The Tomorrow People (TV Series)

Achilles Heel: A Room at the Inn (1978)

Stanley Bates: Glip

Quotes 

• Glip : This planet is a closed world, you know. Officially we have no right to be there.

  Yagon : So that's why we agreed to pay you three times the normal rate plus a thousand marlics and no questions asked.

  Glip : I could lose my license.

  Yagon : You should have thought of that before you took the job, shouldn't you?

  Cantor : Yes, you should have thought of that before. It's too late now.

  Yagon : Don't repeat everything I say, Cantor.

• Glip : What is there on that dump of a planet that's worth so much to you?

  Yagon : I suppose it's time you both knew. Have you ever heard of barlamin?

  Glip : Barlamin?

  Cantor : Barlamin?

  Yagon : [to Cantor]  Don't repeat every word I say.

  Glip : Yes, I've heard of it, but is there really such a thing?

  Yagon : Yes, there is. It's very rare but it does exist. And WHY do you think you never see it? Because the Galactic Federation destroys every deposit they can find. Barlamin is the only known matter in the universe that can drain them of their special powers. Barlamin - quite harmless to us, but super beings fear it more than death itself.

• Glip : So, where do you want me to put you down?

  Yagon : Mm, there. Somewhere in that area there. A place they call Loch Ness. It seems the Kaltons put a fierce plascadron in the lake to scare away the natives. For all I know, it may still be there.

• Glip : And when you've got this barlamin, what you going to do with it?

  Yagon : I intend to incorporate it into a photonic explosion. The galaxy will be flooded with barlamin radiation.

  Cantor : Every super being in the galaxy will instantly lose their special powers.

  Glip : Yes, I like it. It will certainly bring them down a peg or two.

  Cantor : Tumbling down. Without their special powers, they'll be helpless, less than beggars.

  Yagon : The galaxy will belong to real people once more - people like us, Glip.