- Lt. Comdr. Chip Morton: [after filling two rifles with radiation] If we fire these at those electrical things, what do you think will happen?
- Capt. Lee B. Crane: If we're still alive after we fire them, I'll let you know.
- Adm. Harriman Nelson: [Explaining how he learned to defeat the aliens] The watch told me. When the crystal broke during the creature was exposed to its radium dial. There was enough to destroy him.
- Capt. Lee B. Crane: Talk about the nick of time.