- Jondar: Why should you want to help me?
- The Doctor: 'Cause you're the only person I've encountered so far who hasn't tried to destroy us.
- The Doctor: What is the matter with you?
- Peri: Well, every time you sound confident nowadays, something terrible seems to happen.
- The Doctor: Does it? Whadda you mean?
- Peri: Well, since we left Telos, you've caused three electrical fires, a total power failure, and a near collision with a storm of asteroids.
- The Doctor: Oh, pffft!
- Peri: Not only that, you twice managed to get yourself lost in the TARDIS corridors, wiped the memory of the flight computer and jettisoned three quarters of the storage hold. You even managed to burn dinner last night.
- The Doctor: Well, I have never said I was perfect.
- Peri: If you recall, last night I was supposed to have a COLD supper.
- Bax: Governor, may I suggest you do something to please - to entertain, to please the people - just to give yourself time to recover your strength. Why not give them the life of the rebel Jondar? After all, it's his death or yours.
- Governor: It would have to be something different.
- Bax: I thought, perhaps, by laser obliteration, sir. By a concentrated build-up of power. Neutralize the cue-switch. That way, the random laser emitter builds up to a giant pulse of light - an explosion of focused laser energy that would wipe the prisoner out of existence.
- Governor: We have never shown that style of dispatch.
- Chief Officer: It's too quick. It would be over too soon. We'd never be able to sell so swift an execution.
- Bax: It's the uncertainty. No one knows quite when the power will blow. We can get at least ten minutes of tension out of his apprehension and fear.
- Chief Officer: It's novel, I suppose.
- Bax: I'm sure the video of his execution would sell.
- The Doctor: [walking in on an execution] Hello.
- Peri: Hi.
- The Doctor: Not interrupting anything?
- Maldak: I know how this place works. I know you are but a product of my mind, and I choose to resist you to know that you can not exist.
- The Doctor: Quite right.
- Maldak: [into his communicator as the Doctor approaches] Control! Control! My anti-hallucinagen switch is suffering malfunction. Permission to withdraw.