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Blake's 7 :: Orbit (04x11)
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| Title: | Orbit |
| Episode #: | 04x11 |
| Production Number: | D11 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday December 07th, 1981 |
*Also Known As: - Dubbelspel (
 Belgium [BRT])
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 Ireland |
Dec 07, 1981 |
| BE (BRT) |
Mar 26, 1987 |
 Australia |
Aug 27, 1997 |
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Episode Summary |
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Avon is contacted by a secretive and reclusive scientist who offers Avon a tachyon funnel weapon he has designed that can kill over any range or distance. All he asks for in exchange is Orac! The team realizes very quickly that this is likely another trap set by Servalan, but the temptation to capture the scientist’s weapon wins out.
However, with the scientist plotting to reign along side Severlan, Servalan plotting to get the weapon and Orac, and the Scorpio crew plotting to get the weapon, which plot will eventually win out?
Plus, Vila finds out just how far he can really trust Avon.
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We find that Avon has secretly created a fake Orac; one that is tied to the real Orac so as to appear and sound as the real Orac.
| Desperately trying to lessen their shuttle’s weight in order to escape orbit, Avon asks to himself what on board weighs 70 kilos, only to be told by Orac that Vila weighs 73 kilos.
| The tachyon funnel weapon is tossed out of the shuttle in the process of trying to decrease its weight in order to achieve orbit.
| Pinder, who appears to be in his eighties, is really 28. He was aged at a rapid rate due to being subjected to Hofel’s radiation during an experiment.
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Dayna: Um, shouldn't he have some sort of back-up, Avon?
Avon: I was hoping you would volunteer.
Dayna: Alright, I'm a volunteer.
Avon: (to Vila) Do I hear three? No! I didn't think I would.
Vila: You know I like to stick with you, Avon. Where it's safe.
| Avon: Vila, if I didn't know you better, I'd say you were trying to get out of this!
| Pinder: Pleased to make your acquaintance, ma'am.
Vila: (to Avon) I think he's talking to you.
Egrorian: I fear language doesn't come easily to him. He thinks mainly in symbols.
Vila: Doesn't he have symbols for men and women?
| Egrorian: What would you say if I offered you the mastery of the galaxy?
Avon: Oh, I would say thank you.
Vila: What, for a whole galaxy? Oh come on, show the man some gratitude!
| Soolin: Tell us about the laws of parallel physics, Vila!
Vila: Soolin, the only thing you ever grasped was a gun! Do you want to get brain damage?
Soolin: The way I see it, if you can understand "parallel physics," anyone can.
Vila: Unlike some people around here, I don't boast about my abilities. I keep them hidden.
Dayna: (laughs) You certainly do.
| Avon: Dammit! What weighs seventy kilos?!
Orac: Vila weighs seventy-three kilos, Avon.
(Avon is silent for a moment. He then leaves to look for Vila)
Avon: Vila. (in an uncharacteristicly gentle tone) Vila?
| Soolin: And you moved it on your own?
Avon: I couldn't find Vila.
Vila: I'm glad about that.
| Vila: It's a trip I won't forget, Avon.
Avon: Well, as you always say, Vila, you know you are safe with me.
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In trying to achieve escape velocity to break out of orbit, Vila fiddles with some computer boards. However, the last one he replaces, is clearly not actually set back all the way into its socket.
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