% "This is the day that was prophesied. The day our Law foretold. They will come from the sky to destroy us. They will burn the stars to light their way. We must be prepared." -- Chel (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Vila: We've got to get out of here. [To Cally] Where have you been? Where have you been? Cally: Blake didn't want to leave. Vila: Well, I do! Avon: I'm surprised you're still here. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % "I've only got one pair of hands, you know." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % "Too fast. Too fast. Going to burn up... Orac, you'll have to handle it. Instruct the computer. Get us down. Get. Us. Down." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Trooper 2: Do you know how many alien ships were confirmed killed? Trooper 1: Five hundred at the last count, sir. Trooper 2: I heard it was nearer six. Trooper 1: Six hundred? Trooper 2: Historic victory, that's what they'll call it. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Trooper 2: How does it feel to have made history? Trooper 1: Very painful, sir. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Dayna: Are you feeling better? Avon: Not really. But at least I'm still alive. If I were dead I don't think I'd have this blinding headache. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % [Dayna kisses him] Avon: What was that for? Dayna: Curiosity. Avon: I'm all in favor of healthy curiosity. I hope yours isn't satisfied too easily. I think you've cured my headache. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Dayna: You are very beautiful, Avon. Avon: So are you. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Avon: The Sarrans don't seem exactly friendly. Dayna: They don't trouble us much. Father says they were a problem when we first arrived, now they leave us alone. They're afraid of us. They're afraid of me, particularly. Avon: Presumably, it's the bow and arrow. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Dayna: I like the ancient weapons -- the spear, the sword, the knife. They demand more skill. When you fight with them conflict becomes more personal. More exciting. Avon: More dangerous. Dayna: Of course. Without danger there's no pleasure. Avon: That must limit your range of pleasures a bit. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % "I have had enough excitement for a while. Right now a little boredom wouldn't come amiss." -- Kerr Avon, to Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % "Well, I hope she's not totally insane. Under these circumstances that could be a little bit embarrassing." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Servalan: Stay quite still. Avon: Servalan. Servalan: You don't sound surprised. Avon: 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. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Avon: Where's your ship? Servalan: Plastered over a large area of this miserable planet. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Avon: You should've stayed at Space Command Headquarters. Servalan: The battle was virtually over. A personal appearance is always good politics. Especially for a new president. Avon: Congratulations. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Avon: Why don't you put away the gun? Servalan: Why should I? Avon: Good politics? Servalan: I'd need a better reason. Avon: How about an arrow through the head? (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Servalan: If she fires, the chances are that I would still pull the trigger. Do you want to risk it? Avon: It's out of my hands. Servalan: Perhaps we can come to some arrangement. Dayna: Then you'd better come to it quickly. I've no arrows left for them. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Servalan: In the circumstances, I suggest we forget our differences. Avon: Give me the gun. Servalan: [Tosses it to the ground] That won't stop them. It's empty. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % "It's a great pity that you and I have always been on opposite sides, Servalan." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Avon: Did we win? Mellanby: Still very confused, but there's not much doubt the aliens were virtually wiped out. Avon: Well, the price was high enough, but at least we got what we paid for. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Mellanby: What's left of the Federation fleet, which isn't much, is scattered halfway across the galaxy. I'd say the Federation's in a lot of trouble. Avon: Yes, it's difficult to sustain a military dictatorship when you've lost most of the military. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Mellanby: If it mattered? Blake and the Liberator? I've been hearing reports for the last couple of years. You were magnificent. Avon: Not from where I was sitting. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Mellanby: Servalan? I've heard of her. Yes, she came into power some years after my defection. It's possible she doesn't remember my case. Avon: Don't count on it. Servalan has a long memory. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % "If it comes to the point, I shall take whatever actions are necessary to protect my freedom. For her sake, it would be better that she doesn't remember." -- Hal Mellanby, about Servalan (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Mellanby: They destroyed my optic nerves. This thing gives me partial vision. Avon: I'm sorry. Mellanby: No need. It's an attitude of the mind. Most men see only what they want to see. The difference in my case is that I know that my vision is limited. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Mellanby: No, Dayna, no! Will you never understand? We take life only in the last extreme. Dayna: They look fairly extreme to me. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Mellanby: You see that Dayna and I don't agree on some issues. Dayna: How can I agree? It contradicts everything I've done all my life. We've made the most sophisticated weapons ever known. They are designed to kill. Mellanby: No, Dayna! Dayna: They have no other purpose. Yet you tell me they should never be used? Does that make sense, Avon? Avon: I seldom comment on other people's ethics. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Servalan: Avon, you look worried. Avon: Do I? Servalan: And I thought you were the one who had conquered emotion, replaced feeling with logic. Avon: I don't really care what you thought. Servalan: Oh, you ARE worried, aren't you? (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Avon: Skip the psychology, Servalan, it is not your strong point. Servalan: You think not? You could be right. After all, we're very alike, you and I. Avon: I doubt that. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Servalan: You are ambitious, ruthless ... you want power and you'd never let conscience stand in the way of achieving it. Well? Avon: You overestimate me. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Servalan: You are infinitely corruptible. You'd sell out anybody, wouldn't you? Avon: I don't know; I never really had an offer I felt was worthy of me. Servalan: Then why don't you see if you can find us a drink. We have things to talk about. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Servalan: I'm going to be honest with you. Avon: That should be mildly disconcerting. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % "So Blake's rabble finally get freedom of choice. He won after all." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Servalan: We can do it, Avon. Avon: I know we can. Servalan: We'll be answerable to no one. Ours will be the only voice. Imagination our only limit. Avon: Imagination my only limit? I'd be dead in a week. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Mellanby: But no matter what I do, I think it would be good for Dayna to get away from here. She should experience other worlds, other people. Avon: She could have some surprises coming. Mellanby: She's an intelligent girl. She'll adapt quickly. Avon: I'm sure she will. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Dayna: I'm going nowhere until Servalan is dead. Avon: Unless we find Orac, neither am I. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Dayna: I'm going to kill her now while I've got the chance. Avon: No. Orac is our only hope. We have got to get her out of there. Give me a few minutes to get down there, then start firing. Cause as much panic and confusion as you can, but keep your fire away from Servalan. Dayna: All right. Avon: I don't want you telling me afterwards that it was an accident. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Servalan: First of all, I want a gun. Dayna: No. Avon: There is only one. Servalan: I only want one. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Dayna: There is one thing, perhaps, you haven't accounted for. Servalan: I don't think so. Dayna: I'm going to kill you. Sooner or later. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Servalan: Stay where you are. A pity, Avon. I was willing to share with you. Avon: Killing us at this point was always part of your plan. That's why I gave you the faulty bracelet. Servalan: You're lying. Avon: Look at the casing. It's cracked right across. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % Avon: When we first met, you said there was no pleasure without danger. Do you still feel that way? Dayna: I think I can do without excitement for a little while. (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01]) % "Summary execution is the usual punishment for boarding a Federation ship without authority. What are you doing on my ship?" -- Del Tarrant, to Avon and Dayna (Blake's 7: Aftermath [C01], Powerplay [C2]) % "I'm not really sure about anything." -- Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Powerplay [C2]) /?/ % "Just confirm that you hear me, come in." -- Vila Restal, to Zen (Blake's 7: Powerplay [C2]) /?/ % Cally: Given the choice, would you rather be a load of spare parts down there? Avon: Or one spare part up here? -- to Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Powerplay [C2]) /?/ % "... keep in touch. Heroic rescues can be embarrassing if you're not actually in danger." -- Cally (Blake's 7: Volcano [C3]) % "My classification might be Grade Four Ignorant, but I'm not stupid. I bought that classification from a friend at the Testing Centre." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Volcano [C3]) % "I'd be more inclined to believe that *he* was a Space Captain, than that *you* could have been." -- Kerr Avon, of Del Tarrant, to Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Volcano [C3]) % Vila (of Dayna): Pretty? Yes, I suppose she is. I hadn't really noticed. Avon: We've seen you not really noticing. Frequently. (Blake's 7: Volcano [C3]) % "There isn't a volcano alive that would dare to swallow Avon... he's cold enough to put out the fire anyway." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Volcano [C3]) % "I'd rather be picked up than burned up." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Volcano [C3]) /?/ % "As the Galactic War just demonstrated, aggression seems to be programmed into the human psyche." -- Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Volcano [C3]) /?/ % "I assume your use of the word 'magic' means that I am incomprehensible to you?" -- Orac (Blake's 7: Volcano [C3]) /?/ % "So they'll keep until the rule of law has been restored; until my rule of law has been restored." -- Servalan (Blake's 7: Volcano [C3]) /?/ % "If that's winning, I'll take losing every time." -- Vila (Blake's 7: Volcano [C3]) /?/ % Vila: Hey, there's gravity here. Avon: Gravity? Are you sure? (Blake's 7: Dawn of the Gods [C4]) % "I have noticed that the occupants of this space craft have a lamentable lack of interest in the more fascinating aspects of the Universe." -- Orac (Blake's 7: Dawn of the Gods [C4]) % "The absence of x-rays highlighted a gap in my knowledge of the universe which cannot be tolerated." -- Orac (Blake's 7: Dawn Of The Gods [C4]) /?/ % Charl of the Lord Tharn: How tall is Orac? Tarrant: About so high. Charl of the Lord Tharn: A dwarf! What colour is his hair? Tarrant: He has no hair. Charl of the Lord Tharn: He's bald? Tarrant: A bald-headed dwarf shouldn't be difficult to find. (Blake's 7: Dawn of the Gods [C4]) % "Well, at least Tharn had one thing going for him: he didn't like computers." -- Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Dawn of the Gods [C4]) % "Information: Speed standard by ten." -- Zen (Blake's 7: Dawn Of The Gods [C4]) /?/ % "He who controls gravity, controls everything. We will be rulers of the universe, Cally." -- Lord Thaarn, at Crandor (Blake's 7: Dawn Of The Gods [C4]) /?/ % "My God, we're falling into a black hole!" -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Dawn Of The Gods [C4]) /?/ % "Our hero lives." -- Kerr Avon (on Vila Restal) (Blake's 7: Dawn Of The Gods [C4]) /?/ % "I'm in hell and it's full of Avons!" -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Dawn Of The Gods [C4]) /?/ % "Delay regretted. All commands now require prior verification." -- Zen (Blake's 7: Dawn Of The Gods [C4]) /?/ % "Avon, we're trying to get a consensus." -- Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Harvest of Kairos [C5]) % Orac: Reason is absolute and rationality cannot be divided by comparatives. Avon: Orac, you're splitting hairs. (Blake's 7: The Harvest of Kairos [C5]) /?/ % "In that case, sit down and shut up!" -- Jarvek to President Servalan (Blake's 7: Harvest of Kairos [C5]) % Tarrant: A bit of piracy - we agreed. Vila: Yeah, piracy - not lunacy! (Blake's 7: Harvest of Kairos [C5]) % Servalan: ...unless you'd accept my word? Tarrant: I'd rather accept the business end of a poisonous snake! (Blake's 7: Harvest of Kairos [C5]) % "Orac is a computer like Zen. They react to information." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: The Harvest Of Kairos [C5]) /?/ % "Unimaginative, but so is a punch in the mouth." -- Del Tarrant to Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: The Harvest Of Kairos [C5]) /?/ % Tarrant: I'm sorry Avon, we haven't got time. Avon: No, but we do have a superior spacecraft. (Blake's 7: The Harvest of Kairos [C5]) /?/ % "Tarrant delights in doing things people think he can't." -- Jarvik (to Servalan) (Blake's 7: The Harvest Of Kairos [C5]) /?/ % Avon: Do you really think that you can dock us? Tarrant: I hadn't really considered it. Avon: What?!? Tarrant: I thought we'd all be dead by now. (Blake's 7: Harvest of Kairos [C5]) % "A bit of a know all, aren't you?" -- Vila Restal, to Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: The Harvest Of Kairos [C5]) /?/ % Tarrant: Come on, Vila, you don't mean that. Vila: I know what I mean, and what I mean is no. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: At least think about it. Think about it. Vila: All right. I've thought about it. No. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: I can't make you go, of course. Vila: That's right, you can't. Tarrant: But I can toss you off this ship. Vila: What? Tarrant: You're no use to me. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "I don't have to be any use to you. I was here first. I was with Blake. I've more right on this ship than you have." -- Vila to Tarrant (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: "Right"? No one survives as long as you have, Vila, without learning the facts of life. Vila: The facts of life are that I -- Tarrant: -- are that I can dump you any time. The others wouldn't stop me. And you couldn't, could you? Now I suggest you reconsider your decision. But don't take too long. I'm not a patient man. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "All my life, for as long as I can remember, there's been people like you." -- Vila, of Tarrant (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: All my life, for as long as I can remember, there's been people like you. Tarrant: And I thought I was unique. Vila: You're not even unusual, Tarrant. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: I'll get it for you. Vila: You stay here. Check the teleport coordinates. At least you can't bully a machine into doing what you want. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Cally: What's wrong with Vila? Tarrant: I scared him a little. Cally: That must have been difficult. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: I don't know, maybe outsiders make them nervous. Cally: Did you? Tarrant: Me? Who could be nervous of me? Cally: Only Vila, it seems. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: We've no reason to think they'll harm him. Avon: And less reason to care? (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: I gave them my word. Avon: You didn't give them mine. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Avon: Are you seriously suggesting we send him down there without a tracer? Tarrant: No, I'm seriously suggesting we try and make sure they don't detect it. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Avon: Well? Orac: 'Well' is not a question. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: Let's get on with it, then. Avon: No last minute protests, no sudden illnesses? Vila: Look, I have to go down, he made that very clear. But I don't have to take any rubbish about it from you, all right? (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: I'm not swallowing that. Avon: It's perfectly harmless. It dissolves eventually. Vila: Your hands clean? (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "Wonderful. I'm going to die on a planet that hasn't even got a name any more." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: Ready? Vila: Does it make any difference? (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: They're simple, completely unaggressive people, Vila. You'll be quite safe. Vila: I've only got your word for that. Tarrant: Trust me. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Avon: I don't know how you persuaded him to go, Tarrant. Tarrant: I appealed to his better nature. Avon: He hasn't got one. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Avon: Leave him alone in future. Tarrant: Or? Avon: Do you want me to threaten you? Tarrant: Why not? I haven't had a good laugh in ages. Avon: Sensible. You could die laughing. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Cally: Why are you suddenly so protective towards Vila? Avon: He's irritating, but he's useful. We can easily replace a pilot, but a talented thief is rare. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Avon: So frighten him too much, he's no use to anyone. Tarrant: He wasn't that frightened. Cally: He was terrified. So terrified he might just get himself killed because it's easier than going on. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: I'll take that risk. Cally: It isn't yours to take. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: Do you like being helpless, Cally? Cally: I don't know. I've never tried it. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Cally: Unless they're hiding. But why should they hide? Tarrant: I don't know. Maybe outsiders -- Cally: -- make them nervous? Yes, you said. I'm beginning to wonder how you managed to negotiate with them at all. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "Is that where we're going? It's miles away. I mean why couldn't I have teleported closer in? Hey? They say too much walking's bad for you, you know. Makes you go deaf. Look what it's done for you. Listen, sooner or later one of you's going to have to speak to me. Well, speak to me one of you! All right, that's it. No speak, no walk. My feet hurt and I didn't want to come anyway. 'Course, I'm totally lost, you realize that. Yes, of course you realize that. I don't suppose you'd consider taking me back to where you met me. No, of course you wouldn't. All right, you've talked me into it." -- Vila Restal, to Keezarn natives (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "They say too much walking's bad for you, you know. Makes you go deaf. Look what it's done for you." -- Vila Restal, to silent Keezarn natives (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "All right, you've talked me into it." -- Vila Restal, to silent Keezarn natives (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "Don't touch the box. I don't share Tarrant's faith in simple, unaggressive people." -- Avon to Cally (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "What was that? Sounded like an explosion. Was it an explosion? Do you know what it was? Do you care what it was? Do I care what it was? Why am I talking to myself like this? I wonder what it was though." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: I don't understand it. I was sure we could trust them. I'd have staked my life on it. Cally: You did stake Vila's. Tarrant: Did I really? I'd forgotten. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Dayna: So we haven't got Vila and we haven't got the crystals. What's our next brilliant move? Avon: We persuade his simple unaggressive friends to part with either or both. Tarrant: WE don't; I do. Only this time I'll negotiate with a gun in my hand. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Avon: Orac, can you give me a precise fix on that tracer? Orac: Of course I can. Avon: Where is it then? Orac: Under the box which is ten centimetres from your right hand. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Avon: The stupid idiot. Cally: He palmed it. Dayna: That's not stupid, it's suicidal. Why would he do that? Tarrant: Because he was scared witless. He didn't trust anyone. You were right. I'm sorry, Cally. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Avon: The stupid idiot. Cally: He palmed it. Dayna: That's not stupid, it's suicidal. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: I'll get you for this, Tarrant. I'll tear your arm off and beat you to death with the wet end. I'll get you for this! Kerril: Have you finished? If talking got it done, you'd be a real killer, wouldn't you? (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "I'll get you for this, Tarrant! I'll tear your arm off and beat you to death with the wet end! I'll get you for this!" -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Kerril: What's the matter, killer, lost your nerve? Vila: That's right. Pity I didn't lose my sense of smell as well. Kerril: What's that supposed to mean? Vila: You should try taking a bath sometime, you smell terrible. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Bayban: What took you so long? You must be Vila. It's an honour, sir. Vila: The honour's mine. Bayban: That's what I meant. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: What outfit is it exactly, if you don't mind me asking? Bayban: Oh, I do mind you asking. I mind very much. Vila: I can understand that. Uh, I'm sorry I mentioned it, I - I was just making conversation. I've, um, brought my tools here. What exactly is it you want me to do, just name it, I'm your man. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Bayban: You don't know who I am. Vila: Absolutely not, no idea. You needn't worry about it, I won't ask any questions. Bayban: Small-time thief and failed revolutionary, and you don't know who I am? (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: Ah. Well, if you put it like that, of course I know who you are. You're -- you're, ah -- Bayban: Bayban. Vila: Bayban, yes. Bayban: Bayban the Beserker. Bayban the Butcher. Vila: Bayban the Butcher . . . you're Bayban the Butcher! Oh, no. Bayban: That's better. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: You're top of the Federation's Most Wanted list -- after Blake. Bayban: What do you mean, "after Blake"? I was working my way up that list before he crept out of his creche. WORKING my way up. I didn't take any political shortcuts. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "You have a reputation for straightforward mayhem that's second to none. I've been an admirer of yours for, um, well, for as long as I can remember. Well maybe not that long, I mean, uh, you're not that old, are you? But, uh, then again, you did start very young, didn't you? I think I feel sick." -- a very flustered Vila Restal to Babyan the Butcher (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Bayban: Vila, I like a man who shows respect. You'll enjoy working for me. Vila: Will I? Oh, yes, I will. Of course I will. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "This world and the next? That could mean anything." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Bayban: How long do you need? Vila: I don't know. Bayban: You've got an hour. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Avon: Because he knows what I think of him. Tarrant: You despise him. Avon: Right. But at least I'm consistent about it. I know his value to us, just as he knows mine. (of Vila) (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: Thanks for your support, Dayna. Dayna: Well, they were right. If Vila saw you, who knows what he might do. Run away, give the alarm -- Tarrant: I doubt that. Dayna: So do I. I think he'd try and kill you. That's what I'd do. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Avon: It's a pity we're not all as reliable as Zen. Cally: But I thought you were. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: You see, there are two basic approaches to security. Physical: locks and booby traps, things designed to physically stop you getting in. Then there is the psychological approach. Kerril: Like? Vila: Like you put up a fence with a notice which says that the area is impregnated with swamp fever and you'll get galloping knee- rot if you try to go inside. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: An indestructible block. A combination of both the psychological and the physical, one reinforcing the other. Elegant, my friend, simply elegant. Kerril: So what is it? Vila: Eh? Oh, it's just a simple forcefield. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Kerril: When I first came in -- how did you know I was here? Vila: I heard you. Kerril: No, you didn't. Vila: Psychic. Kerril: For a thief, you lie badly. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: [to Norl] What were you looking so pleased about? Bayban isn't going to share whatever's in there, you know. Norl: That's true. Bayban will not share it. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "You better listen to me. I'll tell him you were in here. I'll tell him it's all a plot. You're just using him to get that open. Yes. You know how he'd react to that, don't you? You don't mean that really is what's going on? That'd make you crazier than him." -- Vila to Norl (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Kerril: According to the locals, this lot is thousands of years old. You sound as though you're expecting to meet this character. Vila: He may be dead, but he's still trying to outthink me. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "He may be dead, but he's still trying to outthink me." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: Keep behind me. Step where I step, and don't touch anything. Right? Kerril: Right. What are you expecting him to do? Vila: I'm expecting him to try and kill us. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Avon: Grenade! [baddies take cover] Don't move. It must have been a dud. Sorry about that. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Voice: I suggest you make peace with whatever gods you recognize, as I will try to make peace with mine. I bid you farewell. And I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. Vila: Not a chance. I'd like to think he suffocated after making that recording, but I doubt it. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "I don't believe in suicide. It stunts your growth." -- Vila Restal to Kerril (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: He's in worse trouble than we thought. Bayban's as bad as you can find. Avon: I've heard of him. Tarrant: I've met him. He's the type that gives crime a bad name. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "He's the type that gives crime a bad name." -- Del Tarrant of Bayban the Butcher (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Dayna: Are you sure those three guards can't give the alarm? Avon: Not unless they can do it in their sleep. Dayna: You should have killed them. Avon: Probably. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Cally: They could sleep through a war. Tarrant: That's good, because if it is Bayban down there, a war is what we'll have. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "Gaudy, but effective." -- Tarrant, of Dayna's latest weapon (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: We're still alive. Kerril. Kerril, we're still alive! We should be dead by now. Kerril: Are you bragging or complaining? (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: The air's as fresh as ever. Do you know what that means? Kerril: We're going to die of exhaustion. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Kerril: Can I do anything? Vila: Keep the sweat out of my eyes. Kerril: Right. Vila: No, don't do that, your legs are bad for my concentration. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Cally: It's an open ground weapon. You should know that. Bayban: I do know that. Cally: You'd have to be insane to use it, then. Bayban: Well maybe that's it. Maybe I am insane. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "Bloodthirsty little maniac, aren't you?" -- Kerr Avon to Bayban the Butcher (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "Hello, Bayban. I heard a rumor you were dead. Funny, that turns out to be true." -- Del Tarrant to Babyan the Butcher (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Bayban: Do I know you? Tarrant: That's the trouble with celebrities. They never remember the little people. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Avon: How would you like me to let some fresh air into that rancid little brain of yours? Bayban: Go ahead. You'd be famous. The man who killed Bayban. Cally: I'd quite like to be famous, too. How about the woman that killed Bayban? Dayna: Or better still, the girl who killed Bayban. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "How would you like me to let some fresh air into that rancid little brain of yours?" -- Kerr Avon to Bayban the Butcher (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "All right then, give me a good reason. I'm a reasonable man. I'll accept a good reason. I'll accept a bad reason. I'll accept any damn reason at all, just tell me what the hell it is I'm meant to have done." -- Vila to Kerril (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "Oh, please. Can't we stop fighting now? Of all the things I enjoy doing, quarreling with you comes five hundred and seventy-fourth on my list." -- Vila to Kerril (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Cally: Vila, we thought we'd lost you. Avon: But every silver lining has a cloud. Vila: I'd say you got that wrong, except I know you didn't. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: But there's nothing there worth stealing. No, listen. You know why I neutralize security systems, open safes, and break into vaults? It's because I can and most people can't. Kerril: To satisfy your ego. Vila: No, not really. It's just that, it's what makes me, me. Kerril, a thief isn't what I am, it's WHO I am. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "A thief isn't what I am, it's WHO I am." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: That enough? Avon: Yes. I'm impressed. Vila: Wonderful. That makes it all worthwhile. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Tarrant: [of Vila] What's the matter with him? Dayna: If I thought that was a serious question, I'd be very worried about you. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: I think I've just made the biggest mistake of my life. Orac: In the light of your previous record, that seems unlikely. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % Vila: I think I've just made the biggest mistake of my life. Orac: In the light of your previous record, that seems unlikely. I would predict that there are far greater mistakes waiting to be made by someone with your obvious talent for them. Vila: Shut up, Orac. [Pulls key] Still, it's a comforting thought. Let's hope they've all got good legs. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6]) % "The Himalayas are quite tall at this time of the year." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Cally: So it's just revenge you're after? Avon: Just and sweet. (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Cally: You two, you approve of this? Tarrant: In the absence of a more pressing engagement. Avon: I am not asking THEM to kill him. Cally: But pointless revenge, it doesn't achieve anything. (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Avon: The trouble with the people of Auron is that they all suffer from a superiority complex. Vila: You should get on well with them, then. (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Avon: Too good to become involved with the rest of humanity. Cally: That's not true. Just because we happen to be neutral doesn't necessarily -- Avon: Neutrality or passivism, it all boils down to the same gutless inanity. Cally: You're wrong. (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Vila: "Gutless inanity." I like it. What's it mean? (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Dayna: So what happened? Were you overruled? Avon: The great passive majority psyched them into line. Telepathic communion is a wonderful thing. (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Vila: And the Aurons punished you for your defiance, didn't they? Tarrant: Were you exiled? Cally: Yes. Why do you imagine I've never gone back? Affection for him? (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Avon: Just like that? Tarrant: A democracy. You're outvoted, Avon. Three to two. Vila: Four to one. I like to stay with the winners whenever possible. (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Avon: This is crass stupidity. Tarrant: Not from Cally's side of the scanner. (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Avon: Emotional ties - we cannot risk the Liberator for sentiment. Tarrant: As long as Cally is part of this crew, she has full call on your loyalty and support, no matter what the risks. Avon: You are forgetting that the Aurons rejected her. They sent her into exile. Tarrant: You were exiled from Earth. Avon: I go back as an executioner. Tarrant: And you really believe revenge should rate a higher priority than mercy? (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Avon: We know all that. Orac: Since I lack sensors to assess what is or is not in your mind, I cannot assess what is or is not already known to you. (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Cally: There's nothing Orac can tell you that I can't. Avon: Maybe not, but dispassionately, without prejudice or emotion. (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Cally: So what's Orac's dispassionate assessment? A trap? Avon: We haven't got that far. (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Cally: We're wasting valuable time, why don't we dock now? Avon: Security. Cally: But this is a mercy mission, not a war. Vila: Those bugs could hit us too, you know. (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Deral: If I help you, I'm finished with Servalan. Vila: Friend, you're dead meat to her anyway. (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % "They stand about as much chance as a bubble in a black hole." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % "You lied. You lied to me. They were mine. I felt them die." -- Servalan (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Dayna: What about Cally? Do you think she'll want to go with them? Avon: Cally will stay with us. We are closer to her than they are. Besides, a nursery of five thousand, would you want to go with them? (Blake's 7: Children of Auron [C7]) % Dayna (to Shrinker): You killed someone he loved. Vila: And there aren't many of them about. Avon's not a very loveable man, in case you hadn't noticed. (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % Cally: Stop it, stop it, all of you! Tarrant: He's an animal. Cally: Yes, and it's contagious, isn't it. (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % "Trust is only dangerous when you have to rely on it." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % Shrinker: What's in it for me? Avon: A way out. Shrinker: I don't trust you. Avon: That's your problem. (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % Shrinker: Why should I trust you? Avon: Because I have the gun. (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % Anna: Why do I never know what you're thinking? Avon: I could never say it. (Blake's 7: Rumours Of Death [C8]) /?/ % "Oh, and I'm a man of my word. In the end, that's all there is really." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % Avon: You know the worst thing about Orac? Dayna: He's too useful to destroy. Avon: Irritating, isn't it? (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % "Dignity, Councillor, at all costs, dignity." (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % "Some days are better than others, Section Leader." (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % "A visit to Servalan appeals to me rather less than going bald or breaking both legs." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % "I only drink to be sociable. Cheers, Orac!" -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % Servalan: Go to hell, Avon. Avon: Probably. (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % Avon: Of all the things I had known myself to be, I never recognized the fool. Anna: It wasn't all lies. I let you go, my love. (Blake's 7: Rumours Of Death [C8]) % Avon: Of all the things I have known myself to be, I never recognised the fool. Anna: It wasn't all lies... I let you go. Avon: Oh no, you never let me go - you never did. (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % Avon: Servalan was planning on sending you a corpse. Vila (handing Avon a drink): Corpse revival? Avon: But the rumours of my death - Tarrant: Have been greatly exaggerated. Avon: Well, slightly exaggerated, anyway. (Blake's 7: Rumours of Death [C8]) % Vila: You look terrible. Avon: So I've been told. (Blake's 7: Rumours Of Death [C8]) /?/ % "She is after all, a tasteless megalomaniac." -- Sula, on Servalan (Blake's 7: Rumours Of Death [C8]) /?/ % Avon: (through door) Cally! Cally: What is it? Avon: Well, it looks like a door, and it's closed. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Cally: I'm all right. Avon: No you're not. But you will be. Regret is part of being alive. But keep it a small part. Cally: As you do? Avon: (smiling) Demonstrably. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % "Regret is part of being alive. But keep it a small part." -- Kerr Avon to Cally (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Tarrant: We signal it? Avon: Give me a reason. Tarrant: A reason? It's out there. Avon: In other words, you're bored. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Cally: (after firing her gun) I saw something. I think it must have been my reflection. Vila: You can take modesty too far, you know. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % "One of us just fired at something that wasn't there. Maybe we've triggered something else that is." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % "I hate to say this, but I think Vila's right." -- Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Dayna: You were incidental. Vila: Incidental? That will look good on my gravestone. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) /?/ % Vila: My experience of aliens hasn't exactly been warming. Tarrant: Your experiences with humans hasn't been particularly glowing either. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) /?/ % Avon: You're over-reacting. Cally: Probably. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) /?/ % Avon: Shut up, Tarrant. Tarrant: Did you say something to me? Avon: I said 'shut up'. I apologise for not realising you are deaf. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Tarrant: When you found me on the Liberator it was quite a blow. And everytime you look at me it hits you harder, doesn't it? I'm faster than you and I'm sharper. As far as it goes I've made a success of my life. But you, the only big thing you tried to do, you failed at. The greatest computer swindle of all time and you couldn't quite pull it off, could you? It it hadn't been for Blake you'd be rotting on Cygnus Alpha right now. No, you failed, Avon. But I win. Not just at games. At life. Avon: You also talk too much. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Avon: You also talk too much. Tarrant: Be thankful I'm restricting myself to talk. Avon: Well, now, that's fascinating - you mean you can do something else? (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Tarrant: (sarcastically) And tomorrow, everything will look different. Avon: If it does, you can assume you're on the wrong ship. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % "I left my world to wander in this endless midnight sky; for space is just a starry night where no suns ever rise." -- Dayna's song (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Vila: My head's killing me. Tarrant: You should learn self-defence. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Vila: You're always getting at me! Dayna: Your helplessness brings out my sadistic streak. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % "That one interests me. He has a very high IQ and yet he acts like an imbecile. He'll make an ideal pet." -- the alien of Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % "You claim you can kill me. You'd better get on with it. Make me die. There's nothing else you can make me do." -- Kerr Avon to the alien (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Vila: That doesn't make sense to me. Dayna: Well, then, obviously it's the right answer. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Dayna: What a revolting thought! Vila: You should be used to those. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Tarrant: Are you sure you're up to this, Cally? Avon: Translated, that means 'How do you feel?' (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) % Tarrant: Avon, do you want to forget I said all that? Avon: It wasn't particularly memorable. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) /?/ % Avon: So you're alive? Dayna: I shouldn't be, I don't deserve to be. (Blake's 7: Sarcophagus [C9]) /?/ % Avon: Don't you find it interesting? Dayna: You'll be telling us next we could learn alot from whoever built it. Avon: Well, we certainly have nothing to teach them, unless it's how to remain ignorant. (Blake's 7: Ultraworld [C10]) % "Which lock can't be opened by a key? An airlock." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Ultraworld [C10]) /?/ % "I wish I knew what was going on." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Ultraworld [C10]) % Avon: You mean Vila spouted nonsense. Vila: I resent that! Avon: Oh, I wouldn't if I were you. Orac is saying that a logical, rational intelligence is no match for yours. (Blake's 7: Ultraworld [C10]) % "I fail to see why I should take part in a meaningless, illogical conversation; it does not make sense, and is therefore a waste of my time. I am shutting down." -- Orac, to Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Ultraworld [C10]) /?/ % "We can't plan for something of which we have no Earthly knowledge." -- Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Ultraworld [C10]) /?/ % "We have to believe if we hope to survive." -- Dayna Mellanby, to Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Ultraworld [C10]) /?/ % Tarrant: What would Servalan want with a penal colony? Avon: Who knows? Perhaps she wants to compare notes with some other genocidal maniacs - or take a refresher course in basic brutality. (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) % "If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you inconvenience me with questions?" -- Orac (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) % "No to whatever it was!" -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) % Dayna: Isn't this a bit precipitous? Avon: Tarrant is always precipitous, or hadn't you noticed? (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) % "Servalan's down here for a reason. I want to find out what that reason is and then I want to kill her. It's all very simple." -- Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) % "I didn't cross the galaxy to watch an assortment of planetary flotsam bedding down on a crater." -- Servalan (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) % "Master computer. Sees all, hears all, and ocassionally says something." -- Section Leader Grose, of Moloch (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) % Vila: (pointing gun at Servalan) Right. Now then. Servalan: No Vila. Untie me and then we can help each other. Vila: I never imagined you as the sort that would grovel for her life. Servalan: I'm not grovelling, you fool, I mean it. Vila: You *are* grovelling. Servalan: I am not! (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) % "Yes, Vila, I take your point. You're obviously far cleverer than I am." -- Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) % Vila: What? Where're we going? Tarrant: To destroy a computer. Vila: Why? Tarrant: It knows too much about me. (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) % Dayna: Do we fight? Avon: Certianly not. We run! (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) % Avon: Is it hostile? Zen: The word 'hostile' is not objective. (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) /?/ % "Collision imminent." -- Zen (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) /?/ % Cally: What sort of answer is that? Orac: A succinct one. (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) /?/ % "One way or another, you're coming with me." -- Del Tarrant, to Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Moloch [C11]) /?/ % Karla: You're taller than I expected. Deeta: I usually stand in a hole. (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % "Come on Tarrant, I could have worked it out on my fingers by now." -- Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % "Move any faster you'll break into a standstill." -- Dayna Mellanby to Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % "Oh, what an interesting piece of news Vila. There's nothing like someone else's war to take your mind off your own." -- Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % "You can do it any way you like, so long as you put it on the main screen." -- Kerr Avon to Orac (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % "Are you sure you can't redesign him as something useful, like a drinks dispenser? Or an empty space, I think he'd look really good as an empty space." -- Vila to Avon about Orac (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % "Space, `the final frontier,' as it was once called." -- broadcast announcer (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % "Follow me, men. We have one hero and one dead man to meet and as yet no way to tell which is which." -- Commentator (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % "Her idea of chivalry is never to shoot a blind man in the back." -- Vila Restal of Servalan (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % Vinni: You're not good enough to get past me Tarrant. Deeta: You're going to look pretty silly flat on your back with a face full of footprints. (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % Vinni: My name is Vinni. I've come to kill you. You're a dead man Tarrant. Deeta: They're the worst kind. (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % Cally: No joyous multitude? Vila: No joyous anybody. I've seen more life in a prison blanket. (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % Cally: Have a little patience Vila. Vila: What for? All that ever gets you is older. (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % Servalan: Naturally. Avon: Oh no, not 'naturally' Madame President. You don't naturally answer a question from an enemy, who has no natural right to ask it. (Blake's 7: Death-Watch [C12]) % "But I don't think of you as an enemy Avon. I think of you as a future friend." -- Servalan, to Avon (Blake's 7: Death-Watch [C12]) % "You came a long way to be thrilled, didn't you Vila?" -- Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Death-Watch [C12]) % "Let's see if you're as fast with your gun as you are with your mouth." -- Deeta Tarrant to Vinni (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % Avon: I presume you have no tedious scruples about cheating and lying. Tarrant: None at all. Avon: Oh good. (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % Max: You're a fool, Del. Tarrant: It's a family trait, Max. (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % "Look, are you going to tell us why or are you just going to glow quietly to yourself?" -- Vila Restal to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % "As ever, Dayna. Gaudy but effective." -- Del Tarrant remarking on a new gun (Blake's 7: Death Watch [C12]) % Dayna: How is your friend? Avon: Sick as ever. -- about Servalan (Blake's 7: Death-Watch [C12]) % "With a brain like mine, who needs computers?" -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "Sentiment breeds weakness, let it get hold of you and you are dead." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % Tarrant: How do we approve of something we don't know about? Avon: You could try trusting me. (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % Tarrant: Alright Avon. We'll try trusting you. Just don't expect us to make a habit of it. Avon: I don't. (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % Tarrant: Where are we going, Avon? Avon: Profound philosophical questions never really interested me. (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "Sooner or later, you're going to tell us Avon." -- Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) /?/ % Cally: He was going to kill you! Tarrant: I got that distinct impression. -- about Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "Understand this: Anyone who does follow me, I'll kill them." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % Vila: Avon isn't going to like this. Dayna: Avon isn't going to know about it. Vila: I wouldn't like to bet my life on that! (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % Vila: What are you going to do if he spots you? Tarrant: Duck. (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "It's been nice talking to you." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "From here on it's downhill all the way." -- Del Tarrant, to Cally (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "Blake is alive.." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "Computer circuits have now been re-routed, and as requested, are on-line." -- Zen, to Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "I have failed you." -- Zen (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % Avon: Blake? Blake: Well, you certainly took your time finding me. (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % Blake: Careful Avon, your sentiment is showing. Avon: That's your imagination. (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "Death is something that he and I faced together on a number of occasions. I always thought that his death and mine might be linked in some way." -- Kerr Avon, to Servalan, on Roj Blake (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "I have Blake, I have you; call the ship." -- Servalan, to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "The creature you saw is not what man developed from, it is what man will become." -- Servalan, to Cally (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "Blake is dead.." -- Servalan, to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "It means a lot to me, I built it. It's a sculpture." -- Vila Restal about Orac (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "You should always be careful about getting a second-hand spacecraft." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "Let's see if we can't find a way off this planet. There's a lot to do." -- Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "Sentiment breeds weakness, let it get hold of you and you are dead." -- Kerr Avon, to Cally (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % Avon: You mean after I get you out of the mess you've got yourself into, just like old times? Blake: Not that easy this time. (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % "No, she didn't win. We all came out losers." -- Del Tarrant, to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) % Avon: You and the rest of the crew owe me. Tarrant: Oh we do? Avon: And I am calling in the debt. (Blake's 7: Terminal [C13]) /?/ % "Relax. Your problems are over." -- Dorian (Blake's 7: Rescue [D1]) % "You know what they say, no good deed goes unpunished." -- Kerr Avon, to Dorian (Blake's 7: Rescue [D1]) % "I shouldn't drink so much wine. I'll be seeing pink asteroids next." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Rescue [D1]) % Dayna: Don't you ever get bored, always being right? Avon: Only with you always being wrong. (Blake's 7: Rescue [D1]) % "A statement of fact cannot be insolent." -- Orac to Dorian (Blake's 7: Rescue [D1]) % "There is something very suspicious about a man who keeps his booze under lock and key." -- Vila Restal of Dorian (Blake's 7: Rescue [D1]) % "Just goes to prove what I've always said, stealing's quicker." -- Vila Restal, to Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Rescue [D1]) % Dayna: Why call a computer Slave? Dorian: A joke I suppose. (Blake's 7: Rescue [D1]) /?/ % "Beneath that cold exterior beats a heart of pure stone." -- Dayna Mellanby, about Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Rescue [D1]) % "The group remains, bound together by time and pain, and the need to survive." -- Dorian, about Kerr Avon, Vila Restal, Del Tarrant, and Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Rescue [D1]) /?/ % "Must be brain warp. I think I'll just go off and die somewhere." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Power [D2]) % "The feat of calculation was prodigious; the result imperfect." -- Orac (Blake's 7: Power [D2]) /?/ % Avon: You give your allegiance easily? Soolin: I don't give my allegiance at all. I sell my skill. (Blake's 7: Power [D2]) /?/ % Vila: Blake would have been proud of you, you know. Avon: I know. But then, he never was very bright. (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) % Soolin: What did you do? Vila: What any skilled technician does with solid state circuitry, you kick the living quartz out of it. (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) /?/ % "Tarrant has about as much subtlety as a Targian Warg Strangler." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) % "Tarrant is brave, young, handsome - there are three good reasons for anyone not to like him." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) % "It looks as though we're stuck here, Tarrant - I knew I should have brought my night-clothes." -- Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) % "So Orac's thick - we all know that!" -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) % Vila: And if you're wrong? Avon: If I'm wrong you can say 'I told you so' - provided you speak loudly and quickly. (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) % Leits: How many people have you killed to conceal your secret? Sleer: You mean up till now? (kills him) Twenty-six... so far. (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) % "Surface launch, master." -- Slave (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) /?/ % "Vila, I won't run." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) /?/ % Vila: Everyone came from Earth originally, that's a well-known fact. Soolin: That's a well-known opinion, actually. Tarrant: Most well-known facts are. (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) /?/ % One of the almost human things about Orac, is that it does not like to work." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) /?/ % "The art of leadership is delegation." -- Orac, to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) /?/ % Dayna: We've just seen an old friend of yours. Tarrant: An implacable old friend. -- to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Traitor [D3]) /?/ % "Training manual rule one: Never play with asteroids. They're what Murphy's Law's all about." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Slave: I, uh, don't wish to speak out of turn but we're on a converging collision course with a large - Avon: We know. Slave: I'm sorry, Master, but as asteroids go - Avon: Don't be sorry, be quiet. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Avon: Now if anyone has a better idea, I'd like to hear it. Vila: I wish I'd kept my mouth shut. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "There won't be anything left of us to detect unless we match velocity and course now." -- Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "There are times when even the most cynical must trust in luck." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Avon: Slave, initiate the backup system. Slave: I'm very sorry about this, but that WAS the backup system. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "Look, Avon, I know I suggested it, but I told you it wouldn't work, not under these conditions -" -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Tarrant: How do you carry out a delicate repair operation wearing a spacesuit and gauntlets? Vila: I don't. Dayna: Nobody does. It's impossible. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "Nobody does. It's impossible. It's like using an asteroid as cover to enter the Altern planetary system. Maybe next time you'll listen to reason, if there IS a next time, which seems unlikely." -- Dayna Mellanby, to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "Oh! By the time the oxygen runs out, we'll be bored as well as dead." -- Soolin (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Vila: And how about my cold, calculating Soolin? I'd like to see you unbend just a little before we're all ... all ... Dayna: Sometimes, Vila, you can be quite disgusting. Vila: Not so, my lovely. I can be disgusting all the time. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "It's easy. Easy as colliding with an asteroid, eh, Avon?" -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Vila: You know, they say all your life passes in front of you when you're about to, about to... y'know. It's what's happening to me now. All my past life.... Avon: That's one misfortune we don't have to share. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Soolin: Out of the mouths of drunks ... Vila: Drunk? Who's drunk? Dayna: You are. Vila: Show me how to get drunk on plain water and I won't waste time. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Dayna: Well, then why pretend? Vila: Because, my lovely Dayna and Soolin, no one ever tells someone who's drunk to volunteer. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "It's weird, like being in space without a spacesuit." -- Del Tarrant, to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Slave: I'm very sorry to disturb you, but I think I've detected a patrol. Vila: If they detect us, I have this feeling that the last thing they'll do is surrender. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Soolin: The three ships just exploded. Tarrant: They what? Dayna: I know it sounds crazy but they just blew up by themselves. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Avon: Well, Orac, what do you think? Orac: I think you have brought back a most fascinating recording. Avon: We are looking for conclusions, not critical acclaim. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Tarrant: What we want to know is how three ships can suddenly blow up by themselves. Orac: If that had happened I would want an answer to the same question. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Avon: So what you're trying to tell us, Orac, is that those ships did NOT blow up by themselves. Orac: I am not TRYING to tell you anything. I am simply not interested in attempting to compensate for your amazing lack of observation. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "I am not TRYING to tell you anything. I am simply not interested in attempting to compensate for your amazing lack of observation." -- Orac (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Dayna: Well, as Vila says, nothing can travel at that speed in real time. It is impossible. Orac: Nothing COULD and it WAS impossible. It is necessary for your statement to be rephrased, using the past tense. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % 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. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "They're maniacs, psychopaths! All they live for is sex and violence, booze and speed. And the fellows are just as bad." -- Vila Restal, on Space Rats (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Vila: We had a couple in the penal colony once. They were always trying to frighten me. Dayna: And they never succeeded, of course. -- on Space Rats (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Dayna: What were they imprisoned for? Vila: Breaking into transport museums. When the Federation banned all leisure transport, they went in for stealing anything on wheels or could fly. They were speed crazy, and I do mean crazy. -- on Space Rats (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Vila: Now look, I've tangled with just about every ugly in the book since I got involved with you lot, but I draw the line at Space Rats. Tarrant: Go on. Vila: Well, they have no respect for life. They're based on an ancient Earth sect of unbelievable viciousness. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Dayna: What are our chances, Orac? Orac: One hundred percent better than your chances of getting anywhere else if you don't obtain a new space drive for the ship within three months. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Vila: Can't we think about this? Avon: As much as you like, once we're underway. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Vila: Supposing they come at us with one of their space choppers? Avon: There's no point in worrying about that. Vila: No? After what happened to those Federation ships? Avon: Because we won't know anything about it. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "You're wasting your time. They won't have radio. The only technology they're interested in is on wheels or flies or goes bang." -- Vila Restal, on Space Rats (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Vila: You know what they're up to right now? Dayna: What? Vila: Right now they're trying to make up their minds which piece of nastiness they're going to send up to zap us with. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Dayna: Oh, surely they won't risk an attack without finding out first what it is they are going to attack. Vila: Oh, that's the logical way of thinking. But those psychopaths down there are Space Rats. Their philosophy is simple: if it moves, zap it. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Avon: Soolin, set teleport coordinates. Vila: And set them properly. Not in the middle of a lake or something. Soolin: The state the final guidance is in you'll be lucky not to end up in space on a reciprocal coordinate. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Dayna: What are they? Vila: THEY are the Space Rats. Dayna: What are they riding? Vila: Oh, I dunno. If it moves on wheels, they steal it, and if it doesn't move on wheels, they zap it. They don't like complications. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "Dayna's sharp and she handles a gun quite well, considering her sheltered upbringing." -- Soolin (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "Well, at least we've got the advantage of surprise." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) (funny how they always say that precisely when they don't have that advantage) % "Bomber! Two gooks outside. Fetch, but don't bend, I might want to talk with them." -- Atlan (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Vila: Wonder what this thing does? Bomber: [pointing gun at them] Tell you what this does - gook. It goes bang. And you go splat. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Plaxton: What's the matter with your main drive? Tarrant: It's a museum piece. (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % "We can outrun that bolt. She's dead either way." -- Kerr Avon, about Dr. Plaxton (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Dayna: What about Dr. Plaxton? Avon: Who? (Blake's 7: Stardrive [D4]) % Tarrant: I only hope your mad scientist is going to be worth the trouble. Dayna: Nothing mad about Justin. At least there wasn't, the last time I saw him. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Tarrant: Will he remember you? Dayna: I should hope so. -- on Justin (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Tarrant: Ready for teleport. Dayna: Ready as I'll ever be. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Slave: I'm sorry to bother you, sir. Tarrant: Yes, what is it? Slave: I had detected federation pursuit ships. Tarrant: Danya, respond please. Danya, can you hear me?. Slave, check for malfunction. Slave: I can find no trace of one, sir. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Slave: Sorry, sir. Tarrant: And don't keep saying you're sorry. Slave: Sorry, sir. Tarrant: Don't! What the hell. Preliminary damage survey, Slave. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % "Still playing with your guns, Dayna?" -- Justin (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % "It's nice to see you. You look very well. I would say beautiful but I'm a scientist and we're supposed to be short on emotion and that sort of thing, aren't we? But I will say you look quite beautiful, my - " -- Justin (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Avon: Absolutely not, maintain your present course, abandon Dayna, keep running for base and bring that ship back. It will take us quite long enough to repair the damage you have already done. Tarrant: What do you mean, the damage I've done? (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Justin: Unless the federation have become pacifists, it has to be war. Dayna: If they were pacifists, the problem wouldn't exist. Justin: And it is a problem for which you see yourselves as the solution. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Justin: I once worked for the Federation. Dayna: Did you? Justin: Yes. And I liked their proposition even less than I like yours. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Justin: Of course, if you wanted to stay on your own, that would be different. Dayna: Would it? Justin: Yes. You know it would. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Orac: Sixty percent capacity is now restored. The fault in anti-grav gyro remains. Vila: We know it remains, we're trying to find it, aren't we, plastic brain? (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Vila: Sounds very messy. Now look! You can drown in that filthy muck down there. Tarrant: Hmm, smells lovely. Vila: No, it doesn't. It's disgusting. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Avon: Well, somebody has to go down and you are the one with the delicate touch, Vila. Tarrant: Magic hands. You've often said so yourself. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Vila: Why do I get all the dirty jobs? Soolin: Typecasting? (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Vila: This isn't fair, you know. Avon: No. It's pretty foul by the look of it. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Tarrant: Aw, cheer up, Vila, you can have a hot tub when you come out, whether you need one or not. Vila: All right, I'll do it. Anything is better than listening to your jokes. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % "Very well. Let me explain the scenario if you do not. I take it you do not care for your own life. But you have a family. I can rearrange their future quite dramatically, if you so insist." -- Servalan, to Ardus (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Ardus: I know your voice. You are...you are - I am sure of it. Servalan: Be very careful what you are sure of, or I may lose my patience. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Ardus: Under protest, I give the information under protest. Servalan: It is noted. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Ardus: If I seemed to make a mistake in mentioning Servalan, I am sorry. An old man's memory is suspect, Commissioner Sleer. Especially an old man whose eyes were burned from his head. Servalan: Naturally, it is forgotten. Ardus: I know Servalan is now a non-person. I was incorrect in mentioning her name. Servalan: You were, but as I say, it is forgotten. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Servalan: When you dispatched Ardus here to me, did his pilot file a flight plan? Borr: No Commissioner, everything was as you instructed. Servalan: They never arrived here Borr. Borr: But they must have done. Servalan: I suggest you make sure that your connection with their disappearance is never discovered. Without any records to back you up, it might be hard to explain. Borr: There's no cause for concern, Commissioner. I was - very discreet. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Dayna: You're so rational about it all. Justin: Not as rational as you might think Dayna. Quite emotional, really. Dayna: I don't believe it. Justin: Oh, its true. [Places his hand on hers.] It's absolutely true. I only wish it wasn't. Dayna: Why? Justin: Oh, I've been on my own on this planet so long now... I don't think I can cope with people any more. Dayna: Yes, you can. Justin: Can I? Dayna: Yes. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Vila: Is that all the thanks I get? Not even a glass of wine? Soolin: We've used the best of it up. Correction: YOU'VE used the best of it up. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Tarrant: It's lucky you didn't get cleaned up. Soolin: Or boozed up. Vila: Would you settle for fed up? It's somebody else's turn. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Vila: A glass of wine when I come up or I don't do it at all. Avon: Half a glass. Vila: Before I go down? Avon: Don't push your luck. Vila: What luck? (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % "Captain, I want you to make sure we're ready to lift off this mud ball at the first sign of trouble." -- Servalan (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Avon: If we're going to Bucol Two we shall need all the fire power we can muster. Soolin: So long as your remember we're smoke if they get to us. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Vila: Then it's dead stupid of us to go there, right? Dead being the operative word. Tarrant: Dayna is there. Vila: And I'm sorry about that, but I don't see why I should be punished for your guilty conscience. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Vila: Would twenty-four hours kill us? Soolin: It might kill Dayna. Avon: Or it might put her into the hands of the Federation. At which point this base loses its value. Get what you need. I want to lift off within an hour. (Blake's 7: Animals [D5]) % Avon: What's happening? Tarrant: Slave appears to have thrown off his chains. (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) % Vila: I suppose we should let them know what's happened? Tarrant: Not we, you. (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) /?/ % Avon: Well? Soolin: Not very, by the look of it. (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) /?/ % "They fired intercepter missiles at the ship, I'd say that was a reasonable imitation." -- Soolin (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) /?/ % "All organic humanoid life throughout the galaxy is at hazard." -- Orac, to Soolin (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) /?/ % "Try not to be stupid." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) /?/ % "It is vital that you render me inoperative!" -- Orac, to Soolin (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) /?/ % Vila: A little hard work never hurt anyone. Tarrant: How would you know? (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) % "Is this a private game, or can anyone play?" -- Soolin, to Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) % Vila: We've been looking for you. Soolin: In there? (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) % Orac: It would be prudent to worry about the details now. Avon: When did you start offering gratuitous advice? Orac: It is not gratuitous. (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) /?/ % "Where is Orac??" -- Muller (at Xenon base) (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) % "Enslavement or elimination, a clear choice." -- Muller, to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) % Tarrant: Logic or intuition? Vila: Observation. (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) /?/ % "Accept slavery, or return to the caves." -- Orac, to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) % Orac: Join us Soolin - we can fulfill your every desire. Soolin: You wouldn't know where to start. (Blake's 7: Headhunter [D6]) % Vila: It's important, all right. You all quite comfortable? Avon: Vila! Vila: Then, ladies and gentlemen, for your edification and delight, the voice you all know and love... (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % "Well now you've had your moment of glory, do you think we could hear what the lady has to say?" -- Del Tarrant to Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Tarrant: Domo the ninth? Vila: Son of Domo the Eighth, presumably. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Tarrant: So who is he? Avon: I've no idea. No, I mean it. I don't know who he is, how old he is, what he looks like, or where he comes from, but I do know what he does. Tarrant: And what's that? Avon: He kills people - for a great deal of money. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Servalan: No. I want you to lay in a course for the planet Domo. Captain: That's not a very healthy place to visit, ma'am. Servalan: I have a robust constitution, Captain. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Dayna: A hired assassin with Servalan as his utilizer - why? Avon: I don't want to seem paranoid, but the tape said five subjects. You may use your fingers, if you like, Vila. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Tarrant: He's good, is he, this Cancer? Avon: You can imagine how much it hurts me to use the word infallible. Tarrant: Oh, come on. Nobody's infallible. Avon: All right, then he's not infallible. It's just that up to now, he has never failed. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % "Servalan has lived altogether too long. Cancer is a professional. With his paymistress dead, he will pack up his toys and go home." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Vila: Friendly looking lot aren't they? Are you sure you can manage them on your own? Avon: Perhaps you'd better come with me. Vila: Oh - well, if you like - but it's bad luck to change your plans, you know. I mean, once you've started. Avon: [smiles] My hero. Just keep your head down and try not to panic. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Benos: Well - what sort of help were you thinking of? Avon: Well, you know; food, water. Benos: Well, I think we can manage that, don't you lads? Food, water, nice dry sleeping quarters. Avon: Thank you. It'll just be for tonight. Benos: Oh no, no, no, this'll be board and lodging for a lifetime. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Soolin: So it all went according to plan, did it? Vila: Oh yes, wonderful. First they beat him to a pulp, then they dragged him off. Tarrant: It was his idea. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Servalan: The young one. I want him. Verlis: I'm sorry, Commissioner. I can break the rules in private, not in public. Servalan: I want him! You can name your price. Verlis: You'll have to bid for him like anyone else. (about Avon) (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % "One moment, gentlemen. A late addition. Perhaps you'd like to send back a few details to your clients, especially the ladies. Now I know he looks soft, and he talks soft, too, but you can tell the ladies he's strong enough to work all day and still have plenty of energy left over for any little chores you might have for him in the evenings. Now, what am I bid?" -- Benos, about Avon (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Servalan: Avon. Avon: Servalan. Servalan: I think, if you don't mind, I would prefer my slave to address me as `mistress'. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Dayna: I almost had her. [Raging] I almost had her!! Avon: Almost is never good enough. Tarrant: Servalan? Dayna: Servalan. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Tarrant: Do you think it's a trap? Avon: Probably. But it's just possible that he's having trouble with his power systems, in which case, to coin a phrase, he is at our mercy. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % "CANCER": I'm sure you're as disappointed with your performance as I am, Avon. Avon: Well, I've learned to live with disappointment. "CANCER": Never mind, you won't have to live with it any longer. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % "As I was saying, we all have to learn to live with disappointment." -- Kerr Avon to Cancer (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Avon: Are you there, Vila? Vila: Where else would I be? (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Tarrant: Ah, [making introductions] this is Soolin. Piri: Oh, hello. Soolin: Hello. Vila: Tarrant: Ah yes, and the gentleman with the cough is Vila. Piri: Hello Vila. Vila: Nice to meet you. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Soolin: So what are we going to do with him? Avon: What do you think? Vila: You're going to kill an unarmed prisoner? Soolin: When did you get religion? Vila: I'm a thief, not a butcher! (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % "I'm setting a trap, not holding a convention for liberated slaves." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Soolin: Why? Do you fancy a little chat about the good old days on the chain gang? Nebrox: Oh it's terrible to think of a poor little thing like that being a slave, don't you think? Soolin: No more terrible than to think of you as one. Nebrox: Oh no, no, I'm an old man. She's merely a helpless little child. Soolin: Well, I expect a little suffering will have helped to make her a better artist. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % "I can outwait Servalan any day. And I'm prepared to do it now." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Soolin: What does it matter how the poor old man died? The question is `where the hell is Cancer?' Avon: Well we know where he isn't. He isn't on the flight deck, he isn't in his cabin and he isn't in here. Soolin: Shall we search the rest of the ship? Avon: Oh I imagine he would just love that, wouldn't you? (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % "That's the nearest thing you've had to a good idea since this business started." -- Del Tarrant to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % "There are two classic ways of dealing with an hysterical woman. You didn't really expect me to kiss her, did you?" -- Soolin to Tarrant about Piri (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % "Oh, terrific. If two men don't like each other that's a rational judgement. If it's two women what else could it be but jealousy?" -- Soolin to Tarrant (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Tarrant: If I'm going to die, I'd rather do it with a gun in my hand than sit around here shivering like an old woman. Avon: Don't be a fool, that's exactly what he wants. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Avon: All right, you've made your impression. You can sit down now. Tarrant: What does that mean? Avon: She knows that you are very brave. Now sit down. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % "This is ridiculous. I must think." -- Soolin (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Piri: Would you like to have a few words with our friend, before he goes? Servalan: Oh yes. I couldn't let him go without saying goodbye. Avon. You're not sulking, I hope. Avon: Mmm. I'm full of admiration for your brilliance. This was all a setup from the beginning, I take it. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Captain: You don't seem altogether happy. Servalan: Oh, I'm happy enough. It's just that a universe without Avon and Tarrant will take a certain amount of getting used to. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Dayna: Well, aren't you going to tell us what happened? Vila's very worried. He wants to know what became of that sweet little girl. Soolin: Vila, all sweet things have one thing in common: a tendency to make you sick. (Blake's 7: Assassin [D7]) % Avon: Well, that's one way of solving your energy crisis. Dayna: It's no joke Avon, thousands of people were killed. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Orac: Feldon is the hardest known substance in the universe. Avon: And currently the most valuable. Vila: Go on, you're just getting interesting. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Soolin: Infinitely more efficient? Avon: I use the word deliberately. Tarrant: But did you use it accurately? (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Avon: The Federation is investing two hundred billion credits on the project. For unlimited energy, I would say that that was cheap at the price. Vila: So would I. Where? Avon: Where what? Vila: Where do we steal the Federation crystals from? (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "I wish you'd concentrate on the game. The security systems are quite capable of coping, in fact, Orbiter's defence is a lot better than yours." -- Belkov to Gambit (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "Of course, if this stuff does blow up planets by mistake, we're going to need to be a bit careful. I mean, do we need money that badly? I ask myself." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Vila: Not by me, it's not. You steal for your reasons, I'll steal for mine. Soolin: Why not get it first and quarrel about it later? (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "You steal for your reasons, I'll steal for mine." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Avon: Secondly, it is protected by a security system which is supposed to be impassable. Vila: They're all supposed to impassable. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Vila: What happened to that rest we all needed? Avon: It just got too damned expensive. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Gambit: There are three hundred and eighty possible endings from this position, defeat is by no means inevitable. Belkov: Have it your own way. We both know you've lost. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Belkov: Oh not bad, not bad at all. You're beginning to get sneaky. I like that. Gambit: Do you want to resign now? Or shall we go through the motions? [Belkov laughs] (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % So, Avon, are you going to tell us what's going on now?" -- Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Tarrant: Why should this middle-aged Federation professor want to help you, Avon? Avon: Because apart from being a brilliant geologist and an expert in mining techniques he is also greedy, avaricious, and a crook. Vila: Has he got any faults? (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Avon: If you run the relevant sets of figures together you will see that he delayed his information just long enough to manipulate the Commodities Market. Vila: That's not really crooked. Avon: You tell that to his Federation masters. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Avon: I merely reminded him that since I got the information from the Federation computers, somebody else might also piece it together, in which case he would find himself in a penal colony. Dayna: So you blackmailed him. Avon: Naturally. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Servalan: This isn't a game Belkov. We want those crystals and we want them now. Belkov: And I'm the only one who can get them for you. It is a game Commissioner, and I hold the winning hand. Servalan: No hand is a winning hand until it's played, Belkov. You should know that. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Avon: So he'll do a deal. Tarrant: With Servalan? Gerren: He'll certainly try. Tarrant: I wish him luck. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "'Why deal when you can steal?' isn't just my motto." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "Oh, so you survived. Oh, well done! Ah, but no points for you, I fear. I shall have to mark you down as 'retired hurt'." -- Belkov to Gerren (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "Well, I've been placed under house arrest. There are a number of faceless Federation guards marching around my corridors. I want you to get me off this planet safely, before things get worse." -- Belkov to the Scorpio crew (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Avon: What guarantee do we have that you'll give them to us? Belkov: Well, I imagine you'll kill me if I don't. Avon: Well, we might kill you anyway and take them all. Belkov: Well, I'll just have to trust you, won't I? (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Dayna: I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. Vila: That wouldn't be far. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Gerren: As I see it, we don't have much choice. Avon: Which is exactly the way he wants you to see it. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Servalan: Four of my men have been murdered. Belkov: Yes, I did try to warn you, but you didn't give me much opportunity. Servalan: What do you mean? Belkov: Well, the locals do have some rather nasty habits. Ritual murder is only one of them. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "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." -- Belkov to Servalan (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "On your own original estimates, you've delivered half the expected yield from this mine. Where's the rest? Either it never existed, which is fraud, or you've stolen it. It's a capital offence either way." -- Servalan to Belkov (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Tarrant: Good shot though. If he hadn't already been dead, you'd have saved our lives for certain. Dayna: Oh, do I get a prize? Tarrant: Sorry, disqualified on a technicality. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "I don't mind playing games, but I do object when the opposition makes up the rules and decides to be the referee as well. I think we should try and even things up a bit." -- Kerr Avon to Soolin (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "Belkov trusts no one, which is a strength, because that means that no one can betray him. But it is also a weakness because it means that he is the only one who can defend what is his." -- Kerr Avon to Soolin (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Soolin: So, he makes everything self-protecting, the booby traps, the force fields. Avon: Exactly. Everything automatic - and therefore predictable - and therefore *vulnerable*. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Vila: What's going on? Gerren: High pressure reduction process. Vila: Yeah, but what's going on? (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Guard: Four of our men have been killed with a knife like that. Vila: You don't think - I mean, I'm not the violent type, really I'm not. Guard: Then why do you carry that? Vila: I found it. Guard: Where? Vila: It was stuck in one of your men. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "Nasty way to go, all that dust, very bad for the chest." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Tarrant: Right! I want you to get into cover and wait. Vila: Out here, alone?! Tarrant: Belkov may double-cross us. Vila: I should think that's highly likely. What d'you expect me to do about it, mount a one-man rescue? Tarrant: Something like that. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Vila: They're after blood, my blood. Dayna: Tell them you've already given. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "Avon, come in Avon! Avon, if you're up there, please answer. This is not fun anymore." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Avon: Tell me everything you know about Belkov's One Nine Seven computer. Orac: You suggested I spared you the technical details. Avon: Oh, don't sulk, Orac. I have a little more time now. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Orac: Let me remind you of ancient Earth mythology. The Delphic Oracle would answer questions truthfully without giving a true answer. Avon: So what we need is not the right answer, but the right question. Soolin: And in circumstances where any mistake would prove fatal. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Belkov: Your guns are quite unnecessary, unless you've an urgent reason for killing me, that is. Tarrant: Oh, that's always a possibility. Belkov: There are a lot of Federation troops about, you might have noticed, and I did mention to Commissioner Sleer you might be dropping in. Dayna: Well that sounds like an urgent reason for killing you. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Belkov: I was going to instruct Gambit to contact Commissioner Sleer, give her your position and advise her to take her men and arrest you. Dayna: You'll be dead before you get the first sentence out. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "Well that would be a pity, you see, because the place I was going to send her is held to be sacred by the Mecronians. They're a primitive bunch, but they do take their religion rather seriously and if she goes marching in there with her men, she'll have a fight on her hands, at least long enough for us to steal one of her ships." -- Belkov to Del Tarrant & Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "Well, we walked into that one with our eyes open." -- Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "I've been shot at, trodden on, nearly captured twice and now I think they're trying to blow me up. A fairly average day. You know." -- Vila Restal to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Soolin: Who's winning? Orac: We've both made sacrifices. Avon: He means that Gambit is. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) Orac: A temporary advantage. Avon: To an inferior computer? Orac: Which merely disguises my long-term strategy. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Dayna: So those bombs weren't just a diversion. Gerren: No. He's hoping to destroy the evidence. Tarrant: And when the dust settles, we're here to take the blame for sabotage as well as everything else. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "Gambit? Look, let's get one thing straight from the start, I don't mean you any harm, not personally. I'm sure you're a miracle of engineering and I bet you're not half as bad-tempered as Orac. I just want one of your circuits, that's all. Now you've got plenty to spare, so there's no need for us to get into a fight about it." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "I shall miss you. I don't suppose that concept could possibly mean anything to you. I just thought I'd mention it." -- Belkov to Gambit (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "Look, you'll probably say it's none of my business, but if anybody told me to kill myself for them, they'd get a short answer." -- Vila Restal to Gambit (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "Tarrant, this is your one-man backup team. I think it's time we got out of here." -- Vila Restal to Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "It is possible that we've just received the right answer to the wrong question." -- Orac (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Vila: What about the crystals? Avon: There aren't any damned crystals. There never were any damned crystals. They're like everything else on this ship: a game. That's why the last one has to be impassable. We have got to get out of here! (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Gambit: Beginning self-destruct sequence. Belkov: I need automatic control first. Gambit! Gambit: I am not able to give it to you. Belkov: I'll be killed if you don't. Gambit: Not willing to give it to you. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % Vila: I'd say the last game was mine, wouldn't you? Avon: I have bad news for you, Vila. [smashes crystals with his gun butt] It's a fake. End game to Belkov. (Blake's 7: Games [D8]) % "I know a land beyond the heart of time. The sun never comes there. No moon ever shines. And man, a grain of sand, nameless and lost, blows with the dust. I apologise, H.Q., but that's what this place makes me think of. The sun never comes here. Just sand and mist. Virn, the green planet. Never rains here either." -- Don Keller (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "There's something strange. Not just the way the ship was affected when we came down. Not just the way all the machinery plays up. Not just the way we're dying. You still listening, H.Q.? This is Don Keller, remember me? On Virn, where we have a plague on our hands. On my hands. So when do I get something from you?" -- Don Keller (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Reeve: Running the tapes again? Afraid you missed something? Servalan: Perhaps I like watching old films. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "We can't really run tests, can we, with the computers acting up the way they have been ever since we got here. Electromagnetic disturbance or maybe there's just sand in the panels. Sand gets into everything -" -- Don Keller (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Reeve: He'd say anything to save his skin. I've seen that kind of stuff from dozens of people under torture. Servalan: Of course you just happened to be passing the door when they said it? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Reeve: There's nothing for you on Virn. Unless someone thought I'd be lonely? Servalan: I'm sure you're accustomed to loneliness, Investigator Reeve. You must be alone such a lot. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Assistant: That looks sick too. Could that virus still be active? Reeve: You got your broad spectrum shots, didn't you? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Soolin: And then there's always the virus which may not have died out. Dayna: Yes, not to mention the untraced life Keller's computers registered. A monster perhaps? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Tarrant: Hello Avon. Nice day isn't it? Avon: It's getting to be a wasted one. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Vila: I just don't want to die. Is that unreasonable? Dayna, Soolin & Tarrant: Yes! (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Avon: All right. Vila may stay at home and mind the store. Vila: Oh no. You're not leaving me here alone. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Tarrant: It certainly doesn't look very appealing. Dayna: No, it's much too green. Vila: Why don't you repaint it while you're down there? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "I suggest you go back to the fire. The alternative could be frostbite." -- Servalan to Reeve (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "There is something you should realise. There are no women like me. I am unique. That makes me rather dangerous." -- Servalan to Reeve (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Avon: You do know that this is a hell of a risk? Tarrant: It usually is anyway, isn't it? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Dayna: Oh, I trust you, Avon. Avon: I must be slipping. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Avon: I must be slipping. Slave: Yes indeed, I think I must be too, Master. Avon: What? Slave: Er, slipping, Master. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Soolin: Give me manual control, Slave. Slave: With great relief, Madam. I am somewhat disorien- disor- confused. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Reeve: He's quite dead. There's no sign of an injury. Could be the virus. Servalan: Or it might have been heart failure. Unless you want to perform an autopsy, I suggest we move on. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Dayna: I haven't used old-fashioned percussion bullets in a long time. Tarrant: Well, at least we know they'll work. Dayna: Well as long as four of them do. Tarrant: Four of them? Dayna: That's all the Federation sent, isn't it? Tarrant: Assuming they got down in one piece. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Servalan: Afraid it won't work, Investigator? Reeve: [Points the gun at her] Afraid it will? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "Reeve, you apparently think this is a new, exciting experience for me. It isn't. I've confronted several maniacs with guns." -- Servalan to Reeve (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Tarrant: It's a flesh wound. You were lucky. Dayna: If I'd been lucky it wouldn't have happened. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Vila: I never could stand the sight of blood. Dayna: The feeling is probably mutual. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Servalan: I hate to tell you this, Tarrant, but you just killed an enemy of mine. Tarrant: Well, everyone's entitled to one, really bad, mistake. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "We are irritating the atmosphere and it's scratching. Noisily." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Orac: Teleport? I am not programmed. Three squared to the principal. Dayna: Oh, no. Orac: I love you. Vila: Orac! (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Orac: My emotions are deeper than the seas of space. One times one is only possible in the ultra-dimensional. Avon: Turn Orac off. Orac: I love you. Avon: Off! (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Orac: We will be lovers for a little while, or maybe for a long while, who knows? Soolin: I do. [Pulls key] (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Vila: Nonoperational. Avon: Well now, none of us is going to faint with amazement at that. Are we? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Soolin: What's the next move? Avon: The usual one. We'll wait. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Servalan: What is your particular grudge against me? Tarrant: Let me see. You sat and watched my brother die. That doesn't seem to make me like you very much. Aside from all the countless other reasons anyone might have for blowing your head off. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Servalan: What fascinating violence. Tarrant: I'm also a fascinating shot. Particularly at a distance of three feet. Servalan: Is that how close we are? Something must be drawing us together. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Servalan: Then I suggest we agree a truce. Tarrant: You mean I put the gun away and you and I trip hand in hand across the base, until you brain me with some convenient blunt instrument. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "You underestimate your usefulness, Tarrant. I said a truce. Or we can stand here until we die of sedentary collapse." -- Servalan (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Servalan: At a distance of one inch, the shot should be even more efficient. Tarrant: Very neat Servalan. You've found my weakness. I prefer to shoot a moving target. In other words, be very careful. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Computer: Jam. Jamble. Scramble. Uncode. Declassify. Jargon. Love is the only reality. Tarrant: I don't suppose this kind of machine would respond to a kick in the ear, would it? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Computer: I love you. I know a land where love. Keller. Don. Don. Dun. Din. Dan. Den. Perhaps we will be lovers for a long while. Who knows? Who know - Tarrant: We'll just have to hope he kept a diary. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Avon: Do you believe anything of what you've just said? Soolin: Not one word. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Tarrant: Would this be the point at which we break down and tell each other the stories of our lives? Servalan: To soulful music? Tarrant: Oh preferably. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Tarrant: How did you get away from the Liberator? Servalan: It was difficult. Tarrant: It was impossible. Servalan: Manifestly not. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Tarrant: What a lucky little commissioner you are. Servalan: Aren't I, though? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "You are both resourceful and decorative." -- Servalan to Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "But then I'd also say 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." -- Del Tarrant to Servalan (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Servalan: Oh, Tarrant. I'm just the girl next door. Tarrant: If you were the girl next door, I'd move. Servalan: Where would you move to, Tarrant? Tarrant: Next door? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Dayna: What on earth are you doing? Avon: It's called a probability square. You've never heard of it? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Dayna: Oh, go away, Vila. Vila: I thought I liked you. Avon: You do like her. Now go and sit down. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "He left me. I grew up. Power became my lover. Power is like a drug. It is beautiful. Shining. I could destroy a planet by pressing a button. I loved him." -- Servalan (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "You cry very beautifully, Servalan, and one of your tears did this to the sand on the floor... At first I thought it was just your destructive nature." -- Del Tarrant to Servalan (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Tarrant: Try to remember I have a gun. Servalan: Actually [Brings his gun up to point at him] no. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Soolin: His pulse is very weak. Avon: Well that should go very nicely with the rest of him. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Avon: You two, of course, would have been allowed to live. Soolin: Don't say it, Avon. Avon: I wasn't going to say anything. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "This is not just a rescue mission for poor gallant Tarrant! While the sand remains active, the planet will not let go of US. The instruments are unreliable. We have Virn hanging on our heels. How do you think WE are going to get away?" -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Avon: I take it, that means yes? Dayna: Well, how could we refuse, Avon? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % "Well, how could we refuse, Avon? You are the dominant male, aren't you?" -- Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Soolin: How are you feeling now, Orac? Orac: Feeling is not a term which can under any circumstances be applied to me. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Soolin: You gambled, Avon, but you won. Avon: Do I get a prize? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Vila: You never said what the woman was like, Tarrant. Tarrant: Didn't I? Dayna: Pretty? Tarrant: Pretty familiar - Servalan. (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Avon: Servalan. Tarrant: Yes. She explained her survival. Dayna: And did she excuse it too? (Blake's 7: Sand [D9]) % Tarrant: That's no problem, so long as Slave can match vectors. Dayna: Well, he says he can. Tarrant: He says he's sorry most of the time. I don't believe that either. (Blake's 7: Gold [D10]) % "That was very good bait." -- Kerr Avon, to Servalan (Blake's 7: Gold [D10]) /?/ % Keiler: ...you see, I have a criminal record. Vila: Who doesn't? (Blake's 7: Gold [D10]) % Tarrant: I've never seen currency of that size. Dayna: Neither have I. (Blake's 7: Gold [D10]) /?/ % Soolin: Why didn't you tell us that you knew who it was who was setting us up? Avon: Would it have made any difference if I had? (Blake's 7: Gold [D10]) /?/ % Tarrant: Servalan's not just some greedy gangster. Avon: Surely, that is exactly what she is. (Blake's 7: Gold [D10]) % "It's your lucky day, then again, maybe it isn't." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Gold [D10]) /?/ % Avon: What is the surface analysis, Slave? Slave: Nitrogen, methane, and argon predominate. Also traces of free ammonia and sulfur compounds. It is unsuitable for your illustrious life form, Master. Vila: He thinks it stinks, too. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Soolin: I make the surface temperature minus ninety to a hundred. Tarrant: Cold at night. Avon: You can tell us when you get back. Tarrant: The message was for you! Avon: I get chilblains, Tarrant. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Dayna: Shouldn't he have some kind of backup, Avon? That kind of environment... Avon: I was hoping you would volunteer. Dayna: All right, I'm a volunteer. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Avon: [Looking at Vila] Do I hear 3? No, I didn't think I would. Vila: You know I like to stick with you, Avon, where it's safe. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: Oh yeah? Well, if you had one it might have occurred to you this could be a Federation trap. Avon: Well, of course, it's occurred to me. Why do you think I'm sending Tarrant? (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Slave: Master? Avon: What is it, Slave? Slave: My humble apologies for interrupting your noble thoughts... Vila: Just get to the point. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "Some inferior person is attempting to communicate on the audio." -- Slave (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Egrorian: You are a cautious man, Avon. Avon: Well, that's a habit I'm hoping to live with. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Avon: All right. Vila, let's get to the airlock. Vila: Me? Avon: Well, who else? After all, you always say you feel safe with me. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Well, that's what I mean. Living alone all these years, you don't know what he's like now. These superbrains often go pop, don't they?" -- Vila Restal, of Egrorian (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: This guy's gonna need careful handling. You want someone with tact. I mean, you know me. Avon: Oh yes, I think so. Vila: Blunt, always speaking my mind, I'm just the sort to upset him. Avon: Well, you'll just have to try not to, won't you. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: You should take one of the girls, Avon. Hey, why not? A girl might... you know, interest him. He's probably forgotten what they look like. Avon: Vila, if I didn't know you better, I would think you were trying to get out of this. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Avon: Vila, if I didn't know you better, I would think you were trying to get out of this. Vila: I'm only thinking of what's best. Besides, if I stayed on Scorpio I could keep an eye on Tarrant. You need someone you can trust. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: You really think things through, don't you, Avon? If we do need it, we won't have time to get it. Avon: Well then, let's hope we don't need it. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "It will be my humble pleasure. I exist only to serve you, illustrious sir." -- Slave, to Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Dayna: Why? You think we might have to drop in on him? Tarrant: Heavily. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "When Servalan does anyone a favor, she wants repaying with interest. I'm just wondering if Avon's the interest." -- Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "No you haven't forgotten, Pinder. Red is dead, green is clean." -- Egrorian, at Malodaar (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "Just a callow youth, but with a mind of great promise. Truly original mathematicians, unhappily, soon burn themselves out on the anvil of creation." -- Egrorian, of Pinder (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Pinder: I'm pleased to make your acquaintance, ma'am. Vila: [To Avon] I think he's talking to you. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Egrorian: I fear language doesn't come easily to him. He thinks mostly in symbols. Vila: Doesn't he have symbols for men and women? Egrorian: Apparently not. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Egrorian: Surprisingly, you don't look like the ruthless desperados of legend. But you have, of course, killed a great many people. Avon: Only in the pursuit of liberty. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Egrorian: "O Liberty! O Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!" Do you know the source? Avon: No. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Egrorian: Natural leaders are rarely encumbered with intelligence. Greed, egotism, animal cunning, and viciousness are the important attributes. Qualities I detect in you in admirably full measure. Avon: I didn't come here to be... flattered. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Egrorian: Now, then, Avon. What would you say if I offered you mastery of the galaxy? Avon: Oh, I would say thank you. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: For a whole galaxy? Oh, come on, Avon, show the man some gratitude. Egrorian: [Laughing high] Do you think my mind is addled? Vila: No, no, it's just we don't get offered galaxies every day of the week. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Avon: What does it do? Egrorian: It destroys things. Instantly and completely and at any range. It is the ultimate engine of destruction. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Avon: Why are you offering it to us? Egrorian: Because I want to see the Federation crushed, Avon, and you would do it ruthlessly. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be replaced by another command structure. As leader of the anti-Federation alliance, you will be in a position to take over the channels of command, something in which I have no interest, let alone ability." -- Egrorian, to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: Then what are you getting out of it? Egrorian: Satisfaction. Revenge. Do you imagine I wanted to spend the prime of my years in this grinding desolation? No, it was those jealous parvenus of the Science Board resentful of my success and my achievement who forced me to abscond. They voted against funding my tachyon funnel project, and so I want to see them brought low, I want to see them rot. Vila: I can fix that. I'll personally nail 'em to posts and send you the pictures. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Egrorian: Oh, there's one other thing I'd like from you. Vila: Yes? Egrorian: Orac. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: Avon, it's got to be a good deal. Avon: I know. Vila: Listen, all we have to do is point this thing at somebody's head. We can have anything we want.. anything! (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "Can you feel your extensor muscle tearing? Can you feel your humerus grating against your radius? Hmm.? Just a little more... a little more... now you're feeling it, aren't you?" -- Egrorian, to Pinder (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "Sir, your most illustrious colleague Avon wishes to communicate." -- Slave, to Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: It certainly takes some getting used to. Avon: What does? Vila: Knowing we've finally cracked it. All I want now is to find a way of living forever. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "All we have to do is knock out a few planets for target practice, then name our own terms. We can have whatever we want! Think of it." -- Vila Restal, to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: I'll have an imperial palace with solid diamond floors, and a bodyguard of a thousand handpicked virgins in red fur uniforms. Vila's Royal Mounties. Avon: You're dreaming again. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "A man has a right to dream. Anyway, what's to stop us? I suppose it will get boring after the first fifty years, eh?" -- Vila Restal, to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Avon: I was thinking about Pinder, and the way he said "pleased to make your acquaintance, ma'am". Vila: Is that worrying you? Listen, if it'll set your mind at rest, I never thought you were a woman. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "Any slip is dangerous when one is dealing with Avon." -- Servalan (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "His death is a mathematical certainty. The product of a simple equation." -- Egrorian (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Servalan: When I regain power, you will be well rewarded. I shall appoint you my Chief Minister for Science. Egrorian: [Kneeling] Servalan, my steel queen, my empress, the only reward I crave is a place in your affections. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Egrorian: And not a day has passed since then that I have not yearned for the time, when I would be able to repay your trust by laying all the world and the galaxy at your feet. Servalan: Oh, get up! (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Egrorian: All I wanted in return was a little kindness. Servalan: So, you wish to barter the tachyon funnel for a partnership. Egrorian: A connubial partnership, Servalan. Why not? Alone you are formidable enough, but together we would stand like mountains. Servalan: I have never shared power with anyone. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "But I am a man of generous nature, especially in matters of the heart." -- Egrorian, to Servalan (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "I, too, can be generous. But just remember: I punish failure as quickly as I reward success." -- Servalan, to Egrorian (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: I could see Avon was out of his depth, so I said, tachyons are particles that travel faster than light. That shook him. Dayna: [Smirking] Oh, I can imagine. Vila: Oh yes, once he realized he was dealing with someone who knew a bit about the subject his manner changed completely. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Soolin: How does this, um, tachyon funnel actually work, Vila? Vila: How does it work? Soolin: Yes. Vila: Well, unless you can grasp the laws of parallel physics, it's not easy to explain. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Soolin: I see. Tell us about the laws of parallel physics, Vila. Vila: Soolin, the only thing you ever grasped was a gun. Do you want to get brain damage? (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Soolin: The way I see it, if you can understand parallel physics, anyone can. Vila: Unlike some people around here, I don't boast about my abilities, I keep them hidden. Dayna: Oh, you certainly do. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "After he vanished, they started finding the bodies. He was never a simple scientist, Avon." -- Del Tarrant, of Egrorian (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "He was a mathematical prodigy apparently. He was eighteen when he disappeared with Egrorian ... ten years ago. Now I'm not a mathematical prodigy, but it seems to me that makes him twenty-eight." -- Del Tarrant, of Pinder (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: Do you have any better ideas? Avon: Not at the moment. Vila: Then start thinking. We touch down in four minutes. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: You're thinking of Servalan again. Avon: SHE is never far from my thoughts. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Avon: Didn't you hear she was dead? Egrorian: Ah, yes. But then I was told she had assumed a new identity. One never knows what to believe these days. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Egrorian: Anyway, this is, this... this is a load of distortion and rubbish, and when I return to earth, I will hound down those responsible, and... Vila: Break their arms? (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Avon: If Orac has a fault, it is a tendency to give more information than is requested. Vila: Or less information than requested. Avon: But seldom just the information that is requested. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: You could have got us killed! Why didn't you tell me? Avon: Well, I didn't want to make you nervous, Vila. I was nervous enough for the both of us. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: It's no good. We're not going to get out of this one. Egrorian set us up. Avon: Yes, but how? HOW did he do it? Vila: Avon, we're going to die. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "Avon, we're going to die." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "How do you spend your last fifteen minutes?" -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Avon: Not enough! Not nearly enough! Dammit, what weighs seventy kilos? Orac: Vila weighs seventy-three kilos, Avon. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "Vila!... Vila? Vila? Vila? Vila, are you here? I need your help. Vila, I know you're here, come out. Vila, I know how they did it, but I need your help. Please help me." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "Couldn't possibly be that heavy. Unless there's something imbedded in it, and there isn't. Unless it's very tiny, in which case it wouldn't have... the weight!" -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "Vila, I really do know how they did it! It's a speck of neutron material, but I need your help to shift it. Vila, help me! Vila, you have GOT to help me, come on! Vila! Vila, WHERE ARE YOU?" -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "Hoffal's radiation, Egrorian..." -- Pinder (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Soolin: And you moved it on your own? Avon: I couldn't find Vila. Vila: I'm glad about that. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % Vila: It's a trip I won't forget, Avon. Avon: Well, as you always say, Vila: you know you are safe with ME. (Blake's 7: Orbit [D11]) % "Avon's idea of diplomacy is like breaking someone's leg and then saying 'Lean on me.'" -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Warlord [D12]) % Dayna: It's going badly. Vila: Hardly surprising, Avon's idea of diplomacy is like breaking someone's leg then saying lean on me. (Blake's 7: Warlord [D12]) % "I mention it in passing, since none of you seemed to have noticed." -- Orac (to the others) (Blake's 7: Warlord [D12]) /?/ % Dayna: I was never very good at math. Vila: You don't have to be, we're dead. (Blake's 7: Warlord [D12]) /?/ % "It worked, the place is clear." -- Dayna Mellanby, to Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Warlord [D12]) /?/ % Vila: I never liked that place anyway. Soolin: Especially not once the wine ran out. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % "Nobody is indispensable." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Soolin: You needed a figurehead. He was it. Or am I wrong? Avon: You are right. But then figureheads aren't too difficult to come by. Any idiot can be one. Dayna: Heh. On your feet, Vila. This could be your big moment. Avon: Any idiot within reason, that is. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Vila: We know what we've got planned. Running away is what we've got planned. Dayna: A strategic withdrawal is what we've got planned. Vila: There's a difference? (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Tarrant: A strategic withdrawal is running away - but with dignity. Vila: So lay in a course and let's get the dignified hell out of here. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % "In the end, winning is the only safety." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Avon: I think we can do better. Vila: Does that mean safer? Avon: In the end, winning is the only safety. Vila: It doesn't mean safer. I didn't think it would. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % "He is strongly identified with rebels, you see, and very popular with rabbles. They will follow him, and he will fight to the last drop of their blood." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % "Idealism is a wonderful thing. All you really need is someone rational to put it to proper use." -- Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Tarrant: How long have you known? Avon: Long enough. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Soolin: Gauda Prime? Tarrant: You know it? Soolin: Yes, I know it. It's a bad place to be. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Soolin: It's a bad place to be. No self-respecting idealist would be found dead there. Avon: I imagine that is what HE is trying to avoid: being found dead anywhere. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Dayna: Well, she had no reason to lie. Avon: She doesn't need one. It comes quite naturally to her, like breathing. -- about Servalan (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Orac: The chain of cause and effect amounts to a trail, if you can follow it. Vila: I can't even follow you. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % "Everything has an effect on everything else around it. It is not easy to trace one line through the pattern of infinity, but in this case, I have. Blake is on Gauda Prime." -- Orac (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Soolin: Still not convinced? Vila: You tell me what a line through the pattern of infinity is, and I'll tell you whether I'm convinced or not. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Arlen: You ask a lot of questions. Blake: Try answering one occasionally, maybe I'll stop. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Soolin: When the mining corporations moved in, the farmers moved out. Those that didn't were murdered. Vila: And it wasn't even a crime. Soolin: Oh yes, it was a crime all right. It just wasn't illegal. Vila: That's what I meant. Soolin: I hope so. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Avon: A lot of people made a lot of money. Soolin: Some even lived to enjoy it. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Slave: Uh, I don't wish to interrupt, Master - Orac: Then kindly don't. Slave: I wasn't talking to you. Orac: You were attempting to override a superior system. Be silent. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Tarrant: Slave, what's wrong?! Slave: Well, nothing is actually wrong, sir, yet. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Vila: They could be making a mistake. Soolin: It doesn't seem to affect their aim. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Vila: You mean we really are going to crash?! Soolin: No wonder they were convinced! (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Vila: There must be something we can do! Avon: I'll accept suggestions! Vila: How does "Abandon ship!" grab you? Tarrant: Well, it's a neat trick if you can do it! (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Avon: Are you ready? Vila: No, but do it anyway! (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Avon: Slave, take over the flight controls. Slave: I am most humbly sorry, Master, but I can find no flight controls. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % "It takes talent to fly a dead ship." -- Del Tarrant to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % "So get the hell out of here, will you? There's no point in both of us dying." -- Del Tarrant to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % "The ground is very close, sir." -- Slave to Del Tarrant (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Deva: One bounty hunter killing another? Blake: It's a competitive profession. Deva: That isn't funny. Blake: Neither was Tando. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Deva: Ohhh. Oh, it was Tando you killed. Blake: Does it make a difference? Deva: He's worse than the people he hunted. Blake: He didn't have a price on him, though, did he? Deva: It was only a matter of time. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Deva: Hm. You've been given a temporary appointment as a law enforcement officer. Blake: That central computer doesn't care who it makes respectable, does it? Deva: It's an inferior model, I'm afraid. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % "I assume you have given some thought to how you will explain your presence here, not to mention my impersonation of an official distress beacon." -- Orac to Kerr Avon (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Soolin: It's better than spending a night in the open. Vila: Are you serious? The state the roof's in, it's the same as spending a night in the open. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % "I'd prefer a city, but I'd accept a town. In fact, I'd settle for some indication that we weren't the only people left alive in this miserable tree sanctuary." -- Vila Restal (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Soolin: Surely you're not afraid of the dark. Vila: Only when it's unilluminated. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Vila: They might have been friendly. Dayna: They might have come to apologize for shooting down Scorpio, but it doesn't seem likely, does it. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Soolin: But one thing I do know: if you want to survive on this planet you have to assume that everyone is out to get you. Vila: I always assume that wherever I go. Soolin: The difference is, on Gauda Prime you'll be right. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Avon: The fire was stupid. Putting Vila on guard was suicidal. What's the matter, is staying alive too complicated for you? Soolin: It's beginning to look that way. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Vila: What hit me? Dayna: Don't worry, Vila, they went for your least vulnerable spot. Vila: Oh, my head. Dayna: Exactly. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Blake: Her name was Jenna. Tarrant: What happened to her? Blake: She tried to run the blockade once too often. Happens to all of them eventually. Tarrant: You made the capture? Blake: Nobody made the capture. She hit the self-destruct. And when it blew, she took half a squadron of gunships with her. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Vila: How does it feel to be home? Soolin: I wouldn't know. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Orac: I can do better than that. Dayna: Aren't you always? Orac: My capacities are frequently underutilized, it's true. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Vila: Sooner or later we're going to drop into one of these holes in the ground and never come out. Avon: Sooner or later, everyone does that, Vila. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Tarrant: What on earth happened to you? Blake: Oh, most of it wasn't on Earth, Tarrant. Not what happened to me. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Deva: These stupid games you insist on playing, Blake, will get someone killed eventually. Blake: I have to test each one myself. Deva: No, you don't have to! I set up systems for that. I broke the security codes on their central computer. I got us access to official channels, information, everything we could possibly need! You don't need to be involved at all. Blake: All right, I find it difficult to trust. It's a failing, I admit-! (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Deva: Do I have a choice? Blake: Oh, there's always a choice, Deva. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % "Nobody's indispensable." -- Roj Blake to Deva (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Avon: I'm glad you made it. Tarrant: So am I. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Tarrant: Is it him? Vila: It's him. Tarrant: He sold us, Avon. All of us. Even you. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Avon: Is it true? Blake: Avon, it's me, Blake. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Avon: Stand still! Have you betrayed us? Have you betrayed me?! Blake: Tarrant doesn't understand! Avon: Neither do I, Blake! (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % Blake: I set all this up! Avon: Yes! Blake: Avon, I was waiting for YOU. (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) % "Oh, now, look, I've never been against the Federation. I mean, I've only ever been along for the ride. I'm not even armed. You can't kill me. I'm completely harmless and armless." -- Vila Restal to Arlen (Blake's 7: Blake [D13]) %