PICARD: That's because there is no a wormhole. There never was.
"Clues" Line-By-Line
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RIKER: Sir?
PICARD: It was a ruse, designed to throw us off the track. Look at the clues: Doctor Crusher's incubation experiment, the computer clock, the transporter trace. All indicate the existence of a missing day. Lieutenant Worf's broken wrist would seem to suggest that we were awake and aware for that day, possibly in a struggle for our lives.
CRUSHER: The fact that we're still alive suggests we might have won.
PICARD: Not necessarily, Doctor. Data's behavior would seem to suggest we did not. Why else would he be willing to sacrifice his career rather than tell the truth?
WORF: If we didn't win... and we didn't lose?
PICARD: Then the only alternative would be a stalemate. Maybe a compromise might have been reached, a compromise that forced Data into this silence.
RIKER: Maybe by uncovering all this, we run the risk of upsetting the stalemate. Maybe we should leave well enough alone.
PICARD: Possibly, Number One, and I would be prepared to live with the mystery, but Data's role in this must be ascertained or he'll never be trusted with starship duty again. Ensign, take us back to the scene of the crime: the T-tauri system, warp two.
MCKNIGHT: Within sensor range, Captain.
PICARD: Drop to impulse, Ensign. Mister Worf, maximum shields, ready all weapons.
WORF: Shields up. Photon torpedoes armed. Phasers standing by. Captain, an energy field has appeared between our position and the planet.
PICARD: On screen. Hold position. Let's see what it does.
RIKER: Too slow to be a photon torpedo...
WORF: It might be a probe.
WORF: Shields undamaged. The energy pulse has dispersed.
(Troi speaks with a low voice that betrays her possession by some alien entity)
TROI: The plan has failed.
TROI: The plan has failed.
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