If I Do Not Return: Difference between revisions

'''Kirk:''' Uhura, if you don't hear from us, there won't ''be'' anybody behind. }}

** However subverted in that Kirk was talking in code (hours meaning days) because he suspected Khan was tapping into the signal.

{{quote|'''Spock:''' Jim. The statistical likelihood that our plan will succeed is less than 4.3%.

'''Kirk:''' It'll work.

* Subtly alluded to in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: The Curse of the Black Pearl''. When Gibbs asks Jack Sparrow what they should do if Sparrow and Will Turner don't return, Jack's only reply is "Keep to the Code", meaning "if we don't come back, go on without us".

** Knowing the pirates of that trilogy, it is more like "actually give us a chance to come back before leaving us."

{{quote|'''Mal''': Zoe, ship is yours. Remember. If anything happens to me, or if you don't hear from me within the hour, you take this ship... and ''you come rescue me''.

'''Zoe''': What, and risk my ship?

'''Sam Daniels''': ''Leave. Town.'' }}

* Used in ''~9~'', before the titular character goes to {{spoiler|rescue 7 and 8 from The Seamstress}}.

* ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'': "I'll try to come back for you if I can. If I don't, it means I am dead... or late."

* ''[[No Country for Old Men]]''.

** Jack also does it in "The Other Guys", but stops himself before saying exactly what they should do.

{{quote|If we're not back in five minutes... *shrugs*}}

{{quote|'''Garak''': If you go into my quarters, and examine the bulkhead next to the replicator, you'll notice there's a false panel. Behind that panel is a compartment containing an isolinear rod. If I'm not back in seventy-eight hours, I want you to take that rod... and ''eat it''.

'''Bashir''': Eat it? You're joking.

* ''[[Monk]]'': The first part of the series finale, "Mr. Monk and The End", {{spoiler|shows Monk opening the final Christmas gift Trudy gave him; it's revealed that it's an "If I don't come back" tape that could have helped him solve her murder within days of her death.}}

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Satan Pit", the Doctor - while hanging from a wire in a possibly fathomless chasm and planning to cut himself loose - asks Ida to tell Rose... "...Oh, she knows."

{{quote|'''Kirk:''' "Spock, if this doesn't work..." [beat]

'''Spock:''' [nods once, his eyes downcast] "Understood." }}

* ''[[Metro 2033]]'': "If I am not back in three days, come to Polis station."

* Graffiti in ''[[Left 4 Dead|Left 4 Dead 2's]]'' "The Passing":

* ''[[Impossible Creatures]]'':

{{quote|'''[[Awesome McCoolname|Rex Chance]]:''' "If I'm not out in five minutes, save yourself and leave the island. No! Wait, that's silly. If I'm not out in five minutes, come and make sure I haven't locked myself in or something."}}

{{quote|'''Batman:''' If I'm not back in time go without me.

'''Robin:''' '''''[[Big "What?"|WHAT!?]]''''' }}

* In the episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' when Homer starts bootlegging beer during prohibition he starts telling Marge "If we're not back, avenge our deaths" when he and Bart go out to deliver their brew.

** In another episode, Homer's father needed a kidney and Homer agreed to donate one. Out of fear he wouldn't survive the operation, Homer asked Marge to destroy the hospital if he didn't survive.