Andromeda (TV Series)

The Widening Gyre (2001)

Gordon Michael Woolvett: Seamus Harper

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Quotes 

• [Harper just discovered that his infestation with Magog larvae is not a dream] 

  Seamus Harper : [to Tyr]  If you're gonna give me anymore of that, "Where there's life, there's hope," crap... Thanks. 'Cause I really need to hear that about now.

• [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*?