- 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.
- Andrew Forbes: It's not fair. I STILL haven't had a chance to go off into space.
- John: Yes, well, remind me sometime when we haven't got an emergency and I'll take you, okay?
- 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: 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.
- Hsui Tai: I thought, in Scotland, it was the ladies who must wear the trousers.
- Bruce Forbes: No-no-no, you don't have to wear anything.
- Hsui Tai: [merrily] Really? How interesting!
- Bruce Forbes: No. Perhaps I put that badly. Um, what I mean is you... you can wear anything you like.
- Yagon: Candor.
- Cantor: Hm.
- Yagon: We were wearing the wrong clothes.
- Cantor: Aye?
- Yagon: Did you not notice that, first the boy who greeted us and now that man, have both been wearing skirts. Only the girl was dressed in trousers. No wonder they react strangely to us. According to their customs, we're dressed in female clothing. We must computer-weave the local style.
- Cantor: I wonder what they wear underneath.
- Bruce Forbes: Shouldn't we be hearing the ghost by now?
- Andrew Forbes: Yes.
- Bruce Forbes: Then why keep us waiting?
- Andrew Forbes: I'm trying, Dad, but I can't make everyone have a hallucination. It won't happen.
- Bruce Forbes: What's a matter, son.
- Andrew Forbes: Don't know.
- Bruce Forbes: Well, have you lost your powers?
- Andrew Forbes: I think so.
- Andrew Forbes: I've lost the power.
- Bruce Forbes: What d'you mean?
- Andrew Forbes: I'm not a Tomorrow Person anymore, Dad. All my powers have left me.
- Bruce Forbes: Very well. The good Lord giveth and maybe He also has good reason to take away.
- Bruce Forbes: Um, will you be taking lunch here, do you know?
- Yagon: [at a loss] Lunch?
- Bruce Forbes: Ay, lunch. Uh, food.
- Yagon: [understanding] Oh, ah, uh, um, we will see where we are for lunch.
- Bruce Forbes: Ay, well should you find yourselves BACK here, gentlemen, we have a very nice set menu.
- Yagon: [trying hard to seem normal] Oh, oh, "set menu," my favorite food!
- Andrew Forbes: [about Yagon and Cantor] They're not tourists, or ghost hunters. I want to know what they're doing here.