"The City on the Edge of Forever" Line-by-line

SPOCK: Captain, you're asking me to work with equipment which is hardly very far ahead of stone knives and bearskins.

 

KIRK: McCoy will be along in a few days, perhaps sooner. There's no guarantee that these currents in time will bring us together. This has to work.

 

Spock: Captain, in three weeks at this rate, possibly a month, I might reach the first mnemonic memory circuits.

 

(knock, knock)

KIRK: Your hat.

 

Edith: If you can leave immediately, I can get you five hours work at twenty two cents an hour... (notices Spock's contraption) What, what on Earth is that?

 

SPOCK: I am endeavouring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.


[Canteen]
(Kirk and Spock are sweeping the floor, with the chairs stacked on the tables, and two men repairing clocks.)

SPOCK: Captain. Tools for finely detailed work.

(Later, a combination padlock is being opened by someone with very sensitive ears

 

Cellar

Spock is working on the boiler when Edith enters, very angry.

Edith: The toolbox was locked with a combination lock and you opened it like a real pro. Why did you do it?

 

SPOCK: I needed the fine tools for my radio work. They'd have been returned in the morning.

 

EDITH: I'm sorry, I can't..

 

KIRK: If Mister Spock says that he needs the tools and that they'll be returned tomorrow morning, you can bet your reputation on that, Miss Keeler.

 

EDITH: On one condition. Walk me home? I still have a few questions I'd like to ask about you two. Oh, and don't give me that questions about little old us? look. You know as well as I do how out of place you two are around here.

 

Spock: Interesting. Where would you estimate we belong, Miss Keeler?

 

EDITH: You? At his side, as if you've always been there and you always will.

(To Kirk) And you? You belong in another place. I don't know where or how. I'll figure it out eventually.

 

Spock: I'll finish with the furnace.

 

Edith: Captain, even when he doesn't say it, he does.

 

[Street]

(They are strolling along, hand in hand, as 'Goodnight, Sweetheart' carries in the air from a radio repair shop.)

EDITH: Why does Spock call you Captain? Were you in the war together?

 

KIRK: We served together.

 

Edith: And you don't want to talk about it? Why? Did you do something wrong? Are you afraid of something? Whatever it is, let me help.

 

KIRK: Let me help. A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over I love you.

 

EDITH: Centuries from now? Who is he? Where does he come from? Where will he come from?