"Return to Tomorrow" Line-by-Line

MULHALL: Who you hardly know. Almost a stranger to you.

 

MCCOY: I will not peddle flesh. I'm a physician.

 

MULHALL: A physician? In contrast to what we are, you are a prancing, savage medicine man. You dare defy one you should be on your knees worshipping? I could destroy you with a single thought.

(McCoy is suddenly writhing in pain as he is surrounded by flames.)

MULHALL: ..Stop! Sargon was right. The temptations within a living body are too great. Forgive me.

 

SARGON: I am pleased, my beloved. It is good you have found the truth yourself.

 

MULHALL: Sargon? Where are you? I thought you destroyed by Henoch.

 

SARGON: I have power even Henoch does not suspect, beloved.

 

MULHALL: Yes. Yes, I see. I understand. Just as we would have placed our consciousness within robots, Sargon has placed his into your vessel.

 

Chapel: Doctor.

 

MULHALL: Doctor, leave us. Sargon has a plan. We have much work to do.

 

[McCoy's office]

(McCoy leaves the room, and the door shuts and locks behind him. The ship shakes as he activates his desk monitor.)

MCCOY: This is Sickbay. Get me-

(The door opens, and Chapel walks out, staring blankly ahead.)

MCCOY: Nurse Chapel, what in the devil?

[Sickbay]

(He goes back into the ward.)
MCCOY: Jim? Are you all right?

 

Kirk: Yes, I'm fine Bones.

 

MCCOY: Thalassa?

 

MULHALL: She is now with Sargon, Doctor. I'm Ann Mulhall, back in my own body.

(Then we see the three blackened and broken spheres.)

 

MCCOY: Jim, the receptacles. Spock's consciousness was in one of them.

 

Kirk: It was necessary.

 

MCCOY: What are you talking about? There is no Spock to return to his body. You've killed a loyal officer, your best friend.

 

Kirk: Bones, prepare a hypo. The fastest, deadliest poison to Vulcans. Spock's consciousness is gone. We must kill his body, the thing in it.

 

[Bridge]

(Uhura is screaming in terror before collapsing across her console. Chapel is standing rigid by the Captain's chair.)

SPOCK: Must I make an example of you, too, Helm?

(Kirk, Mulhall and McCoy enter.)

SPOCK: Pain, Captain. And you, my dear?

(As Kirk and Mulhall double over, McCoy dashes to Spock's side, ready to inject him.)

SPOCK: Fortunately, Doctor, I know every thought of every mind around me. See? Take the hypo from him. And inject him with it.

(But she injects Spock/Henoch instead! He leaps from his seat.)

SPOCK: Fools. I'll simply transfer to another place, another body. Sargon! No, Sargon, please. Let me. Let me transfer.

(He falls to the floor and his victims are freed from their pain.)





^ (Does this all count as "a single" line? Without interruption by another character, after all.)

 

(I think it does)

Kirk: Spock. My friend Spock. If there'd only been another way.

 

SARGON [OC]: I could not allow your sacrifice of one so close to you.
(Lights dim and glow, then Chapel wobbles.)