Mistral wrote: <Now, I wonder . . . somebody has a theory about Vila being an agent of some greater power, can't quite remember the details. Could Orac be an agent of an opposing power, on a mission to kill Vila and make it look like an accident?>

Nonono, the truth is that, after one rather-more-fraught-than-normal day on the flight deck, Avon was muttering "who will rid me of this turbulent pr - I mean, lazy-good-for-nothing theif?" and Orac's just been trying ever since to oblige.

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