DOCTOR: As the stun gun blocked the energy flow, so we have to reverse the effect.

BRIGADIER: Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow, eh, Doctor?

DOCTOR: You may mock, Lethbridge-Stewart. I know as well as you, that expression would sound like nonsense to a classical subatomic physicist.

BRIGADIER: What?

DOCTOR: Well, now I'm reversing the pseudo-polarity of the metaphorical synapses in Onya's putative energy channels. And that's just as nonsensical and just as effective.