- Voice of Erato: I'm sorry for all the unpleasantness, but thank you for the weeds.
- Doctor Who: My pleasure.
- Voice of Erato: They are the first solid meal I've had in 15 years.
- Romana: I did calculate our chances of success at 74,384,338 to 1 against.
- Doctor Who: What? 74,384,338? Why, that's extraordinary!
- Romana: Why?
- Doctor Who: Well, that's my lucky number!
- Romana: So, Erato came here to offer you metal in return for chlorophyll. Of course.
- Doctor Who: Right. But who was the first person he met?
- Organon: The person who held the monopoly of metal here.
- Doctor Who: Right. And did she put the welfare of her struggling people above her own petty power? No. She's tipped the ambassador into a pit and thrown astrologers at him.