Radiation, poison gas,
fire, wind, rain...
Oh, let him go down.
It's worked. The place is clear.
Zeeona!
Zeeona!
She took her glove off.All main drives and boosters running.
SLAVE: All explosive devices
have functioned correctly, Master.
The base complex has been totally destroyed.
Thank you, Slave.
- I never liked that place anyway.
- Especially not once the wine ran out.
You know, I still don't think
Zukan told the Federation.
- About the wine?
- About the location of the base.
Why not?
Wouldn't you expect someone who'd betray
his own daughter to betray everything else?
And if he didn't,
one of the others will, sooner or later.
Sooner, definitely. Your anti-Federation alliance
wasn't worth spit without Zukan.
- A slight exaggeration.
- You think so?
Nobody is indispensable.
You needed a figurehead. He was it.
Or am I wrong?
You are right. But then figureheads
aren't too difficult to come by.
Any idiot can be one.
On your feet, Vila. This could be your big moment.
Any idiot within reason, that is.
You going to tell us
what we've got planned, Avon?
We know what we've got planned.
Running away is what we've got planned.
A strategic withdrawal is what we've got planned.
There's a difference?
Oh, yes. A strategic withdrawal is running away,
but with dignity.
So lay in a course
and let's get the dignified hell out of here.
- That isn't the plan anymore, though, is it, Avon?
- I think we can do better.
Does that mean safer?
In the end winning is the only safety.
It doesn't mean safer. I didn't think it would.
So what does it mean?
I think we can find ourselves another figurehead.
Someone we can use
to unify and expand the Rebel Alliance.
- Just like that.
- More or less.
He is strongly identified with rebels, you see...
and very popular with rabbles.
They will follow him and he will fight
to the last drop of their blood.
Idealism is a wonderful thing.
All you really need is someone rational
to put it to proper use.
- Someone like you.
- So where do we find this useable idealist?
According to Orac,
he is on a frontier planet called Gauda Prime.
Gauda Prime?
AVON: You know it?
Yes, I know it.
It's a bad place to be. No self-respecting idealist
would be found dead there.
I imagine that is what he is trying to avoid.
Being found dead anywhere.
Look, are you going to stop playing games
and tell us who it is, Avon?
It's Blake, isn't it?
You think you've found Blake.
(Twig snapping)
Whoever you are, I'll share the food.
So long as you stop skulking about out there.
(Twig snapping)
You're not exactly stealthy, are you?
I've heard quieter troop transporters.
ARLEN: You're looking in the wrong direction.
I know.
But at least you're
out in the open now, aren't you?
If this is a trap you won't live to see it sprung.
- Where'd you get that gun?
- I won it in a lottery.
- What do you care?
- I don't, so long as it wasn't issued to you.
- It's Federation.
- That's what I mean.
Do I look like one of theirs?
I can't really tell anymore.
- You hungry?
- Yes.
So am I.
- But Servalan told us he was dead.
- And you believed her?
She had no reason to lie.
She doesn't need one.
It comes quite naturally to her. Like breathing.
The last time you went after Blake it was a trap.
We were lucky to get out.
- Cally didn't get out.
- And Blake wasn't even there.
- Never had been.
- Do you take me for a fool?
Only a fool would go to Gauda Prime
without a very good reason.
Orac, what proof do we have
that Blake is on Gauda Prime?
ORAC: That is where his trail ends.
What trail? Explain.
The chain of cause and effect
amounts to a trail, if you can follow it.
I can't even follow you.
Everything has an effect
on everything else around it.
It is not easy to trace one line
through the pattern of infinity...
but in this case, I have.
Blake is on Gauda Prime.
How long have you known?
Long enough.
- Before Zukan.
- Oh, yes.
And the answer to your next