Who Watches the Watchers Line-by-Line

NURIA: You are a remarkable people, but you are not superior beings. My people must be made to understand that.

 

[Assembly hall]

TROI: Liko, you don't want to kill me.

 

LIKO: I have no choice. I must do as the Picard wishes.

 

Troi: Are you sure you know what he wants? That's the problem with believing in a supernatural being. Trying to determine what he wants.

 

LIKO: We must do something.

 

Oji: But what if we do the wrong thing, father?

 

LIKO: Picard, we need your guidance. Is it your wish that this woman should die? Answer us! Speak!

 

Liko: The Picard. The Overseer has come.

 

PICARD: No. Liko. Liko, I am a man. I am not the Overseer. I am a traveler from a faraway land. Nothing more.

 

LIKO: But you have restored my life. I am your servant.

 

Picard: You are no one's servant, Liko. I neither desire your obedience nor your worship.

 

NURIA: Picard speaks the truth. I have visited his people. I have seen how they live and how they die. When death takes one of their loved ones, they are as helpless as we are.

 

LIKO: Then how was I brought back to life?

 

LIKO: No. No. He can bring back the dead. Show them, Picard. You can bring my wife back to me.

 

Picard: I cannot.

 

LIKO: Why? Why won't you do this for me? Have I failed you in some way? Are you angry with me?

 

Picard: I am not angry with you.

 

LIKO: Then I beg you, bring her back to me. I will give you my life in exchange. Please, take back what you gave me. Give it to her. Let her live!