Doctor Who/The Doctor Dances (2)

The Doctor Dances (2)
Season 27, Episode 10
Airdate	May 28, 2005
Production Number	NCFR037B
Written by	Steven Moffat
Directed by	James Hawes
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Doctor Who — Season Twenty-Seven

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The Doctor Dances (2) is the tenth episode of the twenty-seventh season of Doctor Who, and the seven hundred twenty-ninth episode overall.

Guest Stars:

Plot Overview

As the Doctor tries to determine what is causing the strange phenomenon at the hospital, he and Rose are forced to hide from the patients that are now up and moving about. Rose dares him to dance with her, but before he can do so, Captain Jack comes to their rescue.

When Jack escorts the two of them to the Chula ambulance he'd been trying to con them into buying, the Doctor realizes that he's running out of time; the "plague" is now airborn. However, when he makes the connection between the Nanogenes that healed Rose's wounds and the now-empty vessel, he finds the answer that allows him to cure all the symptoms of this mysterious "plague"...and maybe a few more.

Notes

"Bad Wolf"

• The bomb Jack rides at the end has the words "Schlechter Wolf" - an awkward German translation of the phrase "Bad Wolf".

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Rose discovers that Jack is bisexual.
• When Jack's ship is about to explode at the end of the episode, the Doctor invites him onto the TARDIS and acquires another companion.

Referbacks

• Rose: Rose mentions her first meeting with the Doctor, when he blew up the shop at which she worked.

Trivia

Memorable Moments

• The Doctor and Rose share a dance together on the TARDIS at the end of the episode.

Quotes

• The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it; I'm very, very angry with you! I'm very, very cross! Go to your room! (The patients sadly turn and lay back down on their beds.) I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.
• Captain Jack Harkness: The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners. Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it, though, but you've got to set your alarm for Volcano Day. (Laughs.) I'm detecting a hint of disapproval.
• The Doctor: Sonic blaster, 51st century. Weapon factories of Villengard?
  Jack: You've been to the factories?
  The Doctor: Once.
  Jack: Well, they're gone now. Destroyed. Main reactor went critical vaporized the lot.
  The Doctor: Like I said. Once. There's a banana grove there now. I like bananas. Bananas are good.
• Rose: Doctor, I've heard this voice before.
  The Doctor: Me, too.
  Rose: Always "are you my mummy?" It's like he doesn't know. Why doesn't he know?
• Mr. Lloyd: Anything else you'd like? I've got a whole house here. Anything else you'd like to help yourself to?
  Nancy: Yeah. I'd like some wire cutters, please. Something that can cut through barbed wire. Oh, and a torch. ... And I'd like another look in your kitchen cupboards. I was in a hurry the first time. I want to see if there's anything I missed.
  Mr. Lloyd: The food on this table...
  Nancy: It's an awful lot of food, isn't it, Mr. Lloyd? A lot more than on anyone else's table. Half this street thinks your missus must be messing around with Mr. Haverstock, the butcher. But she's not, is she? You are. Wire cutters. Torch. Food. And I'd like to use your bathroom before I leave, please. Oh, look! There's the sweat on your brow!
• The Doctor: Funny little human brains. How do you get around in those things?
  Rose: When he's stressed, he likes to insult species.
  The Doctor: Rose, I'm thinking!
  Rose: He cuts himself shaving, he does half an hour on life-forms he's cleverer than.
• The Doctor: (Listening to a recording of the child.) It's afraid. Terribly afraid, and powerful. It doesn't know it yet, but it will do. (Laughs softly.)) It's got the power of a god, and I just sent it to its room!
  Rose: (Hearing a whirring sound) Doctor.
  Jamie: I'm here; can't you see me?
  Rose: What's that noise?
  The Doctor: End of the tape. It ran out about 30 seconds ago.
  Jamie: I'm here, now! Can't you see me?
  The Doctor: I sent it to its room. This is its room! (Whirls around to find the child behind him.)
• Jack: Okay...on my signal...make for the door. NOW! (Pulls out banana and brandishes it at child.)
  The Doctor: (Pulls out blaster and makes hole in the wall.) Go, now! Don't drop the banana!
  Jack: Why not?
  The Doctor: Good source of potassium!
• Jack: Okay, this can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and it's a triple-enfolded sonic disruptor. Doc, what you got?
  The Doctor: I've got a sonic...never mind.
  Jack: What?
  The Doctor: It's sonic, okay? Let's leave it at that!
  Jack: Disruptor? Cannon? What?
  The Doctor: It's sonic, totally sonic! I am soniced up!
  Jack: A sonic what?
  The Doctor: SCREWDRIVER!
• Jack: Who has a sonic screwdriver?
  The Doctor: I do!
  Jack: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "Ooh! This could be a little more sonic!"?
  The Doctor: What, you've never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?
• Rose: First day I met him, he blew my job up. That's practically how he communicates.
• The Doctor: Assets, assets!
  Jack: Well, I've got a banana, and, in a pinch, you could put up some shelves.
• Rose: (About Jack disappearing) Why is it always the great looking ones who do that?
  The Doctor: I'm making an effort not to be insulted.
  Rose: I mean...men.
  The Doctor: Okay. Thanks. That really helped.
• Rose: Why don't you trust him?
  The Doctor: Why do you?
  Rose: He saved my life. Bloke-wise, that's right up there with...flossing. (Pauses.) I trust him because he's like you. Except with dating and dancing.
  The Doctor: You just assume I'm not...
  Rose: What?
  The Doctor: You just assume I don't dance!
  Rose: What, are you telling me you do dance?
  The Doctor: 900 years old, me. I've been around a bit. I think you an assume at some point I've danced.
  Rose: You?
  The Doctor: Problem?
  Rose: Doesn't the universe implode or something if you dance?
  The Doctor: Well, I've got the moves, but I wouldn't want to boast.
• Rose: The world doesn't end 'cause the Doctor dances!
• The Doctor: I've travelled with a lot of people, but you're setting new records for jeopardy friendly.
• Rose: Captain Jack fixed me up!
  The Doctor: Oh, we're calling him Captain Jack now, are we?
  Rose: Well, his name's Jack, and he's a captain.
  The Doctor: He's not really a captain, Rose.
  Rose: Do you know what I think? I think you're experiencing Captain Envy.
• Rose: You'll find your feet at the end of your legs. You may care to move them.
• The Doctor: If ever he was a captain, he's been defrocked.
  Rose: Yeah? Shame I missed that.
  Jack: Actually, I quit. Nobody takes my frock.
• Jack: You guys are so sweet!
• The Doctor: We were talking about dancing!
  Jack: It didn't look like talking.
  Rose: Didn't feel like dancing.
• Nancy: What was your mother's name?
  Jenkins: Matilda.
  Nancy: You got a wife?
  Jenkins: Yes.
  Nancy: Wife's name? You've got kids? What's your name?
• The Doctor: Relax. He's a 51st Century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing.
  Rose: How flexible?
  The Doctor: Well, by his time, you lot are spread out across half the galaxy.
  Rose: Meaning?
  The Doctor: So many species, so little time.
  Rose: What, that's what we do when we get out there? That's our mission? We seek new life and...and...
  The Doctor: Dance.
• The Doctor: When the ship crashes, the nanogenes escape. Billions upon billions of them. Ready to fix all the cuts and bruises in the whole world. But what they find first is a dead child. Probably killed earlier that night and wearing a gas mask.
  Rose: And they brought him back to life? They can do that?
  The Doctor: What's life? Life's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh. Nothing to a nanogene. One problem, though. These nanogenes, they're not like the ones on your ship. This lot have never seen a human being before, don't know what a human being's supposed to look like. All they've got to go on is one little body, and there's not a lot left. But they carry right on. They do what they're programmed to do; they patch it up. Can't tell what's gas mask and what's skull, but they do their best. Then off they fly, off they go, work to be done! 'Cause you see, now they think they know what people should look like. And it's time to fix all the rest. And they won't ever stop. They won't ever, ever stop! The entire human race is gonna be torn down and rebuilt in the form of one terrified child looking for its mother, and nothing in the world can stop it!
• The Doctor: There isn't a little boy born who wouldn't tear the world apart to save his mummy. And this little boy can.
• Jamie: Are you my mummy?
  The Doctor: He's gonna keep asking, Nancy. He's never gonna stop. Tell him. Nancy, the future of the human race is in your hands. Trust me and tell him.
• The Doctor: Oh, come on! Give me a day like this! Give me this one!
• The Doctor: You want moves, Rose? I'll give you moves!
• The Doctor: Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once! Everybody lives!
• Dr. Constantine: Mrs. Harcourt! How much better you're looking!
  Mrs. Harcourt: My leg's grown back! When I come to the hospital, I had one leg!
  Dr. Constantine: Well, there is a war on. Is it possible you miscounted?
• The Doctor: Who am I to argue with history?
  Rose: Usually the first in line.
• Rose: Look at you beaming away like you're Father Christmas?
  The Doctor: Who says I'm not, red bicycle when you were twelve?
• The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this!
• Computer: There is no escape pod on board.
  Jack: Did you check everywhere?
  Computer: Affirmative.
  Jack: Under the sink?
• Computer: Termination of Captain Jack Harkness in under two minutes, 100% probability.
• Jack: Okay, then! Think we'd better initiate emergency protocol 417! (A martini appears.)
• Jack: Funny thing. Last time I was sentenced to death, I ordered four hyper-vodkas for my breakfast. All a bit of a blur after that. Woke up in bed with both my executioners. Lovely couple. They stayed in touch! Can't say that about most executioners.
• Rose: Actually, Doctor, I thought Jack might like this (dance).
  The Doctor: I'm sure he would, Rose. I'm absolutely certain. But who with?