- [Linx meets Sarah Jane Smith for the first time, and apparently his first human female]
- Linx: What is this?
- Irongron: Eh? Oh, just a girl taken in the forest.
- Linx: "Girl"? You have two species on this planet?
- Irongron: How say you?
- Linx: The Girl is not of your kind, Irongron.
- Linx: [handling Sarah] The hair is finer. The thorax of a different construction.
- Irongron: Oh, hell's teeth, have you no girls beyond the stars? No women to do the lowly work?
- Linx: Ah, I understand. You have a primary and secondary reproductive cycle. It is an inefficient system. You should change it.
- Irongron: You what?
- Linx: [walks around Sarah] In the Sontaran Military Academy, we have hatchings of a million cadets at each muster parade. Thus we can sustain enormous casualties on all battlefronts.
- Irongron: Linx, you cluck away like a broody old hen.