"Last time on gene roddenberry's andromeda... talk to me." "Craft of unknown origin under heavy attack by three former commonwealth fighters." "We're being hailed." "Louisa messereau, out of moira by jordan." "Ambassador, this is a treacherous region to be traveling without weapons." "I represent arkology." "Our provenance is peace." "It is roughly 36 kilometers long, 8 wide, with a 500,000-kilometer orbit." "Impressive." "A self-sustaining ecology." "I am returning from a successful negotiation with the magog on that great vehicle they call "worldship."" "Somebody tell me that's not what i think it is." "The magog had arkology targeted all along." "They've never used tactics before." "I'm marlowe." "Welcome home, dylan." "Have you heard of the paradine?" "A doorway to the many universes and an entrance for evil." "Marlowe told me something." "He told me that i am one of the paradine." "Without a doubt he is right." "When the dust clears, we'll see each other again." "No." "We will never be together like this again." "We need to teach these people how to survive." "They're powering up a point-singularity weapon." "These people, they think there's beauty." "There isn't." "It's just darkness reaching out at darkness." "I've got to get to theandromeda." "This is graduation day." "I'll stay and fight with these people." "No!" "Don't!" "Aah!" "What do you want?" "I want what no one else here seems to want- to live." "The magog are puncturing my hull." "Prep escape pods." "We've got to save as many as we can." "Not this time." "Then i guess i'll die trying." "Find dylan hunt." "Andromeda, status on the crew." "All of them are dead." "Arm the nova bombs." "All of them?" "All of them." "Done." "Fire." "The magog worldship has suffered minimal damage." "The route of ages is for you." "If you stay and you fight and die, what will be the point of these past four years?" "Have you come home from your past?" "Dream, dylan." "Dream." "No!" "Intruder." "Intruder." "Intruder." "Intruder." "Where did you come from?" "How did you get here?" "Where am i?" "Answer us." "How did i get here?" "Why are you without injury?" "What pain have you brought us?" "Pain?" "What pain?" "What are you talking about?" "Come." "Come this way." "This way." "Goodbye, rommie... rhade... beka... harper... goodbye." "The universe is a dangerous place, but in our future, my crew and i fight to make it safe." "I am dylan hunt, captain of theandromeda ascendant, and these are our adventures." "Pain... pain... i'm surprised." "Very, very, very, very surprised." "How many "very"s was that, do you know?" "Came through without a scratch." "Of course, the fall could've killed you." "No, i'm still alive." "I, uh... could use some water." "Things are starting to make a little sense around here." "Tell me where i am." "I'll give you the bloody details later." "Let's get you out of here." "They'll find us here." ""They?"" "Everybody." "Of course." "You're on the planet seefra-1." "Never heard of it." "What system?" "Your guess is as good as mine." "It'll be all right." "Glamorous seefra." "Hmm." "My slipfighter." "I need to get back to it." "Long gone." "Probably offered as sacrifice to some ill-guided superstition about escape from drought." "Water is gold here." "Do you have a name?" "Flavin." "Dylan." "I know." "How would you know my name?" "Heads up!" "Huh?" "You got to watch your step around here." "That was an asteroid." "We get quite a few, especially with new arrivals." "Wait." "That mountain." "The scans." "I like to call it "the hill of crap."" "The superstition is, and believe me, we've got absolutely no shortage of superstitions here, those who go up never come back." "Now, that's catchy." "I got to remember that- good, solid irony." "Oh, boy." "She's going to blow." "This way." "What's going to blow?" "What are you doing?" "Good afternoon, denizens of seefra, or good night, depending on the rotation of your location." "This is the voice of virgil, sending the dreams... huh?" "Only a few thrive here." "The rest end up dead or broken." "Thanks for bringing me in here." "Get out of here, flavin, and take the intruder with you." "Move." "Welcome to the carnival- the hall of mirrors, the convention of myopic ignoramuses." "Intruder!" "Intruder!" "Intruder!" "Nice place." "Get him..." "out of here." "Look, fellas, i got nowhere to go." "Intruder!" "Intruder!" "Intruder!" "Intruder!" "Intruder!" "Intruder!" "Well, at least i'm making new friends." "Welcome to seefra, where they've never met a visitor they didn't like, or, in some cases, want to eat." "Now!" "It hurts, doesn't it?" "Thanks." "Okay... i guess i met everybody." "Sun's gone out." "Let's roll." ""Sun's gone out"?" "I'll need an explanation for that one too." "Intruder." "Intruder." "Intruder." "Intruder." "Intruder." "They're not so crazy about you here on seefra." "True, but you..." "you're new." "They'll want you dead." "That's just because they haven't seen my sunny side yet." "You've definitely got an expiration date." "Thomas has got a guy to do his real dirty work." "Thomas?" "So there's somebody running the show here?" "Check." "He's the head spook." "This room... i know." "I know." "It's familiar." "The eccentricities of seefra- everything looks familiar." "Hallucinations, fatigue, drunken stupor, superstition, or just run-of-the-mill weirdness." "You choose." "Like the mountain." "The scans?" "Whoever made this place went over that big hill and never came back." "You can't get there from here." "Can't get there from here... that should be this place's motto." "You have." "You have." "The book." "The book." "I am." "I am!" "Our friend." "Our friend." "Until?" "Until?" "The end." "The end." "Are you feeling willful?" "Who could defeat such a man?" "You saw his weapons." "Help us." "Why not help yourselves?" "Get off your fat pelvic bones and save yourselves." "Go." "Go!" "Take care of the intruder." "Exactly." "Exactly!" "I will query this man." "Perhaps he will be useful to us." "And his machinery." "He came in a ship." "Yes, i know." "He was thrown through." "What if he charted his route?" "I am dry." "You forgot the ice." "Rocks." "Of course." "All blood and treasure on the planet seefra-1 must be ours." "You hear me?" "Must be ours!" "As leader of this community, give me what's right, not what's left." "I dominate." "I need not lead." "So... here's the layout." "Seefra-1 is in a system of nine planets and two suns." "Nine planets, each identical to the other." "Hall of mirrors." "Here's where we are, and here's the hilarity- this sun on the right gets pretty wacky when someone arrives." "Boom, pop, and with the exception of you- a pile of fast-arriving smithereens." "How often do you get new arrivals?" "Some days we get four or five, then some months, not a soul." "Most of it isn't pretty." "It's been quiet lately, though we had a nice batch last month." "Describe them." "No one like you, if that's what you're asking." "But you said people come and go." "They come and go." "They don't come and go and come back." "Paranoia and, above all, superstition run this town... hence your warm reception." "If you're looking for a grid, a chart, some recognizable constellation- the peaks of monjo, the belt of thesaurus- forget it." "What's with the slipfighter?" "This kind of technology is strictly forbidden on seefra." "Why would it be forbidden?" "Thomas never gives the details, and the puppets on this planet never ask questions." "You'll catch on to it after a while." "I don't have a while." "Me neither." "It's my one shot at getting out of this lovely corner of the universe." "So you know how to get out?" "If the fine citizens of this place see this, i'm dead meat." "They think the lack of technology keeps them safe." "They kill you for embracing it." "Speaking of getting killed, this plan of yours doesn't stand a chance." "I'll take those odds." "You stay here a while, you'll feel the same." "Well, i'm not planning on spending too much time here." "Going up the scans, are you?" "Leaders tumble." "Legends fall." "The crowd jumps to its feet with a roar." "Then we start over." "I'm pretty good at that." "Good at what?" "Starting over." "You're one that'll make it back, but you'll come back different." "After what i've been through the last two days, what could possibly make it worse?" "Exactly." "I have an intruder for you to take care of." "You want me to kill now?" "Is that part of our deal?" "Modify your behavior or i will let loose." "Remember, i can make superstition turn very ugly." "Crowds can do very ugly things." "Committees gone wild." "Assemblies jump into panic." "I can whip that up." "You're the boss." "Yes, i am." "Leaders tumble." "Legends fall." "The crowd jumps to its feet with a roar." "This place is nuts." "That's impossible." "Hello, rhade." "Interesting new arrival, i'm told." "So i hear." "And i'm listening." "He came through smooth, like you." "And you." "Who is he?" "Someone who needs help, like you." "And you." "No, i'm happy as a clam, not like you." "Thomas wants him dead." "Is that a problem for you?" "Haven't you already sunk as low as you can?" "Maybe, but i wear my sorrow like a badge." "A badge?" "Indeed." "I take it as a sign, a symbol that you could be happier." "You know you will be." "This arrival is good news for you." "Good news, good tidings..." "sunny days, merry music." "They're all gone, blown away like the dust that covers this pleasant little hellhole." ""Pleasant little hellhole."" "Sorry, that's a little too nietzschean-on-the-verge - of-the-apocalypse kind of thing for me to get truly behind it." "I protect you because you make me laugh." "Come on." "Who is he?" "He is a walking seminar on the bright side of life." "I only know moonlight." "All right." "Full moon, then." "A silvery moon to dance by?" "I don't know about dancing, but you've certainly got that "beat of your own drum" thing going." "You have no idea." "Excellent." "Okay, gentlemen." "See your mom?" "Look at your mom." "Careful." "Now give me a wave." "Hi." "Now, be careful." "Okay, now, we have to- that didn't work out, did it?" "Never, never" ""never, never give up."" "Remember that, dylan." "Never give up." "I'm on tarn vedra." "Rhade." "Dylan." "Rhade, my god!" "I can't believe it." "How did you get here?" "Went through the route of ages." "How did you get here?" "I have no idea." "I was fighting on arkology, and there was a flash of white light, and i was here." "What about beka?" "Harper?" "Come with me if you want." "I could offer you wine, nourishment." "We can talk about our sorrows." "You have quarters here?" "I live in the hallway of broken dreams, where lost love found me and threw her chilly arms around me." "What's the matter with you?" "With me?" "I was just wondering..." "uh, the commonwealth, what was it?" "Was it love... or lies?" "Just like louisa." "Love or lies." "Nothing means anything." "I feel nothing but loss." "We both feel the loss of what happened, rhade." "I held the dying louisa in my arms." "Tears clouded my vision." "I turned to the doorway... that was nine months ago." "That can't be." "I've been here two days." "A day, a lifetime... what does it matter in a world we are all lost in?" "Oh, come on, you can't accept that." "Let me know when you do." "Maybe it's best if you don't come with me." "We'll see each other again." "It's a small world." "I'll buy you a drink at the saloon tomorrow." "Talk about old times..." "if that's what they were." "It'll be like graduation day." "Remember?" "All i want now is vengeance to wrap around your stinking hope." "Intruder!" "Intruder." "Intruder." "Intruder." "Intruder." "Intruder." "You know, i'm not in the mood, okay?" "Life... will forever be a deadly enterprise with only one sad end, and there is only one solution- deny exploration and embrace exploitation." "To be milked is to be free." "Okay." "Have a nice day." "Does dying alone frighten you?" "Do you fear the sudden stop at the house of mortality?" "What do you do at death's door?" "Well, you know, i never knock, 'cause it drives him crazy." "The book instructs me on how to deal with intruders." "Get a rewrite." "This is tarn vedra." "Is it?" "I know what i saw." "The more vivid the memory, the more it seems like it was just yesterday." "Get to the point." "The route of ages." "A whimsical term from vedran mythology," ""the route of ages"" "originally referred to the mystical road which linked the houses of the various vedran gods in the celestial city etashi." "Etashl-tarn, the capital of tarn vedra, takes its name from that same root vedran word." "So you know that this is tarn vedra." "I know that you are paradine." "Takes one to know one." "Are you here for thirst or business?" "What difference does it make?" "Always concede to the obvious, bow to the inevitable." "Which brings me back to you." "You, who are here all alone." "Careful." "You're talking to me now." "I am thomas." "Help... help!" ""Help!"" "That's what i do, remember?" "No... think of who i am." "No!" "Think what you are doing, man!" "You are of use to me... so today, it's good to be you." "I use you to find out what is despicable in myself." "What are my lows?" "To where i have sunk?" "To what are my dwindling joys?" "I will kill him." "Why are you using the route of ages?" "If you truly are paradine, you don't need it." "I've seen it." "It's, like, "poof!" And you're out of here." "Doesn't work that way here." "Believe me, i've tried." "I'm all poofed out." "No one comes or goes that easily here, except maybe you." "Me?" "Yes, you." "I think all answers lie through you." "I'll tell you what i believe." "I believe that this whole system was manufactured around tarn vedra." "It's engineered." "It's why all the planets look the same." "Suns don't blink on and off." "And this town, this place, it's a debris field from a crashed starship." "You think it might be yours?" "Why not?" "No place like home." "Yeah, no place like home." "Yeah, and a merry good day to you folks too." "Can i buy you a drink?" "Sure." "As long as you're buying, i'll take a double." "Dylan hunt." "Rhade... escort this man to his end." "You can't stay here." "Well, i, uh... i can't go anywhere either." "So... it has come to this." "Rhade, you, uh, you seem a bit confused lately." "Check that." "Angry and confused." "I want payment for the pain you've caused." "I want to kill your eternal hope, the hope that led me to this damnation." "Rhade" "get him out." "Careful, rhade." "It just might be that i am out of hope as well." "Tell me why i think i left "why" in the other universe." "Why?" "Why?" "Why was hope so important?" "Hope is everything, rhade." "Without it, there is no reason to live." "Well, then, today is your lucky day." "I hate the hope that you brought me." "You give me too much credit." "It's always been about you." "Okay." "Let's play." "You can't hate hope." "You can hate me, but you hate yourself... more, and do you know why?" "Because... you failed." "We all did." "Failed." "Four years." "Four years of my life!" "Go ahead, rhade." "Throw yourself away." "It's time for you to leave these people alone." "May i?" "Thomas, i think you're out of a job." "Not the book!" "Well, would you look at this?" "Follow me!" "Flavin, this is suicide." "No, this is a hall of mirrors, dear one." "Call it what you want." "It's still suicide." "I have to leave." "You have to let me go." "This is your time now." "You know, if i had a drink for every time i heard that, i would be dead by now." "Hold on to what is timeless, and in the end, you will arrive where you started." "That is where hope is." "Yeah, well, you know, maybe hope is a blunder that you dream about." "Now you're starting to talk like me." "If you can't beat 'em... almost got everything figured out." "You won't make it." "Like i have a choice." "Like you do." "Everyone by now knows i've dabbled with the devil and his friend." "You can't protect me." "Who said anything about protecting you?" "Dylan hunt, there are three kinds of people in the universe, those who can count, and those who can't." "Fine." "See you on the other side." "It doesn't look like he made it." "Thomas warned us you would try to mislead us." "Thomas kept seefra safe." "So now it is you who must lead us out." "The intruder." "The one who has suffered the least." "Boy, you sure don't know my past." "Look, i'm not your leader." "You don't have to be held captives to all of this." "It's all they know." "Well, good." "Then they've got something to build on." "So what do you think?" "Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?" "My fear is that the light at the end of the tunnel is a missile." "Well, then, it'll probably get both of us." "I can't hold a grudge against you." "It's too much effort." "So what you're saying is you're too lazy to hate me?" "If you want to call it that." "Yeah." "Lazy works for me." "I can't help you." "I can't help myself." "You'll find yourself, rhade... probably in the last place you look." "Andromeda." "Okay." "Home sweet home."