1 00:00:32,247 --> 00:00:34,477 (THEME MUSIC) 2 00:01:22,647 --> 00:01:24,638 (EERIE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 3 00:02:15,647 --> 00:02:17,638 (MYSTICAL CHANTING) 4 00:03:00,727 --> 00:03:02,718 (SOLEMN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 5 00:03:28,927 --> 00:03:30,918 (UPBEAT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 6 00:04:27,567 --> 00:04:29,558 (MYSTICAL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 7 00:04:47,367 --> 00:04:49,358 (DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 8 00:05:08,367 --> 00:05:10,358 (CHANTING) 9 00:05:25,047 --> 00:05:27,038 (SINISTER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 10 00:06:54,567 --> 00:06:56,558 (MYSTICAL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 11 00:07:10,887 --> 00:07:12,081 (AVON) Cally. 12 00:07:13,887 --> 00:07:15,161 What is it? 13 00:07:15,247 --> 00:07:17,761 Well, it looks like a door. And it's closed. 14 00:07:29,567 --> 00:07:33,003 Zen's fixed the orbit of the mineral asteroid Tarrant was talking about. 15 00:07:33,087 --> 00:07:35,647 We have half an hour to decide if we go after it. 16 00:07:35,727 --> 00:07:38,605 Why not? It's something else to chase. 17 00:07:40,247 --> 00:07:42,920 - A sketch of a place I used to know. - Auron. 18 00:07:43,407 --> 00:07:45,284 Yes, Auron. 19 00:07:46,967 --> 00:07:50,801 It's pointless to think about it. I'll never see it again. 20 00:07:50,887 --> 00:07:54,357 That's why you've been shut in here for 10 hours, thinking about Auron... 21 00:07:54,447 --> 00:07:56,677 - and how you'll never see it again? - That's why. 22 00:07:57,167 --> 00:07:58,156 I wish I could promise you... 23 00:07:58,247 --> 00:08:01,557 the sparkling company on deck would take you out of yourself. 24 00:08:01,847 --> 00:08:03,803 - I'm all right. - No, you're not. 25 00:08:04,487 --> 00:08:08,321 But you will be. Regret is part of being alive. 26 00:08:09,327 --> 00:08:12,239 - But keep it a small part. - As you do? 27 00:08:13,887 --> 00:08:15,320 Demonstrably. 28 00:08:30,447 --> 00:08:33,803 - I think I'm going to win this time, Avon. - Congratulations. 29 00:08:35,047 --> 00:08:36,400 You can't. 30 00:08:38,087 --> 00:08:40,760 - Yes, you can. - Vila didn't win again. 31 00:08:40,847 --> 00:08:42,439 It was your fault. You put me off. 32 00:08:42,527 --> 00:08:44,961 With pleasure. On the first planet we come to. 33 00:08:45,647 --> 00:08:48,878 Here, take a look at this. That asteroid's less than 32 hours away. 34 00:08:48,967 --> 00:08:50,559 But we'll still be cutting it fine. 35 00:08:50,647 --> 00:08:52,842 Let's get going. There's nothing keeping us here. 36 00:08:52,927 --> 00:08:56,078 Information. Detectors indicate a vessel is approaching. 37 00:08:56,167 --> 00:08:57,805 - (AVON) Identification? - Negative. 38 00:08:57,887 --> 00:09:01,197 - What speed is it making? - There is no specific speed. 39 00:09:01,287 --> 00:09:03,323 The vehicle is apparently adrift. 40 00:09:03,407 --> 00:09:04,635 - Damaged? - Negative. 41 00:09:04,727 --> 00:09:05,842 Put it on visual. 42 00:09:05,927 --> 00:09:08,646 Confirmed. Scanners in operation. 43 00:09:09,847 --> 00:09:12,725 Doesn't maintain your usual standards, Zen. 44 00:09:13,287 --> 00:09:16,597 - Some kind of alien. - It's like nothing I've ever seen before. 45 00:09:16,687 --> 00:09:18,837 An alien spaceship has aliens on it, right? 46 00:09:18,927 --> 00:09:21,316 My experience of aliens hasn't exactly been warming. 47 00:09:21,407 --> 00:09:24,365 Your experiences with humans haven't quite been glowing either. 48 00:09:24,447 --> 00:09:27,280 - Zen, any idea where she comes from? - Negative. 49 00:09:27,367 --> 00:09:30,200 No comparative data is available. 50 00:09:30,287 --> 00:09:33,245 Primary analysis suggests the design is eccentric... 51 00:09:33,527 --> 00:09:35,358 and may be decorative rather than functional. 52 00:09:35,847 --> 00:09:38,566 What about manpower, or whatever power it's got? 53 00:09:39,047 --> 00:09:41,515 The ship registers no life signs. 54 00:09:41,607 --> 00:09:44,804 Well, if it really were alien it may not register as life. 55 00:09:45,007 --> 00:09:47,521 Alien vessel is now stationary. 56 00:09:47,607 --> 00:09:49,757 - Distance? - 200 spatials. 57 00:09:49,847 --> 00:09:53,601 That's a little too perfect for something that is registering as unmanned. 58 00:09:53,687 --> 00:09:55,962 - We signal? - Give me a reason. 59 00:09:56,327 --> 00:09:57,476 A reason? It's out there. 60 00:09:58,167 --> 00:09:59,566 In other words, you're bored. 61 00:10:00,047 --> 00:10:02,003 I don't believe in missing chances. 62 00:10:02,087 --> 00:10:04,282 Any chance this offers is purely hypothetical. 63 00:10:04,367 --> 00:10:06,756 However, any minerals we pull off that asteroid... 64 00:10:06,847 --> 00:10:08,883 are unique and therefore conceivably useful. 65 00:10:08,967 --> 00:10:12,039 And once its orbit takes it back into the perimeter of its sun... 66 00:10:12,127 --> 00:10:14,243 we lose it for another three months. 67 00:10:14,327 --> 00:10:15,726 I still give this priority. 68 00:10:17,127 --> 00:10:19,641 - We can't just ignore it. - No, Avon, we can't. 69 00:10:20,847 --> 00:10:22,599 Something else to chase? 70 00:10:23,367 --> 00:10:25,927 Very well, as you are all so eager... 71 00:10:26,207 --> 00:10:28,357 Zen, signal the alien. 72 00:10:28,567 --> 00:10:29,920 Confirmed. 73 00:10:30,407 --> 00:10:31,396 (STATIC) 74 00:10:33,807 --> 00:10:35,206 What is it? 75 00:10:35,487 --> 00:10:36,522 What? 76 00:10:36,607 --> 00:10:38,916 - You picked up on something. - No. 77 00:10:39,087 --> 00:10:41,726 How could I? I'm an Auron. 78 00:10:41,927 --> 00:10:44,999 The only message I can receive is from one of my own people. 79 00:10:45,087 --> 00:10:48,284 - I know. - But you're still psi-developed, Cally. 80 00:10:48,727 --> 00:10:52,197 You can read minds sometimes. Did you? 81 00:10:52,887 --> 00:10:54,718 - Not then. - I don't believe her. 82 00:10:54,807 --> 00:10:56,035 Leave it. She just told you. 83 00:10:56,127 --> 00:10:58,687 Only an Auron can communicate directly to another Auron. 84 00:10:58,767 --> 00:11:02,157 That thing is not an Auron ship. Zen, confirm negative response. 85 00:11:02,247 --> 00:11:03,919 Negative response confirmed. 86 00:11:04,007 --> 00:11:06,475 Now, we have another decision to make. 87 00:11:06,567 --> 00:11:09,001 Somehow that ship has moored itself conveniently close. 88 00:11:09,087 --> 00:11:10,315 Do we teleport aboard? 89 00:11:10,407 --> 00:11:13,046 I suggest a party of three for maximum cover, and armed. 90 00:11:13,127 --> 00:11:15,357 Why do I get the feeling you've planned this for weeks? 91 00:11:15,447 --> 00:11:18,166 Very well. Vila, Cally, get three guns. Get to the teleport. 92 00:11:18,847 --> 00:11:20,599 - And do what? - You... 93 00:11:20,847 --> 00:11:24,078 will remain here as back-up with Dayna. 94 00:11:26,087 --> 00:11:27,440 You don't mind, do you? 95 00:11:28,327 --> 00:11:30,318 (SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 96 00:11:40,287 --> 00:11:41,640 Avon, Vila. 97 00:11:47,847 --> 00:11:49,963 - Something went wrong? - You can say that again. 98 00:11:50,047 --> 00:11:52,607 - You were both seconds behind me. - Dayna, what happened? 99 00:11:53,727 --> 00:11:54,762 Nothing happened. 100 00:11:54,847 --> 00:11:57,486 I was late getting here and Vila arrived on his head. 101 00:11:58,167 --> 00:12:00,886 Nothing showed up as wrong. I'll get Zen to check it out. 102 00:12:00,967 --> 00:12:02,002 Do that. 103 00:12:02,087 --> 00:12:05,716 We are going to get back, aren't we? I shouldn't like to spend my life here. 104 00:12:05,807 --> 00:12:08,844 - Don't worry, it wouldn't be a long one. - Wonderful. What do you mean? 105 00:12:08,927 --> 00:12:12,556 Zen promised us an oxygen atmosphere but it's pretty thin on the ground. 106 00:12:20,687 --> 00:12:24,919 Though it must have been denser at one time, to cause so much of this. 107 00:12:30,007 --> 00:12:32,237 You kept Tarrant out. Why? 108 00:12:32,327 --> 00:12:34,477 His enthusiasm can be distracting. 109 00:12:34,567 --> 00:12:37,764 - What are these coloured ribbons? - Perhaps they were having a party. 110 00:12:37,847 --> 00:12:40,361 According to Zen, this ship has this one single deck. 111 00:12:40,447 --> 00:12:42,244 Do you notice anything? 112 00:12:44,967 --> 00:12:46,366 No instrument panels? 113 00:12:46,447 --> 00:12:48,438 No navigational or drive systems whatsoever. 114 00:12:48,927 --> 00:12:50,918 It's unlikely that they would corrode without trace. 115 00:13:01,007 --> 00:13:01,996 Avon, look at this. 116 00:13:11,767 --> 00:13:14,565 - Whatever it was, it was humanoid. - I don't think I want to see. 117 00:13:15,807 --> 00:13:18,241 This isn't a ship, it's a tomb. 118 00:13:18,927 --> 00:13:21,885 They, whoever they are or were, sealed their dead up inside... 119 00:13:21,967 --> 00:13:23,241 and set it adrift in space. 120 00:13:26,007 --> 00:13:27,360 This rubble... 121 00:13:27,487 --> 00:13:30,285 is the remains of artefacts buried with the corpse. 122 00:13:30,367 --> 00:13:33,165 - That doesn't seem very hygienic. - You worked it all out very fast. 123 00:13:33,647 --> 00:13:35,638 - Well, it's obvious. - Yes. 124 00:13:37,047 --> 00:13:40,084 - These jewels must be priceless. - Jewels? 125 00:13:41,407 --> 00:13:42,840 Vila, don't. 126 00:13:43,247 --> 00:13:45,477 No. I don't think I will. 127 00:13:49,527 --> 00:13:50,755 What's this? 128 00:14:03,447 --> 00:14:06,519 I take it that's a rhetorical question, or did you really think we knew? 129 00:14:08,367 --> 00:14:11,165 I'd like to take a look at it before you smash it to bits. 130 00:14:11,647 --> 00:14:12,636 (STATIC) 131 00:14:18,607 --> 00:14:20,120 What the hell? 132 00:14:21,127 --> 00:14:22,719 I saw something. 133 00:14:24,887 --> 00:14:28,880 - I think it must have been my reflection. - You can take modesty too far, you know. 134 00:14:28,967 --> 00:14:31,481 - (DAYNA) Avon! Avon, answer. - What is it? 135 00:14:31,807 --> 00:14:35,482 The detectors are registering some sort of energy build-up all around you. 136 00:14:35,567 --> 00:14:37,717 One of us fired at something that wasn't there. 137 00:14:37,807 --> 00:14:39,923 Maybe we've triggered something else that is. 138 00:14:40,007 --> 00:14:42,999 You certainly have. Listen, describe the interior. 139 00:14:43,087 --> 00:14:46,841 - Dust, debris, rather an old corpse. - What? 140 00:14:47,927 --> 00:14:49,997 Is there any sort of beam you could have broken? 141 00:14:50,487 --> 00:14:52,000 Probably hundreds. 142 00:14:52,647 --> 00:14:54,080 A trip-wire? 143 00:14:54,767 --> 00:14:55,916 Avon. 144 00:14:58,247 --> 00:15:00,841 We may have tripped a few wires, yes. 145 00:15:01,007 --> 00:15:03,999 That ship must have an anti-intruder device rigged. 146 00:15:04,327 --> 00:15:06,079 You've activated it. 147 00:15:06,287 --> 00:15:10,041 Avon, I think you're now inside a live bomb. 148 00:15:10,247 --> 00:15:13,205 Then get us out of here fast and do it right this time. 149 00:15:13,287 --> 00:15:16,324 Vila. Pick that thing up. 150 00:15:16,407 --> 00:15:18,398 (DRUMBEAT) 151 00:15:31,847 --> 00:15:34,919 That was smooth, Dayna. Dayna? 152 00:15:35,687 --> 00:15:37,484 Avon, we're still here. 153 00:15:43,047 --> 00:15:44,924 (TARRANT) Where are they? For heaven's sake! 154 00:15:45,007 --> 00:15:48,044 Build-up of energy aboard alien ship increasing. 155 00:15:48,127 --> 00:15:51,278 - Did they take off the bracelets? - Of course they didn't. 156 00:15:51,607 --> 00:15:52,596 (BUZZING) 157 00:15:52,687 --> 00:15:54,962 - Am I doing something wrong? - No. 158 00:15:55,127 --> 00:15:57,402 This happened going in. As if... 159 00:15:57,487 --> 00:16:01,162 Build-up of energy aboard alien ship increasing to a critical point. 160 00:16:01,247 --> 00:16:03,715 Zen, malfunction of teleport system. 161 00:16:03,807 --> 00:16:05,957 Shutdown may be implemented. 162 00:16:06,207 --> 00:16:08,243 Energy increase aboard alien ship... 163 00:16:08,327 --> 00:16:11,319 computed as reaching critical point in 30 seconds. 164 00:16:11,527 --> 00:16:13,199 Put me back on the alien ship. 165 00:16:13,287 --> 00:16:17,326 You heard Zen, you can't go into that. Besides, the teleport could fail totally... 166 00:16:17,407 --> 00:16:20,205 - or go into automatic shutdown. - Try to put me back. 167 00:16:20,287 --> 00:16:22,198 Give me as many seconds as you can spare... 168 00:16:22,287 --> 00:16:23,800 then try to bring me out again. 169 00:16:23,887 --> 00:16:25,036 - Don't, Cally. - Dayna! 170 00:16:25,127 --> 00:16:26,196 - No. - Twenty seconds. 171 00:16:26,287 --> 00:16:28,926 I think I can bring them out, otherwise they'll both die. 172 00:16:29,007 --> 00:16:31,316 - This way you'll all die. - Fifteen seconds. 173 00:16:31,407 --> 00:16:34,205 It's our only chance. Do it. 174 00:16:38,647 --> 00:16:40,160 Ten seconds. 175 00:16:44,247 --> 00:16:46,044 Answer me, will you? 176 00:16:53,407 --> 00:16:55,443 Don't tell me, Zen has finally gone mad. 177 00:16:55,527 --> 00:16:57,802 There's no time. Vila, give me your hand. 178 00:17:02,287 --> 00:17:04,278 (DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 179 00:17:16,047 --> 00:17:17,446 Zen, damage report. 180 00:17:17,527 --> 00:17:19,961 The Liberator has sustained no damage. 181 00:17:20,367 --> 00:17:22,801 The teleport is now functioning at full power. 182 00:17:22,887 --> 00:17:25,526 - Better late than never. - What was going on over here? 183 00:17:25,607 --> 00:17:27,325 - Afternoon tea? - Ask Zen. 184 00:17:27,407 --> 00:17:31,161 I want to know what trick Cally pulled off that Zen couldn't. Or wouldn't. 185 00:17:31,647 --> 00:17:34,719 Their teleport bracelets were affected by the energy build-up. 186 00:17:34,807 --> 00:17:36,240 Mine obviously wasn't. 187 00:17:36,327 --> 00:17:38,283 When I linked with Avon and Vila by touch... 188 00:17:38,367 --> 00:17:40,005 my bracelet boosted the others... 189 00:17:40,087 --> 00:17:44,046 - and brought the three of us through. - Neat. And not remotely believable. 190 00:17:44,127 --> 00:17:46,721 Who cares, it worked. Thanks, Cally. 191 00:17:47,607 --> 00:17:50,405 I never realised you felt this way about me. 192 00:17:51,167 --> 00:17:53,840 You were nearly killed. Was it worth it? 193 00:17:54,807 --> 00:17:57,685 - Was it? - I'd like a straight answer. 194 00:17:58,207 --> 00:18:00,641 - Try a straight question. - You didn't trust me. 195 00:18:00,727 --> 00:18:04,481 You thought I had some obscure reaction to something on that ship, didn't you? 196 00:18:04,567 --> 00:18:06,762 You and I teleported so that you could watch me. 197 00:18:06,847 --> 00:18:07,996 And see what I'd do. 198 00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:10,555 You cut Tarrant out because he had the same idea, 199 00:18:10,647 --> 00:18:12,000 but he'd made no secret of it. 200 00:18:12,087 --> 00:18:13,156 You're over-reacting. 201 00:18:14,247 --> 00:18:18,445 Probably. But you wouldn't expect a normal human response, would you? 202 00:18:18,807 --> 00:18:20,206 I'm not quite human. 203 00:18:26,367 --> 00:18:28,244 Are you having any luck with that object? 204 00:18:28,327 --> 00:18:29,555 As you can see, no. 205 00:18:29,647 --> 00:18:31,365 - Try Orac with it. - I already have. 206 00:18:31,447 --> 00:18:33,677 It has no more idea of its function than we do. 207 00:18:33,767 --> 00:18:35,803 Do any of the buttons respond? 208 00:18:37,087 --> 00:18:37,883 No. 209 00:19:13,327 --> 00:19:15,318 (MYSTICAL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 210 00:19:21,567 --> 00:19:22,602 I've got a headache. 211 00:19:25,287 --> 00:19:28,757 Cally had the right idea. I think I'll get some rest. 212 00:19:31,687 --> 00:19:33,598 As if a storm were coming. 213 00:19:33,687 --> 00:19:36,247 Rather unlikely in here, don't you think? 214 00:19:37,967 --> 00:19:41,596 I hate to say this, but I think Vila's right. 215 00:19:43,007 --> 00:19:44,679 There is something. 216 00:19:46,407 --> 00:19:49,683 I thought so. Static electricity. 217 00:19:55,887 --> 00:19:59,402 Nothing. It must be your naturally electric personality. 218 00:19:59,767 --> 00:20:01,678 I've finished with the book screen, Dayna. 219 00:20:01,767 --> 00:20:03,120 You said you wanted it. 220 00:20:03,207 --> 00:20:05,721 Cally. I've been going over that theory of yours... 221 00:20:05,807 --> 00:20:08,002 about the teleport bracelets boosting each other. 222 00:20:08,087 --> 00:20:11,159 - As you're aware, it doesn't make sense. - You have a better one? 223 00:20:11,247 --> 00:20:13,602 There was some kind of power source on that ship... 224 00:20:13,687 --> 00:20:15,405 that you were telepathically receptive to. 225 00:20:15,567 --> 00:20:16,716 When the teleport failed... 226 00:20:16,807 --> 00:20:19,037 you used that source to get yourself out... 227 00:20:19,127 --> 00:20:20,560 and to get Avon and Vila out with you. 228 00:20:21,447 --> 00:20:23,324 I seem to be more clever than I thought I was. 229 00:20:23,807 --> 00:20:25,923 I really want to know why you're being so bashful. 230 00:20:27,007 --> 00:20:29,601 - What are you hiding, and why? - Shut up, Tarrant. 231 00:20:30,607 --> 00:20:33,075 - Did you say something to me? - I said, shut up. 232 00:20:33,167 --> 00:20:35,681 I apologise for not realising you are deaf. 233 00:20:37,087 --> 00:20:41,160 There's something else you don't realise. I don't take any orders from you. 234 00:20:41,287 --> 00:20:45,439 That's a great pity, considering that your own ideas are so limited. 235 00:20:45,527 --> 00:20:47,358 Don't try and bluff your way with me. 236 00:20:47,447 --> 00:20:49,915 I know what's been needling you right from the start. 237 00:20:50,007 --> 00:20:52,237 With Blake gone, you thought you'd got it made. 238 00:20:52,327 --> 00:20:55,046 Got control of this ship and a crew of three who'd say... 239 00:20:55,127 --> 00:20:58,881 "Yes, Avon. Whatever you want, Avon. " But you reckoned without me. 240 00:20:58,967 --> 00:21:02,403 - That wouldn't be too difficult. - Really? I don't think so. 241 00:21:02,487 --> 00:21:05,206 When you found me on the Liberator, it was quite a blow. 242 00:21:05,287 --> 00:21:07,562 And every time you look at me, it hits you harder. 243 00:21:07,647 --> 00:21:09,603 I'm faster than you and I'm sharper. 244 00:21:09,687 --> 00:21:13,123 As far as it goes, I've made a success of my life. But you? 245 00:21:13,567 --> 00:21:15,762 The only big thing you ever tried to do you failed at. 246 00:21:16,247 --> 00:21:18,761 The greatest computer swindle of all time. 247 00:21:19,047 --> 00:21:21,242 But you couldn't quite pull it off, could you? 248 00:21:21,527 --> 00:21:24,644 If it hadn't been for Blake, you'd be rotting on Cygnus Alpha now. 249 00:21:24,727 --> 00:21:27,161 No, you failed, Avon. But I win. 250 00:21:27,647 --> 00:21:29,797 Not just at games, at life. 251 00:21:32,087 --> 00:21:33,600 You also talk too much. 252 00:21:34,247 --> 00:21:36,522 Be thankful I'm restricting myself to talk. 253 00:21:37,567 --> 00:21:40,286 That's fascinating. You mean you can do something else? 254 00:21:40,367 --> 00:21:42,927 Stop this. What are you doing? 255 00:21:43,407 --> 00:21:45,716 Warming up to cutting each other's throats? 256 00:21:53,607 --> 00:21:57,236 Avon. Do you want to forget I said all that? 257 00:21:57,447 --> 00:21:59,836 It wasn't particularly memorable. 258 00:22:00,807 --> 00:22:03,401 (DAYNA) We need sleep. All of us. 259 00:22:06,367 --> 00:22:08,437 Even you need sleep, Tarrant. 260 00:22:09,647 --> 00:22:12,161 And tomorrow, everything will look different? 261 00:22:12,247 --> 00:22:15,762 If it does, you can assume you're on the wrong ship. 262 00:22:16,647 --> 00:22:18,638 (EERIE MUSIC) 263 00:23:01,687 --> 00:23:02,836 Cally. 264 00:23:04,327 --> 00:23:05,316 Cally. 265 00:23:27,767 --> 00:23:31,396 Inboard sensors detect a build-up of energy on flight deck. 266 00:23:31,727 --> 00:23:34,036 This energy is of an electrical nature. 267 00:23:34,127 --> 00:23:36,687 Zen, what's the matter with the lights? 268 00:23:36,767 --> 00:23:39,565 Life systems have regained full power. 269 00:23:39,647 --> 00:23:40,921 Something funny is going on. 270 00:23:41,007 --> 00:23:43,316 That will take the smile off your face. 271 00:23:43,407 --> 00:23:44,522 Oh, no. 272 00:23:50,087 --> 00:23:53,682 Maybe Orac will be more obliging now that this thing's turned its light on. 273 00:23:53,767 --> 00:23:55,120 My head's killing me. 274 00:23:55,207 --> 00:23:58,802 You should learn self-defence. Orac, I want another analysis. 275 00:23:58,887 --> 00:24:03,199 I have already informed you that this structure is of an unfamiliar type. 276 00:24:03,807 --> 00:24:07,595 My deductions are necessarily limited by the facts available... 277 00:24:07,687 --> 00:24:10,247 and the rationality of possible theories. 278 00:24:10,327 --> 00:24:12,841 Wild surmise is not a part of my function. 279 00:24:13,287 --> 00:24:14,800 Be more specific, Orac. 280 00:24:14,887 --> 00:24:18,880 The only deduction I have been able to make concerning this artefact... 281 00:24:19,127 --> 00:24:23,882 is that its purpose is not only inimical, but also apparently unreasonable. 282 00:24:25,087 --> 00:24:29,239 It is active, although the panel of keys appears to have been pre-programmed... 283 00:24:29,327 --> 00:24:31,841 many centuries prior to this activation. 284 00:24:32,647 --> 00:24:35,639 Since the origin of the device is ambiguous... 285 00:24:36,127 --> 00:24:38,436 it must belong to a world, or even a galaxy... 286 00:24:38,527 --> 00:24:40,597 as yet unfamiliar to the human race. 287 00:24:40,687 --> 00:24:43,645 What do you mean, the purpose of the artefact is unreasonable? 288 00:24:43,727 --> 00:24:45,399 Are you saying you do have some idea... 289 00:24:45,487 --> 00:24:49,446 I am not willing to speculate on so tenuous and oblique a basis. 290 00:24:49,567 --> 00:24:54,083 I should, however, warn you that a slight electrical imbalance appears to be... 291 00:24:54,167 --> 00:24:55,156 (ELECTRICAL WHINING) 292 00:24:55,327 --> 00:24:56,965 What did you say? 293 00:24:58,447 --> 00:25:00,039 Orac, what's the matter with you? 294 00:25:00,127 --> 00:25:02,436 - Disconnect me. - Wait a minute, Orac... 295 00:25:02,527 --> 00:25:04,006 Disconnect. 296 00:25:05,967 --> 00:25:06,956 (GLASSES BREAKING) 297 00:25:08,207 --> 00:25:11,836 - I don't believe that. - Try and convince me, will you? Please? 298 00:25:11,927 --> 00:25:14,316 Dis... con... 299 00:25:16,087 --> 00:25:17,076 (DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 300 00:25:17,567 --> 00:25:19,125 Down. Get down! 301 00:25:55,047 --> 00:25:56,082 Orac. 302 00:25:56,167 --> 00:25:58,362 Zen, check the radiation level in here. 303 00:25:58,447 --> 00:26:00,642 Radiation level normal. 304 00:26:00,967 --> 00:26:03,356 There's been a second momentary increase of energy... 305 00:26:03,447 --> 00:26:05,244 in the area of the flight deck. 306 00:26:05,327 --> 00:26:06,999 Not in itself dangerous. 307 00:26:07,087 --> 00:26:09,555 - It wouldn't be for you, would it? - Orac is damaged. 308 00:26:09,647 --> 00:26:12,525 - I can't tell how badly. - I've got pins and needles. 309 00:26:13,287 --> 00:26:14,481 (WARPED) Inboard... 310 00:26:15,367 --> 00:26:18,757 inboard sensors indicate... 311 00:26:18,847 --> 00:26:21,236 there is an intruder aboard. 312 00:26:22,167 --> 00:26:25,443 That's impossible, Zen. Even if someone had teleport facility... 313 00:26:25,527 --> 00:26:28,439 there's nothing and nowhere they could have come from, is there? 314 00:26:29,247 --> 00:26:33,035 (WARPED) There is an intruder aboard. 315 00:26:33,327 --> 00:26:35,716 How? And where? 316 00:26:36,167 --> 00:26:37,236 Zen? 317 00:26:38,327 --> 00:26:42,081 Sensors cannot determine. 318 00:26:42,167 --> 00:26:43,236 Zen! 319 00:26:43,927 --> 00:26:48,364 Computers indicate a sustained electrical disturbance. 320 00:26:48,607 --> 00:26:50,598 Inboard sensors affected. 321 00:26:50,887 --> 00:26:54,562 There is an energy loss from all systems. 322 00:26:54,647 --> 00:26:56,444 All systems. 323 00:26:57,207 --> 00:27:00,802 - Zen? - There is a... 324 00:27:02,927 --> 00:27:04,440 What's happening? 325 00:27:04,567 --> 00:27:08,003 Somehow, something's bleeding power out of this ship to use for itself. 326 00:27:08,087 --> 00:27:10,806 Zen's out of action. I'll wake Avon and get some guns. 327 00:27:10,887 --> 00:27:13,447 Dayna, you fetch Cally. I particularly want her with us. 328 00:27:13,727 --> 00:27:15,843 But, Dayna, go carefully with her. 329 00:27:15,927 --> 00:27:18,999 - What's Cally supposed to have? - No time for a discussion, Vila. 330 00:27:19,087 --> 00:27:21,442 - You stay here. - Stay here? Alone? 331 00:27:22,287 --> 00:27:23,515 I hope. 332 00:27:24,967 --> 00:27:26,480 It's getting dark. 333 00:27:27,047 --> 00:27:28,196 Cally. 334 00:27:30,047 --> 00:27:32,197 Cally, are you listening to me? 335 00:27:33,607 --> 00:27:36,280 I know you can hear me now, fully. 336 00:27:37,727 --> 00:27:42,084 You heard only a suggestion of my voice before, yet you responded. 337 00:27:43,327 --> 00:27:46,717 You obeyed me almost from the beginning, Cally. 338 00:27:47,207 --> 00:27:49,960 A telepath. Rare. 339 00:27:51,127 --> 00:27:53,083 A wonderful find. 340 00:27:54,167 --> 00:27:55,964 Wonderfully vulnerable. 341 00:27:56,767 --> 00:27:57,995 Cally... 342 00:27:58,847 --> 00:28:01,361 you've been so long alone. 343 00:28:02,167 --> 00:28:04,044 Cut off from your people. 344 00:28:05,367 --> 00:28:09,883 You've been homesick for your own world, your own kind, haven't you? 345 00:28:12,567 --> 00:28:15,286 For someone to communicate with. 346 00:28:15,887 --> 00:28:20,278 True communication, one brain speaking to another. 347 00:28:22,007 --> 00:28:25,317 But you won't ever be alone again, Cally. 348 00:28:26,087 --> 00:28:27,566 Not now. 349 00:28:29,167 --> 00:28:32,045 Not for as long as you live. 350 00:28:40,567 --> 00:28:42,478 Avon's not in his cabin. Get to Cally. 351 00:28:42,567 --> 00:28:44,956 Here, you may need to keep her covered with your gun. 352 00:28:45,047 --> 00:28:47,845 Take her through to the flight deck. Give Vila this gun... 353 00:28:47,927 --> 00:28:49,440 and tell him to look after her. 354 00:28:49,527 --> 00:28:51,324 - Will he do it? - Make sure he does. 355 00:28:51,407 --> 00:28:54,797 You and I are going to comb this ship, for Avon and for the intruder. 356 00:28:54,887 --> 00:28:56,445 Whatever it is. 357 00:29:05,247 --> 00:29:07,886 I always said you were a useless pile of junk. 358 00:29:08,127 --> 00:29:10,880 No point in being nervous, Vila. No, there isn't. 359 00:29:12,527 --> 00:29:14,279 Lot of shadows I never noticed before. 360 00:29:15,167 --> 00:29:16,282 Hi, shadows. 361 00:29:17,167 --> 00:29:19,886 I suppose that's all you are, just shadows. 362 00:29:20,087 --> 00:29:22,840 Don't think about that. No, I won't think about that. 363 00:29:24,447 --> 00:29:26,642 But, since you're all here... 364 00:29:33,007 --> 00:29:33,996 (APPLAUSE) 365 00:29:34,687 --> 00:29:37,485 Really, it wasn't that good. Just watch this. 366 00:29:54,967 --> 00:29:55,956 (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING) 367 00:29:58,887 --> 00:30:00,957 Thank you, you're too kind. 368 00:30:04,447 --> 00:30:08,486 I, the master of illusion, command you to play. 369 00:30:09,447 --> 00:30:10,846 (MYSTICAL MUSIC) 370 00:30:10,927 --> 00:30:11,916 Eh? 371 00:30:14,327 --> 00:30:16,636 No, don't do that. I didn't mean it. 372 00:30:19,407 --> 00:30:20,522 Dayna? 373 00:30:38,327 --> 00:30:40,397 You're always getting at me. 374 00:30:40,487 --> 00:30:43,877 Your helplessness brings out my sadistic streak. 375 00:30:47,807 --> 00:30:49,718 Stop it. Don't! 376 00:30:49,807 --> 00:30:51,798 (DISCORDANT MUSIC) 377 00:30:57,207 --> 00:30:59,198 (DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 378 00:31:11,967 --> 00:31:13,116 Cally. 379 00:31:19,207 --> 00:31:21,562 There's trouble, Cally. Come on, wake up. 380 00:31:23,767 --> 00:31:25,120 Wake up. 381 00:31:27,207 --> 00:31:28,196 (STATIC) 382 00:31:28,807 --> 00:31:29,956 Avon? 383 00:31:32,207 --> 00:31:33,356 Vila? 384 00:32:13,607 --> 00:32:15,199 It didn't happen. 385 00:32:16,087 --> 00:32:17,725 No, of course it didn't. 386 00:32:22,327 --> 00:32:23,760 Pins and needles. 387 00:32:30,967 --> 00:32:31,956 (STATIC) 388 00:33:07,367 --> 00:33:09,005 So you're alive. 389 00:33:09,287 --> 00:33:13,166 I shouldn't be. I don't deserve to be, I'm sorry. 390 00:33:13,247 --> 00:33:14,760 I bet you are. 391 00:33:15,127 --> 00:33:16,276 Cally! 392 00:33:16,687 --> 00:33:20,157 She's in some sort of coma. Describe what attacked you. 393 00:33:21,087 --> 00:33:23,999 That's the point. It was Cally. 394 00:33:25,087 --> 00:33:26,600 But not Cally. 395 00:33:28,567 --> 00:33:32,003 Somehow something came off that alien ship and onto Liberator. 396 00:33:32,087 --> 00:33:35,602 To do it, it used the device Cally brought with her, and it used Cally. 397 00:33:35,687 --> 00:33:38,247 I don't see how, if what was on the ship was dead. 398 00:33:38,327 --> 00:33:39,521 But there must have been something left... 399 00:33:39,607 --> 00:33:41,882 some kind of pure energy. 400 00:33:42,687 --> 00:33:46,077 It looks like her, and it has a body. 401 00:33:47,247 --> 00:33:50,956 Then it's used her as a blueprint to make itself a brand-new physical shape. 402 00:33:51,047 --> 00:33:54,278 - Only the whole thing sounds crazy. - It's happening. 403 00:33:54,367 --> 00:33:56,642 And what hit me was real enough. 404 00:33:56,727 --> 00:33:59,878 It's feeding off the ship's energy and off Cally. 405 00:34:00,727 --> 00:34:02,365 It will kill her. 406 00:34:03,207 --> 00:34:05,960 I wonder what it's got planned for the rest of us. 407 00:34:06,247 --> 00:34:08,477 I just better get rid of it before it decides. 408 00:34:08,567 --> 00:34:11,400 Do you want the applause now or will it wait? 409 00:34:11,487 --> 00:34:12,556 Where were you? 410 00:34:12,647 --> 00:34:14,603 Outside, about 20 feet down the corridor. 411 00:34:14,687 --> 00:34:17,042 You carelessly missed me both times you went by. 412 00:34:17,127 --> 00:34:19,925 - Another game, hide and seek? - I was watching this cabin. 413 00:34:20,007 --> 00:34:21,076 - Reason? - Isn't it obvious? 414 00:34:21,167 --> 00:34:22,316 We've been outmanoeuvred. 415 00:34:22,407 --> 00:34:24,602 Teleport failures, mysterious alien artefacts. 416 00:34:24,687 --> 00:34:27,247 While we pawed the ground, that thing managed to get Cally... 417 00:34:27,327 --> 00:34:29,841 to reactivate the device in the correct sequence. 418 00:34:29,927 --> 00:34:33,078 Cally's the link, but short of killing her, we couldn't do much to stop it. 419 00:34:33,167 --> 00:34:36,000 Whatever is now on this ship has sufficient psi abilities... 420 00:34:36,087 --> 00:34:38,806 to drain the Liberator and Cally to the dregs. 421 00:34:42,407 --> 00:34:45,763 It is also capable of throwing high voltage bouquets. 422 00:34:46,687 --> 00:34:48,996 If you want it, it's gone toward the flight deck. 423 00:34:49,087 --> 00:34:50,725 I followed it a little way. 424 00:34:50,807 --> 00:34:54,243 However, I wouldn't advise a headlong infantry charge. 425 00:34:54,487 --> 00:34:55,761 I'm sure you wouldn't. 426 00:35:02,167 --> 00:35:04,556 (DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 427 00:35:25,847 --> 00:35:29,999 I'm afraid your rather temperamental weapons aren't stable anymore. 428 00:35:37,527 --> 00:35:38,596 What are you? 429 00:35:38,687 --> 00:35:40,678 Cally. Can't you see? 430 00:35:40,927 --> 00:35:43,157 Cally is dying. Do you want that? 431 00:35:43,407 --> 00:35:47,286 I have established a psychic link between us, she and I. 432 00:35:47,847 --> 00:35:50,042 If I let her go, she'll live. 433 00:35:50,247 --> 00:35:54,126 But I require her life energy to complete this shape. 434 00:35:54,527 --> 00:35:56,836 So she'll have to become a part of me. 435 00:35:57,367 --> 00:36:00,040 Not dead, absorbed. 436 00:36:00,447 --> 00:36:04,918 I'd never kill superfluously. You should bear that in mind. 437 00:36:06,207 --> 00:36:08,596 Superfluous may mean something different to you. 438 00:36:08,687 --> 00:36:09,961 Tarrant. 439 00:36:10,607 --> 00:36:14,202 Yes, I know your name, just as I know your language. 440 00:36:14,847 --> 00:36:18,123 To my people death is an interim state. 441 00:36:18,767 --> 00:36:21,600 But to humans, death is death. 442 00:36:22,567 --> 00:36:24,876 That makes you very simple to deal with. 443 00:36:24,967 --> 00:36:26,559 Don't bet on that. 444 00:36:26,647 --> 00:36:28,478 But you can't fight me. 445 00:36:28,967 --> 00:36:32,596 Only the Auron girl could have done that, but she left it too late. 446 00:36:32,807 --> 00:36:34,798 Part of her welcomed me. 447 00:36:35,207 --> 00:36:37,437 You see, I could reach her mind. 448 00:36:38,167 --> 00:36:41,000 When she tried to close the door against me... 449 00:36:41,087 --> 00:36:43,362 it was emotionally impossible. 450 00:36:44,287 --> 00:36:47,723 Besides, how could she have true loyalties... 451 00:36:47,807 --> 00:36:51,436 to any non-telepath, any human? 452 00:36:53,247 --> 00:36:56,045 Normally only an Auron can contact another Auron. 453 00:36:56,127 --> 00:36:57,958 Your psi powers must be extremely advanced. 454 00:36:58,047 --> 00:36:59,924 - They are. - But still you needed that device... 455 00:37:00,007 --> 00:37:00,996 to bring you through. 456 00:37:01,847 --> 00:37:04,998 My people have learned how to boost their psychic capabilities... 457 00:37:05,087 --> 00:37:06,645 by means of high technology. 458 00:37:07,567 --> 00:37:10,286 You disrupted the systems of this ship. That won't help you. 459 00:37:11,167 --> 00:37:13,442 You underestimate your vessel. 460 00:37:13,927 --> 00:37:16,725 It's largely capable of regeneration... 461 00:37:17,127 --> 00:37:20,005 and the power source is virtually limitless. 462 00:37:20,807 --> 00:37:21,922 Yes. 463 00:37:22,327 --> 00:37:26,161 I think I will accept your ship as your gift to me. 464 00:37:27,007 --> 00:37:31,762 You call it Liberator, don't you? How very apt. 465 00:37:32,447 --> 00:37:33,243 (VILA GROANING) 466 00:37:35,767 --> 00:37:38,440 Presumably you could kill us all. So why haven't you? 467 00:37:38,927 --> 00:37:42,476 I told you, I don't kill superfluously. 468 00:37:43,327 --> 00:37:45,045 When I was alive before... 469 00:37:45,127 --> 00:37:49,564 I was accustomed to being served by intelligent menials. 470 00:37:50,047 --> 00:37:52,515 I'm prepared to offer you all a choice. 471 00:37:52,607 --> 00:37:55,246 - You can live as my... - Intelligent menials? 472 00:37:55,327 --> 00:37:59,366 Don't let a mere two words prevent you from staying alive. 473 00:38:00,007 --> 00:38:02,726 You underestimate your powers of expression. 474 00:38:06,967 --> 00:38:08,958 (FESTIVE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 475 00:38:09,127 --> 00:38:10,446 Come, now. 476 00:38:11,087 --> 00:38:14,079 Would it be so very horrible to serve me? 477 00:38:15,007 --> 00:38:16,725 To be my protector? 478 00:38:30,287 --> 00:38:33,040 Would it be so soul destroying, Tarrant? 479 00:38:33,807 --> 00:38:36,480 It was predicted that I would find you. 480 00:38:37,047 --> 00:38:40,084 That I would live again because of each of you. 481 00:38:40,207 --> 00:38:43,756 And your roles in my new life, they were predicted, too. 482 00:38:47,327 --> 00:38:48,885 Or you can die. 483 00:38:49,567 --> 00:38:52,877 I like to be waited on, but it isn't essential. 484 00:38:53,807 --> 00:38:58,119 As far as the computers are concerned, my voiceprint is the same as Cally's. 485 00:38:58,207 --> 00:39:00,926 I can soon learn how to control the ship. 486 00:39:01,007 --> 00:39:02,645 I've already learned how to cripple it. 487 00:39:06,447 --> 00:39:08,278 That one interests me. 488 00:39:09,127 --> 00:39:13,006 He has a very high IQ, and yet he acts like an imbecile. 489 00:39:14,927 --> 00:39:16,679 He'll make an ideal pet. 490 00:39:16,767 --> 00:39:17,916 Dayna! 491 00:39:18,967 --> 00:39:20,878 Stay where you are. 492 00:39:22,447 --> 00:39:26,679 Do I really have to kill you to prove you're in the presence of a superior? 493 00:39:37,367 --> 00:39:40,837 All right. That was a stupid move. 494 00:39:41,047 --> 00:39:43,117 Yes, stupid. 495 00:39:44,487 --> 00:39:48,321 I have a world, a planet, a home. 496 00:39:49,247 --> 00:39:50,965 I mean to get there. 497 00:39:51,767 --> 00:39:53,246 A planet? Where? 498 00:39:54,007 --> 00:39:57,602 A world it would take more than your lifetime to reach. 499 00:39:57,967 --> 00:40:00,640 A world more beautiful than any other. 500 00:40:01,287 --> 00:40:05,280 A world you'll never see, even if I let you live. 501 00:40:07,887 --> 00:40:11,197 You need instruction, human called Tarrant. 502 00:40:13,487 --> 00:40:17,878 Rather than render you unconscious I want you to experience that pain. 503 00:40:18,127 --> 00:40:20,322 I want you to think about it. 504 00:40:23,167 --> 00:40:27,365 The girl who sings songs would do well to learn by your example. 505 00:40:28,447 --> 00:40:30,039 Throw that away. 506 00:40:31,327 --> 00:40:32,806 Away, I said. 507 00:40:46,887 --> 00:40:48,036 Cally. 508 00:40:48,847 --> 00:40:50,917 She's hardly even breathing. 509 00:40:53,487 --> 00:40:58,003 Cally, Tarrant, Dayna, Vila. 510 00:40:58,927 --> 00:41:01,043 - One is missing. - No. 511 00:41:02,767 --> 00:41:05,201 Remember my mental link with Cally. 512 00:41:05,327 --> 00:41:10,003 Naturally I know who is here and who isn't, particularly if it's Avon. 513 00:41:10,647 --> 00:41:12,205 Where is he, Dayna? 514 00:41:14,167 --> 00:41:16,840 Very well, let me guess. 515 00:41:18,367 --> 00:41:20,403 He's outside in the corridor... 516 00:41:20,487 --> 00:41:23,126 as you were before he failed to stop you rushing in here. 517 00:41:30,887 --> 00:41:33,481 I didn't try to stop her. I just got out of her way. 518 00:41:35,447 --> 00:41:37,802 I don't think you should look at me like that. 519 00:41:37,887 --> 00:41:39,161 Don't you? 520 00:41:39,327 --> 00:41:43,843 I might interpret it as insolence, which could be uncomfortable for you. 521 00:41:44,287 --> 00:41:47,279 - Could it? - Yes, it could, Avon. 522 00:41:48,447 --> 00:41:51,041 But you are always practical, aren't you? 523 00:41:52,087 --> 00:41:55,557 - Have you decided to accept my terms? - Have you offered some? 524 00:41:57,287 --> 00:42:00,165 You will have heard me, I think, from the corridor... 525 00:42:00,247 --> 00:42:03,444 just as you watched me earlier from the other corridor. 526 00:42:03,607 --> 00:42:07,839 I didn't hear any terms, just something about pets. 527 00:42:08,887 --> 00:42:12,323 Cally would want you to live, I know that. 528 00:42:14,207 --> 00:42:17,517 It must get tiresome for you, knowing so much. 529 00:42:17,607 --> 00:42:20,804 - Avon, say you'll do as she says. - Vila, be quiet! 530 00:42:21,127 --> 00:42:25,803 He has an unusually sharp intelligence, which can recognise when it's beaten. 531 00:42:26,527 --> 00:42:29,246 I might forgive him for wanting to steal my ring. 532 00:42:29,327 --> 00:42:31,124 Cally stole your ring. 533 00:42:31,527 --> 00:42:33,199 Cally was supposed to. 534 00:42:34,207 --> 00:42:36,880 I hope you made her a touching farewell. 535 00:42:37,807 --> 00:42:39,763 She's not dead yet. 536 00:42:40,687 --> 00:42:44,202 But she won't struggle, not against me. 537 00:42:47,007 --> 00:42:48,884 I'm waiting for your answer. 538 00:42:52,887 --> 00:42:54,445 Stay where you are. 539 00:43:03,247 --> 00:43:06,876 Very well, now you can see me properly. 540 00:43:07,807 --> 00:43:09,445 I like you, Avon. 541 00:43:10,167 --> 00:43:13,955 You're stronger than the rest. Cally liked you. 542 00:43:15,127 --> 00:43:18,802 You can console yourself now I'm so very much in her image. 543 00:43:19,647 --> 00:43:22,400 I could even think and feel as she does. 544 00:43:23,167 --> 00:43:25,237 You and I can be friends. 545 00:43:25,327 --> 00:43:26,965 You surprise me. 546 00:43:29,247 --> 00:43:32,842 You know that I wouldn't wish to make a slave of you, don't you? 547 00:43:33,087 --> 00:43:34,122 Not you. 548 00:43:34,207 --> 00:43:36,596 Pity you couldn't get rid of me earlier, and Vila. 549 00:43:36,687 --> 00:43:40,521 When you jammed the teleport so only Cally'd get out of your coffin alive. 550 00:43:40,767 --> 00:43:43,645 - I was mistaken. - Yes, Cally wouldn't leave us to die. 551 00:43:43,727 --> 00:43:46,116 So you had to let us through, very reluctantly. 552 00:43:46,207 --> 00:43:48,641 You knew where the danger would be right from the start. 553 00:43:48,927 --> 00:43:51,600 You are taking this ship precisely nowhere. 554 00:43:51,887 --> 00:43:55,163 Don't be foolish. You spoil yourself. 555 00:43:55,887 --> 00:43:59,596 But I'll be patient with you. I've waited centuries. 556 00:44:00,127 --> 00:44:03,005 I can afford a few moments until you can bring yourself... 557 00:44:03,087 --> 00:44:05,123 to consent to be obliging. 558 00:44:05,207 --> 00:44:08,836 And no one aboard this ship is going to accept or carry out... 559 00:44:08,927 --> 00:44:10,997 a single demand of yours. 560 00:44:11,087 --> 00:44:14,523 - You've seen what I can do. - It would be a little difficult to miss. 561 00:44:14,807 --> 00:44:17,116 Don't try to play games with me. 562 00:44:17,207 --> 00:44:19,516 Nothing was further from my mind. 563 00:44:19,607 --> 00:44:23,441 You've given us your terms, now I will give you ours. 564 00:44:23,807 --> 00:44:25,286 No deal. 565 00:44:25,487 --> 00:44:27,796 I thought you were the clever one. 566 00:44:28,087 --> 00:44:30,601 You're a fool, like Tarrant. 567 00:44:31,367 --> 00:44:34,200 The pain Tarrant is experiencing... 568 00:44:34,287 --> 00:44:37,245 visualise that pain and much more. 569 00:44:37,327 --> 00:44:40,000 You're as close to death as you have ever been. 570 00:44:42,127 --> 00:44:45,597 Think about human death, Avon. Irrevocable. 571 00:44:45,687 --> 00:44:48,520 I have thought about it. What's keeping you? 572 00:44:48,607 --> 00:44:50,245 What did you say? 573 00:44:51,087 --> 00:44:54,238 You claim you can kill me. You better get on with it. 574 00:44:54,687 --> 00:44:56,279 Make me die. 575 00:44:56,367 --> 00:44:58,835 There's nothing else you can make me do. 576 00:45:17,647 --> 00:45:21,606 One last chance. 577 00:45:25,727 --> 00:45:26,955 Save it. 578 00:45:58,287 --> 00:46:01,324 It seems you made another mistake. Cally has loyalties after all. 579 00:46:01,407 --> 00:46:04,160 But you knew that right from the beginning, didn't you? 580 00:46:08,607 --> 00:46:11,599 You look so beautiful when you're angry. 581 00:46:32,527 --> 00:46:33,880 Thank you. 582 00:46:35,927 --> 00:46:37,406 Give it to me. 583 00:46:37,647 --> 00:46:39,239 That would be a little foolish... 584 00:46:39,327 --> 00:46:41,477 when I just went to so much trouble to get it. 585 00:46:41,567 --> 00:46:43,444 - You don't understand. - Don't I? 586 00:46:43,527 --> 00:46:45,882 Psychic abilities boosted by high technology? 587 00:46:45,967 --> 00:46:48,117 This ring is the real source of your power. 588 00:46:48,207 --> 00:46:51,517 This is how you formed your link with Cally and you cannot hold her... 589 00:46:51,607 --> 00:46:54,280 or feed off this ship without it. 590 00:46:56,887 --> 00:46:58,764 Avon, give it back to me. 591 00:46:59,647 --> 00:47:01,638 (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 592 00:47:04,047 --> 00:47:06,845 You must. You don't know. 593 00:47:07,487 --> 00:47:11,002 I have to keep this body. I have to live. 594 00:47:11,767 --> 00:47:15,555 I've waited so long. Centuries. 595 00:47:16,087 --> 00:47:18,647 More time than you could comprehend. 596 00:47:19,367 --> 00:47:22,564 How can you imagine what it must be like to be dead. 597 00:47:23,047 --> 00:47:26,323 To exist in nothingness, in nowhere. 598 00:47:26,807 --> 00:47:29,526 Blind, deaf, dumb... 599 00:47:29,967 --> 00:47:33,960 and yet to be sentient, aware, waiting. 600 00:47:34,807 --> 00:47:36,684 Centuries of waiting. 601 00:47:38,047 --> 00:47:40,356 I have to find my world again... 602 00:47:40,887 --> 00:47:43,401 my people, my home. 603 00:47:44,367 --> 00:47:48,326 I want to breathe and see and feel. 604 00:47:48,967 --> 00:47:50,878 And know. 605 00:47:52,327 --> 00:47:55,797 Don't send me back into the dark, Avon. 606 00:47:57,327 --> 00:47:58,999 Let me live. 607 00:48:21,687 --> 00:48:23,518 I want to live... 608 00:48:25,167 --> 00:48:26,441 to live. 609 00:48:29,327 --> 00:48:30,726 I want to live... 610 00:48:32,807 --> 00:48:33,876 to live. 611 00:48:39,367 --> 00:48:40,959 I want to live... 612 00:48:42,847 --> 00:48:43,836 to live. 613 00:49:02,207 --> 00:49:04,198 (SOLEMN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) 614 00:49:14,367 --> 00:49:15,436 All right. 615 00:49:15,727 --> 00:49:18,321 Cally was telepathically linked into that thing. 616 00:49:18,407 --> 00:49:22,036 So Avon gambled that Cally could be shocked into fighting it... 617 00:49:22,127 --> 00:49:25,836 and that it couldn't kill him because Cally wouldn't let it. And it worked. 618 00:49:25,927 --> 00:49:29,363 But that means that Cally sat back while it had a go at the rest of us. 619 00:49:29,447 --> 00:49:32,166 - I've always liked Cally. - You're being pedantic, Vila. 620 00:49:32,247 --> 00:49:35,125 - I am? - In the end, it wasn't trying to kill us. 621 00:49:35,207 --> 00:49:38,722 Just Avon. He pushed it into a corner where it couldn't do anything else. 622 00:49:38,807 --> 00:49:40,206 Wasn't trying to kill us? 623 00:49:40,287 --> 00:49:42,482 It nearly killed me when it fixed the teleport. 624 00:49:42,567 --> 00:49:45,320 That was before it totally linked with Cally. 625 00:49:45,447 --> 00:49:49,042 She didn't have any influence over it except that it had to protect her. 626 00:49:49,127 --> 00:49:52,199 Anyway, Avon was the target then, too. You were incidental. 627 00:49:52,287 --> 00:49:54,801 Incidental? That'll look good on my gravestone. 628 00:49:54,887 --> 00:49:55,876 It nearly killed Cally. 629 00:49:56,687 --> 00:49:58,962 It was absorbing her rather than killing her. 630 00:49:59,047 --> 00:50:00,924 Making her part of itself. 631 00:50:01,007 --> 00:50:03,919 She felt that, too, that's why she couldn't fight for herself. 632 00:50:04,007 --> 00:50:07,636 - That doesn't make sense to me. - Then obviously it's the right answer. 633 00:50:09,007 --> 00:50:12,283 All systems have been restored to maximum capacity. 634 00:50:12,367 --> 00:50:14,642 The Liberator is now fully operational. 635 00:50:14,727 --> 00:50:18,402 At least Zen's talking to us again. Even Orac's back on his feet. 636 00:50:18,887 --> 00:50:22,357 - What a revolting thought. - You should be used to those. 637 00:50:27,967 --> 00:50:29,878 You sure you're up to this, Cally? 638 00:50:29,967 --> 00:50:32,356 Translated, that means how do you feel? 639 00:50:32,447 --> 00:50:34,563 I feel all right. Thank you. 640 00:50:36,367 --> 00:50:38,756 - And how about you, Vila? - Oh, I'm... 641 00:50:40,407 --> 00:50:41,726 Oh, I see. 642 00:50:49,287 --> 00:50:50,436 Avon. 643 00:51:01,007 --> 00:51:02,838 Zen, let's get out of here. 644 00:51:05,767 --> 00:51:07,644 (THEME MUSIC) 9999 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00