- Doctor Who: [looking down into a dark mine shaft] What's this?
- Lady Adrasta: We call it - The Pit.
- Doctor Who: Ah, you have such a way with words.
- Doctor Who: 'Stands to reason.' Stupid expression. 'Stands to reason.' Why doesn't it 'lie down' to reason? Much easier to reason lying down.
- Doctor Who: [saved from vicious, animated plant life] Did you get those things off me?
- Huntsman: Yes.
- Doctor Who: Thank you, very much.
- Huntsman: [to his guards] Kill him.
- Doctor Who: What? And just as we were all getting on so well?
- Huntsman: [again to his guards] Kill him!
- Doctor Who: Look, I... I don't want to stand on protocol or anything like that, but couldn't you at least do the done thing and take me to your leader?
- Karela: Wait!
- Doctor Who: Wait!
- [to Karela]
- Doctor Who: Are you in charge here?
- Karela: I am.
- Doctor Who: Thank you very much. You saved my life and I'm the Doctor. What are these things?
- Karela: Wolfweeds.
- Doctor Who: Weeds? What, plant weeds?
- Karela: Of course. Specially grown in the Lady Adrasta's nurseries.
- Doctor Who: Good Lord! If I were you I'd introduce her to geraniums before it's too late.
- Doctor Who: [breaking from the subject of the eggshell] Lady Adrasta, I'd like to talk to you about these things but at the moment I'm much more concerned about Romana.
- Lady Adrasta: Ah, yes. Madam Korela told me. Your commander.
- Doctor Who: No, no, she's not my commander. She's my companion.
- Lady Adrasta: [oily] Of course. I couldn't see a man of your obvious talents in a subordinate position.
- Doctor Who: [working it out] You couldn't see a man of my obvious talents in a subor... Oh, no. Of course n...
- [smiling]
- Doctor Who: No, you're very kind.
- Lady Adrasta: Yes, aren't I.
- Lady Adrasta: Doren, I saw no mention in your paper that the shell was alive.
- Doran: It can't be, my Lady. It's impossible. We detected nothing.
- Lady Adrasta: [indicating the Doctor] But this man did!
- Doran: He's... He's mistaken.
- Doctor Who: Well, be to fair, I did have a couple of gadgets that he probably didn't, like a teaspoon and an open mind.