Quotes
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"Didn't they teach you anything at the academy?" ~ Romana
"That's odd. That's very odd. Wouldn't you say that was very odd?" ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Do you know what I think? I think something's gone wrong. Something fairly serious." ~ The Fourth Doctor
Romana: Look. Radiation levels you wouldn't believe.
The 4th Doctor: Good heavens. You could fry eggs in the street.
"Optimism. Belief that everything will work out well. Irrational, bordering on insane." ~ K9
"No, no, don't say it, please. Don't say another underground passage." ~ The Fourth Doctor
The 4th Doctor: Yes, well, I run this small agency, you see. Trips to battlefields future and past. How civilisations died. It's very profitable. Isn't it very profitable, Romana?
Romana: Oh, absolutely. It's very educational.
"That machine of theirs. Metal, would you say? Recycle it, Shapp. Locate it and turn it into scrap, understood?" ~ Marshal
"No wonder thing's aren't going well. Standing in front of a mirror gimbling and smiling at himself like that is the first sign of megalomania." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"A ventriloquist. A chap who throws his voice, you know. Throws his voice. Has a dummy. Operates a dummy. A dummy. A dummy. A dummy, of course!" ~ The Fourth Doctor
The 4th Doctor: Six ships? Is that it? The mighty battlefleet of Atrios?
Marshal: It does the people no good to know the truth, Doctor. They live on hope, nothing else. It's been a long, hard struggle. Production is slow, losses are crippling, but we fight on. That's the main thing.
The 4th Doctor: Why?
"The Doctor must not die. Not yet." ~ Marshal
"If the Marshal's a puppet, who's pulling the strings?" ~ Romana
Marshal [mirror]: It's done. The Time Lord suspects nothing. I've directed him to the transmat point in K block where your agents will be waiting.
Romana: Time Lord? How does he know?
"Short for particle matter transmission. I'll explain it to you another time when I've got about two weeks to spare." ~ Romana
"Certainly. Interested in timepieces, are you? Chronostatics, horogenesis, that sort of thing?" ~ The Fourth Doctor
Shapp: Which section of Atrios is this? I don't recognise any of it.
The 4th Doctor: Shapp, we're on Zeos.
K9: It is stimulating to communicate for once with something other than a limited and unpredictable organic intelligence.
The 4th Doctor: What did you just say? With something other?
K9: Affirmative. I have been communicating with my own kind.
Merak: What are bees?
The 4th Doctor: Insects! With stings in their tails.
"There's your enemy, Shapp. Runs everything. Attack, defence, surveillance, production, everything. The ideal war general. No glory, no speeches, no medals and no blood. It's fully automated. There are no Zeons on Zeos." ~ The Fourth Doctor
K9: The war is over. The bombardment is over. The next step is obliteration.
The 4th Doctor: For whom?
K9: Everything.
"Unfortunately, it's been programmed that the war is over, so it can't attack. It thinks it's won. That's the trouble with machines.... it will self-destruct. I think obliteration was the term it used. There will be a rather large bang, big enough to blow up Zeos, take Atrios with it, and make certain the whole thing ends in a sort of draw. That's the way these military minds work. The Armageddon factor." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Has it ever occurred to you, Shapp, that you and the Marshal and this thing are in an arena, playing out a game for some evil alien spectator?" ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Well, we're going to try and neutralise and dismantle Mentalis here, and it's absolutely essential that while I'm fiddling it doesn't have to be distracted by an attack from the Marshal. Now listen, I want you two to go back to Atrios via the transmat. You, Shapp, are to contact the Marshal. Tell him he's won. Tell him the war's over. Tell him anything you like but stop him taking any further action." ~ The Fourth Doctor
K9: You have triggered primary alert function.
The 4th Doctor: Blast.
K9: Affirmative.
"I've stopped the universe. Still, they'll never notice. Just imagine, somewhere someone's just slipped on a banana skin and he'll be wondering forever when he's going to hit the ground." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Yes. Yes, it's quite a feeling, isn't it. Gods for an hour or two." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Well, if one has god-like powers, one ought to be able to use them, oughtn't one? Command it." ~ Romana
"This is not Atrios. Neither is this Zeos. What is this place?" ~ K9
"How can we get the sixth piece without using the tracer? Or had you forgotten the tracer's holding the Key together, and if we take the tracer out, we break the time loop, and without the time loop millions of people on Zeos and Atrios will die, to say nothing of ourselves. And the time loop's stretching already. It's up to six seconds now. That's four seconds left. And how long will that thing last?" ~ Romana
"Ah, I see what you're at, splitting us up. Divide and conquer, is that it? You didn't really imagine we were taken in by Astra, did you? No. She's in your power, your employ. Little something on the neck, is it? Very crude, technically. Like all this amusement arcade rubbish. No, Shadow, or whatever you're called. I'm sorry to tell you that Romana can look after herself. We are Time Lords. Not like those innocents back on Atrios, you know. Time Lords sent by the Guardian to recover the Key to Time." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"I too serve a Guardian. A Guardian equal and opposite in power to the one who sent you. The Black Guardian, he who walks in darkness, and you are in the valley of the Shadow." ~ The Shadow
Drax: Hello, Theet. How you been, boy?
The 4th Doctor: What?
Drax: It is Theet, innit? Theta Sigma? Yeah, 'course it is. Remember me, ay?
"Brixton. London. Earth. Yeah, me transport broke down. Hyperbolics, as usual. And I was investigating certain possibilities with regard to replacements. I got done, didn't I. Ten years I got. Well, I had to learn the lingo, didn't I, to survive. Why, is there something funny about the way I talk? " ~ Drax
"She has told me everything she knows, and it is not enough. Still the cursed Doctor stands between me and the Key. We shall see what the Doctor is prepared to offer for your life." ~ The Shadow
The 4th Doctor: Try synaptic adhesion.
Drax: Synaptic adhesion? It's the chronostat. Always is.
The 4th Doctor: I think it's synaptic adhesion.
"Blimey, it's a dog. Who's a little tin dog, then?" ~ Drax
"You are inferior, just as your powers are inferior. Once we have the Key to Time, we shall set not two small planets but the two halves of the entire cosmos at war, and their mutual destruction will be music in our ears. Unlike others, it is not power we seek, but destruction that we glory in. Fetch the Key." ~ The Shadow
"The door's open so the Shadow can go in there and take the Key to Time. Romana can't help and the time loop must be at breaking point by now." ~ The Fourth Doctor
The 4th Doctor: No, no, Drax, no. Small is lovely.
Drax: Big is better, though, innit?
"Astra, remember you're the sixth princess of the sixth Royal House of the sixth dynasty. And we're looking for the sixth segment of the Key to Time. Oh, you're in greater danger even than we imagined." ~ Romana
"You interfering fool. No one can resist the power of darkness!" ~ The Shadow
The 4th Doctor: Romana, it wasn't our idea to use the Royal House of Atrios as carriers, was it?
Romana: No, but what happened to Astra was our fault. We're just pawns here to do the Guardian's dirty work.
The 4th Doctor: I don't like it any more than you do, but it's done.
"Taste the moment of victory. Any second now, beautiful mushrooms will blossom and burst." ~ The Marshal
"Remember me to Gallifrey." ~ Drax
"We can't be too careful, can we? And it would be a terrible tragedy for the universe if it suddenly turned out that I was colour blind. Unable to distinguish between the White Guardian and the Black Guardian." ~ The Fourth Doctor
"Well, it's called a randomiser and it's fitted to the guidance system and operates under a very complex scientific principle called pot luck." ~ The Fourth Doctor
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Trivia
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Originally the sixth segment was to be the Shadow's shadow
According to Mary Tamm in the DVD featurette "There's Something About Mary", it was while filming this serial that she made her final decision to leave the series.
Rare outtake from the shooting at YouTube.com.
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Links (Watch on DailyMotion.com)
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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
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