In the Oval Office, a telephone rings. President Richard Nixon answers. There is no response until Nixon asks "Is it you?" A girl's voice tells him to look behind him. Nixon asks how she got the number. She says "they" are everywhere and people see them every day.
Nixon insists there is nothing behind him and again asks how she got the phone number. The girl says the spacemen told her. Nixon does not know what she means. She says it is not important, but the monsters are. Nixon says emphatically, "There are no monsters in the Oval Office." The phone hangs up. He leans back in his chair as a Silent stares at his back.
For the purposes of this list, a "Silent story" is one in which one living, authentic Silent plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. For this reason, stories such as Closing Time are not counted due to the Silents' appearance being defined by their importance to following stories. Stories like The Gunpowder Plot, A Night with the Stars and Revolution of the Daleks are also not included due to the Silents' appearance being of no consequence to the plot of the story.
