Doctor Who (TV Series)
Boom Town (2005)
Annette Badland: Margaret
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Quotes
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Margaret Blaine : [gasping for breath after failing to escape The Doctor for the third time] This is persecution. Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?
The Doctor : You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet.
Margaret Blaine : Apart from that.
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Margaret Blaine : We're in Cardiff. London doesn't care. The South Wales coast could fall into the sea and they wouldn't notice!
[pauses]
Margaret Blaine : Oh! I sound like a Welshman. God help me, I've gone native.
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Cathy Salt : [talking about mysterious deaths connected to the "Blaidd Drwg" project] And then just recently Mr. Cleaver, the government's nuclear advisor?
Margaret Blaine : Slipped on an icy patch.
Cathy Salt : He was decapitated!
Margaret Blaine : It was a *very* icy patch.
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Mickey Smith : [after hearing Margaret's plan to destroy the planet with her Nuclear power plant] But why would she do that? A great big explosion, she'd only end up killing herself.
Margaret Blaine : She's got a name, you know.
Mickey Smith : She's not even a she, she's a thing.
The Doctor : Oh, but she's clever.
[pulls a board off the model plant; flips it over to reveal a network of complex circuitry; studying it]
The Doctor : Fantastic!
Captain Jack Harkness : [looks at the board; impressed] Is that a tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator?
The Doctor : Couldn't have put it better myself.
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The Doctor : Cardiff, early 21st Century, and winds probably from the East. Trust me, safest place in the universe.
Margaret Blaine : This nuclear power station right in the heart of Cardiff City will bring jobs for all.
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The Doctor : [looking at the project banner] How'd you think of the name?
Margaret Blaine : What? "Blaidd Drwg"? It's Welsh.
The Doctor : I know, but how did you think of it?
Margaret Blaine : Chose it at random, that's all. I don't know, just sounded good. Does it matter?
The Doctor : [turns around] "Blaidd Drwg."
Rose Tyler : What's it mean?
The Doctor : Bad Wolf.
Rose Tyler : [getting it] But... I've heard that before, "Bad Wolf", I've heard that *lots of times*.
The Doctor : Everywhere we go. Two words, following us. "Bad Wolf."
Rose Tyler : How can they be following us?
The Doctor : [concerned pause, then suddenly grins] Nah. Just a coincidence! Like hearing a word on the radio then hearing it all day. Never mind!
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Margaret Blaine : [raising her glass for the Blaidd Drwg project] A toast, to the future.
[crowd replies "To the future"]
Margaret Blaine : And believe me... it will *glow*.
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Rose Tyler : We've got a prisoner. The police box is really a police box.
Margaret Blaine : You're not just police, though. Since you're taking me to my death, that makes *you* my executioners. Each and every one of you.
Mickey Smith : Well *you* deserve it.
Margaret Blaine : [looks straight at him] You're very quick to say so. And you're very quick to soak your hands in my blood. Which makes you better than me how, exactly?
[he says nothing]
Margaret Blaine : Long night ahead.
[walks away & sits down; finally]
Margaret Blaine : Let's see who can look me in the eye.
[looks piercingly at each person; none hold eye contact for more than a few seconds; & the Doctor barely even looks up from his work]