:20:07
Well, gentlemen,
this has been very pleasant.
:20:10
You've seen how
comfortable I am here...
:20:13
no hardships,
no special difficulties...
:20:17
and no need at all
for military assistance.
:20:20
Now I daresay you're impatient
to get back to base.
:20:22
Yes, the moment we've interviewed the
other members of the Belerephon party.
:20:27
Others. But there are
no others, Commander.
:20:31
Before the first year was out,
they had all, every man and woman...
:20:34
succumbed to a...
to a sort of a planetary force here...
:20:39
some dark, terrible,
incomprehensible force.
:20:43
Only my wife and I were immune.
:20:46
And just how do you account
for your immunity, Dr. Morbius?
:20:49
We differed from the others only
in our special love for this world...
:20:53
in our boundless longing
to make a home here...
:20:56
far from the scurry
and strife of humankind.
:21:01
I remember how, when the vote
was taken to return to Earth...
:21:05
she and I were utterly heartbroken.
:21:08
How could we have foreseen the
extinction of coworkers and friends?
:21:14
Skipper, there is no record of any wife
in the Belerephon rolls.
:21:17
Lieutenant, look under
"biochemistry," Julia Marsin.
:21:21
She and I were married
by the skipper on the voyage here.
:21:24
I have the certificate.
:21:26
I thought Robby had managed some
very charming feminine touches.
:21:30
I take it Mrs. Morbius
isn't at home today?
:21:33
My dear wife died
a few months after the others.
:21:36
Only in her case,
it was of natural causes.
:21:40
I'm very sorry.
:21:42
Dr. Morbius,
just what were the symptoms...
:21:45
of all those other deaths,
the unnatural ones?
:21:48
The symptoms were
striking, Commander.
:21:50
One by one,
in spite of every safeguard...
:21:53
my coworkers were torn
literally limb from limb.
:21:56
By what?
:21:57
By some devilish thing
that never once showed itself.
:21:59
- And the Belerephon?
- Vaporized...