Advocate #1, Advocate #2 and others in “Unfinished Business”

The machine still won't fly, but the beam works.

We must get the beam back here as quickly as possible. Nothing is more important than for us to retrieve the weapon.

They understand this, but they're unsure how to accomplish getting it here.

Must we tell them everything? If the ship won't fly, we have no choice but to transport the weapon over land.

And if our comrades meet resistance?

Then we will remind the puny Earthlings how our death ray works.

Nothing can be allowed to delay their return. Our very future rests in their hands.

A concept, I remind you, that we should only accept with great trepidation.