Avon quotes from Blake's 7

Ah, Cally - I've been going over that theory of yours about the teleport bracelets boosting each other. As you're aware, it doesn't make sense.

Cally

You have a better one?

There was some kind of power source on that alien ship that you were telepathically receptive to. When the teleport failed, you were able to use that source to get yourself out, and to get Avon and Vila out with you.

What I really want to know is why you're being so bashful. (serious) What are you hiding, and why?

Shut up, Tarrant.

I said, shut up. I apologise for not realising you are deaf.

You also talk too much.

Be thankful I'm restricting myself to talk.

Well now, that's fascinating. You mean you can do something else?

Avon...do you want to forget I said all that?

It wasn't particularly memorable.

Dayna

We need sleep, all of us. Even you need sleep, Tarrant.

If it does, you can assume you're on the wrong ship.

I thought you were the clever one. You're a fool, like Tarrant! The pain Tarrant is experiencing ... visualise that pain and much more. You're as close to death as you have ever been. Think about human death, Avon, irrevocable...

I have thought about it, what's keeping you?

What did you say?

You claim you can kill me. You'd better get on with it. Make me die. There's nothing else you can make me do.

Either it is dead or there is a total radio blackout. I wonder what they have to hide.

Dayna

I'm not keen on finding out.

This time, neither am I.

Don't you find it interesting?

Dayna

You'll be telling us next 'We can learn a lot from whoever built it'

Well we certainly have nothing to teach them unless it's how to remain ignorant. What do you think Cally? Shall we stay and observe or shall we scuttle off with our closed minds intact?

Touch of conscience?

More like insanity. You really believe in taking risks, don't you?

Calculated ones.

Calculated on what? Your fingers?

Wait a minute. Germanium circuitry is clever stuff, but to the best of my knowledge it cannot think for itself nor can it reproduce its own structure.

You have an astute mind, Avon.

If you say so.

There is another process involved: Nucleoplasmic absorption.

Ignore him. That's what passes for "wit" on board our ship.

Tell me, Orac, how precisely did Vila confuse and distract Ultraworld?

Quite simple. With a series of random and illogical brain impulses. The planet was programmed to assimilate orderly coherent thought patterns. Anything else confused it.

Vila

Eh?

You mean Vila spouted nonsense.

Vila

I resent that!

Oh, I wouldn't if I were you. Orac is saying that a logical, rational intelligence is no match for yours.

Dayna

Do we fight?

Certainly not, we run.

Put it on the main screen.

I must point out that this is a gross misuse and an absurd waste of my capabilities.

Put it on the main screen.

I will do it only under protest.

You can do it any way you like, just so long as you put it on the main screen.

Vila

Couldn't you re-design him as something useful, like a drinks dispenser? Or an empty space! I think he'd look really good as an empty space.

Tarrant. I presume you have no tedious scruples about cheating and lying.

None at all.

(smiles) Oh good.

How do we approve of something we don't know about?

You could try trusting me.

All right, Avon, we'll try trusting you. Just don't expect us to make a habit of it.

Oh, come on, Avon. Look, we've been through a lot together. We've always been at risk; we've always taken chances. But we've survived because we worked as a team. So what is it you have to do that makes this so different?

This happens to be my problem. None of you are involved.

Dayna

But we are involved. However much you like to pretend you're a loner, you're not really. We depend on each other; I wouldn't be alive now if it wasn't for you, and I'm sure that's true of everybody else. So why not trust us?

Vila

Look, you don't have to give reasons. You don't even have to explain. Whatever it is, we'll back you up.

Cally

Or, if you want one of your own cold, rational explanations, we can't afford to lose you.

It must have been so dull, having no-one to argue with.

Well now, there were times when your simple-minded certainties might have been refreshing.

Careful, Avon! Your sentiment is showing.