CAMERA PULLS BACK SLIGHTLY as Kirk nods agreement. Edith starts down the wrought iron stairs to the shop as Jim walks behind her. CAMERA BACK to give us FULL SHOT now. Edith slips. She starts to fall, Jim Kirk reaches out to catch her as CAMERA ZOOMS IN on his hand. Just before he could catch her arm, his hand closes, spastically.

80 FULL SHOT—ANOTHER ANGLE

as she falls down the stairs. CAMERA ZOOMS IN on Kirk’s face. He let her fall. He remembered what he was there for. CAMERA ZOOMS BACK out and for a beat we think Edith may have died. But we see she is merely lying there bruised. CAMERA ZOOMS IN AGAIN on her face, as she looks at Jim with his clenched hand still extended. She seems to know he let her fall, and a confused hurt expression crosses her face. CAMERA OUT AGAIN and Kirk rushes down to her, helps her up.

KIRK

(means it)

Are you all right?

EDITH

(slowly, mixed up)

Yes…I’m all right…Jim…

CAMERA HOLDS on their faces as Kirk turns away slightly and we see the torment in his expression…and the confusion on Edith’s face.

DISSOLVE TO:

81 EXT. NEW YORK STREET—SAME SCENE AS 47—DAY

the street with the CCC Camp shop and the bread line shop, now minus the lamppost Kirk vaporized with the phaser. But there is nothing happening in front of the two shops. The cars and trucks still roll, but very few people on the sidewalks. Kirk and Spock in XTREME F.G. MOVE INTO FRAME from opposite sides, looking at each other, then turn to stare at the street opposite. They form the left and right sides of the FRAME with the sliver of scene between them.

SPOCK

My computations could be wrong.

KIRK

Let’s hope not.

SPOCK

Where is Miss Keeler?

KIRK

At the Free Milk Kitchen. She’ll be out of the way for at least two hours.

As they stand there waiting, a large stake-bed TRUCK filled with barrels thunders past. We NOTE the truck in this SHOT.

KIRK (CONT’D.)

Edith told me that’s the bootleg beer wagon.

SPOCK

“Bootleg?”

KIRK

They’re in something called “The Great Depression.” They’re also undergoing something called “The Great Prohibition.”

SPOCK

Trucks like that are prohibited?

KIRK

Sometimes, Mr. Spock, your tendency to take things literally is a pain in the fundament.

SPOCK

But you said…

KIRK

No, not the truck, what it’s carrying, what’s in those barrels. Beer. An alcoholic beverage. Liquor is prohibited.

SPOCK

Ah yes, I remember the spools mentioning this “great experi—”

(suddenly)

There!