- Doctor Who: [materializing unobtrusively - right into the heart of the main square] Ah! Hello, good morning! Or is it evening here? Lovely day, isn't it? Wasn't it?
- Romana: Soldeed?
- Seth: Well, yes. The great scientist and engineer of Skonnos. It is he who built the complex for the Nimon.
- Teka: They say he's the only scientist left on Skonnos.
- Romana: Really? Why is that?
- Seth: The great civil war. Only the army survived.
- Romana: [sarcastically] That sounds like a well organized war.
- Soldeed: The final tribute at this very moment, gentlemen, is being paid to the Nimon. I think you all appreciate the irony that, in providing these tributes for us, the planet Aneth has given us the power with which we shall re-conquer them and from there go on to build the Second Skonnos Empire.
- Soldeed: So it was you that rescued my ship.
- Doctor Who: Yes... well, with a little help from my friend. Nice girl. I don't suppose you've seen her, have you - blond, about so big, always sticking her nose in things that don't concern her?
- Teka: [referring to the desiccated corpse on the table] This is what's going to happen to us, isn't it? It's not just the hymetusite that's the tribute; it's us as well.
- [She touches the corpse, which instantly crumbles to dust. Romana and the Anethans gasp and jump back]
- Teka: The Nimon did this, didn't he? Seth will kill him.