Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Macra Terror: Episode 3 (1967)

Anneke Wills: Polly

Quotes 

• Music : We are all happy to work. We are all happy to work. For the good of the Colony. Happy to work. Happy to work.

  The Doctor : Ooh!

  Polly Wright : What's the matter?

  The Doctor : Dreadful. Did you hear that rhyme? The man who wrote that ought to be sent to the Danger Gang, not us. Ha, ha, ha.

  Ola : All right. That's enough.

• [first lines] 

  Controller : Keep away. Don't touch me. I'll obey!

  [a claw is seen on screen dragging the old man off] 

  Jamie : What's that? What's happening!

  Polly Wright : Doctor, that was it - that thing in the picture! That was the claw! They're in control.

  Pilot : Take them out of here. They're condemned to the pits.

  Ola : Come on. Get out, all of you. Out! Get out!

• Polly Wright : [an alarm sounds]  What's that?

  Medok : It's impossible.

  Polly Wright : Is it more gas?

  Medok : No. It's an escape. That bell means that someone has escaped down here.

  Polly Wright : It's Jamie.

  Medok : Your friend? That door! I'm going with him.

  Polly Wright : Hey, wait! Don't leave me down here.

• Officia : Gas centre standing by. What transfers do you wish made?

  Control Voice : Prepare for gas to be diverted into the old shaft. Inspect connection immediately and report back.

  Polly Wright : The old shaft. Doctor, that's where Jamie is!

  The Doctor : So they're going to pour this gas in the old shaft - gas they value above all else. What do you make of that, Polly?

  Polly Wright : For goodness sake, Doctor. What are you going on about?

  The Doctor : Don't you see? Control are not pouring this poisonous gas into the old shaft to kill Jamie. They've quite another reason.

• Polly Wright : Doctor, you've got to do something to help him.

  The Doctor : Before we act, we must think. Now, the Macra that have come to the surface of this planet have not found sufficient gas in the atmosphere, so they've had to get somebody to pump it up from down below.

  Polly Wright : But, if it's life and death to them, why do they waste it? Why divert it into the old shaft?

  The Doctor : [thinking aloud]  That's obvious, Polly, obvious. Because there's something trapped down there they wish to keep alive!