Quotes
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Vila : Twenty-seven days.
Avon : What?
Vila : We've been following Servalan for twenty-seven days! Course six-four-five-three, nil curvature, standard by three never mind the occasional ion cloud or asteroid cluster, just blast a way through them! She's gone mad. Or dead. That's it, she's dead! We're following a rogue star cruiser!
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Zen : Navigation computers report high-energy interference with directional probes. Automatic control untenable.
Del Tarrant : Battle stations!
[the crew rush to their positions]
Del Tarrant : Zen, this interference... is there any hostile design to it?
Zen : There is a uniform design to it.
Avon : Is it hostile?
Zen : The word hostile is not objective.
Avon : Zen, this is no time to quibble over terminology!
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Avon : For a man of his era - to coin a phrase - he has just made one hell of a stupid mistake.
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[last lines]
Zen : Information. Three alien spacecraft in hostile formation bearing zero-zero-nine, two million spacials.
Del Tarrant : Flight deck.
[They run to take their places on the bridge]
Del Tarrant : Zen, enemy position.
Zen : One million spacials. We have visual contact with hostile commander.
Del Tarrant : Put her on.
Servalan : [on the viewscreen] Liberator, this is Servalan, President and Supreme Commander of the Terran Federation. You are outnumbered, and at a tactical disadvantage. If you surrender your ship...
[Avon cuts off the transmission]
Dayna : Do we fight?
Avon : Certainly not. We run. Zen, course zero-one-one, speed, standard by six. Get us out of here.
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Avon : [his wrist being tortured] Aaah!
Dayna : All right. Enough. We're from the Liberator.
Section Leader Grose : [surprised] The Liberator? That's *Blake's* ship.
Avon : He liked to think so.
Section Leader Grose : And why did you come here?
Avon : I wish I knew.
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Del Tarrant : I'm going down.
Avon : How?
Del Tarrant : Teleport.
Avon : It will be interesting to see what that energy field does to a teleport beam.
Del Tarrant : All right, we'll take the Liberator through again and I'll teleport from there.
Avon : [laughing sardonically] Why don't you land it right on top of their monitoring station just in case they haven't got the message?
Del Tarrant : Zen, was our entry monitored from the planet's surface?
Zen : Affirmative.
Del Tarrant : So they know we're here.
Avon : Correction: they know we came, and they know that we went away again. One thing's for sure: next time they'll be ready for us.
