Edith comes to the curb with a smile, waving across to Kirk.

Kirk sees Beckwith emerging from a building. Beckwith does not see Kirk. The building is between Kirk and Spock where he has now moved.

A huge beer truck—as noted previously in Scene 81—lumbers around the corner and into the street as Edith steps off the curb. She doesn’t see it. Kirk and Beckwith and Spock see the truck as it bears down on Edith.

101 thru 107 ANOTHER SEQUENCE—SLOW-MOTION—NO SOUND

as though time—which is our primary subject here—were being silently stretched to the point of unbearability.

Beckwith starts toward the woman.

Kirk’s face twists in anguish as he starts toward Beckwith to stop him from saving Edith’s life. He stops, his hand closes on empty air as it did when she fell down the stairs. He cannot stop Beckwith! He will sacrifice everything for her.

Spock sees what is happening. He moves toward Beckwith.

The truck slips slowly, silently toward Edith.

Spock reaches Beckwith and grabs him in a body-lock that immobilizes him.

Kirk’s mouth opens to scream. His empty hand reaches.

Edith laughs a word at Kirk.

108 XTREME CLOSEUP KIRK.

109 XTREME CLOSEUP SPOCK.

110 XTREME CLOSEUP EDITH.

111 XTREME CLOSEUP THE TRUCK.

All In Slow-Motion

CUT TO:

112 CLOSE ON KIRK—NORMAL SPEED

and HOLD HOLD HOLD on his face as we HEAR the SOUND of the TRUCK SCREECHING TO A HALT. As Kirk’s face crumbles, we know what has happened.

113 ANOTHER CLOSE ON KIRK—IN LIMBO

SPECIAL EFFECT as his face RECEDES FROM CAMERA back and back and back as though it were falling into a bottomless pit, until it is barely a speck of tortured light against a blackness that becomes, in SPECIAL EFFECT, a

RIPPLE-DISSOLVE THRU:

114 ANGLE IN SPACE—THE ENTERPRISE

as the speck of light that is Kirk’s face becomes a star, one of many in an infinity of stars with the Enterprise against it. All of this INTERCUT in RIPPLE LAP-DISSOLVE so we get the impression of something happening to the warp and woof of space and time. The face of Kirk, the Enterprise, the stars, all OVERLAP as we

RIPPLE-DISSOLVE TO:

115 EXT. PLATEAU OF THE GUARDIANS

as Kirk in EXTREME CLOSEUP emerges from the Time Vortex CAMERA PULLS BACK to FULL FRAME showing us his emergence from the pillar of light. Behind him comes Mr. Spock with Beckwith in a judo-like hold. Both Kirk and Spock are in 1930s garb, Beckwith still in his Enterprise uniform. The Guardians are there, waiting. The Time Vortex continues to make its distinctive SOUND, indicating it has not turned off.

1ST GUARDIAN

Time has resumed its shape.

SPOCK

What of the death of the cripple?

1ST GUARDIAN

He was negligible.

SPOCK

But he found Beckwith for us. He must have counted.

1ST GUARDIAN

He counted.

(beat)

But not enough. Not in the eternal flow, the greater river.