Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
The Monster Of Peladon – Episode 1
Sarah: Well, Doctor?
The Doctor: This way, I think.
Sarah: We're lost.
The Doctor: Mislaid, possibly.
Sarah: Oh, why don't we just go back to the Tardis?
The Doctor: For two good reasons. One, that I don't want to leave Peladon without having a word with my good friend, the King.
Sarah: Name dropper.
The Doctor: And second.
Sarah: What?
The Doctor: We are lost. Come on.
The Monster Of Peladon – Episode 2
Sarah: Oh. Ow.
The Doctor: Are you all right, Sarah?
Sarah: Well, I don't think anything's broken. What are they going to do, just leave us here?
The Doctor: No, I think there's more to it than that.
Sarah: Oo, that smell. It's sort of musky, like the lion house at the zoo.
(Roar.) Oh, Doctor, there's something in here with us. Something alive!
The Doctor: Yes, I know. Now don't move, Sarah.
The Monster Of Peladon – Episode 3
The Doctor: I'll just have quick word with the Ambassador and then I'll be off. Sarah, why don't you, er, why don't you stay and have a few words with the Queen? I have an idea you could give her some good advice.
Sarah: Oh.
(The Doctor leaves.) Thalira: What advice did the Doctor mean?
Sarah: Well, it's going to be rather difficult to explain but I think he was referring to Women's Lib.
Thalira: And what's that?
Sarah: Women's liberation, your Majesty. On Earth it means well, very briefly, it means that we women don't let men push us around.
Thalira: It's not like that on Peladon. The ruler is always a man. I was only crowned because my father had no son. It's Ortron who holds the real power.
Sarah: Well, only if you let him. You've just got to stand up for yourself.
Thalira: It would be different if I was a man. But I'm only a girl.
Sarah: Now just a minute. There's nothing only about being a girl, your Majesty. Never mind why they made you a Queen, the fact is you are the Queen, so just you jolly well let them know it.
The Monster Of Peladon – Episode 4
Azaxyr: Let us see what has emerged.
(to Ortron) You say that the miners have rebelled against their proper rulers. But Gebek here says that the nobles have cheated them of their rights. You say that the Doctor here is a spy and a saboteur. But the Ambassador says that he is an old and valued friend.
(to Gebek) You say that your god appears to you because he is angry, but the Doctor here is sure that the appearances are caused by trickery.
The Doctor: An excellent summing up, Commander Azaxyr. Do you know, you'd have made a very good judge?
Azaxyr: You forget, Doctor, I am your judge, your jury and executioner too. Perhaps. Only Engineer Eckersley here says nothing and accuses nobody.
Eckersley: Look, all this argy-bargy's nothing to do with me. I came here to do a job. I just wish people would let me get on with it.
Azaxyr: Excellent. A splendid example to you all. Now listen to me, all of you. I am not concerned with the situation here on Peladon. One thing concerns me and one thing only. The Federation must have the trisilicate it needs.
The Doctor: Yes, but it's the situation on Peladon that is stopping you getting the trisilicate.
Azaxyr: Precisely, Doctor, and let me suggest a simple solution.
(to Gebek) Your miners will return to work immediately. And they will work under armed guards which you will provide.
(to Ortron) And if they refuse to work, they will be killed.
Gebek: My miners are united and will defy you, Commander!
Ortron: I refuse to allow my troops to kill their countrymen at the orders of an alien power.
Sarah:
(sotto) He was willing enough to do it on his own account.
The Doctor:
(sotto) That was different.
Azaxyr: Have the hostages been taken?
Sskel: Yes, Commander.
Azaxyr: Until the miners return to work, a number of selected hostages will be executed each day.
The Monster Of Peladon – Episode 5
Sarah: You killed him! You killed the Doctor!
Azaxyr: I was defending the safety of the Citadel. The death of the Doctor was an unfortunate necessity. You would do well to accept the situation.
(Azaxyr turns off the monitor. In the cave, the sonic lance is a twisted wreck and Ettis cannot be seen. The Doctor lies still nearby, face down.) Sarah: You still haven't won, you know? The rebels control the mines and you can't go down there because of the heat.
Azaxyr: But we have switched off the heating controls. We merely have to wait for the temperature to return to normal.
The Monster Of Peladon – Episode 6
(Sarah looks through the hole in the door then enters. The Doctor is motionless in the chair. Just as she leans over him, crying, he opens his eyes.) Sarah: Oh!
The Doctor: Tears? (The Doctor wipes moisture from his face.)[/I] Anyone would think you thought I was dead.
Sarah: Well, of course I did. You looked dead.
The Doctor: Well, even I couldn't stand the row from Eckersley's patent alarm system any longer, so I put myself into a complete sensory withdrawal.
Sarah: What?
The Doctor: Well, a sort of trance. I shut myself off.
Sarah: You did it on purpose? You mean I had all that worry for nothing!
The Doctor: Well, don't sound so aggrieved. Anybody would think you prefer me dead. Come on, let's go and find the others