The Chute Line-by-Line

[Orac]

Kim: We could try taking them out.

 

[May 20]

PARIS: No! I saw someone try it. It killed him! What we have to do is find a way out of this place.

 

[Khamsin]

HARRY: Hm. Let's get something straight first.

 

[May 20]

PARIS: What?

 

[Orac]

Kim: The next time you take a swing at me, I'm hitting back.

 

[CaptVader]

^continues

(The klaxon sounds.)

KIM: What's that?

 

[Athena28]

PARIS: Another prisoner, maybe.

 

[CaptVader]

MAN [OC]: Food! Food!

 

[May 20]

PARIS: Join me for dinner?

 

[Khamsin]

(Indistinct clamoring. Someone screaming in pain.)

PRISONER: No! There's got to be more!

 

[May 20]

(He reaches to the iris and gets zapped. He falls back. Another prisoner gets his throat slit for the food he had collected. His murderer is very casual about it all.)

ZIO: I don't think he was going to eat it anyway, do you?

 

[CaptVader]

KIM: He's dead.

 

[Orac]

Tom: I think I've lost my appetite.

 

[Khamsin]

(Theme music playing)
Cpt. Janeway: Captain's Log, Stardate 50156.2. After 72 hours, Lieutenent Paris and Ensign Kim are still missing, and I'm quickly losing patience with the Akritirian authorities. They continue to deny us access to the surface, and they've yet to confirm whether our crewmen were killed in the bombing.

 

[May 20]

[Bridge]

JANEWAY: Anything?

 

[CaptVader]

TUVOK: I have completed another full sensor sweep, including multispectral subsurface scan. I still can not locate their life signs or their comm. badges.

 

[Orac]

Chakotay: Captain, Ambassador Liria is hailing us.

 

[Athena28]

JANEWAY: On screen. I'm only in a mood for good news today, Ambassador.

 

[Khamsin]

Ambassador Liria: I'm afraid I can't oblige.

 

[May 20]

JANEWAY: Are you saying they're dead?