Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
Frontier In Space – Episode 1
The Doctor: There we go.
Jo: Doctor, what are you doing?
The Doctor: I'm reversing the polarity of my ultrasonic screwdriver's power source, thereby converting it into an extremely powerful electromagnet.
Jo: Oh. What good will that do?
The Doctor: You wait and see, Jo.
Frontier In Space – Episode 2
The Doctor: Hello, Jo.
Jo: Doctor, where've you been?
The Doctor: I've been paying a brief but unwilling visit to the Draconian embassy. And I'm afraid I had to leave in rather a hurry and found myself back here.
Jo: What happened?
The Doctor: Well, believe it or believe it not, Jo, they think we're working for General Williams and trying to provoke a war.
Jo: Oh no!
The Doctor: Yes, Earth is blaming Draconia and Draconia is blaming Earth.
Jo: And both sides are blaming us.
The Doctor: That's about it. What's the matter?
(A noise has started up somewhere.) Jo: Well, that sound. The one I heard on the cargo ship. I think I can hear it again.
(So can all the people in and around the security building. A guard briefly sees an Ogron, but it turns into a Draconian and he gets shot. Weapons fire continues as a pair of Ogrons lope through the stairways, burst into the cell block and shoot the guards outside the cell before blasting open the door.) Ogrons!
Ogron: You, come.
Frontier In Space – Episode 3
The Master: Penny for them, Miss Grant?
Jo: You. What are you doing here?
The Master: To coin a phrase. I've come to take you away from all this.
Jo: What are you talking about?
The Master: Well, surely you don't want to spend the rest of your life in here, do you?
Jo: Well, I'm not going anywhere with you, that's for sure.
The Master: Oh, but you are, you know. Believe it or not, I am a fully accredited Commissioner from the planet Sirius 4, and you and the Doctor are two dangerous criminals being handed over into my custody.
Jo: So it was you! You ordered those Ogrons to attack the ships and pretend they were Draconians!
The Master: But of course. Those lumbering idiots could never have thought up such a brilliant scheme by themselves.
Jo: Why did you want to start a war?
The Master: Now, come on, Miss Grant, be reasonable. You want to see the Doctor again, don't you?
Jo: Where is he?
The Master: He's in another prison, on the moon. We're going to collect him.
Jo: How do I know you're telling the truth?
The Master: You don't. And the only way you'll find out is by coming with me. Well?
Jo: How did you know we were here in the first place?
The Master: Well, after they'd attacked the cargo ships, the Ogrons returned to their planet, taking their loot with them. Now imagine my surprise, and my delight, when I found that they'd brought me the Doctor's Tardis.
Jo: And why are you taking us with you?
The Master: Oh, need you ask? How could I leave two dear friends in such dire straights?
Jo: Oh, you don't seriously think that I'm going to believe that you want to help us
The Master: Believe what you like, Miss Grant. I have my reasons. Now, are you coming, or do you really wish to vegetate in this hole for the rest of your natural?
Jo: Very well. I'll come.
The Master: Excellent! The prisoner and I are ready to leave now, guard.
Jo: Anywhere is better than here.
Frontier In Space – Episode 4
(In a hold is a barred cage with two beds. Jo is there. The Doctor is brought in, wearing his usual clothes.) The Doctor: Hello, Jo.
Jo: Doctor!
The Doctor: How are you? All right?
Jo: Well
The Master: Right, they'll be plenty of time for the exchange of social pleasantries. Put him inside.
(A guard opens the cage, the Doctor enters and is locked in.) Thank you, gentlemen. You can leave them to me now.
(The guards leave.) Well, Doctor, this is an interesting reversal. I remember your once visiting me when I was in prison.
The Doctor: You know, I'd very much like to know why?
The Master: Why you've been locked up?
The Doctor: No. Why I'm still alive.
The Master: Oh, your health is very precious to me, for the moment. You see, my employers are most interested in you.
Jo: The Ogrons?
The Master: Miss Grant, please. I employ them.
The Doctor: Yes, well whatever it is you're up to, you needn't expect any help from me.
The Master: I don't need any help. Your simple presence will be quite enough. Oh, by the way, I need hardly warn you there is no point in trying to escape. This is an interplanetary police spaceship, specially built for carrying prisoners, as you can see.
The Doctor: Stolen, of course?
The Master: Of course. Oh, and another thing. There's a closed circuit television camera trained on you from up there, so you will be under continuous observation. I think that's all. Well now, if you'll excuse me, I have some rather complicated astro-navigational calculations to work out.
The Doctor: Er, may I ask where we're going?
The Master: Certainly. To the home of our friends, the Ogrons. A barren and uninteresting planet on the remote fringes of the galaxy.
Jo: Why are you taking us there?
The Master: That, Miss Grant, you will discover when you arrive.
(The Master leaves.) Frontier In Space – Episode 5
The Master: Great lumbering idiots! Now you tell me that you've left one of your fellows in the palace. Do you realise what this means? As soon as the effect of the hypnosound wears off, the Draconians will know who it really was who attacked them. You've ruined everything!
Ogron: What shall we do now?
The Master: Do? There's only one thing we can do. Make sure that the Doctor and his evidence is never allowed to reach Earth
Frontier In Space – Episode 6
The Master: There's nothing to worry about. The Doctor will be perfectly safe in my hands. I promise you, when I deliver him to you, he'll be a broken man.
Dalek [OC]: Do not fail the Daleks.
The Master: The war is certain now. And once the great empires destroy each other, I ask but one thing. Let me rule the planet Earth in your name.