Doctor Who (TV Series)

Partners in Crime (2008)

Catherine Tate: Donna Noble

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Quotes 

• [mouthing words silently and exaggeratedly] 

  The Doctor : Donna?

  Donna Noble : Doc-tor!

  The Doctor : Wh - what - w - what?

  Donna Noble : Oh! My! *God*!

  The Doctor : How?

  Donna Noble : [pointing at her face with both hands]  It's me!

  The Doctor : [nodding, gesturing to eyes, then Donna]  Yeah, I can see that.

  Donna Noble : [pointing to where she's standing, then two thumbs up]  Oh, this... is... *brilliant*!

  The Doctor : [pointing thrice at Donna]  W - wha - what the hell are *you* *doing* *there*?

  Donna Noble : [pointing to eyes, then at The Doctor]  I... was looking... for... you!

  The Doctor : [points at self questioningly]  What for?

  Donna Noble : [miming reading the paper]  Read it...

  Donna Noble : [typing fingers in the air]  ... on the Internet...

  Donna Noble : [wiggling fingers around mouth]  ... so weird...

  Donna Noble : [walking fingers]  ... crept along...

  Donna Noble : [thumb into room, hand-as-mouth]  ... heard them talking...

  Donna Noble : [ducks down, comes back up, points]  ... looked, ah! *You*!

  The Doctor : [imperceptibly nods] 

  Donna Noble : [thumbs back at Miss Foster, looks, freezes]  Th...

  [Miss Foster has stopped talking and is staring at Donna. Miss Foster turns and looks right at The Doctor. The Doctor turns to see Miss Foster] 

  Miss Foster : [aloud]  Are we interrupting you?

• The Doctor : The last time, with Martha, it got complicated. And that was all my fault. I just want a mate.

  Donna Noble : You just want to mate?

  The Doctor : I just want *a* mate!

  Donna Noble : You're not matin' with me Sunshine!

  The Doctor : A mate! I want *a* mate!

  Donna Noble : Well, just as well, because I'm not having any of that nonsense! I mean, you're just a long streak of nothing, y'know, alien nothing!

• Donna Noble : [watching the Adipose getting beamed on to the nursery ship]  What are you going to do then? Blow them up?

  The Doctor : They're just children; they can't help where they came from.

  Donna Noble : Oh, well that makes a change from last time. That Martha must've done you good.

  The Doctor : She did, yeah. She did...

  [sniffs] 

  The Doctor : She fancied me.

  Donna Noble : Mad Martha, that one. Blind Martha. Charity Martha.

• Donna Noble : [Donna aproaches a stranger]  Listen, there's a woman going to come along. Tall blonde woman called Sylvia. Tell her, that bin there. It'll all make sense.

  [She heads back to the TARDIS, toward the past, future and everything in between. The stranger she was talking to turns back towards the camera - she is ROSE TYLER. Looking worn, depressed. She turns back around, walks away, and then simply vanishes into thin air...] 

• Donna Noble : [enters ADIPOSE Industries through the front doors]  Donna Noble, Health and Safety.

  The Doctor : [enters the building by using his sonic screwdriver to disable the alarms on the emergency exit]  John Smith, Health and Safety.

• Miss Foster : Well, at last.

  Donna Noble : Hello.

  The Doctor : Nice to meet you! I'm the Doctor.

  Donna Noble : And I'm Donna.

  Miss Foster : Partners in crime. And evidently of other world origin, judging by your sonic technology.

  The Doctor : [feels through his pockets and finds Miss Foster's sonic pen]  Oh, yes! I've still got your sonic pen! Nice! I like it, sleek. It's definitely sleek.

  Donna Noble : Oh, it's definitely sleek.

  The Doctor : Yes, and if you were to sign your real name. That would be...

  Miss Foster : Matron Cofelia, of the Five-Straighten, Classabindi Nursery Fleet, Intergalactic Class.

  The Doctor : And that is using humans as surrogates.

  Miss Foster : I've been employed by the Adiposian First Family to foster a new generation after their breeding planet was lost.

  The Doctor : What do you mean, "lost"? How do you lose a planet?

  Miss Foster : Oh politics are none of my concern. I'm just here to take care of the children on behalf of the parents.

  Donna Noble : Like an outer space supernanny?

  Miss Foster : Yes, if you like!

  Donna Noble : So, so those little things, they're made out of fat. But that woman, Stacey Campbell, there was nothing left of her.

  Miss Foster : Well, in a crisis, the Adipose can convert bone and hair and internal organs. Makes them a little bit sick, the poor things.

  Donna Noble : What about poor Stacey?

  The Doctor : Seeding a Level 5 planet is against galactic laws.

  Miss Foster : [turns to the Doctor]  Are you threatening me?

  The Doctor : I'm trying to help you, Matron. This is your one chance, because if you don't call this off, then I'll have to stop you.

  Miss Foster : Then how do you think you can stop all of this?

  [her bodyguards point their machine guns at the Doctor and Donna] 

  The Doctor : Hold on! Hold on! One more thing, before dying! Do you know what happens when you hold two identical sonic devices against each other?

  [He takes out his own sonic screwdriver] 

  Miss Foster : No.

  The Doctor : Nor me! Let's find out!

  [he jams the two sonic screwdrivers together and activates both, emitting a loud, deafening pulsing sound that also shakes the room such so that it shatters a window] 

• Donna Noble : I'm waving at fat.

• [meeting on the stairs; both hug each other] 

  Donna Noble : [high-pitched voice]  Oh my God! I don't believe it!

  [looks him over] 

  Donna Noble : Oh, you got the same suit!

  [as her voice returns to normal] 

  Donna Noble : Don't you ever change?

  The Doctor : Yeah, thanks Donna; not right now.

  [look beneath them to see Miss foster & her gunmen running up the stairway] 

  The Doctor : [to Donna]  Just like old times.

  [both take off up the stairs] 

• Donna Noble : [knocks at Stacey Campbell's door]  Stacey Campbell? My name's Donna.

  [She holds up her ID card to prove it] 

  Donna Noble : I represent ADIPOSE Industries, and you're on the list of our valued customers.

  The Doctor : [knocks at Roger Davey's door]  Mr. Roger Davey, I'm calling on behalf of ADIPOSE Industries.

  [holds up his psychic paper] 

  The Doctor : I just need to ask you a few questions.

• Wilfred Mott : [looking at the night sky]  ... one day; 100 years time we'll be striding out amongst the stars. Dueling about with all them aliens. Just you wait.

  Donna Noble : [smiling]  You really believe in all that stuff, don't you?

  Wilfred Mott : [chuckles]  All over the place these days. If I wait here long enough...

  Donna Noble : I don't suppose you've seen a little blue box?

  Wilfred Mott : Is that slang for something?

  Donna Noble : [laughs]  No. I mean it. If you ever see a little blue box fly up there in the sky, you shout for me Gramps. Oh you just shout.

• Sylvia Noble : It's my turn for the car. What d'you need it for?

  Donna Noble : A quick getaway.

• 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.

• Sylvia Noble : [Donna just walked in; from the other room]  And what time's this?

  Donna Noble : [rolls her eyes]  How old am I?

  Sylvia Noble : [pokes her head around the corner]  Not old enough to use a phone.

• The Doctor : So far they're just losing weight, but the Matron's gone up to emergency parthenogenesis.

  Donna Noble : And that's when they convert...

  The Doctor : Skeletons, organs, everything. A million people are gonna die!

• [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]