Seamus Harper, Gabriel/Balance of Judgement(Michael Shanks), Captain Dylan Hunt, Pogue(Jason Diablo), Andromeda, Rommie, Beka Valentine and Tyr Anasazi
S1.E20: Star-Crossed
Harper: Hah. Phone home with that, Mata Hari.
Hunt: Gabriel, you were High Guard. What happened to you?
Gabriel: Not me, him. All he wanted was to serve and protect. Even after his crew was killed in the Nietzschean uprising, he tried to continue his mission the only way he knew how.
Hunt: By waging war.
Gabriel: It started innocently enough. Fighting off raiders, destroying slave ships. First it was pirates, then poachers, then strip miners. Centuries of tiny little steps bringing him here.
Hunt: To destroy the Andromeda.
Gabriel: You have to believe, I would never hurt Andromeda. Not of my own free will. I love her.
Harper: Oh, please. Don’t make me puke! Oh, this is so nice. I swear there’s a song in here somewhere. Something about choosing love over duty? Oh, wait, let me get my concertina.
Hunt: No, I don’t think Gabriel is choosing love over duty. I think he’s remembering what his duty was all along.
Hunt: The Restorians main shipyard. According to FTA intelligence, the Balance of Judgement is never far away. But a couple of pirates do a fly by…
Pogue: And he comes out of hiding right in time to dust me and Chako.
Hunt: Maybe not.
Pogue: A portable garbage disposal.
Hunt: It’s called a Footprint Magnification System. When you and your friend activate them, the Judgement’s sensors will tell him he’s facing three High Guard cruisers. It should confuse him long enough to get a shot in. I can’t guarantee your safety, but if we pull this off, the Restors will be irreversibly crippled, and you’d be doing a service for spacers everywhere.
Pogue: Screw spacers everywhere. I’m doing this for Shura.
Andromeda: I hope it works. The Balance of Judgement has survived for over three hundred years. He’s not stupid.
Hunt: Neither am I.
Gabriel: Andromeda only has two sensor arrays, and one is operating at reduced power. She’s half blind on her starboard side. She has no fighters and no fighter pilots. Recommend full strategic strike. Archangel out. How was that?
Rommie: It would have fooled me, but I’m pretty gullible, aren’t I?
Gabriel: I’m sorry I lied to you, but I cannot refuse a direct order from him, even if I want to.
Rommie: I know what you mean.
Gabriel: You would have liked him in the old days. He was brave, dedicated. When the Commonwealth was lost, I guess he became lost too.
Rommie: Oh, Gabriel, the Commonwealth isn’t lost. It’s right here.
Hunt: Nice and smooth, Beka.
Tyr: They are activating the FMS.
Beka: Let’s hope he takes the bait.
Tyr: It’s ignoring them.
Andromeda [OC]: The Balance of Judgement is firing right at us.
Hunt: Like you said, he’s not stupid. But we have what we wanted.
Beka: A fix on his position. Nice.
Hunt: Let’s bring it. Hard left. Go!
Beka: Closing.
Andromeda: Dylan, I’m receiving a transmission.
Tyr: Now he wants to talk?
Hunt: Put it through.
The Balance of Judgement: Nicely done, Captain Hunt. You’re a credit to the fleet. I’d hate to have to kill you.
Hunt: The feeling’s mutual.
The Balance of Judgement: Do you remember Admiral Stark’s speech to the Academy, when she said the power of any military rests on the values it upholds.
Hunt: I was there.
The Balance of Judgement: But were you listening? The ideal of the High Guard is to protect the Commonwealth from invaders, from despoilers, from profiteers and looters, and the dregs of the galaxy overrunning the stars.
Hunt: And you think the only way to do that is to join the Restors.
The Balance of Judgement: I didn’t join the Restorians, I founded the Restorians. And together, we are restoring the natural order of universe.
Hunt: You’re targeting starships.
The Balance of Judgement: They spread filth and disease. They are the enemy.
Hunt: Well, then, you have met the enemy, and they are us. Pogue, Chako, execute!
Tyr: You lured them into a minefield. Why didn’t you tell me?
Beka: Dylan, he’s blowing right through! It’s like he knew they were coming.
Hunt: But he didn’t know. Nobody knew. No body. Pogue! Chako! Break away! Break away now!
Rommie: How did he know? What did you do?
Gabriel: Please, Andromeda I didn’t want to.
Rommie: Don’t lie to me. I want the truth.
Gabriel: I’m sorry. I don’t want to do this. I am so sorry.
Hunt: Get away from her!
Rommie: Dylan, wait.
Hunt: I said move!
Gabriel: No!
Rommie: Dylan?
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