Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Unquiet Dead (2005)

Huw Rhys: Redpath

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Gabriel Sneed : Sneed and Company offer their sincerest condolences, sir, in this most trying hour.

  Redpath : Grandmama had a good innings, Mr. Sneed. She was so full of life. I can't believe she's gone.

  Gabriel Sneed : Not gone, Mr. Redpath. Merely sleeping.

  Redpath : May I have a moment?

  Gabriel Sneed : Yes, of course. I shall be in the next room should you require anything.

  [after Sneed leaves, the body rises up and strangles Redpath. Sneed rushes back in] 

  Gabriel Sneed : Oh, no. Gwyneth! Get down here now! We've got another one!

• Gabriel Sneed : I did the Bishop a favour, once. Made his nephew look like a cherub. Even though he'd been a fortnight in the weir. Perhaps he'll do us an exorcism on the cheap.

  [There is a knock at the door. Sneed and Gwyneth look up, alarmed. Sneed tells Gwyneth] 

  Gabriel Sneed : Say I'm not in. Tell them we're closed. Just, just get rid of them.

  [In the parlor, Rose is just waking up, and while trying to come to her senses, she does not see a gassy spirit enter Mr. Redpath's body, causing him to sit up in his coffin] 

  Gwyneth : [opening the door to find the Doctor and Charles Dickens]  I'm sorry, sir, we're closed.

  Charles Dickens : Nonsense! Since when did an undertaker keep office hours? The dead don't die on schedule. I demand to see your master.

  Gwyneth : He's not in, sir.

  Charles Dickens : [tries to force the door open as Gwyneth closes it]  Don't lie to me, girl!

  Gabriel Sneed : I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Dickens, but the mater's indisposed.

  [Behind her, a gas lamp flares up and the flames start flickering oddly] 

  The Doctor : Having trouble with your gas?

  Charles Dickens : What in Shakespeare is going on?

  Rose Tyler : [suddenly, she notices Mr. Redpath's corpse sitting up in his coffin as he making zombie noises]  Are you all right? You're kidding me, yeah? You're just kidding.

  [Redpath climbs out of his coffin] 

  Rose Tyler : You are, you're kidding me, aren't ya?

  [He takes staggering steps towards her] 

  Rose Tyler : Okay, not kidding!

  [She runs to the door and tries to open it. In the hallway, meanwhile, the Doctor has forced his way inside] 

  Gwyneth : You're not allowed inside, sir.

  The Doctor : There's something inside the walls.

  [Inside the parlor, the corpse of Mrs. Peace also sits up and climbs out of her coffin] 

  The Doctor : The gas pipes. Something's living inside the gas.

  [Desparate, Rose throws a vase at Mr. Redpath, but that only causes him to stumble back a bit. She then frantically rattles the doorknob] 

  Rose Tyler : Let me out! Open the door!

  The Doctor : [outside]  That's her.

  [He runs off to find her, Charles Dickens following him] 

  Rose Tyler : Please, let me out!

  [Mrs. Peace and Mr. Redpath are advancing on her. In the hall, the Doctor and Dickens race past Sneed] 

  Gabriel Sneed : How dare you, sir! This is my house!

  [Dickens charges past him too. He shakes his finger at Gwyneth as she runs after them] 

  Gabriel Sneed : I told you!

  Rose Tyler : [still hammering on the door as the two bodies close in on her]  Let me out! Somebody, open the door! Open the door!

  [Redpath clasps a hand over her mouth, muffling her scream. At that moment, the Doctor kicks the door in] 

  The Doctor : I think this is MY dance.

  [releases Rose from Mr. Redpath's grasp] 

  Charles Dickens : It's a prank? It must be. We're under some mesmeric influence.

  The Doctor : No, we're not, the dead are walking.

  [grins down at the panting Rose] 

  The Doctor : Hi!

  Rose Tyler : Hi! Who's your friend?

  The Doctor : Charles Dickens.

  Rose Tyler : Oh. Okay.

  The Doctor : [to the corpses]  My name's the Doctor. Who are you, then? What do you want?

  Redpath : [speaking with a voice overlaid by that of a ghost]  We're failing. Open the rift, we're dying. Trapped in this form, cannot sustain. Help us.

  [He and Mrs. Peace raise their heads to the ceiling, and the gas leaves them with a wailing shriek, and then the bodies fall to the floor]