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6x04 The Doctor's Wife
First Aired: May. 14, 2011 on BBC One
Summary: The Doctor receives a distress signal from an old friend. Could there really be another living Time Lord out there? Hopes raised, he follows the signal to a junkyard planet sitting upon a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble universe, populated by a very strange family, as the time-travelling… |
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Episode Quotes
Idris: Did you ever wonder why I chose you all those years ago?
The Doctor: I chose you. You were unlocked.
Idris: Of course I was. I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a Time Lord and I ran away. And you were the only one mad enough.
The Doctor: I chose you. You were unlocked.
Idris: Of course I was. I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a Time Lord and I ran away. And you were the only one mad enough.
Rory Williams: What is happening?
The Doctor: We are leaving the universe.
Amy Pond: How can you leave the universe?
The Doctor: With enormous difficulty.
The Doctor: We are leaving the universe.
Amy Pond: How can you leave the universe?
The Doctor: With enormous difficulty.
The Doctor: I don't understand. Who are you?
Idris: You really not know me? Just because they put me in here?
The Doctor: They said you're dangerous.
Idris: Oh, the cage's stupid.
Idris: In here. They put me in here. I'm the...
Idris: What do you call me, ah... We travel. I go
The Doctor: [half smiling] The TARDIS?
Idris: Time and Relative Dimensions in Space. Yes, that's it. Names are funny. It's me. I'm the TARDIS.
The Doctor: No, you're not. You're a bitey mad lady. The TARDIS is up and downy stuff in a big blue box.
Idris: Yes, that's me. A type 40 TARDIS. I was already a museum piece when you were young. And the first time you touched my console, you said...
The Doctor: I said you were the most beautiful thing I'd ever known.
Idris: Then you stole me. And I stole you.
The Doctor: [pauses] I borrowed you.
Idris: Borrowing implies the eventual intention to return the thing that it was taken. What makes you think I would ever give you back?
The Doctor: [Slowly turns and looks suspiciously at her] You're the TARDIS.
Idris: Yes!
The Doctor: My TARDIS!
Idris: My Doctor! Oh, we have now reached to the point of the conversation where you open the lock.
Idris: You really not know me? Just because they put me in here?
The Doctor: They said you're dangerous.
Idris: Oh, the cage's stupid.
Idris: In here. They put me in here. I'm the...
Idris: What do you call me, ah... We travel. I go
The Doctor: [half smiling] The TARDIS?
Idris: Time and Relative Dimensions in Space. Yes, that's it. Names are funny. It's me. I'm the TARDIS.
The Doctor: No, you're not. You're a bitey mad lady. The TARDIS is up and downy stuff in a big blue box.
Idris: Yes, that's me. A type 40 TARDIS. I was already a museum piece when you were young. And the first time you touched my console, you said...
The Doctor: I said you were the most beautiful thing I'd ever known.
Idris: Then you stole me. And I stole you.
The Doctor: [pauses] I borrowed you.
Idris: Borrowing implies the eventual intention to return the thing that it was taken. What makes you think I would ever give you back?
The Doctor: [Slowly turns and looks suspiciously at her] You're the TARDIS.
Idris: Yes!
The Doctor: My TARDIS!
Idris: My Doctor! Oh, we have now reached to the point of the conversation where you open the lock.
Trivia
- House is voiced by Michael Sheen, who previously played David Frost in Frost/Nixon. Two episodes earlier, in "Doctor Who" (2005) {Day of the Moon (#6.2)}, The Doctor told President Richard Nixon to "Say hi to David Frost for me".
- The old control room that Idris/TARDIS sends Rory and Amy to appears to be the control room of the TARDIS used in Series 1-4 before it was redesigned for Series 5.
- When Amy and Rory are running through the halls of the TARDIS it is only the second time, since the return of the show in 2005, that any part of the TARDIS other than the control room has been shown.
- The console room set used by the Ninth and Tenth Doctors was left standing for eighteen months after its last appearance, so that it could be used for this episode.
- Before mentioning fish fingers and a motorbike, Idris, as the TARDIS, says an unintelligible line. That line was English backwards which, spoken forward, is "The only water in the forest is the river".


