Servalan quotes from Blake's 7

Servalan

[Pointing a gun at Avon's head from behind] Stay quite still.

Servalan.

Servalan

You don't sound surprised.

Why should I be? It has a perverse kind of logic to it. Our meeting is the most unlikely happening I could imagine; therefore, we meet. Surprise seems inappropriate somehow.

Servalan

I'm going to be honest with you.

That should be mildly disconcerting.

Servalan

You have one other quality I admire. Very much.

Yes?

Servalan

You are infinitely corruptible. You'd sell out anybody, wouldn't you?

I don't know. I never really had an offer I felt was worthy of me.

Servalan

Jarvik? Of course. Jarvik. Jarvik, the construction worker. What was it now? Any fool could take the Liberator with three pursuit ships. Well, the Liberator will soon be diffusing itself throughout the galaxy as so many billion split particles. So, regrettably, we shall never know. Thanks to the folly of your president, who with her aides and her technical advisers, her battle computers and her captains, extravagantly disposed herself to use four pursuit ships. And yet any fool could have done it with three. Perhaps this particular fool will tell her how. (pause) Well? Have you nothing to say to Servalan?

Woman, you're beautiful. (grabs and kisses Servalan)

Servalan

Guards! Take this primitive to the punishment cells! Move!

Servalan

You say any fool could take The Liberator with three pursuit ships. Could you?

I could take her with one. But, as a man, Tarrant is worthy of honour. Three would not insult him.

Servalan

There's nothing to stop them now. The cream of my fleet, gone! Destroyed. And all you can do is smile as though you'd achieved something.

I have.

Servalan

What?

I made it look convincing.

Servalan

Oh, it was convincing all right. It convinced me. Three Mark Tens and fifteen years' supply of Kairopan.

You wanted the Liberator? If you're patient, you shall have her.

Servalan

And what will you take her with? A Kairopan shuttle? A transporter, perhaps? Or will you use your bare hands?! What are you doing?

(Picks up Servalan and dumps her on a couch) Lie there and keep quiet until I tell you otherwise.

Servalan

So tell me, Zen, how does one operate this craft?

One manipulates the controls and the craft functions accordingly.

Servalan

I might have known you were behind all this.

You flatter me.

Servalan

Go to hell, Avon.

Probably.

[talking to a defeated Servalan] Is that it? Have you finally lost your nerve?

Have you murdered your way to the wall of an underground room?

Servalan

[looking defiantly at Avon] It's an old wall, Avon. It waits. I hope you don't die before you reach it.

Servalan

What do you want, Leitz?

[as he embraces her from behind, his face in her hair] The presidency.

Servalan

Anything is possible.

After all, somebody has to take Practor's place. You could use your influence, I'm sure. And of course you'd know that your secret would be safe with me - Servalan.

Servalan

I'm sure it would. But I don't submit - to blackmail.

There's always a first time. And it's better than being executed.

After all, how many people have you killed to conceal your secret?

Servalan

You mean now?

Servalan

Twenty-six. So far.

[showing Servalan a necklace made of feldon crystals, inside a display case] The Mecronian high priests used these as a symbol of their power. Now, there is a legend about the feldon necklaces. A chief once stole one, the gods became angry and struck him down. Of course, the gods' anger was merely an electrical storm, in which a hunk of polished feldon crystals that size would absorb enough energy to blow holes in any number of recalcitrant chiefs.

Servalan

[sarcastically] How fascinating.

Yes, but you see, the priests have been cashing in on this piece of luck for generations, so I decided to join them! I said their gods had sent me to collect the crystals. Well, not unnaturally, they were not particularly impressed, well not at first anyway.

Servalan

I can imagine.

So I borrowed a necklace. All it needed then was a well-placed remote-controlled laser rifle to ensure that only the chosen one could wear it. After six of them had died in the attempt, they found my survival quite miraculous.

Servalan

Your survival is becoming more miraculous by the moment.

No moonlight. What a pity.

Servalan

I have nothing to gain by tolerating you, Reeve.

Oh, you sure of that?

Servalan

I suggest you go back to the fire. The alternative could be frostbite.

I don't believe that. A woman like you?

Servalan

There is something you should realise. There are no women like me. I am unique. That makes me rather dangerous. Good night, Investigator. Sweet dreams.

Servalan

Afraid it won't work, Investigator?

[Points the gun at her] Afraid it will?

Servalan

You would be able to report, presumably, an excellent reason for killing me?

One more casualty on Virn. You did kill the other one, didn't you? You might have had a motive. Something he found out.

Servalan

Reeve, you apparently think this is a new, exciting experience for me. It isn't. I've confronted several maniacs with guns.

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.

Servalan

Avon, would you be careful with the gun. My guards have orders to shoot you first. The price of my life would be yours.

Well, now. The sacrifice might be worthwhile.