Blake's 7 (TV Series)

Blake (1981)

Paul Darrow: Kerr Avon

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• [Blake enters the tracking room and comes face to face with Avon and the others] 

  Tarrant : Is it him?

  Vila : It's him.

  Tarrant : He sold us, Avon. All of us. Even you.

  [Avon lowers the gun and approaches Blake] 

  Avon : [horrified]  Is it true?

  Blake : Avon, it's me, Blake.

  Avon : Stand still!

  [Blake stops] 

  Avon : Have you betrayed us? Have YOU... betrayed... ME?

  Blake : Tarrant doesn't understand!

  Avon : Neither do I, Blake!

  Blake : I set all this up!

  Avon : [stunned]  Yes!

  Blake : [walking towards Avon again]  Avon, I was waiting for YOU!

  [Avon shoots Blake, who staggers forward and grabs onto Avon's shoulders] 

  Blake : Oh... Avon...

  [Blake collapses, dead] 

• Soolin : [about Zukan]  You needed a figurehead. He was it. Or am I wrong?

  Avon : You are right. But then figureheads aren't too difficult to come by. Any idiot can be one.

  Dayna : [laughs]  On your feet, Vila. This could be your big moment.

  Avon : Any idiot within reason, that is.

• Avon : I think we can do better.

  Vila : Does that mean safer?

  Avon : In the end, winning is the only safety.

  Vila : It doesn't mean safer. I didn't think it would.

• Dayna : [about Blake]  But Servalan told us he was dead.

  Avon : And you believed her?

  Dayna : Well, she had no reason to lie.

  Avon : She doesn't need one. It comes quite naturally to her, like breathing.

• Avon : Orac, what proof do we have that Blake is on Gauda Prime?

  Orac : That is where his trail ends.

  Tarrant : What trail? Explain.

  Orac : The chain of cause and effect amounts to a trail, if you can follow it.

  Vila : I can't even follow you.

  Orac : 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.

• Orac : Law must be established before the benefits of law can be restored.

  Avon : It is the day of the bounty hunter.

  Avon : [cut to close-up of Vila]  Thieves,

  Avon : [cut to close-up of Dayna, pan to Soolin]  killers,

  Avon : [cut to close-up of Tarrant]  mercenaries,

  Avon : [cut to close-up of Avon; he smiles, continuing]  psychopaths, are as unwelcome now as the farmers once were.

• [Scorpio's alarm goes off] 

  Tarrant : [everyone rushes to their flight positions]  Slave, what's wrong?

  Slave : Well, nothing is actually wrong, sir, yet.

  Avon : Explain the alarm, Slave.

  [alarm cuts out] 

  Slave : I had to get your attention, Master, and I was forbidden to speak unless spoken to.

  Avon : All right, you're spoken to. What is it?

  Slave : I beg to advise you, Master, that we're approaching the planet Gauda Prime.

  [the crew visibly relaxes] 

  Slave : And Scorpio is under attack!

  [an explosion rocks the flight deck] 

• Vila : Sooner or later, we're going to drop into one of these holes in the ground and never come out.

  Avon : Sooner or later, everyone does that, Vila.

• Avon : [about the Rebellion's new figurehead]  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.

  Avon : Someone like you.

  Tarrant : So where do we find this useable idealist?

  Avon : According to Orac, he is on a frontier planet called Gauda Prime.

  Soolin : Gauda Prime?

  Avon : You know it?

  Soolin : Yes, I know it. It's a bad place to be. No self-respecting idealist would be found dead there.

  Avon : I imagine that is what HE is trying to avoid: being found dead anywhere.

  Tarrant : Look, are you going to stop playing games and tell us who it is, Avon?

  [Vila realizes who Avon is talking about] 

  Vila : It's Blake, isn't it? You think you've found Blake.

  [Avon smiles]