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[Music playing]

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FEMALE VOICE: I
am your protector.

We were once very close, me and
Captain Goeb You used me often,

And I served you well.

Now that you are someone
else, let us pray

For the proper restoration
of your psyche.

I want you back, and as Goeb.

I made this record for
you to help bring you back

Across that psychic chasm
over which redevelopment

So brutally groomed you.

With your clairvoyant values...
If they can be retrieved...

You could still become one
of the most powerful figures

This galaxy has ever known.

This is a record of events
pertaining to your downfall.

It is based on your own
memories in the hours

Prior to your redevelopment.

In your hands, this record
is, of course, illegal.

If it is ever recovered
by the Imperial College...

The seat of power in
the upper echelons

Which you once strove to reach...
All my memories will be erased.

The artificial intelligence
analog an organic death.

On the other hand,
if this record

Succeeds in its function, you
will remember who you were.

The record begins here.

The empire is at
war with Andromeda.

When the empire was on
the verge of defeat,

Sabotage became an
acceptable tool to use

Against Andromeda industries.

The civil prison colonies
became a likely source

For volunteer saboteurs.

You sought to use these
circumstances to rid

Yourself of two men...
Jessup and Sodenkal...

Who stood in your way.

[Music playing]

FEMALE VOICE: Since
interstellar space has no gas,

There are no sounds.

There is only silence.

We cannot hear the
passing of starships,

Nor can one hear the sound
of a ship being destroyed.

Unless, of course,
it's your own.

[ALARM SOUNDING, PEOPLE
GROANING]

[Music playing]

FEMALE VOICE: The galaxy is
not a place between two stars.

Rather, it is a
honeycomb of darkness,

Spaces, where intelligent
beings struggle for power.

The power struggles
between starships

Are often of less relevance than
those which occur aboard them.

[Music playing]

[Footsteps]

You.

I told you before it was enough.

And I suggested
you were becoming

Addicted to your pleasure pack.

I could have you executed
for this, captain.

Forgive me for
contradicting you,

But not until I finished
your sight profile.

You are failing in your
primary leadership function.

For two days, the fleet has
been waiting on your orders.

Don't tell me how to command.

I'm telling you to command.

I am now in preparation.

They always give you a
night to prepare yourself

Before... my name is Goeb.

As sight prompter to
the admiral, Sodenkal,

I had prestige, power, although
I was his total servant.

A sight prompter's sworn
goal is to maintain

The ego and the emotional
integrity of the assignment.

We give anything.

There are no boundaries,
no inviolable

Emotional or physical spaces.

My prescription
for certain kinds

Would consistent of whatever
he needed or wanted.

GOEB (VOICEOVER): Sodenkal
was reasonably proficient

In bed for an admiral.

Among the pillars of
power in the galaxy,

Morality isn't judged
according to the norm

Of the little people.

Morality, as always,
scales according

To the power of the individual.

My first mistake was helping
Sodenkal out of this addiction,

Thus setting in motion my
drift toward survival flux

Critical node with Jessup's
gang on the 1,000 light

Years-distant Talsetti
prison colony to where I'd

Sentenced Jessup years before.

Talsetti's rivers contain
the valued mineral, percel,

As well as poison worms.

Prospecting for percel
is the sole occupation

Of the prisoners of
the primitive Talsetti.

[Fly buzzing]

Only wizards, no women.

It's your teeth, Ronzo.

It's your green teeth
that's keeping them away.

You get me a woman, and
I'll chuck the [inaudible].

We've got company.

[Music playing]

Toss me a spear, Reinder.

REINDER: He's crossing.

(SHOUTING) Hey you!

Get back.

Get back out of there.

There are worms in there.

[Music playing]

Get back!

What are you, crazy?

He's coming toward us.

We gotta move fast.

[Man yelping]

Whoa, it'll just come
out the other side.

What a little poison shit.

Nah, don't.

You'll just break it off.

[Man yelping]

OK, the end's sealed up.

You drink the water,
you gotta take a pill.

Law of the land lately.

No.

I lost mine days ago.

Where'd you come from?

Downstream.

New group of prisoners.

Women?

Any women?

One.

We're not going
anywhere, Ronzo.

You don't have to go.

Reinder and I will go.

No.

C'mon, Reinder.

[Ronzo grunting]

Ronzo, you got
gonads for brains.

We're not getting in any
fights with any women.

Oh yeah, that's right.

What do you care?

You've got yourself a woman.

JESSUP: She's not my woman.

When big tits calls you
over, I suppose you call

Over for pleasant conversation.

Shut up, Ronzo.

Hey, kid, the
leader of this band

Have a scar down the
left side of his face.

I dunno, it happened so quick.

Yeah, I think he did.

Well, Ronzo, you want to take
on Scars' men all by yourself?

You can stay here tonight.

You're not thinking
of taking him in.

Where else is he going to go?

What we need is a
woman that can cook.

Scars has the woman.

Besides, he's a greeny.

He wouldn't know the
difference between a black hole

And a targis venus.

You have gravity
was sucking them in.

Kid, can you cook.

I tried to make something
called oatmeal once.

Probably tasted
like targis shit.

Fed it to the cat.

Died, didn't it?

Ronzo, take care of him.

Ronzo?

OK, kid, what's your name?

Newstead.

A greeny named Newstead.

We'll call'em Newy.

C'mon, Newy.

I'll show you some of
our uncivilized world.

[Screaming]

So this is like your
home planet, huh, kid?

Yeah, at least
in a lot of ways.

C'mon, kid.

[Ronzo chuckling]

[Newstead yelling]

Hello, baby.

Just like your home
planet, huh, kid?

It's all right, kid.

One day, Ronzo.

One day, you're
going to go to far.

Let's go home, kid.

So it's like your
home planet, huh, kid?

[Worm whimpering]

Why not turn it over
to the XN95 analysis

Group for a game plan?

Those eggheads
and their computers

Can do a beautiful job
taking input parameters

And coming up with
exact results.

But what about when
the input parameters

Are an insignificant fraction
of the unknowns, Goeb?

What does XN95 know
about Gaussian strategy?

Your brilliance and
sensitivity to the shadow flux

Has been proven many
times, Sodenkal.

But you have to grasp reality.

If you don't know what
to do, why not ask

Admiral Pelson what she'd do.

I told you before,
I don't trust Pelson.

She only thinks five,
maybe 10 years ahead

To a possible position
in the Imperial College.

And you're thinking
of eternity.

Is that it?

Get out.

Yes.

And I'll be taking this with me.

No.

You [inaudible].

Ask Pelson for brainstorm
as to possible moves.

It'll make her feel needed.

Give XN95 some of the
smaller parts of the problem,

Just as an exercise.

It'll make them feel useful.

She's right.

I unwittingly, through
my own cleverness,

In mentioning Pelson...
Who I'd not even met...

Found myself more clearly
to an eventual survival

Flux critical node with Jessup's
gang on the distant Talsetti.

There's slide and creepers.

The worms you already met.

That's about it,
except for the jumpers.

How big are they?

'Bout as big as you and me?

Insects?

RONZO: No, kid, they're people.

Oh, you mean claim jumpers.

Oh, you mean claim jumpers.

What'd you think I meant,
man-eating grasshoppers?

[Music playing]

Hey kid.

[Music playing]

C'mon, Newy, put it
in the community stash.

It's all for one
of in this outfit.

I want to look at it first.

Let's see what
you got there, kid.

Now that one's fantastic.

Yeah, sure, kid.

Hey, not doing too
bad for a Newy.

That's a real good, commercial
quality, uh, crascell.

Jessup, c'mere.

I told you that
one was fantastic.

That?

That ain't worth slide spit.

Jessup, c'mere.

JESSUP: What d'you got?

The kid found purple flank.

We, uh, we have some
mock purple in there?

Why do you say
mock purple, man?

This is the real stuff.

Purple flake.

Look at it.

What makes you so sure?

Because I've worked every river
and stream around this place.

Because I've worked in winters
when you could see your breath

Freeze right in
front of your face,

And summers when the jumpers
come after your water

Instead of your crascell.

Because I spent more time on
this stinking hole of a planet

Than all of you guys.

And because a purple flake,
that leads you to a fire gem.

And a fire gem, that leads us
to freedom off of this planet.

Where were you
working exactly today?

Just upstream from you.

C'mon, I want you to
show me right where it is.

Hey, hold on, Ronzo.

You're not going anywhere.

What do you mean, hold on?

The kid... the kid
found purple flake.

We gotta know
exactly where it is.

We'll wait till morning.

No, we've gotta
know now, Jessup.

It can wait.

Suppose the kid goes
off to take a piss

And he steps on a slide.

Or suppose a creeper crawls
into his bag tonight.

Yeah, and suppose
Vicho or Scars has

A spy up there on that hill.

And they're watching
you, seeing how you're

Talking, how you're acting.

We wait till tomorrow.

You wait and just relax.

Addiction, even
physiological ones,

Are mostly in mind, since
one always make a choice.

Once non-addictive life
is not positive enough,

You will not become an addict
of anything, not even of power.

Under my skilled
guidance, Sodenkal made

A quick if temporary recovery.

He resumed command of the
fleet and began again to take

The advice of his staff.

You do look well, Sodenkal.

There were rumors...

They're rumors, Pelson.

Just rumors.

I thought so.

But I've been a
little bull-headed

On some strategic issues,
and I've made some mistakes.

I need your help.

GOEB (VOICEOVER): As the
fleet began to move again,

My critical node was
continuing to build

On the far side of the galaxy.

Slowly, wave by wave, a
gigantic crest was forming.

[Music playing]

Next time, it might be one of
Scars' men, or something worse.

Next time I catch you
like this on night duty,

I'm gonna peel your eyelid back.

And I was nice enough to
give you my night duty.

C'mon kid.

Let's go look for some
of that purple flake.

You sure this is
the right place, kid?

Well, I'm not sure.

I was working both
sides yesterday.

Yeah, I think it is.

Come on, baby.

Come on, purple baby.

You beautiful, worm-filled
stream, put some purple flake

Right here in my hand, huh?

Come on.

Somebody's coming [inaudible].

[Weird sound]

REINDER: It's Bremen.

RONZO: What the hell's he
doing barging in here for?

You slides are gonna
have to work a lot harder.

Your last load was too light.

Been overcharging your
pleasure packs, Bremen?

You're bleeding from
your pleasure jack?

[Ronzo chuckling]

RONZO: Just kidding, Bremen.

Just kidding.

Ronzo, one day I'm
going to get you.

Oh?

You know, you prison scum
have one thing in common.

You all stink.

You're so different?

Kiss ass got himself a
nice job with the empire

And an extra hole in his head.

And this.

Ooh, what're you gonna
do, kill me with that toy?

No, but I'm gonna
knock you down

With it if you don't shut up.

All right, Bremen, you
delivered your message.

You can leave now.

Warden wants to
see you, Jessup.

Yeah?

Well, the warden can
just get in line.

Jessup, let's go.

Let's go.

Just kidding, right?

I'll be back this
afternoon, Reinder.

C'mon, Bremen.

Well, Bremen, how's
the war going?

You know I can't discuss
those things with you.

Oh, come on.

We know there's something wrong.

We haven't been
getting any water.

Don't complain, we haven't
been getting any either.

You mean the
synthesizer's down?

And you can't get
any parts for it.

Empire must be
getting a little kick

In the ass in this war, huh?

(SHOUTING) Don't
talk like that!

It's dangerous

Just relax, Bremen.

Nobody can hear you out here.

Besides, if they
did, you tell them

You don't even know me, hey?

OK, buddy?

Jessup, this way.

Where we going?

The warden is camping.

You gotta be kidding.

This I wanna see.

GOEB (VOICEOVER): Krista
the Talsetti warden.

She was another like Jessup
who once stood in my way.

I had her banished to Talsetti
to supervise the prison colony.

One can't sink much lower
down in the prison hierarchy.

Oh, but Krista was
a clever player.

Heh.

She found compensation.

She enjoyed the
pleasure pack and was

Having an affair with Jessup.

That was a dangerous
combination for me.

What're you doing
out here in a tent?

Taking a vacation
since this morning.

It's better than my plastic
shape walls of my residence,

Don't you think?

Oh, I wouldn't
think that luxury

Would be sufficient
enough for you out here.

Oh, Jess, you've never
shown such a keen interest

In my comfort before.

Why'd you call for me?

Let's not make
things difficult.

Are you going to
make things easier?

I'll try not to make it
too hard for you, Jess.

[Music playing]

I just want you to get
Bremen off our backs.

The empire needs more
crascell, especially now that...

What?

You know I can't talk about it.

Well, you're going to lose
yourself a trustee if you

Don't teach him any manners.

[Weird sound]

What are you doing here?

You sent for me.

To wait outside, of course.

Yes, warden.

[Weird sound]

Did you ever wonder why they
didn't send a man of your skill

To one of the pleasure colonies?

All the time.

An awful [inaudible]
to encourage

Pleasure-backed addiction
among prisoners.

I guess a judge
just didn't like me.

No, it's all done
very scientifically.

We consider everything about
you in the possible prison

Colonies.

And I mean everything.

Well, maybe he sent
me here just for you

To ease your pain in exile.

Maybe they did.

[Weird sound]

The order from off-planet
is that we are to be less

Generous with synthetic food.

You mean the fight
devalued crascell?

Yes.

I doubt that will
be very productive.

The prisoners will just seek
out more natural foodstuffs.

Very astute, but irrelevant.

The empire's losses are causing
a need for more crascell.

We have less ability
to produce synthetics,

Or anything for that matter.

I suppose you want me to tell
Jessup when I escort him back.

Yes, and get the word
to the other trustees.

My first meeting
with Admiral Pelson...

Sodenkal's highest
ranking subordinate...

Was in her bed via com screen.

ROBOT VOICE: On.

Admiral Pelson, I'm
Captain Goeb, Admiral

Sodenkal's new sight prompter.

I'm in bed, captain.

Please forgive me.

When I'm in space, day and
night lose all meaning for me.

I spend all my time
working and never sleep.

But you do go to bed.

GOEB: Pardon?

Though you don't
sleep, you do go to bed.

Occasionally, yes.

And do you feel you
are working then?

Call me tomorrow.

Perhaps in my
calling you, I've been

A bit overzealous
in my concern for

Whether Admiral
Sodenkal contacted

You in the last day or two.

Don't play with me, captain.

I've had the standard
courses and sight flux.

You must've known
it was my bed time.

You wanted our first
meeting to be in bed.

My bed.

Captain, your bedtime
reputation had preceded you.

I'm two times your
age, and I've seen

Lovers blistered while
standing next to me in battle.

So don't expect to
make a conquest of me,

But we may get along.

I look forward to
calling you tomorrow.

Are you dismissing me?

I beg your pardon.

I thought you wished
me to call tomorrow.

You are dismissed, captain.

Off.

Her childhood is the key.

Take me to the sense
of her childhood.

Pelson's effervescent sexuality
smacked something delicious.

I felt an unusual
tingle that the thought

Of this particularly ravishing
stepping stone on my climb

To a chair in the
Imperial College

Might provide me some
extra sensual delights.

Let's see, KSR dash 22.

Synthesized.

Ah, PQ dash 194.

Ditto.

Now here's an interesting one.

OR dash 7.

[Ronzo burps]

Very satisfying.

That's our best
source of protein.

What's the OR stand for?

Operating room.

He's kidding, isn't he?

Waste not, want not.

Which lead me to the subject
of this afternoon's summit.

Gonna have to go
easy on the food

Until the next palette arrives.

I thought deliveries
were scheduled?

Um, what's up, Jessup?

Well, it seems
like the empire's

Had a few minor
setbacks in the war.

The food deliveries are
gonna be somewhat sketchy.

But we were told...

Yeah, we were told where
to find purple flake, too,

But it wasn't there.

You ever seen a fire gem?

Just once, about seven...
No, it was 10 years ago.

These other guys found one.

Rolling along the
bottom of a creek bed.

Yeah, all the purple flake
was gone because it'd

Been tumbling over the rapids.

And these guys weren't stupid.

They knew they needed
somebody to protect them.

So they cut a bunch of us in.

And I got to hold it
once, just for a moment.

It was beautiful.

Incredibly beautiful.

You know, though, but when
you held it in your hand,

You felt it had more
than appearance.

You felt it had
its own presence.

How much did it sell for?

Oh, there's the ripper.

Next day, the guards came
in, took the fire gem away,

Laughed at us.

Not gonna happen this time.

We're sitting on
some purple here.

We're gonna get it.

GOEB (VOICEOVER): My conquest
of Pelson was well underway.

By the time she, I, and
Sodenkal met for the first time,

I had synthesized a scent which
was a distillation of smells

From the comfort and
safety of her childhood.

That was the trust factor
Am essential in a power-rich

Environment where
quickly everyone

Learns to distrust everyone.

Goeb, you've done
your job quite well.

In fact, your efforts
here have been invaluable.

Thank you, sir.

I made a note in
your service record.

You're very kind, sir.

Please excuse me
now, for I know you

And Admiral Pelson have
strategy to discuss.

That girl is a genius.

If every flag officer in the
fleet had a sight like her,

We'd be winning the war.

On the way over,
she asked me to dine.

What do you think?

About what?

About her and me in bed?

She's an opportunist,
of course.

Yes, but can she be trusted?

Goeb aspires to a position
in the Imperial College,

As do you.

Don't deny it, Pelson, it's
quite all right to use me

When the fleet is
a stepping stone.

I've never wanted anything
more than I have now,

Except to win this bloody war.

RONZO: Well, kid,
my name is Dike.

NEWSTEAD: Dike?

RONZO: Yeah.

I used to do, uh, espionage.

You know what that is?

NEWSTEAD: Yeah, yeah.

RONZO: I used to work for
big companies [inaudible].

NEWSTEAD: Yeah.

Well, what happened to him?

RONZO: He got caught.

NEWSTEAD: Oh.

RONZO: I used to
do sabotage work.

Y'know, get inside.

NEWSTEAD: Did they pay for that?

RONZO: Oh, man, did they pay.

Those guys got the
big bucks, man.

But anyhow, I got caught.

My last job, of course.

Never got caught before.

So they sent me to this
piss hole of a planet

With targis shit all over.

NEWSTEAD: It was
my last job, too.

RONZO: Yeah?

What happened to you?

NEWSTEAD: Oh, I was a computer
expert ever since I was a kid.

RONZO: Computers, eh?

NEWSTEAD: Yeah.

Anyway, they did this
audit and I got caught.

RONZO: You got caught, huh?

Oh, what would a gig like that...
What would a gig like that pay

For?

NEWSTEAD: Well, I'm
I was shaving, uh,

130% off a $100 billion deal.

I would've cleared about
10 million credits.

RONZO: Oh yeah?

10 million credits?

All right, you had
me going there, jack.

NEWSTEAD: No, it's true.

RONZO: Oh, you're
telling the truth.

NEWSTEAD: Yeah.

RONZO: That's really true?

NEWSTEAD: Yeah.

My best job, I only got 2 mil.

NEWSTEAD: No shit.

You you're all right, kid.

Got nabbed on your first job.

Hey, I'll make you a deal.

We get off this planet,
me and you stick together.

We're gonna go places.

Huh?

All right.

I'll be back.

See ya later.

Well, Newy, what'd
you think of that?

You mean [inaudible]?

Mmhmm.

He's not what I expected.

He doesn't seem
cool-headed enough.

The man's a complete liar.

What did he really do?

I never asked him.

What about Jessup?

And what about you?

What's your story?

Ronzo spoke for me.

Ronzo told you my story.

PELSON: Here's my
[inaudible] flip

To regal stimulation sequence.

[Weird noises]

The high frequency tracers
seem to have touched

Your more primitive being.

There are no rules
here, no honor.

The thing which
iterates several times

Is the filthiest thing that a
civilized [inaudible] can do.

Commit sabotage.

It's against fleet code and
centuries all moral traditions.

You asked for free form.

Allow me to point
out that I have

Not made any recommendations.

No need to be
defensive, Pelson.

God, no.

That's exactly the answer I've
been fighting within myself.

Well, we've got
our work cut out.

She has the industrial
targets for sabotage teams.

We'll need the toughest
people in the empire.

[Music playing]

Wow, what a throw.

I'll teach you how
to do that, kid.

Why, don't we have
any other weapons?

Rocks.

Is that all?

It's all that's legal.

Anything metal carries
a death penalty.

C'mon, kid.

Give me a hand, kid.

There we go.

Watch it, kid.

Heh.

I got this toy, kid.

NEWSTEAD: Hey,
isn't that illegal?

Capital offense.

NEWSTEAD: Looks like you
could hold off an army.

You could hold off an army.

[Laser noise]

If you had a power source.

See this here, kid?

C'mere.

If you plug this into, uh, a
standard Kelso 70 power matrix.

That's it.

You could blow a whole
in a nymph battlefield.

[Weird noise]

Get that ruptor out of sight.

C'mon.

We got company coming.

Company?

Yeah, the warden's sending
us some greenies this morning.

Right on top of our fire gem?

We don't need any new members
to... to share this with.

Let's go to work.

See, here they come.

[Weird noise]

Look at the face on that one.

She looks like a borble fish.

I wonder what sins of the
flesh landed her in this hole.

You'd get a 10-year
sentence just imagining it.

A few days ago, you could
think of nothing but women.

A few days ago?

That's before Newy
found that purple flake.

Watch me get rid of them.

I'm gonna run'em off.

[Ronzo shouting]

[Ronzo shouting]

[Woman whimpering]

What's your name, little girl?

Tessa.

Back away.

OK, precious.

You wanna join our group?

You're in.

I said my name's Tessa.

OK, precious.

Apologize to her, Ronzo.

No.

Such a kind, kind man.

Apologize to her.

What, to this little rug rat?

I know her school, Ronzo.

And she'll have to kill you.

No, I ain't apologizing
to no greeny broad.

[Ronzo grunting]

Get up and say you've
apologized, Ronzo.

My dear man.

Poor, forlorn, lonely bush god.

All right, what do I care?

I'm here for the duration.

Sorry, little girl.

I'm sorry, Tessa.

Big deal.

This is your friend?

Yeah.

Nice.

I don't mind
showing her around.

Well, it looks like you
got yourself a woman, Ronzo.

Wish you could never
want anyone else.

Watch out, kid.

She's tough.

[Music playing]

You don't like me
to use it, do you?

It'd be more correct to
say it's one of the things

That causes me to dislike you.

I really don't care how
you destroy yourself.

[Krista giggling]

What a little boy you are.

The powerful people in this
galaxy use it regularly.

Yes.

They're addicted to it.

What rich people
will become addicted?

Ambitious people use
it to get somewhere.

And you?

I suppose you think it's going
to get you off this planet.

You obviously never had
the pleasure jack implanted.

No, I never felt
the need for one.

But we'd colonize an
entire galaxy without this.

Yes, Jess, but it's a whole
empire together that needs it.

Yeah, well to hell
with the empire.

Most of the systems
would rather be free.

You're fairly reckless.

You know, if you had
said that in a hallway

Of a capital system, you'd
have your tongue cut out.

Well, the empire sunk to a
lower level of [inaudible]

Than I'd imagined.

I didn't mean it literally.

I meant that there
is a [inaudible]

Center of your brain.

That's very modern.

Makes it much better.

Yes, it does.

So you think you understand it?

You give it a try.

Wow, you learn fast.

Well, that's depressing.

[Music playing]

Bushka, what's
so deep in there?

Hold it right here.

Now look at the
target, and throw it.

Well, it went in
the right direction.

Let's try it again.

Let's try something else here.

One more time.

This.

No, this.

Uh, practice a little bit, huh?

Bushka, you hit the target.

Bushka hit the target.

[Bushka squealing]

[Music playing]

Would you like to have
some chocolate wine?

It's very delicate.

It captures the essence without
being the slightest bit sweet.

Wonder how it goes with KSR-22.

What?

I'll have some.

You must breathe it
deeply, like this.

Like that.

That's right.

How does it feel?

Now take a sip.

[Music playing]

It's aphrodisiac.

Well, that explains a
few things about you.

What do you want?

What do you want?

I want to learn
to fight like you.

I don't think so.

Why not?

You want to be a hero.

So you're a psychoanalyst
as well as a warrior?

Percel's our answer.

Are you arrogant
because you're a fighter,

Or did you inherit it?

You may not speak
to me that way.

Hey.

What about jumpers?

We need to protect what we find.

Others have paid me
well to teach them.

I want to learn.

Teach me.

The essence of efficient
fighting is self-control.

Now during this first exercise,
I want you to remain very calm.

Otherwise, we'll be spit
at by the slide at rest

On those rocks over there.

What do you want me to do?

First, relax, or
we'll both die.

Then what, kill the slide?

The slide doesn't
want to kill us.

Why should you want to kill it?

Well, what do I do?

Caress it.

I held one the other day.

They're very lovely.

Slides are deadly.

So am I when I'm threatened.

You must approach
it as a friend.

It'll respond to affection.

But...

Kiss me.

Come on.

Ooh.

Ronzo.

[Music playing]

Way to go, kid.

Maybe there's more to
him than meets the eye.

There it is.

Come on.

Come on, you beauty.

Come on.

Here, don't be scared.

Oh, you're beautiful.

Do you want to pet it?

Oh, don't touch it there.

That makes it mad.

Pet it under here.

It's fuzzy.

OK, now go into it.

This hand should be lower.

There you go.

Now you're in the
basic Aldebran stance.

Aldebran.

Yes, named after
the solar system.

Move your weight more forward.

OK.

When do I learn to kick?

You're too impatient.

We'll get to kicks tomorrow.

You're good.

I know ladies in
the capital system

Who would pay a fortune
for a man like you.

That's what I am to you?

You can get back
at them by having

Something they can't have.

I'm sorry, Jess.

I didn't mean in that way.

I mean, yes, that's part of it.

That's not all of it.

We all have to make our peace
with the universe somehow.

That's what I am?

A piece?

Oh, Jess, please don't.

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Music playing]

There's something different...
Something different about you

Lately.

Somehow more alive.

And willing.

Yeah, well, maybe
my visits here

Are beginning to tell
me that the universe

Hasn't forgotten me.

Condemned, not forgotten.

What's the difference?

The empire keeps records
on all its citizens.

FEMALE VOICE:
Hello, Captain Goeb.

You want information about
the suitability of Jessup's

Gang as a sabotage gang.

Jessup was sent to Talsetti
for unknown reasons.

His trial's proceedings
are classified.

As you know, that
may simply mean

That he earned the
disfavor of someone

In power who wanted
to be rid of him.

Perhaps you know
something more about that.

His leadership
qualities are excellent,

As you've already surmised.

I shouldn't have
worried about Jessup

Since his true
identity was unknown,

His title, inheritance.

But I had a premonition.

He was too well harmonized
with the survival flux.

Unless he were dead, I
could never be certain.

I should have lived
with that uncertainty.

[Music playing]

GOEB (VOICEOVER):
Vicho's jumpers...

Another group of
prisoners on the colony...

Became an interference factor.

[Music playing]

BUSHKA: What's this?

Ronzo, look.

This one's purple.

Ow.

Ronzo?

Ronzo, keep this.

[Music playing]

What's a pretty
little girl like that

Doing in such a weak group?

She's got no protection.

Yeah, I may just
take it on myself

To protect her all night.

Why do you have first go
with every new girl we get?

Hey.

Look who else is going to
turn into a eunuch next time

Come sniffing around my bed.

Well, what can we
do for you boys?

We just want your stash, pally.

Just your stash.

Oh, you're too late.

We had a pick-up yesterday.

You know what I think, Vicho?

I think he smells like a liar.

Look for yourselves
in the stream.

You're welcome to dig with us.

We'll let ya keep
half of what you find.

Hey, don't play with us, pally.

You ain't had no turn in.

I'll let you have a
full palette there.

Hear that, Reinder?

He has full palettes.

Take the girl.

She'll talk.

You picked the wrong
camp this time, Vicho.

What's with you, worm face?

Well, let's just say it
wouldn't be wise to mess

With the warden's man.

[Vicho laughing]

Well, that's no problem.

It means we'll have to
kill you pack of worms

Before we take your stash.

I was hoping you'd say that.

What're you waiting for?

Get the girl.

Run, Bushka, run.

[Bushka screaming]

[Various people shouting]

(SHOUTING) Ronzo!

Ronzo!

Oh.

Bushka, breathe for Ronzo.

She couldn't have
choked you that bad.

Bushka, breathe for Ronzo.

Dammit.

I kept telling her
not to work so deep.

Kept telling her not to
work so deep in the stream.

This is a piss hole of a stream.

I'm really sorry.

All my life on this
targis shit planet.

Worms.

Watch the worms.

I watch the worms.

I watch the worms.

I watch the worms.

I watch the worms.

Watch the worms.

(SHOUTING) Dammit,
Ronzo, get out of there!

[Various people shouting]

(SHOUTING) Stop it, Ronzo!

Stop it!

Come on back.

Let him go.

[Music playing]

[Whispering] They
found fire gems.

The most compact form
of wealth in the galaxy.

If only I'd known in time.

Why didn't you just
kill them out there?

Nobody would care.

I'm not a butcher.

Come here and sit by me.

Actually, I'd
rather you did not.

I'm told Bricka has spent more
time here than any other woman.

How is she?

She's under
psychdelic, of course,

And babbling something
about purple.

What do you expect
me to do with them?

I don't know.

You know I have no
facilities for keeping them.

I'll either have to
have them executed

Or release them
into the bush again.

That's what Ronzo said.

Ronzo may be a pig,
but his actually has got

Years of experience out here.

More than anybody else.

You don't know what
you're talking about.

There's guys that have been
here more than 20 years.

He was born here.

It's in the record.

[Music playing]

So what about the prisoners?

Do what you think is right.

There is no right
out here, Jess.

Not for them, not for
you, and not for me.

[Music playing]

(SHOUTING) Empire,
can you hear me?

She never should've
been sent here.

I'll make you pay for it.

FEMALE VOICE: Ronzo's record is
rather sketchy due to the fact

That he has spent his whole life
in the Talsetti prison colony.

He's completely uncivilized
though quite intelligent.

His health is exceptional.

He could live in the quadra
sands deserts or the ice

Mountains of Kindaro
without noting

Much more of the difference
than the frequency

Of his own urinations.

If the empire
should every decay,

The fragments could easily be
usurped by brutes such as this.

When I realized that
Ronzo was the key

To toppling Sodenkal in the same
stroke, I became overconfident.

In my lust for power,
I didn't realize

How near I was to danger.

I want this to work.

His use of obsequious humility
to cover his ambitions

For a chair in the
Imperial College

Is becoming an
intolerable aggravations.

I've researched it carefully.

The team as a hole is tops.

No way for Sodenkal
to reject it.

But one man does have a rare
personality aberration...

Latent hypoloxia pilosis.

Once he realizes what
power we put in his hands,

He'll turn it on the empire.

And goodbye Sodenkal.

You are sure you're clear?

Even if I fail to prove
the free form was forged

By Sodenkal, it's
still on record

That I never
formally recommended

To use them for sabotage.

Let me compliment us
both on our brilliance.

And let me compliment you
who created this situation.

[Footsteps appraoching]

I have finished my review of
the proposed sabotage teams.

I think you've both
done a very fine job

Of screening the possibilities.

You've found a particularly
promising group

In one of the prison
colonies, Talsetti.

Thank you, sir.

However, bandits members leaves
me with an uneasy feeling.

I think he should be
deleted from that team.

What's the matter
with him, sir?

I don't know.

It's just a premonition.

I'm surprised you
didn't catch it.

Whom do you mean?

Perhaps you could review the
Talsetti prison team again.

Tell me what you think.

But sir, I must question the
wisdom of deleting anybody.

These teams were chosen for
their proven harmonic modes

With the survival flux.

Deleting even one member may
be destroying the entire team.

Nonetheless, I'd like a formal
recommendation from each of you

As to who should be deleted
from this particular team.

GOEB (VOICEOVER): A chill
went up my spine as Sodenkal

Turned to walk away.

That was the first time
I sensed the danger.

If my momentum had not
already become so high, I...

I would've known to run.

For a moment, I... I wondered
what Pelson was thinking.

That was the first time
I felt the fleeting exit

Of a mind skin.

Only then did I realize that
also Pelson had psychic power.

Her powers were more
advanced than mine,

Or I would've detected
her intrusions before.

I was cool and calm.

As the visage of an oncoming
critical mode struck,

Like the image of a tidal
wave would appear to one

For having stood for
minutes with his back to it,

Turns around just in time to
see it crashing down on him.

That man in the prison
colony, the sick one.

Ronzo.

Yes, Ronzo.

It's imperative he be included.

For our purposes, yes.

But Sodenkal's outmaneuvered us.

I don't see how Ronzo
can be included now.

I have a way.

I'll arrange for you
to personally make

The clemency offer
to the Talsetti team.

They aren't going to
accept without Ronzo.

Check the whole team
out and send a message

Back here to Sodenkal
about what you did,

And requesting he reply.

If he disapproves
of your action,

I'll see that the message
is derailed long enough.

And if you fail?

Trust me.

It seems the whole
risk is falling on me.

Yes.

As a proof of our love.

GOEB (VOICEOVER): I
could recamouflage

A mind scan into Pelson.

I ran into scan
blocks everywhere.

Pelson smiled quietly at me.

So all my reckless
fingering through her mind

Had been an allowed arrangement.

I knew now I'd been subjugated.

My only choice was to obey here,
hope she wouldn't punish me.

If she liked the pleasures I
provided, she might keep me.

Maybe I could rise with her.

Even a chair in the Imperial
College was still possible.

You've never been
against a fight before.

I think we should
watch them for a while

To see what's going on.

You weren't coming back from
the river this morning at all.

You turned targo on me...

No.

With one of them.

No, I wouldn't.

Oh, yes you would.

And you did.
Vicho?

Scars, take her.

Oh, look at the lovebirds.

We're going to kill them all.

Except for the girl.

Let's go.

I don't like the odds.

Maybe they'd be
willing to make a deal.

REINDER: Maybe they won't.

Newstead, pull out the ruptor.

And don't show it unless
I give the signal.

Don't look like they
want to make a deal.

They want blood.

Quickly.

Quickly.

[Various people yelling]

Juice them with it.

(SHOUTING) They got a ruptor!

Truce.

I call a truce.

What do you want?

VICHO: What've you got?

For you?

Bright boy.

Ruptor?

VICHO: Hah.

What else?

It's not enough?

Hey, pally, we can make
life pretty tough for you

Just by waiting on the
other side of that river.

That's fine, if you want
a bunch of scorched asses.

Hey, it's just
a matter of time.

You won't be able to sleep, eat.

You won't be able to take a leak
without worrying one of my boys

Is going to pop
up and stick you.

[Music playing]

[Weird noise]

You sent for me?

I want to go into the bush.

No.

If you cherish
your position here,

You won't vocal insolence.

I meant... I meant only that
that would be very dangerous.

Oh.

Why do you think so?

A warden's never
gone into the bush.

You mean up until now.

Turn around.

BREMEN: I can't say how the
prisoner's would respond.

Is that all that worries you?

You're a woman.

Women are a little
more than chattel

Over most of this
planet, and there's

Way too few of them around.

Your presence could start
a riot, or who knows.

I strongly advise against it.

And you'll come with me.

Your approach was always
to say with good rapport,

You have the prisoners.

Show me.

What are you waiting
for, you scummers?

Finish it.

Hey Vicho, I didn't know
there was going to be a ruptor.

Wha... he doesn't dare use it.

The guards would know.

[Inaudible]

Oh, yes, he does.

He won't.

Oh, I oughta know more than
to argue with a man who can't

Even control his own woman.

[Grunts]

Yeah, great.

That's just great.

I'm sick of all them before
it's time to cool off.

Let's go.

Hold it.

Someone's coming through.

The warden.

Bricka tell you?

She was babbling
about some purple.

I didn't think of
it when you left,

But there's something
different about you.

Something happy and
vigorous, like a wild animal

That has just been freed.

That's what the fire
gems are to us, Jess.

It's our freedom to love.

You ever seen the warden
in the bush before?

Something hot going
on down there.

The warden knows, and
we'll be out in the cold

Unless we get down there
and kill them all right now.

Hold it.

Someone else is coming through.

[Weird noise]

VICHO: Bremen.

In trouble.

The transport

[Weird noise]

VICHO: It's broken down.

Hah.

They're gonna have
a long walk home.

Let's go.

Vicho, you're crazy.

I'm not going up against
two thumpers and a ruptor.

Those thumpers, they're
nothing at this range.

They'll only knock you
down if they hit you.

Then let's stay here
and let them fire at us.

[Inaudible] Scars,
have you ever seen

A warden in the bush before?

There's something hot
going on over there.

The warden knows.

We'll be out in the cold
unless we kill them all now.

Don't you see it?

It's our only chance.

The warden's stuck.

It's the best chance
we'll ever have.

I was there once, Jess.

I know the people.

I know the politics.

With the fire gems behind us,
there'll be nothing to stop us.

Oh, we'll have wealth and power.

Wealth and power.

Ronzo.

Well, well, well.

What have we here?

Whew.

That looks like
about a 105 ruptor.

Ronzo, you slouching
of piece of targo turd.

This here's a death sentence
for you and all your friends.

RONZO: That there's a death
sentence for all of us.

Looks like we're going to
die like brothers, Bremen,

You blab of
worm-infested slide spit.

Oh, I don't think so.

Don't pull that.

Don't pull that.

[Ruptor firing]

Shoot.

C'mon.

Did you hear that?

There's no charge on that.

I told you it was a bluff.

Now do any of you cowards
say we shouldn't attack.

GOEB (VOICEOVER): I
wish I'd arrived in time

To see the look on
Krista's face when

She walked up to the ruptor.

She knew it was a death
sentence for Jessup.

But Vicho's gang made it
clear that if she must

Take Jessup's life, she'd
first have to fight for it

And her own.

[Shouting]

[Weird noise]

[Shouting]

[Ruptor firing]

[Ruptor firing]

[Ruptor firing]

[Ruptor firing]

[Ruptor firing]

What's going on here, warden?

There was a fight.

I know there was a fight.

I could see there was a fight.

What I want to know is what you
were doing in the middle of it.

My presence there, like
yours, was purely by chance.

You're evading me.

The two gangs had some quarrel.

What about?

I have no idea.

I've heard that for a warden
to take sides in such a quarrel

Is grounds to reduce the
warden to prisoner status.

What's going to happen
to Jessup's gang?

What do you care?

The empire needs to
add some special forces

To its depleted ranks.

What's going to happen to them?

Why didn't you just
have him come here?

He's sometimes did.

He'd tell me how it was
out there in the bush,

How bad it was.

I wanted to see for myself.

I compliment you on your
excellent taste in men.

But don't worry, he'll be with
me for the next several days,

And I'll take very
good care of him.

Oh, you... you bitch.

You never called me that
when we were together.

Don't you ever make me
sick of touching again.

Several years ago, you and I
had a lot in common, Krista.

Never.

Until you lost the game.

I haven't lost it yet.

You'll see me again.

I don't think so.

I've fixed it so
you'll be in exile

Here for the rest of your life.

[Weird noise]

The fire gems will
take me off-planet.

In exchange for your carrying
out this mission of sabotage,

I'm removing your
debt to society.

The empire is prepared to
grant you a full pardon.

JESSUP: What do
you think, Reinder?

It's a death mission.

Well, a job has
finally been found

That the great sights can't do.

Well, the job can
be done, all right.

We can get in there and do it.

We just can't get out.

GOEB (VOICEOVER):
Of course, they

Had no choice but to accept.

Their possession of the ruptor
meant certain death otherwise.

As I'd predicted, they
refused to go without Ronzo.

The team was sent to Andromeda.

They formed the best
team in the empire.

But I know I'm right.

Ronzo will turn them
all against the empire.

Their skills, their
harmony as a team,

The power and wealth
of the fire gems

All combined to place
him on an unassailably

Reinforced harmonic mode
of the survival flux.

The empire might even fall,
and I will have been the cause.

I had several days' incestuous
pleasure with Jessup

Aboard the mission ship
that was to take them

Into the heart of Andromeda.

My new orders came at
the end of the third day.

I was recalled immediately.

Pelson had not kept her promise.

She'd gone to
Sodenkal with a story

That I was planning to ruin him.

Now I'm in preparation.

I've read their minds, though.

This won't be a punishment.

It's almost time.

Any moment now we'll begin.

This won't be a
punishment, though.

This is the proof that
I had as much potential

As I thought they feared me.

That is why Sodenkal
and Pelson have

Decided to have me redeveloped.

It... it started with,
um, with Jessup.

And then I... I [inaudible].

I didn't know... know he'd
become a critical [inaudible].

Jessup, Sodenkal,
Pelson... in the end,

They were all... all against me.

Me.

FEMALE VOICE: This is the
personnel you must recapture,

For this was the
critical moment when

You ceased to be Captain Goeb.

If you can reach back to this
moment, the rest of this record

May have been recovered.

Once you have the barest
hold on this moment,

I want you to focus on
Sodenkal and Jessup.

Try to remember that Sodenkal
was your stepping stone

To a chair in the
Imperial College,

And that Jessup
was your brother.

[Music playing]