lying or going mad.
We just want to know how she got out.
- If she was here.
- And how she got in.
I told you, the secondary hatch
was open and she...
It wasn't. I checked them both this morning.
Well, look at this, I dropped the lance body
right across it and the bruise...
I can't see any bruise.
No.
Must be brain warp.
Think I'll just go off and die somewhere.
- Vila.
- What?
- The door.
- Which door?
The door to the landing silo,
how long before you free the lock?
Oh, that.
I'll need to switch the lance on.
Course, we still need Avon.
Have you ever seen
a nuclear compression charge go off?
Everything gets sucked in.
It's like a mini black hole.
Looks good. From a distance.
- Do you think I should go with him in case...
- In case what? He has got brain warp?
- Or a flask of booze.
- No, leave him.
That makes a difference, doesn't it?
If you get the chance, Kate, go.
Yes, all right, but I agree with Vila.
I think we should get out of here.
Abandon Scorpio when
there's every chance we can save her?
Look, we don't know when the place is
going up, we could have hours.
- Or even minutes.
- Seconds.
If we can get through the door,
we can operate the switch manually.
Pretend it's not there, just walk through it?
That's what your Seska friend
did with the hatches.
- Perhaps she can show us how it's done.
- Tarrant, it's serious.
I'm being serious. Orac!
Is it possible for a living person
to pass through a solid, a hatch,
without there being any material disturbance?
- The process is called teleportation.
- Oh, well, nothing like stating the obvious.
Could a person just teleport
themselves as an act of will?
No, unless directed by an outside agency,
matter transmuted to energy
will merely dissipate at random.
Could this have done it without us knowing?
I am exploring the possibility.
Without a co-radiating crystal to focus the beam,
the mechanism will operate at.001% efficiency.
Orac, a woman was inside this base
and she's not inside it now.
Given that the hatch remained locked
from the inside, how would she get out?
The logical alternatives are within
the bounds of human reasoning.
I suggest you consider them and leave me
in peace to reflect on those matters which are not.
Hey!
No! Let me go. No!
(Screams)
Don't get too comfortable now, we'll be back
for you just as soon as the surgery is free.
Avon?
You are Avon, aren't you?
Perhaps I was somewhere else
when they introduced us.
- You've been hurt.
- Well, you could say that.
However, the nuclear compression charge
is set to detonate in precisely
- three hours 24 minutes.
- So you've got to get that door open fast.
- How long?
- The lance will be through in about an hour.
But there's still the computer code.
We still need Avon.
Do we? Orac, can you interpret
and break the computer code?
The code sequence is the numerical value of
the letters contained in the word "Narcissus".
- No problem.
- However, the device has a secondary trip relay.
When the door is opened,
the charge will detonate automatically.
Are you telling us there's no way
to reach that override switch?
One way. The same way by which
a woman passed through a hatch
which was later seen to be locked from the inside.
- How do we find that woman?
- The information you require
is on the chronicle discs in the records locker.
Now will you please return me
to the control room where I have work to do?
- Can you walk?
- Very likely.
But just at the moment
I can't think of too many places to go.
There was a girl with me when we were captured.
We've got to find her.
She's very young. They're going to operate on her.
- And then on me.
- Operate? Why?
So that we will no longer be Seska.
- Seska?
- When our spirit is broken, we give them sons.
The daughters are left to die on the hillside.
Sometimes we are able to find them in time.
The Hommiks are regressives.
They reverted to primitive tribalism
hundreds of