Forbidden Planet Page #3

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?

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