Blake's 7 · Season 1
You don't have a lot of time for Blake, do you?
I could never stand heroes.
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.
Unless somebody ditches him first.
By the way, why don't our detectors pick up the Liberator?
Anti-detection screen, one of Avon's gadgets. We're expecting it to break down any time.
(Talking about Avon's detector shield.)
Looks like the Federation have developed a shield themselves.
Yes, well, they got very, very close before we saw them.
That is the most depressing aspect of the whole affair. I was rather hoping to sell them the idea.
The council ask 'where is Blake's head?' And we have no answer.
You shall have it.
The answer, or his head?
Both.
Estimated time to Exbar?
Planetfall will be at twenty one fifty nine standard.
Are we at full capacity?
We are calculating at time distort nine. That is our safety maximum.
I thought this ship was capable of time distort ten?
That is the emergency maximum.
This is emergency, time distort ten.
Yes, Supreme Commander. Time distort ten.
Mutoids. Don't you ever question anything?
This is not our function. Our function is to obey without question. Computer reports message from Counsellor Joban.
Ignore it.
It is from headquarters Supreme Commander.
I said, ignore it.
It is directed to this ship.
Is it directed to you?
No.
To whom is it directed?
To you.
And I said ignore it. Understood?
Understood.
Where are you going?
I'm going to clear the neutron blasters for firing.
Well, what are you going to fire at?
Anything that moves.
What have I done to deserve this?
How long a list would you like?
There's no one as free as a dead man.
It would be stupid to be shot up by our own allies.
Not only stupid, painful.
Just one thing. If that countdown goes below fifty and the device is still primed, you will be teleported out. Vila and I will do the same.
Understood.
Blake [speaking into wrist communicator]: Jenna, Cally, prepare thermal equipment. Stand by to teleport, Avon's coming up. [stops an approaching Del Grant] One more thing: if anything happens to Avon, I will come looking for you.
If there had ever been a time when I could have given my own life to save her, I would have done it. The only grain of consolation that I have ...is that Anna knew that.
Predictably barren.
Wretched mining companies. No sense of aesthetics.
What d'you want them to do, landscape?
Weeell, they could make an effort.
Where there's life, there's threat
For once just try trusting me. [Leaves]
What is this priority of his?
Exactly. He's used a number of ploys to get his own way, but "Just try trusting me"? That's weak even by his standards
So what is wrong?
You deduced it yourself earlier. Space Command has long tried to perfect a course interceptor attuned to the circuitry of navigational computers and rational coordinators like Zen. The scientists on Auron, however, had the wit to aim for the weaker point.
The human brain.
Correct.
A telepathic order was beamed to Blake to force him reroute to that asteroid?
As you, yourself, foresaw.
So tell us something new.
It is to Blake that you should look for the new.
What's that supposed to mean? That they are still influencing him?
Correct again.
But how? A device of that kind would need an enormous power source.
Agreed. But now that they...
[Interrupting] Now that they are close at hand, low power; of course.
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