Blake's 7 (TV Series)

The Web (1978)

Paul Darrow: Kerr Avon

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Avon : I'll tell you a fact of life, Blake. Change is inevitable.

  Blake : Why else do we fight, Avon?

• [Avon has just saved Blake's life] 

  Blake : Thank you. Why?

  Avon : Automatic reaction. I'm as surprised about it as you are.

• Zen : Repair monitors report explosive device attached to primary power channel.

  Blake : Where?

  Zen : Hold three, access duct seven.

  Blake : Well can the automatics neutralize it?

  Zen : No.

  Blake : Why not?

  Zen : There is no damage.

  Avon : Computer logic. Until the bomb explodes there is nothing for the repair system to repair. Zen, can you reprogram the automatics?

  Zen : Preemptive interference in crew activity is forbidden.

  Blake : [running for passageway]  Oh, he'll clear up after us, but he won't stop us making a mess.

  Avon : [moves to follow him]  *You* made *this* mess.

  Jenna Stannis : We're all in it, Avon.

  Avon : [over his shoulder from the passageway]  Yes, aren't we!

• Olag Gan : What are you trying to do?

  Avon : Bypass the detector comp and use another of the systems to receive the signal.

  Olag Gan : Can it be done?

  Avon : Some of this technology is a little more advance to that which I'm used. I'm having to guess at some of it.

  Olag Gan : What about the automatic repair system?

  Avon : Oh, it'll do the job. Eventually. It's very methodical. It starts at the beginning and it works its way through. It's slow. You should appreciate that problem.

  [Avon throws a switch. A whole panel shorts out and burns] 

  Avon : No, that wasn't the one.

  Olag Gan : It'll take *days* to repair that.

  Avon : On any ordinary computer system. But this isn't any ordinary computer system. A malfunction of that size would have registered on the autorepair. It should cut in about five seconds. Watch. It will be cutting in about... now.

  [Autorepair restores the circuitry] 

  Olag Gan : [in awe]  That is fantastic.

  Avon : Yes, isn't it.

  [Avon disconnects his patch wire] 

  Avon : As a matter of fact it is.

• Avon : We could make a fortune with it if it wasn't for Blake.

  Olag Gan : In what way?

  Avon : There's always a market for technology like this.

  Olag Gan : I don't think Blake would agree to that.

  Avon : There will come a time when he won't be making the decisions.

  [Avon smiles] 

• Blake : Listen, there's a problem. If we let them have these, they'll use them to wipe out an entire race of creatures, people, here.

  Avon : If it concerns you, don't give them the cells.

  Blake : No, there's more. They've got a carrier beam that projects a fungicide which'll clear a way through the web for us. It doesn't work without this power.

  Avon : Ah, well, if it's between the creatures and us, there's no argument. Even your irrational conscience should be able to cope with that.

  [Beat then, resigned] 

  Avon : What do you want to do?