Star Trek: Picard's Four Lights Defiance and Confession

You do, however, have a choice.

You can live out your life in misery, held here,

subject to my whims,

or you can live in comfort with good food and warm clothing,

women as you desire them,

allowed to pursue your studies of philosophy and history.

I would enjoy debating with you. You have a keen mind.

It's up to you. A life of ease and reflection and intellectual

challenge,

or this.

What must I do?

Nothing, really.

Tell me

how many lights you see.

How many?

How many lights?

This is your last chance. The guards are coming. Don't be a stubborn fool.

How many?

You told me he would be ready to go.

We had some unfinished business.

Get him cleaned up.

A ship is waiting to take him back to the Enterprise.

Captain Picard,

if you'll go with the guards, they'll take care of you.

There are

four lights.

Captain on the bridge.

Welcome home, Jean-Luc.

Thank you.

Just the way you left it. Maybe a little better.

Computer,

transfer all command

codes to Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Voice authorization, Jelico Alpha 3-1.

Transfer complete. USS Enterprise now under command of

Captain

Jean-Luc Picard.

I relieve you, sir.

I stand relieved.

It's been an honor serving with you.

You have the bridge, Number One.

Aye, sir.

I, uh, I don't know where to begin.

It was ...

I read your report.

What I didn't put in the report

was that

at the end, he gave me a choice

between a life of comfort

or more torture.

All I had to do was to say that

I could see five lights when in fact there were only four.

You didn't say it.

No.

No,

but I was going to.

I would have told him anything,

anything at all.

But more than that,

I believed that I could see

five lights.