Blakes 7, Volcano: Blake & Avon Script Fragments

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Avon is following the rumors of Blake being seen on Obsidian, a planet ruled by a friend of Dayna's father, but they discover the rumor to be false, and their presence is betrayed to Servalan. They're hoping to discover a planet that can serve as a base, but Obsidian is a planet of peace protected by its intention to blow itself up if they would be invaded. They are. And they do.


Avon:	Dayna says the people are friendly, but then sometimes one's friends can be more of a liability than one's enemies.
Vila:	They're gonna check out that rumor, too, don't forget.
Avon:	That Blake was here? It's getting to be a fairly common rumor. We could spend the rest of our lives chasing down the ones that we've picked up so far.
Cally:	Still, now we're here.
Avon:	Now we're here.
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Commander:	Why should they land there? I mean, what's so special about the planet Obsidian?
Servalan:	They are investigating its strategic value, which is real, and a rumor, which is not.
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Avon:	Zen was picking up a signal from the ground. It could have been some kind of beam approach detector.
Cally:	You didn't say anything at the time.
Avon:	No, I didn't.
Cally:	Why was that?
Avon:	Because I wasn't sure.
Cally:	That wasn't the reason, Avon?
Avon:	No, it wasn't.
Vila:	You gonna let me in on the secret?
Avon:	You wouldn't understand it if we did.
Vila:	My classification might be grade 4 ignorant, but I'm not stupid. I bought that classification from a friend of the testing center. I didn't want to be a space captain, now did I? I was right. They all ended up getting killed, didn't they?
Cally:	Tarrant survived.
Vila:	Oh, yes, and says he was a space captain, but then he says a lot of things. You don't have to believe it all, do you?
Avon:	I would be more inclined to believe that he was a captain, then that you could have been.
Vila:	Well, never mind about me. It's Tarrant that you should be worried about, and not just because he's been out of contact for an hour.
Cally:	And what about Dayna, don't you trust her either?
Vila:	Dayna's a different case entirely.
Cally:	Well, she's pretty, for one thing.
Vila:	Pretty? Yes, I suppose she is. I hadn't really noticed.
Avon:	We've seen you not really noticing. Frequently.
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.	[Dayna's father was a friend of the leader of this planet's son. They've come looking for Blake and for a home base.]
Son:	Then why do you come here?
Tarrant:	Surely we're not the first.
Son:	What do you mean?
Dayna:	A man called Blake, hasn't he contacted you? We heard he'd been here.
Son:	No one has been here.
Tarrant:	We need a planet as a home base, somewhere that's not been ruined by the war. And we need recruits. This might do. You're situated in a very important strategic position.
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