''That Which Survives'' Line-By-Line

Kirk: What do you mean just there?

 

McCoy: Just that. All levels were normal, then I get this biological surge of life form registering. No, now it's gone.

 

KIRK: As though a door opened and closed.

 

McCoy: Yes.

 

KIRK: What direction?

 

McCoy: Ah... zero... zero eight three.

 

Kirk: Hang on. D'Amato's section. Come in. Kirk to D'Amato. Come in. Come in. Bones, Sulu, D'Amato doesn't answer.

 

MCCOY: I'll be right there.

 

(Kirk arrives first. We see a pair of legs with boots lying face down behind a rock.)

Kirk: Bones!

 

(McCoy runs in and examines the body as Sulu arrives)

McCoy: Jim, every cell in his body's been disrupted. (Later, Kirk makes adjustments to his phaser) Jim, what are you doing?

 

Kirk: Digging a grave.

 

Sulu: Poor D'Amato. What a terrible way to die.

 

Kirk: There are no good ways, Sulu.

(Kirk phasers the ground, but it only cuts a shallow trench in the soil.)

 

Sulu: That's the same red rock.

 

Kirk: My phaser didn't cut through it.

 

McCoy: Whatever it is, it has a mighty high melting point.

 

Kirk: Eight thousand degrees centigrade. It looks like igneous rock, but infinitely denser.

(Adjusts his phaser and tries again.)

 

McCoy: This whole planet must be made up of this substance, covered over by top soil.

 

Kirk: Mister Sulu, it might explain this place a little better if we knew what the substance is. I know it was D'Amato's field, but see what you can find out.

 

Sulu: Yes, sir.