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Guard : This is a restricted area.
Gerren : I am Academician Gerren doing geological survey work for the Planetary Resources Commission.
Guard : Papers?
[Gerren hands them over]
Guard : That seems to be order.
Guard : [to Vila and Tarrant] You?
Gerren : They are part of my survey team.
Guard : I still need to see their papers.
Vila Restal : I seem to have left mine behind.
Guard : Then I'm sure you won't object to being searched. Search him!
[the other guard frisks Vila and finds the Mecronian knife]
Guard : Four of our men have been killed with a knife like that.
Vila Restal : You don't think - I mean, I'm not the violent type, really I'm not.
Guard : Then why do you carry that?
Vila Restal : I found it.
Guard : Where?
Vila Restal : It was stuck in one of your men.
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Kerr Avon : [into communicator] Dayna, we're down safe in Orbiter and proceeding.
Gambit , Orac : [in unison] Countdown twelve minutes, twenty seconds, and running.
Vila Restal : What does that mean?
Kerr Avon : I imagine that if we're not out of here by the time it hits zero, we might regret it.
[Soolin presses the button to reveal the screen and start the game. She picks up the electronic pistol]
Gambit , Orac : Control system feedback is through the weapon. The game adjusts to meet, and on the last shot, exceed the proficiency of the players.
Soolin : You have to outshoot yourself.
Del Tarrant : Stupid game.
Soolin : Not really. Finally a game worth playing.
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Orac , Gambit : [in unison] The orbiter is preprogrammed. Flight power depends on the distance and intensity of each star the feldon panels are locked into. The successful completion of a game continues the sequence. To regain control, you must complete the coded sequence of star sources.
Vila Restal : What about the feldon crystals?
Kerr Avon : Gambit?
Orac , Gambit : This game will reveal the entrance.
Soolin : All we have to do is lock on to the right star.
Orac : It is possible that we've just received the right answer to the wrong question.
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Vila Restal : [after Tarrant throws a guard into a rock crusher] Nasty way to go.All that dust.Very bad for the chest.
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Del Tarrant : So, why should this middle-aged Federation professor want to help you with?
Kerr Avon : Because apart from being a brilliant geologist and an expert in mining, he is also greedy, avaricious, and a crook.
Vila Restal : Has he got any faults?
