- Jamie McCrimmon: [the TARDIS lands] That wasn't too bad. Let's go outside, Doctor.
- Ben Jackson: Yeah, Come on, Jamie, you and me first. We never know, you know.
- Jamie McCrimmon: What?
- Ben Jackson: We don't know what could be waiting for us out there, do we? Come on, Doctor, open up.
- The Doctor: Yes, I don't see why not. It looks alright to me.
- [the doors open]
- The Doctor: Wait!
- [the others stop in their tracks]
- The Doctor: ... For me. Ha-ha-ha...
- Ara: Doctor? Doctor?
- The Doctor: What is it, Ara?
- Ara: It's the girl. They're going to carry out the fish operation on her.
- The Doctor: Fish operation? Well, well. Ara, do you know where the main fuses are?
- Ara: Fuses?
- The Doctor: Oh never mind. Go back to Polly, and if the chance comes, get her away from there! Will you do that for me?
- Ara: Yes.
- Professor Zaroff: Doctor?
- [last lines]
- Polly Wright: [Polly being forcibly prepared for the operation to turn her into a fish] Keep away!
- Damon: Bring her here. Don't be difficult, girl. It's quite painless.
- [to his assistant]
- Damon: Lights.
- Polly Wright: No! No!
- Damon: We're ready now.
- Polly Wright: No! No! Ow! No! No!
- [wails]
- Damon: One tiny jab, and you'll know nothing more about it until it's all over.
- [first lines]
- Jamie McCrimmon: [upon entering the TARDIS for the first time, he looks around him. The central column rises and falls] What's this?
- The Doctor: You'll find out.
- [operates the controls]
- Jamie McCrimmon: Ah, I don't think I want to.
- Ben Jackson: It's a machine, my old haggis; it's taken you away from Scotland forever.
- Jamie McCrimmon: Where to?
- Ben Jackson: Ah, well, that as the Doctor would say, that is in the lap of the gods. We never know.
- Jamie McCrimmon: Ah, you'd not be leading me on now, would you? It's a fact; you don't know where we're going?
- Polly Wright: Quite true, and what's more we don't even know what year it will be either.
- Jamie McCrimmon: Och, now, I don't believe it.
- The Doctor: "Nae man can tether time nor tide" - Robert Burns.
- Jamie McCrimmon: Hey? Who's Robert Burns?
- The Doctor: Oh, I should have remembered.
- Polly Wright: What?
- The Doctor: Well to Jamie, it's seventeen forty six. Robert Burns wasn't born until seventeen fifty nine.
- Ben Jackson: It's all complicated, isn't it?
- Jamie McCrimmon: What's happening now?
- The Doctor: We're just beginning to land. Hold tight, everyone.
- Jamie McCrimmon: Land?
- Polly Wright: Don't be scared, Jamie, it's alright, really.
- Ben Jackson: I get a sort of queer feeling. See, we never know what we're going to find, do we?
- The Doctor: Ah that's the fun. Stand by, here we go.
- Polly Wright: Please let it be Chelsea nineteen sixty six.
- Ben Jackson: Hope it's the Daleks, I don't think.
- The Doctor: Prehistoric monsters...