Vila quotes from Blake's 7

Vila

I see. So you've decided to be led like the rest of us?

I shall continue to follow. It's not quite the same thing.

Vila

I don't see the difference.

Well, I didn't really think that you would.

Vila

They missed us! Avon's gadget works!

I never doubted it for a moment. (Avon frowns.) Is something wrong?

It just occurred to me that, as the description of a highly sophisticated technological achievement, "Avon's gadget works" seems to lack a certain style.

Vila

That's the stuff that legends are made of!

…then again, perhaps they are not so uncommon.

Vila

I hope you can trust him.

I told you, he's a friend of mine.

Vila

Yes, I always knew you had a friend. I used to say to people, "I bet Avon's got a friend...somewhere in the galaxy."

And you were right. That must be a novel experience for you.

Vila?

Vila

What?

You're a fool.

Vila

Nerves getting to you?

There are a quarter of a million volts running through that converter. I make one false move, I'll be so crisped up what's left of me won't fit into a sandwich.

Vila

I'm a vegetarian. Thanks for the offer, though.

Vila

You don't have a lot of time for Blake, do you?

I could never stand heroes.

Vila

A quarter of a million volts and you're putting your hand in?

Ah, but that is self-interest. We need that crystal. Blake takes risks to help other people. Sometimes people he doesn't even know. One day that great big bleeding heart of his will get us all killed.

Vila

Unless somebody ditches him first.

By the way, why don't our detectors pick up the Liberator?

Vila

Anti-detection screen, one of Avon's gadgets. We're expecting it to break down any time.

Vila

What have I done to deserve this?

How long a list would you like?

It would be stupid to be shot up by our own allies.

Vila

Not only stupid, painful.

Vila

They say it's wide open.

What is?

Vila

Freedom City.

So I've heard; Wide wide open.

Vila

Got everything a man ever dreams of, they say.

Space City pales by comparison, they say.

Vila

Y'know if it was a desert down there. So hot your eyeball frizzled, poisonous snakes under every rock.

Blake would've sent us.

Vila

You can bet on it.

The Big Wheel is run by a computer, that fixes the odds at five percent in favour of the house. Right?

Vila

Right.

Right. Orac reads computers.

Vila

...oh, that is beautiful. Avon, there are times when I almost get to like you.

Yes, well that makes it all worthwhile.

Vila

I mean, you give me a warm feeling right here, round the money belt.

He seems harmless.

Vila

He smells horrible.

Well, so would you if you'd been here for as long as he has.

I have been doing some calculations. If this is Star One -

If it is?

First, catch your computer, but all right, it probably is, and that being the case, the choice of location is fascinating.

I'm glad you're enjoying it.

The nearest large galaxy to our own is Andromeda.

So?

So, this is the nearest point to Andromeda. If anyone could cross intergalactic space in less than a lifetime we are now precisely upon the route that they would take.

What are you trying to say, Avon?

I directed the detectors toward the Andromeda galaxy. There are thousands of satellite generators out there... beyond Star One.

What?

Even with the Federation's resources it must have taken them years.

[examining a readout] That must be the biggest antimatter minefield ever put together!

Vila

Minefield, what minefield?

Perhaps the intergalactic drive has been developed. The question is, by whom?

A defence zone to keep mankind in, or something else out.

Jenna

So it's a combined alarm system and minefield.

Correct. If I may continue.

Vila

He always makes me feel as if I should be taking notes.

[annoyed] If I may continue.

Vila

Then they are expecting an invasion? A hoard of hairy aliens!

There is no logical reason why aliens should be hairy.

Vila

There's no logical reason why people should be hairy!