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

(Act Four)

(Mission back room - McCoy stirs, dislodging the moist towel from his forehead)

Edith: Hey, now, come on. You're not ready to take on any tigers just yet. Lie down.

 

McCoy: The most common question to ask would be, where am I? I don't think I'll ask it.

 

Edith: Why not?

 

McCoy: The only possible answer would conclusively prove that I'm either unconscious or demented. This looks like old Earth, around 1920 or 25.

 

EDITH: Would you care to try for 30?

 

McCoy: I am unconscious or demented.

 

Edith: I have a friend that talks about Earth the same way that you do. Would you like to meet him?

 

McCoy: I'm a surgeon, not a psychiatrist. I am Leonard McCoy, Senior Medical Officer aboard the USS Enterprise.

 

Edith: I don't mean to disbelieve you, but that's hardly a Navy uniform.

 

McCoy: It's quite all right. It's quite all right, dear, because I don't believe in you, either.

 

EDITH: Get some rest.

 

[Boarding house]
(Edith has just gone up a flight of stairs.)

KIRK: Edith.

 

EDITH: Are you following me, sir?

 

Kirk: With ulterior motives. Does that please you?

 

EDITH: I hope it means (she stumbles on the step and Kirk catches her, while Spock watches.) Oh! How stupid! I've been up and down those stairs a thousand times. I could have broken my neck.

 

Spock enters Room 21, Edith kisses Kirk, then leaves. Spock comeback out into the stairwell as Kirk walks down the stairs to him

Spock: Captain, I did not plan to eavesdrop.

 

EDITH: I hope it means (she stumbles on the step and Kirk catches her, while Spock watches.) Oh! How stupid! I've been up and down those stairs a thousand times. I could have broken my neck.

(Spock goes back into room 21 as she kisses Jim, and re-emerges when Kirk comes down the stairs again.)

 

KIRK: No, of course you didn't.

 

Spock: I must point out that when she stumbled, she might have died right there.

 

KIRK: It's not yet time. McCoy isn't here.