Doctor Who (TV Series)

Silence in the Library (2008)

Catherine Tate: Donna Noble

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Quotes 

• The Doctor : You know what? This is the biggest library in the universe. So where is everyone?

  [looks around] 

  The Doctor : It's silent...

  Donna Noble : The library?

  The Doctor : The planet. The whole planet.

  Donna Noble : Maybe it's a Sunday?

  The Doctor : No, I never land on Sundays. Sundays are boring.

• [the Doctor shows Donna the message] 

  The Doctor : Maybe it's a cry for help?

  Donna Noble : [takes the message and looks at it]  A cry for help?

  [turns the message round] 

  Donna Noble : With a kiss?

• Professor River Song : Pretty boy! With me, I said!

  [Donna looks at the Doctor suggestively] 

  The Doctor : [pause]  Oh, I'm pretty boy!

  Donna Noble : Yes! Oh, that came out a bit quick.

  The Doctor : Pretty?

  [Donna and the Doctor shrug] 

• Miss Evangelista : No, they're right, though. I'm a moron, me. My dad said I had the IQ of plankton, and, I was pleased.

  Donna Noble : [laughs]  See, that's funny!

  Miss Evangelista : No. No, I really was pleased. Is that funny?

  Donna Noble : No, no.

• Donna Noble : Couldn't she help?

  Other Dave : Trust me, I just four days with her on the ship, she's, uh...

  Anita : Couldn't tell the difference between the escape pod and the bathroom. We had to go back for her... twice.

• [repeated line] 

  Node 3 : Donna Noble has left The Library. Donna Noble has been saved.

• The Doctor : This must be the biographies. I love biographies.

  Donna Noble : Yeah, very you. Always a death at the end.

  The Doctor : You need a good death. Without death there'd only be comedies. Death gives us size.

• Donna Noble : So, we weren't just in the neighborhood.

  The Doctor : Yeah, I kind of, sort of... lied a bit. I got a message on the psychic paper.

  [the Doctor shows Donna the psychic paper] 

  Psychic paper : [appearing as hand-printed text]  The Library. Come as Soon as you can. X

  The Doctor : What do you think: cry for help?

  Donna Noble : [taking the paper]  Cry for help, with a kiss?

  The Doctor : Oh, we've all done that.

  Donna Noble : Who's it from?

  The Doctor : No idea.

  Donna Noble : [a "buzz-tink" sounds down the hall as she speaks]  So why did we come here? Why did you-?

  The Doctor : Donna?

  ["Buzz-tink." Down the hall, "buzz-tink," a bank of lights go out. "Buzz-tink," and another] 

  Donna Noble : What's happening?

  The Doctor : *Run*!

  [They run down the hall as more lights "buzz-tink" off. They arrive at a set of doors and try to get them open] 

  Donna Noble : What? Is it locked?

  The Doctor : Jammed! The wood's warped!

  Donna Noble : Sonic it! Use the thingy!

  The Doctor : I can't, it's wood!

  Donna Noble : Oh! What, it doesn't do wood?

  The Doctor : Hang on, hang on, if I can vibrate the molecules, fry the bindings, I can shatterline the interface...

  Donna Noble : Oh, get out of the way!

  [With a mighty kick from Donna, she and the Doctor barge in. They quickly close the door and the Doctor bars it with a book through the handles. Leaning against the door and relaxing briefly, they notice they're not alone] 

  The Doctor : Oh! Hello! Sorry to burst in on you like this. Okay if we stop here for a bit?

  The Girl : [gasps and her eyes fly open in her living room; in The Library an ornately carved floating wooden sphere where she was standing shuts its lens cover and drops to the floor] 

• The Doctor : Nice door skills, Donna.

  Donna Noble : Yeah, well, you know. Boyfriends. Sometimes you need the element of surprise.

• Professor River Song : [smiling at the Doctor through her space helmet]  Hello, sweetie.

  The Doctor : Get out!

  Donna Noble : Doctor...

  The Doctor : All of you, turn around, get back in you rocket and fly away. Tell your grandchildren you came to the Library and lived. They won't believe you.

  Professor River Song : Pop your helmets, everyone, we got breathers.

• [Donna tries to look at a book, but the Doctor snatches it away] 

  The Doctor : Spoilers!

  Donna Noble : What?

  The Doctor : These are books from your future. You don't want to read ahead, spoil all the surprises. It's like peeking at the end.

  Donna Noble : Isn't travelling with you one big spoiler?

• The Doctor : Now, the rest of you, helmets back on and sealed up. We'll need everything we've got.

  Donna Noble : But Doctor, we haven't got any helmets.

  The Doctor : Yeah, but we're safe anyway.

  Donna Noble : How are we safe?

  The Doctor : We're not. That was a clever line to shut you up.