Doctor Who (TV Series)

Space Babies (2024)

Ncuti Gatwa: The Doctor

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Quotes 

• Ruby Sunday : Is that a monster?

  The Doctor : No. No, don't be silly. Ruby there's no such thing as monsters - there's just... Just creatures you haven't met yet.

• Ruby Sunday : How do you keep going?

  The Doctor : For days like this, Ruby Sunday. I don't have a people, I don't have a home... But I don't have a job, either. I don't have a boss, or taxes, or rent, or bills to pay. I don't have a purpose, or a cause, or a mission, but I have... freedom. That's why I keep moving on, to see the next thing, and the next, and the next. And sometimes... It looks even better through your eyes.

• The Doctor : I'm not saying things are connected, and yet... things connect.

• [Ruby surveys the TARDIS] 

  Ruby Sunday : Hey, but you said the TARDIS was like a chameleon - but it still looks like a police box.

  The Doctor : Oh, it's, uh, it's broken. Most of the universe is knackered, babes.

• Ruby Sunday : No, I want to know your name.

  The Doctor : eah, that's, uh, that's tricky, because I was adopted, and the planet that took me in, they were kind of... they were kind of posh. They'd use titles like the Doctor, or the Bishop, or the Rani, or the Conquistador. Say Doctor for a thousand years and it becomes my name.

• Ruby Sunday : Wait! No. Is it safe? What if I change history by stepping on a butterfly or summat?

  The Doctor : Well, that's not going to happen, is it? Who steps on butterflies? You'd literally have to be like, "Wait. Come 'ere, butterfly! "Come 'ere, 'ave it!"

• Ruby Sunday : A baby farm. Run by babies.

  The Doctor : Space babies!

• Poppy : Did we grow up wrong?

  The Doctor : Oh, Poppy. Oh, Popsicle. Look at me. Look at me. Nobody grows up wrong. You are what you are, and that is magnificent.

• The Doctor : Okay, uh, you go with them, I've got to stay here. Not just for the TARDIS, but I've got to find out what that thing is.

  Ruby Sunday : If that's you telling me to leave you on your own, then... Doctor... well, come on!

• The Doctor : [to Ruby]  I have the whole universe at my fingertips... and I'm all on my own. So I'd love it if you came with me.