1 00:00:04,610 --> 00:00:08,061 Captain's log, stardate 1513.1. 2 00:00:08,239 --> 00:00:11,573 Our position, orbiting planet M-113. 3 00:00:11,743 --> 00:00:13,071 On board the Enterprise, 4 00:00:13,536 --> 00:00:16,490 Mr. Spock, temporarily in command. 5 00:00:17,374 --> 00:00:19,117 On the planet... 6 00:00:19,292 --> 00:00:23,077 ... the ruins of an ancient and long-dead civilisation. 7 00:00:24,089 --> 00:00:26,581 Ship's surgeon McCoy and myself are now beaming down 8 00:00:26,759 --> 00:00:29,084 to the planet's surface. 9 00:00:29,887 --> 00:00:31,086 Our mission, 10 00:00:31,264 --> 00:00:35,309 routine medical examination of archaeologist Robert Crater 11 00:00:35,477 --> 00:00:37,683 and his wife Nancy. 12 00:00:37,854 --> 00:00:42,184 Routine, but for the fact that Nancy Crater is that one woman 13 00:00:42,359 --> 00:00:44,815 in Dr. McCoy's past. 14 00:00:48,533 --> 00:00:51,106 Shall we pick some flowers, doctor? 15 00:00:51,870 --> 00:00:53,329 When a man visits an old girlfriend, 16 00:00:53,496 --> 00:00:55,952 she usually expects something like that. 17 00:00:56,124 --> 00:00:59,743 Is that how you get girls to like you, by bribing them? 18 00:01:01,630 --> 00:01:03,540 Doesn't seem to be anybody around, does there? 19 00:01:03,716 --> 00:01:05,127 Well, they'll be along. 20 00:01:05,301 --> 00:01:07,460 You rushed us down ten minutes early. 21 00:01:13,852 --> 00:01:15,845 Professor Crater? 22 00:01:16,688 --> 00:01:18,480 Professor? 23 00:01:18,649 --> 00:01:20,357 Mrs. Crater? 24 00:01:27,158 --> 00:01:29,317 Nervous, Dr. McCoy? 25 00:01:29,494 --> 00:01:31,867 Yeah, a little bit, I guess. 26 00:01:32,497 --> 00:01:36,246 Well, you see, we walked out of each other's lives ten years ago. 27 00:01:36,418 --> 00:01:37,961 She married Crater, and for all I know, 28 00:01:38,129 --> 00:01:40,834 she may have forgotten me completely. 29 00:01:41,007 --> 00:01:42,834 Of all the bonehead ideas, Jim. 30 00:01:43,009 --> 00:01:46,046 How do I let myself in for things like this? 31 00:01:50,225 --> 00:01:52,182 - Leonard. - Nancy. 32 00:01:52,853 --> 00:01:55,012 Hello. 33 00:01:56,982 --> 00:01:58,014 It's good to see you. 34 00:01:58,442 --> 00:02:00,352 Let me look at you. 35 00:02:01,446 --> 00:02:03,189 You haven't aged a day. 36 00:02:07,995 --> 00:02:11,364 Oh, this is Captain Jim Kirk of the Enterprise. 37 00:02:15,086 --> 00:02:17,873 Mrs. Crater. I've heard a great deal about you. 38 00:02:18,214 --> 00:02:19,459 All good, I hope. 39 00:02:22,302 --> 00:02:24,010 And Crewman Darnell. 40 00:02:24,596 --> 00:02:26,388 How do you do, ma'am? 41 00:02:30,728 --> 00:02:31,890 Something wrong, Darnell? 42 00:02:32,688 --> 00:02:35,855 Excuse me, sir, but, ma'am, if I didn't know better, I would swear 43 00:02:36,025 --> 00:02:38,896 that you were somebody I left behind on Wrigley's Pleasure Planet. 44 00:02:39,070 --> 00:02:40,814 It's funny, you're exactly like a girl that... 45 00:02:40,989 --> 00:02:42,567 A little less mouth, Darnell. 46 00:02:42,741 --> 00:02:44,817 I'm sorry, sir, I didn't mean to... 47 00:02:45,619 --> 00:02:47,576 I mean, I know it's impossible, of course. 48 00:02:48,330 --> 00:02:50,074 Why don't you step outside, Darnell. 49 00:02:50,499 --> 00:02:52,159 Yes, sir. 50 00:02:52,877 --> 00:02:54,502 Thank you, sir. 51 00:02:54,671 --> 00:02:55,999 Maybe I'll step outside too. 52 00:02:56,506 --> 00:02:57,585 What? 53 00:02:58,091 --> 00:03:01,009 And let Plum examine me all alone? 54 00:03:01,261 --> 00:03:03,883 - Plum? - Plum. 55 00:03:06,433 --> 00:03:10,099 A nickname I gave Leonard when we were very young. 56 00:03:10,271 --> 00:03:15,266 I'll... I'll wait for the professor, and I'll catch you both at once. 57 00:03:16,152 --> 00:03:18,275 I'd better go get Bob. 58 00:03:18,446 --> 00:03:23,109 Every time he starts digging, he forgets time, sleep, food, everything. 59 00:03:23,285 --> 00:03:24,945 Be back in a minute. 60 00:03:29,292 --> 00:03:30,916 It's quite warm here, isn't it? 61 00:03:58,657 --> 00:04:02,441 Space, the final frontier. 62 00:04:02,620 --> 00:04:06,203 These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. 63 00:04:06,374 --> 00:04:11,250 Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds, 64 00:04:11,588 --> 00:04:14,340 to seek out new life and new civilisations, 65 00:04:15,300 --> 00:04:18,800 to boldly go where no man has gone before. 66 00:04:55,886 --> 00:04:59,256 Captain's log, additional entry. 67 00:04:59,432 --> 00:05:01,056 Since our mission was routine, 68 00:05:01,225 --> 00:05:04,476 we had beamed down to the planet without suspicion. 69 00:05:04,938 --> 00:05:08,058 We were totally unaware that each member of the landing party 70 00:05:08,233 --> 00:05:12,694 was seeing a different woman, a different Nancy Crater. 71 00:05:14,406 --> 00:05:16,898 Professor Crater, I'm Captain Kirk. 72 00:05:17,076 --> 00:05:18,107 This is... 73 00:05:18,286 --> 00:05:19,994 The heroic captain and the intrepid doctor 74 00:05:20,163 --> 00:05:23,413 cross interstellar space to preserve our health. 75 00:05:23,583 --> 00:05:24,912 Your sense of duty is overwhelming. 76 00:05:25,085 --> 00:05:27,457 Now, will you please go back where you came from 77 00:05:27,629 --> 00:05:30,963 and tell whoever issues your orders to leave me and my wife alone? 78 00:05:31,133 --> 00:05:33,755 We need additional salt against the heat. 79 00:05:33,928 --> 00:05:36,051 Aside from that, we're doing very well, thank you. 80 00:05:36,222 --> 00:05:37,966 I'm pleased to hear you're doing well, 81 00:05:38,141 --> 00:05:39,932 but I'm required to confirm that fact. 82 00:05:40,101 --> 00:05:41,928 Doubtless, the good surgeon 83 00:05:42,103 --> 00:05:46,054 will enjoy prodding and poking us with his arcane machinery. 84 00:05:46,233 --> 00:05:48,724 Go away, we don't want you. 85 00:05:48,902 --> 00:05:51,228 What you want is unimportant right now. 86 00:05:51,405 --> 00:05:54,075 What you will get is what is required by the book. 87 00:05:54,242 --> 00:05:57,658 Quote, "All research personnel on alien planets are required 88 00:05:57,829 --> 00:06:00,949 to have their health certified by a starship surgeon 89 00:06:01,124 --> 00:06:02,702 at one-year intervals." 90 00:06:02,876 --> 00:06:05,628 Like it or not, professor, as commander of the ship, I'm required... 91 00:06:05,796 --> 00:06:09,165 To show your gold braid to everyone. You love it, don't you? 92 00:06:09,467 --> 00:06:12,503 He's all yours, Plum. Dr. McCoy. 93 00:06:14,055 --> 00:06:15,633 Sit down and breathe deeply, please. 94 00:06:15,807 --> 00:06:17,965 Did I hear you call him Dr. McCoy? 95 00:06:18,143 --> 00:06:19,637 You did. 96 00:06:23,524 --> 00:06:25,101 McCoy. 97 00:06:26,485 --> 00:06:28,976 I've heard Nancy speak of a Dr. McCoy. 98 00:06:29,155 --> 00:06:30,863 Well, that's me. Didn't she mention I was here? 99 00:06:31,032 --> 00:06:33,238 You..? You've seen Nancy? 100 00:06:33,409 --> 00:06:34,489 She went out to get you. 101 00:06:34,661 --> 00:06:36,819 You've seen her too. You were with the good doctor. 102 00:06:36,997 --> 00:06:38,028 Yes, why? 103 00:06:39,249 --> 00:06:41,787 Nothing. It's just that it gives me great pleasure to know 104 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,875 that she's gotten to see an old friend and has a chance for some company. 105 00:06:46,048 --> 00:06:49,168 It's different for me. I enjoy solitude. 106 00:06:49,344 --> 00:06:53,507 But for a woman... You understand, of course. 107 00:06:53,682 --> 00:06:56,255 Well, it certainly hasn't aged her. 108 00:06:56,435 --> 00:06:59,352 She looks exactly as I knew her 12 years ago. 109 00:06:59,521 --> 00:07:02,095 Amazing, Jim, like a girl of 25. 110 00:07:02,274 --> 00:07:03,685 Oh, sorry. I'm sorry, captain. 111 00:07:03,859 --> 00:07:06,481 Sit down. I seem to have forgotten my manners. 112 00:07:06,654 --> 00:07:08,232 It's quite all right. 113 00:07:10,950 --> 00:07:12,493 I'm not joking, Jim. 114 00:07:12,661 --> 00:07:15,413 She hasn't aged a day. There's not a grey hair on her head. 115 00:07:15,580 --> 00:07:17,869 She's got some grey, Bones. 116 00:07:18,042 --> 00:07:19,999 Excuse me, professor. She's a handsome woman, yes, 117 00:07:20,169 --> 00:07:22,625 but hardly 25. 118 00:07:27,343 --> 00:07:31,555 You've seen my wife with the eyes of your past attachment, doctor. 119 00:07:31,723 --> 00:07:34,393 I'm sure when Nancy lets... 120 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,771 When you see her again, she'll be of a believable age. 121 00:07:39,231 --> 00:07:41,687 Well, at any rate, she doesn't look a day over 30. 122 00:07:41,859 --> 00:07:42,939 Genuine affection. 123 00:07:43,111 --> 00:07:46,562 I'm glad you still feel it for her. 124 00:07:46,740 --> 00:07:48,448 Leonard, isn't it? 125 00:07:48,617 --> 00:07:50,906 - She's a fine woman. - Open your mouth. 126 00:07:51,078 --> 00:07:52,276 Why, I thought the machine was... 127 00:07:52,454 --> 00:07:54,577 The machine is capable of almost anything, 128 00:07:54,748 --> 00:07:57,156 but I'll still put my trust in a healthy set of tonsils. 129 00:07:57,334 --> 00:07:58,533 Now, open your mouth. 130 00:08:24,447 --> 00:08:25,942 McCoy. 131 00:08:28,368 --> 00:08:29,863 Dead, Jim. 132 00:08:30,037 --> 00:08:34,249 It's strange, the red mottling all over his face. 133 00:08:34,417 --> 00:08:36,208 - What happened? - What do you suppose happened? 134 00:08:36,377 --> 00:08:38,204 You beamed down a crewman who doesn't know better 135 00:08:38,379 --> 00:08:41,583 - than to eat an untested plant. - I've just lost a crewman, Mrs. Crater. 136 00:08:41,758 --> 00:08:42,873 I wanna know what happened. 137 00:08:43,677 --> 00:08:44,922 Well, I... 138 00:08:45,595 --> 00:08:46,627 I... 139 00:08:47,306 --> 00:08:48,551 Take it easy, Nancy. 140 00:08:48,724 --> 00:08:50,883 Just tell us what you know. 141 00:08:53,396 --> 00:08:54,594 Well, I was just... 142 00:08:59,903 --> 00:09:03,237 I couldn't find Bob, and I was coming back. 143 00:09:03,824 --> 00:09:05,318 I crossed to your crewman. 144 00:09:05,826 --> 00:09:07,106 I wanted him to know 145 00:09:07,286 --> 00:09:09,777 I wasn't offended by the things he'd said back there. 146 00:09:11,832 --> 00:09:13,659 You remember. 147 00:09:16,588 --> 00:09:17,916 Then I... 148 00:09:19,508 --> 00:09:22,628 I noticed he had a Borgia plant in his hand. 149 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:25,387 Before I could say anything, he'd... 150 00:09:25,556 --> 00:09:29,340 He'd taken a bite from it, and he fell. 151 00:09:30,394 --> 00:09:33,728 His face all twisted. 152 00:09:36,818 --> 00:09:38,811 Leonard, you look at me like you don't believe me. 153 00:09:38,987 --> 00:09:40,481 No. No, no, no, it's not that at all. 154 00:09:40,656 --> 00:09:42,862 It's something entirely different. 155 00:09:48,164 --> 00:09:51,035 Jim, I suppose we could complete these examinations later. 156 00:09:51,209 --> 00:09:53,996 We don't need an examination, you can see that. 157 00:09:54,170 --> 00:09:56,044 Perhaps you'd better take your man and... 158 00:09:56,214 --> 00:09:58,124 We're well aware of our next duties, professor. 159 00:09:58,300 --> 00:10:00,838 We'll complete your examinations tomorrow. 160 00:10:04,432 --> 00:10:05,463 Transporter Room. 161 00:10:05,641 --> 00:10:06,804 Transporter Room, captain. 162 00:10:06,976 --> 00:10:08,885 Lock onto us. Three beaming up. 163 00:10:09,062 --> 00:10:10,307 Locked onto you, captain. 164 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,315 Salt. You did ask him about more salt tablets? 165 00:10:13,483 --> 00:10:16,568 I'll take care of the provisioning, Nancy. 166 00:10:32,879 --> 00:10:34,753 Miss Uhura, your last subspace log 167 00:10:34,923 --> 00:10:37,296 contained an error in the frequencies column. 168 00:10:37,468 --> 00:10:39,176 Mr. Spock, sometimes I think 169 00:10:39,345 --> 00:10:42,263 if I hear that word "frequency" once more, I'll cry. 170 00:10:44,267 --> 00:10:45,726 Cry? 171 00:10:46,227 --> 00:10:49,561 I was just trying to start a conversation. 172 00:10:51,274 --> 00:10:53,232 Well, since it is illogical 173 00:10:53,402 --> 00:10:57,482 for a communications officer to resent the word "frequency," 174 00:10:57,823 --> 00:11:01,406 - I have no answer. - No, you have an answer. 175 00:11:01,577 --> 00:11:03,202 I'm an illogical woman, 176 00:11:03,371 --> 00:11:07,868 who's beginning to feel too much a part of that communications console. 177 00:11:08,794 --> 00:11:11,664 Why don't you tell me I'm an attractive young lady. 178 00:11:11,839 --> 00:11:14,626 Or ask me if I've ever been in love. 179 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,252 Tell me how your planet Vulcan looks on a lazy evening 180 00:11:18,429 --> 00:11:20,137 when the moon is full. 181 00:11:22,642 --> 00:11:24,931 Vulcan has no moon, Miss Uhura. 182 00:11:25,103 --> 00:11:28,307 I'm not surprised, Mr. Spock. 183 00:11:29,149 --> 00:11:32,316 Transporter Room to bridge. Landing party returning. 184 00:11:32,486 --> 00:11:34,775 They report one death. 185 00:11:36,407 --> 00:11:38,234 Bridge, acknowledging. 186 00:11:40,578 --> 00:11:43,070 I don't believe it. 187 00:11:43,456 --> 00:11:45,117 - Explain. - You explain. 188 00:11:45,292 --> 00:11:49,290 That means that somebody is dead, and you just sit there. 189 00:11:49,463 --> 00:11:50,494 It could be Captain Kirk. 190 00:11:50,673 --> 00:11:52,500 He's the closest thing you have to a friend. 191 00:11:52,675 --> 00:11:54,502 Lieutenant, my demonstration of concern 192 00:11:54,677 --> 00:11:56,171 will not change what has happened. 193 00:11:56,346 --> 00:11:57,970 The Transporter Room is very well manned 194 00:11:58,139 --> 00:12:00,262 and they will call me if they need my assistance. 195 00:12:09,026 --> 00:12:12,442 - She called it a Borgia plant. - Something new to me. 196 00:12:12,613 --> 00:12:14,487 Bridge to Dispensary. 197 00:12:14,657 --> 00:12:15,689 Go ahead, Mr. Spock. 198 00:12:15,867 --> 00:12:17,860 Borgia plant listed in library record tapes 199 00:12:18,036 --> 00:12:22,164 as Carbon Group III vegetation, similar to Earth nightshade family. 200 00:12:22,374 --> 00:12:26,454 Alkaloid poison, chemical structure common to most Class-M planets. 201 00:12:26,629 --> 00:12:29,962 About the strange mottling on his facial skin surface, 202 00:12:30,132 --> 00:12:31,710 there is no reference to this symptom. 203 00:12:33,303 --> 00:12:36,055 Well, then this man wasn't poisoned. 204 00:12:36,681 --> 00:12:38,473 Stand by, Mr. Spock. 205 00:12:38,642 --> 00:12:40,017 She said she saw him eat the plant. 206 00:12:40,185 --> 00:12:42,474 She's mistaken. I know alkaloid poison and what to look for. 207 00:12:42,646 --> 00:12:44,105 There's not a trace of it in his body. 208 00:12:44,273 --> 00:12:45,388 There were bits in his mouth. 209 00:12:45,566 --> 00:12:46,894 Jim, don't tell me my business. 210 00:12:47,068 --> 00:12:48,230 He could not have swallowed any. 211 00:12:48,402 --> 00:12:50,395 My instruments would have picked up any trace of it. 212 00:12:50,571 --> 00:12:53,276 - Then what kills a healthy man..? - Now, I'll tell you something else. 213 00:12:53,450 --> 00:12:56,237 This man shouldn't be dead. I can't find anything wrong with him. 214 00:12:56,411 --> 00:12:58,071 According to all the tests, he should get up 215 00:12:58,246 --> 00:13:00,820 and just walk away from here. 216 00:13:06,505 --> 00:13:07,916 I don't know. 217 00:13:08,091 --> 00:13:11,923 I'll have the tests double-checked. My eyes may be tricking me. 218 00:13:14,389 --> 00:13:16,298 But I swear, Jim, when I first saw her, 219 00:13:16,475 --> 00:13:19,642 she looked just as I'd known her ten years ago. 220 00:13:19,812 --> 00:13:22,433 Granted, at the moment, I may have been looking at her 221 00:13:22,606 --> 00:13:23,686 through a romantic haze. 222 00:13:23,858 --> 00:13:25,981 How your lost love affects your vision, doctor, 223 00:13:26,152 --> 00:13:27,979 doesn't interest me. I've lost a man. 224 00:13:28,154 --> 00:13:29,435 I wanna know what killed him. 225 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:31,615 Yes, sir. 226 00:13:43,504 --> 00:13:47,454 Captain's log, stardate 1513.4. 227 00:13:47,634 --> 00:13:50,303 In orbit around planet M- 113. 228 00:13:51,179 --> 00:13:53,635 One crewman, member of the landing party... 229 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,636 ... dead by violence. Cause unknown. 230 00:13:58,395 --> 00:14:01,183 But we are certain the cause of death was not poison. 231 00:14:01,357 --> 00:14:03,101 Message, captain. 232 00:14:03,276 --> 00:14:04,439 Starship base on Corinth IV, 233 00:14:04,611 --> 00:14:07,316 requesting explanation of our delay here, sir. 234 00:14:07,489 --> 00:14:11,487 Space Commander Dominguez says we have supplies he urgently needs. 235 00:14:12,494 --> 00:14:14,902 Tell José he'll get his chilli peppers when we get there. 236 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,832 Tell him they're prime Mexican reds. I handpicked them myself. 237 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,993 He won't die if he goes a few more days without them. 238 00:14:20,169 --> 00:14:21,877 - Got it? - Got it, captain. 239 00:14:22,046 --> 00:14:23,505 Well? 240 00:14:24,090 --> 00:14:25,668 No mistake in our record tapes. 241 00:14:25,842 --> 00:14:28,962 Borgia plant. Sole deadly property is alkaloid poison. 242 00:14:29,137 --> 00:14:30,418 And Professor Crater and wife? 243 00:14:30,597 --> 00:14:31,973 Check out perfectly. 244 00:14:32,141 --> 00:14:34,549 They arrived here nearly five years ago, 245 00:14:34,727 --> 00:14:37,099 visited by various vessels, 246 00:14:37,271 --> 00:14:41,566 made fairly heavy shipments out of artefacts and reports. 247 00:14:41,735 --> 00:14:46,278 However, there has been a marked drop in shipments during the last year. 248 00:14:46,448 --> 00:14:48,488 Dispensary to captain. 249 00:14:49,868 --> 00:14:52,027 - Kirk here. - We found something. 250 00:14:52,204 --> 00:14:55,455 - What is it? - I'd rather not put it on the speaker. 251 00:15:05,010 --> 00:15:06,041 Fascinating. 252 00:15:06,220 --> 00:15:07,880 So improbable we almost didn't check it. 253 00:15:08,055 --> 00:15:09,882 - What? - Sodium chloride. 254 00:15:10,057 --> 00:15:11,088 Not a trace of it. 255 00:15:11,267 --> 00:15:12,761 This man has no salt in his body at all. 256 00:15:12,935 --> 00:15:14,595 Can you explain that, doctor? 257 00:15:14,771 --> 00:15:16,479 I can't. 258 00:15:17,690 --> 00:15:20,976 Except what we normally carry in our bodies is gone from his. 259 00:15:21,153 --> 00:15:22,481 He would die almost instantly. 260 00:15:22,654 --> 00:15:24,030 How? There's no mark on his body. 261 00:15:24,198 --> 00:15:25,906 Except the red rings on his face. 262 00:15:26,075 --> 00:15:27,783 You called that skin mottling. 263 00:15:27,952 --> 00:15:30,158 I thought it was, sir. 264 00:15:30,746 --> 00:15:32,241 Another error on my part. 265 00:15:34,167 --> 00:15:36,492 I'm not counting them, Bones. 266 00:15:37,796 --> 00:15:41,580 - Are you in the mood for an apology? - Forget it. 267 00:15:41,758 --> 00:15:43,004 I probably was mooning over her. 268 00:15:43,177 --> 00:15:44,719 I should have been thinking about my job. 269 00:15:44,887 --> 00:15:46,429 Perhaps you were. 270 00:15:46,597 --> 00:15:48,175 Both Nancy and Crater went out of their way 271 00:15:48,349 --> 00:15:50,556 to mention one item they needed. 272 00:15:50,810 --> 00:15:52,601 Salt tablets. 273 00:15:52,770 --> 00:15:54,181 Mr. Spock, 274 00:15:54,355 --> 00:15:55,601 outfit a landing party. 275 00:15:55,774 --> 00:15:57,850 We're beaming down with some questions. 276 00:16:04,074 --> 00:16:06,400 One might think that you had more important duties 277 00:16:06,577 --> 00:16:08,285 than harassing people, captain. 278 00:16:08,454 --> 00:16:09,997 I have, professor. Believe me, I have. 279 00:16:10,164 --> 00:16:12,122 Where is Mrs. Crater? I want to talk to her too. 280 00:16:12,292 --> 00:16:14,830 Captain, you can't just beam down here 281 00:16:15,003 --> 00:16:16,581 and bully us and interfere with our work. 282 00:16:16,755 --> 00:16:19,293 Mrs. Crater. I won't ask again. 283 00:16:19,758 --> 00:16:21,039 Possibly at the other diggings. 284 00:16:21,218 --> 00:16:23,211 - We don't keep military logs here. - Green, find her. 285 00:16:23,387 --> 00:16:25,012 Yes, sir. 286 00:16:26,432 --> 00:16:28,176 - Mr. Spock. - Standing by. 287 00:16:28,351 --> 00:16:30,593 Sturgeon, transport a sample of the plant to Mr. Spock. 288 00:16:30,770 --> 00:16:32,478 We'll check if it's actually the Borgia plant 289 00:16:32,647 --> 00:16:34,770 or something we don't understand. You got that, Mr. Spock? 290 00:16:34,941 --> 00:16:37,433 - Complete analysis. - Captain... 291 00:16:37,611 --> 00:16:39,319 ...considering the inescapable fact 292 00:16:39,488 --> 00:16:41,030 that you are a trespasser on my planet... 293 00:16:41,198 --> 00:16:43,868 Your complaint is noted, sir. 294 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:45,323 Look... 295 00:16:45,954 --> 00:16:49,239 ...something we don't understand killed one of my men. 296 00:16:49,416 --> 00:16:52,333 It could prove to be a danger to you and Mrs. Crater too. 297 00:16:52,502 --> 00:16:54,460 We've been here for almost five years. 298 00:16:54,630 --> 00:16:57,547 If there were anything hostile here, 299 00:16:57,716 --> 00:16:59,092 we would know about it, wouldn't we? 300 00:16:59,260 --> 00:17:01,668 Bones, tell the professor what the autopsy revealed. 301 00:17:01,846 --> 00:17:04,052 Our crewman died of salt depletion, 302 00:17:04,223 --> 00:17:06,216 a sudden total loss of it. 303 00:17:06,393 --> 00:17:08,469 Medically impossible by any standards. 304 00:17:08,645 --> 00:17:10,934 And by coincidence, both you and Mrs. Crater 305 00:17:11,106 --> 00:17:13,265 requested salt tablets. 306 00:17:13,859 --> 00:17:18,320 And your esteemed physician cannot explain our need for salt tablets? 307 00:17:18,489 --> 00:17:20,149 We're all aware of the need for salt 308 00:17:20,324 --> 00:17:23,776 on a hot and arid planet like this, professor. 309 00:17:24,204 --> 00:17:27,953 But it's a mystery, and I don't like mysteries. 310 00:17:28,125 --> 00:17:30,497 They give me a bellyache, and I got a beauty right now. 311 00:17:36,092 --> 00:17:39,425 Nancy and I started with 25 pounds. 312 00:17:40,471 --> 00:17:41,717 This is what we have left. 313 00:17:41,890 --> 00:17:45,223 Now, what is so mysterious about that? 314 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:53,854 Salt. 315 00:18:00,744 --> 00:18:02,154 One of the missions of the Enterprise 316 00:18:02,329 --> 00:18:03,989 is to protect human life in places like this. 317 00:18:04,164 --> 00:18:06,738 I'm gonna have to ask you and Mrs. Crater to stay aboard my ship 318 00:18:06,917 --> 00:18:09,242 until we find out what killed that crewman. 319 00:18:09,420 --> 00:18:12,207 - But you can't do that. - But I can, professor. 320 00:18:12,381 --> 00:18:13,413 You mustn't do it, 321 00:18:13,591 --> 00:18:15,133 - it'll interfere with our work. - How? 322 00:18:15,301 --> 00:18:18,670 You've been here five years. Will a couple of days make a difference? 323 00:18:24,728 --> 00:18:26,057 - Mr. Spock. - Spock here. 324 00:18:26,230 --> 00:18:28,472 Arrange quarters for Professor and Mrs. Crater. 325 00:18:28,649 --> 00:18:29,812 Did you get the plant analysis? 326 00:18:29,984 --> 00:18:31,443 It is the Borgia variety, captain. 327 00:18:31,611 --> 00:18:34,398 Could not have caused Darnell's death. 328 00:18:34,697 --> 00:18:36,904 Jim, he's run off. 329 00:18:43,415 --> 00:18:45,289 Nancy! 330 00:18:47,128 --> 00:18:48,408 You! 331 00:18:48,587 --> 00:18:50,212 Salt! 332 00:18:51,549 --> 00:18:54,040 I've got salt. Smell it. 333 00:18:54,219 --> 00:18:57,220 - Smell it, Nancy. - Professor Crater! 334 00:18:57,389 --> 00:18:59,512 Professor Crater. 335 00:19:05,106 --> 00:19:07,145 Professor Crater. 336 00:19:12,155 --> 00:19:13,234 Professor Crater. 337 00:19:14,032 --> 00:19:15,740 Professor! 338 00:19:16,493 --> 00:19:19,364 - Professor. - Jim. Jim. 339 00:19:19,663 --> 00:19:21,241 It's Sturgeon. 340 00:19:24,001 --> 00:19:25,793 He's dead. 341 00:19:27,505 --> 00:19:29,996 We'd better locate Crewman Green. Green! 342 00:19:31,176 --> 00:19:33,215 Green! 343 00:19:35,305 --> 00:19:37,631 Crewman Green, report! 344 00:19:38,058 --> 00:19:39,850 Green! 345 00:19:42,355 --> 00:19:44,680 Crewman Green, report. 346 00:19:49,738 --> 00:19:51,695 Green. 347 00:19:53,033 --> 00:19:55,738 Green, where are you? 348 00:19:57,538 --> 00:19:59,032 Could it be Crater? He came this way. 349 00:19:59,206 --> 00:20:00,749 I don't know. 350 00:20:02,376 --> 00:20:04,085 Green! 351 00:20:05,713 --> 00:20:06,876 - Did you see this? - Yes, sir. 352 00:20:07,048 --> 00:20:08,756 Sturgeon was dead when I found him. 353 00:20:08,925 --> 00:20:11,381 I was circling to find whatever it was. 354 00:20:12,346 --> 00:20:14,054 Same red rings on his face. 355 00:20:15,724 --> 00:20:17,801 Have you seen Nancy? Mrs. Crater? 356 00:20:17,977 --> 00:20:20,682 No, sir. I checked all through the ruins. 357 00:20:21,731 --> 00:20:24,400 I'm worried about her. She's not at the quarters, not at the diggings. 358 00:20:24,567 --> 00:20:26,726 - She could be in trouble. Nancy! - Crater! 359 00:20:27,404 --> 00:20:28,779 Nancy, it's Leonard! 360 00:20:28,947 --> 00:20:31,023 - We're beaming aboard the ship. - You can't leave her. 361 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,824 We can't search this whole planet on foot. 362 00:20:32,993 --> 00:20:34,535 Learn something from Mr. Spock, doctor. 363 00:20:34,703 --> 00:20:35,902 Stop thinking with your glands. 364 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,539 We have equipment aboard the Enterprise 365 00:20:37,707 --> 00:20:39,783 that could pinpoint a match lit anywhere on this planet 366 00:20:39,959 --> 00:20:41,335 or the heat of a body. 367 00:20:41,502 --> 00:20:43,246 Transporter Room, Kirk speaking. 368 00:20:44,089 --> 00:20:45,880 Three to beam up. 369 00:21:10,618 --> 00:21:11,780 - Kirk to bridge. - Spock here. 370 00:21:11,952 --> 00:21:13,577 Break out the surface search equipment. 371 00:21:13,746 --> 00:21:16,783 - I want coordinates on two people. - Acknowledged. 372 00:21:16,958 --> 00:21:18,286 There's a body down there. Sturgeon. 373 00:21:18,460 --> 00:21:20,583 We'll bring him home, sir. 374 00:21:21,838 --> 00:21:23,546 You could use some sleep, Bones. 375 00:21:23,715 --> 00:21:25,542 All right, Jim. 376 00:21:41,193 --> 00:21:42,735 Bridge. 377 00:22:00,964 --> 00:22:02,957 Oh, Green, what went on down there? 378 00:22:08,431 --> 00:22:10,554 Who do you think you are? 379 00:22:17,816 --> 00:22:20,141 Something odd, captain. 380 00:22:20,569 --> 00:22:21,684 You said two people. 381 00:22:21,862 --> 00:22:23,143 Professor and Nancy Crater. 382 00:22:23,322 --> 00:22:25,149 We get a reading on only one person. 383 00:22:25,324 --> 00:22:27,151 Probably Crater. 384 00:22:27,326 --> 00:22:30,197 He's circling, as if searching for something. 385 00:22:30,371 --> 00:22:33,871 - Expand search radius. - Yes, sir. 386 00:22:40,466 --> 00:22:42,708 Why don't you go chase an asteroid. 387 00:22:42,885 --> 00:22:45,459 Hey, Janice, is that for me? 388 00:22:45,638 --> 00:22:47,927 Don't you wish it was. 389 00:22:49,434 --> 00:22:50,679 How about that? 390 00:22:50,852 --> 00:22:52,228 Yeah, how'd you like to have her 391 00:22:52,395 --> 00:22:54,388 as your own personal yeoman? 392 00:23:16,005 --> 00:23:17,119 Where are you, Sulu? 393 00:23:17,298 --> 00:23:18,840 In here, feeding the weepers, Janice. 394 00:23:19,008 --> 00:23:20,917 Well, I've got your tray. 395 00:23:21,260 --> 00:23:23,337 May the great bird of the galaxy bless your planet. 396 00:23:23,513 --> 00:23:24,793 Thank you. 397 00:23:24,973 --> 00:23:26,348 Hello, Beauregard. 398 00:23:26,516 --> 00:23:28,592 How are you today, darling? 399 00:23:28,769 --> 00:23:29,800 Her name's Gertrude. 400 00:23:29,978 --> 00:23:31,936 No, it's a he plant. 401 00:23:32,105 --> 00:23:33,434 A girl can tell. 402 00:23:33,607 --> 00:23:36,312 Why do people have to call inanimate objects "she"? 403 00:23:36,485 --> 00:23:38,359 Like, "She's a fast ship." 404 00:23:38,529 --> 00:23:41,103 He is not an inanimate object. 405 00:23:41,282 --> 00:23:43,608 He's so animate, he makes me nervous. 406 00:23:44,828 --> 00:23:49,122 In fact, I keep expecting one of these plants of yours to grab me. 407 00:24:13,234 --> 00:24:15,108 Hello, Green. 408 00:24:20,867 --> 00:24:22,278 He's not talking today. 409 00:24:29,084 --> 00:24:31,326 You been nipping Saurian brandy or something? 410 00:24:53,695 --> 00:24:57,028 Take it easy. Calm down. 411 00:24:57,324 --> 00:24:58,522 Very sensitive. 412 00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:00,076 He's the real spook. 413 00:25:00,243 --> 00:25:01,987 Suppose he's going space-happy or something? 414 00:25:20,390 --> 00:25:23,178 Hey, the door to my quarters still rattles when it opens. 415 00:25:23,352 --> 00:25:26,223 Would you stop by and see if you can do something about it? 416 00:25:26,397 --> 00:25:28,473 Thanks, Bobby. 417 00:25:45,501 --> 00:25:46,830 Crewman... 418 00:25:47,170 --> 00:25:48,581 ...do I know you? 419 00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:50,794 In a way, ma'am. 420 00:25:50,966 --> 00:25:53,920 You were just thinking of someone like me. 421 00:25:56,597 --> 00:25:59,088 I'm guessing, of course, but you do look a little lonely. 422 00:25:59,266 --> 00:26:01,093 I see. 423 00:26:01,268 --> 00:26:03,594 So naturally, when I'm lonely I think of you. 424 00:26:14,199 --> 00:26:16,073 You're Swahili? 425 00:26:22,125 --> 00:26:24,616 Lieutenant Uhura to the bridge. 426 00:26:35,806 --> 00:26:38,132 Lieutenant Uhura to the bridge. 427 00:26:39,811 --> 00:26:41,934 I better get this tray back. Bye, Beauregard. 428 00:26:42,105 --> 00:26:44,643 Wait a minute. I'll walk along. 429 00:26:44,983 --> 00:26:47,984 Lieutenant Uhura, report to the bridge. 430 00:26:52,658 --> 00:26:55,992 Lieutenant Uhura. On my way, sir. 431 00:27:20,105 --> 00:27:22,857 McCoy to bridge. Captain there? 432 00:27:23,275 --> 00:27:24,935 Kirk here. Nothing to report, doctor. 433 00:27:25,110 --> 00:27:26,569 We haven't located Mrs. Crater. 434 00:27:26,737 --> 00:27:28,860 - What's the matter, can't you sleep? - Nope. 435 00:27:29,031 --> 00:27:32,151 Try taking one of those red pills you gave me last week. 436 00:27:32,326 --> 00:27:33,869 You'll sleep. 437 00:28:01,566 --> 00:28:03,524 The simple fact is... 438 00:28:04,028 --> 00:28:06,815 ...unless there's something seriously wrong with the ship's equipment, 439 00:28:06,989 --> 00:28:09,563 there's only one person within a hundred-mile circle. 440 00:28:09,742 --> 00:28:11,949 All right, we'll triangulate on him. 441 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:15,454 We'll let Professor Crater explain what happened to his wife. 442 00:28:17,793 --> 00:28:19,750 Remember my instructions, lieutenant. 443 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,414 Keep a tight fix on us. 444 00:28:21,588 --> 00:28:23,747 If we let out a yell, I want an armed party down there 445 00:28:23,924 --> 00:28:25,917 - before the echo dies. - Yes, captain. 446 00:28:55,918 --> 00:28:57,626 Nancy. 447 00:28:58,796 --> 00:28:59,958 Well, come in, come in. 448 00:29:00,130 --> 00:29:02,289 I've been worried sick about you. 449 00:29:05,636 --> 00:29:07,463 I wonder why Jim didn't tell me he found you. 450 00:29:07,639 --> 00:29:10,094 I'm so happy to see you, Leonard. 451 00:29:10,267 --> 00:29:12,306 The others, they... Well, I... 452 00:29:12,477 --> 00:29:14,636 I don't relate to them as much as with you. 453 00:29:14,813 --> 00:29:17,387 You have such strong memories of me. 454 00:29:17,566 --> 00:29:20,900 - Well, I... - You do care, don't you, Leonard? 455 00:29:22,530 --> 00:29:24,689 It makes me feel so... 456 00:29:25,658 --> 00:29:27,568 So safe. 457 00:29:27,827 --> 00:29:29,238 Nancy... 458 00:29:29,412 --> 00:29:31,156 My husband? 459 00:29:34,043 --> 00:29:36,794 I like your feelings better. 460 00:29:37,046 --> 00:29:38,505 Much... 461 00:29:39,215 --> 00:29:41,089 ...stronger. 462 00:29:44,429 --> 00:29:46,505 But you're tired. 463 00:29:46,806 --> 00:29:49,013 You need to rest. 464 00:29:50,686 --> 00:29:52,892 You're as bad as Jim Kirk. 465 00:29:53,063 --> 00:29:55,519 He's been telling me to take these. 466 00:29:55,691 --> 00:29:57,731 Well, I think you should. 467 00:29:57,902 --> 00:30:00,144 I'll get you some water. 468 00:30:09,748 --> 00:30:11,955 Look at his face! 469 00:30:13,335 --> 00:30:15,708 Bridge, Sulu. Trouble on Deck 9, Section 2. 470 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,920 We need a medical team. 471 00:30:28,352 --> 00:30:31,057 Captain's log, stardate 1513.8. 472 00:30:31,230 --> 00:30:33,900 I am now certain that the violent death of my crewman 473 00:30:34,066 --> 00:30:36,902 was caused by some strange life form. 474 00:30:37,070 --> 00:30:39,109 I was so worried. 475 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,198 Your husband acting strange. 476 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,571 Crewmen dying. 477 00:30:44,745 --> 00:30:48,161 You're so tired, darling. Just rest now. 478 00:30:49,166 --> 00:30:50,577 Medical Department alert. 479 00:30:50,751 --> 00:30:53,325 Doctors and medics, acknowledge. 480 00:30:53,629 --> 00:30:55,871 It's nothing, dear. It's nothing. 481 00:30:56,049 --> 00:30:58,338 You just sleep. 482 00:30:59,135 --> 00:31:02,587 Nancy will take care of everything. 483 00:31:10,773 --> 00:31:12,683 Dr. McCoy to the bridge. 484 00:31:12,859 --> 00:31:15,101 Dr. McCoy to the bridge. 485 00:31:40,806 --> 00:31:43,178 Dr. McCoy to the bridge. 486 00:32:02,371 --> 00:32:05,159 Captain's log, additional. 487 00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:06,875 Armed and able-bodied crewmen 488 00:32:07,043 --> 00:32:09,415 are not attacked and slaughtered this easily. 489 00:32:09,963 --> 00:32:12,536 Apparently, the killer can immobilize them as it approaches, 490 00:32:12,716 --> 00:32:16,132 perhaps with some hypnotic or paralyzing power. 491 00:32:16,303 --> 00:32:19,221 The answer lies with Professor Crater. 492 00:32:22,935 --> 00:32:23,967 Professor Crater? 493 00:32:24,145 --> 00:32:28,013 - Go away, we don't want you here. - We? 494 00:32:28,316 --> 00:32:30,986 Where's your wife, professor? We're concerned about her. 495 00:32:31,153 --> 00:32:33,608 I'm armed. Go away. 496 00:32:39,245 --> 00:32:41,072 Where's your wife, professor? 497 00:32:41,247 --> 00:32:43,370 She's no concern of yours. 498 00:32:43,541 --> 00:32:47,622 We're worried about her safety. Aren't you? 499 00:32:48,130 --> 00:32:50,881 Professor, you're a reasonable man. Let me... 500 00:32:53,636 --> 00:32:55,260 - Kirk here. - Casualty, captain. 501 00:32:55,429 --> 00:32:58,383 Barnhart was found dead on Deck 9. Same symptoms. 502 00:33:06,149 --> 00:33:07,774 Spock cutting in, captain. Something here, 503 00:33:07,943 --> 00:33:10,232 through the arches to your left. 504 00:33:11,071 --> 00:33:14,238 Stand by, Mr. Sulu. Spock has something. 505 00:33:21,416 --> 00:33:22,495 Green. 506 00:33:22,667 --> 00:33:25,622 - He beamed up to the ship with us. - Or something did. 507 00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:38,677 Enterprise, from Kirk. 508 00:33:38,852 --> 00:33:39,966 Bridge, Sulu. 509 00:33:40,145 --> 00:33:41,224 You have an intruder aboard. 510 00:33:41,396 --> 00:33:43,223 Could be masquerading as Crewman Green. 511 00:33:43,398 --> 00:33:46,068 General Quarters, Security Condition 3. 512 00:33:46,235 --> 00:33:48,773 G. Q., Security 3, sir. 513 00:33:49,613 --> 00:33:52,187 General Quarters 3. Intruder alert. 514 00:33:52,366 --> 00:33:55,486 G. Q. 3. Intruder alert. 515 00:33:59,624 --> 00:34:02,460 General Quarters 3, intruder alert. 516 00:34:02,628 --> 00:34:05,498 G. Q. 3, intruder alert. 517 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,006 Reporting G. Q. 3 secure, captain. 518 00:34:10,177 --> 00:34:11,553 Do you require assistance there? 519 00:34:11,721 --> 00:34:14,129 Crater knows the creature. If we can take him alive... 520 00:34:14,307 --> 00:34:15,505 Negative, lieutenant. 521 00:34:15,683 --> 00:34:17,308 But keep locked in on us. 522 00:34:17,477 --> 00:34:19,719 Kirk out. Let's get him. 523 00:34:28,364 --> 00:34:30,523 We don't want you here. 524 00:34:30,700 --> 00:34:32,942 We're happy alone. 525 00:34:33,119 --> 00:34:35,492 I'll kill to stay alone. 526 00:34:35,664 --> 00:34:37,158 You hear that, Kirk? 527 00:34:37,332 --> 00:34:40,915 Or you'll have to kill me. I don't care either way. 528 00:34:42,087 --> 00:34:45,670 Obviously, taking him alive is going to be difficult. 529 00:34:46,050 --> 00:34:49,004 Set your phaser on one-quarter. I'll leave mine on stun. 530 00:34:49,178 --> 00:34:51,136 Why risk your life for his? 531 00:34:51,306 --> 00:34:54,177 He's not trying to kill us, he's trying to frighten us. 532 00:34:54,518 --> 00:34:56,676 And he's doing a pretty good job. 533 00:35:14,790 --> 00:35:17,542 G.Q. 3 now secured, except for Decks 5, 7 and 10. 534 00:35:17,710 --> 00:35:19,038 Come in, please. 535 00:35:19,336 --> 00:35:21,128 He's not in Supply and Maintenance, Sulu. 536 00:35:21,297 --> 00:35:22,839 All right, Uhura. Engineering Deck now. 537 00:35:23,007 --> 00:35:24,667 Run through file photos of the crewmen there. 538 00:35:25,134 --> 00:35:26,961 - Check. - Deck 5 reporting. 539 00:35:27,137 --> 00:35:29,888 Crewman Green is not in his quarters. No one has seen him. 540 00:35:30,056 --> 00:35:32,345 Keep in mind if you find him, he's not Crewman Green. 541 00:35:32,517 --> 00:35:33,846 Captain reports Green's dead. 542 00:35:34,061 --> 00:35:36,766 And he... Or rather, it followed me. 543 00:35:36,939 --> 00:35:39,062 I thought there was something twitchy about him. 544 00:35:39,233 --> 00:35:42,400 He, or whatever, was probably your crewman too, lieutenant. 545 00:35:42,570 --> 00:35:44,064 He must have been it. 546 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,564 You know, I would have remembered a crewman like him. 547 00:35:46,741 --> 00:35:49,493 The creature leading you a merry chase, Mr. Sulu? 548 00:35:50,912 --> 00:35:51,992 Creature? 549 00:35:52,164 --> 00:35:54,240 Or whatever it is that's killing the crewmen. 550 00:35:56,836 --> 00:35:58,745 Perhaps I can help. 551 00:35:59,255 --> 00:36:00,915 Fill me in. 552 00:36:40,967 --> 00:36:43,293 - Set. - Acknowledged. 553 00:36:47,433 --> 00:36:48,975 Crater. 554 00:36:59,487 --> 00:37:01,231 Your wife, professor, where is she? 555 00:37:06,453 --> 00:37:08,113 Your wife, professor, where is she? 556 00:37:10,166 --> 00:37:11,541 She... 557 00:37:12,293 --> 00:37:14,167 ...was the last of her kind. 558 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,799 The last of her kind? 559 00:37:24,473 --> 00:37:26,430 The last of its kind. 560 00:37:31,189 --> 00:37:33,561 Earth history, remember? 561 00:37:33,733 --> 00:37:38,194 Like the passenger pigeon or the buffalo. 562 00:37:39,781 --> 00:37:42,237 I feel strange. 563 00:37:42,534 --> 00:37:45,452 You're just stunned. You'll be able to think in a minute. 564 00:37:47,206 --> 00:37:49,365 The Earth buffalo, what about it? 565 00:37:51,503 --> 00:37:55,121 Once there were millions of them. Prairies black with them. 566 00:37:55,298 --> 00:37:58,383 One herd covered three whole states, 567 00:37:58,552 --> 00:38:00,960 and when they moved, they were like thunder. 568 00:38:01,347 --> 00:38:03,505 And now they're gone. Is that what you mean? 569 00:38:06,060 --> 00:38:07,638 Like the creatures here. 570 00:38:08,438 --> 00:38:11,688 Once there were millions of them. 571 00:38:11,858 --> 00:38:13,815 Now there's one left. 572 00:38:14,361 --> 00:38:15,641 Nancy understood. 573 00:38:18,157 --> 00:38:19,532 Always in the past tense. 574 00:38:23,621 --> 00:38:25,946 Where's your wife? Where is she now? 575 00:38:26,124 --> 00:38:29,707 Dead. Buried up on the hill. It killed her. 576 00:38:29,878 --> 00:38:33,496 - When? - Oh, a year... 577 00:38:34,091 --> 00:38:35,419 Or was it two? 578 00:38:39,597 --> 00:38:41,257 Kirk to Enterprise. 579 00:38:41,432 --> 00:38:43,224 Bridge to captain. Sulu here. 580 00:38:43,393 --> 00:38:45,931 It's definite, Mr. Sulu. The intruder can assume any shape, 581 00:38:46,104 --> 00:38:47,729 a crewman, you, myself, anyone. Understand? 582 00:38:47,897 --> 00:38:48,929 Affirmative, captain. 583 00:38:49,107 --> 00:38:50,138 Go to G.Q. 4. 584 00:38:50,317 --> 00:38:51,597 General Quarters 4, captain. 585 00:38:52,277 --> 00:38:56,192 The creature was trying to survive. It has that right, doesn't it? 586 00:38:57,116 --> 00:38:59,073 Kirk to Transporter Room, three to beam up. 587 00:38:59,243 --> 00:39:03,288 They needed salt to stay alive. There was no more salt. 588 00:39:03,456 --> 00:39:06,244 It's the last one. 589 00:39:06,418 --> 00:39:08,707 The buffalo. There is no difference. 590 00:39:08,879 --> 00:39:11,631 There's one, professor. Your creature is killing my people. 591 00:39:25,147 --> 00:39:26,974 Captain's log, continuing. 592 00:39:27,149 --> 00:39:29,188 The Enterprise has been invaded by a creature 593 00:39:29,359 --> 00:39:33,986 capable of assuming any form and with the capacity to paralyze 594 00:39:34,156 --> 00:39:35,900 and draw the life from any one of us. 595 00:39:36,075 --> 00:39:37,238 Deck 5, Section 3, 596 00:39:37,410 --> 00:39:39,319 Deck 5, Section 3, report. 597 00:39:39,496 --> 00:39:42,663 Security 3-A here, 3-B in sight. 598 00:39:46,461 --> 00:39:49,712 Negative, captain. I've checked every face on this vessel. 599 00:39:49,882 --> 00:39:51,080 It was not a crewman I saw. 600 00:39:51,258 --> 00:39:53,666 Yeoman Rand, how long was this Green with you? 601 00:39:53,845 --> 00:39:55,043 As long as he... 602 00:39:55,221 --> 00:39:57,510 It thought it could get to the salt on my tray, sir. 603 00:39:57,682 --> 00:39:58,713 Mr. Spock? 604 00:39:58,892 --> 00:40:00,801 Supplies of salt have been set out as bait 605 00:40:00,977 --> 00:40:03,100 at all decks and engineering levels, captain. 606 00:40:03,271 --> 00:40:05,845 However, no one or nothing has approached them as yet. 607 00:40:07,151 --> 00:40:08,693 Dr. McCoy? 608 00:40:08,986 --> 00:40:10,017 Yes? 609 00:40:10,446 --> 00:40:11,988 The Medical Department report, doctor. 610 00:40:14,701 --> 00:40:18,533 Well, we could offer it salt without tricks. 611 00:40:19,164 --> 00:40:20,824 There's no reason for it to attack us. 612 00:40:20,999 --> 00:40:23,870 Your attitude is laudable, doctor, but your reasoning is reckless. 613 00:40:24,044 --> 00:40:26,915 The creature is not dangerous when fed. 614 00:40:27,381 --> 00:40:30,051 No, it's simply trying to survive 615 00:40:30,218 --> 00:40:33,551 by using its natural ability to take other forms. 616 00:40:33,721 --> 00:40:34,920 The way the chameleon uses 617 00:40:35,098 --> 00:40:38,135 its protective colouring. An ability retained, no doubt, 618 00:40:38,310 --> 00:40:39,852 from its primitive state, 619 00:40:40,020 --> 00:40:43,555 the way we have retained our incisor teeth. They were once fangs. 620 00:40:43,899 --> 00:40:46,225 Certain of our muscles were designed for chase. 621 00:40:46,402 --> 00:40:50,614 It uses its ability the way we would use our muscles and teeth if necessary 622 00:40:50,782 --> 00:40:51,896 to stay alive. 623 00:40:52,075 --> 00:40:55,907 And like us, it's an intelligent animal. 624 00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:58,915 It's... There's no need to hunt it down. 625 00:40:59,249 --> 00:41:02,369 A very interesting hypothesis, doctor. 626 00:41:04,505 --> 00:41:06,747 - Briefing Room. - All the halls sealed off. 627 00:41:06,924 --> 00:41:09,001 All weapons accounted for and locked away. 628 00:41:09,177 --> 00:41:11,798 Security 4 in effect on every level. 629 00:41:11,972 --> 00:41:13,217 Still no lead on the intruder. 630 00:41:13,390 --> 00:41:16,759 Thank you, lieutenant. Continue the search. 631 00:41:17,352 --> 00:41:19,429 Crater, we don't know who or what we're looking for. 632 00:41:19,605 --> 00:41:21,230 We need your help, and now. 633 00:41:21,398 --> 00:41:24,353 I demanded, I even begged that you get off my planet. 634 00:41:24,527 --> 00:41:26,270 Can you recognise this thing when you see it? 635 00:41:31,952 --> 00:41:33,612 Professor... 636 00:41:34,121 --> 00:41:36,446 ...l'll forego charges up to this point, 637 00:41:36,915 --> 00:41:39,703 but this creature is aboard my ship, and I'll have it, 638 00:41:39,877 --> 00:41:42,119 or I'll have your skin or both. Now, where is it? 639 00:41:52,891 --> 00:41:55,727 I loved Nancy very much. 640 00:41:56,061 --> 00:41:58,268 Few women like my Nancy. 641 00:41:58,439 --> 00:42:00,313 She lives in my dreams. 642 00:42:00,483 --> 00:42:02,808 She walks and sings in my dreams. 643 00:42:03,152 --> 00:42:05,904 And it becomes Nancy for you. 644 00:42:06,698 --> 00:42:10,566 Not because of tricks. It doesn't trick me. It needs love 645 00:42:10,744 --> 00:42:12,701 as much as it needs salt. 646 00:42:12,871 --> 00:42:16,656 When it killed Nancy, I almost destroyed it, but... 647 00:42:17,835 --> 00:42:19,662 ...it isn't just a beast. 648 00:42:19,837 --> 00:42:24,001 It is intelligent and the last of its kind. 649 00:42:24,175 --> 00:42:26,002 You bleed too much, Crater. 650 00:42:26,845 --> 00:42:28,838 You're too pure and noble. 651 00:42:29,848 --> 00:42:31,391 Are you saving the last of its kind, 652 00:42:31,558 --> 00:42:33,516 or has this become Crater's private heaven, 653 00:42:33,686 --> 00:42:35,679 here on this planet? 654 00:42:36,022 --> 00:42:40,020 This thing becomes wife, lover, best friend, wise man, 655 00:42:40,193 --> 00:42:42,945 fool, idol, slave. 656 00:42:44,156 --> 00:42:45,566 It isn't a bad life 657 00:42:45,866 --> 00:42:47,942 to have everyone in the universe at your beck and call, 658 00:42:48,118 --> 00:42:49,529 and you win all the arguments. 659 00:42:50,204 --> 00:42:51,663 You don't understand. 660 00:42:51,831 --> 00:42:55,200 Have you learned to see this thing in whatever form it becomes? 661 00:42:56,252 --> 00:42:58,743 - Yes. - Are you gonna help us find it? 662 00:43:04,678 --> 00:43:05,923 Sorry, I can't. 663 00:43:08,140 --> 00:43:10,714 Recommend we use truth serum, captain. 664 00:43:11,727 --> 00:43:13,186 Doctor? 665 00:43:16,816 --> 00:43:20,601 Well, I resist using it, but in this case, 666 00:43:20,779 --> 00:43:22,653 the professor will give us the truth. 667 00:43:23,699 --> 00:43:25,241 Take him. 668 00:43:32,875 --> 00:43:34,619 I'll accompany you, doctor. 669 00:43:34,794 --> 00:43:37,001 Oh, yes, of course. 670 00:43:51,646 --> 00:43:53,021 Captain Kirk to Dispensary. 671 00:43:53,189 --> 00:43:55,396 Captain Kirk to Dispensary. Urgent. 672 00:44:02,575 --> 00:44:04,199 It wasn't McCoy. 673 00:44:04,368 --> 00:44:05,863 It was the creature. It hit me. 674 00:44:06,954 --> 00:44:09,706 Crater grabbed my phaser. 675 00:44:09,874 --> 00:44:13,955 I wondered about McCoy. A doubt had crossed my mind. 676 00:44:15,297 --> 00:44:17,088 Captain. 677 00:44:19,885 --> 00:44:23,468 - Professor Crater. - Dead. 678 00:44:25,892 --> 00:44:27,137 But it had you too. 679 00:44:27,310 --> 00:44:31,308 Fortunately, my ancestors spawned in another ocean than yours did. 680 00:44:31,481 --> 00:44:33,273 My blood salts are quite different. 681 00:44:44,370 --> 00:44:45,913 Leonard. Leonard, wake up, please! 682 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,287 Help me. Help me, Leonard. 683 00:44:48,458 --> 00:44:50,534 They're trying to kill me. Don't let them kill me! 684 00:44:50,710 --> 00:44:52,335 Who? Easy, easy, nobody's going to hurt you. 685 00:44:52,504 --> 00:44:54,663 But you must help me! 686 00:45:01,639 --> 00:45:03,347 Move aside, Bones. 687 00:45:03,516 --> 00:45:06,553 - What's going on here, Jim? - She's not Nancy, Bones. 688 00:45:12,693 --> 00:45:14,021 Are you insane? 689 00:45:14,194 --> 00:45:16,353 It killed four crewmen, now Crater. 690 00:45:17,365 --> 00:45:20,152 - It? - The creature. It kills. 691 00:45:21,035 --> 00:45:22,316 It needs salt to live. 692 00:45:22,495 --> 00:45:24,037 - Bones, move aside. - No! 693 00:45:26,333 --> 00:45:28,242 My guess is she needs more. 694 00:45:28,418 --> 00:45:29,699 You want it, Nancy? 695 00:45:38,638 --> 00:45:39,717 Come and get it. 696 00:45:40,348 --> 00:45:41,677 You're frightening her, Jim. 697 00:45:41,933 --> 00:45:45,848 Not fright. Hunger. Look at her. 698 00:45:46,021 --> 00:45:49,022 Leonard, if you love me, make him go away. 699 00:45:49,692 --> 00:45:51,601 Come on. Do you want this, Nancy? 700 00:45:51,777 --> 00:45:53,569 Come on, Nancy. Come and get it. Here it is. 701 00:45:53,738 --> 00:45:55,446 - Help me. - I can't fire. Out of the way. 702 00:45:55,615 --> 00:45:57,109 - Stop it, Jim! - McCoy, out of the way! 703 00:45:57,283 --> 00:45:59,406 What's the matter with you? Are you out of your mind? 704 00:45:59,577 --> 00:46:00,988 Get out of the way. 705 00:46:20,016 --> 00:46:21,261 It's killing the captain. 706 00:46:21,435 --> 00:46:23,760 - Shoot it, doctor, quickly. - No. 707 00:46:23,937 --> 00:46:25,432 No! 708 00:46:26,398 --> 00:46:28,605 It's killing the captain. Shoot, quick! 709 00:46:28,776 --> 00:46:30,151 I won't shoot Nancy. 710 00:46:30,570 --> 00:46:31,732 This is not Nancy. 711 00:46:31,904 --> 00:46:34,277 If she were Nancy, could she take this? 712 00:46:34,574 --> 00:46:36,816 Stop it! Stop it, Spock! 713 00:46:37,494 --> 00:46:38,953 Stop it! 714 00:46:45,753 --> 00:46:47,295 Is that Nancy, doctor? 715 00:46:48,130 --> 00:46:49,673 No. 716 00:46:56,807 --> 00:46:58,431 No. 717 00:47:35,974 --> 00:47:38,512 Leonard. Leonard, no. 718 00:47:44,275 --> 00:47:46,351 Leonard, please. 719 00:47:46,903 --> 00:47:48,979 Lord, forgive me. 720 00:48:15,476 --> 00:48:17,303 I'm sorry, Bones. 721 00:48:33,662 --> 00:48:36,154 Ready to leave orbit, captain. 722 00:48:41,629 --> 00:48:42,910 Is something wrong, captain? 723 00:48:48,262 --> 00:48:50,254 I was thinking about the buffalo, Mr. Spock. 724 00:49:02,110 --> 00:49:03,439 Warp 1, Mr. Sulu. 725 00:49:03,612 --> 00:49:06,281 Warp 1, sir. Leaving orbit.