"I got the blowing myself up out of my system before you got here," says Jim, but Bones knows him well. When the numbness recedes, the need to control the situation will rush in to fill it, and the only way Jim gets Spock back is if he finds a way out of this damn dimension.

And that kind of power won't be easily won.

"Who'd you lose?" he asks, because he knows Bones hasn't only been talking about Jocelyn. "On your island."