Doctor Who (TV Series)

Dalek (2005)

Anna-Louise Plowman: Diana Goddard

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• [the Doctor is being introduced to an unknown alien that Van Statten has christened "The Metaltron" which he keeps in a darkened cell] 

  The Doctor : Look, I'm sorry about this. Mr. Van Statten might think he's clever but never mind him. I'm here to help. I'm called The Doctor.

  Metaltron : Doc-tor?

  The Doctor : [shocked]  Impossible!

  Metaltron : *The* Doctor?

  [the lights come up, revealing the alien to be a Dalek] 

  Dalek : Exterminate! Exterminate!

  The Doctor : Let me out!

  Dalek : EXTERMINATE!

  Diana Goddard : Sir, it's gonna kill him!

  Henry Van Statten : It's talking!

  Dalek : You are an enemy of the Daleks, you must be destroyed!

• Henry van Statten : [Diana Goddard orders Van Statten's men to take him away]  What the hell are you doing?

  Diana Goddard : Two hundred personnel dead and all because of you, sir. Take him away, wipe his memory and leave him by the road someplace.

  Henry van Statten : You can't do this to me! I am Henry Van Statten!

  Diana Goddard : And by tonight, Henry Van Statten will be a homeless brainless junkie living on the streets of San Diego, Seattle, Sacramento... Someplace beginning with S.

• The Doctor : [referring to alien object Henry van Statten is holding]  I really wouldn't hold it like that.

  Diana Goddard : Shut it.

  The Doctor : Really though, that's wrong

  Adam Mitchell : Is it dangerous?

  The Doctor : No, it just looks silly

• Assistant : On behalf of all of us, I want to wish you a very happy birthday, sir. And the President called to covey his personal best wishes.

  Henry van Statten : The President is ten points down. I want him replaced.

  Assistant : I don't think that's very wise, Sir.

  Henry van Statten : Thank you so much for your opinion. You're fired. Get rid of him!

  [Van Statten's men grab the Assistant and take him away] 

  Henry van Statten : Wipe his memory, put him on the road someplace. Memphis, Minneapolis... somewhere beginning with M.

  [Diana Goddard moves forward to take the Assistant's place] 

  Henry van Statten : So, the next President. What do you think? Republican or Democrat?

  Diana Goddard : Democrat, Sir.

  Henry van Statten : For what reason?

  Diana Goddard : [pause; she answers uncertainly]  They're just so funny, Sir?

• Diana Goddard : [about the Dalek]  It's been on Earth for over fifty years. Sold at private auction, moving from one collection to another. Why would it be a threat now?

  The Doctor : Because I'm here.

• Henry Van Statten : Tell them to stop shooting at it!

  Diana Goddard : But it's killing them.

  Henry Van Statten : They're dispensable. That Dalek's unique. I don't want a scratch on its bodywork. Do you hear me? Do you hear me?

• The Doctor : How did it get to earth? Does anyone know?

  Diana Goddard : Records say it came from the sky like a meteorite. It fell to earth on the Ascension islands, burned in its crater for three days before anyone could get near it and all that time it was screaming. It must have gone insane.

  The Doctor : It must have fallen through time, the only survivor.

  Diana Goddard : You talked about a war?

  The Doctor : The Time War, the final battle between my people and the Dalek race.

  Henry Van Statten : But you survived too.

  The Doctor : Not by choice.