- Romana: What is that thing in the pit?
- Lady Adrasta: We call it - The Creature.
- Romana: Ah, that's original.
- Lady Adrasta: [about the creature] Our researchers divide into two categories: The ones who have got close enough to find out something about it...
- Romana: Yes.
- Lady Adrasta: ...and the ones who are still alive.
- Doctor Who: What's that creature doing here? Pure brain, a hundred foot across, stuck at the bottom of a pit, oozing about and sitting on people. Not much of a life, is it?
- [the Doctor asks about the giant "tentacle" creature]
- Doctor Who: How big is it?
- Organon: Huge.
- Doctor Who: Huge? How huge? 100 feet?
- Organon: Perhaps 200.
- Doctor Who: Huge. And that noise it makes.
- Organon: Yes, I sometimes think that it's singing.
- Doctor Who: Singing, crying, growling...
- Organon: Yes, who's to tell except another creature, and there's only one like that, thank heaven.