Blake's 7 (TV Series)

Redemption (1979)

Michael Keating: Vila Restal

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• Vila : When you get Zen working, ask him to prescribe something for a headache, will you? I've got this shocking pain right behind the eyes.

  Avon : Have you considered amputation?

• Vila : So why did they pick on *me*?

  Avon : I doubt if it was personal, Vila.

  Vila : It *felt* personal. It *always* feels personal when someone tries to *kill* me.

• Vila : If it ever comes to a showdown, my money's on Blake. Well, half of it. I'll put the other half on Avon.

  Jenna Stannis : [Laughs:]  That's a safe bet.

  [Then seriously:] 

  Jenna Stannis : But if Avon is right, we'll probably all be dead anyway.

  Vila : Dead? Is that your idea of a safe bet?

• Roj Blake : No one is to attempt to repair any equipment 'til the computers are back under our control.

  Jenna Stannis : What is it, Blake? What's going on?

  Roj Blake : Well, the computers seem to be making decisions for themselves. They're resisting all interference.

  Jenna Stannis : But that's not possible.

  Roj Blake : [Motions to Avon]  Avon.

  Avon : It is if you think of the ship as a living entity with massive networks of electronics acting as a nervous system.

  Jenna Stannis : All linked into a central computer.

  Roj Blake : The brain.

  Avon : Carry the analogy a stage further: when a living creature is hurt - a cut or a wound - antibodies gather around the injury to repair it and to fight infection.

  Vila : You mean the computers are treating us like *germs*!

  Avon : [Smiles briefly at Blake:]  Crude, but accurate.

  Cally : But antibodies kill infection. Why are we still alive?

  Roj Blake : We're not sure. There are dozens of ways the ship could destroy us: cut off the air supply, drop the temperature so we freeze to death -

  Vila : Stop putting ideas into its head!

  Roj Blake : [to Avon:]  Actually, one touch of that cable would have done it. No, I don't think it wants to kill us.

  Avon : Well, not yet, anyway. It's saving us for something.

  Vila : Dinner?

• [Avon and Jenna are sitting on the bench. They hear a noise at the door. Avon signals Jenna to stand by the window while he moves behind the door to attack whoever enters. Avon lets fly before he realizes it's Vila] 

  Vila : [Doubling over]  Oh!

  Avon : I'm... sorry, Vila.

  Vila : Been looking all over for you two.

  Jenna Stannis : How did you get here?

  Vila : I was just passing - thought I'd drop in and see you.

  Avon : Where are Gan and Cally?

  Vila : They're in a cell along the corridor.

  Avon : Well, what kept you?

  Vila : Magno-locks aren't *that* easy to open, even for *me*.

  Avon : Practice. Let's go.

  Vila : Just a minute. Where's Blake?

  Jenna Stannis : They took him away for questioning.

  Vila : Questioning?

  Avon : I don't think we should hang around.

  [exits cell] 

  Vila : No, neither do I.

  Jenna Stannis : [Checking wound]  What did you do to your head?

  Vila : One of the guards didn't like me.

  Avon : [From outside]  Come on!

• Zen : Sensors register missile emission.

  Vila : Blake, there is no point in going on; we're finished. At this range we haven't a *chance*. She can't *miss* us.

  [the ship explodes precisely as Orac predicted] 

• [the ship explodes precisely as Orac predicted - the *other* ship] 

  Roj Blake : Vila, did you fire?

  Vila : No.

  Roj Blake : Then what happened?