- Tim: What will happen to other Tomorrow People if you all get killed?
- Stephen: What other Tomorrow People? I thought there were only four of us.
- Tim: There are at the moment. I mean the thousands who have not yet broken out. When they do, they will need your help.
- John: Well, they'll manage somehow. I did.
- Cyclops: I don't expect help from humans. Your planet has an evil reputation throughout the galaxy.
- Carol: The Earth?
- Cyclops: Yes. That is why so few space travelers from other planets visit you. You are always at war.
- Stephen: You're no better. You're the history of war. We even fought your parents.
- Cyclops: That is what you have been taught. It is incorrect. Humans interpret events only in terms of violence.
- John: Well, what about Odysseus? The legend says that the cyclops Polythemus tried to kill him.
- Cyclops: The human version again. The official log of that expedition to Earth tells it somewhat differently.
- Cyclops: Intergalactic records are not for humans to read, not until you are advanced enough to be recognized. We have tried to advance you, but every time an ambassador from space is sent to Earth, he is slain.