- Olag Gan: Someone must have made an attack on the base.
- Vila Restal: Who'd be stupid enough to do that?
- Kerr Avon: [snaps his fingers] Justify: "stupid".
- Kerr Avon: I think we should go and get him. Always assuming that he is there, and Federation Security are not.
- Jenna Stannis: [smiles] "Gung ho"?
- [Blake smiles]
- Kerr Avon: [pointedly ignoring having his words thrown back at him] We do not know what IMIPAK is.
- Roj Blake: Exactly. The least we've got to do is find out what it does.
- Vila Restal: Why have we? I can live without it.
- Roj Blake: It's just conceivable that you can't.
- Kerr Avon: Unless of course you want your last words to be, "So *that's* IMIPAK."
- Vila Restal: [confused] I think my brain must be furring up.
- Olag Gan: [from across the bridge] IMIPAK might be something they can use against *us*, Vila!
- Vila Restal: [and back again] Only if it can run faster than we can!
- Kerr Avon: [presenting a data card] Orac has just come up with the computation and attack strategy that he asked for.
- Olag Gan: What attack strategy?
- Kerr Avon: Exactly. Another of Blake's little schemes he hasn't thought fit to tell us about. You are not going to believe the target he has in mind.
- [Avon tosses the card down]
- Cally: [without picking it up] The Federation Weapons Development Base?
- Kerr Avon: That's right.
- Jenna Stannis: [inspects the card] He obviously thought fit to tell *someone* about it.
- Cally: Well, not exactly. I suggested it to him.
- Jenna Stannis: *You* suggested it to him. That's very keen of you.
- Vila Restal: Why didn't you suggest it to us?
- Cally: Because I knew how you'd react.
- Kerr Avon: Auron may be different, Cally, but on Earth it is considered ill-mannered to kill your friends while committing suicide.
- Kerr Avon: It is a triple-A security installation.
- Vila Restal: We have got into those before.
- Kerr Avon: Usually with your screams of protest ringing in our ears. Are you telling me that you're in favor of this idea?
- Vila Restal: No, not exactly, I just don't think it's stupid. Perhaps - maybe I'm on your side, Cally.
- Roj Blake: It's not a question of sides, Vila.
- Kerr Avon: No, it's a question of intelligence, so your opinion has very little relevance.
- Olag Gan: [entering carrying Orac] Here we are. He wasn't very happy at being interrupted.
- Roj Blake: I'll apologize later. Orac, your information on the Weapons Development Base is unsatisfactory.
- Orac: Define "unsatisfactory".
- Roj Blake: I was about to. Your strategic computations start from the premise that the base is on maximum security alert.
- Orac: Computer communications traffic indicates that it is.
- Jenna Stannis: Not permanently?
- Orac: It is not a practice drill.
- Cally: So what is it?
- Orac: Clearly, some occurrence which is a real or apparent threat.
- Jenna Stannis: Thank you, Orac. I'm sure we'd have never worked that out for ourselves.
- Orac: It is therefore the case that security in the immediate future will be sensitive and alert.
- Roj Blake: A fact to be included in strategic computations. Moral:
- Kerr Avon: Never argue with a computer.
- Roj Blake: Right.
- [last lines]
- Carnell: [via video recording] One last thing, Supreme Commander. I must tell you this. You are undoubtedly the sexiest officer I have ever known. Goodbye, Servalan.
- [Servalan picks up her flower and smiles]
- Supreme Commander Servalan: The weapon is ours, and safe because it guards itself.
- Clonemaster Fen: Precisely so.
- Space Commander Travis: "The weapon guards itself."
- Supreme Commander Servalan: [coldly] Thank you, Travis.
- Space Commander Travis: I was merely quoting you, Supreme Commander.
- Supreme Commander Servalan: [stern] Contact the ship. I have an appointment with a man named Carnell.
- Jenna Stannis: We're below horizon now.
- Olag Gan: Then she's lost!
- Kerr Avon: Only us. She got what she really wanted.
- Vila Restal: I thought that *was* us.
- Roj Blake: IMIPAK. And she beat us to that all right. She seemed to know every single move we were making. It's almost as if we were on strings and she was the puppeteer.
- Cally: What is IMIPAK? Is there a defense against it?
- Zen: Detectors report two Federation pursuit ships leaving stationary orbit on intercept course.
- Roj Blake: Take us out of here, Jenna. Speed: standard by eight. I want a lot of space between us and that planet.
- Olag Gan: [to Avon] Is there a defense against IMIPAK?
- Kerr Avon: Of course there is! It's called slavery!
- Jenna Stannis: Maybe IMIPAK is another Orac. If we captured it, perhaps we could breed from them.
- Roj Blake: What a disgusting idea.
- Roj Blake: [draws on the main screen by remote] Zen's best guess is that he's here. Offers?
- Olag Gan: Let's go and get him.
- Kerr Avon: [sardonically] Gung ho.
- Vila Restal: *You* go and get him. We're already too close to the security zone for my taste.
- Roj Blake: Jenna?
- Jenna Stannis: If we know he's there, chances are Federation Security know it, too.
- Cally: Zen may have been wrong.
- Kerr Avon: In which case going there would be safe, but pointless.
- Vila Restal: Now that I wouldn't object to.
- Jenna Stannis: Be quiet, Vila.
- Vila Restal: Why ask my opinion in the first place?
- Cally: Actually, nobody did.
- Vila Restal: [to Cally] That's the last time I stand up for you.
- Carnell: [of his chess game] Checkmate. Six times in a row I've beaten it. Supposed to be the best chess computer available. Cost me a fortune. I don't suppose you'd care to discuss my fee at this particular point, would you?
- Supreme Commander Servalan: [smiles] No.
- Carnell: Oh.
- Supreme Commander Servalan: [of Coser] Why are you so certain he isn't dead?
- Carnell: He's too good a pilot to have lost control that close to the ground.
- Supreme Commander Servalan: You don't know how close to the ground he was.
- Carnell: They identified the remains of the ship. If he'd lost it in the descent from primary orbit, there'd be nothing left to find, let alone identify. Therefore, he was close and slow when it happened. Therefore, it didn't happen.
- Supreme Commander Servalan: You're very plausible.
- Carnell: I'm very good, Supreme Commander, believe me. I've taken everyone and everything into consideration. It's all as predictable as that very expensive chess machine.
- Carnell: By now Coser is completely psychotic. It won't strike him as remotely odd that a folk hero he admires so much arrives out of nowhere. And when a second Blake turns up, he probably won't even notice. He's a very sick man. He shouldn't be totally alone as he is. It's awfully bad for his health.
- Carnell: Give me the report.
- [Carnell flips the folder open and, after just a glance, closes it]
- Carnell: Do you play chess?
- Officer: A little, sir.
- Carnell: [hands him the chess computer] Take it. It's yours.
- Officer: [accepts] Thank you, sir.
- Carnell: [back to report] A small return for saving my life. But then it's all I own. You have my leave to go now.
- [Officer leaves]
- Carnell: [sits down, then sits back] And the *other* mistake I made was not getting an advance on my *fee*.
- Carnell: What did you want to see the Supreme Commander about? Or am I being indiscreet?
- Officer: I have a report for her.
- [Carnell puts out his hand for the report folder]
- Officer: It's confidential.
- Carnell: [firmly] From an official psychostrategist?
- Officer: [clearly in awe] You're a Puppeteer?
- Carnell: [feigned hurt] Do they still call us that? I never really felt that did me justice.
- Officer: My apologies, sir; I meant no offense.
- Carnell: I was offensive. Why shouldn't you be?
- Supreme Commander Servalan: It's going wrong, Carnell.
- Carnell: Wrong? Ma'm, I'm mortified by your lack of confidence.
- Supreme Commander Servalan: If I lose Coser - and his invention - "mortified" is exactly what you'll be.
- Carnell: I realize that.
- Supreme Commander Servalan: So long as you do.
- Carnell: A brilliant psychostrategist like me? Come now, Supreme Commander. How would I not?
- Space Commander Travis: How old are you?
- Clone Blake: Thirty-four.
- Clonemaster Fen: When were you born?
- Clone Blake: Five hours ago, master.
- Supreme Commander Servalan: Diverting idea.