--- Fiona Moore nydersdyner@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > ---
There is, of course, the possibility that he shot the clone, and that the real Blake is still out there.
This explanation has always sat ill with me, firstly because Orac's seldom wrong, and secondly because the clone, while a physical copy, did not contain Blake's life experiences, and so (leaving aside the fact that this would make nonsense of the final scene; how could a man who'd never known Avon react as Blake did to seeing/being shot by him? Recall that in an earlier version of the script Blake's last line to Avon was "You were my only friend..."), the idea that it would wind up on Gauda Prime trying to start a revolution doesn't necessarily read. Also, Blake's behaviour in "Blake" doesn't really fit too well with the Clonemasters' reverence for life, which they apparently instilled in the clone.
I think, for the reasons Fiona has cited it was not The Clone on GP. If you want the whole thing to have been set up by Servalan a clone, or somebody surgically altered, and programmed to think they were Blake, would not be beyond the bounds of possibility. Orac would have gotten his information from Federation computers so all you have do do is place information on Federation computers leading Avon to GP. Servalan does something similar, though less elaborate to lure Blake to the planet in Weapon. All you do then is put a blockade round the planet and the 5th Federation infantry division into position and wait to spring your trap giving you Orac, what's left of Scorpio for study (the Stardrive and the Teleport) and capture or kill the crew. From Servalan's point of view, Avon killing Blake would either have been a complication, a bonus or an irrelevance depending on what she had planned for him.
(Oh - and character junkies can have all the fun of Avon angst over his shooting Blake followed by Avon's angst when he finds out that he shot someone else.)
Stephen.
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