Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Sontaran Stratagem (2008)

Rupert Holliday-Evans: Colonel Mace

Quotes 

• Colonel Mace : [talking about U.N.I.T. & all their operations]  A modern UNIT for the modern world.

  Donna Noble : What and that mean's arresting ordinary factory workers? In the streets? In broad daylight? It's more like Guantanamo Bay out there. Donna, by the way. Donna Noble; since you didn't ask. I'll have a salute.

  [Colonel Mace, who is taken aback at her outburst, looks at the Doctor; the Doctor just give a 'you better do as she says' look; the Colonel salutes her] 

  Colonel Mace : Mamm.

  Donna Noble : Thank you.

• Colonel Mace : Jenkins.

  Ross Jenkins : Sir!

  Colonel Mace : You will accompany the Doctor; take orders from him.

  The Doctor : Yeah, I don't do orders.

  Colonel Mace : Any sign of trouble get Jenkins to declare a code red. And good luck, Sir.

  [salutes the Doctor] 

  The Doctor : I said no salutes.

  Colonel Mace : [as he walks away]  Now you're giving orders.

  The Doctor : [half smiling]  Little bit cheeky, aren't we?

• The Doctor : You are not coming with me. I want to talk to this Luke Rattigan, not point a gun at him.

  Colonel Mace : It's 10 miles outside London. How are you going to get there?

  The Doctor : Well then give me a jeep.

  Colonel Mace : According to the records, you travel by TARDIS.

  The Doctor : Yes, but if there is a danger of hostile aliens, I think it's best o keep a super-duper Time Machine away from the front lines.

  Colonel Mace : I see; so then you *do* have weapons but choose to keep them hidden.