Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Star Beast (2023)

Catherine Tate: Donna Noble

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• The Doctor : Once upon a time... Once upon a Time Lord... I had a best friend, and her name was Donna Noble. A Time Lord and a human... and we travelled the stars together.

  Donna Noble : Sometimes I have dreams about impossible things. I dream of creatures and adventures and faraway skies. But none of it's true.

  The Doctor : Donna saved the entire universe by taking the power of the Time Lords into her mind - at a terrible cost. She had to forget everything she ever knew. She had to forget me. Because if Donna ever remembers me, she will die.

  Donna Noble : And now I've got a nice life, with a nice fella and a nice house, and the most beautiful daughter in the world... but I just think something's missing.

  The Doctor : I can never see Donna again.

  Donna Noble : Now the days are drawing in... I keep having more and more dreams. Like something's getting closer.

  The Doctor : But now this face has come back. Why?

  Donna Noble : It's like a storm in the air... about to break.

  The Doctor : I think the story hasn't ended yet.

• The Doctor : I really do remember, though. Every second with you. I'm so glad you're back, 'cause it killed me, Donna. It killed me, it killed me, it killed me.

  Donna Noble : We can have more days, can't we? I mean, why is it such a big goodbye with you? Why is it one last trip? Cos you could visit with my family. We could do outrageous things, like have tea, or dinner, and a laugh. And Rose's school play. Well, maybe not that. She can't act. She's terrible. I don't know how to tell her. But the point is, you've been given a second chance. You can do things different this time. So why don't you do something completely new, and have some friends?

• The Doctor : We're binary.

  Donna Noble : She's not, because the Doctor's...

  The Doctor : ...male...

  Donna Noble : ...and female.

  Rose Noble : And neither. And more.

• The Meep : They cultivate Meep kind for our beautiful fur.

  The Doctor : Oh you're a fashion victim.

  Shaun Temple , Sylvia Noble , Rose Temple-Noble , Donna Noble : [Disapproving remarks] 

  The Doctor : Sorry.

• The Doctor : We've still got to fix you two, because the metacrisis might have slowed down, but that thing is wrapped around your cortex.

  Donna Noble : Yes, we know.

  Rose Noble : We know everything. Thanks.

  Donna Noble : And you know nothing. It's a shame you're not a woman any more, cos she'd have understood.

  Rose Noble : We've got all that power - but there is a way to get rid of it. Something a male-presenting Time Lord will never understand.

  Donna Noble : Just let it go.

  Rose Noble : And we choose to let it go.