SERIES TWO - The Keeper (B12)

TARA: Nothing will kill me, I shall live for ever.
GOLA: Tcha! [Travis enters] Kick that fool as you pass him. Possibly I might smile at his pain. [Travis does, they both laugh]
GOLA: Travis, my friend. You'll take wine?
TRAVIS: Thank you, oh Charl.
GOLA: My sister here has all kinds of mind-bending potions if they are more to your liking. [they laugh]

TARA: [Looking into the vapour] I see... I see: a man and a woman. The man is a fool, the woman is beautiful to behold. Here, in the Tents of Goth.
GOLA: You see? She is not of this world. [more laughter.]
PATROL LEADER: [Off screen] In there!
VILA: [Off screen] All right! [Vila and Jenna are brought in]
TRAVIS: You! Where is Blake?
VILA: [To Jenna] They haven't got him.
PATROL LEADER: Silence!!
GOLA: [to Travis] You know these people?
TRAVIS: Yes, oh Charl. They are enemies. Of myself, of Servalan, and also of Lurgen who mended your wound and took away the terrible pains.
GOLA: Truly a magician, that Lurgen. Real magic, not foolery and potions. It's a pity he's gone from us. [fingering a red scar on his forehead] Without his cure, I would be wishing for death. You say these people are his enemies?
TRAVIS: They pursue him to kill him.
GOLA: A beautiful woman! And a fool.
VILA: Eh?!
TRAVIS: These two I leave to your mercies, oh Charl.
GOLA: A beautiful woman - indeed she is so. [Vila and Jenna exchange nervous looks, the Fool scowls jealously]

[SERVALAN'S TENT - she is lying on a couch eating fruit]

TRAVIS: [Entering] It's them! It's that fool Vila and the girl, Jenna, they're here.
SERVALAN: What? Is Blake here?
TRAVIS: No. [into transmitter] Pursuit Ship Four, Travis here. Reply.
SERVALAN: The Liberator has obviously destroyed it.
TRAVIS: Yes. Blake must be one step behind us. We know the keeper of the secret is on Goth. We know he is a royal person. Perhaps Blake knows that too.
SERVALAN: But which royal person? There is the Charl and there is his sister.
TRAVIS: It has to be one of them.
SERVALAN: But which one?
TRAVIS: You will soon know, and when you do, you could control the Federation, you and I.
SERVALAN: Don't be ridiculous, Travis.
TRAVIS: Look, Star One is the computer control center. It controls the climate on more than two hundred worlds, communications, security, food production, it controls them all. It is the key to our very lives. Think of all that power.
SERVALAN: You can see why the Council themselves don't know where Star One is. In the wrong hands --

TRAVIS: Yes, but in the right hands: yours and mine.
SERVALAN: Be very careful you don't overreach yourself, Travis.
TRAVIS: There'll come a time when such ideas seem unambitious. One day, Servalan --
SERVALAN: Yes? What are you talking about, Travis? [he sits down]
TRAVIS: I must alert the nearest Federation flotilla to attack the Liberator. I can't do it from here on this thing. I'll have to use your ship.
SERVALAN: The Liberator may pick you up.
TRAVIS: It's a chance we'll have to take unless you're prepared to risk Blake getting to the secret before we do, well?
SERVALAN: All right. How long?
TRAVIS: Three hours.
SERVALAN: That long?
TRAVIS: You could have the secret by then, it has to be one of those two, the chief or his sister. Don't you trust me?
SERVALAN: No, of course not.
TRAVIS: Then trust my ambition. You will be the new keeper of the secret.
SERVALAN: Yes.

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