- [the spirits of the convicts are caught in a containment field]
- Troi/"Shumar": Nooo!
- Troi/"Shumar": [threatens Picard with her phaser] Let them go or you will all die!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Your threats are meaningless now.
- O'Brien/"Kelly": We are still in control of these three bodies. We will not let them go.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Have you prepared to sacrifice the lives of these others? They'll all die when the cargo bay hatch is blown.
- Data/"Mullen": You will die too, Picard!
- Keiko O'Brien: I would die to save the life of my child.
- Lieutenant Worf: To die defending one's ship is the hope of every Klingon.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: If you each know the officers you inhabit, then you know they're equally ready to give their lives for this ship. Free them now - and I will return you to the moon's surface.
- [after a long pause, Troi slowly backs off]
- Troi/"Shumar": I advise you, Picard, not to pass our way again.
- [Picard has offered himself as a hostage in exchange for the injured in Ten Forward]
- Commander William T. Riker: Sir, putting you down there only strengthens their position.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Number One, so long as they're on board this ship, I'm a hostage no matter where I am. We all are.
- Lt. Commander Data: Lieutenant, I must apologize for my inadvertent misconduct toward you.
- Lieutenant Worf: No apology necessary.
- Lt. Commander Data: Your restraint was most remarkable.
- Lieutenant Worf: You have no idea.
- [La Forge and Ro are crawling through a Jefferies tube]
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Section 2... B... A... Section 1!
- Ensign Ro Laren: Finally. I never want to see this part of the Enterprise again.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I hear you. This is what starship designers call 'easy access'.
- Lieutenant Worf: Spiritual possessions of this sort have been reported throughout Klingon history. It is called jat'yIn - the taking of the living by the dead.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Human history is full of many similar legends.
- Lieutenant Worf: Then you believe they may be telling the truth?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Not for one moment.
- Lieutenant Worf: Sir, they know much about the Essex. If it *is* the spirit of Captain Shumar...
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Then he should be behaving very much better, don't you think?
- Troi/"Shumar": Once we almost escaped, on board the Essex. But that ship was incapable of eluding this moon's electromagnetic storms.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: D'you really think that using their identities would gain our sympathy?
- Troi/"Shumar": It was a better approach than asking you to allow hundreds of condemned prisoners on board.
- [last lines]
- Chief Miles O'Brien: If I could have killed that thing inside me, I would have.
- Keiko O'Brien: [holding Molly in her arms] I know. We both know!
- Data/"Mullen": Are you afraid?
- Lieutenant Worf: I have no fear of death.
- Data/"Mullen": And I have no fear of killing you!
- Data/"Mullen": [to Picard, after LaForge and Ro have clandestinely incapacitated the possessed Troi and O'Brien] Tell them to stop what they're doing or I'll kill everyone in this room starting with you.
- [first lines]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [voiceover] Captain's log, stardate 45571.2. We are going into orbit around an unexplored M-class moon of Mab-Bu 6. Though the moon was reported to be uninhabited, we have picked up a weak distress call.
- [a storm is approaching the crew's position]
- Chief Miles O'Brien: I'd really like to get us out of here before it hits, Commander. I'm supposed to be feeding the baby lunch. Molly gets in a terribly foul mood if I'm late.
- [Troi, Data and O'Brien have been possessed, allegedly by spirits of the USS Essex crew, and are trying to commandeer the Enterprise]
- Troi/"Shumar": You have thirty seconds to change your heading! Or additional members of your crew will require medical attention.