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EVELYN: We’re on the Galápagos Islands! And that is a Galápagos tortoise!

DOCTOR: Well actually, Galápagos is a Spanish word for tortoise.

EVELYN: Oh?

DOCTOR: They named the islands after them, you see. The Tortoise Islands, which I suppose means that that is, in fact, a tortoise tortoise! And that’s something else I’ve tort-oise.

DARWIN: I believe in descent through modification!

DOCTOR: Yes, Charles!

DARWIN: I believe in natural selection!

DOCTOR: Yes!

SILURIAN TULOK: It is no good, Doctor. You cannot fight me.

GRETA: What is that?

DOCTOR: A sonic emission detector.

FITZROY: What does it do?

DOCTOR: (exasperated) It detects sonic emissions.

GRETA: Doctor?

DOCTOR: Yes, what is it?

GRETA: (nervously) I-I do not like it here.

DOCTOR: (whispering) I don’t think you’re supposed to like it—it’s a prison.