Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Keeper of Traken: Part One (1981)

Sheila Ruskin: Kassia

Quotes 

• Kassia : You listen so patiently. And who else could I speak to of my unhappiness? To be Keeper nominate, they regard it as a great honour. But when the Keeper's Dissolution comes, it will take Tremas from me forever. And I know his time will be soon. I know it will be soon.

  Melkur : Soon...

  Kassia : You spoke to me.

• Kassia : I speak for the many peoples of the Traken Union. They ask why crops fail. Why droughts and floods disturb our planets. And now, violent death in the very precinct of the court itself. What do we tell them?

  Consul Seron : Normal events, Consul, when the span of our Keeper nears its end.

  Kassia : Nothing is normal at such a time. This Keeper, whose protection we have enjoyed for a thousand years, is dying. The power is growing weaker, day by day.

• [last lines] 

  Consul Seron : Keeper of Traken, by unanimous consent, your consul summons you.

  Tremas : Keeper, we have strangers amoung us who claim they are known to you.

  Kassia : And dare to say they were summoned here to Traken at your request.

  The Keeper of Traken : Bring the strangers forward.

  The Doctor : Sorry to trouble you, Keeper, but we do seem to have a problem here. Please tell them who we are, will you?

  The Keeper of Traken : [seeing the Melkur]  Evil! The sanctum is invaded.

  The Doctor : Keeper, tell us.

  The Keeper of Traken : Consuls, we are invaded! Evil! Infinite evil!