- Narrator: [Opening Narration] An uncharted island in the Baltic, one hour after dawn. Thor Halvorsen, symbol of the world's dream for peace, keeps a fateful appointment.
- Narrator: [Act I Narration] A man toils late into the night - a man whose job is only a necessary delay in assuming his own self-assigned mission. But that mission - doing battle with the most dangerous enemy in the history of the Earth - may be resumed at any moment.
- Narrator: [Epilog Narration] A summit conference to be attended by the heads of this world's major nations. But beings from another world will be there, too; and their purpose will jeopardize the security and the future of the planet Earth.
- Michael Tressider: I've got nothing to tell you.
- Vice Chancellor Pierre Alquist: Then I'll apologize in advance for what we must do. I'm sure you must be familiar with the technique. After all, it is *widely* used by your own people.
- Michael Tressider: What are you going to do?
- Vice Chancellor Pierre Alquist: In the mental institutions here, I understand it is called shock therapy. However, if it proves ineffective in your case, we shall simply increase the voltage until it is beyond the tolerance of the human body - a technique used, I understand, in *other* of your institutions.