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Harcourt Fenton Mudd : [explaining his latest trouble] I, uh... sold the Denebians all the rights to a Vulcan fuel synthesizer.
Capt. Kirk : And the Denebians contacted the Vulcans.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : How'd you know?
Capt. Kirk : That's what I would have done.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : Oh. It's a typical police mentality. They've got no sense of humour; they arrested me!
McCoy : Oh, I find that shocking.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : Worse than that! Do you know what the penalty for fraud is on Deneb 5?
Spock : Guilty party has his choice. Death by electrocution, death by gas, death by phaser, death by hanging...
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : The key word in your entire peroration, Mr. Spock, was... d-d-d-DEATH. Barbarians! Well, of course I... left.
Capt. Kirk : [to the others] He broke jail.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : I, ah, borrowed transportation...
Capt. Kirk : He stole a spaceship.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : ...the patrol reacted in a hostile manner...
Capt. Kirk : They fired at him!
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : They've got no respect for private property - they damaged the bloody spaceship! Well, I... I got away, but I couldn't navigate, so I wandered out through unmapped space. And here I found... Mudd!
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Harcourt Fenton Mudd : Now listen, Spock, you may be a wonderful science officer but, believe me, you couldn't sell fake patents to your mother!
Spock : I fail to understand why I should care to induce my mother to purchase falsified patents.
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Harcourt Fenton Mudd : [Surrounded by several Stella androids, each complaining to Harry] You can't do this to me, Kirk. It's inhuman!
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Spock : You went to substantial risk and effort to bring a starship here. Logically, you must have a compelling motive.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : [Smile fades] Spock, you're going to love it here. They all talk just the way you do.
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Chekov : You know this man, Captain?
Captain Kirk : Oh, do I know him? Harcourt Fenton Mudd. Thief.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : Oh, come now.
Captain Kirk : Swindler and con man.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : Entrepreneur.
Captain Kirk : Liar and rogue.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : Did I leave you with that impression?
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Captain Kirk : Who caught you?
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : That, sir, is an outrageous assumption!
Captain Kirk : Yes. Who caught you?
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[trying to confuse an android]
Captain Kirk : Everything Harry tells you is a lie. Remember that. Everything Harry tells you is a lie.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd : Now listen to this carefully, Norman. I am... lying.
Norman : You say you are lying, but if everything you say is a lie, then you are telling the truth, but you cannot tell the truth because everything you say is a lie, but you lie... You tell the truth but you cannot for you lie... illogical! Illogical! Please explain! You are human. Only humans can explain their behavior! Please explain!
Captain Kirk : [giving him the same statement the androids have repeatedly given him several times before] I am not programmed to respond in that area.
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Dr. McCoy : [referring to large darkened pane on wall] Harry, what's this?
Harry Mudd : [pressing button by pane to reveal Stella android] Ah. That, gentlemen, is a shrine to the memory of my beloved Stella.
Capt. Kirk : Who?
Harry Mudd : Stella, my wife.
Dr. McCoy : Dead?
Harry Mudd : Oh, no, no, no, merely deserted. You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman, urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to.
[with increasing irritation]
Harry Mudd : But with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging--well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space.
Dr. McCoy : That's very interesting. You leave your wife and then bring her along.
Harry Mudd : I had the androids construct a perfect replica of Stella, so that I could gaze upon her, and rejoice in her absence. Gentlemen, attend. Stella, dear...
Stella Mudd : [switching on, angrily] Mm, Harcourt? Harcourt Fenton Mudd, what have you been up to? Nothing good, I'm sure. Well let me tell you, you lazy, good-for-nothing...
Harry Mudd : Shut up!
Stella Mudd : [switching off] Nothing... thing... thing.
Harry Mudd : Marvelous, isn't it? I finally have the last word with her...
[to Kirk]
Harry Mudd : and with you.
