- Dr. John Ridge: Can we stop playing games? These cannisters were yours. They've been dumped in the sea. And something very like pituitary growth hormone is escaping from them.
- Sir Henry Leyton: It shouldn't do much harm. Be neutralised by the seawater in a couple of hours. Old Mother Nature has a way of dealing with these things, Dr. Ridge. That's what you doom and disaster fellas ought to realise!
- Dr. John Ridge: Unfortunately Old Mother Nature's been nobbled in this case, as you well know!