the truth.
I cannot tell a lie.
I don't mean lie,
but you could exaggerate.
Exaggerate?
Exaggerate.
You've done it before.
Can't you remember?
The hell I can't.
What else did you learn
from your mind meld?
They're unhappy about
the way their species
has been treated by man.
Are they going to help us?
I believe I successfully
communicated our intentions.
It's all right.
Yes, I know.
They didn't mean any harm.
Heard there was some excitement.
Oh, just a couple of kooks.
How you doing?
I'm fine.
Don't tell me fish stories.
I've known you too long.
Bob, it's tearing me apart, o.k.?
I know.
I feel the same thing,
but we're stuck.
We can't keep them
without risking their lives.
Letting them go means
taking the same chance.
I know, I know.
Besides, we're not
talking about human beings.
Their intelligence
has never been proven-
Oh, come on, Bob!
My compassion for someone
is not limited
to my estimate of
their intelligence.
Team leader, this is team two.
Come in, please.
I have the coordinates
of the reactor.
Team two, Kirk here.
Admiral, we have found
the nuclear vessel.
Well done, team two.
And, Admiral,
it is the Enterprise.
Understood.
What's your plan?
We'll beam in tonight,
collect the photons,
and beam out.
No one will know.
Understood and approved.
Keep me informed.
Kirk out.
There she is.
If we play our cards right,
we'll find out when
those whales are leaving.
How will playing cards help?
Well, if it isn't
Robin Hood and Friar Tuck.
Where you fellas heading?
Back to San Francisco.
Came all the way down here
just to swim with the kiddies?
Very little point
in my trying to explain.
I'll buy that. What about him?
Him? He's harmless.
Back in the sixties,
he was part of the free speech
movement at Berkeley.
He did too much LDS.
LDS?
Hmm.
Why don't you let me
give you a lift?
I have a weakness
for hard luck cases.
We don't want to be any trouble.
You've already been that.
Well, thank you very much.
Don't mention it.
And don't try anything.
I got a tire iron handy.
So...you were at Berkeley?
I was not.
Memory problems, too.
Where are you from?
Iowa.
Oh, a landlubber.
What were you guys
really trying to do back there?
If it was some kind
of macho thing,
I'll be real disappointed.
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're going to have
to take their chances.
What's that mean,
take their chances?
It means
they'll be at risk
from whale hunters
the same as all the humpbacks.
What did you mean
when you said
that stuff about extinction?
I meant-
He meant what you
said on the tour-
that unless things change,
the humpbacks
will disappear forever.
He didn't say that.
"If we assumed
those whales
"are ours to do with
as we pleased,
"we'd be as guilty
as those who caused
their extinction."
I have a
photographic memory.
I see words.
Isn't it time
for a colorful metaphor?
You're not from
the military, are you,
trying to teach whales
to retrieve torpedoes
or some dipshit stuff?
No, ma'am. No dipshit.
Good. I would have
let you off right here.
Gracie is pregnant.
O.K., who are you?
Don't jerk me
around anymore.
How do you know that?
We can't tell you,
but I can tell you
we're not in the military,
and we won't harm
the whales.
Then what are you-
In fact, we could
help you in ways
that you couldn't
possibly imagine.
Or believe, I'll bet.
Very likely.
You're not exactly
catching us at our best.
That much is certain.
I have a hunch
that we'd all be
a lot happier
discussing this over dinner.
What do you say?
You guys like Italian?
- Yes.
- No.
- Yes.
- No.
- Yes.
- No.
I love Italian.
And so do you.
Yes.
Sam, you got
a phone call online one.
Sam, call online one.
Professor Scott.
I'm Dr. Nichols,
the plant manager.
I'm terribly sorry.
There's been an awful mix-up.
I was never told