Blake's 7 (TV Series)

Orbit (1981)

Michael Keating: Vila Restal

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• Avon : [discussing Egrorian]  Said to have been a genius. Scientists are still trying to understand the Egrorian theory of parallel matter.

  Soolin : What happened to him?

  Vila : He disappeared, along with a few million credits from the Space Research Institute.

  Soolin : So he's a criminal.

  Vila : Aren't we all? Except he pulled off a big one. Which is why he's NOT sitting on Malodar.

  Avon : It is a good hideaway.

  Vila : Hideaway? Avon, if I got my hands on that kind of money, I'd have gone somewhere I could enjoy it. What is the point of having money if you have to exist on a lifeless hole like that!

  Avon : You are forgetting, there is a big difference between you and Egrorian: HE has a brain!

  Vila : Oh yeah? Well if you had one it might have occurred to you this could be a Federation trap!

  Avon : Well of course it's occurred to me. Why do you think I'm sending Tarrant?

• Egrorian : Now, then, Avon. What would you say if I offered you mastery of the galaxy?

  Avon : Oh, I would say thank you.

  Vila : For a whole galaxy? Oh, come on, Avon, show the man some gratitude.

  Egrorian : [laughing]  Do you think my mind is addled?

  Vila : No, no, it's just we don't get offered galaxies every day of the week.

• Vila : You know I like to stick with you, Avon, where it's safe.

• Avon : All right. Vila, let's get to the airlock.

  Vila : Me?

  Avon : Well, who else? After all, you always say you feel safe with me.

• [last lines] 

  Avon : I couldn't find Vila.

  Vila : I'm glad about that.

  Del Tarrant : Pity about the tachyon funnel, though.

  Avon : We had no choice.

  Vila : It's a trip I won't forget, Avon.

  Avon : Well, as you always say, Vila: you know you are safe with *me*.

  [Avon and Vila stare coldly at each other] 

• Egrorian : Orac, what was the subject of my degree thesis at Belhangria University?

  Orac : Your paper E stroke nine stroke six-zero-four-four was on particle physics and dealt specifically with the properties of rissions. It was marked Beta plus, Egrorian.

  Pinder : [amused]  Only Beta plus, Egrorian?

  Egrorian : Pinder, you're to be seen and not heard, remember?

  Avon : If Orac has a fault, it is a tendency to give more information than is requested.

  Vila : Or less information than requested.

  Avon : But seldom *just* the information that is requested.

  Orac : [continuing]  That degree was subsequently rescinded for gross misconduct.

  Egrorian : [angry]  That's enough, Orac!

• Vila : I'll personally nail them to posts and send you the pictures.