Acting-Captain Beka Valentine, Trance Gemini, Andromeda, Templar Lieutenant(Mark Gibbon), Seamus Harper, Telemachus Rhade, Captain Dylan Hunt, Woody(Gary Jones) and Patriarch Constantine Stark(Michael Ironside)
S4.E17: Abridging The Devil's Divide
"...Knock, knock, knock on the devil's door.
Do not invite him to dinner; his beasts will
come for more."
High Priestess Misabo Ahm in Triumvirate
War Council
CY 10091
Trance Gemini: No sign of The Maru.
Beka Valentine: How long have we got?
Andromeda: I estimate the marketeer will take no more than fifteen minutes to load up the contraband cobalt and nickel.
Beka: Great, so if we wait around for Dylan, we lose a smuggler. Why are men always late?
Trance: They might be in trouble.
Andromeda: Or they may have discovered something crucial. The captain did order us
Beka: not to break off pursuit no matter what. I know, but he has my ship. Drop a beacon. Let him know where we're going.
Andromeda: Deploying beacon.
Harper: Dylan's listening on our new VSAs.
Rhade: VSAs?
Seamus Harper: Yeah, VSA. Vocal to Sub-Audio. Wired to the ossicles. An earphone connected to the ear bones. Nobody can hear but you. Nietzscheans don't get one.
Harper [OC]: Just follow the path, boss. It's some kind of facility.
Captain Hunt: Good work, Harper. Leave your VSA open, but I'll do the talking. Cough once for no
Captain Hunt [OC]: And twice for yes.
Captain Hunt: Very funny.
Harper: Hey, I know that guy.
Telemachus Rhade: Which one? The one digging, or the one in the ground?
Harper: Who makes people bury corpses in caves?
Telemachus Rhade: Someone who wants to make sure they have to smell it every time they walk through here.
Templar Lieutenant: Patriarch.
Constantine Stark: Seamus Zelazny Harper. Earth born. Boston. A survivor of Magog infestation, and one of the Commonwealth's top engineers. You keep the Andromeda in fine shape.
Harper: Oh, her shape is fine, all right. Too bad for me.
Constantine Stark: I'm a soldier. Maybe your captain's told you this.
Harper: Funny, he never mentioned you at all. Who are you again?
Harper: Ow! Right, now I remember you. You've been alive for three centuries, right? Transferring from body to body. You're Admiral Stark.
Telemachus Rhade: He was Admiral Stark.
Constantine Stark: I was just about to commend your captain on dumping that trash in dreadlocks, but it seems he's traded it in for just more of the same. Your name is?
Telemachus Rhade: Telemachus Rhade.
Constantine Stark: A good strong name. You keep repeating it to yourself. Concentrate. Make it your personal mantra. It will help.
Telemachus Rhade: With what?
Constantine Stark: A slow death. For five lifetimes, I've watched your filth stain the universe. Watched your people defile race upon race just by their mere presence. You're a disgrace to that uniform. Get him out of it. Sleep deprivation device.
Constantine Stark: Now, we detected three life signs aboard The Maru. Where is he?
Constantine Stark: Possibly on his way here? Oh, I look forward to that. Now, Harper, I brought you here to build me a bridge from this planet to its moon. You work hard, everything will run smoothly. If you don't, then you'll die. You are the wheat, my son. And you, you are the chaff. And the chaff must be separated from the wheat. Do it here in front of the prisoners so they can take pride in their work.
Captain Hunt: Harper, you're breaking up. Are you in trouble?
Harper: No, no, no. No, wait. Don't kill him. I won't help you. You need me. On the way down, I got a pretty good look at your bridge and the moon, and add two seconds of orbital data, and any kid could calculate what Harper's keen eyes are trained to observe.
Constantine Stark: And that is?
Harper: The bridge and moon won't be aligned for at least a hundred years.
Constantine Stark: Two hundred and ten, to be precise.
Seamus Harper: Yeah, right, so that leaves one of three options. A, you made a stupid mistake. B, you're building a bridge you plan on never using, or C, you're actually building a Bridge across Time.
Harper: Okay. Now, when I look in the mirror, I see the best person I know to achieve time travel, and you know that too. That's why your lug heads kidnapped me. No, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait. No, no. Let him live. Let him live. If you don't, I won't help you. And if you try to make me, I'll sabotage your bridge.
Constantine Stark: So you want insurance, do you? Fine, he lives until the bridge is realized. After all, they won't be here for long anyway, will they? Throw him in the scrubber. See if it can scrub the Nietzschean out of him.
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