- Fleet Warden-General Samor: Space Commander, we have considered your sentence at some length. Your contention that what happened on Serkasta was a direct result of your training concerned us greatly. We accept that you are trained to kill. As are we all. What we cannot accept is that this training leads inevitably to the murder of innocents. Your behavior was not that of a Federation officer, but rather that of a savage, unthinking, animal... We cannot find it in our hearts to absolve you in any way of the responsibility for these murders. The sentence of this tribunal is, therefore, that you should be stripped of all rank and privileges, that you be dishonorably dismissed the service, and that you then be executed for the common criminal you have shown yourself to be.
- [Trooper Par is discussing his service under Commander Travis]
- Major Thania: You served a full tour with Space Commander Travis, didn't you?
- Trooper Par: Five years. He was hard.
- Major Thania: But fair?
- Trooper Par: No. Not often, anyway. But you could always rely on him not to get you killed unnecessarily. He never wasted troopers.
- Major Thania: Oh, that's something, I suppose.
- Trooper Par: Major, when you're up to your neck in slime and lasers, that's everything.
- Jenna: What are you doing?
- Avon: It's a detector shield. I've been working on it for some time.
- Vila Restal: Everyone should have a hobby. What's it do?
- Avon: It should keep us off everything but the Federation's close range visual scanners.
- Vila Restal: You mean their long-range detectors won't pick us up at all? But that's brilliant, Avon, absolutely brilliant! It'll never work.
- Avon: There's only one way to find out.
- Avon: I'm sure Blake will find us something suitable to attack.
- Vila Restal: I see. You've decided to be led like the rest of us.
- Avon: I shall continue to follow. It's not quite the same thing.
- Vila Restal: I don't see the difference.
- Avon: I didn't really think that you would.
- Avon: One of these days they are going to leave you. They were almost ready to do so this time.
- Roj Blake: Yes, I thought they might be.
- Avon: You handle them very skillfully.
- Roj Blake: Do I?
- Avon: But one more death will do it.
- Roj Blake: Then you'd better be very careful. It would be ironic if it were yours.
- Space Commander Travis: A field officer, like myself, is frequently required to make fast, unconsidered decisions. You were all field officers, you know that's true. Time to think is a luxury battle seldom affords you. You react instinctively. Your actions, your decisions, all instinct, nothing more. But, an officer's instincts are the product of his training. The more thorough the training, the more predictable the instinct, the better the officer! And I am a good officer. I have been in the service *all* my adult life. I'm *totally* dedicated to my duty and highly trained in how to *perform* it. On Serkasta I, I reacted as I was trained to react! I was an instrument of the service! So if I'm guilty of murder, of *mass* murder, then so are all of *you*!
- [a patrol of six Federation pursuit ships just flew past the Liberator]
- Vila Restal: They missed us! Avon's gadget works!
- Roj Blake: I never doubted it for a moment.
- [Avon looks troubled]
- Roj Blake: [to Avon:] Is something wrong?
- Avon: It just occurred to me, that as the description of a highly sophisticated technological achievement, "Avon's gadget works," seems to lack a certain style.
- Fleet Warden-General Samor: Do I take it you have nothing to say?
- Space Commander Travis: The Federation is run by hypocrites and supported by fools. I'm glad to be rid of you all.
- Space Commander Travis: I'm planning to leave. You're going to give me a pursuit ship. Oh, and the trigger circuit for this.
- [He indicates his artificial hand]
- Supreme Commander Servalan: Heh. You think so? And you'll hunt Blake.
- Space Commander Travis: While you hunt both of us. Now give the orders. Carefully.
- Supreme Commander Servalan: [Into communicator] Is Pursuit 4 ready for immediate launch?
- Tannoy Voice: Yes, ma;am. And your crew is standing by.
- Supreme Commander Servalan: Have the crew stand down. I want them replaced with three Mutoids.
- Tannoy Voice: Mutoids?
- Supreme Commander Servalan: Yes, Mutoids. And have them blanked. I want their minds imprinted to receive orders only from the person that first uses the trigger word "outlaw" to them.
- Tannoy Voice: Yes, ma'am.
- Supreme Commander Servalan: [Breaking communication and addressing Travis] Well, you'll need a crew you can rely on.
- Space Commander Travis: Still one step ahead? You're not going to use me anymore.