Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Curse of Fenric: Part One (1989)

Nicholas Parsons: The Rev. Mr. Wainwright

Quotes 

• Ace : [Ace has chosen to sit next to Reverend Wainwright at the Doctor's request. The old priest has been having a serious crisis of faith]  Funny church, this, isn't it?

  Reverand Mr. Wainwright : I was just remembering when I was a child. My father was the vicar here then. It seemed such a warm, friendly place in those days.

  Ace : Things always look different when you're a child.

  Reverand Mr. Wainwright : Now I stand in the church every Sunday, I see all the faces looking up at me, waiting for me to give them something to believe in.

  Ace : Don't you believe in anything?

  Reverand Mr. Wainwright : I used to believe there was good in the world, hope for the future.

  Ace : The future's not so bad. Have faith in me.

• [Wainwright is standing in the misty daylight of his churchyard. Behind him the sinister figures of the transformed teenagers, Jean and Phyllis approach as if stalking him. They have become vampiric haemovores] 

  Reverand Mr. Wainwright : I know who you are.

  Jean : You've always known us.

  Reverand Mr. Wainwright : [turning nervously to confront them]  But vampires are just superstition. Why?

  Jean : We have black hearts. We were lost on the day we were born.

  Reverand Mr. Wainwright : That's not true. No-one is lost.

  Phyllis : Everyone is lost.

  Reverand Mr. Wainwright : No further.

  [Brandishes a bible in front of him] 

  Reverand Mr. Wainwright : This is holy. It will destroy you.

  Phyllis : Objects can't harm us. It's human belief, and you stopped believing when the bombs started falling.

  Reverand Mr. Wainwright : I'm not frightened of German bombs.

  Jean : Not German. British.

  Phyllis : Falling on German cities. Killing German children.

  Reverand Mr. Wainwright : [His faith starting to buckle under the weight of the the vampiric duo's verbal onslaught]  No... No!

  The Doctor : [the Doctor coming out of nowhere and suddenly comes stepping in between Wanwright and the two undead teenagers. He has stopped them in their tracks. Shouting]  Stop!

  Ace : [Who's been with the Doctor]  What's happened to you? What are you doing?

  Phyllis : [beginning to approach Ace]  You should have come in to the water with us, then we'd have been together.

  The Doctor : [not allowing Phyllis to go any further]  Go! Go!

  Jean : We go... but we'll return for you, Wainwright.

  [they turn and slowly move away from the Doctor and the others]