--- Jacqui wrote:
Avon expects to be picked up/'rescued' - otherwise why take Orac's key with him? (and the others have told him on more than one occasion - in 'Terminal' and RoD offhand, that they care for him - at least as a team member)
Plan A involves getting down to the planet, rescuing Blake, nabbing the treasure and getting back to the ship.
Plan B involves walking into a trap, dying horribly and Liberator getting the hell out. Avon has pre-programmed the computers to do this and left an account of his actions in a secret file.
If the crew had Orac they could hack into the computers extract the information and override the pre-programming. So Avon takes the key.
My guess is that Avon thought he could get Blake off or avoid the trap and return to the ship. He's not the sacrificial type.
Stephen.
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