- Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, what's the sedative situation?
- Dr. McCoy: I've got some stuff that would tranquilize an active volcano.
- Voice of Redjac: I am without ending. I have existed from the dawn of time, and I shall I live beyond its end! In the meantime, I shall feed, and this time I do not need a knife. You will all die horribly in searing pain!
- Mr. Spock: It is attempting to generate terror, Captain.
- Voice of Redjac: I can cut off your oxygen and suffocate you!
- Sulu: Captain.
- [McCoy injects Sulu with a hydrospray, Sulu immediately becomes euphoric]
- Sulu: Whoever he is, he sure talks gloomy.
- [starts to rise from chair]
- Captain James T. Kirk: [pushing Sulu back into his chair] Man your post, Sulu.
- Mr. Spock: An entity which feeds on fear and terror would find a perfect hunting ground on Argelius, a planet without violence, where the inhabitants are as peaceful as sheep. The entity would be as a hungry wolf in that fold.
- Sybo: [eight people, including Kirk, McCoy, and Scott, are seated around a flame that is the only light in the room] Let us begin. Let the circle not be broken. Concentrate upon the flame which burns upon the Altar of Truth. Yes... there is something here. Something terrible. I feel its presence. Fear, anger, hatred... anger feeds the flame. Oh, oh, there is evil here, monstrous, terrible evil! Consuming hunger! Hatred of all that lives, hatred of women, a hunger that never dies! It is strong, overpowering, an ancient terror! It has a name: Barratus, Kesla, Redjac. Devouring all life, all light! A hunger that will never die! Redjac! *Redjac!*
- [the flame dies, and Sybo screams in horror]
- Scott: [Watching exotic belly dancer] Captain, I think I'm going to like Argelius.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Obviously a man of good taste.
- Scott: You mean to tell me that all these... well, that all this is... ?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Yes, yes, yes, the Argelians think very highly of their pleasure.
- Dr. McCoy: Now, that's an understatement if I ever heard one. This is a completely hedonistic society.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Do you like her, Scotty?
- Scott: Aye, why shouldn't I.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Good. I've invited her to join us at the table. I thought you might like to meet her.
- Scott: Now that's what I call a real captain: always thinking of his men.
- Scott: I went toward her, but... there was something in my way.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Something? You mean, someone.
- Scott: No, Captain, some... thing. Cold, it was, like a... stinking draft out of a slaughterhouse, but it wasn't... really there. Like a... if you know what I mean.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Sybo spoke of a hunger that never dies. Something that thrives on fear, terror, death. Mr. Spock, maybe we're going about it in the wrong way. Let's assume that Sybo was a sensitive. That she DID sense something, something evil.
- Mr. Spock: Sensitivity of certain Argelian women is a documented fact, Captain.
- Jaris: My poor Sybo's talent was genuine, gentlemen. What she told you was true.
- Captain James T. Kirk: All right, then, what was it she said, exactly? A monstrous evil, ancient terror.
- Dr. McCoy: That devours all life and light.
- Captain James T. Kirk: She said something else, words that didn't make any sense.
- Dr. McCoy: Yes. Redjac, Beratis and, er, Kesla.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Obscure, meaningless words.
- Mr. Spock: To us, perhaps, but to the computer?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Ah. Mr. Spock, check them out.
- Captain James T. Kirk: All right, Mister Spock, what do we have? A creature without form, that feeds on horror and fear, that must assume a physical shape to kill.
- Mr. Spock: And I suspect preys on women because women are more easily and more deeply terrified, generating more sheer horror than the male of the species.
- Mr. Spock: Computer, this is a Class A compulsory directive. Compute to the last digit the value of pi.
- Voice of Redjac: [Off camera] No, no, no, no! No, no!
- Mr. Spock: As we know, the value of pi is a transcendental figure without resolution. The computer banks will work on this problem to the exclusion of all else until we order it to stop.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Yes, that should keep that thing busy for a while.
- Scott: What did you do with that thing, Captain? Did you send it back to the planet?
- Captain James T. Kirk: No. We beamed it out into open space, Scotty. Widest possible dispersion.
- Dr. McCoy: That thing can't die.
- Mr. Spock: Possibly, Doctor. Its consciousness may continue for some time, consisting of billions of separate bits of energy, floating forever in space, powerless.
- Captain James T. Kirk: But it will die finally.
- Captain James T. Kirk: [addressing Mr. Scott] You seem very happy about the whole thing.
- Scott: Why not? For a while there I didn't know whether I was innocent or guilty.
- Hengist: [sedated and laughing, as Kirk carries him out] You'll die. Die, die, die, everybody die. Kill, kill, kill you all.
- Captain James T. Kirk: You come from Rigel IV.
- Hengist: Well, many people do. It's not a crime.
- Captain James T. Kirk: No, but what we're investigating is.
- Sulu: This is the first time I heard a malfunction threaten us.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Man your post, Mr. Sulu.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Bones, what would happen if that thing entered a tranquilized body?
- Dr. McCoy: Well, it might take up knitting, nothing more violent than that.
- Captain James T. Kirk: [having introduced Scotty to a beautiful belly dancer] My work is never done.
- Dr. McCoy: My work, Jim. This is prescription stuff. Don't forget, the explosion that threw Scotty against a bulkhead was caused by a woman.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Physically he's all right. Am I right in assuming that?
- Dr. McCoy: Oh, yes, yes. In matter of fact, considerable psychological damage could have been caused. Eh, for example, his total resentment toward women.
- Captain James T. Kirk: He seems to be overcoming his resentment.
- Dr. McCoy: Of course, in my professional opinion, when he gets back to the ship, he's gonna hate you for making him leave Argelius, but then he will have lost total resentment toward women.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Mission accomplished as far as Scotty is concerned. Bones, I know a little place across town where the women...
- Dr. McCoy: Yes. I know the place. I know the place, let's go.
- Dr. McCoy: She's dead, Jim. Just like the other one.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Stabbed over and over again.
- Hengist: Uh, Captain, uh, may I continue with the questions please?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Well, get on with it, man! Just don't stand there!
- Captain James T. Kirk: [They're on therapeutic shore leave at a night club on planet Argelius II; exotic female dancers are performing] Do you like her, Scotty?
- Scott: Aye. Why shouldn't I?
- Captain James T. Kirk: Good. I've invited her to join us at the table. I thought you might like to meet her.
- Scott: Now that's what I call a real captain. Always thinking of his men.
- [the dancer comes over, bends over backwards then does a shimmy before returning to the small stage to finish. Scotty bangs on the table in applause]
- Captain James T. Kirk: [referring to table lights that are meant to be used for applause] Scotty, Scotty. In Argelius they use the lights.
- Scott: Now, no one has to tell an old Aberdeen pub-crawler how to applaud, Captain.
- Dr. McCoy: [referring to Mr. Scott, who seems to be suffering from severe amnesia after a murder has been committed] Of course, there's another possibility.
- Captain James T. Kirk: Explain.
- Dr. McCoy: Hysterical amnesia. When a man feels guilty about something, something too terrible to remember, he blots it out of his conscious memory.