- [repeated lines of the chronic hysteresis]
- Romana: Oh, blast. Here we go again.
- The Doctor: What's the matter?
- Romana: Well, now his probe circuit's jammed.
- The Doctor: Oh, that's easy; just waggle his tail.
- Romana: All right. We've tried everything else.
- K-9: Thank you, Mistress. Repairs complete.
- Zastor: Some fifty years ago I knew a man who solved the insolvable by the strangest means. He sees the threads that join the universe together and mends them when they break.
- The Doctor: [reading from a manual] "Post-Repair Test Questions." K-9, can you hear me?
- K-9: Affirmative, mistress.
- The Doctor: That's a promising start.
- Meglos: [enjoying the Doctor's dilemma] Flies trapped in amber. Not even the Doctor can escape a chronic histeratic loop.
- Romana: Please, please, can we do just one thing at a time?
- The Doctor: First things first?
- Romana: Exactly.
- The Doctor: But not necessarily in that order.