Evolution

NARVIN: Knowing how the technology was acquired and the cost to those poor people, would you really want to use it?

ROMANA: You’ve changed. Once you’d have considered slaves beneath contempt.

NARVIN: Travel. Broadens the mind.

NARVIN: Well Romana, I hate to say I told you so-

ROMANA: Please feel free not to in that case.

MARIS: I’m not happy about all this. I’m not cut out to be a spy.

NARVIN: Look we’ve been through all this. You’re not spying. You’re just keeping an eye on her for me.

MARIS: That’s a nice distinction you’re making. And I’m not sure it’s one she’ll understand.

NARVIN : Look all I want to know is that she’s safe and well. Not spying, keeping watch.

“I have seen this before, among the slaves of many worlds. When life has been very cruel, people will make themselves believe in any story. They tell themselves a tale about a better life, a life to come. That is what has happened here, I think. When people have lived lives of suffering, of pain, of course they will tell themselves that a better life is within their grasp. They need something to live for.”