- Purdey: Well, as the posters say: it's a big country.
- Mike Gambit: Yes. Needle in a haystack.
- Purdey: Negative thinking, Gambit.
- Mike Gambit: Give me something positive to hold on to.
- Purdey: Well... well what if Columbus had said that?
- Mike Gambit: But he didn't.
- Purdey: Exactly.
- Boris Tarnokoff: [about Steed] Oh, he should have been Russian. It is one of the crimes of nature he wasn't born Russian.
- John Steed: I think all our wires are dangerously crossed. Now Chuck has lost two security men.
- Chuck Peters: Right.
- John Steed: And you have lost Colonel Sminsky and two men.
- Boris Tarnokoff: Two, against our three? I win! Don't I?
- John Steed: For the moment I think we're all losing.
- Purdey: This all has to do with Karl Sminsky, doesn't it?
- John Steed: It's just a theory.
- Purdey: Well, so was Newton's law of gravity.
- John Steed: There are certain places in the Eastern hemisphere where men are trained in serversion.
- Purdey: I know those places. Some of them masquerade as Universities.
- John Steed: They are really courses in sophisticated killing.
- Purdey: Honors in anarchy.