- Two: You're coming with us.
- Talbor Calchek: I am? I-I-I can't. I mean, I gotta get back to work. I mean, I got I got people depending on me.
- Three: Yeah, right. What's to stop you from informing Reynaud and collecting some kind of snitch reward for your troubles?
- Talbor Calchek: Oh, well, my, uh, professional responsibility to you as your handler.
- Six: We fired you.
- Talbor Calchek: Hey, no paperwork was signed! Come on, guys! You're, like, my best clients! I mean, from a purely practical standpoint, it doesn't make any sense financially for me to screw you over. So, we we good?
- Two: Yeah.
- Talbor Calchek: Ah.
- Two: You're still coming with us.
- Talbor Calchek: Oh, fine. Well, this brings to mind the response of the hunter when faced with Valmiki in the Sanskrit epic "Ramayana".
- [Runs]
- Five: The odds of someone being able to hack into the transfer transit database, localize a specific pod's address, and bypass its security protocols to gain access are super slim.
- Six: Are you showing off?
- Five: No! I'm just pointing out how tricky it can be to pull off something like this and... yeah, I guess I am.
- Three: [the Android is staring] What?
- The Android: Your outfit. It's very snug.
- [Five and Four laugh]
- Two: They're made from a biosynthetic material that will allow them to travel with you.
- The Android: They're specialty constructs. DNA sequenced. It's quite expensive.
- Three: Yeah, well, it's clingy in all the wrong places.
- Two: It's either that or you could travel naked.
- Three: I can do that?
- Five: Don't even think about it.
- Talbor Calchek: Oh, hi there! Hello. I've been in here screaming at the top of my lungs for, like, half an hour! Took you long enough to notice!
- The Android: Oh, I noticed quite some time ago. I just assumed you'd give up eventually. You're annoyingly persistent.
- Devon Taltherd: I was on my way to my quarters, and this thing caught my eye.
- [Points to a stasis pod]
- Devon Taltherd: It's kind of amazing when you think about it. I mean, they went in with the weight of the universe on their shoulders, and they came out free and clear.
- Nyx Harper: Hardly. Their memories may have been wiped, but their past still exists. And the past has a way of catching up with you, whether you remember it or not.
- Three: [Getting shot at] Okay, kid, I don't like this any more than you do, but you're gonna have to leave us behind. Go!
- [Turns to shoot guard]
- Three: The important thing for you is get up to the roof, get the device back to the ship. I don't want any argument out of you, all right, kid?
- Four: You know she's gone, right?
- Three: [Turns around] Oh, son of a...
- Three: [Tied up] Okay, what's the plan?
- Four: I think I can free us, but it will require me to dislocate both shoulders.
- Three: Okay, do what you gotta do, huh?
- Four: All right.
- Three: Once we're free, I'll pop your shoulders back in for you, okay?
- Four: Okay, no, no, not mine. Yours.
- Three: Whoa, whoa, hang on a second. Can we discuss our options?
- Six: [about Five] She'll come back with something.
- Three: Yeah, she's something else.
- Talbor Calchek: Really? That kid?
- Three: Yup.
- Talbor Calchek: Hmm. She have representation?
- Talbor Calchek: Look, this is all just a giant misunderstanding! The funds should have been deposited directly into your account!
- [grunts]
- Talbor Calchek: That was a clerical error! Come on, Aldvik! You're you're You're, like, one of my best earners! - You're the last guy I'd rip off!
- [Aldvok grabs him by the throat]
- Talbor Calchek: No, wait! Okay, okay, okay. We'll go halfsies.
- Two: Surprised to see me?
- Talbor Calchek: Yeah, surprised!... And relieved. Thank God you're all okay.
- Two: Wow. That's an interesting response, considering you're the one that tried to set us up.
- Talbor Calchek: What do you mean?
- Three: Alexander Rook.
- Talbor Calchek: What? No, no, no, no! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. He set *us* up! I was as much of a victim as you guys. In fact, now I'm like a double victim, being accused of something I didn't do. And if you don't mind me saying so, it's rather hurtful.
- Five: I found out what the mystery device does. It's part of a drive.
- Three: You mean like an engine?
- Four: We already have one of those.
- Five: Not like this. They call it a Blink Drive. It creates transversible wormholes by accessing pockets of extra-dimensional space-time.
- Three: And you lost me.
- Five: [sighs] Normal FTL creates a distortion in space that moves faster than the speed of light, pulling the ship along with it, but you're still moving from point A to point B. With the Blink Drive, you don't technically move at all. You just disappear from one place and reappear somewhere else instantaneously. If we wanted to go all the way across the galaxy, it would normally take us months with refueling stops along the way. With this, we could do it in the blink of an eye.
- Three: Why don't you just make a new card?
- Alicia Reynaud: I'd love to, but unfortunately it's a one-of-a-kind prototype.
- Three: Which means you didn't develop the tech, you stole it.
- Alicia Reynaud: Of course I did.