1
00:00:09,371 --> 00:00:12,440
Trance, I'm telling you.
That waitress really dug me.
2
00:00:12,536 --> 00:00:15,702
We shared this thing,
this,..., pure, special, cosmic connection.
3
00:00:15,798 --> 00:00:18,771
Wasn't that what you said about that stripper
you met on Mendocino Drift?
4
00:00:18,963 --> 00:00:21,841
The one who had the elbow spikes
and threatened to perforate you,...
5
00:00:21,936 --> 00:00:24,047
...stick a light in your ribcage
and turn you into a planetarium?
6
00:00:24,143 --> 00:00:28,459
She is not a stripper. Her name was Dusky
and she was a professional dancer.
7
00:00:28,555 --> 00:00:33,351
Besides, Dusky was just an appetizer. Hello,
my name is Kathleen is an all-you-can-eat buffet.
8
00:00:33,543 --> 00:00:36,804
Harper, you're supposed to be using Tundra Flowers
to spread good will for the Commonwealth,...
9
00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:38,243
...not meet pretty girls.
10
00:00:38,243 --> 00:00:43,134
Hey! I'm all for spreading good will. And if I'm
very lucky, the good WILL commence any minute now.
11
00:00:43,326 --> 00:00:45,053
- You've invited her on board?
- No.
12
00:00:45,149 --> 00:00:49,465
I chased her away with my gauss gun
to avoid violating professional ethics.
13
00:00:51,096 --> 00:00:55,124
That would be Kathleen.
You ready to see some stars?
14
00:00:57,522 --> 00:01:02,702
Why, thank you, Mr. Harper for such a kind offer.
15
00:01:02,894 --> 00:01:04,237
Gerentex.
16
00:01:04,332 --> 00:01:10,567
Now why do I get the feeling
that you were expecting someone else?
17
00:01:13,061 --> 00:01:15,171
The long night has come
18
00:01:15,267 --> 00:01:18,720
The Systems Commonwealth,the greatest
civilization in history, has fallen.
19
00:01:18,912 --> 00:01:22,653
But now, one ship, one crew,
have vowed to drive back the night,
20
00:01:22,749 --> 00:01:25,051
and rekindle the light of civilization.
21
00:01:25,147 --> 00:01:28,888
on the Starship Andromeda hope lives again.
22
00:02:00,061 --> 00:02:02,363
Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way
23
00:02:02,459 --> 00:02:05,433
Hey, rat-face! You owe me 84,000 thrones!
24
00:02:05,529 --> 00:02:08,022
And sorry, but we're all full of failed,
evil masterminds right now.
25
00:02:08,118 --> 00:02:10,708
And you're full of something else,
so try back tomorrow.
26
00:02:11,667 --> 00:02:13,873
Don't push me, human.
27
00:02:13,969 --> 00:02:18,190
I can't say that I'd mind indulging in a little
senseless violence right about now.
28
00:02:18,382 --> 00:02:20,588
Funny. I was thinkin' the same thing.
29
00:02:20,684 --> 00:02:23,849
Harper, be careful. He has two loaded guns.
You only have a bad temper.
30
00:02:23,945 --> 00:02:27,206
- Aren't you...dead?
- I got better.
31
00:02:27,302 --> 00:02:31,906
Lucky you.
Now, as much as I'm enjoying all this blustering,
32
00:02:32,098 --> 00:02:37,182
I have an appointment with a lovely lady
who demands my punctual arrival.
33
00:02:37,373 --> 00:02:40,827
- And you are going to take me to her.
- What? We're not taking you anywhere!
34
00:02:40,922 --> 00:02:43,704
Let me put it this way, monkey-brain.
35
00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:48,980
Either you take me where I want to go,
or I'll send you back to Captain Valentine in a box.
36
00:02:49,171 --> 00:02:52,145
Do you practice those lines in a mirror?
Because they really need work.
37
00:02:53,104 --> 00:02:56,078
- No. He's here.
- Who?
38
00:02:56,174 --> 00:02:59,339
I'm looking for a Nightsider.
39
00:02:59,435 --> 00:03:01,161
Well, we have one right here.
40
00:03:04,614 --> 00:03:07,780
Don't stand there staring like
he's the Vedran Empress!
41
00:03:07,972 --> 00:03:10,849
Get us out of here! He'll kill us all!
42
00:03:10,945 --> 00:03:16,700
Give it up, Gerentex, you're coming with me!
Dead, alive, or otherwise.
43
00:03:17,755 --> 00:03:22,551
What part of "Get us out of here"
did you not understand?
44
00:03:22,743 --> 00:03:24,853
Ok. Ok.
45
00:03:26,388 --> 00:03:29,265
Move!
46
00:03:29,361 --> 00:03:33,006
Uh, please secure any loose articles, and keep
your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times.
47
00:03:33,102 --> 00:03:35,308
Oh, shut up.
48
00:03:43,365 --> 00:03:46,819
Hey! Rommie. I was wondering if you...
49
00:03:46,914 --> 00:03:48,833
...Ooooo, yuck.
50
00:03:48,929 --> 00:03:53,725
Harper. The amount of garbage he creates
and consumes boggles the mind.
51
00:03:54,396 --> 00:03:57,657
Take this disgusting substance, for example.
52
00:03:57,849 --> 00:03:59,096
Sparky Cola.
53
00:03:59,192 --> 00:04:04,180
It has no nutritional value, rots the teeth,
and slowly dissolves the digestive tract.
54
00:04:04,372 --> 00:04:08,304
And yet he imbibes at least three thousand milliliters
of it every single day.
55
00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,798
Yeah. Harper's twin muses:
"chaos and caffeine."
56
00:04:10,894 --> 00:04:13,580
Somehow, I don't think you came here
to discuss Harper's hygiene.
57
00:04:13,676 --> 00:04:16,361
No. Actually, it's Dylan.
58
00:04:16,457 --> 00:04:18,280
He's been walking around brooding for the last week.
59
00:04:18,376 --> 00:04:22,117
To be honest, it's a little, uh, disturbing.
I was hoping you'd know what was bothering him.
60
00:04:22,212 --> 00:04:23,364
It's personal.
61
00:04:23,459 --> 00:04:28,351
Rommie, as long as I'm acting as Dylan's First Officer,
it's my job to look out for him.
62
00:04:28,543 --> 00:04:30,461
I need to know what's going on.
63
00:04:31,229 --> 00:04:32,764
Back in the days of the Commonwealth,...
64
00:04:32,859 --> 00:04:36,696
...High Guard captains were typically assigned
four-year tours of duty.
65
00:04:36,792 --> 00:04:39,957
In a few days time,
Dylan will have been aboard this ship...
66
00:04:40,149 --> 00:04:42,068
...for four years.
67
00:04:42,164 --> 00:04:45,041
His final act as captain
would have been to inspect the Andromeda...
68
00:04:45,137 --> 00:04:48,590
...and turn command over
to his executive officer, Gaheris Rhade.
69
00:04:48,782 --> 00:04:51,659
His best friend.
The guy who tried to kill him.
70
00:04:51,755 --> 00:04:54,825
I guess now would be a bad time
to give him some bad news.
71
00:04:54,921 --> 00:04:56,072
Bad news?
72
00:04:56,168 --> 00:04:58,278
See for yourself.
73
00:05:00,868 --> 00:05:03,266
That is bad.
74
00:05:05,568 --> 00:05:08,541
So, care to tell us the name
of your girlfriend back there?
75
00:05:08,637 --> 00:05:14,968
If you must know, he goes by the name of "Reaper".
Bounty hunters, so unimaginative.
76
00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,804
So there's a price on your head. Oh, good.
Maybe I'll get my money back after all.
77
00:05:18,996 --> 00:05:22,545
If I were you, I'd spend less time
trying to plot MY downfall...
78
00:05:22,641 --> 00:05:25,902
...and more time trying to guess
what I'm going to do with the two of you.
79
00:05:26,094 --> 00:05:28,396
Oh, I love playing guessing games!
80
00:05:28,876 --> 00:05:34,343
Call me a traditionalist, but when I kill someone,
I really do prefer it when they stay dead.
81
00:05:34,631 --> 00:05:36,549
Now, be quiet, the two of you.
82
00:05:36,645 --> 00:05:38,851
- I'm trying to think.
- Don't strain yourself.
83
00:05:38,947 --> 00:05:44,894
Fine. If you don't want me to come up with a way
to integrate you into my brilliant plans...
84
00:05:45,182 --> 00:05:49,211
...and use you to my advantage,
then I'll just kill you now and be done with it!
85
00:05:49,402 --> 00:05:51,513
No. No! We want you to think.
We encourage you to think.
86
00:05:51,609 --> 00:05:53,047
Hell yeah! We'll even help you.
87
00:05:53,047 --> 00:05:56,117
Why don't you, uh, tell us what you're up to,
and we'll see if we can make ourselves useful.
88
00:05:56,309 --> 00:05:58,707
Oh, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
89
00:05:58,802 --> 00:06:04,845
Let's have old Gerentex take us into his confidence,
reveal his latest scheme for wealth and success,...
90
00:06:05,133 --> 00:06:07,243
...and then we'll betray him
and keep it all for ourselves!
91
00:06:07,339 --> 00:06:09,545
- We would never do that.
- I would.
92
00:06:09,641 --> 00:06:10,600
True.
93
00:06:10,696 --> 00:06:12,327
Why do I bother?
94
00:06:12,327 --> 00:06:16,739
ah-ah. Not so fast, rat-face.
If you shoot me, it's Dosva-Bye-Bye for you.
95
00:06:16,931 --> 00:06:21,727
Well, I'm sure you've got some explanation
to back up your pathetic little threats.
96
00:06:21,919 --> 00:06:24,509
How's this for a little known,
yet highly entertaining fact?
97
00:06:24,605 --> 00:06:28,058
You see, whenever the teacher lets us take
the Maru out on these little class field trips,...
98
00:06:28,154 --> 00:06:31,031
...I key the power generators to my life signs.
- You do?
99
00:06:31,127 --> 00:06:35,060
See? Little known. The point is,
if my life signs should suddenly, I dunno...
100
00:06:35,252 --> 00:06:39,088
...expire, the generators overload and explode
like that.
101
00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:41,199
In a heartbeat,..., in MY heartbeat.
102
00:06:41,294 --> 00:06:44,076
You'd blow up this whole ship
with your little purple friend on board?
103
00:06:44,172 --> 00:06:48,009
Trance has come back from the dead before.
She's,..., tricky that way.
104
00:06:48,392 --> 00:06:51,270
- What makes you think she can't do it again?
- Well, let's find out, shall we?
105
00:06:51,366 --> 00:06:52,325
No!
106
00:06:52,421 --> 00:06:54,723
Yeah. What he said. No.
107
00:06:54,819 --> 00:06:59,039
- You hurt her, and I will kill you myself.
- You and which Vedran cavalry, my boy?
108
00:06:59,135 --> 00:07:04,027
You don't get it, do you? You harm one hair
on her head, and I will come after you.
109
00:07:04,219 --> 00:07:08,535
And then you'll have to kill me, because I absolutely
will not stop until one of us is Magog food.
110
00:07:08,823 --> 00:07:09,974
- You're bluffing.
- Try me.
111
00:07:10,070 --> 00:07:12,084
See if you can wrap your little rat brain around this.
112
00:07:12,180 --> 00:07:16,017
You kill her, I kill you. You lose.
You kill her and you kill me, the ship blows up.
113
00:07:16,209 --> 00:07:18,990
You still lose. Either way, you lose.
114
00:07:19,086 --> 00:07:21,580
Excuse me.
Can we please discuss the "killing her" part?
115
00:07:21,676 --> 00:07:23,307
Fine.
116
00:07:23,882 --> 00:07:30,692
I was hoping to save this for a more dire emergency,
but I can see you two leave me no choice.
117
00:07:30,980 --> 00:07:34,625
- I'll have to resort to Plan B.
- Plan B?
118
00:07:35,488 --> 00:07:38,366
Yes. Plan B.
119
00:07:39,325 --> 00:07:41,052
Son of a...
120
00:07:41,148 --> 00:07:47,382
I've just injected you with a microscopic generator
which produces quite a nasty little shock.
121
00:07:47,670 --> 00:07:51,219
All with the press of a button.
This button.
122
00:07:51,411 --> 00:07:58,701
But why take my word for it?
I believe the expression is "Show. Don't Tell".
123
00:08:04,072 --> 00:08:09,348
Well.
Now. Who's next?
124
00:08:17,405 --> 00:08:20,186
So, as I was saying,...
125
00:08:20,282 --> 00:08:26,133
...the Andromeda debacle put me into some
serious debt to some rather unsavory characters.
126
00:08:26,421 --> 00:08:31,217
Tell me, do you have any idea what the monthly
interest on eleven million thrones might be?
127
00:08:31,409 --> 00:08:33,903
I know what it is on the 84 grand you still owe me.
128
00:08:36,493 --> 00:08:38,795
I didn't even say anything!
129
00:08:38,891 --> 00:08:43,591
Oh, I am sorry, my dear, but I'm afraid
I only have one button, and two hostages.
130
00:08:43,782 --> 00:08:49,729
Where was I? Oh, yes.
My most brilliant plan ever.
131
00:08:50,017 --> 00:08:54,046
Retrieve the Andromeda,
deliver her to the buyer,...
132
00:08:54,238 --> 00:08:58,554
...auction off her Nova bombs,
one by one, to the highest bidder.
133
00:08:59,417 --> 00:09:01,719
Beautiful.
134
00:09:02,103 --> 00:09:06,995
I should've been swimming in luxury by now.
Instead, I'm drowning in debt.
135
00:09:07,187 --> 00:09:09,872
How tragic.
136
00:09:11,695 --> 00:09:14,476
Oh, dear, my finger must have slipped.
137
00:09:14,668 --> 00:09:18,601
Well, you know, in this business,
you're only as good as your latest scam.
138
00:09:18,793 --> 00:09:22,054
My strip-mining venture on Infinity Atoll,...
139
00:09:22,246 --> 00:09:26,850
...my Roboto-Courtesan manufacturing plant,
the religion I founded.
140
00:09:27,042 --> 00:09:29,919
All gone. Forgotten.
141
00:09:30,878 --> 00:09:34,044
This is the part where you're supposed to say
"Oh, Gerentex, that's so sad."
142
00:09:34,236 --> 00:09:36,442
- Oh, that's so sad!
- Oh, you're breaking my freakin' heart!
143
00:09:36,538 --> 00:09:39,703
So, I find myself on that rust-bucket drift
with no way off.
144
00:09:39,799 --> 00:09:43,444
And to make matters worse,
I was on the verge of the Big Score, Harper.
145
00:09:43,636 --> 00:09:48,815
Something even bigger than the Andromeda deal.
A bonanza of unparalleled plenitude.
146
00:09:49,007 --> 00:09:52,364
- Plenitude. As in cash?
- Of course cash, idiot.
147
00:09:53,036 --> 00:09:56,105
And then,
who should I see but the two of you,...
148
00:09:56,201 --> 00:10:00,613
...handing out flowers and getting the brush-off
from that snaggletooth waitress.
149
00:10:00,805 --> 00:10:03,874
Hey! Kathleen was not snaggletooth.
And you should talk, smiley.
150
00:10:03,970 --> 00:10:09,534
- And is that where you came up with the evil plan?
- My dear, those are the best kind.
151
00:10:17,495 --> 00:10:20,468
So the Perseids on Sintii Four think humans
will screw up the new Commonwealth...
152
00:10:20,564 --> 00:10:24,209
...just like we did the old one.
- Not all of them. Just a faction on their High Council.
153
00:10:24,305 --> 00:10:26,223
Hohne and your other supporters have,...
154
00:10:26,319 --> 00:10:28,621
...the motion locked up in committee,
but it might not stay there.
155
00:10:28,717 --> 00:10:32,075
I've spent almost an entire year trying to get worlds
to sign up for the new Commonwealth.
156
00:10:32,170 --> 00:10:35,719
I've managed to get three,
and now one of them is threatening to back out.
157
00:10:35,911 --> 00:10:39,844
- That pretty much sums it up. Yeah.
- And now I'm supposed to convince them to stay?
158
00:10:40,036 --> 00:10:41,858
I mean who am I kidding?
I'm a soldier, not a statesman.
159
00:10:41,954 --> 00:10:45,695
Oh, don't be so hard on yourself. You're at least
as good a politician as I am a first officer.
160
00:10:45,791 --> 00:10:47,517
Yeah.
161
00:10:47,613 --> 00:10:50,875
- That is a compliment, right?
- That's right. Yeah.
162
00:10:51,546 --> 00:10:53,560
Good.
163
00:11:01,617 --> 00:11:05,838
I don't recall giving you permission to stop.
We are on a tight schedule.
164
00:11:06,030 --> 00:11:08,140
Look. I'm tired, ok?
165
00:11:08,236 --> 00:11:12,073
My butt's asleep and I got a mother
of a caffeine withdrawal headache.
166
00:11:12,168 --> 00:11:13,895
Could you at least grab me a Sparky?
167
00:11:13,991 --> 00:11:17,060
Oh, you want a Sparky? Here.
168
00:11:21,569 --> 00:11:24,158
OK, listen to me, and listen very carefully.
169
00:11:24,254 --> 00:11:26,748
Every time you press that button,
it hurts a little less.
170
00:11:26,844 --> 00:11:28,954
Keep it up,
pretty soon it's not gonna hurt at all.
171
00:11:29,050 --> 00:11:32,407
And then I'm gonna break free, crack your skull open,
and drink a beer over your fuzzy corpse.
172
00:11:32,599 --> 00:11:35,093
- Harper, don't say that!
- What? You want me to be nice to him?
173
00:11:35,285 --> 00:11:37,203
- You're supposed to be the good guy.
- Correction.
174
00:11:37,299 --> 00:11:39,697
Standing next to you,
Beka, Rev, Rommie, Dylan, or...
175
00:11:39,793 --> 00:11:41,711
....well anyway...then I'm one of the good guys.
176
00:11:41,903 --> 00:11:46,411
But I didn't survive twenty years on that hellhole
we lovingly call Earth by being Santa's little helper.
177
00:11:46,603 --> 00:11:48,713
I survived by being the nastiest piece of work...
178
00:11:48,809 --> 00:11:51,879
...that ever clubbed someone over the head
in a back alley over a hunk of cheese.
179
00:11:51,975 --> 00:11:54,660
So, please, keep pressing that little button.
Get your money's worth.
180
00:11:54,756 --> 00:11:56,579
'Cause then it's gonna be the worst day
of the end of your life.
181
00:11:56,675 --> 00:12:00,799
You know,
I've always wanted to see a human glow in the dark.
182
00:12:00,895 --> 00:12:03,581
It must be hard being a Nightsider.
183
00:12:04,348 --> 00:12:05,211
Excuse me?
184
00:12:05,307 --> 00:12:09,816
Well, once the Commonwealth evacuated Korendar,
the Nightsiders had no planet to call home.
185
00:12:10,007 --> 00:12:12,597
Did you know that there are worlds
where they shoot Nightsiders on sight?
186
00:12:12,693 --> 00:12:18,736
And they call US a threat to aquatic ecosystems.
Don't they realize that our children have to eat?
187
00:12:19,024 --> 00:12:21,230
It's not your fault that Nightsiders
have hundreds of babies...
188
00:12:21,326 --> 00:12:23,532
...that eat everything in sight
until they reach dry land and become sentient.
189
00:12:23,628 --> 00:12:25,546
It's just the way you evolved.
190
00:12:25,642 --> 00:12:29,671
Well, try telling that to a village full of
Arswan fishmongers as they try to run you down...
191
00:12:29,863 --> 00:12:32,740
...and impale you on their boathooks.
- It must be awful.
192
00:12:32,836 --> 00:12:35,138
Oh, my dear, you don't know the half of it.
193
00:12:35,234 --> 00:12:41,565
Do you know, the only way a Nightsider
can survive these days is to be so filthy rich,...
194
00:12:41,852 --> 00:12:46,456
...so mind-bendingly wealthy
that people can't help but accept you.
195
00:12:46,648 --> 00:12:48,567
I'd accept you...loosening these ropes.
196
00:12:48,663 --> 00:12:57,103
Why don't I just tighten them until your limbs pop
like a Than grub under a magnifying glass?
197
00:13:11,203 --> 00:13:13,889
What's the matter, Gerentex?
Artificial gravity misbehaving?
198
00:13:13,985 --> 00:13:18,014
Sorry, I'd love to help you,
but I'm a little TIED UP.
199
00:13:26,455 --> 00:13:28,565
Hey! Why didn't you do that before?
200
00:13:28,661 --> 00:13:31,155
Well, he was talking
and I didn't want to interrupt him.
201
00:13:31,250 --> 00:13:32,977
And he had that buzzer thing.
202
00:13:33,073 --> 00:13:35,759
Well, it's broken now, so untie me.
I gotta go see a Nightsider...
203
00:13:35,855 --> 00:13:38,540
...about an obscenely large pile of money.
204
00:13:38,636 --> 00:13:40,842
You have to promise not to kill him.
205
00:13:41,226 --> 00:13:42,761
What?
206
00:13:44,583 --> 00:13:46,981
All right. I promise.
207
00:13:47,653 --> 00:13:50,722
- Harper, you promised!
- I just promised not to KILL him.
208
00:13:51,969 --> 00:13:55,710
You think this frightens me?
I've been tortured by Nietzscheans.
209
00:13:55,902 --> 00:13:58,683
What a coincidence.
So was I.
210
00:13:58,779 --> 00:14:00,985
- You wanna see some highlights?
- Hey!
211
00:14:01,081 --> 00:14:03,959
If this is that "good cop, bad cop" game
you were telling me about,...
212
00:14:04,055 --> 00:14:05,973
...isn't this the place
where I'm supposed to play "good cop"?
213
00:14:06,069 --> 00:14:09,810
Sorry, mon chéri. Welcome to,...,
a new game:
214
00:14:10,002 --> 00:14:14,797
Bad Cop, Worse Cop.
And,..., guess which one I am.
215
00:14:16,620 --> 00:14:19,306
Gerentex, why don't you just tell us
what we want to know?
216
00:14:19,402 --> 00:14:21,320
- What do we want to know?
- Oh, the usual.
217
00:14:21,416 --> 00:14:25,253
What's the scam, how do I get in on it, what's it worth,
and where do I get my 84,000 thrones!
218
00:14:25,444 --> 00:14:30,816
- I'm not telling YOU anything.
- Gerentex, this is my nanowelder.
219
00:14:31,104 --> 00:14:34,365
It can cut through a starship like a,...,
Magog at a puppy farm.
220
00:14:34,461 --> 00:14:37,051
Maybe it can jog your memory, huh?
221
00:14:38,202 --> 00:14:40,791
Hasturi's diary.
222
00:14:42,326 --> 00:14:44,149
- You're a fool.
- N-N-N-N-No.
223
00:14:44,244 --> 00:14:51,151
I hired one of my more reliable acquisition specialists
to contact certain...parties.
224
00:14:51,438 --> 00:14:55,371
- They know where it is.
- The original? The real one, not some bogus ca...
225
00:14:55,467 --> 00:15:00,071
- OK. What is Hasturi's diary, please?
- The journal of Hasturi? The mad Perseid?
226
00:15:00,263 --> 00:15:01,702
About a hundred years ago,...
227
00:15:01,798 --> 00:15:06,210
...he wandered the galaxy claiming he found a way
through slipstream back to Tarn Vedra.
228
00:15:06,402 --> 00:15:10,526
The diary is the documentation of his journey...
229
00:15:10,718 --> 00:15:16,185
...to the long-lost capital of the Systems' Commonwealth
and all its wealth and splendor.
230
00:15:16,473 --> 00:15:22,612
Whoever finds the diary
and retraces his path to Tarn Vedra...
231
00:15:22,900 --> 00:15:27,120
...could command the galaxy.
- Or get a Nightsider out of debt.
232
00:15:27,216 --> 00:15:31,724
- Oh, exactly. And it's all...
- OURS
233
00:15:32,396 --> 00:15:36,328
You're gonna show us how to find that diary,
and we're taking it.
234
00:15:43,810 --> 00:15:46,304
So what do we offer the Perseids this time?
235
00:15:46,496 --> 00:15:49,085
Protection. Peace of mind.
Mints on their pillows?
236
00:15:49,181 --> 00:15:51,004
- Just don't let them dissect me.
- Relax.
237
00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:53,402
I'm not going to offer the Perseids anything.
238
00:15:53,498 --> 00:15:55,416
If I did,
I'd be making the opposition's case for them.
239
00:15:55,416 --> 00:15:58,485
They say that we're no better than the Neitzcheans,
and they'd be right.
240
00:15:58,677 --> 00:16:01,747
We have to make the Perseids see
that not all humans are consumed by greed...
241
00:16:01,939 --> 00:16:05,104
...for money, power, and control.
- And how do we do that?
242
00:16:05,296 --> 00:16:08,365
Give them clean towels?
243
00:16:08,749 --> 00:16:11,434
OK,..., we use Gerentex's money
to buy the diary's location.
244
00:16:11,530 --> 00:16:13,928
Then we go back to the Andromeda,
we tell Dylan.
245
00:16:14,024 --> 00:16:15,559
Or maybe we don't have to tell Dylan.
246
00:16:15,655 --> 00:16:19,108
Either way, we are going to Tarn Vedra where
the livin' is easy and the women have four legs!
247
00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:21,794
- Aren't you forgetting something?
- Uh, well let me see.
248
00:16:21,890 --> 00:16:23,904
We get fame and fortune. Gerentex gets nothing.
249
00:16:23,904 --> 00:16:26,973
We make the biggest discovery in the history
of the known worlds. Gerentex gets nothing.
250
00:16:27,069 --> 00:16:29,083
What am I forgetting? Nothing!
251
00:16:29,179 --> 00:16:32,537
Hostile weapons fire. PDL's activated.
252
00:16:35,702 --> 00:16:38,579
- Reaper!
- Except him.
253
00:16:45,869 --> 00:16:48,171
- Harper! Slipstream!
- I'm working on it!
254
00:16:48,267 --> 00:16:50,186
But every time we're almost
out of the star's gravity well,...
255
00:16:50,281 --> 00:16:53,926
... Chuckles out there cuts us off
and starts shooting again.
256
00:16:56,037 --> 00:16:58,339
May I make a suggestion?
257
00:16:58,530 --> 00:17:01,024
Uh, let me think.
NO!
258
00:17:01,024 --> 00:17:06,108
Oh, you're right! Your plan is working SO well,
you certainly don't need MY help!
259
00:17:07,451 --> 00:17:08,314
Make it quick.
260
00:17:08,410 --> 00:17:11,000
I'll put this in a way your tiny mind can grasp.
261
00:17:11,096 --> 00:17:13,877
Our pursuer wants to kill me,
but he won't risk his life for it.
262
00:17:13,973 --> 00:17:18,577
That's his weakness. So if this is a problem
in terms of psychology and mathematics...
263
00:17:18,769 --> 00:17:22,126
...our ship has fifty times the mass
of his little fighter.
264
00:17:22,222 --> 00:17:25,771
Fat lot of good it does us. His ship is faster,
better armed, and more maneuverable.
265
00:17:25,867 --> 00:17:27,882
- We can't out-shoot or out-flank him.
- So don't.
266
00:17:27,977 --> 00:17:30,567
Turn this whale around and aim straight at him.
267
00:17:30,663 --> 00:17:33,733
If he gets out of our way, we escape.
If he doesn't, we run him down.
268
00:17:33,829 --> 00:17:36,226
What?!? At that velocity,
it would vaporize both of us.
269
00:17:36,226 --> 00:17:40,351
Yes, yes, yes.
But he's a bounty hunter, not a physicist.
270
00:17:40,543 --> 00:17:42,557
Any, uh, thoughts, your purpleness?
271
00:17:42,653 --> 00:17:47,833
Signs are hazy, ask again later. But we're leaking
pions and AG fields are barely holding.
272
00:17:48,504 --> 00:17:49,655
Fine.
273
00:17:49,655 --> 00:17:51,765
A game of chicken.
274
00:17:53,204 --> 00:17:55,506
Let's bring it.
275
00:18:10,086 --> 00:18:13,347
Entering slipstream.
276
00:18:15,745 --> 00:18:19,198
Damn, I'm god!
277
00:18:19,294 --> 00:18:23,131
Hello!
Does anyone remember whose idea it was?
278
00:18:23,323 --> 00:18:26,008
Shut up, rat. Just tell me where to go.
279
00:18:26,104 --> 00:18:29,365
I have SEVERAL suggestions.
280
00:18:33,490 --> 00:18:36,272
Tell me we're nearing an end to this tedium.
281
00:18:36,367 --> 00:18:38,478
Dylan's still planishes,
trying to talk sense into the Perseids.
282
00:18:38,574 --> 00:18:40,972
He might as well appeal
to a Nightsider's generosity.
283
00:18:41,163 --> 00:18:44,712
Blind idealism on overdrive.
So, he talks, and we sit.
284
00:18:44,904 --> 00:18:46,535
Unless you've got any bright ideas.
285
00:18:46,631 --> 00:18:51,043
Sadly, I doubt our beneficent commander would
appreciate it if we were to nuke the planet from orbit.
286
00:18:51,235 --> 00:18:53,633
Though I can hardly say I'd mind the exercise.
287
00:18:53,825 --> 00:18:57,374
Threats won't work.
And apparently, neither will diplomacy.
288
00:18:57,565 --> 00:19:00,155
- Which leaves?
- Valentine-ology.
289
00:19:05,335 --> 00:19:09,172
Albuquerque Drift.
Land of the expensive and home of the sucker.
290
00:19:14,159 --> 00:19:19,723
Oh, this is so neat! You can win money,
go to the all-you-can-eat buffet,...
291
00:19:19,914 --> 00:19:24,519
...and even enjoy the comedy stylings
of the Supreme Mirth Inducer, Unru.
292
00:19:24,710 --> 00:19:29,123
I dunno. Perseid stand-up comedy?
Some things are just SO wrong.
293
00:19:29,314 --> 00:19:31,329
All right, let's get this over with.
294
00:19:32,576 --> 00:19:35,453
- Gerentex, are you there?
- Where else would I be?
295
00:19:35,645 --> 00:19:39,482
Oh, the injustice of it all.
The inherent brutality.
296
00:19:39,578 --> 00:19:43,798
- It's the system that keeps us Nightsiders down.
- Yeah, yeah. Cry me a river and drown in it.
297
00:19:43,990 --> 00:19:47,155
Just identify your friend so we can get out
of Loser's Palace, here, will ya?
298
00:19:47,347 --> 00:19:50,896
Look, at the bar. Metal hair, nose-ring.
299
00:19:55,596 --> 00:19:58,090
Miss Andulasia, I presume?
300
00:19:59,721 --> 00:20:02,215
And who wants to know?
301
00:20:02,694 --> 00:20:05,764
- We're friends of Gerentex.
- I prefer associates.
302
00:20:05,955 --> 00:20:09,217
Oh, I don't think you can ever have enough friends,
wouldn't you agree?
303
00:20:09,313 --> 00:20:10,847
Uh, yeah, uh....
304
00:20:10,943 --> 00:20:13,629
Shhhh. I prefer my men strong and silent.
305
00:20:13,725 --> 00:20:17,562
- Well then you won't like Harper.
- Trance! Will you...I...
306
00:20:17,753 --> 00:20:21,206
Much better. So, I assume you're here
about the data he wanted?
307
00:20:21,398 --> 00:20:23,029
- Do you have it?
- Oh, I've got it.
308
00:20:23,125 --> 00:20:26,002
I lifted it off of that wildcatter he told me about,...
309
00:20:26,098 --> 00:20:30,894
...not long before that unfortunate
run-in with a faulty airlock.
310
00:20:31,086 --> 00:20:35,211
That's great.
It's not great for him, but it is for us.
311
00:20:36,362 --> 00:20:39,335
Harper, give her the flexi.
312
00:20:42,213 --> 00:20:44,227
I think that's the amount you two agreed on.
313
00:20:44,323 --> 00:20:47,296
Oh, it was. But now, it's a zero short.
314
00:20:47,392 --> 00:20:49,598
But, you had a deal.
315
00:20:49,694 --> 00:20:52,860
Did you really think
that I was gonna stick to that deal?
316
00:20:52,955 --> 00:20:55,162
That is so sweet.
317
00:20:55,449 --> 00:20:58,902
When you get serious,
you know where to find me.
318
00:20:59,286 --> 00:21:01,396
And so do you.
319
00:21:05,713 --> 00:21:08,302
She wants me.
She really wants me!
320
00:21:08,398 --> 00:21:11,660
She wants to get you alone,
slit your throat, and rifle your pockets.
321
00:21:11,851 --> 00:21:14,729
- But go ahead, see for yourself.
- I will.
322
00:21:14,825 --> 00:21:17,415
- Harper! Stay.
- And do what?
323
00:21:17,511 --> 00:21:19,621
We can't raise that kind of cash,
even if we sold the Maru.
324
00:21:19,717 --> 00:21:22,115
Sure we can.
325
00:21:22,786 --> 00:21:26,047
Yoshidono! Yoshidono!
326
00:21:26,239 --> 00:21:27,870
All hail the conquering Trance.
327
00:21:27,966 --> 00:21:30,268
Place your bets, please, ladies and gentlemen.
328
00:21:30,268 --> 00:21:31,707
Let it ride.
329
00:21:33,145 --> 00:21:36,982
Bets please...and, no more bets, please.
Le jeu est fait.
330
00:21:40,147 --> 00:21:43,601
- Uh, Trance, I think we have enough.
- But I'm just starting to have fun!
331
00:21:43,696 --> 00:21:46,958
- Trance! Now.
- I win again!
332
00:21:49,739 --> 00:21:52,233
Ok! Ok! Ok!
333
00:21:59,715 --> 00:22:01,729
This enough?
334
00:22:02,496 --> 00:22:04,511
Definitely.
335
00:22:05,950 --> 00:22:07,676
Pleasure doing business with you.
336
00:22:07,676 --> 00:22:10,554
Hey, if you want pleasure,
you're talking to the right guy.
337
00:22:12,184 --> 00:22:14,582
Thanks, but I prefer my men alive.
338
00:22:14,774 --> 00:22:17,460
My purse?
She just took my purse!
339
00:22:18,227 --> 00:22:21,968
H-h-hey, fellahs!
Uh, nice place you got here.
340
00:22:22,064 --> 00:22:24,845
You cheated us out of half a million thrones.
341
00:22:24,941 --> 00:22:28,970
Ok, look, you want your money back, you gotta talk to
the nice lady who just ran out that door.
342
00:22:29,066 --> 00:22:33,574
You two! Where's Gerentex?
I'm gonna turn him into a rug.
343
00:22:49,209 --> 00:22:51,703
Well, that went quite well.
344
00:22:54,484 --> 00:22:58,033
I think it went swimmingly.
345
00:22:58,801 --> 00:23:01,678
THIS is why you kill him.
346
00:23:07,433 --> 00:23:09,064
Aren't you forgetting the math, here?
347
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,709
Dead Harper plus Reactor Overload
equals Sayonara, Nightsider.
348
00:23:12,805 --> 00:23:18,368
Yes, but it occurs to me that you don't have
any vital organs in your kneecaps. Do you?
349
00:23:19,039 --> 00:23:20,574
OK.
350
00:23:20,670 --> 00:23:22,876
Much better.
351
00:23:24,507 --> 00:23:30,262
You know, now that the moment is upon me,
I must admit to feeling a tad misty.
352
00:23:30,550 --> 00:23:36,880
Once I find Tarn Vedra, all the painful struggle,
the years of yearning will finally be behind me.
353
00:23:37,168 --> 00:23:40,909
I'll buy a lake. Or maybe a small sea.
354
00:23:41,005 --> 00:23:48,007
Start a harem of fecund Nightsider females
who'll fill the water with furry tadpoles...
355
00:23:48,295 --> 00:23:55,776
...and watch as the strongest of our young
devour the weak in the ancient dance of life.
356
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:57,791
Oh. That is so beautiful.
357
00:23:57,887 --> 00:24:05,848
Isn't it? You know, all I've really wanted
was a home and a family of my own.
358
00:24:06,136 --> 00:24:08,342
To change myself for the better.
359
00:24:08,438 --> 00:24:10,644
You wanna change your life for the better?
Put a bullet in your head.
360
00:24:10,740 --> 00:24:13,713
Seamus Zelazney Harper,
you take that back this instant.
361
00:24:13,905 --> 00:24:18,989
Trance, THAT is the bad guy. Habla es "bad guy"?
Villain? Antagonist? Thug? Pain in the..."
362
00:24:19,180 --> 00:24:24,168
Just because he comes from a different culture with
different drives and values doesn't make him a bad person.
363
00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:27,525
That's strange. Aren't we forgetting something?
Yes, I think we are. Something important.
364
00:24:27,621 --> 00:24:30,691
- OH YEAH! HE KILLED YOU!
- Not permanently!
365
00:24:30,883 --> 00:24:34,623
And after I saw what happened at the casino,
I truly regret my harsh actions.
366
00:24:34,719 --> 00:24:42,393
To think that I almost...hurt...such a sweet,
understanding, profitable young lady...
367
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,174
I promise I'll never do it again.
368
00:24:45,462 --> 00:24:49,299
Oh, you don't have to explain.
I completely understand.
369
00:24:49,491 --> 00:24:51,313
If you hadn't shot me then,...
370
00:24:51,409 --> 00:24:54,383
... you could have lost control completely,
and then where would you have been.
371
00:24:54,574 --> 00:24:57,164
- He was just trying to protect himself.
- Exactly.
372
00:24:57,356 --> 00:25:00,234
I couldn't let you play me for a fool then, and...!
373
00:25:01,193 --> 00:25:02,919
...NOT NOW!
374
00:25:06,085 --> 00:25:08,579
Et tu, Trance?
375
00:25:08,674 --> 00:25:11,840
You know,
I REALLY hoped I wouldn't have to kill anybody!
376
00:25:11,936 --> 00:25:13,470
Why do you do this?
377
00:25:13,950 --> 00:25:14,621
Huh?
378
00:25:14,621 --> 00:25:16,828
Why do you point guns
at people and threaten them?
379
00:25:16,923 --> 00:25:18,842
I find it very efficacious.
380
00:25:18,938 --> 00:25:22,103
Well, I don't. In fact,...
381
00:25:22,295 --> 00:25:24,693
...I think it makes you look like
a complete butt-head.
382
00:25:24,693 --> 00:25:27,762
And if you think you can try and kill me,
well think again!
383
00:25:27,858 --> 00:25:30,448
No, in fact, I dare you! Come on!
384
00:25:30,544 --> 00:25:33,997
What's the matter? You afraid of a little purple girl?
385
00:25:34,189 --> 00:25:37,642
Yes. You are.
Because you're a criminal,...
386
00:25:37,738 --> 00:25:41,287
...and all criminals are stupid,
short-sighted, self-centered...
387
00:25:41,479 --> 00:25:44,644
You know, hurtful stereotypes like that
give people like me a bad name.
388
00:25:44,740 --> 00:25:47,426
No. People like YOU
give people like you a bad name.
389
00:25:47,521 --> 00:25:49,632
If you had half the brain
that you claim to have,...
390
00:25:49,824 --> 00:25:51,454
...you would know that
if we had worked together,...
391
00:25:51,550 --> 00:25:53,468
...we would come out on top.
But no, instead...
392
00:25:53,564 --> 00:25:55,003
...you decide to play stupid power games...
393
00:25:55,099 --> 00:25:57,785
...about who gets to have control
and who gives the orders.
394
00:25:57,881 --> 00:26:02,389
If you keep walking down this path,
you're going to end up a very unhappy person.
395
00:26:03,060 --> 00:26:06,226
You really do care, don't you?
396
00:26:06,417 --> 00:26:07,856
Yes!
397
00:26:13,228 --> 00:26:15,338
Well, I don't care!
398
00:26:15,338 --> 00:26:20,326
I've got the gun, I'm in control,
and everything is right with my world.
399
00:26:20,517 --> 00:26:23,587
Hostile weapons fire. PDL's activated.
400
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,781
Oh, yeah, you got the world on a string, baby.
401
00:26:34,138 --> 00:26:37,783
And furthermore, if you can't see
what you're getting out of this deal,...
402
00:26:37,975 --> 00:26:42,579
...then you are not just the most petty,
self-righteous technocrats in three galaxies.
403
00:26:42,771 --> 00:26:44,785
THEN, you're even stupider than you look!
404
00:26:44,881 --> 00:26:45,936
Stop.
405
00:26:45,936 --> 00:26:48,430
Yeah. I can explain about...this...
406
00:26:49,389 --> 00:26:51,307
Walk with me.
407
00:26:51,403 --> 00:26:52,842
Oh boy.
408
00:26:54,473 --> 00:26:57,062
It wasn't just that you insulted the Perseids.
409
00:26:57,158 --> 00:27:00,611
It's the way that you did it over, and over,
and over again. And Beka, the language, it was...
410
00:27:00,707 --> 00:27:03,105
Dylan, when you recruited us
to join your little quest,...
411
00:27:03,297 --> 00:27:05,503
...you didn't just appeal to
the better angels in our natures.
412
00:27:05,503 --> 00:27:08,189
You told us how it would be good for us.
413
00:27:08,381 --> 00:27:09,340
Yeah, that's funny.
414
00:27:09,340 --> 00:27:12,505
I remember that speech,
and at no point do I recall suggesting that you...
415
00:27:12,697 --> 00:27:14,520
..."get your chins screwed on straight".
416
00:27:14,616 --> 00:27:17,397
Yeah, well,
I got the Perseids' attention, didn't I?
417
00:27:17,493 --> 00:27:20,467
And now that I have it, we can remind them why
the Commonwealth deal works for them.
418
00:27:20,562 --> 00:27:22,673
Assuming they ever talk to us again.
419
00:27:22,769 --> 00:27:27,373
Dylan, sorry to interrupt, but I have an incoming
transmission from one of the Sintii Directors.
420
00:27:27,565 --> 00:27:29,483
Probably Hohne calling.
421
00:27:29,579 --> 00:27:31,689
Pipe it to my quarters.
I'll calm him down.
422
00:27:31,785 --> 00:27:36,389
Actually, it's one of Hohne's opponents,
and he's asking for Beka.
423
00:27:49,338 --> 00:27:51,161
Faster, Harper, faster.
424
00:27:51,161 --> 00:27:54,518
I'm doing the best I can.
Trance, any word from our adoring fans?
425
00:27:54,709 --> 00:27:56,532
They've just popped out of slipstream.
426
00:27:56,628 --> 00:27:59,122
They're two light-minutes behind us,
out of weapons range, but just barely.
427
00:27:59,122 --> 00:28:04,397
As long as they can't catch us.
Best speed to Hasturi's asteroid.
428
00:28:04,589 --> 00:28:07,275
This will have to be an in-and-out operation.
429
00:28:07,371 --> 00:28:09,289
Hey! My favorite kind.
430
00:28:11,207 --> 00:28:14,852
Ladies and germ, on your left,
Hasturi's World.
431
00:28:14,948 --> 00:28:18,305
Right next to the galaxy's biggest ball of twine.
432
00:28:24,156 --> 00:28:30,487
Perfect. Hasturi left the power on
and everything's still pressurized.
433
00:28:30,775 --> 00:28:33,077
Wow. The lights are on,
and nobody's been home for over a hundred years.
434
00:28:33,173 --> 00:28:34,899
The guy must've been brilliant.
435
00:28:34,995 --> 00:28:37,585
I don't get it, though.
There must be kilometers of tunnels in this rock.
436
00:28:37,681 --> 00:28:40,079
I mean, why go to all the trouble?
437
00:28:40,175 --> 00:28:42,189
Maybe he was afraid of the dark.
438
00:28:45,642 --> 00:28:49,767
- Must've been a rough trip to Tarn Vedra.
- Look, we can gape at the scenery later.
439
00:28:49,959 --> 00:28:53,412
Right now, we have to find
the mad Perseid's sanctum sanctorum.
440
00:28:53,604 --> 00:28:55,714
Our pursuers can't be far behind
and we all know what that means.
441
00:28:55,810 --> 00:28:59,263
That you're gonna get down on your knees
and beg for mercy like a little girl?
442
00:28:59,742 --> 00:29:02,332
There are two kinds of people
in this universe, Mr. Harper.
443
00:29:02,428 --> 00:29:05,689
The kind with loaded guns,
and the kind who open doors.
444
00:29:05,785 --> 00:29:09,142
- YOU open doors.
- Fine. FINE.
445
00:29:12,404 --> 00:29:15,185
Allow me to work the old Harper magic.
446
00:29:30,820 --> 00:29:34,753
- Open sez me.
- Good for you!
447
00:29:40,124 --> 00:29:42,138
I think it's this way.
448
00:29:42,426 --> 00:29:45,591
Now, if I remember correctly,
wasn't Hasturi a paranoid.
449
00:29:45,687 --> 00:29:47,989
Yes. Like the purple girl in a room
full of rocking chairs.
450
00:29:48,085 --> 00:29:50,195
So, shouldn't he have set some traps?
451
00:29:52,498 --> 00:29:55,183
I am sorry, my dear.
Old habits die hard.
452
00:29:55,279 --> 00:29:56,718
It's all right.
453
00:29:56,814 --> 00:29:58,349
OK, this way.
454
00:30:05,351 --> 00:30:09,379
Screw this! I'm not gonna be killed
by some stupid trap to help you find MY diary.
455
00:30:09,571 --> 00:30:12,736
- Mr. Harper!
- Oh, for crying out loud, go ahead and shoot!
456
00:30:12,832 --> 00:30:16,285
If I gotta be killed,
it's gonna be over MY fame and fortune, not YOURS.
457
00:30:16,381 --> 00:30:19,067
So, excuse me. I got a diary to go find.
Trance?
458
00:30:19,259 --> 00:30:21,849
- But, Harper, we need you.
- Yeah, to step on a plasma mine.
459
00:30:21,945 --> 00:30:24,151
Set off your own traps.
460
00:30:25,494 --> 00:30:28,659
On the other hand,
maybe we should stick together!
461
00:30:45,828 --> 00:30:48,322
Run for your lives!
But let me go first!
462
00:30:53,118 --> 00:30:56,667
H-h-hey, guys.
Aren't you a long way from the casino?
463
00:30:56,859 --> 00:31:03,669
...
464
00:31:21,030 --> 00:31:25,059
I don't understand.
Why am I the only one who attracts bullets?
465
00:31:25,155 --> 00:31:29,951
Oh, that's our High Guard ECM generators.
They mess up smart bullets really bad.
466
00:31:30,143 --> 00:31:33,500
Trance!
Are you out of your freakin' mind?
467
00:31:33,788 --> 00:31:37,145
- I presume you mean that?
- Yeah. We both have one.
468
00:31:38,104 --> 00:31:41,461
How nice...for me.
Gimme.
469
00:31:44,434 --> 00:31:47,120
Make my happy thought come true.
470
00:31:47,216 --> 00:31:50,381
You dead. That's my happy thought.
471
00:31:50,477 --> 00:31:54,410
You are the one vulnerable to weapons fire.
472
00:31:54,602 --> 00:31:59,590
I would suggest you save your own life
before you try to deprive me of mine.
473
00:31:59,877 --> 00:32:01,796
Now move.
474
00:32:01,796 --> 00:32:03,906
Well they've stopped shooting at us.
I think they're dead.
475
00:32:04,002 --> 00:32:06,496
Maybe they finally decided to cooperate.
476
00:32:07,647 --> 00:32:09,565
Keep working.
477
00:32:09,661 --> 00:32:14,073
Fine. Fine. FINE.
Sorry.
478
00:32:17,430 --> 00:32:23,282
Now, sometimes, it's more important to understand
why things work instead of how.
479
00:32:23,473 --> 00:32:28,077
You see, these doors.......
And why is this important, class?
480
00:32:28,269 --> 00:32:31,339
Because power pressurizes the whole enchilada.
481
00:32:31,435 --> 00:32:34,888
- Faster, genius, faster.
- Relax.
482
00:32:36,518 --> 00:32:38,437
This door's solid fluorine mesh.
483
00:32:38,533 --> 00:32:40,451
They're not getting through it
unless they're packing nukes.
484
00:32:40,547 --> 00:32:42,657
Now, as I was saying...oh...
485
00:32:42,753 --> 00:32:43,904
Hey, how you doin'?
486
00:32:43,904 --> 00:32:47,837
The thing is, what's been pressurized
can be DE-pressurized.
487
00:32:54,839 --> 00:33:00,402
That giant sucking sound you hear
is Reaper and company leaving the building.
488
00:33:04,431 --> 00:33:08,075
- You are a very bad person.
- You're welcome.
489
00:33:08,267 --> 00:33:11,529
Now let's move on to the main course
so I can get off this rock.
490
00:33:16,229 --> 00:33:19,106
This is it. Hasturi's lair.
491
00:33:20,257 --> 00:33:24,478
Yeah, judging by the, uh, dead Perseid
with the hole in his head, I'd say you're right.
492
00:33:28,602 --> 00:33:33,398
Yes, Hasturi's story
seems to have an unhappy ending.
493
00:33:33,686 --> 00:33:37,043
Whoa, I guess paranoid people
really do have enemies.
494
00:33:37,235 --> 00:33:38,961
A dead Nietzschean.
495
00:33:39,249 --> 00:33:41,167
I'm gonna go look for that diary.
496
00:33:41,839 --> 00:33:45,963
Trance will find it.
You, stay there.
497
00:33:47,018 --> 00:33:50,663
You know, you catch more flies
with honey than vinegar,...
498
00:33:50,759 --> 00:33:53,925
...though I don't know why you'd want to catch flies.
They're actually quite dirty little things.
499
00:33:54,020 --> 00:33:56,131
Just find the diary.
500
00:33:56,227 --> 00:33:58,721
Right. Finding it.
501
00:33:58,816 --> 00:34:02,269
If I was a diary of a mad Perseid explorer,
where would I hide?
502
00:34:02,461 --> 00:34:03,804
Take your time.
503
00:34:03,804 --> 00:34:08,216
My trigger finger never gets tired.
And if it does, well, I won't shed any tears.
504
00:34:08,408 --> 00:34:09,176
I would. For both of you.
505
00:34:09,272 --> 00:34:12,533
You know, as much as I enjoy these long,
lingerie looks into your beady little eyes,
506
00:34:12,629 --> 00:34:15,314
I don't think I'm ready for a relationship.
507
00:34:18,863 --> 00:34:20,590
I found it.
508
00:34:42,555 --> 00:34:46,872
- I have your ECM generator.
- At this range, my aim's pretty good.
509
00:34:53,298 --> 00:34:55,504
- I just got word from the Council.
- And?
510
00:34:55,888 --> 00:34:58,382
Nice work.
The Perseid's are back on board.
511
00:34:58,478 --> 00:35:00,012
You know, they may not understand appeals...
512
00:35:00,012 --> 00:35:02,410
...to their better natures, but insults...
insults they take to heart.
513
00:35:02,506 --> 00:35:03,849
Well, it was a team effort.
514
00:35:03,849 --> 00:35:06,727
Captain and first officer.
You set 'em up and I knocked 'em down.
515
00:35:06,823 --> 00:35:08,357
Chinheads didn't stand a chance.
516
00:35:08,453 --> 00:35:11,619
- The Commonwealth thanks you.
- I didn't do it for the Commonwealth.
517
00:35:11,715 --> 00:35:13,921
I did it
'cause you're my friend and you needed me.
518
00:35:14,017 --> 00:35:15,647
- Is that right?
- Uh-huh.
519
00:35:15,743 --> 00:35:18,237
Well, what do you have without friendship?
520
00:35:24,184 --> 00:35:29,364
Ummm, guys? It's been, like, twenty minutes now,
and I'm really getting bored.
521
00:35:31,857 --> 00:35:34,927
How 'bout this?
I'm going to count to three...
522
00:35:35,023 --> 00:35:39,819
...and on three, you're going to get up,
put your guns down,...
523
00:35:40,106 --> 00:35:42,792
...and we're going to talk about this like adults.
524
00:35:48,835 --> 00:35:50,178
Great.
525
00:35:50,274 --> 00:35:52,768
This'll be much better than yoshidono.
526
00:35:52,864 --> 00:35:54,206
OK.
527
00:35:54,302 --> 00:35:56,125
One.
528
00:35:56,317 --> 00:35:58,139
Two.
529
00:36:02,264 --> 00:36:03,894
Trance!
530
00:36:06,484 --> 00:36:07,827
She's quick.
531
00:36:07,827 --> 00:36:09,074
Very.
532
00:36:09,074 --> 00:36:11,376
I am so sick of this, you two.
533
00:36:11,472 --> 00:36:15,309
With your violence and your threats
and your shooting stuff!
534
00:36:15,404 --> 00:36:17,227
Neither of you gets it, do you?
535
00:36:17,227 --> 00:36:21,160
There isn't enough love in the universe as it is,
and you're both just helping to kill off what's left.
536
00:36:21,351 --> 00:36:23,270
So SHAPE UP!
537
00:36:23,366 --> 00:36:26,819
Because if you don't show each other
a little peace, love, and understanding,
538
00:36:26,915 --> 00:36:28,929
I am going to kill you BOTH.
539
00:36:29,025 --> 00:36:31,902
- Trance, you don't mean that!
- I do.
540
00:36:31,998 --> 00:36:35,164
You know why?
'Cause I could get away with it because I'm cute.
541
00:36:35,356 --> 00:36:37,562
- You wouldn't.
- Oh.
542
00:36:38,041 --> 00:36:41,878
Dylan, it was so horrible.
They just...
543
00:36:42,070 --> 00:36:44,756
...they killed each other right in front of me.
544
00:36:44,851 --> 00:36:48,113
And I tried to stop them, really I tried,
but I couldn't.
545
00:36:48,305 --> 00:36:50,511
By the sacred light, she's right.
546
00:36:50,894 --> 00:36:55,115
I can just see that High Guard fossil now,
hugging her and saying "Trance, it'll be ok."
547
00:36:55,307 --> 00:36:58,760
- While we lay here dead.
- Drop your guns NOW!
548
00:36:58,952 --> 00:37:02,117
Or in a few days,
Rev Bem's going to find me on the Obs Deck...
549
00:37:02,213 --> 00:37:04,323
...and console me on my tragic loss.
550
00:37:04,515 --> 00:37:07,680
- Drop our guns?
- Indubitably.
551
00:37:12,476 --> 00:37:17,176
Good. Very good.
Now, move!
552
00:37:28,590 --> 00:37:34,345
So, you get the diary and I get nothing once again.
553
00:37:34,537 --> 00:37:37,703
Am I wrong to feel angry, disappointed?
554
00:37:37,894 --> 00:37:42,307
No. You get something,
the warm feeling of knowing that you did good.
555
00:37:42,403 --> 00:37:44,513
We're docked.
Thought you might like to know.
556
00:37:44,705 --> 00:37:48,254
This is it, then.
The big goodbye.
557
00:37:49,501 --> 00:37:51,707
Are you sure you won't come with me?
558
00:37:51,803 --> 00:37:55,352
We could tour all the casinos
in the known worlds.
559
00:37:55,448 --> 00:37:59,092
Croupiers everywhere would tremble
at the sound of our names.
560
00:37:59,284 --> 00:38:01,778
Mmmmm...
maybe another time.
561
00:38:01,874 --> 00:38:05,519
You know,
I really am sorry I shot you.
562
00:38:05,807 --> 00:38:09,931
I know you don't believe me,
but it's true.
563
00:38:10,507 --> 00:38:13,480
Wait. I want to give you something.
564
00:38:16,646 --> 00:38:18,276
Here.
565
00:38:19,044 --> 00:38:23,168
Anesterian Tundra Flowers?
566
00:38:23,648 --> 00:38:27,964
The most efficient oxygen producer
ever discovered?
567
00:38:28,060 --> 00:38:29,403
I thought they were extinct!
568
00:38:29,499 --> 00:38:35,254
If I could get these three to reproduce,
I can repay my debts. I might even...
569
00:38:39,954 --> 00:38:43,215
You know, this is, um,...
570
00:38:43,407 --> 00:38:48,778
...the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.
571
00:38:49,642 --> 00:38:52,327
- Thank you.
- You're welcome...
572
00:38:52,519 --> 00:38:55,684
...Everyone deserves a second chance.
- But only one.
573
00:39:00,097 --> 00:39:02,686
Or as many as they need.
574
00:39:07,386 --> 00:39:08,442
Move!
575
00:39:08,538 --> 00:39:10,456
There's another crisis on Sintii!
We've got five minutes!
576
00:39:10,456 --> 00:39:11,223
Again? What now?
577
00:39:11,223 --> 00:39:14,293
Segaria Beach.
Celebration for a job well done.
578
00:39:14,484 --> 00:39:17,266
But we need to get our butts planished
before the sun goes down.
579
00:39:17,458 --> 00:39:20,527
Come on. Move! Go go go!
580
00:39:24,844 --> 00:39:29,544
Hey, Trance,
I know I got a little carried away back there,...
581
00:39:31,462 --> 00:39:34,148
...and I'm glad you talked some sense into me.
582
00:39:34,531 --> 00:39:37,889
But you weren't REALLY gonna...
shoot me...were ya?
583
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:39,615
Absolutely not.
584
00:39:39,615 --> 00:39:43,931
Not any more than you were gonna
REALLY shoot Gerentex. Right?
585
00:39:44,699 --> 00:39:46,425
Right.
586
00:39:46,425 --> 00:39:49,303
- So. Still friends?
- Best friends.
587
00:39:49,399 --> 00:39:51,317
Good.
588
00:39:52,372 --> 00:39:54,866
You know what you've done, don't you?
589
00:39:54,962 --> 00:39:58,799
You've kissed off our entire tundra flower monopoly,
our best commodity.
590
00:39:58,991 --> 00:40:00,238
No, I haven't.
591
00:40:00,334 --> 00:40:03,595
I gave Gerentex a beautiful thing
to call his own.
592
00:40:03,691 --> 00:40:08,487
Beautiful things can make sad people happy
and bad people good.
593
00:40:09,062 --> 00:40:15,393
When you think about it,
beautiful things can change the universe.
594
00:40:21,148 --> 00:40:24,409
Subtitles by Yojimbo BST