- Governor: Until I can hear what each of you has to say or offer, the matter rests without decision. Should the Doctor be lying, you will find the next noose about his neck will sever his head from his spinal column, but should he be accurate of his appraisal of the potential worth of our Zeiton ore, I shall want to know, Sil, why you and your company have been duping Varos these many generations.
- Sil: How DARE have I been spoken to like this. I will reject ALL offers.
- Governor: That releases me from my people's decision to accept them. Thank you.
- Sil: Blast!
- [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!