Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Age of Steel (2006)

David Tennant: The Doctor

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Quotes 

• Mickey Smith : You're just making it up as you go along!

  The Doctor : Yup. But I do it brilliantly.

• The Doctor : You're a clever man. I'd call you a genius. Except that I'm in the room.

• Jake Simmonds : [on seeing humans walking in a hypnotic state]  What the hell?

  Rose Tyler : What's going on?

  The Doctor : It's the earpods. Lumic's taken control.

  Rose Tyler : Can't you just... I don't know, take them off?

  The Doctor : Don't! You'll cause a brainstorm. Human race, you're such an intelligent lot. You aren't half susceptible. Give anyone a chance to take control and you submit. Sometimes I think you like it, easy life.

• [the Doctor arrives under guard to the Cyber Control Room. Camera tracks his walk into the room...] 

  The Doctor : I've been captured, but don't worry, Rose and Pete are still out there. They can rescue me.

  [... revealing what he'd already seen: that Rose and Pete are in captivity there as well] 

  The Doctor : [without missing a beat]  Oh well, never mind.

• The Doctor : And where is Mr. Lumic? Don't we get to meet our lord and master?

  Cyber-Leader : He has been upgraded.

  The Doctor : So he's like you.

  Cyber-Leader : He is superior. The Lumic unit has been designated Cyber Controller.

  [two doors open, and the cyber-controller glides in on a throne] 

  Cyber Controller : This is the age of steel; and I am its creator.

• Cyber Controller : What is your name?

  The Doctor : I'm the Doctor.

  Cyber Controller : A redundant title. Doctors need not exist. Cybermen never sicken.

  The Doctor : Yeah, but that's it! That's exactly the point! Oh, Lumic, you're a clever man. I'd call you a genius, except I'm in the room. But everything you've invented, you did to fight your sickness. And that's brilliant. That is so human. But once you get rid of sickness and mortality, then what's there to strive for, eh? The Cybermen won't advance, you'll just stop! You'll stay like this forever. A metal Earth with metal men and metal thoughts, lacking the one thing that makes this planet so alive: people! Ordinary, stupid, brilliant people!

  Cyber Controller : You are proud of your emotions?

  The Doctor : Oh, yes.

  Cyber Controller : Then tell me, Doctor, have you known grief and rage and pain?

  The Doctor : Yes. Yes, I have.

  Cyber Controller : And they hurt?

  The Doctor : Oh, yes.

  Cyber Controller : I can set you free. Would you not want that? A life without pain?

  The Doctor : You might as well kill me.

  Cyber Controller : Then I take that option.

  The Doctor : It's not yours to take! You're a Cyber Controller; you don't control me or anything with blood in its heart!

• Cyber Controller : [the Doctor disabled the emotion inhibitor, sending the Cybermen to despair]  What have you done?

  The Doctor : I gave them back their souls. They can see what you've done, Lumic! And it's killing them!

  Cyber Controller : DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!

  [Lumic screams as the factory goes up in flames]