var textpick = new Array(); textpick[0] = "VILA\: I hate personal violence, especially when I'm the person."; textpick[1] = "VILA\: You can't afford to be choosy now!\JENNA\: Why else would I be talking to you\?"; textpick[2] = "AVON\: You've got an army of five, Blake. Five and HIM! Do you still think you can take over the ship\?"; textpick[3] = "GAN\: Look, we only need the hand. If you want to stay attached to it, do as you're told."; textpick[4] = "AVON\: We had one chance. You wasted it. There won't be a next time. "; textpick[5] = "JENNA\: Well, don't blame me if it's self-destruct.\BLAKE\: I doubt if I'll ever speak to you again."; textpick[6] = "ZEN\: Wisdom must be gathered, it cannot be given.\AVON\: Don't philosophize with me you electronic moron. Answer the question."; textpick[7] = "AVON\: I think I may have to reprogram this machine.\JENNA\: That still won't make you likable."; textpick[8] = "VILA\: Shouldn't we wait a bit longer\? I mean, he might be all right. And if he isn't, what chance do the rest of us stand\? "; textpick[9] = "AVON\: Educated guesses. I can't be certain.\BLAKE\: Now is the time to see how educated your guesses are."; textpick[10] = "BLAKE\: It's a bit like your property when Vila's around. Suddenly it's somewhere else."; textpick[11] = "VILA\: The architectural style is early maniac."; textpick[12] = "VILA\: I like God's taste in servants."; textpick[13] = "AVON\: I have to get rid of Blake first. You're next on my list.\JENNA\: That would have been very disarming, if I didn't know that you meant it. "; textpick[14] = "JENNA\: You could buy a lot of freedom with this.\AVON\: You could buy anything with this. Anything at all. Think of it Jenna, there isn't anything you couldn't have."; textpick[15] = "AVON\: We have to. He's a crusader. He'll look upon all this as just one more weapon to use against the Federation. And he can't win. You know he can't win. What do you want to be rich or dead\?"; textpick[16] = "VILA\: I don't follow you.\AVON\: Oh, but you do. And that's the problem."; textpick[17] = "AVON\: Another one who's prepared to let Blake do his thinking for him. "; textpick[18] = "GAN\: For a clever man you're not very bright. Deaf, dumb and blind how are they going to catch us\?\AVON\: I'm sure Blake will manage it somehow."; textpick[19] = "JENNA\: Getting nervous\?\VILA\: No, I've been nervous all along. I do not like the look of that thing."; textpick[20] = "AVON\: Are you sure you can trust me\?\BLAKE\: For as long as we're useful to each other."; textpick[21] = "VILA\: You know, with hands like that and a decent upbringing, he might have made a respectable pick pocket."; textpick[22] = "VILA\: That's a comfort. I should hate to be eaten by something stupid."; textpick[23] = "CALLY\: May you die alone and silent."; textpick[24] = "CALLY\: He fears death\?\VILA\: I plan to live forever. Or die trying."; textpick[25] = "VILA\: We could be up to our armpits in homicidal maniacs within the hour."; textpick[26] = "ZEN\: Involvement is not permitted.\BLAKE\: If the ship's blown up, lofty disinterest won't save you."; textpick[27] = "AVON\: All knowledge is valuable."; textpick[28] = "AVON\: Automatic reaction. I'm as surprised as you are.\BLAKE\: I'm not surprised."; textpick[29] = "GAN\: I don't think Blake would agree to that.\AVON\: There will come a time when he won't be making the decisions."; textpick[30] = "AVON\: What if something should happen to you and we can't get you back\?\BLAKE\: Then all you have to do is get everybody else out of this mess."; textpick[31] = "BLAKE\: They're fighting for their lives.\AVON\: Who isn't\?"; textpick[32] = "BLAKE\: You can't separate living creatures. Being alive involves them together.\AVON I couldn't agree with you less."; textpick[33] = "VILA\: Tell him I've just worked out a completely new strategy. It's called running away."; textpick[34] = "VILA\: There isn't a lock I can't open, if I'm scared enough."; textpick[35] = "BLAKE\: Nice going.\VILA\: Any very talented person could have done it."; textpick[36] = "AVON\: That's the trouble with heroics. They seldom run to schedule."; textpick[37] = "SERVALAN\: An enemy does not cease to be an enemy simply because it has surrendered."; textpick[38] = "TRAVIS\: Her luck ran out when she didn't die."; textpick[39] = "TRAVIS\: What are you suggesting, cosmetic surgery\? I'm a field officer, not one of your decorative staff men."; textpick[40] = "TRAVIS\: I've studied that man till I know him better than I know myself. He has one reliable flaw\: loyalty."; textpick[41] = "TRAVIS\: You'd better kill me, Blake. Until one of us is dead, there'll never be a time when I won't be right behind you.\BLAKE\: If not you then somebody else. Killing you'll change nothing. You don't matter enough to kill, Travis."; textpick[42] = "BLAKE\: Too many of my friends are already dead, Cally. I can't afford to lose another one."; textpick[43] = "TRAVIS\: Run, Blake. Run. As far and as fast as you like. I'll find you. You can't hide from me. I am your death, Blake."; textpick[44] = "VILA\: Mock if you like, but I can always sense danger.\GAN\: Yes, even when there isn't any."; textpick[45] = "AVON\: It's very quiet here. If it should get noisy, I'll be in touch."; textpick[46] = "AVON\: It is frequently easier to be honest when you have nothing to lose."; textpick[47] = "CALLY\: Blake will return.\AVON\: You can bet your life on it, in fact you've just bet both our lives on it."; textpick[48] = "CALLY\: My people have a saying, a man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.\AVON\: Life expectancy must be fairly short among your people."; textpick[49] = "DR. KENDALL \:Someone among us determined that this mission should fail, and frankly, I can't even guess at a motive.\AVON\: Try greed. It's usually reliable."; textpick[50] = "CALLY\: I thought you mistrusted instinct.\AVON\: I do, so I am probably wrong."; textpick[51] = "VILA\: No. Yes! No. Maybe...\BLAKE\: Which is it, Vila\?\VILA\: It's `Maybe'."; textpick[52] = "AVON\: Rafford was dying. It's difficult to be neat under those circumstances."; textpick[53] = "AVON\: You're not going anywhere, Sara. You just don't get off a spaceship and run."; textpick[54] = "GIROC\: I didn't ask to be chosen.\SINOFAR\: One doesn't ask to be chosen."; textpick[55] = "AVON\: No, he was calling me a machine, but since he undoubtedly defines himself as a human being, I shall choose to accept that as more of a compliment than anything else."; textpick[56] = "VILA\: How can you doubt me\?\BLAKE\: It isn't easy, but somehow I manage it."; textpick[57] = "AVON\: Logic says we're dead!\BLAKE\: Logic has never explained what dead means."; textpick[58] = "VILA\: I don't mind rough. It's fatal I'm not too keen on."; textpick[59] = "BLAKE\: They don't seem very impressed, Travis. Why don't you try stamping your foot\?\TRAVIS\: Oh, that's very amusing, Blake. For a dead man"; textpick[60] = "BLAKE\: I am an enemy of the Federation. But it is corrupt and oppressive. I will destroy it. If I can."; textpick[61] = "SINOFAR\: We understand that men will kill for their beliefs."; textpick[62] = "BLAKE\: I don't think I want to kill for your entertainment."; textpick[63] = "TRAVIS\: Nothing concerns me but my duty. I don't give a damn about their lessons, I shall enjoy taking your life, Blake.\BLAKE\: You talk a good fight, Travis."; textpick[64] = "BLAKE\: With that much power why bother to lie\?\JENNA\: That's one way to become a hunted man\: trust the powerful."; textpick[65] = "JENNA\: Oh, I wasn't clever enough, we none of us were. The Federation has beaten us all at least once."; textpick[66] = "VILA\: She's right. Jenna's right. We'll have the Federation after us till the day we die."; textpick[67] = "AVON\: With all what happening\? Blake is sitting up in a tree, Travis is sitting up in another tree. Unless they're planning to throw nuts at one another, I don't see much of a fight developing before it gets light."; textpick[68] = "AVON\: I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care, or, indeed, why it should be necessary to prove it at all."; textpick[69] = "VILA\: Is that what I think it is\?\AVON\: I don't imagine that it is a recreational aid."; textpick[70] = "BLAKE\: As long as he's alive, he'll be the one chasing me. And I know I can beat him."; textpick[71] = "BLAKE\: Another reason why I didn't kill Travis\: I would have enjoyed it."; textpick[72] = "MUTOID\: We exist only to serve.\TRAVIS\: Oh\? Then you'll probably cease to exist."; textpick[73] = "TRAVIS\: He made one fatal error. He should have killed me."; textpick[74] = "BLAKE\: Does it support any intelligent life\?\AVON\: Does the Liberator\?"; textpick[75] = "AVON\: Another idealist, poor but honest. I shall look forward to our meeting with eager anticipation."; textpick[76] = "VILA\: Me\? Oh, now wait a minute, it's cold out there, and I'm very susceptible to low temperatures. I've got a weak chest.\AVON\: The rest of you's not very impressive."; textpick[77] = "VILA\: I don't know why it always has to be me. I'm tired of being indispensable."; textpick[78] = "SERVALAN\: The fact that he is still free gives them hope. And that is dangerous, Travis. Hope is very dangerous."; textpick[79] = "SERVALAN\: In my position one never approves anything until it is an undisputed success."; textpick[80] = "BLAKE\: Can you do it\?\VILA\: Of course.\BLAKE\: All right, we'll applaud you later. For now just get on with it."; textpick[81] = "TRAVIS\: If it takes all my life, I will destroy you, Blake. I will destroy you. I will destroy you."; textpick[82] = "AVON\: I have never taken things on trust."; textpick[83] = "VILA\: Not a thing. What you see on the screen is exactly what's there. Absolutely nothing. Why should I find nothing terrifying\?"; textpick[84] = "AVON\: Staying with you requires a degree of stupidity of which I no longer feel capable.\BLAKE\: Now you're just being modest."; textpick[85] = "AVON\: Why do you stay with Blake\?\VILA\: I like him.\AVON\: That isn't a good enough reason."; textpick[86] = "VILA\: The trouble with a genius is you're never too sure what he's up to."; textpick[87] = "VILA\: I'm entitled to my opinion.\AVON\: It is your assumption that we are entitled to it as well that is irritating."; textpick[88] = "AVON\: The test is not whether you are suspicious but whether you are caught."; textpick[89] = "AVON\: First sign of trouble, we get out, right\?\JENNA\: Goes without saying.\AVON\: I only wish it did."; textpick[90] = "GAN\: What's that expression of yours\?\CALLY\: Companions for our death\?"; textpick[91] = "AVON\: Are you afraid that I'll be able to cope with it better than you\?\BLAKE\: No.\AVON\: Well, perhaps you ought to be."; textpick[92] = "TRAVIS\: You're almost as ruthless as I am.\SERVALAN\: You underestimate me, Travis."; textpick[93] = "VILA\: Counting yourself, that makes two people who think you're wonderful."; textpick[94] = "VILA\: I wonder why she picked on you\?\AVON\: Well, now, you are hardly the stuff that gods are made of."; textpick[95] = "AVON\: Meegat, I'm sorry you've waited so long.\MEEGAT\: Our waiting brought you.\AVON\: That seems like a poor reward, somehow."; textpick[96] = "VILA\: Die\? I can't do that.\AVON\: I'm afraid you can. It's the one talent we all share, even you."; textpick[97] = "ENSOR\: I disapprove of weapons.\BLAKE\: So do I, but I disapprove of dying even more."; textpick[98] = "BLAKE\: Good shot, Avon.\AVON\: I was aiming for his head."; textpick[99] = "AVON\: Well now, all you had to do was ask."; textpick[100] = "BLAKE\: Do you think you could forget your superiority complex for a moment and get on with it\?"; textpick[101] = "VILA\: It felt personal. It always feels personal when someone tries to kill me."; textpick[102] = "VILA\: If it ever comes to a showdown, my money's on Blake. Well, half of it. I'll put the other half on Avon."; textpick[103] = "BLAKE\: That is one I owe you.\AVON\: Don't worry. At the right time, I will remind you of it."; textpick[104] = "ORAC\: What precisely do you imagine I am\? Some sort of tame rodent in a cage\?\VILA\: That's precisely what I imagine you are. A rat in a box."; textpick[105] = "AVON\: They have a sentimental value for me.\LARGO\: Oh, family heirlooms, eh\?\AVON\: No, I'm just sentimental about money."; textpick[106] = "AVON\: A pro keeps it simple. I imagine they'll kill us. You can't get much simpler than that."; textpick[107] = "BLAKE\: Your sense of timing is as impeccable as ever.\AVON\: I have always admired your patience."; textpick[108] = "GAN\: Can't find Orac. Even tried calling his name.\AVON\: Oh, I'm sorry I missed that. It's the kind of natural stupidity no amount of training could ever hope to match."; textpick[109] = "AVON\: Law makers, law breakers, let us fight them all. Why not\?"; textpick[110] = "BLAKE\: She is an alien.\AVON\: She is more human than I am.\VILA\: That's not difficult."; textpick[111] = "JENNA\: It's enough to fry your eyeballs.\AVON\: Daintily put.\JENNA\: It must be the company I keep."; textpick[112] = "BLAKE\: People collect odd things.\JENNA\: Look what you ended up with."; textpick[113] = "VILA\: Where are all the good guys\?\BLAKE\: You could be looking at them.\AVON\: What a very depressing thought."; textpick[114] = "AVON\: Auron may be different, Cally, but on Earth it is considered ill-mannered to kill your friends while committing suicide."; textpick[115] = "BLAKE\: It's not a question of sides, Vila.\AVON\: No, it's a question of intelligence, so your opinion has very little relevance."; textpick[116] = "TRAVIS\: Power usually makes its own rules."; textpick[117] = "ORAC\: There is no rational basis for the concept you call luck."; textpick[118] = "JENNA\: Maybe IMIPAK is another Orac. If we captured it perhaps we could breed from them.\BLAKE\: What a disgusting idea."; textpick[119] = "SERVALAN\: Travis, when you know an enemy's strengths, and can use them against them, they become weaknesses."; textpick[120] = "VILA\: I mean, what's the point of being famous if you can't get a last minute booking\?"; textpick[121] = "BLAKE\: Why not\? I'm curious.\AVON\: Oh, you are curious. Well, I'm glad we have a worthwhile purpose."; textpick[122] = "VILA\: Well, I never had a chance, did I\? I chose the wrong parents."; textpick[123] = "AVON\: I am not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going."; textpick[124] = "AVON\: About time. More last-minute heroics\?\BLAKE\: I thought that was your strong suit."; textpick[125] = "BLAKE\: The others have decided to go with me.\AVON\: I thought they would. Not very bright, but loyal."; textpick[126] = "VILA\: I don't feel well. I'm going to be a big handicap.\AVON\: I'm used to that."; textpick[127] = "BLAKE\: Yes, well unless you can come up with some good reasons why not, we're going ahead as planned.\VILA\: Certain death, would you accept that as a good reason\?"; textpick[128] = "VILA\: Times like this, I wish I'd gone straight."; textpick[129] = "JENNA\: What would you know about guilt\?\AVON\: Only what I've read."; textpick[130] = "AVON\: Is it that Blake has a genius for leadership, or merely that you have a genius for being led\?"; textpick[131] = "VILA\: You've decided to be led like the rest of us.\AVON\: I shall continue to follow. It's not quite the same thing."; textpick[132] = "BLAKE\: Next time I want to think, I'll do it in my cabin.\AVON\: I should stick to action, Blake. That's what you're good at."; textpick[133] = "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."; textpick[134] = "SERVALAN\: Well! Savage, THINKING animals have a way of surviving, don't they\?"; textpick[135] = "VILA\: Yes, I always knew you had a friend. I used to say to people -I bet Avon's got a friend, somewhere in the galaxy-.\AVON\: And you were right. That must be a novel experience for you."; textpick[136] = "VILA\: Nice. When Avon holds out the hand of friendship, watch his other hand. That's the one with the hammer."; textpick[137] = "BLAKE\: I told him I teleported here. He didn't believe me.\BELLFRIAR\: Well, Gambrill's like that, I'm afraid. Lacks faith.\BLAKE\: Defined as the capacity to believe what you know isn't true\?"; textpick[138] = "AVON\: There are a quarter of a million volts running through that converter. I make one false move, I'll be so crisped up what's left of me won't fit into a sandwich.\VILA\: I'm a vegetarian. Thanks for the offer, though."; textpick[139] = "VILA\: You don't have a lot of time for Blake, do you\?\AVON\: I could never stand heroes."; textpick[140] = "AVON\: Blake takes risks to help other people. Sometimes people he doesn't even know. One day that great big bleeding heart of his will get us all killed."; textpick[141] = "VILA\: You remember the Casarus swamp fever, killed millions.\AVON\: Well there aren't millions here, so don't worry about it."; textpick[142] = "VILA\: I don't like bugs. You can't hear them, you can't see them and you can't feel them, then suddenly you're dead."; textpick[143] = "TRAVIS\: I understand shame very well."; textpick[144] = "VILA\: What have I done to deserve this\?\AVON\: How long a list would you like\?"; textpick[145] = "VILA\: I'm really looking forward to this. Danger, excitement, sudden death! I can't wait."; textpick[146] = "AVON\: Doesn't it make you feel good to be wanted\?\VILA\: I've been a wanted man all my life. What I need now is to be unwanted."; textpick[147] = "AVON\: It would be stupid to be shot up by our own allies.\VILA\: Not only stupid, painful."; textpick[148] = "VILA\: You see\? The old magic's still there.\AVON\: The old ego, too."; textpick[149] = "BLAKE\: Typical Federation policy\: things are more important than people."; textpick[150] = "VILA\: Watch this! It should open like a dream!\BLAKE\: More like a nightmare."; textpick[151] = "AVON\: Don't overreact. Remember, this is for your beloved leader."; textpick[152] = "JENNA\: He's a hard man to rescue when he doesn't want to be rescued."; // copy and paste the above line with the new image source. // Don't forget to increment the bracketed value up one! // And be sure to increment this next line up one var random_num = (Math.round(Math.random()*152)); document.write(textpick[random_num]);