SERIES TWO - Hostage (B8)

[Travis appears on the main screen]
TRAVIS: Blake, I am sending from the planet Exbar. I have Ushton's daughter. Here she is. [The screen shows Inga] Her name is Inga, if you remember. [Screens shows Travis] Don't worry, I won't harm her. All I ask is come to Exbar and talk. Blake, this is not a trick. Like yourself, I am now a fugitive from the Federation. It is time we pooled our resources. Together we might survive. Alone the Federation will pick us off one at a time.
AVON: Starting with him, we hope.
VILA: He could have a point.
TRAVIS: Blake, the girl is safe if you come to Exbar within twenty five time units. Teleport at grid reference B W one three zero. If you do not come, the girl, regretfully, dies. [Visplay ends]

[Main room of tower]
TRAVIS: [Into communicator] I know. I saw him. [To Molok and Inga] He's coming up. The back trail. Did you hear that, Inga? Your champion is coming to rescue you. He's very gallant, your Blake. Foolish, too. All right Molok.
MOLOK: [To other crimos] Get him. [Crimos exit]
TRAVIS: I think my crimos are going to enjoy this.
INGA: You're going to kill him.[Stands but Molok grabs her]
TRAVIS: Don't worry, I won't kill him, yet.

[Tower main room. Crimos bring Blake in. His hands are bound behind him and he's blindfolded]
TRAVIS: Ah, Blake. Come in. Welcome.
BLAKE: Some welcome.
TRAVIS: Sit down. [Travis guides him into a chair at a table, and pulls the blindfold off. Inga is seated across from Blake] You know your cousin Inga, of course. She and her father have been looking forward to meeting you again.
INGA: I'm sorry, Roj.
BLAKE: Are you all right?
INGA: Don't believe anything he tells you. My father would never do the things he says.
TRAVIS: You're wrong, Inga. You should listen to me. I am the only one you can trust.
INGA: He says my father has betrayed you.
TRAVIS: [Communicator chimes. Travis picks it up and speaks into it] Two more? You will? Good. Thank you, Ushton. Inga, that was your father. He is being very cooperative.
INGA: He wouldn't spit on you. [Molok strikes her, she screams, Blake springs to his feet but is forced back down by a crimo. Inga is taken away]
TRAVIS: [To crimos] Two more coming up the trail. Go and get them. [Crimos exit. Travis sits down across from Blake] Now, Blake, you and I have business, I believe.
BLAKE: I can't think what.
TRAVIS: I am tired of being hunted by Servalan and the Federation. Sooner or later I shall be cornered. My problem is, I want the Liberator.
BLAKE: I see. Yes, of course.
TRAVIS: It is the fastest and most powerful ship in existence.
BLAKE: Not a chance, Travis.
TRAVIS: We'll see.

[Tower main room]
BLAKE: I said I wouldn't give you the Liberator, Travis, and I won't. But I think you're probably right: together we stand more chance than operating as single units. I am prepared to do a deal with you. TRAVIS: Most cooperative of you, Blake, since you have no choice.
[Inga struggles with Molok, gets free and runs out the door]
MOLOK: Bring her back.
TRAVIS: Futile gesture. The girl's a fool. She actually wants to die. Can you understand that Blake?
BLAKE: Can you?
TRAVIS: Oh yes, I understand shame very well. Now, you were telling me about your change of heart. About sharing the Liberator. [Blake doesn't answer] Pity, I was beginning to enjoy it.
[Molok brings Inga back and forces her over to the table between Blake and Travis]
TRAVIS: You wanted to die, Inga. Why was that?
INGA: You wouldn't understand.
TRAVIS: So that Blake would not hate your father? But he does.
BLAKE: I do not hate him.
TRAVIS: Ushton betrayed you. You must hate him; I would in your place.
BLAKE: That is the difference between us, Travis.
[Travis jumps up to backhand Blake and Blake leans back in his chair]
BLAKE: That, too.
TRAVIS: [To crimos] Take him in there.
[Blake is pushed into what appears to be a storage room]

[Tower main room. Avon and Vila are herded in and Ushton hands Travis their bracelets]
USHTON: Now you've got all three. So let me have my daughter.
TRAVIS: Wait.
USHTON: You promised.
INGA: Father.[Molok restrains her]
USHTON: Leave her alone.
TRAVIS: Old man, don't be difficult. She was ashamed of you. She tried to run away.
USHTON: [Sits] I may be an old man, but if you cheat me, Travis...
TRAVIS: Why should I? I've got Blake in there; now I've got the other two. You kept your part of the bargain. It'll be dark before long and you can take your daughter down in the morning. All right?
USHTON: All right.
INGA: [Comes to the table to confront Ushton] Why did you do it?
USHTON: I had to.
INGA: No you didn't, Father.
USHTON: He would have killed you, Inga.
INGA: I would rather he had.
TRAVIS: [To crimos, indicating Avon and Vila] Take them in there.
AVON: I thought you wanted to do a deal with us, Travis?
TRAVIS: I've changed my mind, Avon.
AVON: [To Vila] And you believed him.
VILA: How was I to know he'd change his mind?
[Vila and Avon are put into the storage room with Blake]
BLAKE: Nice of you to drop in.
AVON: The old man betrayed us.
BLAKE: I know.
AVON: I won't say that I told you so.
BLAKE: Thank you.
AVON: At least we are still alive.
BLAKE: For the time being.
VILA: What does that mean?
AVON: These gentlemen do not mean us well, or haven't you noticed?
VILA: Why should they want to kill us?
BLAKE: Because they enjoy it.
AVON: All we can hope for is that it's quick.

[Tower main room. Molok is twisting Inga's arm behind her back. She screams]
TRAVIS: Who is the weakest?
USHTON: What do you want to know for? [Travis snaps his fingers and Molok twists Inga's arm again. She screams]
TRAVIS: Who is the weakest?
INGA: Don't help them anymore, Father. [Travis signals again and again Molok twists Inga's arm]
USHTON: The one they call Vila.
TRAVIS: Vila. [To Molok] Bring him out. Leave the other two in there. Seal off the door. [Turns a tap attached to pipe]
USHTON: What are you doing? You're going to kill them, aren't you?
TRAVIS: What else do you think I was going to do with Blake, you old fool?

[Tower main room. Travis is holding a bracelet and Molok is wearing one]
TRAVIS: You're going to help me, Vila. How do these things work?
VILA: I don't know. One of the others always does it for me. I'm not very good with technical things.
TRAVIS: Don't play the idiot with me.
VILA: You're going to kill us anyway so why don't you get on with it. [Travis stands up and moves next to Vila] What are you doing?
TRAVIS: Now you see Molok has a bracelet on. All you have to do is talk. Demonstrate. Tell us the word.
VILA: I'm saying nothing.
[Travis powers up his hand and points it very close to Vila's temple]
TRAVIS: The word. Tell us the word.
VILA: [Whispers] Teleport.
TRAVIS: I'm sorry, we didn't hear the word, did we Molok? [Molok grins nastily and shakes his head]
VILA: I'm not helping you, never.
TRAVIS: Now, for the last time, tell us the word. The Word. The Word. [To Molok] Switch the bracelet on. [To Vila] The Word. The Word. The Word. [Presses hand to Vila's temple]
VILA: TELEPORT! I told you TELEPORT!

[Tower storage room]
VILA: I'm dying. [Blake and Avon exchange looks]
AVON: Not yet. Soon.
VILA: [Goes to door and calls through window] Travis, let us out. We'll drive the Liberator for you.
TRAVIS: I like to hear you scream for mercy, Vila.
VILA: You'll never fly her on your own.
TRAVIS: You underestimate my crimos. They can fly my ship, why not yours?
VILA: Travis, please.

[Tower main room]
USHTON: Travis. She's run off.
TRAVIS: [To crimos] Get her!
[All the crimos exit. Ushton knocks Travis out]
USHTON: Inga. [She comes out of hiding as Ushton turns the pipe tap] Get them out of there. I'll deal with Travis.

[Ushton drags Travis out and dumps him down a cliff]

[Ushton, Blake and Avon outside. Scene cuts from them to Travis and the crimos running around]
USHTON: That way.

TRAVIS: Crimos! Crimos! Forget the girl! The prisoners are free. Come on, this way. Follow me.

[Ushton, Blake, and Avon running]

TRAVIS: Come on.

[Blake, Avon, and Ushton roll boulders on the crimos and Travis. One crimo is killed]
USHTON: That's one gone. I'll get the other two, you get Travis.
BLAKE: You're unarmed.
USHTON: I'll manage.

TRAVIS: Crimos! Crimos! Crimos! Crimos! [He hides and fires as Blake and Avon run past him]

[Ushton defeats two crimos with a stick]

[Blake and Avon have pinned Travis down in some brush]

[Ushton throws a crimo down a cliff into water. As he finishes, another grabs him]

[Travis decoys Avon's shot by moving some brush. As Blake and Avon get up to run, Travis shoots and hits Avon in the arm. He falls to the ground and Blake joins him]
BLAKE: How bad is it?
AVON: I don't know.
BLAKE: Let me look.
AVON: Leave me. Watch yourself.
BLAKE: We've got to get you back to the Liberator.
AVON: Leave me!
BLAKE: Come on.
TRAVIS: Don't move.
BLAKE: Still no deal, Travis
TRAVIS: I'm not going to bargain with you, Blake, I'm going to kill you. Two for the price of one.
[Ushton throws net on Travis]
USHTON: Get him.
AVON: Why don't we kill him while we still have the chance?
BLAKE: No. We'll leave him for the Federation.
USHTON: [To Avon] You badly hurt?
AVON: I'll survive.
BLAKE: [To Travis, whose hands have been bound behind him] That is your way. [Shoves Travis away] [To Avon] We've got to get you to the Liberator quickly.
AVON: What about the crimos?
USHTON: [Indicates a fallen crimo] That's the last of them.
BLAKE: Come on, let's go.

[Exbar. It's night time. Travis is wnadering around, hands still tied. Servalan and a mutoid find him. The mutoid pulls a gun, but Servalan stops her]
SERVALAN: Hello, Travis.
TRAVIS: Servalan.
SERVALAN: Has Blake gone?
TRAVIS: Yes.
SERVALAN: [To mutoid] Release him.
[They both look up at Liberator in orbit]
TRAVIS: I wanted the Liberator.
SERVALAN: I thought it must be something like that.
TRAVIS: Are you and I still enemies?
SERVALAN: Officially, yes. Unofficially, you lead me to Blake whenever you can. If you help me get him I'll see you officially listed as dead. There's no one as free as a dead man.

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