Doctor Who (TV Series)

Boom Town (2005)

Annette Badland: Margaret

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

• 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*.

• 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]