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Eve of the Daleks

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NICK: And when you say hazardous?

SARAH: When I say hazardous? Well, I suppose I'd ask myself, if I set fire to this item, will it have potentially explosive or devastating consequences?

NICK: So, this... would be okay?

SARAH: Well, that's a board game.

NICK: Yes.

SARAH: Is it a toxic, hazardous or radioactive board game?

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Sarah, talking to Nick, looking at his Monopoly board game

MARY: The lines will all be busy at midnight.

SARAH: No, they won't, because it's not 1973.

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SARAH: You all done, Nick?

DALEK: I am not Nick.

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“Where's the beach?”

— Yasmin Khan, Eve of the Daleks

DAN: Has anyone else got proper deja vu?

YASMIN: Yeah. Didn't we just get exterminated?

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Yaz, The Doctor, and Dan

DAN: So, we're dead. Second time round.

DALEK: The inferior human is correct.

DAN: Oi! Who are you calling inferior?

DALEK: You. Assessment has been made.

YASMIN: Pretty smart, Daleks.

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Dan, The Doctor, and Yaz

DOCTOR: Time loop.

YASMIN: Time loop.

DAN: Groundhog Day. Same difference.

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Yaz, the Doctor, and Dan

“I'm trying to figure out which one is most unlikely. Time loop with robots or three people from the council working on New Years.”

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Nick and Sarah

DAN: Yeah, well, er... I've got some stuff I need storing, and I just wanted to see what was available.

DALEK: Daleks do not store stuff.

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Dan talking to a Dalek

DAN: What kind of a welcome is that, eh? I'll report you to your manager!

DALEK: Daleks do not have managers.

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Dan touching the Dalek

YASMIN: We're never going to get that moment on the beach where you tell me everything that happened to you, are we?

DOCTOR: Of course we will.

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The Doctor and Yaz

“Oh, Jeff. You bad, bad man. Yaz, this is the sort of stuff about which you would ask yourself, if I set fire to this, will it have explosive and potentially devastating consequences? And the answer is yes.”

— Thirteenth Doctor, Eve of the Daleks
The Doctor looking at explosives

DALEK: Exterminate!

SARAH: No! You're going to be sorry for that.

DALEK: Daleks are never sorry.

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Sarah hiding from a Dalek

“You are responsible for the destruction of millions of Daleks. Your death is the priority of the Dalek race. We will not stop.”

— Daleks, Eve of the Daleks
The Doctor and Yaz surrounded by Daleks

DOCTOR: What did you do?

NICK: It was a lot of strategic analysis, weapons assessment and battle-ready thinking.

DOCTOR: Did you duck?

NICK: Yeah.

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Nick ducking, the Daleks destroy each other

DOCTOR: How would you feel about destroying this place?

SARAH: I mean, I'd have to talk to my insurance providers.

DOCTOR: I don't think you'll be covered for an Act of Dalek.

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The Doctor talking to Sarah

“Because something seems impossible. We try, it doesn't work, we try again. We learn, we improve, we fail again, but better, we make friends, we learn to trust, we help each other. We get it wrong again. We improve together, then ultimately succeed. Because this is what being alive is. And it's better than the alternative. So come on, you brilliant humans. We go again and we win. Deal?”

— Thirteenth Doctor, Eve of the Daleks

SARAH: What? Oh, come on! No, no, no! That's not fair!

DALEK: Daleks are not fair.

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YASMIN: I don't know what to do, Dan. I've never told anyone. Not even myself.

DAN: Just tell her.

YASMIN: It's not that easy.

DAN: Look, I took way too long to tell somebody that I liked them and then... the universe ended and everything got messy. I wouldn't want that to happen to you, Sheffield.

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“Sorry. No time. Really, no time. My actions are catching up with me. Time is catching up with me. I will not let you die because of decisions I've taken.”

— Thirteenth Doctor, Eve of the Daleks
The Doctor getting angry at Yaz

DAN: She likes you.

DOCTOR: I like her, too.

DAN: No, I mean... she likes you.

DOCTOR: I don't understand what you're saying, Dan.

DAN: I think you do. But for some reason you pretend to me, and to her, that you don't.

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DOCTOR: See? Worried now.

DALEK: Daleks are not worried.

DOCTOR: You should be.

DALEK: Exterminate!

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DOCTOR: What about you? Any plans? Seeing friends?

DALEK: Daleks do not have friends.

DOCTOR: Yeah, well, you've only got yourselves to blame for that.

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DAN: Have you ever told her?

YASMIN: Told her what?

DAN: How you feel about her.

YASMIN: I don't know what you mean.

DAN: Yeah, you do.

YASMIN: Is it that obvious?

DAN: Maybe not to a good-hearted weirdo. But I've spent four years travelling the world with you. I saw it then. You didn't half cane looking at that hologram.

YASMIN: I didn't. I mean, it were just that it... She's just... I don't know what to do, Dan. I've never told anyone. Not even myself.

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YASMIN: What did you mean, when you said your actions were catching up with you?

DOCTOR: Nothing. Nothing. I don't remember. I say lots of things. We all say lots of things we don't mean.

DAN: And some we do.

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SARAH: I'm not just gonna wait for him to get killed. I don't care if he's a weirdo. And he is. He is a weirdo, you know, but he's decent. And he's got a good heart. My friend Lauren actually says that good-hearted weirdos are actually the keepers, so...

(Yaz looks at the Doctor)

DOCTOR: What?

YASMIN: No, nothing.

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