"The Inner Light" Line-by-Line

[HarryM]

ELINE: I think you're still trying to figure out where you are. Where that ship of yours is. How to get back to that life.

 

[Athena28]

PICARD: The memory is 5 years old now, but it's still inside me.

 

[Orac]

Eline: Was your life there so much better than this? So much more gratifying, so much more fulfilling, that you cling to it with such stubbornness?

 

[Athena28]

PICARD: Eline.

 

[Enterprise1981]

ELINE: It must have been extraordinary. But never in all of the stories you've told me have you mentioned anyone who loved you as I do.

 

[HarryM]

PICARD: It was real. It was as real as this is. And you can't expect me to forget a lifetime spent there.

 

[Enterprise1981]

ELINE: Yes, I can. I've been patient, Kamin. For five years I've shared you with that other life. I've listened, I've tried to understand, and I have waited. When do I get you back?

 

[HarryM]

PICARD: I know. I know. It has been hard on you.

 

[Orac]

Eline: When will you let go? When will you start living this life? When will we start a family?

 

[Athena28]

BATAI: Kamin, Eline, good morning.

 

[HarryM]

PICARD: Good morning, Batai.

 

[Athena28]

BATAI: Are you ready? The Administrator's already arrived.

 

[HarryM]

PICARD: Yes. (To Eline) Will you come along?

 

[Athena28]

ELINE: No, thank you. You do very well on your own.

 

[HarryM]

(She leaves, obviously upset)

BATAI: She always was strong-minded, even when she was a child.

 

[Athena28]

PICARD: It's not her fault. These past few years have been very difficult for her.

 

[Enterprise1981]

BATAI: And for you, I think.

 

[Orac]

[Town square]

Administrator: There you are, Batai. Perhaps you can explain to me, when crops are dying all over, how this tree is flourishing?

 

[Enterprise1981]

BATAI: This tree is our symbol, our affirmation of life. Everyone in this town gives part of their water rations to keep it alive. We've learned, Administrator, that hope is a powerful weapon against anything. Even drought.

 

[HarryM]

ADMINISTRATOR: A good point. Perhaps I shall recommend a symbolic tree in each of my communities. Now. What business do we have today?