Doctor Who (TV Series)

Battlefield: Part One (1989)

Nicholas Courtney: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Quotes 

• The Destroyer : Ah... little man. What do you want of me?

  Brigadier : Get off my world!

  The Destroyer : Pitiful. Can this world do no better than you as their champion?

  Brigadier : Probably. I just do the best I can.

• Brigadier : Ace?

  Ace : Yes Brigadier?

  Brigadier : I'm getting too old for this sort of thing. He's all yours from now on. I'm going home to Doris.

  The Doctor : Doris?

  Brigadier : Yes, my wife.

  The Doctor : [chuckles]  So she caught you in the end?

• Brigadier : Oh, dear. Women. Not really my field.

  The Doctor : Don't worry, Brigadier. People will be shooting at you soon.

• Flight Lieutenant Lavel : [the Brigadier and Lavel have just escaped from a helicopter crash]  Sir, we don't know what the situation is here!

  Brigadier : The situation, Lavel, is normal, and it doesn't get much worse than that. You know, I'm rather enjoying this.

• Morgaine : How goes the day?

  Brigadier : I've had better.

  Morgaine : I am Morgaine, the sun-killer. Dominator of the thirteen worlds and battle queen of the S'Rax. What say you?

  Brigadier : I am Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Surrender now and we can avoid bloodshed.

• The Doctor : [sees the Brigadier's body]  You stupid, stubborn, pigheaded numbskull! You were supposed to die in bed!

  Brigadier : Nonsense, Doctor!... Oh, really, Doctor, do you think I'd be so stupid as to stay inside, do you? Have a little faith!

  [gets up] 

• Ancelyn : [to the Doctor]  My Lord Merlin.

  Brigadier : Merlin?

  Ancelyn : He has many names.

  Brigadier : He also has many faces.

  [seeing Ace] 

  Brigadier : And he has many companions. This must be the latest one.

• Lethbridge-Stewart : What was that?

  The Doctor : That Brigadier, was the beginning of the end of the world.

  Lethbridge-Stewart : Same as ever, eh, Doctor?

• Mordred : [to Doctor]  Look me in the eye, end my life.

  [the Doctor does nothing] 

  Mordred : Ha! It is a weakness, this lack of spirit!

  [the Brigadier points his revolver at Mordred's head] 

  Brigadier : Try ME.

  Morgaine : Ware this man, Mordred, he is steeped in blood.

• Mordred : My mother will destroy you!

  Brigadier : Just between you and me, Mordred, I'm getting a little tired of hearing about your mother.

• [the Brigadier knocks out the Doctor] 

  Brigadier : Sorry, Doctor, but I think I'm rather more expendable than you!