Doctor Who (TV Series)

Partners in Crime (2008)

Verona Joseph: Penny Carter

Quotes 

• Miss Foster : [with Penny tied to a chair]  You know I'm surprised you never asked about my name; I chose it well.

  [leans forward] 

  Miss Foster : Foster... as in Foster Mother. And these

  [reaches into a drawer and takes out a baby alien; setting it on her desk] 

  Miss Foster : are my children.

  Penny Carter : [disturbed; and a bit frightened]  Your kidding me. What the hell is that?

  Miss Foster : An Adipose. It's called an Adipose.

  [smiling proudly] 

  Miss Foster : Made out of living fat.

• Penny Carter : You can't tie me up! What sort of a country do you think this is?

  Miss Foster : Oh it's a beautifully fat country. And believe me I've come a long way to find obesity on this scale.

• Miss Foster : [at a press conference about the ADIPOSE pills]  ADIPOSE Industries, the 21st Century way to lose weight. No exercise, no diet, no pain. Just lifelong freedom from fat, the Holy Grail of the modern age.

  [holds up one of the pills in her fingers] 

  Miss Foster : And here it is. You just take one capsule, one capsule once a day for three weeks, and the fat, as they say...

  Presentation announcer : The fat just walks away!

  Penny Carter : Excuse me, Miss Foster? If I could? I'm Penny Carter, science correspondant for the Observer. There are a thousand diet pills on the market, a thousand condiments with which to lose money. How do we know that the fat isn't going straight into your bank account?

  Miss Foster : Oh, Penny. If cynicism burnt up calories, we'd all be a cynic race. But if you want the science...

  [takes off her glasses] 

  Miss Foster : ... I'd oblige.

• Donna Noble : [after the Doctor pulls her in]  I was right, it's always like for you!

  The Doctor : Oh yes! And off we go!

  [both smiling, run out of the room] 

  Penny Carter : [struggling in the chair]  Oi!

  The Doctor : [poking his head in the doorway]  Sorry.

  [uses his screwdriver to break her ropes; disappears from sight as she tries to get them off] 

  The Doctor : [pokes his head in again]  Oh, and do yourself a favor; get out.

• Penny Carter : I've been through the records, Foster, and all of your results have been faked - there's something about those pills you're not telling us!

  Miss Foster : Oh I think I'll be conducting this interview, Penny.

• [after spending all day hiding in a toilet stall, Donna emerges, but then gets a call from her mother, and hides back in the stall] 

  Donna Noble : Not now!

  Sylvia Noble : I need the car. Where are you?

  Donna Noble : [improvising, and whispering]  The car went missing!

  Sylvia Noble : Why are you whispering?

  Donna Noble : I'm in church.

  Sylvia Noble : What would you do in church?

  Donna Noble : I'm praying.

  Sylvia Noble : [scoffs]  A bit late for that, I imagine.

  Wilfred Mott : What's she in church for?

  Sylvia Noble : Hush, you! Go up the hill.

  [to Donna] 

  Sylvia Noble : Well, I need the car. I'm going out with Suzette Chambers. She's asked all the Wednesday girls. Apparently she's been on those ADIPOSE pills. She says she looks marvelous.

  [Donna hangs up because Miss Foster and her bodyguards have burst into the bathroom and are looking for her] 

  Miss Foster : We know you're in here. So let's make this nice and easy and show yourself.

  [Donna puts her feet up to hide herself] 

  Miss Foster : I'm waiting. I warn you, I'm not a patient woman, so out you come!

  [nothing] 

  Miss Foster : Right, we'll do it the hard way.

  [to her bodyguards] 

  Miss Foster : Get her!

  1st Foster Guard : [kicks open each stall's door. He does this four times. On the fifth door, he bursts down the door to reveal Penny Carter] 

  Miss Foster : [lowers her glasses]  There you are.

  [takes Penny into custody] 

  Penny Carter : I've been through the records, Foster, and all of your results have been faked! There's something about those pills that you're not telling us!

  Miss Foster : Oh, I think I'll be conducting this interview, Penny.

  [Donna looks on as Miss Foster and her bodyguards take Penny away]