Episode 501: Shakedown Cruise, Special Features

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DIALOGUE TO REWIND FOR

Part 2:

Beglan: I’ll leave you here where you can see and I’ll walk down and find Rina to power—.
Nika: I’ll get Rina. It’s okay. She’s in engineering.
Beglan: That’s right. I guess you don’t mind the dark.
Nika: (dryly) Is it dark?

Part 3:

Joshua: What are we calling the cat?
Arden: I haven’t given it a name yet.
Joshua: Okay. It’s your cat. Or you’re the one who achieved the cat, so …
Arden: I have achieved catness. (pets the kitty) I have to find the cat’s personality.
Joshua: That’s true.

Joshua: Okay. So talk to me. What’s your plan?
Kiera: I want to go back and see if the container’s back or if Hannibal’s back.
Joshua: And then what?
Kiera: See if we can talk to him and not his …
Rina: His gatekeeper.
Kiera: And Rina wants to go.
Beglan: So we’re sending our twitchy person and the— (thinks better of it)
Joshua: I’m not hearing an argument yet that suggests that this is the possible best strategy.
Rina: (to Joshua) Then you go.
Joshua: I’m not arguing that you go, I’m just trying to figure out why Rina is going.
Kiera: She volunteered.

Nika: You know what? Joshua.
Joshua: Yes, Captain?
Nika: (sweetly) Would you please give me five credits from the ship’s stash?
Joshua: Yes, Captain.
Nika: Thank you.
Joshua: We’re going to need to document that.
Nika: That’s fine. It can come out of my pay.
Joshua: I’m joking.
Nika: (to Kiera) Come on. We’ll walk down, pass the ship on the way to the pub, because I need a beer.

Kiera: Hannibal! Dammit!
She pounds on the airlock door.
Kiera: Is this the way you treat your friends?! Gāisǐ de nǐ, is this how you treat your friends?!

Chu: Kiera! What are you doing here?
Kiera: I need your help. Who did you piss off that you’re hiding in your ship? I did everything but jump up and down and scream your name.
Chu: It wasn’t me. A client. Did anyone see you?
Kiera: No … Except for some guy, I kinda—
Chu: (upset) So someone saw you!
Kiera: There’s your guy with a gun—
Chu: (more upset) I don’t have a guy with a gun!
Kiera: Aw, shi… (sighs) Hold that thought.

Part 4:

Kiera: (thumbs comm) Yeah.
Rina: Gunman here is callin’ in reinforcements. Do what you gotta do and get out.
Kiera: Is the guy with the gun staying here?
Rina: I doubt he’s orderin’ pizza.
Nika: Rina. That is not helpful.

Chu: No, no. The patient has paid extra to not have anyone know.
Kiera: It doesn’t matter. I don’t need to know.
Chu: No, because you—
Kiera: I don’t know anything!
Chu: But you will have seen the patient.
Kiera: I’ll close my eyes.

Kiera: He’s a lā shǐ! You owe me my tā mā de sunglasses! (to Li) I want my tā mā de sunglasses! Sunglasses!

Kiera: Sunglasses aren’t ready yet.
Rina: I told you you should have gone to Lenscrafters. They’ll do it in about an hour.
Kiera: I can’t afford freakin’ Lenscrafters!
Rina: You get what you pay for. You’re such a cheapskate!

Nika: So, the way I understand it based on the way you said it to me, he has a patient in the process of running from a bunch of assassins who are waiting for both him and his doctor to come down the stairs?
Kiera: Yes.
Nika: That’s kinda retarded, actually.

Kiera: I’m not 100% sure but I think we’re being followed.
Rina: Of course. You are never alone. That’s Moscow Rule #4.

Joshua: It doesn’t really matter to me. I’m not worried about the law.
Nika: Then what are you worried about.
Joshua: I’m more worried about that Mystery Person X is going to have this done and then wipe everybody clean that happens to know anything about it, versus Mystery Person Y who wants to kill Mystery Person X. Which is a whole different situation.

HOW TO SPEAK CHINESE

Part 1:

Warning: Fire! Fire! Sealing off cargo deck. Initiating emergency fire operations.
Jǐnggào: Zháohuǒ le! Zháohuǒ la! Fēngsuǒ huòwù jiǎbǎn. Qǐdòng jǐnjí jiùhuǒ xíngdòng. Sound clip
警告：着火了！着火啦！封锁货物甲板。启动紧急救火行动。(Simplified Chinese Characters)

Part 3:

hēimǎ = 黑马 = hey mah = dark horse/fig. unexpected winner Sound clip
lǎo luózi = 老骡子 = lah’ow loh-tzih = old mule Sound clip
gāisǐ de nǐ = 該死的你 = guy-suh deh nee = damn you Sound clip

Part 4:

lā shǐ (or shǐ ) = 拉屎 =(or 屎) = Lah shih (or shih) = shit Sound clip
tā mā de = 他媽的 = tah mah duh = fucking Sound clip

HOW TO SPEAK RUSSIAN

Diermo/Dierma = дерьмо = dyehr-moh/mah = Sh*t, crap, and other terms of that ilk. Sound clip
Yebat' menya = ебать меня = yee-bahtz men-yah = F*ck me! (the expletive, not the invitation) Sound clip
Privyet = привет = preev-yet = Hello (informal) Sound clip

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

1. Who are these guys shadowing Chu? Are they Feds? Are they professional bounty hunters? Rival underworld enforcers? Who? Is their possession of Chempliant rounds significant?
2. Who is Chu’s client? He lets slip it’s a woman but we have no name and no clue as to her whereabouts or the reason she needs Chu.
3. Why are people after Chu’s client?
4. If people aren’t after Chu’s client, are they after him?
5. Feeding Rina’s conspiracy theory beast, was Joshua's nightmare a real nightmare or a mental attack leveled against Joshua? If so, who and why?
6. Why was Joshua dreaming about his past in Blue Sun? Was the nightmare a real memory of something that actually happened to him or a mishmash of subconscious fears and events?
7. What was Chu about to tell Nika when the drugs put her under?
8. Chu says he’s booked the suite for the week. Does this mean they’re in a hotel? Or is he lying and are they in a hovel somewhere with roaches and rats crawling across the floor?
9. And for the extra-paranoid factor: Did the mercs do anything to Rina while she was under? If so, what? And if they did, would she even remember it when the drugs wear off?

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