Forbidden Planet Page #8

Whatever you know in here, your twin

self out in the tunnel knows too.

I'm not a monster, you...

We're all part monsters

in our subconscious...

...so we have laws and religion.

- Let me go.

You've got to listen.

We don't have much time.

Here. Here's where your mind

was artificially enlarged.

Consciously it lacked the power

to operate the great machine...

...but your subconscious had been

made strong enough.

- I won't hear you.

- You've got to listen.

Twenty years ago when your

comrades voted to return to Earth...

...you sent your secret id out

to murder them.

Not quite realizing it, of course...

...except maybe in your dreams.

What man can remember

his own dreams?

At least when our ship was approaching,

you remembered enough to warn us off.

But then when you thought we were

threatening your egomaniac empire...

...your subconscious sent

its id monster out again.

More deaths, Morbius.

More murder.

And now this too.

Harm my own daughter?

But now she's defying you, Morbius...

...and even in you, the loving father,

there still exists the mindless primitive...

...more enraged and more inflamed

with each new frustration.

So now you're whistling up

your monster again...

...to punish her for her disloyalty

and disobedience.

And if you don't do something

about it soon, Morbius...

...it's going to be coming

right through that door.

Solid Krell metal,

Look at your gauges. Look.

That machine is going

to supply your monster...

...with whatever amount of power

it requires to reach us.

Look now.

Red-hot.

Soon it'll be white-hot...

...then it'll soften and melt.

Alta, say you don't believe this of me.

Tell me you don't.

Then it must be true.

Yes, I must be guilty.

Then help us, darling.

I've known you. I've known you

great and noble like the Krell.

Guilty. Guilty.

My evil self is at that door,

and I have no power to stop it.

Stop. No further.

I deny you, I give you up.

Father. Oh, Father.

Son...

...turn that disc.

The switch, throw it.

In 24 hours...

...you must be

The Krell furnaces, chain reaction...

...they cannot be reversed.

Alta...

Oh, no.

Ninety-eight million point six.

We're clear now.

What an astrogator.

A genuine privilege, commander.

Activate main view plate.

Aye, aye, skipper.

That's Altair-4, the bright speck

below the star.

Fifteen seconds.

Yes, Alta, your father,

my shipmates...

...all the stored knowledge

of the Krell.

Five seconds, four, three...

...two, one.

Alta, about a million years from now...

...the human race

will have crawled up to where...

...the Krell stood in their

great moment of triumph and tragedy...

...and your father's name

will shine again...

...like a beacon in the galaxy.

It's true...

...it will remind us

that we are, after all, not God.

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