1 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,726 JOHN F. KENNEDY: Many years ago... 2 00:00:38,765 --> 00:00:41,028 the great British explorer George Mallory... 3 00:00:41,066 --> 00:00:44,136 who was to die on Mount Everest... 4 00:00:44,175 --> 00:00:46,361 was asked why did he want to climb it. 5 00:00:46,399 --> 00:00:47,972 He said, "Because it is there." 6 00:00:48,049 --> 00:00:51,041 Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it. 7 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,420 And the moon and the planets are there. 8 00:00:53,458 --> 00:00:56,182 And new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. 9 00:00:56,220 --> 00:00:58,599 And, therefore, as we set sail... 10 00:00:58,638 --> 00:01:00,326 we ask God's blessing... 11 00:01:00,364 --> 00:01:02,704 on the most hazardous and dangerous... 12 00:01:02,742 --> 00:01:05,927 and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. 13 00:01:05,966 --> 00:01:07,154 Thank you. 14 00:01:07,193 --> 00:01:09,111 [Applause] 15 00:01:31,516 --> 00:01:34,393 MAN: I hereby declare this new world... 16 00:01:34,431 --> 00:01:36,848 a colony of the Terran Confederation. 17 00:01:36,848 --> 00:01:39,725 REPORTER: With the charting of the fourth pulsar this year... 18 00:01:39,725 --> 00:01:41,874 the Pilgrim explorers are becoming a discussion point. 19 00:01:41,912 --> 00:01:45,902 MAN: We are gathered here to celebrate Dr. Peter Anthony. 20 00:01:45,940 --> 00:01:47,782 His invention of the Navcom A.I. 21 00:01:47,821 --> 00:01:51,196 is possibly the most important development in space travel... 22 00:01:51,235 --> 00:01:52,885 of the last century. 23 00:01:52,923 --> 00:01:55,072 Finally, we can navigate almost any jump... 24 00:01:55,111 --> 00:01:57,795 in known space with confidence. 25 00:01:57,834 --> 00:02:02,245 Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dr. Peter Anthony. 26 00:02:11,721 --> 00:02:13,869 PILOT: Coming up on the far side... 27 00:02:13,908 --> 00:02:16,977 Looks like maybe three or four kilometers long. 28 00:02:17,053 --> 00:02:18,550 CONTROL: Copy that, Sparrow. Proceed. 29 00:02:18,588 --> 00:02:22,386 PILOT: It's like nothing I've ever seen before. 30 00:02:22,424 --> 00:02:24,804 Wait. Something's going on here. 31 00:02:24,842 --> 00:02:26,684 [Radio static] 32 00:02:26,722 --> 00:02:28,640 REPORTER: With escalating tension in the Vega sector... 33 00:02:28,678 --> 00:02:31,479 the whole Confederation is on a knife edge. 34 00:02:31,518 --> 00:02:33,896 Will these unprovoked attacks continue? 35 00:02:33,934 --> 00:02:36,083 Will the diplomatic probes be successful? 36 00:02:36,122 --> 00:02:37,118 We can only hope... 37 00:02:37,157 --> 00:02:38,691 AMBASSADOR: I regret to report... 38 00:02:38,730 --> 00:02:40,993 that all diplomatic avenues with the Kilrathi... 39 00:02:40,993 --> 00:02:42,145 have been exhausted. 40 00:02:42,183 --> 00:02:44,714 It is now clear they have no interest... 41 00:02:44,753 --> 00:02:47,554 in coexisting with us or any other race. 42 00:02:47,592 --> 00:02:50,124 It is my sad duty to inform you... 43 00:02:50,162 --> 00:02:52,618 that as of Six A.M. this morning... 44 00:02:52,657 --> 00:02:55,533 we are formally at war with the Kilrathi. 45 00:02:55,571 --> 00:02:57,643 God help us all. 46 00:03:40,189 --> 00:03:42,913 HELMSMAN: T.C.S. Vanguard now clearing outer marker. 47 00:03:42,913 --> 00:03:46,443 Course four-six-niner, logged for the Charybdis quasar. 48 00:03:46,482 --> 00:03:49,703 Ready to receive Navcom coordinates for the jump. 49 00:03:49,781 --> 00:03:51,853 CONTROL: Roger that. Transmitting now. 50 00:03:51,890 --> 00:03:53,349 Have a safe trip back to Earth. 51 00:04:09,807 --> 00:04:11,302 RADIO: Freighter Delta. 52 00:04:11,341 --> 00:04:12,837 Losing elevator-effect thrust. 53 00:04:12,876 --> 00:04:14,565 Request trajectory. 54 00:04:22,159 --> 00:04:24,731 RADIO: T.C.S. McClellan requesting flyby. 55 00:04:26,993 --> 00:04:29,910 [Beeping] 56 00:04:44,028 --> 00:04:46,406 [Siren blaring] 57 00:05:04,590 --> 00:05:06,586 OFFICER: I got one-nine-zero bogies inbound. 58 00:05:06,624 --> 00:05:08,312 Vector three-seven-four, attack formation. 59 00:05:08,351 --> 00:05:09,464 WILSON: Status! 60 00:05:09,502 --> 00:05:11,804 OFFICER: Forty Kilrathi ships coming to bear, Admiral. 61 00:05:11,841 --> 00:05:12,954 They're powering weapons. 62 00:05:14,489 --> 00:05:16,484 The Iowa's gone! And the Kobi. 63 00:05:21,049 --> 00:05:22,737 MAN: We have a station breach! 64 00:05:22,775 --> 00:05:25,346 Levels seven, eleven, and thirteen. 65 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:34,247 They're headed towards command and control! 66 00:05:37,392 --> 00:05:39,963 Destroy the Navcom A. I. Now. 67 00:05:41,421 --> 00:05:43,684 COMPUTER: Self-destruct malfunction. 68 00:05:47,788 --> 00:05:49,016 TECHNICIAN: Command codes have been overwritten. 69 00:05:49,055 --> 00:05:50,858 COMPUTER: Station breach, level six. 70 00:05:53,889 --> 00:05:56,383 Station breach, level two. 71 00:06:08,046 --> 00:06:10,078 COMPUTER: Command center breach imminent. 72 00:06:10,117 --> 00:06:12,496 WILSON: Prepare a drone. Get me a coded channel. 73 00:06:14,261 --> 00:06:15,373 This is Admiral Wilson... 74 00:06:15,411 --> 00:06:16,524 Pegasus station commanding officer. 75 00:06:16,562 --> 00:06:18,826 Forty Kilrathi capital ships are closing. 76 00:06:18,865 --> 00:06:21,703 Station has been breached. They want the Navcom. 77 00:06:21,742 --> 00:06:23,314 Repeat--they want the Navcom. 78 00:06:34,901 --> 00:06:36,396 The station has been breached. 79 00:06:36,473 --> 00:06:37,931 They want the Navcom. 80 00:06:37,970 --> 00:06:39,850 Repeat--they want the Navcom. 81 00:06:39,888 --> 00:06:40,809 The Pegasus Navcom. 82 00:06:40,847 --> 00:06:42,419 My God, if they have it... 83 00:06:43,417 --> 00:06:44,913 TOLWYN: What's the fleet's position? 84 00:06:44,952 --> 00:06:46,526 RICHARD: We're spread out all over the sector. 85 00:06:46,563 --> 00:06:49,402 The earliest our advanced elements can reach Sol... 86 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:50,860 is forty-two hours... 87 00:06:50,899 --> 00:06:53,046 and that is taking risks with the jumps, sir. 88 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,078 TOLWYN: Give me the Vega and Sol sectors. 89 00:07:00,374 --> 00:07:02,485 COMPUTER: Estimated Kilrathi fleet's position. 90 00:07:04,134 --> 00:07:07,395 Projected time of travel to Earth, forty hours. 91 00:07:07,434 --> 00:07:09,735 Locating main Confederation fleet. 92 00:07:11,768 --> 00:07:15,030 Estimated time to Earth space, forty-two hours. 93 00:07:16,909 --> 00:07:20,208 A mere two hours could decide the outcome of this war. 94 00:07:22,549 --> 00:07:23,853 Signal all ships to mark our course... 95 00:07:23,892 --> 00:07:25,464 and make full speed for Earth. 96 00:07:27,613 --> 00:07:29,646 I need to know what the Kilrathi are up to, Richard. 97 00:07:29,685 --> 00:07:31,104 Do we have any more ships left in Vega? 98 00:07:32,869 --> 00:07:35,248 Just one, sir. The Tiger Claw. 99 00:07:35,286 --> 00:07:37,818 But she's beyond the range of our communications... 100 00:07:37,856 --> 00:07:39,314 and a drone will take two days to reach her. 101 00:07:39,353 --> 00:07:41,232 TOLWYN: Who's this? 102 00:07:41,270 --> 00:07:43,994 RICHARD: It's a requisitioned merchantman...the... 103 00:07:44,033 --> 00:07:45,337 Diligent. 104 00:07:45,337 --> 00:07:46,949 The Diligent. 105 00:07:46,986 --> 00:07:48,099 RICHARD: Yes, sir. 106 00:07:49,174 --> 00:07:51,208 Captained by James Taggart... 107 00:07:51,246 --> 00:07:54,429 at present en route to the Tiger Claw... 108 00:07:54,468 --> 00:07:56,540 with two replacement pilots-- 109 00:07:57,422 --> 00:08:00,107 First Lieutenants Todd Marshall and Christopher Blair. 110 00:08:00,146 --> 00:08:02,677 Open a secure channel to the Diligent immediately. 111 00:08:02,716 --> 00:08:04,826 I want to speak with her captain... 112 00:08:05,824 --> 00:08:08,394 and with this First Lieutenant Blair. 113 00:08:22,781 --> 00:08:25,005 [Door opens] 114 00:08:25,044 --> 00:08:26,694 MARSHALL: Hey, Captain wants you on the bridge. 115 00:08:26,733 --> 00:08:28,766 Say's it's top priority. 116 00:08:30,799 --> 00:08:31,989 Sir? 117 00:08:33,676 --> 00:08:35,210 I don't know who you know, Lieutenant... 118 00:08:35,249 --> 00:08:36,975 but you got a Confed code one... 119 00:08:37,014 --> 00:08:39,969 secure communication from Admiral Tolwyn. 120 00:08:40,007 --> 00:08:41,349 COMPUTER: Waiting. 121 00:08:45,493 --> 00:08:47,487 Waiting. 122 00:08:51,860 --> 00:08:55,007 Transmission nominal. Long distance...connected. 123 00:08:55,045 --> 00:08:57,270 At ease, Lieutenant. 124 00:08:57,309 --> 00:08:59,419 -Yes, sir, Admiral. -Good. 125 00:08:59,457 --> 00:09:00,531 You are currently outbound... 126 00:09:00,570 --> 00:09:03,523 to the Vega sector and the Tiger Claw. 127 00:09:03,562 --> 00:09:05,404 I need you to hand-deliver... 128 00:09:05,443 --> 00:09:08,626 an encrypted communications chip to her captain. 129 00:09:08,664 --> 00:09:11,388 Why not send it by drone to the Pegasus, sir? 130 00:09:11,427 --> 00:09:12,386 That'd be quicker. 131 00:09:12,425 --> 00:09:13,652 The Pegasus is gone... 132 00:09:13,690 --> 00:09:15,570 destroyed by a Kilrathi battle group... 133 00:09:15,609 --> 00:09:17,028 twelve and a half hours ago. 134 00:09:17,067 --> 00:09:19,598 See that Captain Sansky gets that chip. 135 00:09:19,636 --> 00:09:21,210 Why me? 136 00:09:21,248 --> 00:09:23,205 I fought alongside your father in the Pilgrim wars. 137 00:09:23,243 --> 00:09:24,355 He was a good man. 138 00:09:26,312 --> 00:09:27,271 Godspeed. 139 00:09:29,572 --> 00:09:30,915 TAGGART: Well, guys... 140 00:09:30,954 --> 00:09:32,757 we have to jump into the Vega sector... 141 00:09:32,796 --> 00:09:34,292 a little sooner than planned. 142 00:09:34,331 --> 00:09:38,321 Set a course for beacon 147, one-quarter impulse... 143 00:09:38,358 --> 00:09:39,471 and be subtle. 144 00:09:40,583 --> 00:09:44,037 Setting course for beacon one-four-seven. 145 00:09:44,075 --> 00:09:45,954 One-quarter impulse. 146 00:09:45,993 --> 00:09:48,333 [Beeping] 147 00:09:48,372 --> 00:09:50,520 MARSHALL: I'm reading that as a 100,000-kilometer... 148 00:09:50,558 --> 00:09:51,862 no-fly zone, sir. 149 00:09:53,627 --> 00:09:55,699 Just put in beacon 147. 150 00:09:56,773 --> 00:09:57,924 It's a shortcut. 151 00:10:02,988 --> 00:10:04,101 Aye, Captain. 152 00:10:14,305 --> 00:10:15,918 [Knock on door] 153 00:10:15,955 --> 00:10:17,068 Yeah? 154 00:10:21,519 --> 00:10:23,781 We're holding steady on the beacon. 155 00:10:23,820 --> 00:10:25,201 Marshall has the helm. 156 00:10:28,232 --> 00:10:29,996 Those must be antiques. 157 00:10:30,956 --> 00:10:33,181 They were made by the first explorers in this sector... 158 00:10:34,447 --> 00:10:37,670 just like the cross you wear under your shirt. 159 00:10:43,463 --> 00:10:45,150 May I see it? 160 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:07,708 There was a time long ago... 161 00:11:07,747 --> 00:11:09,358 when people looked up to the Pilgrims. 162 00:11:09,397 --> 00:11:12,351 The stars were their destiny. 163 00:11:17,108 --> 00:11:19,525 Since the Pilgrims were defeated... 164 00:11:19,563 --> 00:11:22,555 not a single new quasar has been charted. 165 00:11:25,971 --> 00:11:27,006 COMPUTER: Increasing thrust... 166 00:11:27,045 --> 00:11:28,809 Stupid... 167 00:11:28,848 --> 00:11:30,766 COMPUTER: Main engine now at ninety percent. 168 00:11:33,259 --> 00:11:35,369 TAGGART: Out! You get out! 169 00:11:35,408 --> 00:11:36,521 Get out, get out! 170 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:37,710 MARSHALL: Ow. Jeez! 171 00:11:39,666 --> 00:11:41,201 What's your problem? 172 00:11:42,352 --> 00:11:44,577 -What? -Did you change course? 173 00:11:44,653 --> 00:11:45,689 MARSHALL: No, I didn't change course. 174 00:11:45,728 --> 00:11:47,148 I just boosted the power. Why dog it? 175 00:11:47,186 --> 00:11:49,910 We can be at the beacon in, like, under an hour. 176 00:11:49,947 --> 00:11:52,519 That beacon is marking a gravity well. 177 00:11:52,557 --> 00:11:53,708 One cubic inch of it... 178 00:11:53,747 --> 00:11:56,201 exerts more gravitational force than the sun. 179 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,043 COMPUTER: Navcom on-line. 180 00:11:59,731 --> 00:12:01,533 TAGGART: lf we approach it too fast... 181 00:12:01,572 --> 00:12:04,450 we'll be sucked in out of control. 182 00:12:04,489 --> 00:12:06,713 If I don't realign our entry vector... 183 00:12:06,713 --> 00:12:08,325 we are not going to make the jump. 184 00:12:08,363 --> 00:12:11,009 -What happens if we miss? -We die. 185 00:12:11,048 --> 00:12:13,849 BLAIR: Have we reached the entry vector's PNR yet? 186 00:12:13,888 --> 00:12:16,726 No, no. Not yet. 187 00:12:20,487 --> 00:12:22,595 She's reaching out for us. 188 00:12:22,634 --> 00:12:24,015 Listen to that. 189 00:12:24,054 --> 00:12:25,973 COMPUTER: Velocity holding-- one-four-two-L-S-S... 190 00:12:26,011 --> 00:12:30,729 Well, ladies, meet Scylla... 191 00:12:30,768 --> 00:12:32,915 COMPUTER: Warning-- gravitational anomaly detected. 192 00:12:32,954 --> 00:12:36,446 Bane to sailors and monster of myth. 193 00:12:36,484 --> 00:12:38,056 What's a Scylla? 194 00:12:38,095 --> 00:12:40,473 Ulysses sailed between the whirlpool Charybdis... 195 00:12:40,473 --> 00:12:42,277 and the island monster, Scylla. 196 00:12:42,316 --> 00:12:44,502 She snatched six of his men and ate them. 197 00:12:47,034 --> 00:12:49,335 MARSHALL: Whoa. What is this thing? 198 00:12:51,024 --> 00:12:54,592 This thing is a distortion in space-time. 199 00:12:55,666 --> 00:12:58,084 The Pilgrims were the first to chart it. 200 00:12:58,084 --> 00:12:59,848 If it's charted, why is it off-limits? 201 00:12:59,885 --> 00:13:01,535 Because it's unstable. 202 00:13:01,574 --> 00:13:03,531 It's unstable? 203 00:13:04,490 --> 00:13:07,175 Whoa. It's unstable, and we're gonna jump it?! 204 00:13:08,633 --> 00:13:09,900 [Alarm blares] 205 00:13:09,938 --> 00:13:11,817 Navigational computer just went off-line! 206 00:13:11,855 --> 00:13:13,237 I'm on it! 207 00:13:13,275 --> 00:13:14,618 -Blair! -Yes, sir? 208 00:13:14,657 --> 00:13:15,731 You take the helm! 209 00:13:15,769 --> 00:13:17,879 BLAIR: I never made a jump before. 210 00:13:17,917 --> 00:13:19,222 TAGGART: Good time to learn! 211 00:13:19,261 --> 00:13:21,600 MARSHALL: That's it! I don't like this guy. 212 00:13:21,638 --> 00:13:23,019 B, l--I don't know about you... 213 00:13:23,058 --> 00:13:25,859 but I really don't like this guy at all, man. 214 00:13:28,390 --> 00:13:29,542 Merde. 215 00:13:31,345 --> 00:13:34,376 -Uh...Mr. Taggart? -Yes? 216 00:13:34,414 --> 00:13:37,139 -Ten seconds to jump, sir. -So? 217 00:13:37,177 --> 00:13:39,900 So? So if you don't get that computer back on-line, sir... 218 00:13:39,938 --> 00:13:43,890 this unstable gravity well's gonna suck us in... 219 00:13:43,928 --> 00:13:45,309 one molecule at a time, sir! 220 00:13:47,113 --> 00:13:48,187 COMPUTER: Navcom on-line. 221 00:13:48,263 --> 00:13:50,680 Plot your course, Mr. Blair! 222 00:13:50,719 --> 00:13:53,595 COMPUTER: Vector one entered and confirmed. 223 00:13:53,634 --> 00:13:56,051 Vector three entered and confirmed. 224 00:14:04,452 --> 00:14:06,832 [Marshall yelling] 225 00:14:10,016 --> 00:14:11,704 What happened? 226 00:14:13,814 --> 00:14:16,883 You just plotted a jump through a gravity well... 227 00:14:16,922 --> 00:14:19,224 in under ten seconds... 228 00:14:19,224 --> 00:14:21,256 and Navcom can't do that. 229 00:14:24,096 --> 00:14:25,439 That's not bad. 230 00:14:26,436 --> 00:14:27,971 I mean, that's not bad... 231 00:14:28,009 --> 00:14:30,081 for the second-best pilot at the academy. 232 00:14:30,119 --> 00:14:31,193 You shut up! 233 00:14:31,232 --> 00:14:33,610 Next time you don't follow my orders... 234 00:14:33,648 --> 00:14:36,335 I'll dump you with the rest of the garbage, you got that? 235 00:14:38,559 --> 00:14:40,593 You plot a course for the Tiger Claw, Mr. Blair. 236 00:14:40,631 --> 00:14:41,782 BLAIR: Yes, sir. 237 00:14:43,009 --> 00:14:44,122 MARSHALL: Jeez. 238 00:14:47,268 --> 00:14:49,800 Guy's got a serious attitude problem. 239 00:14:56,706 --> 00:15:00,005 This is Lieutenant Hunter of the T.C.S. Tiger Claw. 240 00:15:00,043 --> 00:15:01,923 Unidentified freighter bearing two-niner-three... 241 00:15:01,962 --> 00:15:03,765 state your course and business. 242 00:15:06,335 --> 00:15:08,215 BLAIR: This is the Diligent carrying supplies... 243 00:15:08,253 --> 00:15:10,977 and two replacement pilots for the Tiger Claw. 244 00:15:12,972 --> 00:15:14,430 HUNTER: Stay on course. 245 00:15:14,469 --> 00:15:16,885 Have your captain transmit his security clearance. 246 00:15:16,923 --> 00:15:19,840 Roger that, Lieutenant. Taggart on his way. 247 00:15:23,598 --> 00:15:25,900 Fighters from the Tiger Claw, sir. 248 00:15:25,938 --> 00:15:27,205 They've queried us. 249 00:15:28,164 --> 00:15:30,697 Well, send the countersign. 250 00:15:30,735 --> 00:15:32,000 Roger that. 251 00:15:35,223 --> 00:15:37,371 Identification acknowledged. 252 00:15:37,410 --> 00:15:38,522 They'll escort us in. 253 00:15:42,895 --> 00:15:45,736 HUNTER: Diligent, you're clear to land in bay 2C. 254 00:15:45,773 --> 00:15:47,461 Welcome to the Tiger Claw. 255 00:16:29,049 --> 00:16:30,161 GERALD: Captain? 256 00:16:35,149 --> 00:16:36,989 Lieutenant J.G. Christopher Blair... 257 00:16:36,989 --> 00:16:38,256 reporting for duty, sir. 258 00:16:38,294 --> 00:16:40,443 At ease, Lieutenant. 259 00:16:40,481 --> 00:16:42,706 Commander Gerald tells me that you have something for me. 260 00:16:42,745 --> 00:16:44,049 Yes, sir. 261 00:16:44,087 --> 00:16:47,348 An encrypted communiqu� from Admiral Tolwyn. 262 00:16:50,187 --> 00:16:52,489 Why didn't the admiral send a drone via the Pegasus? 263 00:16:52,526 --> 00:16:55,098 The Pegasus was destroyed by a Kilrathi battle group... 264 00:16:55,136 --> 00:16:56,517 seventeen hours ago. 265 00:16:58,895 --> 00:17:00,200 I see. 266 00:17:02,273 --> 00:17:03,729 Communications? 267 00:17:03,768 --> 00:17:06,109 I want this disk decrypted ASAP. 268 00:17:06,109 --> 00:17:07,451 OBUTU: Yes, sir. 269 00:17:12,208 --> 00:17:13,973 GERALD: Oh, Lieutenant? 270 00:17:17,695 --> 00:17:20,303 You wouldn't be related to Arnold Blair, would you? 271 00:17:20,341 --> 00:17:22,259 He was my father, sir. 272 00:17:23,219 --> 00:17:25,635 He married a Pilgrim woman, didn't he? 273 00:17:25,674 --> 00:17:27,093 Yes, sir. 274 00:17:27,132 --> 00:17:29,204 Pilgrims don't think like us. 275 00:17:31,390 --> 00:17:34,076 You won't have to worry, sir. 276 00:17:34,114 --> 00:17:35,380 They're both dead. 277 00:17:35,418 --> 00:17:37,298 I'm sure the lieutenant's heredity... 278 00:17:37,298 --> 00:17:40,406 will have no bearing on his performance, Mr. Gerald. 279 00:17:42,900 --> 00:17:44,895 No, sir. I'm sure it won't. 280 00:17:44,933 --> 00:17:46,927 I suggest you stow your gear... 281 00:17:46,966 --> 00:17:48,769 and familiarize yourself with the ship. 282 00:17:48,808 --> 00:17:50,458 That's all, Lieutenant. 283 00:17:59,396 --> 00:18:01,315 MARSHALL: Yo, B. Look at these rapiers. 284 00:18:01,315 --> 00:18:02,733 They're beat to hell, man. 285 00:18:02,733 --> 00:18:05,612 I don't see any of the hornets we flew back at the academy. 286 00:18:05,612 --> 00:18:06,916 Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. 287 00:18:06,916 --> 00:18:08,757 You know what I do see? 288 00:18:08,795 --> 00:18:10,407 Blonde. 289 00:18:14,282 --> 00:18:15,663 Hey, how you doing? 290 00:18:58,708 --> 00:19:00,280 MERLIN: Systems on-line. 291 00:19:00,319 --> 00:19:01,699 Hello, I'm Merlin... 292 00:19:01,738 --> 00:19:04,079 the latest in mobile interface cockpit-- 293 00:19:04,117 --> 00:19:07,953 DEVEREAUX: Two Dralthis on your tail--one above, one below. 294 00:19:07,991 --> 00:19:09,718 You got five, maybe ten seconds. 295 00:19:09,757 --> 00:19:11,329 Clock's ticking. What do you do? 296 00:19:11,407 --> 00:19:14,782 Simple. I go vertical and inverted... 297 00:19:14,821 --> 00:19:16,585 do a 180 at full throttle... 298 00:19:16,624 --> 00:19:17,966 apply brakes... 299 00:19:17,966 --> 00:19:20,153 and drop in behind 'em. 300 00:19:20,192 --> 00:19:23,107 Bang, you're dead. Not fast enough. 301 00:19:23,145 --> 00:19:26,100 Dralthis are too quick, particularly in a climb. 302 00:19:26,138 --> 00:19:28,516 You've just taken a missile up your tailpipe. 303 00:19:28,554 --> 00:19:30,012 OK, let's reverse the situation. 304 00:19:30,051 --> 00:19:31,701 You're locked on a Dralthi. 305 00:19:31,739 --> 00:19:33,964 It goes evasive, enters an asteroid belt. 306 00:19:34,002 --> 00:19:35,230 If I'm locked on... 307 00:19:35,268 --> 00:19:37,647 there's no such thing as evasive action. 308 00:19:37,686 --> 00:19:38,914 And you're dead again. 309 00:19:38,952 --> 00:19:40,485 You see, it's an ambush. 310 00:19:40,524 --> 00:19:42,213 Five or six fighters hide behind rocks... 311 00:19:42,251 --> 00:19:44,782 the size of your swollen head and pounce. 312 00:19:44,821 --> 00:19:47,084 A Kilrathi gang-bang. 313 00:19:47,123 --> 00:19:49,003 What's the matter? 314 00:19:49,041 --> 00:19:50,729 Did I bruise your ego? 315 00:19:50,768 --> 00:19:53,568 No. I'm just, uh, not used to getting combat tips... 316 00:19:53,607 --> 00:19:55,372 from a grease monkey, that's all. 317 00:19:55,448 --> 00:19:57,865 Lieutenant Commander Deveraux... 318 00:19:57,904 --> 00:19:59,170 your wing commander. 319 00:20:00,819 --> 00:20:02,084 You have a name? 320 00:20:02,123 --> 00:20:04,847 Uh, Lieutenant Blair, ma'am. 321 00:20:04,886 --> 00:20:06,496 Well, Lieutenant Blair... 322 00:20:06,535 --> 00:20:08,761 if you want to play at being a fighter pilot... 323 00:20:08,799 --> 00:20:10,986 I suggest you find a virtual fun zone. 324 00:20:11,025 --> 00:20:12,520 Meanwhile, step down from the rapier. 325 00:20:21,958 --> 00:20:23,031 I apologize, ma'am. 326 00:20:23,070 --> 00:20:25,948 The mission sheet said the rapier was unassigned. 327 00:20:25,986 --> 00:20:30,398 I didn't realize it belonged to Lieutenant Commander Chen. 328 00:20:30,436 --> 00:20:32,470 What are you doing on the flight deck? 329 00:20:32,508 --> 00:20:35,040 MARSHALL: Getting acquainted with our new surroundings. 330 00:20:36,345 --> 00:20:37,649 MARSHALL: Good job, B. 331 00:20:37,688 --> 00:20:39,068 We're on the ship five minutes... 332 00:20:39,107 --> 00:20:41,102 and you're already hitting on our wing commander? 333 00:20:41,140 --> 00:20:42,253 BLAIR: How was I to know? 334 00:20:42,291 --> 00:20:43,788 MARSHALL: She's just another tight-ass C.O. 335 00:20:43,826 --> 00:20:45,706 Who cares? Let it go. 336 00:20:49,006 --> 00:20:51,614 Now I'm gonna show you how to make friends. 337 00:20:58,442 --> 00:21:00,936 MARSHALL: How you doing? Allow me to introduce myself. 338 00:21:01,012 --> 00:21:02,931 Lieutenant Todd Marshall, and my close personal friend... 339 00:21:02,969 --> 00:21:04,043 Lieutenant Christopher Blair. 340 00:21:04,082 --> 00:21:05,961 Ladies and gentlemen, take note. 341 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,458 This man happens to be... 342 00:21:07,535 --> 00:21:09,799 the second-best pilot on this hunk of junk. 343 00:21:09,799 --> 00:21:12,713 HUNTER: Just who are you calling the best? 344 00:21:12,752 --> 00:21:15,285 -Now, that's a secret. -Shh. Watch this. 345 00:21:15,322 --> 00:21:18,162 There's two ways to find that out, mister, uh... 346 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:19,850 uh, Lieutenant Hunter. 347 00:21:19,888 --> 00:21:23,340 First way involves you trying to kick the shit out of me. 348 00:21:23,379 --> 00:21:24,531 HUNTER: And the other way? 349 00:21:27,599 --> 00:21:29,594 Forbes? 350 00:21:29,632 --> 00:21:31,359 We're on stand-down. 351 00:21:31,398 --> 00:21:32,970 One won't hurt. 352 00:21:34,697 --> 00:21:37,267 MARSHALL: Well, it may even help, huh? 353 00:21:39,876 --> 00:21:41,449 Here you go, mate. 354 00:21:41,487 --> 00:21:43,635 Allow me. 355 00:21:43,673 --> 00:21:44,939 You got balls. 356 00:21:45,017 --> 00:21:46,973 -You should see 'em. -Mine are bigger. 357 00:21:47,011 --> 00:21:49,313 I've been told size doesn't matter. 358 00:21:49,351 --> 00:21:51,193 She lied. 359 00:21:51,232 --> 00:21:52,651 Do you know what, Hunter? 360 00:21:52,690 --> 00:21:54,415 I would have taken the third option. 361 00:21:54,454 --> 00:21:55,759 MARSHALL: Really. 362 00:21:55,796 --> 00:21:58,329 I would have kicked his ass first, then drank his scotch. 363 00:21:59,135 --> 00:22:00,861 Oh! Touch�. 364 00:22:02,587 --> 00:22:04,161 COMPUTER: Message on-line. 365 00:22:04,199 --> 00:22:06,232 Playback in progress. 366 00:22:06,270 --> 00:22:08,725 TOLWYN: Jay, I'm gonna have to be brief. 367 00:22:08,764 --> 00:22:10,490 The Kilrathi took Pegasus. 368 00:22:10,528 --> 00:22:12,562 They may have her Navcom A.I. 369 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,979 By the time this communication reaches you... 370 00:22:15,018 --> 00:22:16,513 they will be twenty-three hours... 371 00:22:16,552 --> 00:22:18,662 from the Charybdis jump point and Earth. 372 00:22:21,041 --> 00:22:23,611 Confed capital ships are headed home now. 373 00:22:23,649 --> 00:22:24,877 The Concordia battle group... 374 00:22:24,916 --> 00:22:27,754 will only be able to make it in twenty-five hours. 375 00:22:27,792 --> 00:22:31,016 I'm ordering the Tiger Claw to the Charybdis quasar. 376 00:22:31,054 --> 00:22:33,202 You are to use any means necessary... 377 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,195 to gather information as to the Kilrathi whereabouts... 378 00:22:36,234 --> 00:22:38,112 capacity, and plan of attack. 379 00:22:38,151 --> 00:22:40,299 I need intelligence, old friend. 380 00:22:40,338 --> 00:22:41,834 Use Taggart. 381 00:22:41,873 --> 00:22:44,250 He knows this space better than any man alive. 382 00:22:44,289 --> 00:22:47,090 He can get you to Charybdis quickly. 383 00:22:49,430 --> 00:22:50,697 I don't like it. 384 00:22:50,734 --> 00:22:52,653 What don't you like, Paul? 385 00:22:53,957 --> 00:22:56,490 The disk came to us on the Diligent... 386 00:22:56,527 --> 00:22:58,523 entrusted to a Pilgrim half-breed. 387 00:23:00,363 --> 00:23:01,976 Send for this Taggart. 388 00:23:07,730 --> 00:23:09,649 MARSHALL: Why don't you take his castle... 389 00:23:09,687 --> 00:23:11,873 with your little horsey? 390 00:23:17,628 --> 00:23:18,741 Check... 391 00:23:18,779 --> 00:23:19,892 Mate. 392 00:23:23,612 --> 00:23:26,413 FORBES: So, there's a brain behind that mouth. 393 00:23:26,451 --> 00:23:29,444 Your friend always this talkative? 394 00:23:29,483 --> 00:23:30,711 MARSHALL: No, he just made the fatal error... 395 00:23:30,749 --> 00:23:32,283 of mistaking our wing commander... 396 00:23:32,321 --> 00:23:33,472 for your average grease monkey. 397 00:23:34,969 --> 00:23:38,153 Listen, all I did was sit in Commander Chen's fighter. 398 00:23:45,020 --> 00:23:46,555 BLAIR: Lieutenant Commander Chen? 399 00:23:46,594 --> 00:23:48,358 Bossman? 400 00:23:50,276 --> 00:23:52,195 HUNTER: You're talking about a bloke that never existed. 401 00:23:52,233 --> 00:23:53,959 I'm pretty sure he did. 402 00:23:55,801 --> 00:23:58,678 He...never. ..existed. 403 00:23:58,715 --> 00:24:01,863 Now change the subject quickly, pal... 404 00:24:01,900 --> 00:24:03,052 before I change it for you. 405 00:24:03,090 --> 00:24:05,046 MARSHALL: You got a problem with my friend, Mr. Hunter? 406 00:24:05,084 --> 00:24:06,158 HUNTER: Yes, I do. 407 00:24:06,197 --> 00:24:07,656 MARSHALL: That means you got a problem with me. 408 00:24:07,693 --> 00:24:08,806 -Is that so? -Yeah. 409 00:24:08,845 --> 00:24:10,110 HUNTER: Well, you're gonna love this. 410 00:24:13,601 --> 00:24:15,673 He's a Pilgrim! 411 00:24:15,711 --> 00:24:18,052 DEVEREAUX: Stand down, or you'll have a problem with me. 412 00:24:21,006 --> 00:24:22,771 I want an explanation. 413 00:24:22,771 --> 00:24:24,267 Hunter? 414 00:24:24,306 --> 00:24:25,380 -Ma'am? -Ma'am? 415 00:24:25,419 --> 00:24:27,298 Lieutenant Hunter was just helping Marshall and l... 416 00:24:27,336 --> 00:24:28,564 feel at home. 417 00:24:30,214 --> 00:24:31,326 DEVEREAUX: Lieutenant? 418 00:24:33,819 --> 00:24:36,045 HUNTER: Yeah. That's right, ma'am. 419 00:24:36,083 --> 00:24:38,078 BLAIR: Yeah. You see? 420 00:24:39,651 --> 00:24:42,068 I guess this conversation never existed. 421 00:24:50,278 --> 00:24:51,429 Lieutenant? 422 00:24:52,350 --> 00:24:54,075 Lieutenant! 423 00:24:54,114 --> 00:24:56,340 Who in the hell do you think you are? 424 00:24:57,989 --> 00:24:59,370 Let me give you a reality check. 425 00:24:59,409 --> 00:25:02,286 In all likelihood, you're going to die out here. 426 00:25:02,286 --> 00:25:04,089 We're all going to die out here... 427 00:25:04,127 --> 00:25:06,391 but none of us need to be reminded of that fact... 428 00:25:06,430 --> 00:25:08,502 so you die, you never existed. 429 00:25:08,539 --> 00:25:09,805 Understand? 430 00:25:10,918 --> 00:25:12,184 Yes, ma'am. 431 00:25:17,939 --> 00:25:19,051 GERALD: Taggart, sir. 432 00:25:20,777 --> 00:25:24,039 Ah. I know of you, Mr. Taggart... 433 00:25:24,077 --> 00:25:26,570 but I'm afraid I don't know you. 434 00:25:26,609 --> 00:25:28,949 And yet you come to me with classified orders... 435 00:25:28,988 --> 00:25:30,406 from Admiral Tolwyn. 436 00:25:30,445 --> 00:25:33,437 Oh, I see. The captain doesn't trust me... 437 00:25:33,476 --> 00:25:35,050 Blair, or the disk. 438 00:25:35,087 --> 00:25:36,621 Would you? 439 00:25:36,660 --> 00:25:38,271 Well, uh... 440 00:25:38,310 --> 00:25:39,538 no. 441 00:25:39,576 --> 00:25:41,148 No. 442 00:25:41,187 --> 00:25:44,716 This tactical schematic outlines a nightmare, Mr. Taggart. 443 00:25:44,794 --> 00:25:47,056 It tells me that the Kilrathi may have a Navcom... 444 00:25:47,095 --> 00:25:50,280 and with it the capacity to jump into Earth space. 445 00:25:50,318 --> 00:25:51,967 And based on that nightmare... 446 00:25:52,006 --> 00:25:54,193 it orders me to take radical action... 447 00:25:54,231 --> 00:25:56,956 which, if it and you are a lie... 448 00:25:58,105 --> 00:26:00,446 could compromise this ship and its crew. 449 00:26:00,485 --> 00:26:02,364 So I'm bound to ask you, Mr. Taggart... 450 00:26:02,403 --> 00:26:05,088 what proof do you have that this is authentic? 451 00:26:21,739 --> 00:26:23,963 Where did you get this? 452 00:26:24,002 --> 00:26:25,153 Tolwyn... 453 00:26:26,610 --> 00:26:28,375 thought it might be useful... 454 00:26:28,414 --> 00:26:31,061 if I ever had to convince a captain... 455 00:26:31,099 --> 00:26:33,516 to follow his orders. 456 00:26:39,808 --> 00:26:40,881 Mr. Obutu. 457 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,338 Plot a course for the Charybdis quasar. 458 00:26:43,375 --> 00:26:44,834 Full speed, if you please. 459 00:26:47,557 --> 00:26:49,246 [Keystrokes] 460 00:26:57,379 --> 00:26:59,029 OBUTU: Sir, the nearest jump point to the Charybdis... 461 00:26:59,066 --> 00:27:01,983 is four days hard travel from our current location. 462 00:27:02,021 --> 00:27:04,553 TAGGART: There's a class-two pulsar eleven hours from here. 463 00:27:04,591 --> 00:27:06,279 We can jump there. 464 00:27:07,545 --> 00:27:09,118 OBUTU: It's not on the chart, sir. 465 00:27:09,156 --> 00:27:10,883 Navcom does not have those coordinates. 466 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,226 I have them. 467 00:27:12,264 --> 00:27:14,144 No one's jumped a pulsar for forty years... 468 00:27:14,182 --> 00:27:15,870 and even then, they were Pilgrims. 469 00:27:17,098 --> 00:27:19,284 I don't believe we have a choice, Mr. Gerald. 470 00:27:20,589 --> 00:27:23,888 If the battle is to be decided in the Charybdis quasar... 471 00:27:23,888 --> 00:27:25,960 then that's where we have to be. 472 00:27:28,147 --> 00:27:29,720 Plot your course, Mr. Taggart. 473 00:27:29,757 --> 00:27:31,101 Sure. 474 00:27:31,139 --> 00:27:33,135 Sir, that ring means nothing. 475 00:27:33,173 --> 00:27:36,241 This ring has been in Tolwyn's family for sixteen generations. 476 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:37,661 And any man who carries it... 477 00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:40,077 has the admiral's full confidence! 478 00:27:42,227 --> 00:27:44,145 Prepare for the jump. 479 00:27:50,168 --> 00:27:51,702 BLAIR: Hey. 480 00:27:53,199 --> 00:27:54,580 We goin' out? 481 00:27:54,619 --> 00:27:55,846 No. Just me. 482 00:27:55,923 --> 00:27:57,495 I pulled security with Lieutenant Forbes. 483 00:27:57,534 --> 00:27:59,414 Why'd you wake me up? 484 00:28:00,872 --> 00:28:02,751 Remember back at the academy? 485 00:28:02,789 --> 00:28:05,936 You promised you would take that thing off. 486 00:28:05,974 --> 00:28:07,623 It brings me luck. 487 00:28:07,662 --> 00:28:09,082 It's gonna get you killed. 488 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:10,962 I was wearing it when I made the jump. 489 00:28:10,962 --> 00:28:13,186 Yeah, but that had nothing to do with luck. 490 00:28:13,186 --> 00:28:15,834 That was about training, skill, desire. 491 00:28:15,872 --> 00:28:17,177 Now, please. 492 00:28:18,289 --> 00:28:20,054 Take the cross off. 493 00:28:21,090 --> 00:28:22,701 It's who I am. 494 00:28:22,740 --> 00:28:24,120 You don't even know what it means. 495 00:28:27,190 --> 00:28:28,762 This is the big show. 496 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,681 And you gotta have someone watching your back. 497 00:28:30,719 --> 00:28:32,331 It's either kill or be killed. 498 00:28:32,369 --> 00:28:35,054 And you know what? I can't always be there. 499 00:28:35,092 --> 00:28:36,320 [Chuckles] 500 00:28:39,273 --> 00:28:41,154 Hey, I'm tryin' to be Mr. Sensitive Guy. 501 00:28:41,192 --> 00:28:42,343 It's just--Ahh! 502 00:28:42,382 --> 00:28:44,454 I don't even know why I bother. 503 00:28:45,412 --> 00:28:47,753 All right. Wish me luck. 504 00:28:47,792 --> 00:28:48,903 BLAIR: Luck? 505 00:28:49,825 --> 00:28:51,550 What about desire? 506 00:28:51,589 --> 00:28:53,200 MARSHALL: You seen Lieutenant Forbes? 507 00:28:54,467 --> 00:28:56,346 You know I got desire. 508 00:28:56,384 --> 00:28:58,418 BLAIR: Hey, Marshall... 509 00:28:58,456 --> 00:28:59,531 Luck. 510 00:28:59,608 --> 00:29:00,490 Mmm. 511 00:29:22,472 --> 00:29:23,854 OFFICER ON LEFT: Message from Earth Command. 512 00:29:23,891 --> 00:29:25,963 Their defenses are on line, sir, but-- 513 00:29:26,002 --> 00:29:27,076 They don't believe... 514 00:29:27,115 --> 00:29:28,495 they can withstand a Kilrathi battle group... 515 00:29:28,534 --> 00:29:30,912 without the support of the fleet. 516 00:29:30,951 --> 00:29:32,831 But they will fight, sir. 517 00:29:32,869 --> 00:29:34,289 Earth will never surrender. 518 00:29:34,327 --> 00:29:35,708 What's our status? 519 00:29:35,746 --> 00:29:37,627 We're running at one-hundred-and-ten percent. 520 00:29:37,665 --> 00:29:39,545 We've already lost three ships-- 521 00:29:39,582 --> 00:29:42,921 two at jump points, and one's reactor core melted down. 522 00:29:44,225 --> 00:29:45,798 Run at one hundred and twenty. 523 00:29:50,248 --> 00:29:52,665 DEVEREAUX: Now, if Dibbles had the flying skills of a woman... 524 00:29:52,704 --> 00:29:53,970 he'd still be alive. 525 00:29:54,009 --> 00:29:55,542 MARSHALL: You gotta be kidding me. 526 00:29:55,580 --> 00:29:57,499 DEVEREAUX: Don't take it personally, Nugget. 527 00:29:57,499 --> 00:30:00,108 It's a question of estrogen. 528 00:30:00,147 --> 00:30:02,525 Women can out fly and outshoot men. 529 00:30:02,563 --> 00:30:03,944 It has been proven... 530 00:30:03,983 --> 00:30:06,322 that we can keep track of up to four enemy fighters. 531 00:30:06,361 --> 00:30:08,241 No, it takes balls, big balls... 532 00:30:08,279 --> 00:30:10,965 not ovaries, to maintain four enemy fighters... 533 00:30:11,004 --> 00:30:12,921 and that's a fact, Jack. 534 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,610 All right, watch this. 535 00:30:15,991 --> 00:30:19,136 Con. Con. This is Delta Two requesting permission to land. 536 00:30:19,213 --> 00:30:21,324 RADIO: Delta Two, you're clear to land. 537 00:30:27,193 --> 00:30:30,761 Delta Two, you're coming in too hot. Abort. I repeat, abort. 538 00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:33,292 Delta Two. Do you copy? 539 00:30:33,331 --> 00:30:35,057 Shit! 540 00:30:37,398 --> 00:30:38,778 Delta Two, you are inverted! 541 00:30:38,817 --> 00:30:40,313 MARSHALL: Hoo hoo! Not anymore. 542 00:30:44,149 --> 00:30:46,260 MAN: Aaahhh! 543 00:30:47,986 --> 00:30:49,213 Now, what were you saying? 544 00:30:49,252 --> 00:30:50,672 RADIO: Delta One! 545 00:30:55,774 --> 00:30:57,002 Whoo! 546 00:31:02,949 --> 00:31:04,522 MARSHALL: What are you people lookin' at? 547 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,133 Carry on about your business. 548 00:31:06,170 --> 00:31:08,089 Nothin' to see here, ladies and gentlemen. 549 00:31:08,089 --> 00:31:11,541 Whoo! Oh, now, that was a sweet three-sixty. 550 00:31:12,386 --> 00:31:14,765 Actually, that was a five-forty. 551 00:31:16,068 --> 00:31:18,640 Did you just do that to impress me? 552 00:31:18,677 --> 00:31:21,861 I'm just trying to redirect some of that testosterone. 553 00:31:22,898 --> 00:31:24,279 You're a total... 554 00:31:24,317 --> 00:31:25,468 maniac. 555 00:31:25,507 --> 00:31:28,806 Todd "Maniac" Marshall at your service...ma'am! 556 00:31:28,845 --> 00:31:29,958 Ha ha ha ha! 557 00:31:31,108 --> 00:31:33,294 Ohh, shit. 558 00:31:45,686 --> 00:31:46,838 [Intercom buzzes] 559 00:31:46,876 --> 00:31:47,950 [Buzz] 560 00:31:47,989 --> 00:31:49,676 OBUTU: You're needed on the bridge, Captain. 561 00:31:49,714 --> 00:31:51,403 WILSON: I'll be right there. 562 00:31:52,822 --> 00:31:55,354 You don't want to be here right now. 563 00:31:55,393 --> 00:31:56,812 FORBES: Just for you, sir. 564 00:31:56,850 --> 00:31:58,385 DEVEREAUX: Trying to bribe me? 565 00:31:58,424 --> 00:31:59,573 FORBES: No. 566 00:32:01,147 --> 00:32:02,721 No. Um... 567 00:32:02,758 --> 00:32:04,025 thanks, Angel. 568 00:32:05,444 --> 00:32:06,557 The flight boss would've brought us up on charges... 569 00:32:06,594 --> 00:32:07,707 if you hadn't said something. 570 00:32:07,746 --> 00:32:10,239 Yeah. Yeah, what the hell were you thinking? 571 00:32:10,278 --> 00:32:11,889 Look, I wasn't. 572 00:32:11,928 --> 00:32:13,117 [Chuckles] 573 00:32:13,156 --> 00:32:15,189 Not with my head, anyway. 574 00:32:15,228 --> 00:32:17,605 You're one of my best pilots. 575 00:32:17,644 --> 00:32:19,793 I cannot afford to lose you. 576 00:32:21,633 --> 00:32:23,053 I was just... 577 00:32:23,092 --> 00:32:25,010 showing off a bit in front of Maniac. 578 00:32:25,048 --> 00:32:26,543 Maniac? 579 00:32:26,621 --> 00:32:27,695 [Chuckles] 580 00:32:27,734 --> 00:32:29,115 Lieutenant Marshall. 581 00:32:30,611 --> 00:32:32,797 He has a new call sign. 582 00:32:32,836 --> 00:32:34,409 I see. 583 00:32:34,447 --> 00:32:36,673 Well, I hope it felt very good. 584 00:32:38,514 --> 00:32:40,240 Better.. .than... 585 00:32:40,279 --> 00:32:41,468 sex. 586 00:32:41,507 --> 00:32:43,194 Bullshit. 587 00:32:43,232 --> 00:32:44,882 Better than sex with myself. 588 00:32:44,921 --> 00:32:46,494 [Both laugh] 589 00:32:48,220 --> 00:32:50,368 You just see that it never happens again. 590 00:32:51,942 --> 00:32:53,284 [Opera music playing] 591 00:32:53,322 --> 00:32:55,126 [Door opens] 592 00:32:55,164 --> 00:32:57,274 BLAIR: Sir? Can I talk to you? 593 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,113 TAGGART: Yeah. 594 00:33:04,294 --> 00:33:05,407 Go ahead. 595 00:33:07,633 --> 00:33:08,937 BLAIR: My whole life... 596 00:33:08,975 --> 00:33:11,929 I've taken crap because I'm part Pilgrim. 597 00:33:11,967 --> 00:33:13,426 And I don't know why. 598 00:33:14,845 --> 00:33:16,456 Sit down. 599 00:33:19,641 --> 00:33:22,518 You're one of the last descendants of a dying race. 600 00:33:22,557 --> 00:33:26,852 Pilgrims were the first human space explorers and settlers. 601 00:33:29,577 --> 00:33:31,456 For five centuries... 602 00:33:31,495 --> 00:33:33,375 they defied the odds. 603 00:33:33,413 --> 00:33:35,255 They embraced space... 604 00:33:35,293 --> 00:33:37,633 and for that, they were rewarded... 605 00:33:37,672 --> 00:33:40,281 with the gift of a flawless sense of direction. 606 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,426 They could feel magnetic fields... 607 00:33:43,465 --> 00:33:45,152 created by quasars and black holes... 608 00:33:45,152 --> 00:33:46,265 created by quasars and black holes... 609 00:33:46,304 --> 00:33:48,336 negotiate singularities... 610 00:33:48,375 --> 00:33:52,366 navigate not just the stars, but space-time itself. 611 00:33:52,404 --> 00:33:54,091 Like a Navcom A. I.? 612 00:33:54,130 --> 00:33:56,125 TAGGART: No, no. You've got it backwards. 613 00:33:57,315 --> 00:33:59,693 The billions of calculations each second... 614 00:33:59,731 --> 00:34:02,571 necessary to lead us through a black hole or a quasar... 615 00:34:02,609 --> 00:34:07,136 is the Navcom recreation of the mind of a single Pilgrim. 616 00:34:07,174 --> 00:34:09,322 Then why'd the war start? 617 00:34:09,361 --> 00:34:10,435 [Sighs] 618 00:34:10,472 --> 00:34:12,698 You spend so much time out here alone... 619 00:34:12,737 --> 00:34:14,616 you end up losing your humanity. 620 00:34:17,647 --> 00:34:20,985 When Pilgrims began to lose touch with their heritage... 621 00:34:21,023 --> 00:34:24,514 they saw themselves as superior to men. 622 00:34:24,553 --> 00:34:27,698 And in their arrogance... 623 00:34:27,737 --> 00:34:30,652 they chose to abandon all things human... 624 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,988 and follow what they called their "destiny." 625 00:34:35,027 --> 00:34:37,865 Some say they believed they were gods. 626 00:34:37,903 --> 00:34:40,436 You believe they were gods? 627 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,352 No. 628 00:34:45,424 --> 00:34:47,763 But I do believe they were touched by God. 629 00:34:49,682 --> 00:34:51,255 And like it or not... 630 00:34:53,556 --> 00:34:56,050 you've got some of that inside you. 631 00:34:58,352 --> 00:35:00,232 I have to get to the bridge. 632 00:35:00,270 --> 00:35:02,764 We'll be jumping soon. I want you to be there. 633 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,258 MAN: This thing's eating suns for breakfast. 634 00:35:20,296 --> 00:35:21,447 Let's go. 635 00:35:23,020 --> 00:35:24,900 MAN ON LEFT: What the hell are we doing here? 636 00:35:24,938 --> 00:35:26,818 HUNTER: You know what we're not doing. 637 00:35:26,857 --> 00:35:28,046 FORBES: Turning around. 638 00:35:28,085 --> 00:35:30,078 P.A. : This is the captain. 639 00:35:30,193 --> 00:35:34,338 Prepare for a level-five jump-point interphase. 640 00:35:34,376 --> 00:35:36,217 Secure all stations. 641 00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:51,026 COMPUTER: Attention. Attention. 642 00:35:51,065 --> 00:35:52,138 Course error. 643 00:35:52,177 --> 00:35:53,750 Adjust course immediately. 644 00:35:53,788 --> 00:35:55,592 Steady as she goes. 645 00:35:55,630 --> 00:35:57,163 COMPUTER: Captain, the ship is headed... 646 00:35:57,163 --> 00:36:00,233 into the PNR zone of a class-two pulsar. 647 00:36:00,272 --> 00:36:04,684 One minute until gravitational pull is 100%. 648 00:36:06,334 --> 00:36:08,098 What about it, Mr. Taggart? 649 00:36:08,136 --> 00:36:09,901 The readings are wrong. 650 00:36:09,940 --> 00:36:13,430 The sensors are not calibrated to the pulsar. 651 00:36:13,469 --> 00:36:16,692 They've already been warped by the gravitational fields. 652 00:36:16,730 --> 00:36:20,106 COMPUTER: Captain, I must insist we change course immediately. 653 00:36:20,144 --> 00:36:21,910 TAGGART: No! 654 00:36:21,947 --> 00:36:23,099 Manual override! 655 00:36:23,099 --> 00:36:24,172 Forget you, artificial intelligence... 656 00:36:24,249 --> 00:36:25,553 or we're all dead. 657 00:36:27,127 --> 00:36:29,658 Captain, I think you should reconsider. 658 00:36:34,417 --> 00:36:35,836 Steady as she goes, helm. 659 00:36:35,873 --> 00:36:37,716 Aye, aye, sir. 660 00:36:40,554 --> 00:36:41,935 COMPUTER: Warning. Warning. 661 00:36:42,012 --> 00:36:43,585 Jump coordinates incorrect. 662 00:36:45,388 --> 00:36:46,923 This is the captain. 663 00:36:46,999 --> 00:36:49,493 Fifteen seconds to jump point. 664 00:36:53,598 --> 00:36:54,941 MARSHALL: Watch. Oh, this is great. 665 00:36:56,974 --> 00:36:58,317 MAN: Aft shields overloading. 666 00:36:59,429 --> 00:37:01,079 MARSHALL: Just you and me. Hold on. 667 00:37:03,036 --> 00:37:04,110 Ohh! 668 00:37:09,059 --> 00:37:10,440 DEVEREAUX: Uhh! 669 00:37:10,479 --> 00:37:12,205 -Ohh! -Uhh! 670 00:37:15,235 --> 00:37:17,346 MARSHALL: Ha ha ha ha! Yeah! 671 00:37:17,385 --> 00:37:19,264 BLAIR: You OK? You all right? 672 00:37:21,143 --> 00:37:22,947 Where are we? 673 00:37:24,673 --> 00:37:26,246 TAGGART: Ladies and gentlemen... 674 00:37:27,705 --> 00:37:30,466 welcome to the Ulysses corridor. 675 00:37:32,768 --> 00:37:34,647 We're through the jump point. 676 00:37:34,686 --> 00:37:36,451 We made it. 677 00:37:38,984 --> 00:37:40,249 Mr. Obutu. 678 00:37:41,477 --> 00:37:43,281 Stealth mode, if you please. 679 00:37:44,431 --> 00:37:45,850 Going to stealth. 680 00:37:49,073 --> 00:37:51,144 Seven percent electronic emission... 681 00:37:51,182 --> 00:37:52,488 zero communication. 682 00:37:54,329 --> 00:37:55,824 Radar status. 683 00:37:55,863 --> 00:37:59,124 Scanners picking up a strong electromagnetic signature... 684 00:37:59,124 --> 00:38:01,580 at one-eleven mark forty-three. 685 00:38:01,617 --> 00:38:03,574 An asteroid field. 686 00:38:03,613 --> 00:38:05,493 -Lieutenant Commander. -Yes, sir. 687 00:38:05,532 --> 00:38:08,562 Prepare a reconnoiter. I want to know what's out there. 688 00:38:08,601 --> 00:38:09,713 And, Deveraux... 689 00:38:12,437 --> 00:38:14,931 I don't want them to know that we're here. 690 00:38:14,968 --> 00:38:16,235 Not yet. 691 00:38:16,274 --> 00:38:17,654 Very good, sir. 692 00:38:23,869 --> 00:38:25,251 MERLIN: Scanning quadrant. 693 00:38:25,327 --> 00:38:27,668 Lieutenant, I'm picking up metal fragments ahead. 694 00:38:27,706 --> 00:38:30,583 Alloy structure indicates from a Confederation vessel. 695 00:38:34,036 --> 00:38:35,686 Angel, you catch that? 696 00:38:35,724 --> 00:38:37,106 That's from Pegasus. 697 00:38:37,143 --> 00:38:39,292 Ten thousand men and women... 698 00:38:39,368 --> 00:38:40,442 gone... 699 00:38:40,481 --> 00:38:41,670 just like that. 700 00:38:41,709 --> 00:38:43,742 The concussion must've blown pieces of the station... 701 00:38:43,781 --> 00:38:45,238 all over the sector. 702 00:38:47,003 --> 00:38:48,883 COMPUTER: Warning. ENM emissions. 703 00:38:48,922 --> 00:38:50,993 -Pipe down. -Two-one-six. 704 00:38:51,031 --> 00:38:52,911 -Getting something. -Analyzing. 705 00:38:52,949 --> 00:38:54,638 COMPUTER: Possible I.D. Kilrathi... 706 00:38:54,676 --> 00:38:57,514 DEVEREAUX: Radio silence now. Get into the asteroids. 707 00:38:57,553 --> 00:38:58,666 Low power. 708 00:39:14,127 --> 00:39:15,508 They know we're here? 709 00:39:15,546 --> 00:39:16,658 MERLIN: Possibly. 710 00:39:16,696 --> 00:39:18,807 From the sophistication of the equipment onboard... 711 00:39:18,807 --> 00:39:22,490 I'd say the vessel is a command and communications module. 712 00:39:22,528 --> 00:39:24,984 What's it commanding? 713 00:39:25,022 --> 00:39:27,553 MERLIN: At least six other ships down near the Brown Dwarf... 714 00:39:27,592 --> 00:39:29,012 are communicating with it. 715 00:39:29,050 --> 00:39:32,273 It seems to be transmitting jump coordinates. 716 00:39:47,159 --> 00:39:49,498 Angel, they've spotted your heat corona! 717 00:39:49,498 --> 00:39:51,724 I've got two more bogeys comin' in hot, six o'clock! 718 00:39:55,829 --> 00:39:57,708 Can't spot them, Blair. Call it. 719 00:39:57,747 --> 00:40:00,163 BLAIR: Jack in the box on three. One... 720 00:40:00,202 --> 00:40:01,928 two...three! 721 00:40:18,118 --> 00:40:19,422 Missile away! 722 00:40:22,069 --> 00:40:23,489 The big one's shielded! 723 00:40:23,527 --> 00:40:26,252 I got two more bogeys comin' up from the Brown Dwarf! 724 00:40:26,290 --> 00:40:27,364 Engaging! 725 00:40:27,402 --> 00:40:29,436 DEVEREAUX: Negative. I count fourteen unfriendlies inbound. 726 00:40:29,474 --> 00:40:31,162 Looks like two destroyers. 727 00:40:31,201 --> 00:40:32,888 We're out of here. 728 00:40:40,791 --> 00:40:42,671 GERALD: You knew what the orders were-- 729 00:40:42,710 --> 00:40:45,242 no contact with the enemy. 730 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:46,853 Now you've compromised the mission... 731 00:40:46,892 --> 00:40:48,771 and the very existence of this ship. 732 00:40:48,809 --> 00:40:50,191 BLAIR: I had no choice, sir. 733 00:40:50,229 --> 00:40:51,304 They'd spotted... 734 00:40:51,341 --> 00:40:52,761 Lieutenant Commander Deveraux's heat signature. 735 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,832 GERALD: Really? Angel, how sure are you... 736 00:40:54,871 --> 00:40:56,597 that the Kilrathi had you targeted? 737 00:40:56,636 --> 00:40:57,864 Given the Lieutenant's background... 738 00:40:57,902 --> 00:40:59,590 are you really that certain? 739 00:40:59,590 --> 00:41:00,933 Excuse me? 740 00:41:02,544 --> 00:41:04,922 It's well documented that Pilgrim saboteurs... 741 00:41:04,961 --> 00:41:06,189 have been responsible... 742 00:41:06,226 --> 00:41:08,644 for much of the Confed's problems in this war. 743 00:41:08,682 --> 00:41:10,255 Did they have me targeted, Lieutenant? 744 00:41:10,293 --> 00:41:13,286 WILSON: Now, come on. This is sterile conjecture. 745 00:41:14,245 --> 00:41:15,702 The Kilrathi are well aware... 746 00:41:15,818 --> 00:41:17,544 that rapiers don't just fly around... 747 00:41:17,583 --> 00:41:20,153 in deep space without a carrier close by. 748 00:41:22,762 --> 00:41:24,719 Thank you, Lieutenant. That is all. 749 00:41:24,757 --> 00:41:26,905 -Sir-- -Dismissed, Lieutenant. 750 00:41:31,164 --> 00:41:32,813 WILSON: Your assessment, Mr. Gerald? 751 00:41:32,852 --> 00:41:34,731 GERALD: That concom is running point... 752 00:41:34,770 --> 00:41:35,998 for the battle group. 753 00:41:36,037 --> 00:41:38,184 Their fleet won't be far behind. 754 00:41:38,223 --> 00:41:39,795 So I say we send them a message. 755 00:41:39,834 --> 00:41:41,906 I can have my fighters up in thirty minutes. 756 00:41:41,945 --> 00:41:43,594 No, no. That's a mistake. 757 00:41:43,632 --> 00:41:45,397 Without her fighters... 758 00:41:45,435 --> 00:41:46,932 the Tiger Claw's vulnerable. 759 00:41:46,970 --> 00:41:48,696 GERALD: You are a civilian scout, Mr. Taggart... 760 00:41:48,735 --> 00:41:50,115 not a naval officer. 761 00:41:50,192 --> 00:41:51,613 Tactical operations are our concern. 762 00:41:51,613 --> 00:41:53,184 We are the Earth's only hope. 763 00:41:53,261 --> 00:41:56,599 We need to buy our fleet two hours. 764 00:41:56,638 --> 00:41:59,514 And you're willing to risk all that... 765 00:41:59,553 --> 00:42:02,239 chasing after a communications ship? 766 00:42:02,277 --> 00:42:03,927 WILSON: I'm sorry, Mr. Taggart. 767 00:42:03,965 --> 00:42:06,306 Destroying the concom with its escorts... 768 00:42:06,382 --> 00:42:07,763 will slow the Kilrathi. 769 00:42:07,763 --> 00:42:10,947 Deveraux will lead a strike force. 770 00:42:10,947 --> 00:42:13,671 And as you have charted the area before... 771 00:42:13,671 --> 00:42:15,283 you will accompany her. 772 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:17,700 If you say so, Captain. 773 00:42:17,738 --> 00:42:19,503 I do say so, Mr. Taggart. 774 00:42:25,335 --> 00:42:27,675 -Carry on. -Yes, sir. 775 00:42:27,712 --> 00:42:29,286 WILSON: Mr. Obutu. Plot a course... 776 00:42:29,325 --> 00:42:31,511 for the rings of planet four-fifteen. 777 00:42:31,549 --> 00:42:33,851 Four-fifteen. Aye, aye, sir. 778 00:42:38,301 --> 00:42:39,836 BLAIR: I need to talk to you. 779 00:42:39,874 --> 00:42:41,601 -You don't just barge in here. -Here. 780 00:42:41,639 --> 00:42:43,212 BLAIR: I wear it for luck. 781 00:42:43,250 --> 00:42:45,207 Is your luck at odds with our mission? 782 00:42:45,245 --> 00:42:47,125 You think he's right? 783 00:42:47,125 --> 00:42:48,928 Gerald? 784 00:42:48,966 --> 00:42:51,192 In his mind, I started selling out the Tiger Claw... 785 00:42:51,231 --> 00:42:52,764 the moment I stepped onboard! 786 00:42:52,802 --> 00:42:54,184 I don't see how you can be a Pilgrim... 787 00:42:54,222 --> 00:42:55,527 and fight on our side. 788 00:42:55,565 --> 00:42:57,100 I'm not a Pilgrim! 789 00:42:58,634 --> 00:43:00,399 My mother was. 790 00:43:00,438 --> 00:43:03,277 My father fought for the Confederation. 791 00:43:03,316 --> 00:43:05,194 And they both died before I was five. 792 00:43:05,233 --> 00:43:07,037 He was killed trying to save her... 793 00:43:07,074 --> 00:43:08,533 in the Peron massacre. 794 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,674 That cross is all I have. 795 00:43:21,422 --> 00:43:22,881 Sit down, Lieutenant. 796 00:43:29,786 --> 00:43:32,126 Why do you think they call me Angel? 797 00:43:33,776 --> 00:43:35,542 I grew up in an orphanage. 798 00:43:35,579 --> 00:43:38,456 Yeah, my parents died in the same war as yours. 799 00:43:38,495 --> 00:43:41,602 My sisters told me they were angels gone to heaven... 800 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,943 so I prayed for them. They weren't angels. 801 00:43:43,981 --> 00:43:46,475 They were dead, gone. They never existed. 802 00:43:46,514 --> 00:43:49,007 Like Bossman? 803 00:43:49,045 --> 00:43:51,923 Emotion gets in the way. 804 00:43:51,923 --> 00:43:55,452 Commander, emotion is what separates us... 805 00:43:55,452 --> 00:43:58,099 from the Pilgrims and from the Kilrathi. 806 00:43:58,137 --> 00:44:01,360 Lieutenant Commander Chen was--was... 807 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,237 Bossman and I got close. 808 00:44:04,276 --> 00:44:06,463 In fact, we got too close. 809 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:11,143 Then he got himself killed. 810 00:44:13,866 --> 00:44:16,092 I better suit up. 811 00:44:21,079 --> 00:44:24,264 We're square, you and l. You saved my hide today. 812 00:44:38,957 --> 00:44:40,031 [Marshall moans] 813 00:44:40,070 --> 00:44:42,026 FORBES: Come on, Maniac. 814 00:44:42,064 --> 00:44:46,169 Fire it up one more time. 815 00:44:46,207 --> 00:44:47,282 MARSHALL: No, no, no, no. 816 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:51,081 I think the big Maniac needs time to refuel. 817 00:44:51,119 --> 00:44:52,576 FORBES: Don't I take care of you? 818 00:44:52,615 --> 00:44:53,881 That's a big "yes, sir." 819 00:44:53,919 --> 00:44:55,070 FORBES: So what about my needs? 820 00:44:55,109 --> 00:44:57,141 Well, I'm all about your needs, sir. 821 00:45:01,132 --> 00:45:02,474 FORBES: Really? 822 00:45:02,512 --> 00:45:03,779 MARSHALL: Yeah, and right now you need... 823 00:45:03,779 --> 00:45:05,007 to shut up and go to sleep, woman. 824 00:45:05,007 --> 00:45:05,966 to shut up and go to sleep, woman. 825 00:45:08,306 --> 00:45:09,763 You know, you make it all worth it. 826 00:45:09,802 --> 00:45:11,913 Make what worth it? 827 00:45:11,950 --> 00:45:13,562 Coming way out here to fight. 828 00:45:16,055 --> 00:45:17,705 Leaving everything I love back at home. 829 00:45:17,743 --> 00:45:20,583 Remember the briefing. 830 00:45:21,810 --> 00:45:24,456 By the time you return... 831 00:45:24,495 --> 00:45:27,450 everyone you know will be dead and buried. 832 00:45:29,329 --> 00:45:30,825 Yeah, well... 833 00:45:30,864 --> 00:45:33,358 you know what? 834 00:45:33,396 --> 00:45:35,237 I don't care about any of that. 835 00:45:43,294 --> 00:45:45,634 OFFICER: Attention, all Baker wing pilots... 836 00:45:45,672 --> 00:45:47,092 report to the flight deck. 837 00:45:47,130 --> 00:45:50,430 Repeat, all Baker wing pilots report to the flight deck. 838 00:45:50,468 --> 00:45:53,192 MARSHALL: Oh, shit. 839 00:45:55,533 --> 00:45:58,371 This war is really starting to piss me off. 840 00:45:59,982 --> 00:46:01,057 Big time. 841 00:46:01,095 --> 00:46:03,013 MARSHALL: Ha. Let's go. 842 00:46:03,013 --> 00:46:04,662 All right, ladies, listen up. 843 00:46:04,701 --> 00:46:07,961 We have a concom with escorts. 844 00:46:08,039 --> 00:46:10,648 That means two, possibly three destroyers... 845 00:46:10,687 --> 00:46:13,026 fighters, and support ships. 846 00:46:13,064 --> 00:46:14,599 Primary target is the concom. 847 00:46:14,638 --> 00:46:16,019 Everything else is gravy. 848 00:46:16,058 --> 00:46:17,860 BLAIR: Just keep your mind on the Kilrathi, Maniac. 849 00:46:17,898 --> 00:46:19,318 DEVEREAUX: Let's make them bleed. 850 00:46:19,356 --> 00:46:20,507 Mount up. 851 00:46:20,546 --> 00:46:21,466 Blair, you'll take Hunter's wing. 852 00:46:21,505 --> 00:46:22,579 MARSHALL: Watch your back. 853 00:46:22,618 --> 00:46:26,492 HUNTER: Ma'am, I'd as soon you assign me another wingman. 854 00:46:26,531 --> 00:46:28,027 DEVEREAUX: You have a problem I should be aware of? 855 00:46:28,065 --> 00:46:31,556 HUNTER: Yes, ma'am, I do. I don't fly with Pilgrims. 856 00:46:31,595 --> 00:46:32,899 DEVEREAUX: You'll fly my wing. 857 00:46:32,938 --> 00:46:34,088 BLAIR: Are you sure? 858 00:46:34,126 --> 00:46:36,160 DEVEREAUX: Did I give a suggestion or an order? 859 00:46:36,198 --> 00:46:38,155 BLAIR: I got your wing, ma'am. 860 00:46:53,654 --> 00:46:56,454 DEVEREAUX: Picking up any com traffic, Baker Seven? 861 00:46:56,493 --> 00:46:58,526 No. 862 00:47:00,713 --> 00:47:02,746 Must be observing radio silence... 863 00:47:02,784 --> 00:47:04,895 except for short range frequencies. 864 00:47:04,934 --> 00:47:06,928 Baker Two, Three, and Four-- anything? 865 00:47:06,966 --> 00:47:08,117 BLAIR: Negative, chief. 866 00:47:08,155 --> 00:47:09,920 FORBES: Nothing happening, boss. 867 00:47:09,959 --> 00:47:11,302 HUNTER: Scope's clear, boss. 868 00:47:11,340 --> 00:47:12,491 [Alarm sounds] 869 00:47:12,528 --> 00:47:15,100 COMPUTER: Possible hostile contacts... 870 00:47:15,138 --> 00:47:19,090 bearing three-zero-nine, local vector norton. 871 00:47:19,127 --> 00:47:20,509 MARSHALL: All right, you losers, listen up. 872 00:47:20,547 --> 00:47:21,814 I got three confirmed targets... 873 00:47:21,852 --> 00:47:24,230 bugging that big Brown Dwarf down there. 874 00:47:24,268 --> 00:47:26,111 FORBES: Confirm that. 875 00:47:26,148 --> 00:47:29,869 The middle one has a massive electromagnetic signature. 876 00:47:29,908 --> 00:47:31,750 DEVERAUX: All right, ladies, it's the concom. 877 00:47:31,788 --> 00:47:33,093 Deploy for attack. 878 00:47:33,132 --> 00:47:35,509 TAGGART: That's no concom. Abort! 879 00:47:35,586 --> 00:47:37,888 DEVEREAUX: Baker Seven, you have no authority... 880 00:47:37,965 --> 00:47:39,422 over this mission or its personnel. 881 00:47:39,461 --> 00:47:41,379 Forget it, Baker One. 882 00:47:41,418 --> 00:47:43,759 These are supply ships left behind... 883 00:47:43,796 --> 00:47:45,945 by the Kilrathi battle group. 884 00:47:45,982 --> 00:47:47,863 The Tiger Claw is in danger. 885 00:47:47,901 --> 00:47:50,779 You are a civilian scout. 886 00:47:50,816 --> 00:47:53,042 Commander, I'm not a civilian. 887 00:47:53,081 --> 00:47:56,955 I hold the rank of Commodore in naval intelligence... 888 00:47:57,032 --> 00:47:59,372 reporting directly to Admiral Tolwyn. 889 00:47:59,411 --> 00:48:00,983 My call sign is Paladin. 890 00:48:01,021 --> 00:48:06,124 My security verification code is Charlie-six-alpha-zebra-niner. 891 00:48:06,162 --> 00:48:07,966 Try it, commander, now. 892 00:48:13,759 --> 00:48:15,255 COMPUTER: Accessing. 893 00:48:15,293 --> 00:48:17,710 Commodore James Taggart, naval intelligence. 894 00:48:17,749 --> 00:48:18,861 Call sign: Paladin. 895 00:48:18,899 --> 00:48:20,204 TAGGART: Listen to me, Angel. 896 00:48:20,242 --> 00:48:23,042 If I'm wrong, you'll miss out... 897 00:48:23,081 --> 00:48:25,229 on taking a couple of freighters. 898 00:48:25,268 --> 00:48:26,957 But if I'm right... 899 00:48:26,994 --> 00:48:29,641 the Tiger Claw could already be under attack. 900 00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,940 FORBES: The Claw is already in that radiation belt, boss. 901 00:48:32,979 --> 00:48:36,125 They couldn't radio for us even if they wanted to. 902 00:48:40,537 --> 00:48:42,148 PILOT: Security check, alpha two... 903 00:48:42,187 --> 00:48:43,568 nothing to report in this quadrant. 904 00:48:43,606 --> 00:48:44,680 Everything is A-OK. 905 00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,136 Wait a minute. What the-- 906 00:48:49,744 --> 00:48:51,855 Who is breaking radio silence? 907 00:48:51,931 --> 00:48:53,927 Multiple targets inbound, sir. 908 00:48:53,965 --> 00:48:56,420 GERALD: Battle stations! Launch all fighters! 909 00:48:59,489 --> 00:49:01,714 Battle stations. Battle stations. 910 00:49:05,052 --> 00:49:08,505 P.A: All fighters scramble. All fighters scramble. 911 00:49:09,540 --> 00:49:11,228 Get that deck clear! 912 00:49:13,798 --> 00:49:15,448 MAN: Get the safeties off those! 913 00:49:15,487 --> 00:49:16,752 Let's get those things in the air! 914 00:49:16,791 --> 00:49:18,595 [Men shouting] 915 00:49:21,509 --> 00:49:23,275 MAN: You're fueled up. 916 00:49:23,313 --> 00:49:24,886 Opening hangar doors now. 917 00:49:27,111 --> 00:49:28,185 Delta Three... 918 00:49:28,224 --> 00:49:29,796 Launch! 919 00:49:38,812 --> 00:49:40,231 All fighters launched, sir. 920 00:49:42,419 --> 00:49:43,646 GERALD: Sir! 921 00:49:46,293 --> 00:49:47,559 WILSON: Shields up! 922 00:49:58,762 --> 00:50:00,603 OBUTU: All shields are engaged. 923 00:50:06,358 --> 00:50:09,197 I count three dozen Kilrathi star fighters... 924 00:50:09,236 --> 00:50:11,537 two destroyers, and one battleship, sir. 925 00:50:11,575 --> 00:50:13,570 That damn Taggart was right. 926 00:50:13,609 --> 00:50:15,144 Maybe he knew something we didn't. 927 00:50:21,588 --> 00:50:22,662 PILOT: Stay on my wing. 928 00:50:22,701 --> 00:50:24,159 -Copy, Baker Leader. -I'm right behind you. 929 00:50:24,236 --> 00:50:26,040 -I'm on this one. -Get him off my tail! 930 00:50:29,070 --> 00:50:30,144 Torpedoes incoming. 931 00:50:30,183 --> 00:50:31,333 Brace for impact! 932 00:50:34,978 --> 00:50:37,318 Mr. Falk, give me a target. 933 00:50:39,083 --> 00:50:41,155 FALK: Target acquisition imminent. 934 00:50:41,193 --> 00:50:44,837 We've locked on to one of the destroyers, sir. 935 00:50:44,876 --> 00:50:47,063 Fire tubes one and two! 936 00:51:04,595 --> 00:51:06,667 Tracking two more torpedoes. 937 00:51:06,705 --> 00:51:08,317 Hard to port. 938 00:51:16,756 --> 00:51:18,483 [Beeping] 939 00:51:23,432 --> 00:51:25,887 OBUTU: Force shield suffering forty percent failure. 940 00:51:25,925 --> 00:51:27,959 Battery room reports a fire. 941 00:51:27,997 --> 00:51:30,837 I'm getting a dozen more targets behind the battleship. 942 00:51:30,875 --> 00:51:33,023 They're bringing in reinforcements. 943 00:51:33,061 --> 00:51:34,980 We should be flattered. 944 00:51:35,018 --> 00:51:37,281 Torpedo room report. 945 00:51:39,468 --> 00:51:41,386 Tubes three and four are damaged. 946 00:51:41,464 --> 00:51:43,189 Autoloaders are not operational. 947 00:51:44,187 --> 00:51:46,489 FALK: Captain, I'm getting a coded friend or foe... 948 00:51:46,527 --> 00:51:48,406 acknowledge from the new star fighters. 949 00:51:48,445 --> 00:51:49,750 It's Deveraux's wing. 950 00:51:54,583 --> 00:51:56,579 All right, ladies, let's do it. 951 00:51:56,617 --> 00:51:58,458 All rapiers except Maniac and Blair... 952 00:51:58,496 --> 00:52:00,300 engage those Dralthi. 953 00:52:01,528 --> 00:52:03,063 See ya later, Nugget. 954 00:52:03,101 --> 00:52:05,172 Watch your back, Rosie. 955 00:52:10,888 --> 00:52:12,538 Broadswords, follow me in. 956 00:52:12,577 --> 00:52:13,805 Maniac, Blair, cover us. 957 00:52:41,272 --> 00:52:43,421 MARSHALL: Whoo-hoo-hoo! 958 00:52:43,459 --> 00:52:45,647 BLAIR: Nice shooting, Maniac. 959 00:52:45,685 --> 00:52:47,104 Buy one, get one free. 960 00:52:47,143 --> 00:52:49,598 DEVEREAUX: OK, we've cleared a path for the bombers. 961 00:52:49,637 --> 00:52:50,980 Let's get back to the action. 962 00:52:51,017 --> 00:52:52,936 MARSHALL: Roger that. 963 00:52:52,973 --> 00:52:54,892 Steady on course, Mr. Knight. 964 00:52:56,619 --> 00:53:00,225 PILOT: The flak's too heavy. Let's launch now. 965 00:53:01,184 --> 00:53:02,566 TAGGART: Wait for them to launch a torpedo. 966 00:53:02,604 --> 00:53:05,174 They'll lower their shield just before. 967 00:53:06,248 --> 00:53:08,358 -I'm hit! -Almost there. 968 00:53:08,396 --> 00:53:09,662 TAGGART: Steady, my friend. Almost-- 969 00:53:24,050 --> 00:53:25,814 OBUTU: Hull breach, level three! 970 00:53:25,851 --> 00:53:27,501 Shields not functioning. 971 00:53:27,540 --> 00:53:28,921 Power at thirty percent. 972 00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:30,417 GERALD: Sir! 973 00:53:30,494 --> 00:53:31,568 Sir! 974 00:53:31,607 --> 00:53:33,141 Steering loss, eighty percent. 975 00:53:35,634 --> 00:53:38,206 GERALD: Medic to the bridge. 976 00:53:44,075 --> 00:53:45,495 Bogey on my six. 977 00:53:45,533 --> 00:53:46,645 Blair, help me out here. 978 00:53:50,329 --> 00:53:51,671 Blair, where the hell are you? 979 00:53:51,710 --> 00:53:53,360 I said, help me out here. 980 00:53:53,397 --> 00:53:55,124 BLAIR: Is that a suggestion or an order, ma'am? 981 00:53:55,163 --> 00:53:56,582 DEVERAUX: Definitely an order. 982 00:53:56,621 --> 00:53:57,963 Wait. The battleship's preparing to launch. 983 00:53:58,001 --> 00:54:00,227 She's going to finish off the Tiger Claw. 984 00:54:00,265 --> 00:54:01,646 BLAIR: Where's Paladin? 985 00:54:01,646 --> 00:54:02,911 No visual contact. 986 00:54:11,928 --> 00:54:13,040 Baker Leader... 987 00:54:13,078 --> 00:54:15,687 get your fighters clear of the pulse wave. 988 00:54:15,726 --> 00:54:17,146 DEVERAUX: Roger that. 989 00:54:17,184 --> 00:54:18,833 Maniac, Blair, return to ship. 990 00:54:18,871 --> 00:54:19,984 BLAIR: Yes, ma'am. 991 00:54:26,775 --> 00:54:29,344 Au revoir, mes amis. 992 00:54:51,634 --> 00:54:54,474 MARSHALL: Hey, Forbes, you wanna go bury some Kilrathi? 993 00:54:54,474 --> 00:54:57,159 Hmmph. Like you have to ask. 994 00:54:57,236 --> 00:54:59,423 CONTROL: All craft return to ship immediately. 995 00:54:59,461 --> 00:55:02,607 I repeat-- all craft return to ship. 996 00:55:02,645 --> 00:55:04,026 DEVERAUX: All right, ladies. You heard the man. 997 00:55:04,065 --> 00:55:05,139 Maniac? 998 00:55:05,178 --> 00:55:06,828 MARSHALL: What about my needs? 999 00:55:09,666 --> 00:55:11,584 DEVERAUX: Maniac, Forbes, return to the ship. You copy me? 1000 00:55:17,646 --> 00:55:19,948 They're trying to ram. 1001 00:55:19,985 --> 00:55:22,787 They obviously don't want to play nice. 1002 00:55:27,736 --> 00:55:30,383 Now, does that take balls, or what? 1003 00:55:30,421 --> 00:55:33,068 MARSHALL: Yeah. It's not bad. It's not bad for a woman... 1004 00:55:33,107 --> 00:55:35,792 but watch how a man handles this. 1005 00:55:39,283 --> 00:55:40,703 FORBES: What are you doing, Maniac? 1006 00:55:40,703 --> 00:55:42,314 MARSHALL: I'm gonna finish this argument once and for all... 1007 00:55:42,352 --> 00:55:43,619 'cause this... 1008 00:55:43,657 --> 00:55:45,574 This takes balls. 1009 00:55:45,613 --> 00:55:46,687 FORBES: Maniac. 1010 00:55:46,726 --> 00:55:49,105 Open fire. Shoot him. 1011 00:55:49,181 --> 00:55:52,135 You better open fire, or I will. 1012 00:55:52,174 --> 00:55:53,517 MARSHALL: It's all in the timing. It's my shot. 1013 00:55:53,554 --> 00:55:55,818 Come on. My shot. 1014 00:55:57,966 --> 00:56:00,307 No! Shit! Pull up, Rosie! 1015 00:56:00,345 --> 00:56:02,724 Rosie, pull up! Pull up! 1016 00:56:04,220 --> 00:56:06,292 Rosie, can you hold her? 1017 00:56:06,331 --> 00:56:09,630 I could fly this thing and cook you breakfast. 1018 00:56:09,667 --> 00:56:11,356 Quit showing off. 1019 00:56:14,616 --> 00:56:15,998 All right. You eject... 1020 00:56:16,036 --> 00:56:17,954 and I'm gonna tractor you home. 1021 00:56:17,992 --> 00:56:20,218 Oh, you'd love that one, wouldn't you? 1022 00:56:23,286 --> 00:56:25,052 The ejection system is fried. 1023 00:56:25,090 --> 00:56:27,546 That ain't no thing. We'll just do it together, OK? 1024 00:56:28,927 --> 00:56:30,729 Just follow me in, all right? 1025 00:56:34,028 --> 00:56:36,100 Con, Con. This is Baker Three and Baker Four. 1026 00:56:36,139 --> 00:56:37,674 We're coming in, and we're coming in hot. 1027 00:56:37,713 --> 00:56:39,438 Get everything off that deck that ain't bolted down. Over. 1028 00:56:39,476 --> 00:56:40,551 CONTROL: Roger that. 1029 00:56:40,589 --> 00:56:42,930 Baker Three and Baker Four, you are cleared to land. 1030 00:56:46,651 --> 00:56:48,531 [Alarm] 1031 00:56:48,570 --> 00:56:51,408 We're coming in too fast, Rosie. 1032 00:56:54,554 --> 00:56:56,280 That's it. Just line it up. 1033 00:57:02,533 --> 00:57:03,915 Almost there. Easy. 1034 00:57:03,953 --> 00:57:05,450 Just ease it in, girl. 1035 00:57:05,527 --> 00:57:07,444 I love it when you talk dirty. 1036 00:57:09,976 --> 00:57:11,588 MARSHALL: Get that nose up, marine! 1037 00:57:12,547 --> 00:57:14,925 Pull up, Rosie! 1038 00:57:24,402 --> 00:57:26,243 Forbes? 1039 00:57:37,944 --> 00:57:39,708 Rosie? 1040 00:57:39,747 --> 00:57:41,397 No. Rosie? 1041 00:57:41,435 --> 00:57:43,393 Hey! Get me a medic. 1042 00:57:43,430 --> 00:57:44,351 Get me a medic! 1043 00:57:44,388 --> 00:57:45,847 Hey! Someone get me a rescue crew! 1044 00:57:45,885 --> 00:57:48,418 Get me a rescue crew! 1045 00:57:48,456 --> 00:57:50,105 Get me a rescue crew! 1046 00:57:50,144 --> 00:57:51,218 Get me a medic! 1047 00:57:51,256 --> 00:57:52,983 Get a rescue crew! 1048 00:57:53,022 --> 00:57:54,057 No! 1049 00:57:55,054 --> 00:57:56,934 BLAIR: She's outside the airlock! 1050 00:57:57,049 --> 00:57:58,469 You go through that field, you're history. 1051 00:57:58,508 --> 00:57:59,926 MARSHALL: Give me a suit! 1052 00:57:59,964 --> 00:58:02,229 Somebody give me a suit! 1053 00:58:07,485 --> 00:58:08,597 Rosie. 1054 00:58:09,672 --> 00:58:11,704 Rosie. Rosie, can you hear me? 1055 00:58:15,695 --> 00:58:18,687 TAGGART: Baker One, we need to get out of here. 1056 00:58:18,725 --> 00:58:20,029 Rosie. 1057 00:58:23,022 --> 00:58:25,285 HUNTER: We're running on fumes here, boss. 1058 00:58:28,201 --> 00:58:29,966 Baker Leader to Con. 1059 00:58:34,148 --> 00:58:36,220 Push that wreckage off the deck. 1060 00:58:38,559 --> 00:58:39,902 What is that? 1061 00:58:41,015 --> 00:58:42,473 MARSHALL: What is that? 1062 00:58:42,511 --> 00:58:43,584 No, no, no. 1063 00:58:43,623 --> 00:58:45,043 No, no, no. 1064 00:58:45,081 --> 00:58:46,425 OK, look. 1065 00:58:46,462 --> 00:58:48,572 She's alive. I know. I can see her eyes. 1066 00:58:48,611 --> 00:58:49,724 Stop it, please! 1067 00:58:49,761 --> 00:58:51,411 [No audio] 1068 00:58:53,138 --> 00:58:54,250 MARSHALL: I'm gonna go get her, all right? 1069 00:58:54,289 --> 00:58:57,128 -I'm gonna go get her. -You are not going out there! 1070 00:58:57,167 --> 00:59:00,964 MARSHALL: Get away from me, you son of a bitch Pilgrim! 1071 00:59:01,041 --> 00:59:03,880 BLAIR: You are not going out there! 1072 00:59:22,909 --> 00:59:24,022 HUNTER: Listen, ma'am-- 1073 00:59:25,824 --> 00:59:27,090 DEVEREAUX: Lieutenant Marshall! 1074 00:59:28,164 --> 00:59:30,275 You disobeyed a direct order... 1075 00:59:30,313 --> 00:59:32,346 which during wartime is considered treason... 1076 00:59:32,384 --> 00:59:33,535 and punishable by death. 1077 00:59:33,574 --> 00:59:35,646 Hunter, give me your gun. 1078 00:59:35,684 --> 00:59:37,870 BLAIR: Whoa. Whoa. You can't bring her back. 1079 00:59:37,909 --> 00:59:39,750 Give me your gun. 1080 00:59:40,672 --> 00:59:42,322 BLAIR: You holster that gun! 1081 00:59:42,359 --> 00:59:45,199 HUNTER: She's the C. O., Nugget. 1082 00:59:47,156 --> 00:59:49,764 BLAIR: Do not do this. 1083 00:59:52,105 --> 00:59:55,826 It was a stupid accident. He has to live with it. 1084 00:59:57,322 --> 00:59:59,086 Shh. It's OK. 1085 01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:12,744 If you endanger another pilot... 1086 01:00:14,202 --> 01:00:15,659 you're dead. 1087 01:00:40,789 --> 01:00:41,977 GERALD: There. 1088 01:00:42,015 --> 01:00:43,550 Put her down there. 1089 01:00:43,589 --> 01:00:45,162 HELMSMAN: Aye-aye, sir. 1090 01:01:12,247 --> 01:01:13,322 [Electronic thrumming noises] 1091 01:01:15,930 --> 01:01:17,426 Decoy away, commander. 1092 01:01:19,689 --> 01:01:21,339 She's got a bigger electronic signature... 1093 01:01:21,377 --> 01:01:22,490 than the Concordia. 1094 01:01:22,529 --> 01:01:23,872 I think she'll fool them. 1095 01:01:23,910 --> 01:01:25,098 GERALD: I hope you're right. 1096 01:01:25,137 --> 01:01:27,708 Secure all active scanners. Passive systems only. 1097 01:01:30,815 --> 01:01:31,889 [Beep] 1098 01:01:31,927 --> 01:01:33,501 [Systems power down] 1099 01:01:56,827 --> 01:01:58,591 OBUTU: That's the Kilrathi battle group. 1100 01:02:09,716 --> 01:02:11,289 FALK: They're following the decoy. 1101 01:02:12,556 --> 01:02:13,706 They've missed us! 1102 01:02:13,745 --> 01:02:15,625 [Cheering] 1103 01:02:15,625 --> 01:02:17,274 -Come on! -Quiet. Shh! 1104 01:02:17,313 --> 01:02:18,924 [Sonar ping] 1105 01:02:18,963 --> 01:02:21,340 There's a destroyer hunting us. 1106 01:02:21,379 --> 01:02:23,221 [Sonar pinging] 1107 01:02:40,791 --> 01:02:43,093 [Sonar pings grow louder] 1108 01:02:43,132 --> 01:02:44,628 They've spotted us. 1109 01:02:45,856 --> 01:02:47,275 TAGGART: No, no, no. 1110 01:02:47,313 --> 01:02:49,693 We're in a dense radiation belt. 1111 01:02:49,693 --> 01:02:52,109 Gamma rays are clouding their screens. 1112 01:02:52,109 --> 01:02:55,101 If they can't see or hear, they won't find us. 1113 01:03:20,038 --> 01:03:21,803 [Explosion] 1114 01:03:25,064 --> 01:03:27,213 They're nuking every crater. 1115 01:03:27,251 --> 01:03:29,131 Methodical bastards. 1116 01:03:34,157 --> 01:03:36,803 [Sonar pings quickening] 1117 01:03:43,670 --> 01:03:45,205 [Explosion] 1118 01:03:51,381 --> 01:03:52,456 [Metal creaking] 1119 01:03:52,494 --> 01:03:54,412 MAN: The doors are failing. 1120 01:03:57,367 --> 01:03:58,902 Grab anything that will seal it! 1121 01:04:01,242 --> 01:04:02,623 Come on! 1122 01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:06,767 [Vacuum suction] 1123 01:04:10,334 --> 01:04:12,061 BLAIR: Whoa-ohh! 1124 01:04:14,669 --> 01:04:16,933 You just gonna sit there and watch him die? 1125 01:04:20,884 --> 01:04:22,112 Hold on, B! 1126 01:04:22,151 --> 01:04:23,531 I'm coming! 1127 01:04:26,677 --> 01:04:29,209 I'm going to get him. Take this end, tie it off. 1128 01:04:29,247 --> 01:04:30,322 I'm going to get him. 1129 01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:33,007 -Maniac! -Coming, B! 1130 01:04:33,046 --> 01:04:34,503 MARSHALL: Tie it secure. 1131 01:04:34,503 --> 01:04:36,421 Hold on. I'm comin'! 1132 01:04:43,020 --> 01:04:44,402 BLAIR: Maniac! 1133 01:04:46,165 --> 01:04:51,114 MARSHALL: Aah! 1134 01:04:51,153 --> 01:04:52,688 Uhh! 1135 01:04:56,294 --> 01:04:58,135 Come on! 1136 01:05:00,207 --> 01:05:01,972 Come on! 1137 01:05:02,010 --> 01:05:03,315 Come on! 1138 01:05:09,568 --> 01:05:11,564 Come on! 1139 01:05:30,707 --> 01:05:33,355 COMPUTER: Pressure loss is stabilized. All cabins... 1140 01:05:38,304 --> 01:05:40,106 MARSHALL: What are you gonna do when I'm not around, huh? 1141 01:05:40,144 --> 01:05:42,179 -Medic! -Uhh... 1142 01:05:42,216 --> 01:05:43,406 Save your strength. 1143 01:05:45,017 --> 01:05:46,897 [Marshall groans] 1144 01:05:52,191 --> 01:05:54,647 MARSHALL: She would've come back in if it wasn't for me. 1145 01:05:54,723 --> 01:05:57,025 No, no. She knew what she was doing. 1146 01:05:58,713 --> 01:06:01,283 No. No. I should've been watching her back. 1147 01:06:01,321 --> 01:06:02,741 BLAIR: Medic! 1148 01:06:02,780 --> 01:06:04,737 She was a fighter pilot in a war zone. 1149 01:06:04,774 --> 01:06:07,614 She didn't need help from you or anybody. 1150 01:06:07,651 --> 01:06:09,608 She never existed. 1151 01:06:11,182 --> 01:06:13,061 You listen to me. 1152 01:06:13,100 --> 01:06:15,939 Don't you ever play that stupid game with me. 1153 01:06:15,939 --> 01:06:17,319 You hear me? 1154 01:06:39,264 --> 01:06:40,377 BLAIR: Angel. 1155 01:06:41,834 --> 01:06:43,216 What is it, Lieutenant? 1156 01:06:44,059 --> 01:06:45,517 Could we stop this, please? 1157 01:06:48,855 --> 01:06:50,773 I'm sorry about Forbes. 1158 01:06:50,812 --> 01:06:52,884 I don't know who you're talking about. 1159 01:06:52,922 --> 01:06:54,073 Don't. 1160 01:06:54,111 --> 01:06:56,873 It's a shitty game, Angel. 1161 01:06:56,873 --> 01:06:58,830 Rosie deserves more. 1162 01:06:59,942 --> 01:07:02,014 What do you suggest I do about it? 1163 01:07:02,052 --> 01:07:04,585 Look, he feels responsible. 1164 01:07:04,624 --> 01:07:06,541 And so he should. 1165 01:07:06,579 --> 01:07:08,382 His confidence is shot. 1166 01:07:08,382 --> 01:07:10,914 He's questioning every move he made. 1167 01:07:10,953 --> 01:07:12,948 He can't go back up there like this. 1168 01:07:12,986 --> 01:07:14,368 And right now... 1169 01:07:15,020 --> 01:07:16,937 I think we need all the pilots we can get. 1170 01:07:16,976 --> 01:07:18,971 I'll think about it. 1171 01:07:22,001 --> 01:07:24,036 He's a good guy, Angel. 1172 01:07:25,839 --> 01:07:27,948 There's no reason to hate him. 1173 01:07:36,504 --> 01:07:37,617 COMPUTER: Fuel cells nominal. 1174 01:07:37,655 --> 01:07:40,723 Life-support system critical in five hours. 1175 01:07:44,138 --> 01:07:46,057 [Sonar pinging] 1176 01:07:53,154 --> 01:07:55,647 What is she, another destroyer? 1177 01:07:55,686 --> 01:07:57,105 GERALD: It doesn't matter. 1178 01:07:59,330 --> 01:08:02,131 We can't take another round of bombardment. 1179 01:08:02,170 --> 01:08:04,357 I have four rapiers ready to go, sir. 1180 01:08:04,394 --> 01:08:06,159 We'll go down fighting. 1181 01:08:06,159 --> 01:08:08,116 TAGGART: We'll do better than that, Angel. 1182 01:08:08,884 --> 01:08:10,302 Let's make a miracle. 1183 01:08:11,914 --> 01:08:15,099 That ship up there is going to save our ass. 1184 01:08:17,246 --> 01:08:19,126 DEVEREAUX: Lieutenant, time to suit up. 1185 01:08:19,126 --> 01:08:21,197 MORRIS: Oh! Ma'am? 1186 01:08:21,236 --> 01:08:23,308 DEVEREAUX: I need my best pilots out there. 1187 01:08:23,347 --> 01:08:24,766 P.A. : I repeat-- 1188 01:08:24,804 --> 01:08:28,181 all pilots and flight crew to hangar deck immediately. 1189 01:08:29,523 --> 01:08:32,707 Well, I don't know if I'm one of your best pilots, ma'am. 1190 01:08:32,745 --> 01:08:35,776 Does everyone here think I go around making suggestions? 1191 01:08:39,382 --> 01:08:40,764 No. 1192 01:08:40,802 --> 01:08:42,912 Then I guess I gave an order. 1193 01:08:42,950 --> 01:08:45,636 Be on the flight deck in five minutes. 1194 01:08:47,171 --> 01:08:48,552 Do it for Rosie. 1195 01:09:10,304 --> 01:09:12,146 TAGGART: Aren't you on the wrong ship, Commander? 1196 01:09:12,184 --> 01:09:13,988 GERALD: I still have a responsibility... 1197 01:09:14,026 --> 01:09:16,519 to this crew, Commodore. 1198 01:09:16,557 --> 01:09:18,016 And excuse my bluntness... 1199 01:09:18,016 --> 01:09:19,512 but if you think I'm going to let my men... 1200 01:09:19,550 --> 01:09:22,197 be flown into combat by a rogue and a half-breed... 1201 01:09:22,235 --> 01:09:24,039 you're sadly mistaken. 1202 01:09:24,078 --> 01:09:26,839 He really is a good guy once you get to know him. 1203 01:09:50,779 --> 01:09:52,927 DEVERAUX: That's no destroyer. 1204 01:09:52,965 --> 01:09:55,766 That's the communication ship we came up against. 1205 01:09:55,804 --> 01:09:57,915 TAGGART: And that's the ship we'll get our fuel from. 1206 01:09:57,953 --> 01:09:59,833 They'll spot our heat corona soon. 1207 01:09:59,871 --> 01:10:01,060 TAGGART: No. 1208 01:10:01,099 --> 01:10:02,480 They won't have a chance. 1209 01:10:02,518 --> 01:10:03,707 Hit it. 1210 01:10:07,083 --> 01:10:08,426 Marines, to your stations. 1211 01:10:08,465 --> 01:10:10,229 As soon as you get on board... 1212 01:10:10,267 --> 01:10:12,071 head straight for the engine room. 1213 01:10:12,071 --> 01:10:14,603 Tiger Claw needs those fuel cells. 1214 01:11:04,783 --> 01:11:05,819 TAGGART: Blair... 1215 01:11:05,857 --> 01:11:08,007 I'm picking up some sort of transmission aft of you. 1216 01:11:08,044 --> 01:11:09,349 Check it out. 1217 01:12:03,327 --> 01:12:04,440 TAGGART: Blair. 1218 01:12:05,705 --> 01:12:07,241 Where the hell are you, Blair? 1219 01:12:13,340 --> 01:12:15,028 BLAIR: What the hell? 1220 01:12:15,066 --> 01:12:16,525 Pegasus Navcom. 1221 01:12:16,563 --> 01:12:17,868 Paladin... 1222 01:12:17,906 --> 01:12:19,402 they have the Charybdis jump coordinates. 1223 01:12:20,783 --> 01:12:22,433 DEVEREAUX: Is everything OK? 1224 01:12:22,509 --> 01:12:23,814 We've secured the fuel cells. 1225 01:12:23,853 --> 01:12:25,195 BLAIR: We've got more than that, Angel. 1226 01:12:25,195 --> 01:12:27,420 We have the Kilrathi jump coordinates. 1227 01:12:27,458 --> 01:12:29,070 DEVEREAUX: Marines, move out. 1228 01:12:46,947 --> 01:12:49,749 GERALD: Mr. Obutu, prepare drone. 1229 01:12:49,786 --> 01:12:52,779 Input the Kilrathi jump coordinates. 1230 01:12:52,817 --> 01:12:54,276 Send it through the Charybdis quasar... 1231 01:12:54,352 --> 01:12:55,657 to Admiral Tolwyn. 1232 01:12:57,037 --> 01:12:58,687 They should be able to target the exact location... 1233 01:12:58,725 --> 01:13:01,104 of the Kilrathi jump entry. 1234 01:13:01,143 --> 01:13:03,022 It'll be over before they can get their weapons on-line. 1235 01:13:04,020 --> 01:13:05,977 TAGGART: lf Tolwyn's there, Mr. Gerald. 1236 01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:08,623 If he's there. 1237 01:13:08,661 --> 01:13:09,889 OBUTU: Sir, we have a problem. 1238 01:13:09,928 --> 01:13:11,616 I can't get the drones on-line. 1239 01:13:12,651 --> 01:13:15,337 Without those coordinates, Tolwyn doesn't have a chance. 1240 01:13:16,488 --> 01:13:18,598 And we are too big to slip past the Kilrathi... 1241 01:13:18,636 --> 01:13:19,749 and warn the fleet. 1242 01:13:20,823 --> 01:13:22,358 We'll have to send a fighter through. 1243 01:13:22,435 --> 01:13:24,391 GERALD: impossible. 1244 01:13:24,429 --> 01:13:26,731 There are over a thousand singularities in that quasar. 1245 01:13:26,770 --> 01:13:29,340 To jump it would be suicide without Navcom coordinates. 1246 01:13:29,378 --> 01:13:31,297 TAGGART: We don't need a Navcom. 1247 01:13:33,215 --> 01:13:34,327 Blair? 1248 01:13:38,931 --> 01:13:40,389 You will navigate the quasar. 1249 01:13:40,427 --> 01:13:42,691 Angel will follow your lead. 1250 01:13:44,302 --> 01:13:45,990 Sir, that's statistically impossible. 1251 01:13:46,028 --> 01:13:47,793 We don't have another option. 1252 01:13:47,793 --> 01:13:49,443 You have the gift. 1253 01:13:53,279 --> 01:13:54,776 I don't think I can. 1254 01:13:55,659 --> 01:13:56,770 I don't have the faith. 1255 01:13:56,808 --> 01:13:58,958 It's not faith. It's genetics. 1256 01:14:01,988 --> 01:14:04,520 But if you believe you need faith... 1257 01:14:17,794 --> 01:14:19,444 take mine. 1258 01:14:35,135 --> 01:14:36,439 Why didn't you tell me? 1259 01:14:38,511 --> 01:14:40,198 You didn't ask. 1260 01:14:41,848 --> 01:14:42,923 FALK: Sir... 1261 01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:46,299 Long-range scanners picking up Kilrathi ships. 1262 01:14:46,337 --> 01:14:49,369 Looks like a destroyer and a cruiser. 1263 01:14:50,250 --> 01:14:51,900 TAGGART: We'll create the diversion. 1264 01:14:51,938 --> 01:14:54,318 GERALD: Get those coordinates to Tolwyn. 1265 01:15:04,253 --> 01:15:07,514 BLAIR: Uh, I got a strong signal at ten o'clock. 1266 01:15:08,550 --> 01:15:10,546 It's gone, Angel. It vanished. 1267 01:15:10,583 --> 01:15:12,654 DEVEREAUX: Got it-- a skipper missile... 1268 01:15:12,693 --> 01:15:13,959 dead on course for the Tiger Claw. 1269 01:15:13,998 --> 01:15:15,380 Only thing that can kill it... 1270 01:15:15,417 --> 01:15:17,335 is a star fighter in visual contact. 1271 01:15:22,207 --> 01:15:23,474 What are you doing, Angel? 1272 01:15:23,512 --> 01:15:25,968 DEVEREAUX: Just stay on course. Get through the jump point. 1273 01:15:26,006 --> 01:15:27,426 What about our orders? 1274 01:15:27,464 --> 01:15:28,998 Angel. 1275 01:15:29,036 --> 01:15:30,417 Angel! 1276 01:15:38,014 --> 01:15:39,394 [Alarm] 1277 01:15:39,433 --> 01:15:40,546 GERALD: Report! 1278 01:15:40,584 --> 01:15:42,464 Sir, we have a bogey. 1279 01:15:42,503 --> 01:15:45,265 Vector one-nine-seven mark three-- 1280 01:15:45,303 --> 01:15:46,608 It's gone. 1281 01:15:49,139 --> 01:15:50,520 It's a skipper missile. 1282 01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:52,247 We're only picking it up... 1283 01:15:52,247 --> 01:15:53,936 when it de-cloaks to get a radar fix. 1284 01:15:54,855 --> 01:15:57,119 TAGGART: Estimated time till impact? 1285 01:15:57,157 --> 01:15:58,654 One minute, sir. 1286 01:16:11,313 --> 01:16:13,539 FALK: Forty-five seconds till impact. 1287 01:16:16,262 --> 01:16:19,102 Sir, our shields are too weak to take a direct hit. 1288 01:16:21,136 --> 01:16:23,246 It's in those two kids' hands now. 1289 01:16:36,980 --> 01:16:38,476 FALK: Twenty seconds. 1290 01:16:40,355 --> 01:16:42,888 COMPUTER: Warning! Collision alert! 1291 01:16:42,927 --> 01:16:44,039 DEVEREAUX: Oh, shit! 1292 01:17:03,682 --> 01:17:05,101 Radar. 1293 01:17:06,136 --> 01:17:08,055 No sign of the skipper missile, sir. 1294 01:17:08,093 --> 01:17:10,509 One of the rapiers must have shot it down. 1295 01:17:10,548 --> 01:17:12,696 Where are they now? 1296 01:17:35,793 --> 01:17:37,479 Are you all right? 1297 01:17:41,892 --> 01:17:44,194 Well, I might not be dancing for a while. 1298 01:17:46,496 --> 01:17:47,800 All right, hang on. 1299 01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:50,025 I'm gonna tractor you back to the ship. 1300 01:17:50,025 --> 01:17:52,788 No, no, you're not. You're going on. 1301 01:17:52,941 --> 01:17:55,742 We can't both disobey orders. 1302 01:17:55,780 --> 01:17:57,315 You'll be out of air in an hour. 1303 01:17:57,353 --> 01:17:59,463 You're going back to the ship. 1304 01:17:59,501 --> 01:18:01,113 You disobey my order... 1305 01:18:01,151 --> 01:18:02,648 and I'll have you court-martialed. 1306 01:18:02,686 --> 01:18:03,991 Like I care. 1307 01:18:03,991 --> 01:18:05,984 Then care about the billions who will die... 1308 01:18:06,023 --> 01:18:08,479 if the fleet doesn't get the jump coordinates. 1309 01:18:12,161 --> 01:18:13,658 You've got to go on. 1310 01:18:14,770 --> 01:18:15,959 You know that. 1311 01:18:25,168 --> 01:18:27,200 You're all right, Angel. 1312 01:18:30,961 --> 01:18:32,302 You too, Chris. 1313 01:19:06,524 --> 01:19:08,826 OBUTU: The Kilrathi ships are closing. 1314 01:19:10,129 --> 01:19:11,320 So what now? 1315 01:19:12,164 --> 01:19:14,656 Now we make them sorry they were ever born. 1316 01:19:14,695 --> 01:19:16,422 Battle stations. 1317 01:19:16,498 --> 01:19:18,532 Battle stations! Battle stations! 1318 01:19:35,336 --> 01:19:36,984 Merlin, check my coordinates. 1319 01:19:37,023 --> 01:19:38,673 [Beeping] 1320 01:19:39,977 --> 01:19:42,317 MERLIN: Jump coordinates verified, Lieutenant. 1321 01:19:44,927 --> 01:19:46,346 BLAIR: Firing jump drive. 1322 01:20:27,203 --> 01:20:29,544 FALK: Kilrathi cruiser and destroyer are in missile range. 1323 01:20:29,583 --> 01:20:31,155 TAGGART: Open fire, Mr. Gerald. 1324 01:20:31,193 --> 01:20:32,268 GERALD: Aye, aye, sir. 1325 01:20:32,345 --> 01:20:34,224 All batteries, fire as she bears. 1326 01:20:50,913 --> 01:20:54,404 FALK: A Kilrathi cruiser is bearing right for us, sir. 1327 01:20:54,443 --> 01:20:55,939 What tack, sir? 1328 01:20:55,977 --> 01:20:57,665 Steady on. 1329 01:20:57,703 --> 01:20:59,660 Let them be the first to blink. 1330 01:21:01,962 --> 01:21:03,765 MERLIN: Jump trajectory is drifting. 1331 01:21:03,804 --> 01:21:06,106 Please recompute coordinates. 1332 01:21:13,049 --> 01:21:15,850 BLAIR: Coordinates eight-seven- five-nine-three mark... 1333 01:21:15,850 --> 01:21:19,724 eight-five-four-nine-three, vector one-oh-five-niner. 1334 01:21:24,290 --> 01:21:26,055 Prepare to lower our shield. 1335 01:21:33,881 --> 01:21:35,799 OFFICER: She's changing course, sir. 1336 01:21:35,837 --> 01:21:38,178 Portside missile battery prepare to fire. 1337 01:21:38,217 --> 01:21:40,135 MAN: Fuel block locked and loaded. 1338 01:21:40,172 --> 01:21:41,285 SECOND MAN: Ready to go, sir. 1339 01:21:41,938 --> 01:21:46,196 Sir, the missile guidance system won't activate at this range. 1340 01:21:46,234 --> 01:21:47,999 She won't need to. Lower our shields. 1341 01:21:48,037 --> 01:21:49,879 Shields lowered. 1342 01:21:50,839 --> 01:21:52,564 MAN: Brace for impact! 1343 01:21:59,931 --> 01:22:02,002 Give them a broadside, Mr. Gerald! 1344 01:22:02,040 --> 01:22:03,115 Open fire! 1345 01:22:03,152 --> 01:22:04,419 MAN: Fire! Now! 1346 01:22:12,015 --> 01:22:13,549 ALL: Yeaaahh! 1347 01:22:15,199 --> 01:22:18,728 MERLIN: I cannot verify the new coordinates. Recompute. 1348 01:22:21,300 --> 01:22:24,790 PNR in five seconds. Entry vector doesn't compute. 1349 01:22:28,512 --> 01:22:29,931 BLAIR: I made it! 1350 01:22:29,970 --> 01:22:32,502 She held together! I love this baby! 1351 01:22:34,458 --> 01:22:35,532 This is Lieutenant Christopher Blair... 1352 01:22:35,571 --> 01:22:36,991 to any Confed ship. 1353 01:22:37,028 --> 01:22:39,637 A Kilrathi battle group has the Charybdis jump coordinates. 1354 01:22:39,675 --> 01:22:41,632 They will breach at one-six-seven... 1355 01:22:41,671 --> 01:22:43,321 mark eight-eight nine, Sol system. 1356 01:22:43,359 --> 01:22:47,003 Repeat, one-six-seven mark eight-eight-nine, Sol system. 1357 01:22:47,042 --> 01:22:49,267 Confed fleet, do you read? 1358 01:22:49,305 --> 01:22:52,413 [Buzz buzz buzz] 1359 01:22:52,451 --> 01:22:54,754 Merlin, check your scanners for any sign of the Confed fleet. 1360 01:22:54,754 --> 01:22:55,827 [Beep beep] 1361 01:22:55,865 --> 01:22:58,014 MERLIN: I'm picking up a Kilrathi signal behind us. 1362 01:22:59,549 --> 01:23:01,620 Snakeir class capital ship. 1363 01:23:01,658 --> 01:23:03,730 It followed us through the jump point. 1364 01:23:03,768 --> 01:23:07,604 BLAIR: Shit! I'm too late. 1365 01:23:26,749 --> 01:23:28,705 RICHARD: Com room reports a faint message... 1366 01:23:28,744 --> 01:23:30,316 in clear from Lieutenant Blair. 1367 01:23:30,355 --> 01:23:32,925 He's broadcasting the Kilrathi jump coordinates. 1368 01:23:32,964 --> 01:23:34,306 TOLWYN: Blair. 1369 01:23:34,345 --> 01:23:35,419 RICHARD: Should we respond, sir? 1370 01:23:35,457 --> 01:23:36,915 RADAR MAN: Identifying Confed rapier... 1371 01:23:36,954 --> 01:23:38,374 heading towards Earth at LSM point nine. 1372 01:23:38,411 --> 01:23:39,869 He's being followed by something massive, Admiral. 1373 01:23:39,869 --> 01:23:41,404 Looks like a Snakeir. 1374 01:23:41,442 --> 01:23:42,939 RICHARD: Permission to intercept it? 1375 01:23:42,977 --> 01:23:44,358 TOLWYN: No, we wait. 1376 01:23:44,358 --> 01:23:47,504 The Snakeir will overtake Blair's fighter. 1377 01:23:47,542 --> 01:23:49,499 Sir, if we don't intercept... 1378 01:23:49,538 --> 01:23:51,954 the Snakeir will reach Earth orbit before us. 1379 01:23:51,993 --> 01:23:53,911 The casualties could be significant. 1380 01:23:53,950 --> 01:23:55,675 I'm bloody well aware of that, Richard! 1381 01:23:55,714 --> 01:23:58,706 All ships are to target those jump coordinates. 1382 01:24:07,645 --> 01:24:10,062 Blair to Confed fleet, a Kilrathi capital ship... 1383 01:24:10,100 --> 01:24:12,018 has penetrated the quasar's jump point... 1384 01:24:12,057 --> 01:24:14,167 and is in Earth space. Copy? 1385 01:24:17,657 --> 01:24:19,231 They aren't in radio range. 1386 01:24:20,804 --> 01:24:22,184 Earth will never see 'em coming. 1387 01:24:22,223 --> 01:24:23,297 MERLIN: I'm detecting... 1388 01:24:23,336 --> 01:24:25,791 a Confederation signal, Lieutenant. 1389 01:24:28,937 --> 01:24:31,355 [Beep beep beep beep] 1390 01:24:31,393 --> 01:24:32,736 Confederation transponder... 1391 01:24:32,774 --> 01:24:35,152 identified as beacon one-four-seven. 1392 01:24:35,191 --> 01:24:38,030 Oh, shit--Scylla. 1393 01:24:45,933 --> 01:24:47,659 MERLIN: Mass of Snakeir-- 1394 01:24:47,698 --> 01:24:51,189 two hundred thousand, four hundred sixty-one tons 1395 01:25:00,357 --> 01:25:04,156 OBUTU: Sir, we've hove to for damage inspection. 1396 01:25:04,194 --> 01:25:06,227 TAGGART: And the locator beacon from the rapier pod? 1397 01:25:07,532 --> 01:25:10,065 Nothing, sir. Lost contact during the battle. 1398 01:25:14,092 --> 01:25:16,547 Have the Diligent prepared for launch. 1399 01:25:16,585 --> 01:25:18,044 If I'm not back in two hours... 1400 01:25:18,081 --> 01:25:20,461 make the jump to Earth. I'll join you later. 1401 01:25:20,499 --> 01:25:21,574 Aye, aye, sir. 1402 01:25:21,611 --> 01:25:23,721 I'm going to look for that pod. 1403 01:25:42,597 --> 01:25:45,051 MERLIN: The Snakeir will have a firing solution on us... 1404 01:25:45,090 --> 01:25:46,740 in five seconds. 1405 01:25:49,732 --> 01:25:51,229 Kilrathi radar is locked on. 1406 01:25:51,267 --> 01:25:53,070 Ten seconds to the point of no return... 1407 01:25:53,109 --> 01:25:54,681 and we're almost out of fuel. 1408 01:26:00,359 --> 01:26:01,433 BLAIR: Give me a count. 1409 01:26:01,472 --> 01:26:04,005 MERLIN: Five. ..four... 1410 01:26:05,961 --> 01:26:08,876 three...two... 1411 01:26:08,915 --> 01:26:11,101 BLAIR: Holy shit! 1412 01:26:37,765 --> 01:26:39,683 We made it! 1413 01:26:42,254 --> 01:26:44,133 The Kilrathi's too big. 1414 01:26:45,476 --> 01:26:46,550 Scylla's got her. 1415 01:27:03,316 --> 01:27:04,619 MERLIN: You're out of fuel, Lieutenant. 1416 01:27:04,657 --> 01:27:07,267 Switching off auxiliary systems. 1417 01:27:36,117 --> 01:27:38,955 RICHARD: Admiral, the Kilrathi fleet... 1418 01:27:38,994 --> 01:27:40,145 is coming through the jump point... 1419 01:27:40,183 --> 01:27:41,258 one ship at a time. 1420 01:27:41,335 --> 01:27:43,137 They've no chance to defend themselves... 1421 01:27:43,214 --> 01:27:44,595 or warn the ships behind. 1422 01:27:44,634 --> 01:27:46,053 And the Snakeir? 1423 01:27:46,091 --> 01:27:49,314 She's disappeared from our scanners. 1424 01:27:49,352 --> 01:27:52,920 Launch two rapier wings and a squadron of broadswords. 1425 01:27:52,958 --> 01:27:55,030 Aye, aye, sir. 1426 01:28:06,233 --> 01:28:07,422 PILOT: This is Concordia rescue and recovery. 1427 01:28:07,461 --> 01:28:08,957 Stand by for tractor. 1428 01:28:20,235 --> 01:28:22,115 Welcome to Sol sector, Lieutenant. 1429 01:28:43,791 --> 01:28:45,556 Your parents would have been proud. 1430 01:28:48,894 --> 01:28:50,851 Have they located Commander Deveraux? 1431 01:28:50,888 --> 01:28:52,269 Paladin went to search for her. 1432 01:28:52,307 --> 01:28:53,689 We haven't heard from him... 1433 01:28:53,728 --> 01:28:55,876 since the Tiger Claw arrived in Earth space. 1434 01:28:55,915 --> 01:28:58,293 RICHARD: Admiral, I have the Diligent reporting. 1435 01:28:58,331 --> 01:28:59,866 Commodore Taggart requesting permission... 1436 01:28:59,904 --> 01:29:01,593 to land on the Tiger Claw, sir. 1437 01:29:01,630 --> 01:29:02,706 Is she with him? 1438 01:29:02,743 --> 01:29:05,467 RICHARD: Lieutenant Commander Deveraux is on board. 1439 01:29:05,505 --> 01:29:07,769 Taggart is requesting an emergency medical team... 1440 01:29:07,808 --> 01:29:09,917 to meet him on the flight deck. 1441 01:29:09,956 --> 01:29:12,258 I think you're on the wrong ship, Lieutenant. 1442 01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:22,118 BLAIR: Baker Two, requesting permission to land. 1443 01:29:22,155 --> 01:29:23,805 CONTROL: Welcome back, Lieutenant Blair. 1444 01:29:23,844 --> 01:29:25,454 You're clear to land. 1445 01:29:36,159 --> 01:29:37,540 MORRIS: Yeah! 1446 01:29:37,578 --> 01:29:39,190 Baby, you made it! 1447 01:29:39,228 --> 01:29:42,680 Not bad for the second best pilot in the academy. 1448 01:29:42,719 --> 01:29:44,023 BLAIR: Where's Angel? 1449 01:29:45,021 --> 01:29:46,823 She just came in. 1450 01:29:46,862 --> 01:29:49,510 TAGGART: Get the medical team on the double! 1451 01:29:51,390 --> 01:29:53,384 It's pure luck I found her. 1452 01:29:53,422 --> 01:29:55,456 She turned off her beacon... 1453 01:29:55,494 --> 01:29:57,527 not to tip off the Kilrathi. 1454 01:29:57,565 --> 01:29:59,100 She's brave. 1455 01:29:59,139 --> 01:30:01,057 I'll go and get the medic. 1456 01:30:01,095 --> 01:30:04,241 Come on, girl. Angel, come on, wake up, girl. 1457 01:30:04,279 --> 01:30:05,392 Wake up. 1458 01:30:06,773 --> 01:30:08,000 Hey, don't you die on me. 1459 01:30:08,039 --> 01:30:09,535 MARSHALL: Come on. 1460 01:30:09,574 --> 01:30:11,416 [Coughs] 1461 01:30:11,416 --> 01:30:12,989 MARSHALL: They're coming, they're coming. 1462 01:30:13,066 --> 01:30:14,177 BLAIR: Hang on. 1463 01:30:17,823 --> 01:30:19,318 What did you say? 1464 01:30:20,124 --> 01:30:21,966 I said don't you die on me. 1465 01:30:21,966 --> 01:30:23,538 Yeah? 1466 01:30:23,577 --> 01:30:26,185 Suggestion or an order? 1467 01:30:27,337 --> 01:30:29,217 That's definitely an order. 1468 01:30:37,503 --> 01:30:39,077 MEDIC: We should get her to sick bay.