Andromeda (TV Series)

The Widening Gyre (2001)

Keith Hamilton Cobb: Tyr Anasazi

Quotes 

• Tyr Anasazi : I know but one person idiotic enough to try and rescue three dead men from a Magog hive.

  Captain Dylan Hunt : That's me, Captain Idiot. Now, I don't know about the three of you, but... we have a ship to catch.

• Tyr Anasazi : [to Harper]  When your parents combined their DNA, the odds they would create a person with your precise genetic pattern were 10,000,000 to 1. Factor in the chance of your parents growing to adulthood, meeting, and actually bothering to procreate, in the first place, and your very existence has all the likelihood of drawing three straight Imperial Courts in an honest game of Vedran whist! You've already overcome those odds once. Who's to say you can't do it again?

• [Harper and Tyr struggling to free themselves from Magog restraints] 

  Seamus Harper : This isn't working.

  Tyr Anasazi : Keep trying.

  Seamus Harper : Hey, do me a favor, will ya? Talk to me about something. Take my mind off things.

  Seamus Harper : You want a story? All right... When I was 16, after I'd lost my family, I was captured by slavers and sold to the diamond mines on Zokotl. One day while I was working in the mines, I noticed that the main support for my section had rotted through. I pointed it out to the overseers, but instead of fixing the problem, they cut my rations and doubled my work shifts. A week later, the ceiling collapsed, burying me alive 200 meters underground.

  Seamus Harper : [sarcastically]  Thanks. Cheered me right up.

  Tyr Anasazi : It should've. Because I lived. I clawed my way out over the bodies of the dead. I escaped into the desert. I lived on seep-water and sand rats for an entire season. And then, one night, after I'd healed, I visited the overseers... and *thanked* them for their conscientious attention to worker safety. So don't you tell me that I'm going to die here today. Because the sun has not yet risen on the day when Tyr Anasazi, out of Victoria by Barbarossa, will face death graciously. I will kick and claw and bite and scratch and spit my last breath in its face, and as long as you are with me, you will do the same, is that clear?

  [after a pause] 

  Tyr Anasazi : *Is that clear*?