaughter to Akhaten at some point in time, though she is not mentioned by name. Most likely referring to his granddaughter and past companion Susan Foreman, this would be the first explicit mention of her in the revived series.



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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 3 - A Town Called Mercy - Season 33, Story 227

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"I see Keep Out signs as suggestions more than actual orders, like Dry Clean only." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Anachronistic electricity, Keep Out signs, aggressive stares. Has someone been peeking at my Christmas list?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Isaac: Says he wants us to give him the alien doctor.
Amy: But that's you. Why would he want to kill you? Unless he's met you.

"Why would I be curious? It's a mysterious space cowboy assassin. Curious? Of course I'm not curious." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Kahler-Jex: But that wasn't the plan. He's not following the plan.
Amy: Welcome to my world.

"When he starts killing your people, you can use your justice." ~ The Gunslinger

"We'd been at war for nine years. A war that had already decimated half of our planet. Our task was to bring peace, and we did. We built an army that routed the enemy and ended the war in less than a week. Do you want me to repent, to beg forgiveness for saving millions of lives?" ~ Kahler Jex

"War is another world. You cannot apply the politics of peace to what I did. To what any of us did." ~ Kahler Jex

"Looking at you, Doctor, is like looking into a mirror, almost. There's rage there, like me. Guilt, like me. Solitude. Everything but the nerve to do what needs to be done. Thank the gods my people weren't relying on you to save them." ~ Kahler Jex

Amy: Oh, you're really letting him do this?
Rory: Save us all? Yeah, I really am.

Amy: This is not how we roll, and you know it. What happened to you, Doctor? When did killing someone become an option?
The 11th Doctor: Jex has to answer for his crimes.
Amy: And what then? Are you going to hunt down everyone who's made a gun or a bullet or a bomb?
The 11th Doctor: But they coming back, don't you see? Every time I negotiate, I try to understand. Well, not today. No. Today, I honour the victims first. His, the Master's, the Dalek's, all the people who died because of my mercy!
Amy: You see, this is what happens when you travel alone for too long. Well, listen to me, Doctor. We can't be like him. We have to be better than him.

"But that's how all this started. Jex turned someone into a weapon. Now that same story's going to make you a killer, too. Don't you see? Violence doesn't end violence, it extends it, and I don't think you want to do this. I don't think you want to become that man." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

"Frightened people. Give me a Dalek any day." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

Kahler-Jex: You think I'm unaffected by what I did? That I don't hear them screaming every time I close my eyes? It would be so much simpler if I was just one thing, wouldn't it? The mad scientist who made that killing machine, or the physician who's dedicated his life to serving this town. The fact that I'm both bewilders you.
The 11th Doctor: Oh, I know exactly what you are, and I see this reformation for what it really is. You committed an atrocity and chose this as your punishment. Don't get me wrong, good choice. Civilised hours, lots of adulation, nice weather, but, but justice doesn't work like that. You don't get to decide when and how your debt is paid.
Kahler-Jex: In my culture, we believe that when you die your spirit has to climb a mountain carrying the souls of everyone you wronged in your lifetime. Imagine the weight I will have to lift. The monsters I created, the people they killed. Isaac, he was my friend. Now his soul will be in my arms, too. Can you see now why I fear death? You want to hand me over. There's no shame in that. But you won't. We all carry our prisons with us. Mine is my past. Yours is your morality.

Kahler-Jex: When this is over, will you go back?
The Gunslinger: How can I? I am a monster now.
Kahler-Jex: So am I.

The Gunslinger: I'm a creature of war. I have no role to play during peace.
The 11th Doctor: Except maybe to protect it.

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Working titles for this story included The Gunslinger and Mercy.

This was the first televised Western episode since The Gunfighters in 1966.

This was the first episode of the BBC Wales revival whose visual effects were not credited to The Mill. Although various episodes had, in the past, required help from other companies, The Mill had always managed to retain the main "Visual Effects" credit. The most notable recent example of this was The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, where some of the effects were done by Space Digital. There, Space received an "Additional Visual Effects" credit. Here, however, they become the first company other than The Mill to get the main VFX credit since Rose.

This is the first episode not to feature the TARDIS interior since The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.

Matt Smith recieved three riding lessons prior to the shoot.  This was his first time ever on horseback.



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NuWho - Series 7, Episode 6 - The Snowman - Season 33, Story 230

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"I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to." ~ Dr. Simeon

The 11th Doctor: Maybe it's snow that fell before. Maybe it remembers how to make snowmen.
Clara: What, snow that can remember? That's silly.
The 11th Doctor: What's wrong with silly?
Clara: Nothing. Still talking to you, ain't I?

"I think winter is coming. Such a winter as this world has never known. The last winter of humankind." ~ Dr. Simeon

The 11th Doctor: This snow is new. Possibly alien. When you find something brand new in the world, something you've never seen before, what's the next thing you look for?
Strax: A grenade.

"Thank you, Strax. And if ever I'm in need of advice from a psychotic potato dwarf, you'll certainly be the first to know." ~ The Eleventh Doctor

The 11th Doctor: Sontaran. Clone warrior race. Factory produced, whole legions at a time. Two genders is a bit further than he can count.
Strax: Sir, do not discuss my reproductive cycle in front of enemy girls. It's embarrassing.

"The Doctor is not kind. The Doctor doesn't help people. Not anyone, not ever. He stands above this world and doesn't interfere in the affairs of its inhabitants. He is not your salvation, nor your protector. Do you understand what I am saying to you?  He was different once, a long time ago. Kind, yes. A hero, even. A saver of worlds. But he suffered losses which hurt him. Now he prefers isolation to the possibility of pain's return." ~ Vastra

Great Intelligence: We are the Intelligence.
The 11th Doctor: Ooo. Talking snow. I love new things.
Great Intelligence: You are not of this world.
The 11th Doctor: Takes one to snow one.

Strax: Madame Vastra wondered if you were needing any grenades?
The 11th Doctor: Grenades?
Strax: She might have said help.

The 11th Doctor: Don't be clever, Strax. It doesn't suit you.
Strax: Sorry, sir.
The 11th Doctor: I'm the clever one, you're the potato one.
Strax: Yes, sir.

Strax: Sir, one pulver grenade would blow these snowmen to smithereens.
The 11th Doctor: They're made of snow, Strax. They're already smithereens.

"That's the way to do it!" ~ Ice Governess

Clara: After you, I'm wearing a dress. Eyes front, soldier!
The 11th Doctor: My eyes are always front!
Clara: Mine aren't.

The 11th Doctor: So. Barmaid or governess, which is it?
Clara: That thing is after us, and you want a chat?
The 11th Doctor: Well, we can't chat after we've been horribly killed, can we?

Clara: How did we get up so high so quick?
The 11th Doctor: Clever staircase. It's taller on the inside.

Clara: Blimey, you really know how to sulk, don't you?
The 11th Doctor: I'm not sulking.
Clara: You live in a box!

Jenny: Well, we can't be in much danger from a disembodied Intelligence that thinks it can invade the world with snowmen.
Vastra: Or that the London Underground is a key strategic weakness.
The 11th Doctor: The Great Intelligence. Rings a bell.

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The episode features a first-ever special effect for the series: a single camera shot following a character from the outside of the TARDIS, through the doors, and into the console room. A similar shot had been accomplished for the 1993 documentary Thirty Years in the TARDIS and the fan production Devious, but this was the first time it had been done in the series proper, according to the behind-the-scenes featurette uploaded to the BBC's Doctor Who website after broadcast.

In an interview published in DWM 455, published before the broadcast, actor Dan Starkey revealed that a scene was filmed showing what happened to Vastra, Jenny and Strax two days after the events of A Good Man Goes to War. Starkey says he wasn't sure if it was "a preview online, a DVD extra or what." (Ultimately, this ended up being the prequel, The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later.) The same article recalls that in DWM 438, an e-mail by Starkey was printed in which be accurately predicted the story line that would see Strax living in London in the 19th century as Vastra's butler.

The Doctor shows the Great Intelligence a lunchbox with a map of the London Underground, circa 1967. In The Web of Fear, which was filmed in 1967 and 1968, The Great Intelligence lures the Doctor to a trap in the London Underground.

The Doctor is shown living in 1890s London, which would place him in violation of the banishment handed down by Queen Victoria in Tooth and Claw.



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NuWho - Born Again - Children in Need 2005

"Then how could I remember this? Very first word I ever said to you. Trapped in that cellar. Surrounded by shop window dummies.... oh...Such a long time ago. I took your hand...I said one word... just one word, I said... "Run". And we never stopped, did we? All across the universe. Running, running, running...One time we had to hop. Do you remember? Hopping for our lives.Yeah? All that hopping? Remember hopping for your life? Yeah?! Hop? With the...No?" ~ The Tenth Doctor