Avon quotes from Blake's 7

Largo

They're beautiful stones. I'm a bit of a collector, in a modest way. I could make you an offer.

They have a sentimental value for me.

Largo

Oh, family heirlooms, eh?

No, I'm just sentimental about money.

You two, out.

Why?

You'd prefer not to know.

Your professional simplicity is beginning to irritate me.

I can't find Orac. Even tried calling his name.

Oh, I'm sorry I missed that. It's the kind of natural stupidity no amount of training could ever hope to match.

We chose the wrong approach, that's all.

Is that all? I thought maybe we'd chosen the wrong people to get involved with.

"We chose the wrong approach"?

I chose the wrong approach. Does it matter?

Yes, it does.

All right, Avon. You were right and I was wrong. You said persuasion wouldn't work and it didn't. So now we use force.

Force? Yes, of course. Law makers, law breakers, let us fight them all. Why not?

Jenna

It's enough to fry your eyeballs.

…daintily put.

Jenna

Must be the company I keep.

It could have been frying eyeballs you heard.

Jenna

…daintily put.

Ironic, isn't it? We were hoping to use the Terra Nostra to attack the Federation, only to discover that it is already being used to support it.

Vila

Where are all the good guys?

Could be looking at them.

What a very depressing thought.

Cally

Sooner or later, Blake is going to attack Federation Central Control on Earth itself.

Vila

Later. Much later.

And alone, probably.

Jenna

I doubt that.

He wouldn't be alone if you just left him, Avon.

You would stay with him?

Yes.

It is a triple-A security installation.

Vila

We have got into those before.

Usually with your screams of protest ringing in our ears. Are you telling me you're in favour of this idea?

Vila

No! Not exactly...I just don't think it's stupid. Perhaps...maybe I'm on your side, Cally.

It's not a question of sides, Vila.

Zen's best guess is that he's… here. Offers?

Well, let's go and get him.

Gung ho?

We do not know what IMIPAK is.

Exactly. The least we've got to do is find out what it does.

Vila

Why have we? I can live without it.

It's just conceivable that you can't.

Unless of course you want your last words to be, "So that's IMIPAK."

Cally

You're not going to follow the freighter all the way to Horizon?

Why not? I'm curious.

Oh, you are curious. Well, I'm glad we have a worthwhile purpose.

Doesn't it interest you a little?

No! There's nothing out there - we are on the edge. Even Zen has nothing on it. That could mean anything - an experimental warzone - anything.

That freighter's gone to Horizon for some good reason.

Which is more than you can say for us.

Vila

Why don't you go?

You are expendable.

Vila

And you're not?

No, I am not. I am not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going.

If I go alone, can I pilot the Liberator independently?

With the help of the automatics, of course you can.

I know that.

Then why did you ask the question?

I didn't. How long can I maintain myself?

Is that a question?

Yes.

We have concentrated food for one person for a thousand years.

And our power is self-regenerating.

Affirmative.

Can you plot courses to keep out of the range of any known spaceship manned by the Federation?

The battle and navigation computers can handle that perfectly adequately.

I asked if you could.

Of course, should it be necessary.

Failing that, we are powerful enough to resist all but an attack by three Federation pursuit ships at once.

Is that a question?

No. If we go now, we can sail the universe for as long as we like in reasonable safety, provided we keep out of everybody's way and we do not do anything rash.

No data available to answer the question. [Beat] If it was a question.

I put it to you as a possibility. I request the odds.

The odds would be three point five to one on survival.

Therefore I do not need Blake, I do not need any of the others...

Is that a question?

I do not need anybody at all.

Is that a question? I - I - I must ask you to be more specific!

[snaps out of his thoughts] Shut up, Orac.

Orac, have you obtained any further information on the planet Horizon?

No.

Why not?

Is that a serious question?

No.

Please do not waste my time.