Forbidden Planet Page #2

- Even manufactures the raw materials.

Come round here, Robby.

I'll show you how this works.

One introduces a sample of human food

through this aperture.

Down here there's a small built-in

chemical laboratory where he analyzes it.

Later he can reproduce identical

molecules in... In any shape or quantity.

Why, it's a housewife's dream.

Plus absolute, selfless obedience.

Activate the disposal unit.

A household disintegrator beam.

Put your arm in there.

Order canceled.

Don't attribute feelings to him,

gentlemen.

Robby is simply a tool.

Tremendously strong, of course.

He could quite easily topple

this house off its foundation.

Well, in the wrong hands, mightn't

such a tool become a deadly weapon?

No, doctor, not even though I were

the mad scientist of the tape thrillers...

...because, you see, there happens

to be a built-in safety factor.

Commander, may I borrow that

formidable-looking side arm of yours?

Thank you.

Robby, point this thing at that

Althaea frutex out there on the terrace.

Fire.

- Do you understand the mechanism?

- Yes, Morbius.

A simple blaster.

All right.

Now, turn around here.

Point it at the commander.

Aim right between the eyes.

Fire.

You see, he's helpless.

Locked in a sub-electronic dilemma

between my direct orders...

...and his basic inhibitions

against harming rational beings.

Cancel.

If I were to allow that to continue...

...he would blow every circuit

in his body.

Doctor, how did you come by

such a mechanism?

I didn't come by him, doctor,

I tinkered him together...

...during my first months up here.

- Coffee is ready, sir.

Gentlemen.

- Doctor, do you mean that you made this...?

- Gentlemen.

A useful enough toy, lieutenant...

...but nowadays, I have no time

for such things.

Dr. Morbius...

...you're a philologist...

...an expert in words and languages,

their origins and meanings.

Yet this robot of yours

is beyond the combined resources...

...of all Earth's physical science.

My dear commander, maybe you

overestimate both Robby and myself.

Gentlemen, let me show you

another bit of parlor magic.

Forgive me, I didn't mean

to alarm you, gentlemen.

I had Robby install

the steel shutters before I realized...

...how altogether safe I am here.

Well, gentlemen,

this has been very pleasant.

You've seen how comfortable

I am here, no hardships...

...no special difficulties...

...and no need

at all for military assistance.

Now, I dare say you're impatient

to get back to base.

Yes, sir, the moment we've interviewed

the other members...

...of the Belerephon party.

Others?

But there are no others, commander.

Before the first year was out,

they had all, every man and woman...

...succumbed to a...

To a sort of a planetary force here.

Some dark, terrible,

incomprehensible force.

Only my wife and I were immune.

And just how do you account

for your immunity, Dr. Morbius?

My wife and I differed from the others

only in our love for this new world.

In our boundless longing

to make a home here...

...far from the scurry and strife

of humankind.

I remember how when the vote

was taken to return to Earth...

...she and I were utterly heartbroken.

How could we have foreseen

the extinction...

...of so many coworkers and friends.

Skipper, there is no record of any wife

in the Belerephon rolls.

Oh, lieutenant,

look under biochemistry.

Julia Marsin. She and I were married

by the skipper on the voyage here.

I have the certificate.

I thought Robby had managed

some very charming feminine touches.

I take it Mrs. Morbius

isn't at home today?

My dear wife died a few months

after the others.

Only in her case

it was of natural causes.

I'm very sorry.

Dr. Morbius, just what were

the symptoms of all those other deaths?

- The unnatural ones, I mean.

- The symptoms were striking.

One by one, in spite of every safeguard,

my coworkers were torn...

...literally limb from limb.

- By what?

By some devilish thing

that never showed itself.

- And the Belerephon?

- Vaporized...

...as the three remaining survivors

tried to take her off.

And yet in all these 19 years...

...you personally have never again

been bothered by this planetary force?

Only in nightmares of those times.

And yet, always in my mind,

I seem to feel the creature...

...is lurking somewhere close at hand.

Sly and irresistible.

And only waiting

to be reinvoked for murder.

Father.

Alta.

Alta, I specifically asked you

not to join us for lunch.

But, Father, lunch is over.

I'm sure you never said a word

about not coming in for coffee.

Well, did you or did you?

This is Commander Adams,

Dr. Ostrow and Lieutenant Farman.

- My daughter.

- How do you do?

I've always so terribly wanted to meet

a young man and now three at once.

- That's very kind of you.

- You're lovely, doctor.

Of course, the two end ones

are unbelievable.

Could this end one

get you some coffee?

Oh, I'm quite able to get it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Of course, you must make allowances

for my daughter, gentlemen.

She's never known

any human being except her father.

I hope you'll make allowances too, sir.

We young men have been shut up

in hyperspace for well over a year now...

...and right from here,

the view looks just like heaven.

Sugar?

But you keep helping me.

After all, you're not Robby.

I wouldn't mind being Robby

in certain ways.

That's only in certain ways, of course.

I can see that was probably very clever,

but I don't seem to understand it.

Well, there's...

There's no rush.

Yes, I suppose one day I shall be obliged

to make the trip to Earth with her...

...for the sake

of her natural development.

I should say fairly soon too.

Your father wasn't too happy

at first about your meeting us, was he?

Well, naturally not.

You're from Earth.

- Well, what's wrong with Earth?

- How lucky I am, though.

All three of you

are such very fine exceptions.

- Well, you are exceptions, aren't you?

- Oh, sure, sure.

Well, that is, I am anyway.

Old dependable Jerry.

Of course the doc

can be trusted too, in the daytime.

What about the commander?

Well, I hate to tell you this, Alta...

...but that man is notorious

throughout seven planetary systems.

Oh, dear.

What does he do?

Well, l... I don't feel free to discuss

the shortcomings of a fellow officer...

...but any girl or woman

who lets him get her alone, anywhere...

Yes.

Yes, I can see it now.

There.

Just then when he looked at me.

Why, his eyes almost had fire in them.

I'm so glad you don't have

any fire in your eyes, lieutenant.

Well, I'm not that harmless.

- Alta.

- Yes, Father.

These gentlemen have expressed

a very kindly concern...

...over the amount of liberty you have.

- Liberty?

I've explained that you have permission

to visit Earth whenever you choose.

Earth? I?

Then my little girl

never feels lonely or confined?

Why, I don't know.

I have you and Robby and all my friends.

Friends?

Yes.

- Perhaps you better call them, my dear.

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