being difficult,
but functioning according to request.
- What happened to the transceiver?
- It is no longer functioning.
- Yes, but why?
- There is a 72% probability
that it was damaged by a hostile agency.
- What was the last thing he said?
- He requested immediate teleportation.
- But the teleport doesn't work.
- Precisely.
Orac, give us a fix on Avon's last known position.
Grid 290 by 428.
- Nothing.
- There, zoom in on that.
- Right, I'm going to take a look.
- Yes, me, too.
- What about me?
- There's a door to open, remember?
And there's a lady with a gun
wandering about, remember?
Soolin's nowhere on the base, Vila. You're safe.
Hey! If she's out on the surface,
maybe she got Avon.
Who is he do you think?
He must have come in on the Scorpio.
There's no other way.
- Should we check?
- I shall. You follow.
Sir, we have the intruder.
- His equipment and gun.
- Oh, bring him in, bring him in.
- Let's see what you've got.
- Bring him in.
Well, don't just stand there, woman.
Bring meat! Ale!
- You have a fetching way with women.
- Who are you to address me like some joker?
- My name is Avon.
- I don't care what you call yourself.
I am Gunn Sar, chief of the Hommiks.
I rule by right of challenge,
which means I'm the biggest, toughest
meanest son of a Seska on this planet.
- I believe you.
- You'd better.
- What's the tally of challenges?
- 25 dead and one missing, sir.
Oh, come on, Cato. Don't quibble.
Marquin fell backwards off the cliff.
- Yes, sir.
- So he's dead.
Like, you can't say someone's missing as such,
not when they've taken a dive
into a bottomless gorge.
No, sir.
So, it's 26 dead.
The Council ruled it was 25, sir, and one missing.
25 men lie dead who tried to stand against me.
And one, if he's not still falling,
is no more than a greasy spot on the rocks, right?
- Impressive.
- GUNN SAR: You killed two men.
If I'd known we were keeping score,
I would have brought more ammunition.
- What were you doing on my land?
- Your land?
With instruments and tools, speaking devices.
A petroscope.
You know what it is?
What were you looking for?
- Some crystals, nothing of any consequence.
- What crystals?
- Dynamon.
- Dynamon?
Dynamon? You look like a man.
You smell like a man.
So?
So, what do you want with dynamon?
Orac was right. I'd say there was
a hostile agency, wouldn't you?
Avon!
Avon!
- Shall I hold this out of the way?
- Yes, thank you, if you wouldn't mind.
(Exclaiming in pain)
I am sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.
I thought you were a lady gunfighter.
Just a minute, who are you?
Where do you come from?
Let me. I am Pella, of the Seska people.
- Does this hurt?
- It did. How did you get in?
The secondary hatch was open.
Your hand is badly bruised. Here.
In 10 minutes,
the pain and the bruise will be gone.
- Do you think you can open the door?
- I can open the lock.
- And can you break the computer code?
- No, but Avon can.
- You seem to know a lot about it?
- The only way off this planet is through that door.
- Where is Avon?
- Outside.
- Are the others looking for him?
- Yes, we think he may have had an accident.
- How do you know about the others?
- Your friend hasn't had an accident.
- He's in trouble. The Hommiks have taken him.
- Hommiks?
- Is that bad?
- For Avon, very.
- So, you want dynamon crystals?
- Yes.
- They're rare.
- So I've been told.
So rare, there aren't any.
What there was have all been dug up.
- Right?
- I'll take your word for it.
Anyway, they're useless.
Expensive baubles for the ladies.
So, why do you want them?
- My computer suggested they might be useful.
- Your computer!
Not your books or your mates or
your woman or your assistant, but your computer.
You talk to computers?
You understand computers?
AVON: Don't you?
Watch what you're doing,
you snivelling sack of offal!
So, you want to be number 27?
Don't you mean number 26?
Go! Make preparation.
So