"Take him down!" "I'm going to kick your butt!" "Shut up!" "Let's go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Pretty soon, the money i make off these chumps" "Isn't going to be worth the money i make off them." "I'd say" "That's right about any minute now." "You seen them fly?" "Maniacs." "Yeah!" "This time." "This time." "But next time... i told you!" "What did i tell you?" "Bozim hates being number two." "One of these days," "He's going to stab her in the back." "Not a bad idea." "Like i said..." "maniacs." "That doesn't sound right," "And it's coming in fast." "I'll stash the breakables." "Get down!" "Like i said," "These guys are maniacs." "It's not one of theirs." "Huh?" "Ah!" "Hot!" "Flavin?" "In the flesh," "And very happy to still be with the living." "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." "And here i thought you were gone for good." "I missed" "Our heartwarming and informative conversations, rhade." "I had to come back." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." "Wait." "You told me that people can come and go from seefra," "But they don't come back." "That just proves i'm not the only one who makes mistakes." "I don't make mistakes." "There's probably enough techno in there" "To make us rich." "Mm." "Make me rich." "You take what i give." "You have no idea." "Come on, now, lunah." "Must you lay claim to everything that's not yours?" "Back off." "Rhade." "Would you mind taking flavin" "Inside mr." "Harper's fine establishment?" "Please." "My pleasure." "We can catch up on some heartwarming conversation." "Have fun." "Mm-Hmm." "Start moving, hunt," "If living's your preference." "Hey, i love life... because dying... is not much of a living." "All right, flavin, good news or bad news?" "Little of both." "Okay, does this have anything, anything at all," "To do with us getting out of here?" "Yes." "Yes!" "I knew this was our lucky day." "And no." "I knew we were screwed." "I need to speak with the captain." "I was leaving anyway." "I'm not listening." "I'm not." "First things first." "You left here in a slipfighter." "Big mistake, trading that ship." "No kidding." "That one has landing problems." "So where'd you get it?" "Out there." "Way, way, way out." "In the end, though," "They made me come back." "More specific, please?" "The paradine... what's left of them." "Oh, yes... they're leaving while the getting's good." "Okay, that's the bad news," "So why are they leaving and where are they leaving from?" "Long story." "I'm sure." "All i can tell you... it's what needs to happen" "For other things to happen, for other things," "Etcetera." "Interdependent origination." "Whatever." "What is the good news?" "Well, you are, dear one, of course." "You are the good news." "Why can't i ever get a straight answer out of you?" "You'll get your answer," "But we'll need transport to find it." "I'm in." "But i wasn't listening." "Our weapons don't even dent it." "Same markings as the alien craft." "I think it's a key." "I think it needs both." "Put yours in." "Wait a minute." "When my squad" "Joined in with yours," "We agreed 50-50 splitties." "You shoot me, i shoot you." "How's that sound?" "Idiots." "Hare-Brains with hair-Triggers." "Kind of like somebody else i know." "All right, so... if flavin made it to slipstream" "In this piece of junk," "I'll bet i can rig it to get us out of here." "You have to get in first." "Well, i figure" "A couple of pals working together" "Ought to crack it." "Who says i'm your pal?" "Believe me, i was using the term loosely." "It is, however, a technicality we can live with." "Thanks, though, for being so honest." "Appreciate it." "Count on it, harper." "Always." "How did i ever end up here?" "Dylan, if you find a way off seefra," "Don't forget your friends." "Some of us, anyway." "So, uh, flavin," "You have no particular attachment to your ship" "Now, right?" "Beka... what?" "Well, he doesn't want it." "It's a total wreck now." "What you find inside it, beka," "May surprise you more than you know." "Same goes for you." "Your greatest surprise" "Lies inside." "Are you ready for that journey?" "I'm listening." "We must undertake a three-Part journey, dear one," "To the past, to the present, and to the future." "I'd go anywhere if you just made some sense." "Where are you heading..." "toe-Jam?" "I've got something lunah wants real bad." "Time to go, peewee." "I guess you don't want the other key." "Show me." "Bozim!" "Needle-Nosed space idiot." "I've got a message for you." "I had a bet with lunah" "That you'd all be napping," "But you're only half asleep." "Who the hell are you?" "I am the beginning of the end." "Get rid of him." "Listen, guys... can you tell me what day of the week is it?" "Yesterday, i did laundry." "Tomorrow, i'm going to send" "A letter to my mother." "So today..." "today must bestunday." "What you got, mongo?" "Glux is who i am, and this is what i got." "Wow." "Anyone else?" "All right." "How much?" "What i'm worth." "Hmm." "500 canaa." "1,000." "2,000." "2,500." "5,000 canaa!" "Plus a third of whatever's on the ship." "Hmm." "Uh, dylan?" "We're being targeted." "Great." "Lunah's lugheads." "Just another day in paradise." "Dylan, i don't know, these guys... i can't hit them." "They're all over the place." "That one's way too close!" "He crashed into us!" "Losing altitude fast." "Hold on." "I'm going to love watching you" "Tear bozim from limb to bloated limb." "And here i thought you weren't romantic." "Mm!" "I'll tell you what." "Tomorrow morning," "We raid bozim's camp, get the other key." "Until then...?" "We seal the deal." "To your left." "Is everybody okay?" "Well, distribution panel is stripped." "Well, at least you got us down" "In one piece." "Good work, beka." "Thanks." "You know where we are, don't you?" "Yes." "This is near where i grew up." "Now, we've been down this road before, flavin." "Well... if you two are into a walk" "Down memory lane, go ahead." "It's gonna take me a little while here." "Just, uh, be careful." "It looks like two of the other ships" "Landed nearby." "We need to go." "Hmm." "This is me giving you one more chance." "Gotta go." "Marked." "Good thing i love a cheat," "And i just thought up a great one" "Once rhade gets us the other key... we kill him." "Then we get inside the crashed ship," "Strip it," "Make us some real change." "Kill him." "Hmm." "Deliver it fast." "First dibs on whatever's inside that baby" "Three items." "Two, we said." "What?" "You want a broken-Up bar?" "Fine." "Fine." "Bum-Face!" "Out here, now." "Lunah paid me 5,000 for your key." "But do you know what?" "For 10,000, i'll come to your side." "Live or die today." "You decide." "I'll pay you 10." "Lunah... never kiss and tell." "You want to hand me your key," "Or should i come and get it?" "I have more men than you." "Rhade is worth 10 men." "Yah!" "Rhade is my warrior!" "Your childhood home." "Hold on to your past." "Grip it tightly." "For a paradine, loss is central to everything." "Well, then i'm very centered." "But your drive" "Is still to turn every loss into a gain." "It's how i stay alive." "It's why you're still here... wrestling, straining," "'Til your face is bright red with the effort." "That's good." "You carry your past with you." "To perfect your abilities," "You've got to find the space between what you've won" "And what you've lost." "Time for more riddles, flavin?" "Find a place without opposites." "If you could retrieve all you've lost," "What would that mean to you?" "Everything." "Time and space are malleable, dylan." "It's conceivable" "You could return to a time when they were here." "The past is past." "It's the future that i care about." "You've got to hold on to both." "Our friends are back." "Well, right now, we should just focus" "On staying alive in the present." "Let's get back to themaru." "Beka, get us out of here!" "Here's hoping." "Trance... giving you a heads-Up." "We're going to be coming in fast." "Get theandromedaready." "I'll be there for you, dylan." "I'll be there for you." "I say it time and again," "And i think it does more to make me feel better" "Than it does him." "If captain hunt arrives under attack," "I have no way to protect him." "I feel that i should be enough." "Forever." "That does not compute." "A set-Up!" "From the start." "And you were part of it." "Tell you what." "Since you're in such a good mood," "Why don't we say drinks are on the house" "For the rest of the night until... you pass out?" "Are you making fun of me?" "No, not you specifically... but the day is still young." "Doyle!" "Good timing." "You're going to want to let go of him." "Look at this." "Comfort food." "I hear there's an offer for someone who can fight." "Boys... why don't you go say hello?" "Sorry, you know, about before." "I don't like threats... unless i make them." "Now, watch and learn." "Hello, boys." "Okay, i'm impressed." "Okay... and my price just went up." "You know what this is?" "Where you are?" "Yes." "It's a vedran burial ground." "This is hallowed ground." "Only true vedrans and their families" "Are buried here." "Vedrans" "True souls of the universe," "In repose here... or maybe they're just dust." "This is my father... and my mother." "Why would they be buried here?" "I mean... they were born on tarn vedra, sure," "But they're not true vedrans." "Not your mother, no." "I know my father." "He wasn't a true vedran any more than i have four legs." "Heard of evolution, have you?" "Who says four legs are better than two?" "That's what vedrans realized, and evolved into... into this." "You're a vedran?" "Like your father." "That's... that's impossible." "Paradine" "Are evolved vedrans." "We walk on two legs through the universes." "Okay, flavin, no more riddles." "Riddles?" "If i wanted to confuse you, dear one, oh, how i could." "Why?" "Huh?" "Why do you keep playing" "These stupid mind games?" "You're out of time." "No, you're out of time." "I'm sick and tired of this crap." "Now, you tell me what's going on," "Or get the hell out of my life." "You can walk around saying" "You don't know what a paradine is," "But you better get moving," "Figure it out," "Because if "bad" is a sunny day," "You're in for third-Degree burns." "I'm not even going to ask what that means." "Go ahead, beka." "Dylan, looks like lunah's bully-Boys" "Have caught up to us again." "You'd better get back here pronto." "On our way." "She'll kill us all, doyle will." "Not me." "I pay you for protection, so protect." "Are you dead yet?" "Then i'm doing my job." "What i'm wondering, rhade," "Is... are you afraid of her?" "Look, bozim," "If i'm going to die tomorrow," "I might as well enjoy myself today." "Yeah." "While i foot the bill." "That's how we do it here on seefra." "Wait a minute." "This is where we came in." "Where's the cave mouth?" "It should be here." "You lead, i follow." "I'm not in this particular loop." "This is starting to feel like a test," "And i hate tests." "You're testing yourself." "No, i didn't bring us here." "Here?" "Where are we?" "It never ends." "Don't seek a path, dylan." "Let's simply walk together," "Neither of us leading the other." "Fine." "It's tarn vedra," "Before the fall of the commonwealth." "Over 300 years ago," "Give or take a handful." "If you walk there," "Your family would be waiting." "Sara?" "Is there." "This is your test." "Do you know where in time you are?" "Is it before or after" "Your battle to save the commonwealth?" "I was in that battle." "It already happened." "Or has yet to happen." "You were there, true, and you were here and elsewhere." "You're a paradine, dylan." "That changes the rules." "No, but... trance lifted us from the battle with the worldship." "She took us all through the route of ages." "And placed you where?" "Trance had all of you to track down, to move," "In an instant." "So she got it right," "Except for one thing... time." "The price just doubled." "I won't pay." "Never!" "Lunah will." "Then both doyle and i" "Are on her side." "Think about it." "You're crazy." "I don't pay that much for anybody." "Nobody, not even you." "I'm not nobody." "Wait." "All right, all right." "You are low." "Thanks." "That's short." "It's not." "Give a guy a break." "You want the other key or not?" "I'm beginning to think and wonder" "Whether it's worth it." "First thing... hide that." "Hide it?" "Why?" "Because rhade is about to come looking for it." "Any fool can knock you over the head" "And take it from you." "You've got to be smart." "Get everyone ready." "And now, the harper gets a piece of the action" "One key at a time." "Oops!" "Heh heh heh heh heh!" "Bozim, you idiot, give up!" "Key number two, come to papa." "Bingo." "All right, i got both keys," "But i've been thinking," "And now i'm thinking" "We need to go 50-50 on all the tech." "What?" "That's robbery." "Well, it's my way or the fly-Way, chump." "You little thief." "Uh-Uh-Uh... fine." "So, 50-50, right?" "50-50?" "All you did was steal them." "And delivered you a message." "All right, fine." "You mean i could have just shot you for this?" "No." "You're still programmed to protect me." "True." "I win!" "I win!" "Whoo-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo!" "I've got the other key." "Excuse me." "Got to even the score." "Rhade found it in a jar!" "Wha-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo!" "I got your key, loser." "Hmm!" "You lose, pimple-Nose." "I've got your key." "Dylan, i'm picking up some hazy readings." "We haven't lost these guys yet." "Flavin, you sure brought some craziness down with you." "Beka, you have no idea." "Come on, beka, hold it steady." "What do you think i'm trying to do here?" "It's not easy." "Oh, great." "The engine's stuttering." "Thirsty work, getting killed, huh?" "You shut up." "Rhade is the best i've ever seen." "We're stuck." "Unless... unless what?" "Doyle may be even too strong for me." "I paid you a fortune to kill her." "You paid me to get the treasure." "I can still do that." "Are you familiar" "With the concept of sharing?" "Sharing?" "Mm." "With him?" "You want me to split two ways?" "Mm, four ways." "Rhade and i get a share." "Ahem." "Five ways." "Not on your life!" "You mean your life." "Split the treasure" "Without killing each other." "It'll make you look very smart." "All right." "Okay." "I work with lunah." "Open the hatch." "Good." "But then... we kill her." "And then... we kill him." "Truce." "All right, now," "No one can go for a weapon." "You will both approach the craft slowly," "At the same time." "You will insert the key" "At the same time." "Liar!" "Thief!" "I should've killed you" "When i had the chance." "Take your best shot, chunky." "It's true." "Trance is the trouble, you know." "I only talk about what is true." "Trance is a friend, flavin." "What can i say?" "You're going to wish she wasn't here." "Dylan, would you like me" "To lay in a course forthe andromeda?" "I don't know." "Would i like her to do that, flavin?" "May i?" "On to the present, dear one." "Impressive." "It's my only real home." "For the present." "Hello." "So you're the one" "Who's been causing dylan so much trouble." "I think it's you, my dear." "All right, that's enough." "Just tell me what's going on here." "Tarn vedra had a sun once..." "a great beauty." "Not these two measly heat lamps." "So when the vedrans moved the planet," "They left something behind... and if you think it's tricky moving a planet," "Wait till you see what comes next." "I'm going to kill you, you tub of lard." "You're dead to me, you hear me?" "I want you dead!" "Incoming communication from harper." "Onscreen." "Uh, dylan, things are getting a little out of control." "Uh, i mean, uh, rhade and doyle" "Said they could take care of it," "But, uh, i don't know." "Harper, i'm stuck here." "Well, uh, hello?" "Lunah, bozim," "Gangsters... what was the vedran word for "help"?" "I mean, we are still pals, aren't we?" "To the bitter end, yes." "There's nothing i can do." "Beka's on her way to you." "Great." "Great." "Thanks for nothing, pal." "See you in the next life." "Harper terminated." "Bad choice of words." "He's scared." "Harper, duck!" "So whatever you end up with, i get 50%." "What?" "You said 30." "That was before i was being shot at." "Forget it." "I don't have to help." "Fine." "Fine. 50%." "50% of 30." "Huh?" "I can't get down to him from here." "Time to use your heart." "You have what you need, dylan." "Travel as a paradine." "With a little help from trance" "And my old wheezy self," "We could probably" "Give you a head start." "You said she's the problem." "We've come to that space, dear one," "Between what you've won and what you've lost." "She'll know what to do." "I'm willing to try, dylan." "That's the spirit." "Operate in the present." "You've got it, dear one." "Let your feelings guide you." "Nothing in here for either of you." "Well, flavin was right." "This is a surprise." "But... you... okay, how did you get in there?" "Just living in the present." "Okay, don't start talking like trance." "Tails." "Tails." "Tails." "Tails." "That's four in a row." "Actually, it's 57." "Tails." "Trance... tails." "It's getting boring." "Actually, it's amazing." "Like flavin said, some things just are." "Tails." "You and flavin," "You, uh... were in on this together," "Weren't you?" "I don't think so." "I mean, i-I don't know him." "He has a sweet face, though." "Tails." "Some things just are, huh?" "Like i'm the... guy who puts things right." "I'm the one who has to stay behind" "So the paradine can run" "With their tails between their legs." "Well, actually, dylan, paradine don't have tails." "Tails." "No, i don't suppose they do." "Tails!" "I just get tired sometimes, trance, you know," "I just get tired of always being the go-To guy." "Maybe you should take a nap." "Tails." "I think you just hit it right on the head." "No." "Actually, tails." "It's so simple when you put it like that." "It is... what it is." "Thank you, trance."