hatch.
It was locked from the inside.
The hatch was unlocked and locked
again from the outside by telekinesis.
Telekinesis?
The power to move objects
at a distance using only the mind...
Yes, we know what it means.
And yet you fail to see it as the only
logical explanation and the means
by which the manual override switch
may be operated to cancel
the nuclear compression charge.
Now, will you kindly remove me
to a place not closer than 742 metres
from the launch chamber door.
Orac, telekinesis doesn't work, it's a myth.
The human brain doesn't generate enough energy.
The human brain does not
need to generate energy.
There is adequate energy elsewhere in the body.
The brain merely directs it,
given the in-grafted co-radiating crystal
necessary to focus the beam.
That's a very clever machine.
Pella!
- No need to ask how you got in.
- Telekinesis.
KATE: We apologise for startling you,
but there isn't much time.
- 13 minutes.
- Shall we go?
- Wait. Why should you care?
- Does it matter?
We care because the Scorpio
is our only contact with civilisation.
Without it, we become like the Hommiks.
We need nutrients for our food process.
Now let's just be clear about this.
The Scorpio is our ship.
- 12 minutes!
- If that charge goes off, it won't be anyone's ship.
In return for nutrients,
we offer what we offered Dorian.
Technical assistance.
The Seska are specialists in
tele-ergonomics and energy transference.
- What, a teleport system of.003% efficiency?
- Tarrant!
It's a matter of time, that's all.
The teleport is difficult.
- The Seska have worked on it for generations.
- How many Seska are there?
- We are the Seska.
- 11 minutes!
- Yes, but what about the others?
- There aren't any others.
Last week we were five. This morning, three.
And now we are two.
- 10 and 3/4 minutes!
- Let's go.
The lock is free. Nine and a half minutes.
Just do your business with your tele-whatever.
Have you ever seen a nuclear black hole go off?
It's like a mini compression charge.
Yes, I know I'm prattling. It's nerves.
Nine and a quarter minutes.
- Well, Orac?
- "Well" is not a question.
Don't play games. You know what I'm asking.
The answer is yes. With qualifications.
- Then qualify.
- The feat of calculation was prodigious.
- The result imperfect.
- Degree of imperfection?
Variably low.
You will be required
to perform circuit adjustments.
Of course. Where?
- It's safe.
- Is that it?
Yes.
- It doesn't feel any different.
- Try it.
- You haven't made any mistakes?
- No.
Try it.
Numerical Narcissus.
- That's it.
- So why hasn't it opened?
I don't know.
AVON: I do.
Avon!
- Narcissus is not the code word. Orac made it up.
- Why?
- Because that was my instruction.
- You told Orac not to crack the code?
- Why do that?
- For much the same reason as Dorian.
I didn't like the idea of Scorpio
taking off without me.
- I'm sorry to spoil your plan, Pella.
- Be careful, Avon.
I can very easily reset the detonator switch.
- But you can't change the timing.
- What is all this about?
- Pella's ambition to take Scorpio.
- What makes you think that?
On the inside of the landing silo
there's a wheel that can be used
- to crank open this door manually.
- Standard safety precaution.
Use the wheel to open the door and
the nuclear compression charge won't detonate.
Unfortunately for Pella,
her telekinesis was never powerful enough
to turn that wheel and her technical
expertise couldn't develop a teleport system.
- Oh, but she is developing...
- Quiet, Kate!
No, that's what she told Dorian.
That's why he's been feeding you.
Dorian believed her, too.
- What about Orac?
- Orac has been a little devious on my instruction.
Ever since I discovered that
Dorian's last attempt at a teleport
- was really a tele-ergotron.
- What is a tele-ergotron?
The controlled direction of pure energy.
In this case directed by Pella
at the wheel inside the landing silo.
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