- [first lines]
- Ben Jackson: Doctor, do something!
- The Doctor: I'm trying to!
- [the Doctor adjusts some controls and soon everything returns to normal]
- The Doctor: Everything back under control again.
- Ben Jackson: Here, we're landing! Look! Coming at a fair rate!
- Jamie McCrimmon: Oh, thank the lord for that. You know, Doctor, I'll never ask you to do that again.
- The Doctor: I see no reason for that.
- Polly Wright: [staring at the scanner] Anyway, Doctor, you... you've done it. It's Mars! It must be. You've landed the TARDIS exactly where you said you would.
- Voice from Space Control: International Space Control Earth calling Weather Control Moon - come in please.
- Nils: [into the microphone] Moonport - standing by.
- Ben Jackson: It's never done that before, Doctor.
- Hobson: Hobson here.
- Voice from Space Control: What's happening up there? The hurricane you were guiding is now forty five degrees off course. It's threatening Hawaii.
- Hobson: One of my men were taken ill. We're operational again now.
- Voice from Space Control: The controller would like to know the cause of the illness.
- Hobson: Yes, so would we. We've now got three men down with this mysterious virus in the past few hours - including the Doctor.
- Voice from Space Control: One moment please. Stand by for further instructions.
- Hobson: Just hang on for another couple of minutes lads. We better hear what the great Mr. Rinberg has to say.
- Nils: Nobby?
- Hobson: Yes.
- Nils: There it is again. I'll play it back to you.
- Hobson: [recorded voice from the tape] "Yes, so would we. We've now got three men down with this mysterious virus in the past few hours - including the Doctor."
- Voice from Space Control: [recorded voice from the tape] "One moment please. Stand by for further instructions."
- Nils: Here the big noise ratio on that re-run. We're being monitored again.
- Hobson: Monitored?
- Nils: Someone, not too far away from the base, is listening to every word we say.
- Voice from Space Control: Moonbase, Moonbase, come in Moonbase.
- Hobson: Still standing by.
- [pause]
- Hobson: Well?
- Voice from Space Control: Your instructions to send blood samples back to Earth for investigation.
- Hobson: Well, when can we do that? The next shuttle rocket's not for another month.
- Voice from Space Control: Then they must be put on that rocket. In the meantime the Moonbase is to put into quarantine.
- Hobson: Quarantine! What if these men aren't fit enough to go back to work? I shall need replacements.
- Voice from Space Control: If you radio information about this virus, we'll do our best to identify it and suggest treatment.
- Hobson: I demand to speak to Rinberg.
- Voice from Space Control: The controller is busy - sorry. Over and out.
- Nils: That whole conversion was monitored by someone or something.
- Hobson: Oh, never mind about that now. That Rinberg fellow just won't talk to you. How can we trace down this mystery illness with the Doctor himself down with it.
- Jamie McCrimmon: [softly] The Piper! The McCrimmon Piper! Don't let him get me!
- The Doctor: Piper?
- Polly Wright: Some legend of his clan. As far, as I can make out - this piper appears to a McCrimmon just before he dies.
- The Doctor: Has this phantom piper appeared to Jamie yet?
- Polly Wright: You don't believe it, do you?
- The Doctor: No, but he does. It's important to him.
- Polly Wright: He keeps asking us to keep the piper away from him.
- The Doctor: Good. We can see if we can do just that.
- [walks away thinking]