- Number Twelve: You don't believe it? A University-level degree in three minutes.
- Number Six: It's improbable.
- Number Twelve: But not impossible.
- Number Six: Nothing's impossible in this place.
- Number Twelve: What was the Treaty of Adrianople?
- Number Six: [looks a bit puzzled, but answers automatically] September... 1829.
- Number Twelve: Wrong. I said "What," not "When." You need some special coaching.
- [Number Six is listening to a tape recorded by the professor]
- Professor: [on tape] The General must be destroyed.
- Number Two: What was the question?
- Number Six: It's insoluble by man or machine.
- Number Two: What was it?
- Number Six: W, H, Y, question mark.
- Number Twelve: Number Two offered you a deal. Don't you trust him?
- Number Six: I don't trust Number Two. I don't trust you. I don't trust your tame Professor.
- Number Twelve: Who do you trust, Number Six?
- Number Six: I trust me.
- Number Twelve: Join the club.