Episode 601: Triumph, Special Features

GALLERY OF GUEST STARS

Bradley Sims

Bradley Sims is our 2nd class passenger, needing a ride to Persephone but not in too much of a hurry to get there. He also cannnot pay for the full fare and is willing to work to earn the remainder of his fare.

James Brion

If you need parts and aren't too picky as to where they're from, James Brion is your man. He's a mite expensive but his parts are worth it.

Shere Macadam

She's Bearclaw's apothecary. She has an amazing set of adjustable lenses and spends her days harvesting minerals and herbs for her stores. She's also the person to go to if you need some greenleaf.

DIALOGUE TO REWIND FOR

Part 1
Kiera: I turn up in this part of town to buy something and you’re gonna beat me senseless with a wrench. This is really sucky for business.
Mechanic: If you just give me the money, maybe you’ll get something nice in return.

Rina: Well, you know there are plenty of idiots out there.
Kiera: Hmm. Darn, now I was lookin’ for an honest one. Damn.

Brion: Where’s your ship fly?
Kiera: Everywhere.
Brion: Everywhere?
Kiera: Everywhere. (thinks) So far, everywhere.

Kiera: You said yourself, we took the bus. We’re poor. We got hope and rebellion. That’s all we got.

Rina: How’s the engine run?
Driver: It’s all right.
Rina: (grins) Could run better.

Nika: What the bloody hell? Kiera!

Nika: Containers of what? Nobody ever asked.
Kiera: Why would I ask?
Arden: (joining in) Containers of what?
Kiera: Let me repeat again—why would I ask?
Arden: Why wouldn’t you ask?
Kiera: Okay, do you not understand how I work?

Rina: (pushing the package) Because it would make us look suspicious and untrustworthy if we asked.
Arden: Oh, as opposed to looking stupid and unprepared if we don’t ask?
Joshua: I would like to repeat that we really are suspicious.

Nika: (disgusted) God. I’m going to gouge out my eyes, here, Kiera.
Rina: (at the stairs) Please don’t. They cost too much.

Part 2
Joshua: I’m not happy about machine guns.
Kiera: Aw.
Joshua: I’m not going to say anything.
Kiera: Uh huh.
Joshua: I understand why we have it but—
Kiera: But you wanted the pacifist ship with a little peace sign on it.
Joshua: No.
Kiera: Uh huh.
Joshua: No. Not really.
Kiera: Yeah, you did.
Joshua: No.
Nika: All right, c’mon. Stop.
Joshua: (to Nika) Well, it’s your ship. (off her look) What? It is your ship.
Kiera: Mom! He’s poking me.

Kiera: Oh look. Junk. Just like you said.
Nika: (to Arden) Are you happy now?
Arden: I wasn’t unhappy before.
Kiera: Really?

Joshua: No worries. We’ve the best pilot this side of the Verse.
Arden: What side is that?
Nika: Whatever side of the Verse you happen to be on.

Rina: Do you want me to dig a little further into the cargo? That parting comment “It’s going to be valuable in the next couple of months”—what does he mean by that? Do we want to know? Cuz, you know, I’m thinking ...”
Joshua: (to Nika) Should I talk to her?
Nika: No.
Rina: Thank you.
Joshua: Really?
Nika: (to Rina) However—however—there will be no trace when you’re done. (to Joshua) Rina has a direct order that there is to be no trace that she’s been in the cargo. And by the way, Rina. When I mean no trace, I mean no trace for somebody like you. So if you can’t get into it in such a fashion, don’t open it.
Rina: Of course.

Nika: You know I did this just to keep her busy for the entire two weeks. It’s keeping her out of trouble.
Joshua: You do realize this is our first trip we haven’t been haunted by ghosts. I was planning on keeping her busy.
Nika: (eyeroll) Well, then go distract her! Nobody’s stopping you.
Joshua: But now she’s all caught up in the—
Nika: (to her charts) I’m sure there is some way you can distract her. If you’re not good enough to do it, then you have more problems coming up in your future marriage than you might think.

Part 3
Joshua: Your call, Captain.
Nika: Yeah, I’ll lie.
Joshua: How far are you lying?

Joshua: Attention all crew and passengers. We will be approaching very close to the sun. If you do not want sunburn, please do not stand anywhere near the windows or in fact anywhere outside of a lead container.
Arden: (over comms) What? We’re flying near the sun?
Joshua: If we don’t fly right, we’ll be flying through the sun. That’ll be the fun part.

Sims: I just got turned around. Sorry, I was just trying to—
Joshua: (not buying it) Let’s step back for a second and give you a second chance to tell me what you were doing. You weren’t just turned around. I’ll give you a clear one, free of charge. You can tell me what you were doing. (a beat) Because if it isn’t the right answer this time, you’re going to be off on Triumph and out in the middle of nowhere. Without a ride to Persephone or for that matter, civilization. So start with what you were doing.

Joshua: We’ve had a few bad experiences with armed passengers before so you can understand why we generally don’t arm the passengers when there might be a chance that something might happen at some point. Maybe. Are you really that worried? Or did you have something else in mind?
Sims: Everyone on my last ship was killed.
Joshua: (firmly) What happened?

Joshua: Fair enough. Shake on it?
Sims: Does a handshake mean a lot to you?
Joshua: (firm) It does to me. I know it doesn’t to a lot of people, but it does to me.

Bartender: You came on a shuttle. That’s a bit unusual.
Nika: What would be the usual?
Bartender: Horse.

Bartender: (pointedly) No one has seen anyone. You can’t see anything if you tried with that crazy contraption on your head.
Woman: (unfazed) They help me see better.
Joshua: What are they? I’ve got to report back to my wife about this one. If somebody has a crazy contraption and I haven’t figured out what it was and I told her about it, I’m gonna get a whuppin’.

Joshua: (wow!) An apothecary? Fan-tastic.
Nika: What does that mean?
Joshua: I don’t know but it’s fantastic.

Joshua: It’s Baba Yaga! I’ve always wanted to meet Baba Yaga.

Macadam: Be careful back there. Some of this stuff can be potent.
Kiera: Ohh... batwings. Cool.

Macadam: Well ... he got taken. Lights in the sky.
Kiera: OOH! Aliens. Awesome.
Joshua: Really?

Macadam: Whaddya think’a them? The Browncoats? Awful ’dacious. Right here in Alliance territory.
Joshua: Well, yeah. I like audacious.
Macadam: You do?
Joshua: (quietly) Yeah.
Kiera: Ooooh, sassafrass!

Kiera: Would you know us if we bought something? Or would you just know us? (nods to Joshua) Well, you can know him all you want.
Macadam: (gently) No, it’s not about that, sweetie. It’s about where do you stand.

Part 4
Macadam: All right. You gonna buy something? You know, just in case. It would look suspicious you didn’t.
Joshua: For our cover, yes.
Kiera: What would you reccommend, cuz I don’t recognize any of this stuff.
Macadam: I don’t think you’re tellin’ the whole truth.
Kiera: (playfully) D’oh! I think I’m losin’ my touch.

Joshua: Actually ... do you got any hallucinogens in there?
Macadam: Ah, sure.
Joshua: Give me some of those.

Joshua: Are you really complaining because I kept you from having to spend money?
Kiera: I like spending money.
Joshua: But I thought you liked not spending money more.

Joshua: So. I’ve got some drugs. And a Browncoat.
Kiera: (whaps his arm) Oh, you took my thunder! I was gonna tell her you got drugs.

Macadam: So ... you’re clearly not Alliance regulars.
Kiera: Bite your tongue.
Arden: What do Alliance regulars look like?
Rina: Zhícháng. Zhopeh. Didn’t you know?

Nika: So my XO says you’re a Browncoat. Where from?
Macadam: So ... Shadow. Back in the day. Been a few years.
Nika: Yeah, it has.
Rina: Ohh ... There’s problems on Shadow.
Nika: What? There’s problems all over.

Kiera: I never accused her of lyin’. I just said it was mighty fine—
Joshua: No, I just did.
Kiera: (groks it!) Ah. Oh, well. If you’ve opened the door then I shall walk through. Yeah, that makeup ain’t goin’ to work.

Macadam: Are you accusing me of being some sort of collaborator with the Alliance or somethin’?
Kiera: All right, since he was very bold, yeah, I actually am. So, if I am, why would I be wrong?
Macadam: This is based on what? that I have some make up. You all do that? Makeup?
Joshua: Yeah, that’s about the size of it.

Arden: I lost something. She’s wearing nice makeup. So what?
Rina: (intoning) Rusty chain. Secured by shiny lock. What’s wrong with this picture?

Kiera: So, I got a question. If the other people show up this—assuming it’s cargo—and you’re there, are they going to be happy to see you or are they goin’ to be happy in a completely different way?

Rina: Yebat’ menya!

Nika: Well. I’m thinking that will be confirmation.
Joshua: Yeah.
Kiera: Uhnn. She’s cussin’ in Russian and I hate it when I can’t understand what she’s sayin’.

Nika: Oh, she used the sliushka again. That’s not good.

Macadam: You seem like nice folks and you know, it’s easy to get caught up in the spirit of independence—
Nika: (eyes blazing) She did not just say that to me.

Nika: Do the rest of your townspeople know what you’re observing?
Joshua: No, she wouldn’t—
Macadam: No.
Nika: They will now.

Nika: I didn’t say nothin’ about lettin’ you go.
Kiera: Yeah, I don’t think we need to send her back.
Macadam: Well, you’re obviously not going to send me to my death, are you?

Nika: You know the interesting part about that query?
Kiera: What? She asked all of us and we’re gonna argue about it and...?
Nika: (with pleasure) Oh no.
Kiera: Oh! You mean I might win this time and we’ll just kill her?

Nika: But from here I was going to take her out in the desert and drop her off about, oh, say about 62 miles out.
Joshua: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Rina: Would you land the ship first?

Arden: Do we have medications like that?
Kiera: (scoffs) She has a whole hut full of them.
Nika: She’s got a pharmacy out back.
Kiera: Awesome. I love playing chemistry. I don’t know much about it but it’ll be kinduva shot in the dark to see what I can come up with.

Arden: Can’t we just leave her the way she is?
Nika: No.
Arden: Why not?
Nika: Because I dislike that option.

Arden: (to Nika) Did they give you your badge at the last stop? You know, the one that says ‘tin-plated dictator’.
Rina: No, but I’m the process of making her one. Nice and shiny.

Arden: (heavily) You’re just following orders.
Macadam: How am I different from you? You’re doing the same thing I do.
Kiera: Orders? (snorts!) Pfffftht! We don’t need no stinkin’ orders.

Nika: So would you rather then I turn you over to Browncoat justice?
Macadam: What’s that?
Rina: Something you don’t ever want to see.

Nika: The only thing I want out of this is for her not to be able to turn the rest of us in and get us jailed at the next place we land. That’s all I want. There’s no reason to kill her.
Rina: I’m not asking to kill her. I’m asking to make sure that their conversation with her in the shop—I understand that’s where they had one—wasn’t recorded. So whether she remembers it or not, if they pull the tapes? I’m trying to cover our tracks.
Nika: Go back. See if there are tapes.
Rina: Thank you.

OUTTAKES AND AD LIBS

Part 3
Belgan: I feel safe knowing the passengers don’t have any weapons. Don’t you?
Kiera: I do! It’s a sense of security that I know won’t be violated. You. (points at Beglan) You go sit up on the bridge with your back to the door and I’ll go sit out there and look outside with my back to the other person with the gun.
Joshua: We never looked in his duffle bag. He could have been armed three times over.

HOW TO SPEAK CHINESE

Part 4
zhícháng =蛀蟲 = zhee-chahng = rectum Sound clip

HOW TO SPEAK RUSSIAN

Part 4
zhopy = жопы = zhoh-peh = assholes Sound clip
yebat’ menya! = ебать меня = yee-bahts meen-yah = fuck me! (expletive) Sound clip
shliushka = шлюшка = shlee-oo-shka = slut Sound clip (Click on the backtranslate button to see the word in English)

NUTS AND BOLTS

We've a long repairs and remodel list to keep us occupied during our 6-week downtime on Beaumonde.

• Dust contamination of our systems (Ep:517)
• Disguise entrances to our missile bays with fake shelving and surfaces
• Conversion of 2nd class cabins to 1st class
• Installation of en suite bathrooms in 1st class cabins
• Installation of retractable light machine gun under bridge, including hatch on hull, ammo feed and storage system
• Conversion of several closets and lockers into secure weapons lockers: conference room closet, closet under cargo bay stairs, rearmost starboard storage locker in engineering corridor.
• Installation of locked stash boxes for pistols: engineering, cargo bay airlock
• Concealed emergency kits with a pistol, extra clip and break-out tools: pending

We've also upgraded and added to the equipment in the ship's machine shop, allowing Rina and Beglan more options for repairs and fabrication of parts.

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

Part 3

1. When Sims described how he’d stowed aboard the ship belonging to the men who murdered everyone on Lancaster, why did those same men drop him off alive at Rock Haven? Why let a witness to murder walk? Sims could turn them over to the authorities the second he walked off their ship. Why didn’t Joshua call him on it?
   
   

Part 4

1. What is Joshua’s interest in pharmaceuticals, especially now that he’s been clean of drugs for six months? Why did he want the LSD? What was on the shopping list he slipped to Kiera? And when is he going to tell Rina about it?
   
   

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