Forbidden Planet Page #4

It... It was awful.

I was only trying to be nice

about kissing the lieutenant.

- How did the commander react to that?

- Well, he was furious.

He thinks all that about biology

had something to do with me.

Personally, I mean.

Never been so nervous in all my life.

And I hope I don't see him again

if I live to be 400 million.

Well, I dare say you won't have to.

I think the best thing you can do

is go to bed.

I still have some work to do

in my study.

- Good night, my dear.

- Good night.

Where have you been?

I've beamed and beamed.

Sorry, miss,

I was giving myself an oil job.

And what is it you require

this time, Miss Alta?

Robby, I must have a new dress.

Right away.

- Again?

- Oh, but this one must be different.

Absolutely nothing must show,

below, above or through.

- Radiation-proof?

- No, just eye-proof will do.

- Thick and heavy?

- Oh, no. No, Robby.

It must be the loveliest, softest thing

you've ever made for me.

And fit in all the right places

with lots and lots of star sapphires.

Star sapphires take a week

to crystallize properly.

- Would diamonds or emeralds do?

- Well, if they're large enough.

Five, 10, and 15 carats,

and on hand.

I will run the dress up for you

in time for breakfast.

- Sleep well, miss.

- Thank you, Robby.

I don't really care now

whether I do or not.

Funny to see two moons

in the sky, isn't it?

- Funny how quick a guy gets used to it.

- Yeah.

- Joe.

- What?

- Do you hear something?

- Like what?

Like a sort of big breathing.

No.

That's funny, I did.

Strong and Grey, last night,

during your watch...

...this ship was entered and valuable

government property was sabotaged.

Now, the two of you claim

to have been at your posts and awake.

Yet the ship was entered, the heavy-duty

hatch was raised and latched back.

And neither of you

saw or heard anything.

Except you, Grey.

You heard breathing.

And Youngerford, let me see,

you were asleep in your bunk...

...and you think you had a dream.

A dream.

Pending evidence, you're deprived

of space pay and privileges.

Oh, me too, sir?

No, "me too, sir," will stand

I'll have less dreaming aboard this ship.

Dismissed.

- Skipper.

- Come on. Well, Quinn?

Half of this gear

we can replace out of stores.

The rest we can patch up

one way or another.

Except this special klystron

frequency modulator.

Now, with every facility of the ship,

I think I might be able to rebuild it.

But frankly, the book says no.

It came packed in liquid boron

in a suspended gravity.

All right, so it's impossible.

How long will it take?

Well, if I don't stop for breakfast...

- All right, get on it, Quinn.

- Thank you, sir.

- Tractor's ready.

- Thank you.

- A minute, skipper, I'll change uniform.

- Stay as you are.

- I'm leaving you in command here.

- Oh, I see.

Establish a perimeter.

Set up a class-A alert.

- I want them in force by sundown.

- Aye, aye, sir.

Good morning, gentlemen.

We'd like to see Dr. Morbius.

Morbius is in his study, sir.

Never to be disturbed

while that door is closed.

All right, we'll wait.

Is there any other way

out of there?

This is the only door.

In case you require anything,

gentlemen, use the beamer.

How could he have slipped

past two sentries?

Nothing important, skipper.

Doc, you stay right there where you are

and keep your eye on that door.

Okay, skipper, and if Morbius comes out,

we'll call you from right here.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

Come on in.

Didn't bring my bathing suit.

What's a bathing suit?

Oh, murder.

Never mind. I'm coming out.

Now, Alta, listen, you mustn't...

You just wait right there.

It'll only take me a second to get dry.

Yes. Well, I'll...

I'll just turn my back here.

Well, if that's the way

you feel about it.

Well, don't worry, you're not gonna have

to look at me anymore from now on.

You'll see.

- See what?

- You'll see what.

Now, wait... Now, wait a minute, Alta.

Now, if you're planning on...

I didn't expect to see you today after

the way you spoke to me yesterday.

I'm... I'm very sorry about the way

I spoke to you yesterday, Alta.

L... I was sort of bothered.

All right, you can look now.

Nothing shows through, does it?

I had it made especially for you.

Oh, I thought

you weren't expecting me today.

I wasn't.

I don't know, I guess there's something

about me personally you don't like.

Alta...

...you will always look just beautiful.

Then why don't you kiss me

like everybody else does?

Everybody?

Hasn't your father taught you

anything at all?

Well, he says I'm terribly ignorant,

but I have had poetry...

...mathematics,

logic, physics, geology and bi...

- ology?

Of course, that's... That's mostly

on the theoretical side?

Well, so far.

Well, what's wrong with theory?

This.

- Alta.

- It's all right, he's my friend.

I'm...

I'm sorry, Alta.

L... I had to do that.

But he didn't recognize me.

He would have killed me. Why?

You really don't know, do you?

No, I don't.

Is he still in there?

Hasn't come out.

Now, wait a minute, skipper.

After all, it is his house.

What's the matter?

Doc, something new has been added.

That's gonna

complicate things a bit.

Yeah.

Not even a window.

The robot lied.

Morbius hasn't been in here.

Doc, he's up to something.

Look at this, skipper.

- Hieroglyphics?

- Maybe.

But it doesn't look like Egyptian,

cuneiform or Chinese.

You'll find the silver

in the dining room...

...and my daughter's jewelry

on her table.

Dr. Morbius, last night our klystron monitor

was sabotaged.

And you suspect me?

Then the time has come

for clarification.

Sit down.

In times long past...

...this planet was the home

of a mighty and noble race of beings...

...which called themselves the Krell.

Ethically, as well as

technologically...

...they were a million years ahead

of humankind...

...for in unlocking the mysteries

of nature...

...they had conquered even

their baser selves.

And when, in the course of eons,

they had abolished sickness...

...and insanity and crime

and all injustice...

...they turned, still with high

benevolence, outward toward space.

Long before the dawn of man's history,

they had walked our Earth...

...and brought back

many biological specimens.

I see, that explains

the tiger and the deer.

The heights they had reached.

But then, seemingly on the threshold

of some supreme accomplishment...

...which was to have crowned

their entire history...

...this all but divine race

perished in a single night.

In the 2000 centuries

since that unexplained catastrophe...

...even their cloud-piercing towers

of... Of glass...

...and porcelain and adamantine steel...

...have crumbled back

into the soil of Altair-4, and nothing...

...absolutely nothing,

remains above ground.

What were they like?

No record of their physical nature

has survived.

Except, perhaps, in the form

of this characteristic arch.

I suggest you consider it

in comparison...

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