- Pletrac: The function of this tribunal is to keep this planet clean. This Tellurian creature comes from outside our solar system and is a possible carrier of contagion. Furthermore the creature may be hostile.
- The Doctor: Would you kindly stop referring to me as "the creature", sir. Or I may well become exceedingly hostile!
- Orum: What is the Telurian doing?
- Kalik: Trying to rescue the other Telurian, one imagines.
- Orum: They are clearly social creatures.
- Kalik: Hmm. And harmless.
- Orum: Pletrac is growing suspicious. If he should to decide to examine the eradicator he would discover that... . one has rendered it useless.
- Kalik: You worry too much, Orum.
- Orum: President Zarb still decrees the death penalty for acts of treason.
- Kalik: Have you destroyed the part?
- Orum: What part?
- Kalik: From the eradicator.
- Orum: Oh you mean the Trizon.
- Kalik: Hmm.
- Orum: Yes, it's here.
- Kalik: We will conceal it in the Lerman's baggage. Then if anything should go wrong, one of us can always discover it.
- Orum: Of course. Blame it on the Lerman.
- Kalik: An alien spy and saboteur.