[In the cell]
GAN: I wonder how long before they make contact with the Federation?
CALLY: Soon.
GAN: If I could just get close to some of them...
CALLY: The one called Tarvin, for example?
GAN: Right. What's that expression of yours?
CALLY: Companions for our death.
VILA: That's a bit morbid, isn't it... I've done it! I've done it!
BLAKE: Gently, gently!
VILA: Now that is genius. [Unfastens Blake's neckband]
BLAKE: You could well be right. [Takes the neckband off]
VILA: You want more proof? [He crosses to the door and gestures Avon aside.] Excuse me.
AVON: It's done.
VILA: [Skeptically] Oh, yes? [The door opens] Oh. Yes. [A guard outside aims his detonator at Blake.]
BLAKE: Get down! [Throws his neckband at the guard, who is caught in its explosion. He leaves the cell.]
BLAKE: [Cally and Gan follow him.] No, you stay back. Keep out of sight. Get him in there. [Gan carries the body into the cell.]
AVON: Vila.
VILA: What?
AVON: Take this off.
VILA: Well, that's all very well, but who's going to take mine off?
AVON: Get on with it.
VILA: [Plaintively] Who's going to take mine off?
CALLY: And, Vila, do be quick. I'll be next.
[In corridor. Another Amagon Guard spots Jenna.]
AMAGON: You! Stop! What are you doing here?
JENNA: Tarvin sent me to check on the others.
AMAGON: Why?
JENNA: Why don't you go and ask him yourself. Well?
AMAGON: I'll come with you. [They reach the cell door.]
JENNA: Open it. [He does. She enters the cell. He covers her from the doorway.]
GAN: Hello, Jenna. [The prisoners are sitting around the walls, with their hands behind their backs as if still bound. Jenna walks about the cell, "inspecting" them. She comes across the discarded manacles, pauses, and moves on.]
JENNA: I'm glad to see that you are all behaving yourselves. Tarvin doesn't want you damaged, unless necessary.
BLAKE: We're touched by his concern.
JENNA: It'll be more impressive if he can hand you over alive.
GAN: A man who takes pride in his work.
CALLY: What do you take pride in, Jenna?
JENNA: Survival.
AVON: At the expense of your friends?
JENNA: I didn't know that you cared, Avon.
VILA: He didn't. And he was right. [Jenna exits.]
