- Vila Restal: If Avon rates this Muller as such a genius why didn't he come for the man himself?
- Del Tarrant: He probably just wanted to get you away from the base, to avoid more bother over Muller's lady.
- Vila Restal: I was a perfect gentleman towards her.
- Del Tarrant: That's what bothered us.
- [Things are going awry with Muller's rescue]
- Vila Restal: A straightforward pickup job you said. As last words go, they're not likely to be famous.
- Del Tarrant: You should worry.
- Vila Restal: I do! Supposing they fire off a few interceptors in this direction?
- Del Tarrant: Duck.
- [Vila is hiding from the android in a closet when Soolin finds him]
- Soolin: Is this a private game or can anyone play?
- Vila Restal: [coming out of the closet] We've been looking for you.
- Soolin: In there?
- [Scorpio's life support has failed, leaving Tarrant and Vila stranded]
- Kerr Avon: [to Orac] Situation.
- Orac: Total systems failure.
- Dayna Mellanby: They'll be dying up there!
- Kerr Avon: Not yet!
- Soolin: They won't have long.
- Kerr Avon: They have oxygen units and suits.
- Dayna Mellanby: In the dark? Under those conditions?
- Kerr Avon: Orac?
- Orac: They must be left there!
- Kerr Avon: To die?
- Orac: There is no option. To reopen teleport contact could expose the base to undefined systems influence.
- [pause]
- Kerr Avon: Oh, you'll have to do better than that, Orac, if you expect me to *kill* them.
- [Avon has ordered Orac to restore teleport contact with Scorpio so they can rescue Vila and Tarrant]
- Kerr Avon: Is it restored?
- Orac: I am obliged to do as you tell me, even though I know it to be wrong.
- Kerr Avon: Only following orders? That's not very original, Orac.
- Orac: There is nothing very original about domination, as you will discover.
- [Slave is refusing to follow the crew's orders]
- Kerr Avon: [on communicator] What's happening?
- Del Tarrant: Slave appears to have thrown off his chains.
- Soolin: Well, Orac?
- Orac: Prospects terminal.
- Soolin: Terminal?
- Orac: The survival of organic humanoid life is improbable.
- Soolin: Are you talking about Vila and Tarrant?
- Orac: All organic humanoid life throughout the galaxy is at hazard.
- Soolin: Let's stick to medicine, Orac. Leave the philosophy for later.