C13 TERMINAL
Avon has banned the crew from the flight deck without an explanation. He has been there for nearly 30 hours and no one is able to countermand Avon's orders to Zen. When Tarrant confronts Avon demanding to know what's going on, Avon pulls a gun on him, saying he needs to be alone and that he will explain everything later. Tarrant and the others leave. Avon consults Zen who has been receiving instructions from an unknown source to an unknown destination that must be reached within a specified amount of time. Encountering a mass of fluid particles of unknown properties,  Avon orders Zen to fly through rather than lost pervious time circumventing it. The particles adhere to the hull knocking out the hull sensors but there are no other apparent problems.
          The Liberator arrives at Terminal, an artificially created planet, thought be have been destroyed three hundred years prior. Avon says that he has left a message with Zen explaining what he's been doing and if he fails to report back every hour they are to leave. Avon teleports down alone and warns the crew not to follow, an order which Tarrant and Cally promptly ignore. Avon is directed by a small navigational computer to an underground base. He has also been followed by a man and a woman. Before they can reach Avon, they are attacked by Links, the ape-like inhabitants of Terminal. Tarrant and Cally are also attacked but they kill the Links and follow Avon down into the base. In the base, Avon is shot by a tranquilizer dart. When he awakes, he finds Blake. Blake is on life support and can not be teleported but he promises to tell Avon of the treasure he has found.
          On the Liberator, things are getting serious. Systems are breaking down and the particles that they has passed through are eroding the ship faster then Zen can repair it. Zen is dying and has shut down all functions except the teleport. Meanwhile Avon is captured and brought before Servalan. It was she who sent the messages from "Blake" and it was she who fooled Avon into thinking he saw "Blake" through electronic auto suggestion. Servalan set the trap in order to finally capture the Liberator. Just as Avon was refusing to call for the others to teleport down, Tarrant and Cally are brought in. Tarrant agrees to call  Vila and  have Dayna sent down. Avon is furious unaware of the ship's condition. Maliciously, Servalan informs Avon that Blake died on the planet Jervon and that she watched the body being cremated. Then, in triumph, she calls for Vila to teleport her and her men to she new ship the Liberator. Vila is sent down to Terminal but before he leaves he manages to take Orac, who he claims is a piece of space sculpture that he has made Servalan orders that ship to leave orbit, but as its starts to move, the Liberator breaks up and explodes. The crew watch stunned. Slowly they leave to explore the base. Each one glaring at Avon for killing the Liberator and Zen .


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