Tarrant quotes from Blake's 7

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.

Vila

What're you going to do if he spots you?

Duck.

Vila rescued me?

You were injured trying to rescue Cally. He rescued you. Suddenly I am hip deep in heroes.

[as the surface of the planet Terminal is being rocked by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions] All pilot systems are green. Count is two minutes and running. Better strap down tight, I haven't lifted these into orbit too often.

Dayna

How often?

...once.

Vila

When was that?

...in about one minute and forty five seconds.

If we last that long.

Vila

It's a Space Rat!

Soolin

Friends of yours?

Vila

Friends? Space Rats? There's no such thing as a friend of a Space Rat - they even hate each other!

What else do you know about them?

Vila

They're maniacs, psychopaths! All they live for is sex and violence, booze and speed. And the fellas are just as bad.

Vila

Plasma bolt fired.

Soolin

Thirty seconds to impact.

[over communicator] One more connection to--

[shocked] What are you doing?

Programming in the main circuit drive.

Dayna

You can't do that! That main drive will fire as soon as she makes the final connection!

Soolin

Fifteen seconds.

We can outrun that bolt. She's dead either way.

Random fluctuations in circuit pulses.

Cause?

External influence.

[Over comm from Scorpio] We've nothing visible on the detectors or the scanners.

Dayna

Could they be faulty?

Detector and Scanner circuits record normal function.

So how is it external?

Dayna

A freak magnetic storm?

That would have been observed.

Vila

[Over comm from Scorpio, panicked] So what have you observed?

A paradox.

In other words, nothing.

Correction: the pulse influences are external to the circuits, but could be internal to the craft.

Tarrant, what have you got up there apart from yourself, a half-wit and a corpse?

A box.

I suppose it has occurred to you that, without Slave, we can't land Scorpio.

Set up a decent orbit and you can leave Scorpio and teleport down.

Muller can't!

Well, we'll give him a refund on his ticket. Just get that ship back, Tarrant. We'll worry about the details then, out! [Snaps the comm off]

It would be prudent to worry about the details now.

When did you start offering gratuitous advice?

Gone to the great cyberneticist in the sky.

You fool! It's superstitious half-wits like you who hold back every advance we make!

And arrogance, like yours and Muller's, Avon, which threatens to destroy -

Shut up!

Good is he? This 'Cancer'?

You can imagine how much it pains me to use the word 'infallible'.

Oh, come on. No-one's infallible.

Alright, then, he's not infallible. It's just that up till now he's never failed.

Control system feedback is through the weapon. The game adjusts to meet and, on the last shot, exceed the proficiency of the players.

Stupid game.

Soolin

Not really. Finally, a game worth playing.

[taken by surprise] Vila, what are you doing?

Vila

Dust! I need very fine dust! [shaking the dust from Tarrant's boot into his hand, before looking at it] That's probably half the guard you threw in that machine, Tarrant.

I'm glad we didn't get too close.

Dayna

But after all that, we go home empty-handed.

Vila

Er, not entirely empty-handed. (He produces Belkov's necklace) Well, I saw it lying about, seemed a pity not to take it. After all, Belkov won't be needing it where he's gone.

Let me see that.

I have bad news for you, Vila. (He smashes crystals with his gun butt) It's a fake. (Savagely) End game to Belkov!

You're possibly the most unscrupulously venomous woman in the galaxy. Being shut in here with you is rather like being locked in a cage with a panther. A black cat with large golden eyes, and long silver talons.

Servalan

Oh Tarrant, I'm just the girl next door.

If you were the girl next door, I'd move.

Servalan

Where would you move to, Tarrant?

Next door.

It's all clear. Maybe Vila should be here, to give us his professional opinion.

Vila?

Dayna

He's one of us. He stayed on Scorpio.

Soolin

In case of misunderstanding.

This Vila, is he, uh...

He's a thief, and a good one. But we don't need Vila to tell us the obvious, do we? That no one, but no one allows a fortune like that to travel in an unarmed crate with just two plainclothes guards! So what's the snag, Keiller!?