Kirk: Then there has to be some sort of signalling device here.
"How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth" Line-by-Line
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(Gazing up at a serpent head on a curved column...)
WALKING BEAR: That's odd. I've never seen a combination like this before.
WALKING BEAR: That's odd. I've never seen a combination like this before.
Kirk: That pyramid seems to be the centre of everything. I'm going up there. The rest of you spread out and circle it.
(Kirk heads up the steep stone steps)
(Kirk heads up the steep stone steps)
WALKING BEAR: Look, sir. Another tower. And there's another tower down there. There must be one at all four corners.
[Top of Temple]
Kirk: What's this?
(A table inlaid with a winged serpent, set at forty five degrees to the square of the tower making a diamond pattern)
Kirk: What's this?
(A table inlaid with a winged serpent, set at forty five degrees to the square of the tower making a diamond pattern)
[Tower]
(Walking Bear and Scott climb the tower or column.)
SCOTT: Looks like there's a seam here. I think the head can be turned. Come on, lad. Give me a hand.
(They turn the serpent head.)
(Walking Bear and Scott climb the tower or column.)
SCOTT: Looks like there's a seam here. I think the head can be turned. Come on, lad. Give me a hand.
(They turn the serpent head.)
[Top of Temple]
KIrk: The sun. That's it. Scotty, turn the head all the way around and aim it up here.
KIrk: The sun. That's it. Scotty, turn the head all the way around and aim it up here.
[Top of Temple]
(The sun's rays get reflected in a focused beam up to the table)
Kirk: Turn the other heads this way! Bones, the serpent heads! Turn them to face the pyramid! I'm coming down.
(The sun's rays get reflected in a focused beam up to the table)
Kirk: Turn the other heads this way! Bones, the serpent heads! Turn them to face the pyramid! I'm coming down.
[City]
Kirk: The whole things is an energy amplification system. This is Kukulkan's signalling device.
Kirk: The whole things is an energy amplification system. This is Kukulkan's signalling device.
KIRK: We have no weapons. And if we did, we would use them only with reason.
Kukulkan: Where is your hate? You hate me, do you not? Why do you not speak to me of your hate?
Kukulkan: You fired your weapons at me.
KIRK: We used them in self-defense. You fired on us.
Kukulkan: I am your master. I may do with you as I will.
MCCOY: Do you think we belong to you?
Kirk: Bones, Scotty, quiet.
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