Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
The Horns Of Nimon – Part 1
The Doctor: These engines have seen better days.
Co-Pilot: This is a battleship of the First Skonnon Empire. It will soon be replaced.
The Doctor: Well, the sooner the better. It's a right hodge-podge up there. Very old engines patched up with new equipment, a lot of it not really compatible.
Romana: Sounds like the Tardis.
The Doctor: Yes.
Co-Pilot: Can you make it work?
The Doctor: The odd thing is, the new equipment seems to be the product of an entirely different technology.
Co-Pilot: Can you make it work?
The Doctor: Have to noticed how people's intellectual curiosity declines sharply the moment they start waving guns about?
Co-Pilot: Can you make it work?
The Doctor: Yes. Oh yes, I can make it work. The question is, can we generate power soon enough to take the ship to escape velocity before we fall into a black hole with an event horizon.
Co-Pilot: A what?
The Doctor: Shush. You just hold the gun steady. Don't tax your mind.
The Horns Of Nimon – Part 2
Romana: So what is this Nimon?
Teka: The great god of Skonnos. They say he's a terrible creature with awesome powers.
Seth: If we don't pay tribute, the Nimon will destroy us.
Romana: Sounds like an insecure personality to me.
Seth: He lives in the power complex.
Romana: That fits.
Seth: Anyone who enters never returns, except the one called Soldeed.
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: That sounds like a well-organised war.
The Horns Of Nimon – Part 3
Seth: Oh, dead end!
Teka: We'll never find our way out, even if there is one.
Romana: There must be. Soldeed can come and go.
Teka: Won't be long before the Nimon finds us and kills us.
(Footsteps. Seth: He's coming. Give me the blaster, quick!
Romana: It's no use. It had no effect on the Nimon.
The Doctor: Hello. What are you doing skulking down here.
Teka: It's a dead end.
The Doctor: Oh yes, of course, yes.
Romana: What about the way you've just come?
The Doctor: Oh, I don't know. You call this a maze? It's a cheat!
Romana: Shush!
The Doctor: Well, the walls keep changing.
Romana: There must be some sort of
The Doctor: Just a minute. I saw this place from above just before I landed. It reminded me of something.
Romana: What?
The Doctor: I can't think what.
Teka: If the Nimon comes along, we're trapped.
The Doctor: No, no, no. He'll be too busy repairing his furnace.
Seth: Furnace?
Teka: What's that for, burning the bodies?
The Doctor: No, no, he has another use for those altogether.
Romana: Sustenance.
The Doctor: Yes.
The Horns Of Nimon – Part 4
Nimon: Leave those controls.
The Doctor: Ah, hello there. I was just
Nimon: Stand aside.
Nimon 2: Kill him. But not yet. We need to know who he is and what he is doing here.
The Doctor: Well, really, I was just standing admiring the view.
Nimon 2: Silence. Later you will be questioned, tortured and killed.
The Doctor: Well I hope you get it in the right order.