- Emma Peel: Frankly, when I read your card, I didn't expect, eh...
- Bert Smith: Ah, it was the name that fooled you. It always does. Bert Smith. Actually, it's Bertram Fortescue Winthrop Smythe, to be absolutely accurate. Had to change it of course.
- Emma Peel: Of course...
- Bert Smith: Firstly, it was too long to go on the card, and such a name is a terrible disadvantage in this business. After all, whoever heard of anyone having they're chimney swept by a Fortescue Winthrop Smythe? Haha.
- Emma Peel: [laughs] Who indeed?
- Venus Brown: Your occupation?
- John Steed: Following father's footsteps. He spent his life depositing money, I spend mine withdrawing it.
- Venus Brown: How lovely.
- Dr. Henry Primble: Steed? Steed? Have you an appointment?
- John Steed: No.
- Dr. Henry Primble: Then I can't see you. I never see anyone without an appointment.
- John Steed: Can I make one?
- Dr. Henry Primble: Oh, certainly.
- John Steed: How 'bout today, at eh, two fortyfive?
- Dr. Henry Primble: Oh, that suits me fine, take a seat.
- Bert Smith: Astronomy is my second love. Eh, after chimney's, of course. But the two go hand in hand, really. You see, in my position, sweeping chimney's, the thing I see most of is the sky.
- Venus Brown: We are a very small, select group.
- John Steed: Good. I abhore overcrowding.
- Venus Brown: With stringent rules.
- John Steed: I shall obey them, stringently.
- Brigadier Whitehead: I'm sorry, I refuse to dip any deeper until I've had a peep at the accounts.
- Venus Brown: The accounts?
- Brigadier Whitehead: Yes. The treasury reports. Hadley and Mansford are of the same mind. We'd like to know there the money's going, you know.
- Venus Brown: Well, where do you think it's going?
- Brigadier Whitehead: Well that's what we'd like to know.
- John Steed: I'm a fully fledged member of the BVS. I volunteered for watching duty.
- Emma Peel: I thought it was part of your policy never to volunteer for anything?
- John Steed: Yes, but since you volunteered to return the recording to Venus Brown, I thought I'd volunteer.
- Crawford: Does anyone really know what's up there? On Venus, or Mars, or even the moon? Discoveries always begin as a guessing game. We may be right, we may be wrong. If you don't explore, you don't find out. And we shall, some day. Our funds are growing fast.
- Emma Peel: While your membership dwindles.
- Dr. Henry Primble: And does Steed know you're here?
- Emma Peel: I consider that a highly personal question.