- The Doctor: [drunk and talking to a robot] It's you! You're my favourite! You are the best, you know why? Cause you're so thick! You're mister thick thickity thick face from thicktown thickannia. And so is your Dad!
- Mickey Smith: What's a horse doing on a spaceship?
- The Doctor: Mickey, what's Pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!
- Reinette: You and I both know, don't we Rose? The Doctor is worth the monsters... One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
- The Doctor: Go! and take Arthur!
- Rose Tyler: Arthur?
- The Doctor: Fine name for a horse.
- Rose Tyler: No you can't keep the horse.
- The Doctor: Why not? I let you keep Mickey! Now go!
- [last lines, voiceover]
- Reinette Poisson: My Dear Doctor, The path has never seemed more slow and yet I fear I am nearing its end. Reason tells me that you and I are unlikely to meet again, but I think I shall not listen to reason. I have seen the world inside your head and know that all things are possible. Hurry then my love; my days grow shorter now and I am so very weak. Godspeed my lonely angel.
- Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful!
- The Doctor: It's just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares!
- Young Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about?
- The Doctor: Me!
- The Doctor: [the Doctor is searching through Reinette's memories] Sorry, you might find old memories reawakening, side effect.
- Reinette Poisson: Oh, such a lonely childhood!
- The Doctor: It'll pass.
- Reinette Poisson: Oh, Doctor, so lonely, so very very alone!
- The Doctor: What do mean, lonely? You've never been alone in your whole life- wait a minute, when did you start calling me Doctor?
- Reinette Poisson: Such a lonely little boy. Lonely then and lonelier now! How can you bear it?
- The Doctor: [breaking the mental connection] How did you do that?
- Reinette Poisson: A door, once opened, may be stepped through in either direction. Oh, Doctor, my lonely Doctor... dance with me.
- The Doctor: I can't.
- Reinette Poisson: Dance with me.
- The Doctor: This is the night you dance with the king.
- Reinette Poisson: Then first I shall make him jealous.
- The Doctor: I can't.
- Reinette Poisson: Doctor. Doctor who? It's more than just a secret, isn't it.
- The Doctor: What did you see?
- Reinette Poisson: That there comes a time, Timelord, when every lonely little boy must learn how to dance!
- Reinette Poisson: There is a vessel in your world where the days of my life are pressed together like the chapters of a book so that he may step from one to the other without increase of age, while I, weary traveller, must always take the slower path.
- The Doctor: [hears ticking noise and sees broken clock] Okay that's scary.
- Young Reinette: You're scared of a broken clock?
- The Doctor: Just a bit scared, yeah. Just a tiny bit. 'Cause you see, if this clock's broken, and it's the only one in the room, than what's that?
- Madame Du Pompadour: It is customary, I think, to have an imaginary friend only during your childhood. You are to be congratulated on your persistence.
- Mickey Smith: So that Doctor, eh?
- Rose Tyler: I don't know what you're talking about.
- Mickey Smith: Well, Madame de Pompadour, Sarah Jane Smith, Cleopatra.
- Rose Tyler: Oh, Cleopatra! He mentioned her once.
- Mickey Smith: Yeah, but he called her Cleo.
- The Doctor: Reinette, what age are you?
- Reinette Poisson: So impertinent a question so early in the conversation! How promising.
- The Doctor: Oh, you are beautiful! No really, you are, you're gorgeous! Space-age clockwork, I love it, I've got chills! Listen, I mean this from the heart- and by the way, count those- it would be a crime, it would be an act of vandalism to disassemble you. But that won't stop me.
- Rose Tyler: Who is she?
- The Doctor: Jeanne-Antionette Poisson, known to her friends as Reinette. One of the most accomplished women who ever lived.
- Rose Tyler: Has she got plans on being the queen, then?
- The Doctor: No, he's already got a queen. She's got plans on being his mistress.
- Rose Tyler: Oh, I get it. Camilla!
- Rose Tyler: [about Madame De Pompadour] The Queen must've loved her.
- The Doctor: Oh, she did. They got on very well.
- Mickey Smith: The King's wife and the King's girlfriend?
- The Doctor: France. It's a different planet.
- King Louis: What the hell is going on?
- Reinette Poisson: Oh. This is my lover, the king of France.
- The Doctor: Yeah? Well I'm the Lord of Time.
- Mickey Smith: It's a spaceship! Brilliant, I got a spaceship on my first go!
- Rose Tyler: Looks kind of abandoned. Anyone on board?
- The Doctor: Nah, nothing here. Well, nothing dangerous. Well, not that dangerous. Know what, I'll just have a quick scan... in case there's anything dangerous.
- Reinette Poisson: I have seen your world and I have no desire to set foot there again.
- Clockwork Droid: We do not require your feet.
- Manservant: Who the hell are you?
- The Doctor: [laughing] I'm The Doctor. And I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!
- Rose Tyler: [the Doctor enters, singing "I Could Have Danced All Night", seemingly drunk] Oh, look what the cat dragged in, the oncoming storm.
- The Doctor: Oh, you sound just like your mother.
- Rose Tyler: What have you been doing, where've you been?
- The Doctor: Well, among other things, I *think* I just invented the banana daiquiri a couple of centuries early. Do you know they'd never seen a banana before? Always take a banana to a party, Rose, bananas are good.
- [to the droid]
- The Doctor: Oh, brilliant, it's you! You're my favorite, you are, you are the best, you know why? Cause you're so thick! You're Mr. Thick Thick Thickety Thick-face from Thick-town, Thickania. And so's your dad!
- The Doctor: [coming back to a different time] Reinette... well, goodness how you've grown.
- Madame Du Pompadour: And you don't appear to have aged a single day. I think that is tremendously impolite of you.
- The Doctor: Must be a spatio-temporal hyperlink.
- Mickey Smith: What's that?
- The Doctor: No idea, I just made it up. Didn't want to say "Magic Door"
- The Doctor: [reading Reinette's mind] If there's anything you don't want me to see, just imagine a door, and close it.
- [pause]
- The Doctor: Actually, there's a door there, you may want to just... ooh...
- [Reinette smiles mischievously]
- Madame Du Pompadour: You seem to be flesh and blood but this is absurd. Reason tells me you cannot be real
- The Doctor: Oh, you don't want to listen to reason.
- The Doctor: What was it you said the flight deck smelled of?
- Rose Tyler: Cooking.
- The Doctor: Human flesh plus heat. Barbecue.
- Reinette Poisson: Could everyone please just calm down!
- [slowly the screaming subsides]
- Reinette Poisson: Such distressing noise! Kindly remember that this is Versailles, and we are French!
- [32-year-old Reinette barges past Rose and Mickey behind the tapestry and finds herself on the spaceship at the Dagmar Cluster, two and a half galaxies away from Earth, in the 51st Century, roughly 3300 years in her future]
- Reinette Poisson: This is his world.
- [the members of the royal court start screaming somewhere in the distance]
- Reinette Poisson: What was that?
- Mickey Smith: [hesitates, then to Rose] The time window. The Doctor fixed an audio link.
- Reinette Poisson: Those screams... Is that my future?
- Rose Tyler: Yeah, I'm sorry.
- Reinette Poisson: Then I must take the slower path.
- Madame Du Pompadour: [echoing in the halls] Are you there? Can you hear me? I need you, now! You promised! The clock on the mantel is broken!
- Reinette Poisson: [fearful] Th- that's my voice.
- Madame Du Pompadour: It is time!
- Mickey Smith: Rose, come on, we gotta go. There's- there's a problem.
- Rose Tyler: Give me a moment.
- [Mickey hurries down the corridor of the ship]
- Rose Tyler: Are you okay?
- Reinette Poisson: No, I'm very afraid. But you and I both know, don't we Rose? The Doctor is worth the monsters.
- [Reinette returns through the time window behind the tapestry to her own time]
- Madame Du Pompadour: [echoing] Doctor! Doctor!
- [in the ballroom, the clockwork service droids corner the royal court]
- Madame Du Pompadour: [37 years old, speaking into her fireplace] Doctor!
- King Louis: We must go! No one is coming to help us!
- [a clockwork man appproaches and stands in the doorway. Madame Du Pompadour stands, turns, and gasps as memories flash in her mind of him in her bedroom in 1727 as 6-years-old Reinette. Two more costumed droids arrive, flanking him, completely blocking her and King Louis XV's egress]
- Clockwork Man: You are complete. You will come.
- Rose Tyler: Are you okay?
- Reinette Poisson: No, I'm not. But you and I both know, don't we, Rose, that the Doctor is worth the monsters.
- [first lines]
- [members of the royal court are running and screaming]
- King Louis: We are under attack! There are creatures - I don't even think they're human - we can't stop them!
- Madame Du Pompadour: [staring at a broken clock on the mantel] The clock is broken. He's coming.
- King Louis: Did you hear what I said?
- Madame Du Pompadour: [she turns and steps up to him] Listen to me: there is a man coming to Versailles. He has watched over me my whole life, and he will not desert me tonight.
- King Louis: What are you talking about? What man?
- Madame Du Pompadour: The only man, save you, I have ever loved.
- Madame Du Pompadour: [King Louis XV's face turns angry and insulted at the revelation] No. Don't look like that. There's no time. You have your duties. I am your mistress. Go to your queen.
- Madame Du Pompadour: [crouches in front of the fireplace and speaks loudly into the fire] Are you there? Can you hear me? I need you, now! You promised! The clock on the mantel is broken! It is time! Doctor! Doctor!
- The Doctor: [the Doctor arrives back on the ship to find himself alone] Rose?... Mickey? Every time - every time! It's rule one: don't wander off! I tell them I do, rule one! There could be anything on this ship!
- [he turns a corner and comes face-to-face with a horse]
- Reinette Poisson: Would everyone just please calm down. Such a commotion, such distressing noise! Kindly remember that this is Versailles. This is the royal court, and we are French. I have made a decision. And my decision is no. I have seen your world, and I do not desire to set foot there again.
- Clockwork Droid: We do not require your feet.
- Mickey Smith: What's a horse doing on a spaceship?
- The Doctor: Mickey, what's pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!
- Young Reinette: Monsieur, what are you doing in my fireplace?
- The Doctor: Oh, just a routine... fire check.
- The Doctor: Let me tell you, the French know how to throw a party!
- Rose Tyler: Where have you been?
- The Doctor: I think I just invented the banana daquiri a couple centuries early... Always take a banana to a party, Rose. Bananas are good.
- The Doctor: [quiet and confused] Poisson?...
- [shocked and excited]
- The Doctor: No, no, no way, Reinette Poisson? Later Madame D'Etoiles, later still mistress of Louis the XV, uncrowned Queen of French? Actress, artist, musician, dancer, courtesan. Fantastic gardener!
- French Servant: Who the hell are you?
- The Doctor: [triumphant] I'm the Doctor, and I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!
- Rose Tyler: He will be there when you need him. That's the way it gotta be.
- Madame Du Pompadour: It is the way that has always been. The monster and the doctor. It seems you cannot have one without the other.
- The Doctor: Rose, take Arthur, follow it. Don't approach it, just go, go, go!
- Rose Tyler: Arthur?
- The Doctor: Good name for a horse.
- Rose Tyler: No, you're not keeping the horse.
- The Doctor: I let you keep Mickey!
- Reinette Poisson: Fireplace Man, you are inside my mind.
- The Doctor: Oh dear, Reinette. You've had some cowboys in here.
- The Doctor: [wandering in singing, glass in hand] I could have *spread my wings* and done a thou-have you *met* the French? My... *GOD*, they know how to party.
- Rose Tyler: Oh, look what the cat dragged in, the Oncoming Storm.
- The Doctor: Ooh, you sound just like your mother.
- Rose Tyler: What have you been doing all this time? Where've you *been*?
- The Doctor: Well, among other things, I *think* I might have just invented the banana daiquiri a few centuries early. Do you know, they'd never even seen a banana before? Always take a banana to a party, Rose. Bananas are good.
- [turning to the robot]
- The Doctor: Oh, it's you! You're my favorite, you are. You know why? Cause you're so... thick! You're Mr. Thick Thick Thickety Thickface from Thicktown, Thickania.
- [turns to walk away]
- The Doctor: And so's your dad!
- The Doctor: [gives Rose a look as if to say 'I showed him, didn't I?' or 'How do you like them apples?']
- The Doctor: [drunkenly] You're so thick you probably think this is a glass of wine.
- The Doctor: [pours "wine" over robot who stops moving]
- The Doctor: Multi-Grade Anti-Oil! "If it moves, it doesn't!"
- The Doctor: No, tonight is the Yew Tree Ball. Tonight you dance with the king!
- Reinette Poisson: [with suppressed glee] Then first I shall make him jealous.
- The Doctor: [the Doctor arrives back on the ship to find himself alone] Rose?... Mickey? Every time - every time! It's rule one: don't wander off! I tell them I do, rule one! There could be anything on this ship!
- [He turns a corner and comes face-to-face with a horse]
- The Tenth Doctor: Just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry about it. Everyone has nightmares. Even monsters from under the bed has nightmares, don't you, monster?
- Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about?
- The Tenth Doctor: Me.
- The Doctor: [drunk] Have you met the French? My God they know how to party!
- Rose Tyler: Oh look at what the cat dragged in, the oncoming storm.
- The Doctor: You sound just like your mother.
- Rose Tyler: What have you been doing? Where have you been?
- The Doctor: Well, among other things, I *think* I may have just invented the banana daiquiri a few centuries early.