- Sarah Pilgrim: *Was* there an accident, Mister Klein?
- Mayor Klein: O-On a mountain, uh, dese things sometimes happen.
- First Student Climber: You idiot! We nearly had him. Why did you let him go?
- Second Student Climber: Didn't you see?
- First Student Climber: What are you talking about?
- Second Student Climber: His head! It was torn off!
- Prof. Crevett: And then dere is da cloud.
- Alan Brooks: What cloud?
- Prof. Crevett: Come on, Alan, you know what I'm talking about. Da cloud where there should be no cloud.
- Alan Brooks: Where there are mountains, there are always clouds.
- Prof. Crevett: But dis one remains static. On da side of da Trollenberg it never moves.
- Alan Brooks: A freak of nature.
- Prof. Crevett: A *radioactive* freak of nature?
- Alan Brooks: Looks like you're goin' for a climb.
- Dewhurst: Yes, we're going up the Trollenberg. Gonna have a noggin before we start. Care to join us?
- Alan Brooks: All right.
- Dewhurst: What's it goin' to be?
- Alan Brooks: Scotch, please.
- Dewhurst: Scotch and the two brandies. Better give me a bottle of brandy to take with us. Keep the cold out tonight.
- [last lines]
- [in the observatory room, looking out the panorama window]
- Prof. Crevett: [spoken with German accent] Well, Alan. For the first time in weeks, the Trollenberg is free from clouds.
- Alan Brooks: Yes - and let's hope it stays that way.
- Philip Truscott: Keep an eye on your roping, won't you.
- Brett: Why roping, particularly?
- Philip Truscott: Uh, student business last week.
- Dewhurst: That's right. Nasty business. Very nasty.
- Jim: Hey! Wait a minute. There's someome coming.
- Second Student Climber: [sarcastically] Who is it, Jim, the Abominable Snowman?
- Jim: I tell you there's someone coming. I can't see a thing. Who is it? Who is it? Who - ? No! Ugh-egh. No...!
- [Jim falls over the cliff edge]
- Philip Truscott: Cute little things, aren't they?
- Alan Brooks: Yeah. I'm gonna throw a bomb at that one. You watch on the screen, see what happens.
- Prof. Crevett: D'you see? Television cameras on da roof. We watch *everywhere*. You know, da government - da government, they say to me, "Professor, do you have to have such *expensive* things? Windows are much cheaper!" And I say I have to have, and I *have*! Dat over there, dat is the *only* window. And even for *dat*, we have *protection*. Look.
- [activates electric window cover]
- Prof. Crevett: Dat will stand up to *any* avalanche. Uh, dat too was very expensive. All this to study cosmic rays, huh?
- Alan Brooks: You alright?
- Philip Truscott: Yes, thanks Alan. Now what?
- Alan Brooks: I don't know. Can't go out that door again, that's for sure. It's the only way in or out of this observatory, I've checked.
- Philip Truscott: No more bombs, then?
- Alan Brooks: Not these.
- Philip Truscott: Well, what do we do then?
- Alan Brooks: I don't know. There's nothing much we can do but wait for that aeroplane.