Those things that attacked us - you said you'd seen something like it before.
Something very similar, certainly. They emerged from some caves in Derbyshire.
The Silurians, wasn't it? The Brigadier was telling me.
That's a complete misnomer. The chap who discovered them must have got the period wrong. No, properly speaking, they should have been called the "Eocenes".
That was that race of super-reptiles that had been in hibernation for billions of years, wasn't it?
That's right, and if you want my opinion, there's another of their colony right here beneath us.
Well, something seems to have woken them up.
Probably the rebuilding of this fort.
But I thought you said they lived in caves?
Well, this is a different species, completely adapted to life underwater.
And they've been sinking the ships?
Very likely.
Why? I mean, why are they so hostile? What have we done to them?
They still think of Earth as their planet, Jo, and they want it back. As far as they're concerned, man is just an ape who got above himself.
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