- Dayna Mellanby: Sometimes, Vila, you can be quite disgusting.
- Vila Restal: [drunkenly] Not so, my lovely. I can be disgusting all the time. It's easy.
- [Vila stumbles in carrying a wine carafe]
- Vila Restal: [drunkenly] Hello there! Anyone for a party? I'm afraid you'll have to bring your own booze 'cause I've already drunk my own. Anyone got any booze? Huh? And how about my... cold, calculating Soolin? I'd like to see you unbend...
- [Soolin moves to a another station]
- Vila Restal: ...just a little before we're all... all...
- Dayna Mellanby: Sometimes, Vila, you can be quite disgusting.
- Vila Restal: Not so, my lovely. I can be disgusting all the time. It's easy. Easy as colliding with an asteroid, eh, Avon? You know, they say all your life passes in front of you when you're about to, about to... y'know. It's what's happening to me now. All my past life.
- Avon: That's one misfortune we don't have to share.
- Vila Restal: Fourteen I was when I was first sent to a penal colony. Ship was hit in the main drive by a meteoroid. Bang! Y'know what they did to repair it? Activated the force wall and generated an atmosphere inside the force wall so the repair team could work in a vacuum without spacesuits, 'cause it wasn't a vacuum any more if you see what I mean. Very clever, those old prison hulk skippers.
- Vila Restal: [drunkenly] Hurray!
- Soolin: Out of the mouths of drunks.
- Vila Restal: [sober] Drunk? Who's drunk?
- Dayna Mellanby: You are.
- Vila Restal: [indicating wine carafe] Show me how to get drunk on plain water and I won't waste time.
- Dayna Mellanby: Well, then why pretend?
- Vila Restal: Because, my lovely Dayna, and Soolin, no one ever tells someone who's drunk to volunteer.
- Soolin, Dayna Mellanby: [laugh]
- Vila Restal: I don't like to work in main drive chambers! Especially main drive chambers that are separated from space by one of Slave's force walls.
- Del Tarrant: [into communicator] We're in the main drive chamber. It's gonna take about an hour.
- Soolin: [on communicator] Right. We'll stand watch.
- Del Tarrant: See if you can sober up Vila.
- Soolin: We'll try.
- Atlan: [indicating TD 15-capable drive prototype] So, how soon can this be fitted to our space choppers?
- Dr. Plaxton: It can't.
- Atlan: Why not?
- Dr. Plaxton: Because this is the only one.
- Atlan: So build more! We've provided you with enough raw material to build five hundred!
- Dr. Plaxton: [indignant] I am a scientist, not a production engineer! And the other reason why this can't be fitted to your space choppers is, quite simply, it *won't* fit.
- Atlan: Why not?
- Dr. Plaxton: [patiently] Because the only way to increase the power was to increase the size of the photon generator chambers. This drive was intended to be installed in a real spacecraft, not in toys driven by a bunch of murderous psychopaths.
- Atlan: Our agreement...
- Dr. Plaxton: *Our agreement* was that you provide me with the resources to continue with my work! Well, that's exactly what I have done.
- [Atlan grabs the back of Dr. Plaxton's neck and holds a gun to her head]
- Atlan: You will start modification work on the spacedrive *now*, Doctor Plaxton. If you refuse, I will tell the Space Rats that you are depriving them of speed, and I will let them deal with you... in their own fashion.
- [last lines]
- [Scorpio had just made a screamingly fast last-second escape from a Federation patrol]
- Avon: Good enough!
- Avon: [to Vila] At least now we can outrun the opposition. That should make you happy.
- Dayna Mellanby: What about Doctor Plaxton?
- Avon: Who?
- Vila: [as a group of Federation interceptors approach the damaged Scorpio] If they detect us, I have this feeling that the last thing they'll do is surrender.