Verona Joseph credited as playing...
Penny Carter
- Miss Foster: [with Penny tied to a chair] You know I'm surprised you never asked about my name; I chose it well.
- [leans forward]
- Miss Foster: Foster... as in Foster Mother. And these
- [reaches into a drawer and takes out a baby alien; setting it on her desk]
- Miss Foster: are my children.
- Penny Carter: [disturbed; and a bit frightened] Your kidding me. What the hell is that?
- Miss Foster: An Adipose. It's called an Adipose.
- [smiling proudly]
- Miss Foster: Made out of living fat.
- Penny Carter: You can't tie me up! What sort of a country do you think this is?
- Miss Foster: Oh it's a beautifully fat country. And believe me I've come a long way to find obesity on this scale.
- Miss Foster: [at a press conference about the ADIPOSE pills] ADIPOSE Industries, the 21st Century way to lose weight. No exercise, no diet, no pain. Just lifelong freedom from fat, the Holy Grail of the modern age.
- [holds up one of the pills in her fingers]
- Miss Foster: And here it is. You just take one capsule, one capsule once a day for three weeks, and the fat, as they say...
- Presentation announcer: The fat just walks away!
- Penny Carter: Excuse me, Miss Foster? If I could? I'm Penny Carter, science correspondant for the Observer. There are a thousand diet pills on the market, a thousand condiments with which to lose money. How do we know that the fat isn't going straight into your bank account?
- Miss Foster: Oh, Penny. If cynicism burnt up calories, we'd all be a cynic race. But if you want the science...
- [takes off her glasses]
- Miss Foster: ... I'd oblige.
- Donna Noble: [after the Doctor pulls her in] I was right, it's always like for you!
- The Doctor: Oh yes! And off we go!
- [both smiling, run out of the room]
- Penny Carter: [struggling in the chair] Oi!
- The Doctor: [poking his head in the doorway] Sorry.
- [uses his screwdriver to break her ropes; disappears from sight as she tries to get them off]
- The Doctor: [pokes his head in again] Oh, and do yourself a favor; get out.
- Penny Carter: I've been through the records, Foster, and all of your results have been faked - there's something about those pills you're not telling us!
- Miss Foster: Oh I think I'll be conducting this interview, Penny.
- [after spending all day hiding in a toilet stall, Donna emerges, but then gets a call from her mother, and hides back in the stall]
- Donna Noble: Not now!
- Sylvia Noble: I need the car. Where are you?
- Donna Noble: [improvising, and whispering] The car went missing!
- Sylvia Noble: Why are you whispering?
- Donna Noble: I'm in church.
- Sylvia Noble: What would you do in church?
- Donna Noble: I'm praying.
- Sylvia Noble: [scoffs] A bit late for that, I imagine.
- Wilfred Mott: What's she in church for?
- Sylvia Noble: Hush, you! Go up the hill.
- [to Donna]
- Sylvia Noble: Well, I need the car. I'm going out with Suzette Chambers. She's asked all the Wednesday girls. Apparently she's been on those ADIPOSE pills. She says she looks marvelous.
- [Donna hangs up because Miss Foster and her bodyguards have burst into the bathroom and are looking for her]
- Miss Foster: We know you're in here. So let's make this nice and easy and show yourself.
- [Donna puts her feet up to hide herself]
- Miss Foster: I'm waiting. I warn you, I'm not a patient woman, so out you come!
- [nothing]
- Miss Foster: Right, we'll do it the hard way.
- [to her bodyguards]
- Miss Foster: Get her!
- 1st Foster Guard: [kicks open each stall's door. He does this four times. On the fifth door, he bursts down the door to reveal Penny Carter]
- Miss Foster: [lowers her glasses] There you are.
- [takes Penny into custody]
- Penny Carter: I've been through the records, Foster, and all of your results have been faked! There's something about those pills that you're not telling us!
- Miss Foster: Oh, I think I'll be conducting this interview, Penny.
- [Donna looks on as Miss Foster and her bodyguards take Penny away]