Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Family of Blood (2007)

Jessica Hynes: Joan Redfern

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• Joan Redfern : Answer me this - just one question, that's all. If the Doctor had never visited us, if he'd never chosen this place... on a whim... would anybody here have died?

  [the Doctor does not answer] 

  Joan Redfern : You can go now.

• Joan Redfern : Where is he... John Smith?

  The Doctor : He's in here somewhere.

  Joan Redfern : Like a story... could you change back?

  The Doctor : Yes.

  Joan Redfern : Will you?

  The Doctor : No.

• Joan Redfern : I'm Sorry, John. But you wrote about it. The Blue Box. You dreamt of a blue box.

  John Smith : I'm not...

  [tearful] 

  John Smith : I'm John Smith, that's all I want to be, John Smith. With his life... and his job... and his love. Why can't I be John Smith? Isn't he a good man? Why can't I stay?

  Martha Jones : But we need the Doctor.

  John Smith : Who am I then? Nothing...? I'm just a story?

• John Smith : How can you think I'm not real? When I kissed you, was that a lie?

  Joan Redfern : No, it wasn't, no

  John Smith : But this 'Doctor' sounds like some, some romantic lost prince. Would you rather that? Am I not enough?

  Joan Redfern : No, that's not true, never.

  John Smith : I've got to go.

  Joan Redfern : Martha was right about one thing though; those boys, they're children. John Smith wouldn't want them to fight, never mind the Doctor. The John Smith I was getting to know... he knows it's wrong, doesn't he?

  John Smith : What choice do I have?

• Joan Redfern : Women might train to be doctors, but hardly a scivvy and hardly one of your colour.

  Martha Jones : Oh, d'you think? Bones of the hand. Carpal bones, proximal row: scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform. Distal row: trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate. Then the metacarpal bones extending in three distinct phalanges: proximal, middle, distal.

  Joan Redfern : You read that in a book.

  Martha Jones : Yes, to pass my exams!