- Vila Restal: I've done it! I think I've done it. I've isolated the identification sensors. It's straight combination now. Watch this: it should open like a dream.
- [the safe opens with an explosion]
- Roj Blake: [Coughs] More like a nightmare.
- Kerr Avon: That last day, when it was all over, did they hurt her?
- Del Grant: They kept her under interrogation for nearly a week. They tried everything but she never broke. If she *had* spoken, told them what they wanted to know, she'd be alive now.
- Kerr Avon: She should have told them.
- Del Grant: She held on because she believed in you. She didn't know that you'd run out and leave her to face it alone.
- Kerr Avon: That was not the way it was.
- Del Grant: I know exactly how it was. She died under Federation torture, but it was *you* who killed her.
- Vila Restal: Which way did they go?
- Ralli: The rocket silo.
- [Vila runs to the door, then runs back]
- Vila Restal: I've forgotten how to get there!
- Ralli: The junctions of corridor eleven A, fifty-one B.
- Vila Restal: Eleven A, fifty-one B!
- [Vila runs out, then stops in a corridor, confused]
- Vila Restal: Five A, eleven-one B...
- Roj Blake: I'd rather not meet anyone until we get the geography of this place sorted out. Men fresh from a battle tend to be a little trigger happy.
- Vila Restal: Trigger happy?
- Kerr Avon: It would be stupid to be shot up by our own allies.
- Vila Restal: Not only stupid. Painful.
- Kerr Avon: Hello, Del. It's been a long time.
- Del Grant: I heard you were dead.
- Kerr Avon: I heard the same about you. Wishful thinking perhaps.
- Del Grant: I'm glad the stories were wrong. I felt cheated. We have some things to settle.
- Roj Blake: You two can talk about the old days some other time. Right now we have a problem that's just a little more pressing.
- Del Grant: Goodbye, Jenna.
- Jenna Stannis: Goodbye.
- Del Grant: Goodbye Cally, goodbye Vila. And thank you.
- Vila Restal: [cheerily] Any time.
- Del Grant: I'll remember that!
- Vila Restal: [apprehensively] Oh, will you?
- Vila Restal: Blake, look!
- Roj Blake: What is it?
- Vila Restal: There's a sliding section in the roof. They're launch doors.
- [Vila turns a control. The lights dim and the doors slide open with a continuous whirring noise, revealing the night sky. Vila turns the control back and the doors slide shut again, just as slowly and noisily. The lights come up]
- Roj Blake: [sternly to Vila] Why don't you do that again? Maybe they didn't hear you!
- [Blake and Avon exit]
- Vila Restal: Wait for me!
- Roj Blake: [as Provine lies dying] Provine! Provine! The computer complex, Control, where have the Federation moved it to?
- Major Provine: Go to hell.
- Roj Blake: You may still have a chance if I can get you to our surgical unit. Now where is Control, Provine?
- Major Provine: Star One. It's called Star One now. Dochelli. Cybersurgeon. Only Dochelli knows.
- Roj Blake: Where is Dochelli? Where is Dochelli?
- [He shakes Provine and realises he's dead]
- Roj Blake: See you in hell.