Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Survivors (1963)

Peter Hawkins: Dalek Voices

Quotes 

• Dr. Who : My friends and I are travellers. We did find something in the forest near our encampment. They may be the drugs you're referring to. Why not let one of us go and bring the Thals here? And under guard, if necessary?

  Dalek : We cannot move outside the city.

  Dr. Who : Very well, then. Let one of us go and hold the others until he returns.

  Dalek : Provided whoever you send understands, the rest of you will be held responsible for his return.

  Dr. Who : He will have our lives in his hands. That is enough.

  Dalek : Then we agree?

• Dalek #1 : The child has set out.

  Dalek #2 : Her direction is being followed by the ranger scopes?

  Dalek #1 : Yes.

  Dalek #2 : Mark her movements carefully. If there are more Thal people living in the jungle, she will try to contact them.

  Dalek #1 : I understand. If she returns with the drugs, am I to allow the prisoners to use it?

  Dalek #2 : No. They will die in time. Their only value is in bringing us enough of the Thal drug to duplicate for our own use.

  Dalek #1 : Yes, at last we have a chance.

• Dr. Who : Tell me something about the people, the Thals.

  Dalek : Over five hundred years ago, there were two races on this planet. We, the Daleks, and the Thals. After the neutronic war, our Dalek forefathers retired into the city, protected by our machines.

  Dr. Who : And the Thals?

  Dalek : Most of them perished in the war, but we know that there are survivors. They must be disgustingly mutated, but the fact that they have survived tells us they must have a drug that preserves the life force.

  Dr. Who : And knowing that these mutated creatures exist outside the city, you're willing to send one of us amongst them.

  Dalek : As you say yourself, all your lives depend on it.

• Dalek : You will move ahead of us, and follow my directions. This way. Immediately! I said immediately!

  [Ian begins to run away] 

  Dalek : Fire!

  [they fire at him] 

  Ian Chesterton : My legs! My legs!

  [Susan runs towards Ian] 

  Dalek : Stop!

  [to Ian] 

  Dalek : Your legs are paralyzed. You will recover shortly, unless you force us to use our weapons again. In that case, the condition will be permanent.

  [to the Doctor and Susan] 

  Dalek : You too, help him.

  Ian Chesterton : My legs, my legs. I can't use my legs!