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- Alternatives, Sweetie!|- Unacceptable risk factor on all options.

- It's opening!|- Cut the power!

Now, dammit!

- It's not working!|- Close the hatch!

- Engage docking thrusters.|- Thrusters insufficient to escape...

Overriding computer. Going manual.

No! We need Sweetie!|What are you doing?

Buying us some time!|Firing docking thrusters.

Kill me.

Please.

- How d'you know how much fuel to use?|- I'm guessing.

- I can't keep it shut much longer.|- Don't kill him!

Please.

Don't kill him.

Oh, God.

Clean this place up.

- Sweetie.|- Do you need me back now, Nick?

- What's our status?|- Fuel loss: 82%.

The dimension drive must recharge|in order to escape high solargravity field.

- Time to recharge?|- 17 hours,

one minute.

- Flashpoint time based on fuel reserve?|- Solarincineration

in 17 hours, 12 minutes.

That leaves you|an 11-minute window, Nick.

Maintain orbit, six-second thrusts,|15-minute intervals.

l will maintain orbit.

Start broadcasting ID and position,|all coordinates.

See if you can contact the Titan.

This is Trans Soma rescue vessel|Nightingale 229 hailing TSMO Titan 37.

Captain Marley?

This is Trans Soma|medical rescue vessel Nightingale 229

hailing Trans Soma|mining operation Titan 37.

Repeat:
this is Trans Soma|medical rescue vessel

Nightingale 229 hailing Trans Soma|mining operation Titan 37.

Oh. Did I wake you?

I thought you might be reading or...

Anyway, I managed to bring on board|a fairly good bottle of pear brandy,

and I thought,

in the spirit of friendship,|maybe we could share a glass.

It's...

- It's all right. We'll...|- Lemme see the bottle.

How do you think they get that in there?

They put the bottles on the branches|so that the buds are inside

and the pears grow right in them.

Then, when they're ripe,

they pick the bottles,|pour in the brandy and...

Of course, the real question is|how the hell you get it out.

Rook to E7.

Congratulations, Benjamin.

Your strategy was|both subtle and forceful.

You can play with me wheneveryou want.

Permission to have a child?

I've been trying to get it ever since|you told me you wanted a kid.

What if they only approve one of us?

Two fine, non-genetically engineered|specimens like us? Are you kidding?

We're gonna get approved.

And then we're gonna make us a baby.

- Bridge.|- Check.

Nick, I think there's something|you oughta see.

Then there's this.

- DSU four. The vents weren't modulating.|- That's what killed Marley.

- A warning was going before we jumped.|- You mean he saw that too?

- He had to.|- So he took my DSU.

- Why didn't he cancel the jump?|- He thought it was an acceptable risk.

He should have transferred|the call to another vessel.

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