The station""s attendant is a mute boy, a kid named Jimmy (Dickie Moore).The dark stranger asks the kid: "Where""s Bailey?" and quickly learns that the boy is "deaf and dumb." Going across he street to Marny""s Cafe, the stranger overhears waitress Marny (Mary Field) mention to a customer that romancer Jeff Bailey goes "fishing" every day with his girlfriend: "Two things I can smell inside a hundred feet.The Neanderthal is running scared, my fellow mutants!" Charles confirmed Erik""s predictions that they were in the cross-hairs of the humans.Poorly received and with the lowest box-office take of all theStar Trekfilms.It was the franchise""s biggest flop in he entire history of the brand.The low return was partially blamed on the studio""s demands to cut 50 minutes of the film, which left out key scenes of developed characterization and plot, and left the film too action-heavy for a typicalTrekfilm.The controllers can hardly comprehend what they are seeing - an imminent air collision between he two planes, attempting to avoid the "extra bright" and fast-moving aircraft near them.He was beaten unconscious and dragged off.His punishment was to be staked to a large rock and left to die in the hot sun by starvation, to set an example.