The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry Line-by-Line

[Athena28]

DETMER: The Birds are at 1,000 kilometers and closing.

 

[Orac]

Owosekun: Their phasers are locked, Captain.

 

[Athena28]

LORCA: Hold tight, everybody. Steady.

 

[Orac]

SARU: Shields holding at 80%. 75. 65.

 

[May 20]

LORCA: Engineering?

 

[Athena28]

[Engineering]

STAMETS: Spore drive is primed, Captain.

 

[Oddish]

Bridge]

LORCA: "On my order."

 

[Athena28]

OWOSEKUM: Birds of Prey closing in at 500 kilometers.

 

[Oddish]

SARU: "Shields at 30 percent."

 

[Athena28]

[Engineering]

STAMETS: Coordinates input.

 

[Orac]

[Bridge]

Saru: 20. Captain.

 

[May 20]

AIRIAM: Lieutenant Stamets advises that the ship is ready to jump.

 

[CaptVader]

LORCA: I need them closer. Wait. Let's send our Klingon friends a message they won't forget. And... go.

(The Discovery spins out, and the Klingons fly into each other, kaBOOM!)

 

[Orac]

[Corvan 2]

(Debris rains down on the surface.)

Girl: Who saved us?

 

[Oddish]

(The Discovery returns to normal space. The Tardigrade is uncoupled from the machine, and it wails.)

[Wreck of the Shenzhou]

(Voq listens to the PADD reciting the crew manifest.)
PADD: "Commander Michael Burnham. Vulcan Science Academy commencement, 2249. Recipient, Vulcan Science..."
(He snaps the PADD in two.)

 

[Orac]

Voq: T'Kumva my lord, they left me here to die in the nest of the vermin who took your life. My faith tells me this is not the end.

(The Klingon ship jumps to warp.)

Voq: My faith tells me this is not the end!

 

[CaptVader]

L'RELL: Voq.

 

[Orac]

Voq: You renounced me.

 

[mattman8907]

L'RELL: TO save your life. It won't be long before Kol realises I'm gone.

 

[Orac]

Voq: We need to go after them, make House T'Kuvma whole again.