Doctor Who (TV Series)

Vengeance on Varos: Part Two (1985)

Nicolas Chagrin: Quillam

Quotes 

• [watching the cell mutilator change Peri and Areta into animals] 

  Quillam : It is an unstable process. Even I am not quite certain as to how it works, exactly.

  The Doctor : That beam that radiates - what source of energy does it derive from.

  Quillam : The nuclear bombardment beams release all the power latent in the recipient's mind. If the changlings see themselves as unworthy, they can become serpentine or reptilian.

  [pointing out Peri, growing feathers] 

  Quillam : She, for instance, must wish to fly away from trouble, as would a bird.

  Governor : It's an offshoot of our mining research technology. We found our miners growing fur and claws. So the better, they thought, to dig with.

  The Doctor : How can the process be reversed?

  Quillam : Who knows. We don't require such findings here.

  The Doctor : And you call yourself a research scientist!

• Quillam : I want to hear them scream till I'm deaf with pleasure.