It's a classic episode is Orbit. I'm always amused by Egrorian and chuckle when ever I see my parents watching episodes of "Coro'" and "our Fred", by 'eck. Egrorian, I say...in deliberate Avon tones, purely for self amusement of course. One gets a bemused look of course.

I love the beginning with Avon's "this is Avon in privateer scorpio calling Egrorian in Malodar command. we are receiving you Egrorian go ahead."...massive grin. Avon's brimming with self-confidence and I love the response to soolin's he's bluffing. "possibly.But somehow I don't think so, and he's right, we have come rather a long way to find out what he has to offer and any offer from a man like egrorian might just prove interesting." then again later he's thoroughly confident with himself, the gun in the locker...well then, lets just hope we don't need it. Very prophetic. Imagine the shuttle scenario with Tarrant instead of vila, there'd have been a fight for the gun surely...and tarrant would have wanted one too, just incase things turned bad. if avon had one, he did too.

Only Dayna seems genuinely interested in going down, but Avon over rules and takes old faithful, Vila. I guess Vila's non-threatening image helped ease the tension...dayna or soolin might have got violent if egrorian had started slobbering all over them, see Servalans reaction as a case in point. she backed away from his advances with some fear. Only when she was sure he was not going to harm her did she start manipulating and become aggressive back. The man is quite clearly unhinged, and of course servalan knew his previous convictions. "By eck". nathan.

Nothings so difficult as a beginning/ In poesy, unless perhaps the end. Byron.

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