- Roy Collinson: These walls are a lot older than the rest of the house. They've just been - built onto. In fact, they must have been knocked down and rebuilt and generally messed about a lot in the last thousand years. Oh, yes. The foundations might be Saxon.
- Peter Brock: [on analyzing a ghost by electronic means] Let's say it's a mass of data... waiting for a correct interpretation.
- Roy Collinson: [Talking to Brock about Jill Greely] I've only admired her from afar but... I'd say she's the type that... hurts easily.
- Vicar: You know? It came to me the other day - about pollution. It's the modern rediscovery of sin. The only form it can take in a materialistic world! All the rubbish and mess - that's the new wickedness! And they can see it! The sudden conviction of - of - of non-returnable bottles! Eh?
- Peter Brock: Colly. Computer storage room. When do we get it?
- Roy Collinson: There've been... problems.
- Peter Brock: [leaning close in, clearly annoyed] You were here to solve them. How far have they got with it? Colly, how much have they done?
- Roy Collinson: Nothing.
- Roy Collinson: I was up in town last week. Dropped in on the legal department. One or two things I wanted to clear up about the house here - covenants and so on. They've got boxes and boxes of stuff - passed over by the trustees, I suppose. I brought one back. One or two curiosities in it. How d'you like this?
- [He takes out a document]
- Roy Collinson: Application for the holding of a service of exorcism.
- Peter Brock: What?
- Roy Collinson: August 1892. Full record of the alleged haunting. Evidence, I suppose.
- Peter Brock: Louisa Hanks...
- Roy Collinson: That was her. There's even a report of her death.
- [hands Brock a clipping]
- Peter Brock: 1890.
- Roy Collinson: Two years before.
- Peter Brock: [reading the clipping] "Sad mishap at Taskerlands. Louisa Hanks, an under maid in the employ of Mr Horace Tasker, yesterday fell to her death from a flight of steps while engaged about her duties". That's all.
- Roy Collinson: Pretty good press for an under-maid in those days.
- Peter Brock: And they thought that she...?
- Roy Collinson: More than thought. They kept a note of all the times and dates, went on doing it for ages afterwards. You see, the ghost-laying didn't take.
- Peter Brock: [now realizing the gravity of the situation] Have you seen it?
- Roy Collinson: [shakes his head] Only heard.
- Peter Brock: They once had a go at it with bell, book and candle. Well - we're rather better equipped. I'm going to chuck the lot at it.
- Eddie Holmes: Do you mean go after it with electronics?
- Peter Brock: Then find out exactly what makes it - well it doesn't tick, it patters feet and screeches.
- Eddie Holmes: What about tape, though?
- Eddie Holmes: Tape's finished.
- Stewart Jessop: They can still improve...
- Eddie Holmes: Its day is done
- Peter Brock: [holding a trip of magnetic tape tightly in his hands] Magnetic tape is compact, responsive, all the sales chat-up says.
- [Brock pulls the strip apart]
- Peter Brock: Also delicate and prone to lose its memory.
- Maudsley: Like Cliff here.
- Peter Brock: Whatever it is in there I've heard it. Colly's heard it.
- [pause]
- Peter Brock: And Jill's seen it.
- Jill Greeley: [reading the text being generated] Pray? Prayer?
- [Dr. Collinson suddenly becomes panicked]
- Roy Collinson: IT'S IN THE COMPUTEEERR!
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