Doctor Who (TV Series)
City of Death: Part One (1979)
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Romana : [looking at the green bracelet the Doctor stole from a woman in the gallery] It's a micromeson scanner.
The Doctor : That's right. She was using it to get a complete report on all the alarm systems around the Mona Lisa.
Romana : Do you mean she was trying to steal it?
The Doctor : It is very a pretty painting.
Romana : It's a very sophisticated device for a level five civilisation.
The Doctor : That? That's never the product of Earth's civilisation.
Romana : Do you mean an alien's trying to steal the Mona Lisa?
The Doctor : It is a very pretty painting.
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[Two men with guns have just forced the Doctor to hand over the green bracelet]
Romana : Are you all right?
The Doctor : Yes, I'm just relaxing and enjoying Paris.
Duggan : All right, that's enough. Very cleverly staged, but you don't fool me.
The Doctor : What are you talking about?
Duggan : Your men who were in here just now.
The Doctor : My men? Those thugs?
Duggan : Your thugs.
The Doctor : Are you suggesting those men were in my employ?
Duggan : Yes.
The Doctor : I don't know if you noticed but he was pointing a gun at me. Anyone in my employ who behaved like that, I'd sack him on the spot.
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The Doctor : [on the Eiffel Tower] Nice, isn't it?
Romana : Yes, marvellous.
The Doctor : Marvellous. Absolutely.
Romana : Absolutely marvellous.
The Doctor : Well, I think it's marvelous.
Romana : So do I. Though it's not quite as you described it.
The Doctor : Really? How did I describe it?
Romana : Well, you said it was nice.
The Doctor : It's the only place in the Universe where one can relax entirely.
Romana : Mmm... That bouquet!
The Doctor : What Paris has, it has an ethos... a life... It has...
Romana : A bouquet?
The Doctor : A spirit all of its own. Like a wine, it has...
Romana : A bouquet.
The Doctor : It has a bouquet. Yeah. Like a good wine. You have to chose one of the vintage years, of course.
Romana : What year is this?
The Doctor : Ah, well... well, it's 1979, actually. More of a table wine, shall we say? Ha! A randomizer is a useful device, but it lacks true discrimination. Shall we sip it and see?
Romana : Oh, I'd be delighted. Should we take the lift or fly?
The Doctor : Let's not be ostentatious.
Romana : All right, let's fly, then.
The Doctor : That would look silly. We'll take the lift, come on.
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Romana : Where are we going?
The Doctor : Are you talking philosophically or geographically?
Romana : Philosophically.
The Doctor : Then we're going to lunch. I know a little place that does a wonderful bouillabaisse. Do you like bouillabaisse?
Romana : Mmm, bouillabaisse, yum-yum.
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The Doctor : Don't move! You might spoil a priceless work of art.
Romana : What?
The Doctor : That man over there. Don't look.
Romana : What's he doing?
The Doctor : Shh...
Romana : [whispering] What's he doing?
The Doctor : He's sketching you.
Romana : Is he?
[she turns around, the artist grumpily crumples the sketch up and throws it to the floor and leaves]
The Doctor : I told you not to look.
Romana : I just wanted to see.
The Doctor : It's too late. He's gone now.
Romana : Pity, I wonder what he thought I looked like.
The Doctor : Well, he threw it down there. Let's have a look...
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The Doctor : For a portrait of a Time Lady, that's not at all a bad likeness.
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The Doctor : You and I exist in a special relationship to time, you know. Perpetual outsiders.
Romana : Don't be so... portentous.
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Romana : Well, at least on Gallifrey we can capture a good likeness. Computers can draw.
The Doctor : What? Computer pictures... You sit in Paris and talk of computer pictures? Listen, I'll take you somewhere and show you some real paintings painted by real people.
Romana : What about the time slip?
The Doctor : Never mind about the time slip. We're on holiday. Come on!
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The Doctor : You know, I think something very funny's going on. You remember that man that was following us?
Romana : Yes.
The Doctor : Well, he's standing behind me, poking a gun in my back.
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[In the Lourve, the Doctor experiences another strange sensation of time repeating itself. He staggers and collapses and a crowd gathers]
Duggan : All right, stand back. Stand back, everybody, stand back. Are you all right, sir?
[the Doctor tries to stand up and bumps his head into the man's torso]
The Doctor : Yes. I just dented my head on your gun, that's all.
Romana : Don't take any notice of him. He's just having one of his funny turns.
The Doctor : One of my funny turns? The whole world took a funny turn.
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The Doctor : Patron, three glasses of water. Make them doubles.
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Duggan : What's Scarlioni's angle?
The Doctor : Scarlioni's angle? I've never heard...
[to Romana]
The Doctor : Have you ever heard of Scarlioni's angle?
Romana : No, I was never any good at geometry.
The Doctor : [to Duggan] Who's Scarlinoi?
Duggan : Count Scarlioni. Everyone on Earth's heard of Count Scarlioni.
The Doctor : Ah, well, we've only just landed on Earth.
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The Doctor : There we are, the Louvre. One of the greatest art galleries in the whole galaxy.
Romana : Nonsense! What about the Academia Stellaris on Sirius Five?
The Doctor : What? Oh no. No, no.
Romana : Or the Solarian Pinaquotheque at Strikian?
The Doctor : Oh, no, no.
Romana : Or the Braxiatel Collection?
The Doctor : No, no, no, no, no, no. This is the gallery. The only gallery in the known universe which a picture like...
[cut to inside the gallery]
The Doctor : The Mona Lisa.
Romana : It's quite good.
The Doctor : Quite good? That's one of the great treasures of the universe and you say quite good?
Romana : The world, Doctor, the world.
The Doctor : What are you talking about?
Romana : Not the universe in public, Doctor. It only calls attention.
The Doctor : I don't care. It's one of the great treasures of the universe!
Romana : Shh.
The Doctor : I don't care, let them gawp, let them gape. What do I care?
