Doctor Who (TV Series)

Vengeance on Varos: Part One (1985)

Graham Cull: Bax

Quotes 

• Bax : Governor, may I suggest you do something to please - to entertain, to please the people - just to give yourself time to recover your strength. Why not give them the life of the rebel Jondar? After all, it's his death or yours.

  Governor : It would have to be something different.

  Bax : I thought, perhaps, by laser obliteration, sir. By a concentrated build-up of power. Neutralize the cue-switch. That way, the random laser emitter builds up to a giant pulse of light - an explosion of focused laser energy that would wipe the prisoner out of existence.

  Governor : We have never shown that style of dispatch.

  Chief Officer : It's too quick. It would be over too soon. We'd never be able to sell so swift an execution.

  Bax : It's the uncertainty. No one knows quite when the power will blow. We can get at least ten minutes of tension out of his apprehension and fear.

  Chief Officer : It's novel, I suppose.

  Bax : I'm sure the video of his execution would sell.