The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry Line-by-Line

[CaptVader]

[Bridge]

Lorca: Scanners. Expedite my targeting sweep. Multi-spectrum, laterals included.

 

[Athena28]

OWOSEKUN: Aye, sir. Scanners confirm two Klingon Birds-of-Prey.

 

[May 20]

DETMER: Targets heading away at offset vectors.

 

[CaptVader]

LORCA: Charge main phasers to full and take 'em out before they know we're here.

 

[Athena28]

LANDRY: Charging. Vectors received.

 

[CaptVader]

OWOSEKUN: We've been located and are being scanned.

 

[Orac]

Lorca: Keep the warp engines topped hot. Landry, we're waiting.

 

[CaptVader]

Landry: Solution calculated. Firing main phasers. First target destroyed. Second Bird-of-Prey still in.

 

[May 20]

LORCA: I see it! Take it out!

 

[Orac]

Detmer: They're firing torpedoes.

 

[CaptVader]

Lorca: Shields to max.

 

[Orac]

Landry: Diverting power.

 

[CaptVader]

Lorca: Commander. (A Bird of Prey hits them, the viewscreen whites out.) We're all dead. (sarcastic applause) Very nice. Very polite. The Discovery is now the only Starfleet ship with a displacement-activated spore hub drive. Which means, when it's up and running, we will be able to materialize anywhere in the known universe. Behind enemy lines, above the Klingon homeworld. Anywhere. But we will be alone. We will not have backup. There's just us. And we get one chance to get it right.

 

[Athena28]

LANDRY: We'll do better next time, sir.

 

[CaptVader]

Lorca: It would be hard to do worse. Mister Saru, run the simulation again. And again. Burnham, with me.

 

[Orac]

Saru: You heard the captain. Computer, reload simulation.

 

[CaptVader]

COMPUTER: Working.

 

[Orac]

[Corridor]

Lorca: We're the tip of the spear in a science vessel filled with wide-eyed explorers. You know what they need us to do, don't you?

 

[CaptVader]

Burnham: They need us to win.

 

[May 20]

LORCA: They need us to survive, Burnham. Wanna know how you're gonna help me do that?