Lost in Space (TV Series)

Invaders from the Fifth Dimension (1965)

Bill Mumy: Will Robinson

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• [Will is about to put his hands into some clear liquid trickling down a rock face when Dr. Smith hauls him back abruptly] 

  Dr. Zachary Smith : Don't touch that!

  Will Robinson : Wha...!

  Dr. Zachary Smith : That stuff would have taken the hide off you quicker than a peach in boiling oil.

  Will Robinson : But I've seen Mom use the same kind of water to cook in.

  Dr. Zachary Smith : Dear boy, it may look the same but chemically it's no closer to water than chalk is to cheese.

  Will Robinson : You know what I think? I think you're just fooling me. I don't think there's any danger to me OR to my folks. I think you just took me away from them to get even or to force 'em to take you back - or I don't KNOW what!

  [Dr. Smith walks away smugly then sits and looks at Will, grinning] 

  Dr. Zachary Smith : All right. If you think I'm a humbug, go right ahead and put your hand in the water. Go on. You shouldn't be afraid to put your hand in what seems to be clear, HARMLESS drinking water. Go on.

  [Will makes several attempts to touch the running fluid but doubt restrains him] 

  Dr. Zachary Smith : Well?

• Alien : The truth is we need more than the power of your brain. We have been traveling since long before the earliest moments of your planet's history. Our mental powers have grown... weary. We do not intend to harm you, but we need your youth, your... freshness, your... curiosity.

  Will Robinson : But I'm not curious OR fresh, and I just look young, honest!

• Dr. Zachary Smith : Come along, my boy. We're almost there.

  Will Robinson : How much further is it?

  Dr. Zachary Smith : Well, now... not quite as close as your shadow nor quite as far as Texas but somewhere between.

• [Will, held captive in service to the aliens, begins to cry at the prospect of leaving his family behind] 

  Alien : I order you to concentrate. What is that on your cheek?

  [Circuits on board the alien ship begin to spark and short-circuit] 

  Alien : Whatever that is, it is causing our computer phase cells to burn out! I order you to stop that!

  Will Robinson : *I* can't help it!

  Luminary : Computer vector cycles are short-circuiting! You MUST stop! When you help us get back to our planet, we will see that you are returned to this miserable place. So there is no need for wasted emotion!

  Will Robinson : It's NOT wasted. I love them, and don't want to leave them at all!

  Luminary : You will see them again, but you must try to concentrate.

  Will Robinson : I'm trying, as hard as I can. I just keep thinking...

  Alien : [contemptuously]  Love. What is it? Can you eat it? What does it do? Except perform the coring of the brain.

  Luminary : Extraordinary. It seems to be a form of madness, common to all of them.

  Will Robinson : I can't help feeling the way I do.

  Alien : What primitive barbaric little creatures you are. On your own planet you slaughter each other unceasingly. All in the name of love.

  Will Robinson : At least we keep trying to get better. We don't go around turning people into machines!

  Alien : Let him go. His mind is too primitive to be of any service to us

  Luminary : But in a few moments we will be fully powered up. Without him to complete the circuit, the power will destroy us!

  Alien : He is useless. Let him go.

• Alien : [with Will on the aliens' pedestal, now a component of their guidance system]  You are free of discomfort?

  Will Robinson : I guess so.

  Alien : Yet, in low spirits, disconsolate, a prey to meloncholy?

  Will Robinson : Huh?

  Luminary : You lament your forebarers.

  Will Robinson : My what?

  Luminary : Father, mother, you miss them.

  Will Robinson : Whadda YOU think?

  Alien : Well, we can, if you wish, erase your memory circuits, then you will cease to feel the pain of separation.

  Will Robinson : No! I WANNA remember them.

  Alien : Very well. We shall depart as soon as your cerebral circuits have been fully tested.