Vila quotes from Blake's 7

Vila

If it comes down to that, Tarrant, there isn't really a lot of point, is there?

Vila

Wonderful. And for my next trick I shall swallow my other foot.

Vila

[Drinking a glass of Dorian's wine] You know, Avon may be right about getting out of here. There's something very suspicious about a man who keeps his booze under lock and key.

Vila

I'm going to give up drinking, you know. It'll be pink asteroids next.

Vila

Have you ever seen a nuclear compression charge go off? Everything gets sucked in. It's like a mini black hole. Looks good...from a distance.

Vila

[Drunkenly] Fourteen I was, when I was first sent to a penal colony. Ship was hit in the main drive by a meteoroid, bang! Y'know what they did to repair it?Activated the force wall and generated an atmosphere inside the force wall so the repair team could work in a vacuum without spacesuits, 'cause it wasn't a vacuum any more if you see what I mean. Very clever, those old prison hulk skippers.

Vila

Nasty way to go, all that dust. Very bad for the chest.

Vila

Avon's idea of diplomacy is to break your legs, then say "Lean on me."

Vila

Oh, now, look, I've never been against the Federation. I mean, I've only ever been along for the ride. I'm not even armed. You can't kill me. I'm completely harmless, and armless. (He then proves he's anything but by smoothly disarming and disabling Arlen...then he is shot)

Vila

You're on your way to the penal colony on Cygnus Alpha. Or you will be when the prison ship's refueled. Try to look on the bright side: It must have something; none of the guests have ever left early... In fact none of them have ever left at all.

Why are you going there?

Vila

They didn't give me a choice. [Pause] I steal things. compulsive, I'm afraid. I've had my head adjusted by some of the best in the business. But it just won't stay adjusted.

A professional thief?

Vila

More a vocation than a profession; other people's property just comes naturally to me.

Jenna

He fixes the log, the crew dump us, pocket the profit, and set him free.

Vila

That's immoral. The cold-hearted murdering -- let's kill him now before he can do it.

Vila

No, I can't go in there, I've got a condition - a fear of enclosed spaces. There's a name for it...

Jenna

Cowardice?

Seven of us can run this ship properly.

Vila

Six, surely.

You forgot Zen.

You're not counting that machine as a member of the crew.

Oh, what do you say to that, Zen?

Please state course and speed.

Very diplomatic. Set a course for Centero, speed standard by two.

Confirmed.

Vila

So much for Federation pursuit ships.

At least we know we can outrun them.

Vila

Outrun them? In this we can out stroll them!

Except that we're not going to hide. Very soon now the Federation ships will know exactly where we are. Or at least where we've been.

Vila

I don't follow you.

Oh, but you do. And that's the problem.