Blake's 7 Season 1 quotes

You don't matter enough to kill, Travis.

She's not yet well enough to submit to intensive questioning. She must have rest.

Travis

Yes, thank you very much indeed, Doctor, you are relieved of your responsibility for the prisoner. She is now the property ... the concern of the interrogation division.

[Over communicator] Are you Awake?

Vila

No.

That's what I thought. It's very quiet here. If it should get noisy, I'll be in touch.

It is frequently easier to be honest when you have nothing to lose.

Cally

Blake will return...

You can bet your life on it. In fact, you've just bet both our lives on it.

Cally

My people have a saying: A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.

Life expectancy must be fairly short among your people.

You're quite sure about volunteering to stay?

Cally

Well, we must help these people.

Must we? Personally I don't care if their whole planet turns into a mushroom. I shall stay because I don't like an unsolved mystery.

There's something else that has to happen before it all begins to come together.

Vila

Where are Cally and Avon?

It's a long story.

Vila

Well, what's in the box?

That's an even longer story.

Vila

I like stories.

Cally

I thought you mistrusted instinct?

I do. So I am probably wrong.

I get the distinct feeling I offended Zen's professional pride.

It's just a machine, Blake.

Vila

And he should know.

Well, Avon is the expert.

Vila

That's not what I meant.

No. He was calling me a machine. But since he undoubtedly defines himself as a human being, I shall choose to take that as more of a compliment than anything else.

on Travis: How do you demonstrate the death of a friend to a man who hasn't got any?

Have you got any better ideas?

As a matter of fact, no, I haven't.

Does that mean you agree?

Do I have a choice?

Yes.

Then I agree.

Vila

Have you thought of another plan?

Yes. I'm going to get some sleep.

Vila

How can you sleep with all this happening?

With all what happening? Blake is sitting up in a tree, Travis is sitting up in another tree. Unless they're planning to throw nuts at one another, I don't see much of a fight developing before it gets light.

You're never involved, are you Avon? You ever cared for anyone?

Vila

Except yourself?

I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care, or, indeed, why it should be necessary to prove it at all. [Exits]

Vila

Was that an insult or did I miss something?

Cally

You missed something.

Logic says we're dead.

Logic has never defined what dead is.