doing in there?
- Yes, speak up.
- Attempting the hell to communicate.
- You have no right to be here!
You heard the lady.
If we assumed that these whales
are ours to do with as we please,
we would be as guilty as those
who caused their extinction.
I want you guys out of here
before I call the cops.
We were only trying to help.
Your friend
was messing up my whales.
They like you,
but they are not the hell your whales.
- I suppose they told you that.
- The hell they did.
Right.
Spock, about those colourful
metaphors we discussed.
Don't use them any more.
You haven't quite got the knack of it.
And another thing, it's not
always necessary to tell the truth.
- I cannot tell a lie.
- I don't mean lie.
But you could exaggerate.
You've done it before.
- Can't you remember?
- The hell I can't.
- What else did you learn?
- Their species is unhappy with man.
- Are they going to help us?
- I communicated our intentions.
It's all right. I know.
They didn't mean any harm.
- I heard there was some excitement.
- Just a couple of kooks.
- How are you doing?
- I'm fine.
Don't tell me fish stories,
I've known you too long.
Bob, it's tearing me apart.
I feel the same, but we're stuck
between a rock and a hard place.
If we keep them here or let them go,
we're still risking their lives.
I know.
They're not human beings.
Their intelligence is...
My compassion is not limited to
my estimation of one's intelligence.
- Team leader, this is team two.
- I have the co-ordinates of the reactor.
- Kirk here.
- We have found the nuclear vessel.
- Well done.
- Admiral, it is the Enterprise.
Understood. What's your plan?
We will beam in tonight and collect
the photons. No one will know.
Understood and approved.
Kirk out.
There she is. If we play our cards right,
we can find out about the whales.
- How will playing cards help?
- It's Robin Hood and Friar Tuck.
- Where are you fellas heading?
- Back to San Francisco.
You came all this way just for a swim?
- I won't try to explain.
- I'll buy that.
- What about him?
- He's harmless.
Back in the 60s, he was part of the
free-speech movement at Berkeley.
- He did a little too much LDS.
- LDS?
I'll give you a lift. I have a notorious
weakness for hard-luck cases.
- We don't want to be any trouble.
- You've already been that. Come on.
Thank you very much.
Don't try anything. I've got
a tire iron right where I can get at it.
- So, you were at Berkeley?
- I was not.
- Memory problems, too.
- Where are you from?
- lowa.
- A landlubber.
What the hell were you guys
really trying to do back there?
Was it some kind of macho thing?
I really hate that macho stuff.
- Can I ask you a question?
- Go ahead.
What's going to happen
when you release the whales?
- They'll have to take their chances.
- What does that mean exactly?
They'll be at risk from whale hunters
just like all other humpbacks.
What did you mean
with all that stuff about extinction?
He meant what you said on the tour,
that humpbacks may well disappear.
That's not what he said, farmboy.
"We would be as guilty as those who
caused," past tense, "their extinction."
I have a photographic memory.
I see words.
Are you sure it isn't time
for a colourful metaphor?
Are you some dipshit army guy trying
to teach whales to retrieve torpedoes?
- No dipshit.
- Good, I'd have let you off here.
Gracie is pregnant.
Who are you? Don't jerk me around.
How do you know that?
We can't tell you that.
Let me finish.
We're not in the military
and we intend no harm to the whales.
We may be able to help you in ways
you couldn't possibly imagine.
- Or believe, I'll bet.
- Very likely.
- You're not catching us at our best.
- That much is certain.
I think we'd all be a lot happier
discussing this over dinner.
What do you say?
Do you guys like ltalian?
- No.
- Yes.
Yes, I love ltalian...
and so do you.
Professor Scott,
I'm Dr Nichols, plant manager.I'm