Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
Kinda – Part 1
Sanders: You know something? This is my fourteenth ex and rec, and I've never seen a planet like this one. Look at it. Paradise, isn't it? The sun shines, the birds sing, food grows on trees. Even the ILF is friendly. Or used to be.
The Doctor: The ILF?
Todd: Intelligent Life Form.
Sanders: The primitives.
The Doctor: The Kinda.
(The Doctor gives Adric his breakfast plate.) Todd: Yes.
Sanders: Oh, you're not eating.
The Doctor: Ah, no, no. I don't seem to be very, er. These difficulties you referred to?
Sanders: Well, go on, tell him. Why not?
Todd: Originally there were six of us.
The Doctor: Roberts?
Todd: And two more before him. They disappeared. Simply haven't returned to the dome.
The Doctor: What, do you think the Kinda took them?
Todd: Impossible.
The Doctor: Are the Kinda dangerous?
Sanders: We don't know. You see, with the Kinda, they seem innocent enough, and they smile a lot, or they used to.
The Doctor: Used to?
Sanders: Until we took the hostages.
The Doctor: The hostages?
Sanders: Only a couple. Standard procedure. It's in the manual.
Kinda – Part 2
The Doctor: Don't hurt him!
Hindle: Why not?
The Doctor: Don't.
Hindle: Oh, very well.
(The Kinda releases Adric.) The Doctor:
(to Todd) I think your guess was right. The Kinda are telepathic.
Todd: Why should they obey him?
The Doctor: I don't know. I've tried to communicate with them myself but I can't get through.
Hindle: The problem is knowing what punishment would be most appropriate.
Adric: To what?
Hindle: To teach you not to steal. Not to commit treason. To wash behind the ears. Must be painful, don't you think?
Todd: For heaven's sake!
Hindle: When I was a boy I was beaten every day. Never did me any harm. Made me the man I am.
The Doctor: Look, I have a suggestion.
Hindle: Silence! All right, speak up. What is it?
The Doctor: Well, I was simply going to suggest that you banished him from the dome, left him at the mercy of the trees.
Hindle: No, no, the trees have no mercy.
Kinda – Part 3
Karuna: There is another.
Panna: What other?
The Doctor: Hello.
Panna: A man!
Karuna: He was with her.
Panna: Impossible. Was he present when you opened the box?
The Doctor: Yes. Most enlightening.
Panna: What's he babbling about? No male can open the Box of Jhana without being driven out of his mind. It is well known. Unless. Is he an idiot?
Karuna: Are you an idiot?
The Doctor: Well, I suppose I must be. I have been called one many
Panna: Keep silent, idiot.
The Doctor: Yes.
Kinda – Part 4
The Doctor: And the security arrangements?
Hindle: Security effectiveness one hundred percent. One thousand percent. One billion trillion trillion percent. Or more, perhaps.
Sanders: Boom.
Hindle: Do you want me to prove it?
The Doctor: No. No, no. I'd rather know how you control the Kinda.
Hindle: Oh, that's very simple. With this.
)He gets the hexagonal mirror from the table.) They're very primitive, you know. They think I've captured their souls.
The Doctor: Mirrors. Yes, very clever.
Hindle: Do you think so?
The Doctor: Yes. May I
(The Doctor treads on a couple of cardboard people.) Hindle: Careful!
The Doctor: I'm so sorry.
(They both stoop to pick them up, and Hindle ends up pulling their heads off.) Sanders: It's easily mended. A drop of glue.
Hindle: Don't be silly! You can't mend people, can you. You can't mend people!