- The Doctor: Oh, you're not, are you? Tell me you're not archaeologists.
- Professor River Song: Got a problem with archaeologists?
- The Doctor: I'm a time traveler. I point and laugh at archaeologists.
- Professor River Song: [offering handshake] Ah. Professor River Song, archaeologist.
- 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]
- The Doctor: [reacting to the ghosting of Miss Evangelista] She's a footprint on the beach and the tide's coming in.
- 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.
- The Doctor: [jumps up] Ah! I'm thick! Look at me, I'm old and thick! Head's too full of stuff! I need a bigger head!
- Miss Evangelista: I have the two qualities you require to see absolute truth: I am brilliant. And unloved.
- 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.
- Professor River Song: You're doing a very good job acting like you don't know me. I'm assuming there's a reason.
- The Doctor: Well, a fairly good one, actually.
- Professor River Song: OK, shall we do diaries then? Where are we this time? Ah, going by your face, I'd say it's early days for you, yeah? So, um - crash of the Byzantium. Have we done that yet?
- [pause]
- Professor River Song: Obviously ringing no bells. Right, um - oh, picnic at Asgard. Have we done Asgard yet?
- [pause]
- Professor River Song: Obviously not. Blimey, very early days, then. Hoo! Life with a time traveler - never knew it could be *such* hard work. Um...
- [pause]
- Professor River Song: [whispering] Look at you.
- Professor River Song: [gasp] You're *young*.
- The Doctor: I'm really not, you know.
- Professor River Song: No, but you *are*.
- Professor River Song: [reaches to The Doctor's face and strokes his hair as Donna looks on] Your eyes. You're younger than I've ever seen you.
- The Doctor: You've... seen me before then?
- [the Doctor glances at her familiar touch]
- Professor River Song: [hand moves to his shoulder, concerned] Doctor. Please tell me you know who I am.
- The Doctor: [looks at her hand, then back to her face] Who are you?
- [first lines]
- Dr. Moon: Close your eyes and tell me what you see.
- The Girl: [fade in to POV of drifting outside and above] The Library.
- [the Girl looks down, sees herself suspended in the air, drifting above The Library]
- Dr. Moon: Open your eyes again. Where are you now.
- The Girl: [as if this is obvious] My living room, Dr. Moon.
- Dr. Moon: When you close your eyes...?
- The Girl: [finishing] I go to The Library.
- Dr. Moon: [we see Dad seated behind Dr. Moon's right, concerned] Go to The Library now.
- [the Girl closes her eyes again, and this time she's drifting down into a large, open-topped room of The Library]
- Dr. Moon: Are you back there?
- The Girl: Yes.
- Dr. Moon: The same part?
- The Girl: No, it's always different. The Library goes on forever.
- Dr. Moon: How do you move around?
- The Girl: [she touches down and looks up adoringly at the books on the shelves] By wishing.
- [Suddenly there's frantic pounding on the door to the room. Startled, she turns around as the doors shake to the pounding they receive from outside]
- Dr. Moon: [in the living room] What's wrong?
- The Girl: [eyes tightly closed, distressed] Something's here! Someone's got in! No one is supposed to get in!
- Dad: She's never mentioned anyone else. She's always been alone.
- The Girl: Someone's in my library! No, no, please, it's not allowed! It's not allowed!
- Dr. Moon: Listen to me: The Library is in your mind.
- The Girl: I *know* it's in my mind, but something's got inside!
- The Doctor: [More pounding and shaking, then, with a mighty kick, Donna Noble 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] 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]
- [end theme music begins]
- Professor River Song: I trust that man to the end of the Universe. And, actually, we've been.
- The Doctor: [to River Song] Who *are* you?
- Dr. Moon: And then, you forgot.
- The Doctor: You just killed someone I like. That is not a safe place to stand!
- The Girl: Aah!
- The Doctor: This planet's going to crack like an egg.
- The Girl: Daddy! No! Daddy!
- Professor River Song: I hate you sometimes!
- The Doctor: [hurdling over bookcase] I know!
- [an atmospheric disturbance in The Girl's home]
- The Doctor: Don't play games with me.
- Strackman Lux: We need to stop this. We've got to save CAL!
- The Doctor: What is it, what is CAL?
- Professor River Song: Spoilers.
- The Doctor: Spoilers.
- The Girl: [panicked] No, don't tell, you mustn't tell!
- [credits roll]
- Dr. Moon: Now, listen. This is important. There's the real world and there's the world of nightmares. That's the way it is. You understand that?
- The Girl: Yes, I know, Dr. Moon.
- Dr. Moon: What I want you to remember is this, and I know it's hard. The real world is a lie and your nightmares are real. The Library is real. There are people trapped in there. People who need to be saved. The shadows are moving again. Those people are depending on you. Only you can save them. Only you.
- 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.
- Professor River Song: You think there's danger here?
- The Doctor: Something came to this library and killed everything in it. Killed a whole world. Danger? Could be.
- Professor River Song: That was 100 years ago. The library's been silent for 100 years. Whatever came here is long dead.
- The Doctor: Bet your life?
- Professor River Song: Always.
- Anita: How do you know they're not androids?
- Professor River Song: 'Cause I'd dated androids. They're rubbish.
- [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?
- Node 1: Additional. There follows a brief message from the head librarian for your urgent attention. It has been edited for tone and content by a Felman Lux Automated Decency Filter. Message follows: Run. For God's sake, run. Nowhere is safe. The Library has sealed itself. We can't... Oh, there're here. Arg. Slarg. Snick. Message ends.
- Professor River Song: [to the data ghost] Miss Evangelista, you're fine, just relax. We'll be with you presently.
- 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.