I trust fast poison The stars to wink out And you, my love - and you. Lyric from "The Void" By Minstrel d'Becvex CY 9905 Several minutes of Beka grunting and Tyr growling Beka: HA! Gotcha! Reverse hold, how many points is that? Tyr: It nets out at zero. Beka: Ouch! Tell me again why this is good for me. Tyr: A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. Beka: Who you calling a 'link' Anasazi? Tyr: Now this warship, her capabilities, it makes us complacent. We may have to engage the enemy using nothing but our teeth and nails. Beka bites Tyr Tyr: OW! Beka flips him and straddles him as he lies on the mat. They laugh. Beka: Me. I like to shoot my enemies, preferably while hiding behind a nice big rock. Tyr grabs her by the neck and pulls her face toward his as he growls. Door opens and Dylan enters Dylan: Beka, I need ... Whoa! Excuse me I, I uh I didn't know that you two were uh.. what were you Beka: Nothing. Tyr laughs Beka: Shut up! Just uh a little hand to uh, (looks down at where she is sitting on Tyr) hand. (She gets up, straightens her clothes) What's up? Dylan: oh uh, this. Andromeda just received a datafile from Coscota. Tyr, getting up: the mining colony? Dylan: Yes Beka: That old hunk of rock, what do they want with us? Dylan: Well it's not us, it's you. It's about one of your old crewmates, a Robert Jensen Beka: Bobby Jensen. Damn I haven't heard that name in a long time. He was a mate... on the crew of the Maru back in the day before Harper signed on. So uh what's he gotten himself into this time and what's it gonna cost me? Dylan: He's dead Beka. He's named you as his next of kin and they want to you to identify the body. I'm sorry. Beka: Sorry you can't spare me, you need me for uh ... Dylan: for what? Beka: the planet, Hazen-Brown. I thought you said there was a disaster; we're all rushing off to... Dylan: Beka just take the Maru and go. (Dylan leaves) Tyr: Next of kin? Beka: Not quite. Just uh the love of my life Command Deck Dylan entering: Rommie, situation report please on planet Hazen-Brown. Rommie: Tectonic plates crashing into each other, lava, ash and panicky Chichian climbing over each other in an effort to save themselves. Dylan: Well we promised them evacuation passage and that is what we'll do Rommie nods Maru Trance: There you are, well I prepped the Maru for your trip to Coscota, anyways I just thought it'd be a good time for you to have friends around. Beka: I appreciate the offer but umm I'm gonna be okay Trance: I'm a good listener you know Beka: I know you are. Look, Bobby and I, we broke up a long time ago and I'm over him. Go. Trance: Okay, (Smiles and leaves) Dylan enters; Oh Trance, good, Take a slip fighter to Hazen-Brown, try to organize evacuees as best you can in advance of the Andromeda. Go. Trance: Going Beka clears her throat Dylan: I'm coming with you. Beka: Dylan I'm not gonna faint at the sight of a dead body, I've seen plenty of them Dylan: So have I Beka. I've buried more crew than I can count and no one should do it alone. Besides you can't launch the Maru until I order Andromeda to open the hanger Beka: You would lock me in? Dylan: Oh absolutely Beka: In that case, welcome aboard. Dylan: Thank you. Harper climbing down ladder: Thank you Beka: I was not talking to you Harper Harper: Come on, I don't take up that much oxygen. Beka: Look, I really appreciate everyone being so concerned about my emotional well being... Harper: Whoa, whoa, whoa! You think I'm coming just to give you a shoulder to cry on? That's sweet, but no. I wanna make sure that freakin psycho is good and dead. How to dump a loser boyfriend in five easy lessons by Seamus Harper. (aims gun, dry firing) One, two, three, four, five Dylan: I take it you and this Bobby Jensen didn't get along. Harper: (gun powers up) Bobby Jensen was a self-righteous control freak with a nasty ass temper Dylan pushes Harper's gun down, gun powers down and Harper leaves Dylan: Does Harper always stay mad at dead people? Beka: Bobby inspired strong emotion Dylan: Apparently Andromeda Dylan on screen: Eureka Maru ready for departure Rommie: Maru you are good to go Dylan: Good luck on Hazen-Brown. Tyr, you've got command. I know you'll display the appropriate sensitivity and diplomacy in dealing with the Chichians Tyr shuts off the comm. Dylan opens the comm.: And Tyr, don't break my ship Tyr closes comm. link and frowns, Rommie smiles Maru Harper leaning over top bunk: Hey! Dylan: Oh! Harper. Harper: Sorry. Yeah Boss no officers quarters around here, you can take old Vexpag's bunk Dylan: Vexpag? Harper: Yeah, another former crewmate. He's dead too. Dylan: Dead? Harper: Don't worry, it wasn't catching (inhales sharply) he had a problem with his EVA suit Dylan: Pleasant. Well. (bangs head on pipe over bunk) Ow! I've had worse. So Mr. Harper, about Bobby Jensen. Hero, not a hero, I mean what was he? Harper: He was an idiot. Beka, she's.... she's too loyal for her own good. Hey, you wanna meet him? Yeah, you wanna meet Bobby Jensen? Dylan: Sure. Harper tossing stuff off bunk: Hang on Dylan watching clothing fly: I guess Harper: All right. Dylan Hunt meet Bobby Jensen (Harper activate holoprojector) Bobby: Hey kid, welcome to the Eureka Maru. What are you doing, recording this? Sure why the hell not. Here's the speech. We are shipmates we are not friends. The tugboat belongs to Beka Valentine, Beka Valentine belongs to me. You mess with either one of them I'll kill you dead. Young Harper: Yeah, yeah, whatever. What is that? Hang on a second. (Young Harper shows up in holo pointing at Bobby's neck) What is that? Is that a cerebral port? I've always wanted one of those. (Bobby hits Harper across the face.) Harper: You see that huh? He hit me. Dylan: Well, you know you don't like people touching your dataport either. Harper: Yeah but when I hit them it's with love. Besides it doesn't take a genius to see understandably he uh, he felt threatened. Dylan laughs: By you. Harper no offense but that guy masses 95 kilos easy. Harper: I mean jealous Dylan smiling: oh. Harper: He saw how awesome looking I was and he thought I was gonna take Beka... Shipwide comm. activates Beka: Dylan, do not let him show you what he keeps under his pillow! Harper laughs sardonically Dylan: I'm afraid to ask Harper: Well... Beka: We're approaching Coscota system Dylan getting up: We're on our way Harper jumps down Dylan: What do you keep under the pillow? Harper shrugs and laughs: What!? Maru- cockpit Exits slipstream, banging noises, alarms explosions Dylan: What the hell? Big explosion Dylan: Proximity mine, the whole system is salted with them. Beka! Get us the hell outta here! Now! Really big explosion Dylan: Beka shut down the engines Harper: A minefield, you flew us into a minefield? Beka: Well it wasn't supposed to be there now was it, so mea very culpa. Shutting down Dylan: Contact the nearest freighter ship, get an SOS to Andromeda. Cut all power Beka: Contacting, SOSing, cutting all power Harper: Cut all power? Dylan: Unless you'd like to find out first hand whether these mines home in on our EM emission, yes, all power Harper throws switch and Maru powers down Beka: Now what? Dylan: One thing I know about minefields is when you walk into one you hold still Maru - Crew mess Harper activates lantern: There. Like a camping trip, not that I ever went on one Dylan: Well that is exactly what we're gonna do, camp in our bunks and wait for Andromeda to arrive with proper mine detection and disarmament. Beka: Anyone know any good campfire stories? Dylan: You do Beka: Hmm? Dylan: The story of Bobby Jensen Beka: Nahh! Dylan: Oh come on, I'd like to hear it Beka: Bobby was Bobby Harper: Hmp! Beka: I think you would have liked him Dylan *Flashback* Red haired Beka shooting guys Bobby: Beka! Beka: Six o'clock, I got your back! Bobby runs to join her Beka: What a surprise, normally when the going gets tough my partners in crime get going Bobby:Yeah they say there's no honor among thieves but you are cuter than normal. So anything to share? Beka: You mean about those industrial diamonds we're supposed to deliver? Bobby: I was thinking maybe they're not that industrial Beka: It's my haul fair and square. Am I supposed to turn down paying customers just because of bad background checks? Bobby: You know what your problem is Captain Valentine? You need to fight for something bigger than diamonds and gold. You need a cause Beka: Maybe. What cause are you fighting for Bobby Jensen? Bobby: You. Beka: We have so much in common Bobby: Yeah. Come on End Flashback Beka: It was a sweet little operation. Hello Coscota, goodbye Coscota. And then Bobby found out they were digging Thorium 232 in those mines Dylan. Thorium 232? That stuffs incredibly radioactive Beka: Well somebody obviously forgot to tell the Coscotians because they got about a million of Muganis digging the stuff for them Dylan: The Muganis, that's Coscota's aboriginal population? Harper: Oh you mean those amphibian swamp dwellers with the bad teeth. Beka: Harper! Bobby always said they were slaves on their own world. Harper: Bobby, Bobby, Bobby. He was such a sucker for a hard luck story Beka: Anyway, Bobby started organizing a Mugani miner's union. The company was remarkably unreceptive to the idea. Dylan: You're right Beka, I think I would have liked him Beka: Yeah. There was a lot to like Flashback Beka and Bobby in bed Beka: You know what I love? Your arms, your legs Bobby: Really? Beka: Uhhuh. Call me crazy but I think there's something sexy about bodily perfection Bobby: Hmmm. And me, do you lo... (Beka puts her fingers over his lips) Beka: Quit while you're ahead. Let's talk about something else. Like what's this new haul of yours and how much is it worth to us? Bobby: Computers. And a lot, we pick them up on Earth and deliver them to Coscota. Beka: And uh, who's this Earth kid that's helping us? Bobby: Seamus something or other Harper. A street kid, he wants off Earth Beka: Yeah, well you saw what a dump that place was, who can blame him? Bobby: Well he'll do his bit and then... Beka: So you lied to him Bobby: Just trying to travel light Beka: You are really something Bobby: Something? Just not... enough? Beka: Just.... Don't ever lie to me. Bobby: Never End flashback Harper: You see why I hated him? Beka: I stuck up for you, I didn't even know you Dylan: Beka, you and Bobby weren't in this bed were you? Beka throws a pillow at Dylan Beka to Harper: And why do you hate Bobby anyway? He saved your life. Harper: What!? When? Flashback Explosion, heavy door falls out of frame, thudding loudly to deck. Harper and Beka jump in. Beka: Way to sneak in smendrick. Harper: It's Harper. And trust me I know what I'm doing, I'm an expert. Beka: I wanted to get my cargo, not give every Nietchean within earshot a 21-gun salute. Harper: Hey you're uh pretty hot, you look smart too. What are you doing looked up on that junk ship with a steroid case like Bobby? You could have any number of candidates. Sterling candidates Beka: He has his good points, believe me (Gunshots, Nietcheans shouting) Harper jumps up, firing at Nietcheans: Screw you! (Rapid gunfire from behind Beka and Harper. Bobby takes out all the guards) Beka: One of his good points. He's very protective. End flashback Dylan: Harper you're going to have a to do a better job trying to convince me Bobby was out to get you because so far it sounds like he was playing on your side. Harper: Oh come on! I saved the day in the end. Beka: Oh please! You were such a newbie. I was just glad he didn't get spacesick all over my ship. Flashback Maru- cockpit Harper: Wow! I never been in space before. Beka: Are you serious? Harper: Yeah. I never been more than three clicks from the human ghetto. In Boston. But I can sure get used to this. I like it! (Sniffs Beka) The air don't stink here. Beka: Filtered fresh daily (Explosion shakes ship) Harper: Uh is that normal? Beka: A missile to the aft cargo pod by the feel of it. What's the matter? No one ever shoot at you before? Harper: Yeah. But I've never been shot in the aft. Besides on Earth you can always run away Beka: Same here, except in space you can run to Saturn. There's plenty of debris and non-specific radiation that should keep us safe from Nietchean sensors until we figure out our next move Harper: Nietcheans. All right all that stuff I said about loving space I officially take it all back. (Explosion, alarms) Bobby: No way. We are not gonna jettison the cargo Beka: So you would rather face a Nietchean hit squad than dump cargo? Bobby they torture their allies Bobby: I would kill anyone who tried to hurt you. You know that Beka: Yes, but you didn't answer my question Bobby: The Muganis need those computers Beka, okay? Harper: Uh can I say something? Beka and Bobby: No! Beka: Look why don't you go outside and play while Mommy and Daddy talk. Okay? Harper: Fine! Fine, if you think you can steal a hundred Nietchean surface to air missiles and not get stopped, don't let me interrupt. Beka: surface to air missiles!? Harper: Yeah. What? What did you think was in those crates? Beka: Computers. I was told we were carrying computers. (Beka glares at Bobby, Bobby glares at Harper) Harper: Okeydokie I guess I'd better be goin now. (smiles and leaves) Beka: Missiles? Bobby: They have computers in them Cargo bay - Harper has a crate open Bobby: Get your grubby paws off my cargo! (Grabs Harper by the neck and holds him up against the wall with one hand pulls gun with the other) Harper: Keep him away from me! I was just brought it down to check it out I was only trying to help! Beka: He's not going to shoot you Bobby: That depends on what he did with the wiring Harper: I'm good with mechanical things I can re-rig your missiles so... Bobby: They're not my missiles, they belong to the Muganis. Their only hope for freedom Beka: Risking our necks selling weapons to the Muganis? Bobby: You've sheen how the Muganis have been exploited in the thorium mines Beka, it breaks your heart Beka: You're breaking mine. I asked you not to lie to me. (Explosion rocks ship, alarms) Beka: They found us. Cover everything back up, now! You, Hooper, go with me Harper: It's Harper Cockpit Beka: Hey. Did you do it? Is it going to work? Harper: Is my name Seamus Zelazny Harper? Beka: God I hope not. (Explosion) Beka: Prepare to jettison cargo. Authorization Beka Valentine Maru: Authorization not recognized Beka: what do you mean not recognized? (Controls are frozen, engine sounds increase, ship turns. Beka turns on a screen showing Bobby jacked in to the Maru) Beka: It's Bobby, he's making a run for Coscota Harper: Oh man, I gotta get me one of those. Beka: You. Go back and stop him Harper: What!? Me? No, no, no, he's big and scary; I'm just small and cute Beka grabs him: You want a place to stay or not? You crew on my ship, do as I say Harper: A place to stay? Beka nods Harper: all right, all right, now we're talking. I can do this Harper jumps down ladder onto Bobby, they fall to deck. Harper pulls Bobby's jack out of his neck, jumps up and types on computer pad. Bobby gets up and drags Harper away, choking him Beka runs in pulling gun Beka: Bobby, stop! Bobby I mean it, put him down Bobby releases Harper Beka: Harper dump the cargo, switch behind you Harper: Jettisoning cargo Cargo doors open, crates fly out, Nietchean fighters hit crates and explode, Harper laughs nervously Bobby: Beka, if I had told you, you would have said no Beka: Damn straight! Bobby: If we made the big score and retired we'd be complacent Beka: Living happily and rich ever after was supposed to be the plan Bobby: You'd become restless, you know you would. This is the perfect cause. (He pushes her gun down) We can help with what we know Beka: I don't do causes Bobby Bobby: No Beka, everybody does causes. Only question is will you pick yours or will it pick you? Beka: In that case, I pick mine, you're looking at her. Go. (teary) Just go. End flashback Beka: Sometimes I think I should have gone with him. I just wasn't that evolved yet Harper: No way Beka, you made the right choice. Besides he's dead now Beka: Harper, he was right you know. The cause did pick me, you guys Dylan: Then I'm glad it worked out the way it did. Harper putting a hand on Beka's back: Me too. (Creaking sounds) Beka and Harper together: Limpet mine Dylan gets up holding his lance: Or worse. With all the sensors down it could be a... Cyborg enters aiming at them Beka: Bobby!? Bobby: Beka are you happy to see me? Your force lance, give it up now. Dylan: I wish I could But I don't want to Bobby: Tsk, tsk tsk, don't be like that (Woman and Mugani male enter with weapons powering up) Beka: What in the hell is gong on? Bobby: What's going on? You pick your crew over me again? Come on Hunt, your lance, drop it. I know who you are; I know what you can do. So, nice and slow. Dylan puts his lance down Bobby: Margo get their weapons Dylan: You're a little different from what Beka described Bobby Bobby: Didn't you get the message? I died. Harper: Not enough. Bobby: Close, I stepped on a land mine. Nice to see you Seamus. Harper: It's Harper. I'm sorry to hear that. Sorry it didn't finish you off but you know you're looking great Bobby. Bobby: Smoking. Just like my gun arm after a high rate of fire (aims at Harper) Dylan: Still don't know what's going on here Bobby: the Mugani have finally risen up against their oppressors Dylan: That explains the minefield but since you faked your death to get us here I'm guessing the war isn't going well. Margo: Not too bad. Considering that aborigines with rocks and bottles are up against colonists with nuclear arsenals. Lem: We need help. Dylan: Well we are always willing to help those who have a worthy cause. Bobby: Good because helping them is the only way you get out of here alive. You two, keep an eye on them while I refamiliarize myself with the cockpit. Margo: So, you're the ex, funny he never took out blonds Beka: Funny he never took out the trash either; I see you've changed him Bobby over intercom: Beka, cockpit now Beka: I'll be okay Bobby: You came, now I know you care Beka: I thought you were dead Bobby: Sorry about the little fib but if I had told you what I wanted to do you wouldn't have come Beka: Damn straight. Bobby: funny isn't it. People won't show up to help you but they'll show up at your funeral Beka: You want us to help the aborigines Bobby: I want you to help me. I want you to join the cause Beka: At gunpoint? Dylan: He doesn't want you, he wants the Andromeda Bobby: What are you doing here? Margo: What are you doing here? Beka: Look, you want Dylan to negotiate a treaty between the Abos and the colonists, consider it done Dylan: Bobby's not looking for peace Beka Bobby: Margo take Beka for a walk. I'll tell you what I'm looking for. 24 hours I want Andromeda here in the Coscota system with a full load of her kinetic missiles, AP guns and attack drones Dylan: You know your high guard weaponry Bobby: I trained from the best manuals, Argosy Special Forces. You black ops guys have some great moves Dylan: Yeah, we have some great moves. Andromeda doesn't negotiate with hostage takers. Ever. Bobby: Dylan, Dylan. Is that what you think you are? Hostages? We're all good guys here Dylan: I'm listening Bobby: There are 8 hundred million Muganis on Coscota, 50 thousand colonist. The natives dredge the swamps, mine the ore and the colonist keep the money. Why? Because they have nukes, the Muganis have slingshots. You're just here to level out the playing field. Dylan: I'd rather get all the facts first. Bobby: Three missile strikes, three major cities, that's all I need. The Mugani Liberation Army will triumph. Dylan: With you at the head Bobby: You have seen Lem. The Muganis are not exactly ready for self-government Dylan: Assuming there are any left to govern. You are talking about starting a planetary civil war; millions of the Mugani will die. So here's my idea. Power share with the colonists Bobby: There's no power sharing with the people who did this (Points to implants) This is what to tell the Andromeda (Hands Dylan a flexi) No ad-libs Andromeda Command Deck Dylan on screen, blinking rapidly Dylan: Andromeda proceed immediately to Coscota. Best Speed. Dylan out. Tyr: His heart is racing, his breathing is shallow and his eyelids are fluctuating. There's something he's not telling us. Rommie: No he's definitely telling us something (Zooms in on Dylan's eyes in the message) Rommie: One. Four. Oh. Five. AC Fourteen-five. Argosy code fourteen-five, it means Dylan has been taken hostage in a war zone. I am to approach with caution and be prepared to fire on his position. Tyr: He's telling us to kill him? Rommie: If necessary, yes. That is exactly what he is telling us to do. Maru Dylan: Lem. That is your name right? Lem: No talk Dylan: How long have you been traveling with Bobby? Lem: long enough, no talk. Stop! Down. Up. (Points at deck grill with his gun) Dylan opens hatch: After you Lem: Down! Move. Dylan: It doesn't look very comfortable Lem Lem: No talk! Down! Now! Dylan sits down in storage area and Lem closes the deck grill and locks it with a blinking square thing Dylan: Lem, tell me about the Muganis. If I remember my comparative linguistics Mugani meads 'reed', right? The reed people? Lem: My grandfather, he could hide in the wet mud for hours breathe through hollow reed. Wait for frogs, we were great hunters. They drained the swamps Dylan: Bringing down weapons of mass destruction on the colonist won't bring back the swamps Lem Lem: Maybe not, but maybe it will make them go away Dylan: Maybe, But at a cost Lem. Many of your people will die Lem: They're already dying. Dylan: Lem there's a better way. Lem: You be quiet now Cockpit Beka: Bobby, let them go. Dylan never did anything to you Bobby: Never did anything for me either. If you're not with me you're against me. Beka: He's not against you; he's against your methods Bobby: I can't remember you being so squeamish when we flew contraband under the FTA sensors Beka: I don't remember you being so brutal. I remember a Bobby that touched me Bobby: With arms and legs that you loved. You don't think that I remember? Beka: What did they do to you Bobby? Bobby: What I told them to do. To make me invulnerable Beka: Listen to me, you leave them be and I'll stay. Just you and me together just like before Bobby: Just like before? No. I didn't think so. It's why I have to win. It's all I got Dylan: Where'd Lem go? Margo: He's taking a nap. Mugwumps are nocturnal Dylan: You surprise me Margo. Margo: Why? Because I can say 'nocturnal'? Dylan: No because you say 'Mugwumps'. Debasing them with slurs, I thought you were here to fight for the dignity for the Mugani people. Margo: Bobby's here to fight for the dignity of the Mugani's, I'm here for Bobby Dylan: Oh. That could get you killed Margo: I'm not afraid of dying. Besides, we could actually win Dylan: And then you can help Bobby remake Coscota in his image Margo: Well it's good to be queen (laughs) Dylan: And I'm sure that you have a role set up for all the Muganis. Margo: They're already trained and ready to serve (laughs) Well if you'll excuse me I have to go check on my Mugwump Dylan: You do that. (Margo leaves) Dylan: You heard her Lem, ready to serve in the royal court of Margo? Lem steps out: She's not like Bobby! Dylan: I'm glad you know what you're doing Lem. Glad you know what you're doing. Harper struggling to get free from the wires tying him to the ceiling near the cockpit Bobby: What is taking Andromeda so long? Harper: You know for the life of me I'm trying to remember why I was ever jealous of you Bobby: Cause I was with Beka. Harper: Uh, No. I always knew she'd get smart and dump you. I think it was because of that dataport in your neck. Mine's bigger. Bobby: No it's not (Rumbling, ship shakes) Margo: What the hell was that? Bobby runs back to where Margo is guarding Dylan Bobby: What's he doing? Dylan: Just rattling your cage Bobby (Clanging) Bobby: And what was that? Dylan: One of Andromeda's grappling harpoons. It sounds like she's opening hostage negotiations Bobby runs back to cockpit to see Andromeda outside Bobby: Wow! What a ship. She's beautiful. Bucky cables, she's trying to pull us in. Hailing Andromeda Ascendant. Hailing Andromeda Ascendant! Talk to me damn it! Bobby runs back to Dylan Bobby: Why is your ship not responding? Dylan: Rommie won't listen to ransom demands. The only person she'll talk to is me. Bobby: Well maybe this will attract her attention. (types into computer) Maru: AP overload in twenty minutes Bobby: Andromeda! I know you can hear me now! I've set the AP tanks on the Maru to breach. Either you surrender control to me now or I turn your captain into space dust. Dylan: Be my guest Dylan trying to pick lock with a piece of wire Dylan: Come on. (Hears footsteps and stops) Dylan: Hey Lem! Lem: What? Dylan: Sit. Talk to me. We're all gonna be vaporized, we might as well get to know each other Lem: No! Bobby will win. Bobby always wins Dylan: No offense but I think you picked the wrong team. Bobby's not even playing on your side Lem: Bobby fights the colonists Dylan: Yes and the colonist s are wrong I know that. They have victimized you and all the Muganis but remember the colonists made you slaves don't let someone else do it all over again. Lem: I don't take orders from you! Dylan: That's good. That's good, Lem. You shouldn't Lem growls and runs off Dylan smiles: Well that's the spirit Andromeda command deck Andromeda: Estimated time to proton anti-proton event eighteen minutes thirty-two seconds Tyr: Apparently we are to try our hand at a game of Brinkmanship. Provide me with options! HoloRommie: I'm analyzing available data and exploring all possible courses of action Tyr: Being the most powerful warship in three galaxies please provide me with something more impressive than do nothing Rommie glaring at Tyr: We can't run. (HoloRommie and Andromeda smirking at Tyr) So should I just hand over my armory? No. I would evacuate the planet but I can't airlift 72 million Muganis per minute or perhaps you would prefer I dematerialize Dylan's body form the Maru and magically rematerialize it her on Command? Tyr: You choices are to let the Eureka Maru self destruct which would destroy both vessels or launch a pre-emptive strike destroying the Maru only. Rommie: They're your choices acting Captain Tyr Anasazi Tyr: Then by all means, let's risk our lives for Dylan. Maru- Dylan's prison Margo: Hey gorgeous, I know you're charming and all but do you mind stop putting ideas in my Mugwump's tiny little brain? It confuses him Dylan: Lem is a lot smarter than you give him credit for gorgeous. In fact I suspect most people are smarter than you give them credit for Margo laughs and Beka turns to attack her. Catfight. Gun drops and Dylan tries unsuccessfully to get it. Beka finally tosses Margo over the railing killing her Dylan: Hey it's good to see you Beka: Hiya! I'm gonna blow the lock, (gun powers up) Dylan: No!No!No! It's rigged to explode Beka: Oh. Dylan: You need the key Beka: I'll be right back Maru: AP overload in fifteen minutes Lem comes back to Dylan and drops the key down then runs away. Beka finds Bobby and aims her gun at him Beka: Back to the cockpit. It's over Bobby. Bobby: No it's not Beka fires hitting him in the metal shoulder Bobby: Beka! I told you I'm a lot less vulnerable than I used to be. (Powers up his gun arm aiming at her) Don't you see? If they cared about you as much as I do they wouldn't let it go on this long Beka: No Bobby, they just care about a cause bigger than themselves Bobby: Causes, causes They walk across where Dylan is still held Maru: AP overload in ten minutes Beka: There was a time when you loved me Bobby but I wasn't ready Bobby: You're still not Beka: You wanted me to share your cause, now I do. All of us do. Freedom for the Muganis Bobby: And now you're with Hunt not me Beka: Well Dylan never lied to me Bobby: Really? He advances on Beka and she fires, her shots ricocheting off him and all over, severing an electrical cable that dangles near the catwalk, sparking. Dylan is still struggling to get the key into the lock and free himself. Bobby knocks Beka's gun out of her hand and punches her in the face. She falls unconscious to the deck. Dylan finally gets free and attacks Bobby, they fight, Beka wakes up, Lem arrives. Beka grabs live wire and touches it to Bobby's leg Bobby: BEKA! Oh Beka! (He goes down) Maru: Overload in five minutes Dylan: Lem, get Harper. Seal that fissure now! GO! Lem runs Beka is sitting and staring at Bobby's body Andromeda command deck Andromeda: Time to combustion... wait the AP count has leveled off. The engine is NOT going critical Rommie (smugly): Dylan did that. Andromeda command deck Dylan: We are in geosyncronis orbit. Rommie can handle it Beka: I know. Keeping busy helps. So umm how are the peace talks going? Dylan: Difficult. There's a lot of years of hurt. A lot of years of mistrust. No one wants to risk feeling vulnerable. Beka... about Bobby... I Beka: I know, I uh I think when they made his new body they took his humanity Dylan: No. No one can ever take that away from you.