- Servalan: Jarvik? Of course. Jarvik. Jarvik, the construction worker. What was it now? "Any fool could take the Liberator with three pursuit ships." Well, the Liberator will soon be diffusing itself throughout the galaxy as so many billion split particles. So, regrettably, we shall never know. Thanks to the folly of your president, who with her aides and her technical advisors, her battle computers and her captains, extravagantly disposed herself to use *four* pursuit ships. And yet any fool could have done it with three. Perhaps this particular fool will tell her how.
- [pause]
- Servalan: Well? Have you nothing to say to Servalan?
- Jarvik: Woman, you are beautiful.
- [Jarvik grabs Servalan and kisses her]
- Del Tarrant: I've been looking all over for you.
- Kerr Avon: Well, now you found me.
- Del Tarrant: Didn't you hear me calling?
- Kerr Avon: I imagine the whole planet heard you.
- Kerr Avon: [holding the rock-like Sopron] This happens to be the most sophisticated life form that it has ever been my good fortune to come across. Present company NOT excepted.
- Del Tarrant: Life? But it looks like...
- Kerr Avon: A rock, yes.
- Jarvik: [talking to Servalan about computer predictions] Madam, in ancient times they read the future from the torn out guts of small animals. Two millennia later it was in the remnant leaves of a herb in a drinking cup. Ask me, and I'd say that civilization has learnt a lot to little positive advantage.
- [On screen is a primitive landing module]
- Servalan: What is that?
- Zen: Detector scan reveal it to be a high technology space cruiser.
- [Jarvik laughs]
- Zen: Hardened self-healing Herculanium hull and superstructure, advanced Time Distort facility, speed range to Standard by twelve point two zero three.
- [Jarvik laughs harder]
- Zen: Computer assessment of weapons reveals the craft to have an assault capacity marginally greater than that of the Liberator.
- [Jarvik laughs harder]
- Servalan: [shocked] *Greater*?
- [Jarvik looks at Servalan, still laughing at the ludicrous incongruity]