Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Tenth Planet: Episode 1 (1966)

Anneke Wills: Polly

Quotes 

• Krail : You must come and live with us.

  Polly Wright : But we cannot live with you! You're different. You've got no feelings.

  Krail : Feelings? I do not understand that word.

  The Doctor : Emotions. Love. Pride. Hate. Fear. Have you no emotions, sir?

  Krail : Come to Mondas and you will have no need of emotions. You will become like us.

  [Mondas is draining Earth of its energy] 

  Cyberman : You must come and live with us.

  Polly : But we cannot live with you, you're... you're different, you've got no feelings.

  Cyberman : Feelings? I do not understand that word.

  The Doctor : Emotions! Love, pride, hate, fear! Have you no emotions, sir?

  Cyberman : Come to Mondas and you will have no need of emotions. You will become like us.

  Polly : Like you?

  Cyberman : We have freedom from disease, protection against heat and cold, true mastery. Do you prefer to die in misery?

  Polly : But look, surely I... it's possible for us not to lose Earth's energy?

  Cyberman : It is inevitable.

  Polly : Then you don't mind if we all die.

  Cyberman : Why should we mind?

  The Doctor : [outraged]  WHY? WHY?

  Polly : Because millions and millions of people are going to suffer and die horribly!

  Cyberman : We shall not be affected.

  Polly : Don't you think of anything except yourselves?

  Cyberman : We are equipped to survive. We are only interested in survival. Anything else is of no importance. Your deaths will not affect us.

  Polly : But I can't make you understand, you're condemning us all to die! Have you no heart?

  Cyberman : No, that is one of the weaknesses that we have removed.

• Krail : We are called Cybermen. We were exactly like you once, but our race was getting weak. Our life spans were getting shorter, so our doctors and scientists devised spare parts for our bodies until we could be completely replaced.

  Polly Wright : But that means you're not like us. You're robots.

  Krail : Our brains are just like yours, except that certain weaknesses have been removed. You call them emotions, do you not?

  Polly Wright : But that's terrible. You mean you wouldn't care about someone if they were in pain?

  Krail : There would be no point. We do not feel pain.

  Polly Wright : But we do.

• Polly Wright : It's 1986! Oh no, and I thought we'd be able to get home!

  Ben Jackson : Yeah, we're still at sea. Hey, but that'll explain the few people. And them computers must all work now! And what if they've got to the moon yet?

  Dyson : Sure! Don't you listen to the news?

  Ben Jackson : You mean you have sent people to the moon?

  Dyson : Yeah, an expedition just returned!