Episode 505: Stand and Deliver, Special Features

DIALOGUE TO REWIND FOR

Part 1:

Kiera: That’s okay. I’ve got your robot to carry the towels.
Joshua: (easily) Okay. Don’t break it.
Kiera: I promise I won’t shoot it if it tries to give me a drink.
Joshua: Or anything else.

Joshua: Beggar? What are you doing?
Beglan: Uh, just checking the intake valves, makin’ sure that there’s no clutter.
Joshua: (strapping) Is that important?
Beglan: Well, only if you don’t want a piece’a gravel wreckin’ up one of our turbo fans.
Rina: (breaking in via comms) In other words, yes.

Joshua: Is there money?
Vasquez: Almost certainly.
Joshua: A lot of money?

Joshua: They’re looking for our passengers.
Arden: How do you know they were looking for our passengers?
Joshua: Okay. This planet? (gestures) Has approximately six people on it. Total.

Arden: All I’m hearing is ‘guessings’, I’m not hearing any facts.
Joshua: Wow. You’re pinning me down on facts?
Arden: I’m just sayin’.

Nika: You want to tell me what you just did, Joshua?
Joshua: It wasn’t so much what I did …

Beglan: You want me to kill the Captain?
Rina: (cuts comms) No, kill the engines.
Beglan: Kill the engines? Without the engines, we’ll never get out of here.
Rina: Keep that up, Beggar, and I’ll kill you right along with them. Turn them off, please.

Nika: If I go looking on the local Cortex, am I gonna see your faces there?
Parker Duquesne: On the loc—you think this planet even has a Cortex?
Nika: They gotta have somethin’, cuz the Sheriff just landlocked my ship lookin’ for a couple of fugitives.
Marion Duquesne: Well, we’re not fugitives in any sense.
Nika: But?

Marion Duquesne: So … yeah, we may have some of that with us. So if these aren’t like, the Sheriff, could we just …? Leave?
Nika: (seriously?) Uh, no. Actually we’re landlocked at the moment.
Marion Duquesne: I don’t—I don’t know what that means.
Nika: That means there ain’t no takin’ off.
Marion Duquesne: Can they do that?

Nika: If-fff you’re a fugitive on their planet, I would say the answer’s probably yes.
Parker Duquesne: But this isn’t even an Alliance planet.
Nika: (seriously?) But they have their own laws.
Parker Duquesne: Yeahhhhhh, but I mean … (wags his hand palm down) … not out here. So much.
Nika: Um-hm.

GALLERY OF GUEST STARS

• Juanita Vasquez - Leader of the ANS unit that tracked the Duquesnes from Greenleaf to Jiangyin.
• Sheriff Marley - The beleaugered Sheriff of Parker Strip Station.

POSTCARDS FROM THE 'VERSE

• Parker Strip Station - The site of our little dust-up with the ANS. We parked at Landing Pad #2.

SHIP SPOTTING

• ANS Ship - The other space craft from Landing Pad #3

HOW TO SPEAK RUSSIAN

Bliad’ = блядь = blee-yahd’z = Bitch, slut, whore, damn Sound clip

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

1. Parker Strip Station is busy when we arrive, full of ore shuttles making runs to ore carriers, along with our ship and the ANS ship landing on the pads. The Control Tower says this is busier than they’ve been in a long time. How is the traffic unusual? Why?
   1. You think this might have been sarcasm on the part of the Traffic Controller. Two ships in one day! There was not a lot of traffic by most comparisons.
2. What kind of ore is the mine extracting? Is it of any strategic importance or is it just industrial?
3. What sort of drugs were the Duquesnes smuggling and dealing? They are well off, successful people. Why deal? Did they need the money? The thrill? What?

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