TEMP Privateer 2 Script

1_S.TGV

CANERA COMM: Crius planet control, this is cargo 1-0-4-6 Canera. On plan and requesting ejection marker 1-1-5.

CRIUS: Very well, Canera. You are cleared for re-entry. Proceed to Mendra spaceport. Good day.

CANERA CAPTAIN: Who are those clowns?

WOMAN: We're in unequivocal commit! We can't even manage a jump out!

CANERA CONN: So much for staying hypersonic. And we're too big for them to tractor in...

CANERA CAPTAIN: ... and keep us from bouncing. Range to Mendra?

CANERA COMM: Six hundred fifty.

CANERA CREWMAN: Hit it now!

CANERA COMM: Nothing left but altitude dials. CANERA CAPTAIN: Launch all communications. Tell them to scramble all emergency equipment to Mendra. Nice try, Rog, nice try.

2_S.TGV

FREVEL: Ser Arris, if you can hear me, blink. Excellent. I think our patient's coming around, Douglas. You've been in an accident, Ser. Your ship crashed while landing here on Crius. Luckily you were in a cryopod at the time so your injuries weren't extensive.

ARRIS: Accident? How?

FREVEL: We'll deal with that later. Our first job is to get you back on your feet. You need to stay with us for some rehab, it's plenty of time.

ARRIS: Yeah, but I don't remember... anything. What ship? What's happening?

FREVEL: The Canera, Ser Arris. We know that's your name from your cryopod. It may take a while for your memory to return. In the mean time, just relax. Everything's going to be fine.

--

COMPUTER: Exercise...

FREVEL: And how's Ser Arris this morning?

ARRIS: He's okay.

COMPUTER: Gyro session commencing.

ARRIS: I just wish he'd tell me who he was.

FREVEL: We'll get your memory back eventually.

ARRIS: Do you treat all your patients as though they were children, Dr. Frevel, or is it just me?

FREVEL: I'm sorry. We find that people in your condition usually appreciate a gentle approach.

ARRIS: Yeah, well I'm not usual people.

FREVEL: No, I don't believe you are. We wouldn't normally divulge this information to patients but we did a record search on you and it wasn't good.

ARRIS: Make my day. I'm a mass-murderer.

FREVEL: I wouldn't joke about that if I were you. You could be almost anything. Prior to two weeks ago, you don't exist. Either someone's erased your records or else there was an accident in your home planet's data net.

ARRIS: My home planet. Geez, where is home? Where's my family? Do I have a family? Am I married? Do I have children? Who the hell am I, Doctor Frevel?

FREVE: It'll come, Lev. This is all quite normal with trauma sustained in cryo.

COMPUTER: Gyro ending.

ARRIS: Just how long was I in the icebox for?

???FREVEL: We're still working on that. But you could afford to stay in one for the rest of your life.

ARRIS: Meaning?

FREVEL: Meaning one thing that did come down from your data check, your account. Only registered about a week ago. You have an exceptionally attractive credit rating, Ser Arris.

COMPUTER: Gyro session commencing, please stand clear.

???ARRIS: Otherwise there was no withdrawl from the memory bank.

--

NURSE: Can I help you, Sers?

ASSASSIN #1: We're looking for Ser Lev Arris.

NURSE: He's in physio at the moment. Can I ask who wants him?

ASSASSSIN #1: New Crius Examiner. We're here to interview him about the Canera crash.

NURSE: His consultant would have to clear it first.

ASSASSIN #2: Clear this, Mister Nurse.

NURSE: Argh!

ASSASSIN #1: You know something? I think I could really get to enjoy this journalism thing.

--

???FREVEL: Cryo-seceded memory loss may take months to resolve itself. But when it does some patients are a little disappointed. The reality of someone's past often fails to match up to what they'd imagined it might be.

ARRIS: Right now I'd settle for disappointment.

FREVEL: You may have to. In time your memory is likely to recover completely.

ARRIS: But how do I know that? How will I ever be sure there's not one more nasty little memory just waiting to jump me?

COMPUTER: Gyro session.ending.

--

ASSASSIN #3: Delightful. So clean. So sterile.

ASSASSIN #4: Getting all hot and bothered, huh?

ASSASSIN #3: I never get hot. Nor bothered.

RECEPTIONIST: Yes, Serras?

ASSASSIN #3: We're here to visit a man. I mean, a friend who is a man. Ser Lev Arris.

???RECEPTIONIST: 5A, Serras. First line walk on the left. Follow the... huh.

--

FREVEL: Try and take it easy for the time being. If you overstress yourself it could only prolong the problem.

AUTOPILOT: Rear door locked. Autopilot activate. Course two, go, go.

3_S.TGV

JOE: You're a hungry man.

ARRIS: Yeah, yeah, I guess I could eat.

JOE: You are starving, don't be naive. A barman these days, he has to have a sixth sense about his customers, and I'm nothing if I'm not a barman. Ah, your credit's sweet enough. So, we have stew, we have lizard guts... oh, and we have space bug gumbo!/

ARRIS: I'll have the stew, please.

JOE: I could've told you that. And you prefer your beer lukewarm, right?

ARRIS: No, no actually I prefer it... lukewarm's good. Allright.

JOE: Don't mind them, they're loud-mouthed viscious cut-throats. But they're decent loud-mouth cut-throats.

ARRIS: So they're a, they're no trouble, eh?

JOE: No, nothing that fancy for me. Though some spacers, as soon as they walk in I can smell it on them... so I break their necks just a little to be on the safe side. No trouble I smell on you.

ARRIS: Uh-huh, I left my trouble outside.

???JOE: Good, soon as I saw you I said well there's one smack-up vertebrae you hang out here and I see you eye decent food and drink amd maybe a couple of juicy deals. A respectable guy like you wants to be careful where he's seen. You don't want to hang out in some spit-sorter's toilet with a liquor license well like this. A place with a little... ???.

ARRIS: Thanks for the advice, uh...

JOE: Well my friends call me Joe. Probably because that's my name!

ARRIS: Lev Arris.

JOE: Of course you are. Manners!

ARRIS: Joe. You mentioned some, uh, juicy deals.

JOE: Not just juicy. Terrific. Suppliers. Wholesalers. Jobbers. You might say that I run a very... moist establishment.

4_S.TGV

ARRIS: I'm not sure I need anything like that, exactly.

JOE: Suit yourself.

5_S.TGV

ARRIS: Ship dealers, perhaps?

JOE: Not many. Most people use the booth system now. But I'll keep an eye out for something, huh? If you like.

6_S.TGV

FREVEL: It was quiet a crash. If it hadn't been for that pod, I doubt you'd have survived.

ARRIS: But why was I in the pod?

FREVEL: Well, you're far enough along in your recovery that it's safe to tell you. You were suffering from amniotrophic ossecular degeneration.

ARRIS: Is that bad?

FREVEL: Bad? It was fatal, but not anymore. You were given the self viral specific for AOD as soon as you were thawed. Your bone marrow only took about a week to get back in order. Lucky you were in one of those older pods. Dr. Loomis said they were built to last. Oh, ah, Dr. Loomis is the one who uncorked you.

ARRIS: I haven't met him.

FREVEL: No, he was scheduled to start his holiday before you were conscious again. He, ah, he'll be back at the end of the month. Anyway, you were probably a holdover freeze. When you were diagnosed there was still no cure, so they froze you down til there was one. Lucky for you the AOD cure's been with us for some time now.

ARRIS: Lucky, yeah. Have they found out just why the ship crashed yet?

???FREVEL: No, they're still investigating it. So far nothing concrete's turned up. One theory is that the ship's ???ily gave out, but there were rumors about some sort of sabotage while ??? action. Oh it's going to be weeks yet until anything's settled.

7_S.TGV

ARRIS: I was wondering if I could see a Doctor Loomis. He admitted me when I first came in.

RECEPTIONIST: One moment, please. Good. If you follow the little blue light to conference room 3, he'll meet you there.

ARRIS: Thanks.

--

LOOMIS: Ser Arris. What a pleasant surprise. I suppose you'd better come in. To be honest, we didn't think we'd be seeing you again.

ARRIS: Aren't you interested to know if my memory's improved?

LOOMIS: Your memory, of course. I'm sure Doctor Frevel would have been interested, too, had she still been alive.

ARRIS: Yeah. Listen, I'm sorry about what happened to her. But I need information, Doctor Loomis.

LOOMIS: And I'm sorry, Ser Arris, but I don't think I'm in any position to help you.

8_S.TGV

ARRIS: Then you better get into position, Doc, because there are people shooting at me, dragging my ass all over space and generally doing their level best to terminate my existence. You're the only one who saw me in that pod and the pod is at the center of this whole mess. Now start talking.

LOOMIS: Ser Arris, in law when you left this facility without clearance you closed your own case down. I'm not obliged to have anything further to do with you and that suits me just fine.

ARRIS: Doctor, wait. Look, I'm sorry. I've got problems. I think maybe you've got them, too, from the way you look, but at least you remember your past life. I know how to do things, but not how I know how to do them. I've got no past. That pod I came in is the only link with who I was and you're the only one who saw it.

LOOMIS: Okay. There were suggestions that we should forget your case ever happened.

ARRIS: Suggestions from who?

LOOMIS: No names, just a lot of veiled threats. You arrived in a pretty beat up pod, Arris. Custom-built, not one of the off-the-peg models. At least ten years old.

ARRIS: Ten years?

LOOMIS: It could have been older. And you hadn't been in a hospital. There was no practitioners seal on the pod when we opened it. The pod displays wouldn't show any reg number or planet origin. But we didn't have a lot of time to bother about that, you were already in full cycle. The crash had started the pod's resuscitiation routines. They took the thing away, I don't know where. More than that, I can't tell you and I think the less we're seen together, the better. Good luck, Ser Arris, you're going to need a whole lot of it.

9_S.TGV

ARRIS: Doctor, look, I've got problems. I think maybe you've got them too, from the way you look, but at least you remember your past life. I know how to do things, but not how I know how to do them. I've got no past. That pod I came in is the only link with who I was and you're the only one who saw it.

LOOMIS: Okay. There were suggestions that we should forget your case ever happened.

ARRIS: Suggestions from who?

LOOMIS: No names, just a lot of veiled threats. You arrived in a pretty beat up pod, Arris. Custom-built, not one of the off-the-peg models. At least ten years old.

ARRIS: Ten years?

LOOMIS: It could have been older. And you hadn't been in a hospital. There was no practitioners seal on the pod when we opened it. The pod displays wouldn't show any reg number or planet origin. But we didn't have a lot of time to bother about that, you were already in full cycle. The crash had started the pod's resuscitiation routines. They took the thing away, I don't know where. More than that, I can't tell you and I think the less we're seen together, the better. Good luck, Ser Arris, you're going to need a whole lot of it.

10_S.TGV MIA 11_S.TGV MIA 12_S.TGV MIA

13_S.TGV

TAFFIN: Yeah? What is it? Who sent you? ARRIS: Are you Hal Taffin?

TAFFIN: Am I me? Then again, who's asking?

ARRIS: My name's Lev Arris. I believe you're in possession of a medical pod.

TAFFIN: Oh, no, not me. Uh-huh.

ARRIS: The public database says you got it off the Canera.

TAFFIN: Don't believe everything you read in the database. Now if you'll excuse me, I got a wayward biochip I got to de-discombobulate. Good day.

14_S.TGV

ARRIS: Ser Taffin, I realize how precious your time is and I would hate to have to bother you with this again. I'd sooner we come to some accomodation.

TAFFIN: Accomodations pretty expensive around these parts.

ARRIS: I don't expect to pay basement prices for a penthouse suite.

TAFFIN: The kind of place you're looking for costs... ten thousand.

ARRIS: I... don't have that much.

TAFFIN: Then I don't have that much to say. Come back when you got it.

15_S.TGV

TAFFIN: So, you're back again. You got enough money this time make me feel like talking to you?

ARRIS: I just thought...

TAFFIN: You didn't think, cully. You don't have the necessary, come back when you do.

16_S.TGV

ARRIS: Ser Taffin, I realize how precious your time is and I would hate to have to bother you with this again. I'd sooner we come to some accomodation.

TAFFIN: Accomodations pretty expensive around these parts.

ARRIS: I don't expect to pay basement prices for a penthouse suite.

TAFFIN: The kind of place you're looking for costs... ten thousand.

ARRIS: Ten thousand. Okay. What do you know?

TAFFIN: I sold it to a guy named Angus Santana on Anhur. He works for some charity called Interplanetary Aid.

ARRIS: What did Santana want with it?

TAFFIN: They were looking for something to use as a med-evac.

ARRIS: How come you sold it so fast?

TAFFIN: I don't like trouble. That ship's trouble. There was some people, there was a lot of questions. Everyone's getting rid of anything they had from that ship.

ARRIS: Why all the interest?

TAFFIN: Get out of here.

17_S.TGV

TAFFIN: So, you're back again. You got enough money this time make me feel like talking to you?

ARRIS: Yup.

TAFFIN: So, what was it you wanted to ask me about?

ARRIS: That pod.

TAFFIN: I sold it to a guy named Angus Santana on Anhur. He works for some charity called Interplanetary Aid.

ARRIS: What did Santana want with it?

TAFFIN: They were looking for something to use as a med-evac.

ARRIS: How come you sold it so fast?

TAFFIN: I don't like trouble. That ship's trouble. There was some people, there was a lot of questions. Everyone's getting rid of anything they had from that ship.

ARRIS: Why all the interest?

TAFFIN: Get out of here.

18_S.TGV

ARRIS: Now listen, Taffin, I don't have time for your paranoid games. Maybe you'll be a little more talkative.

TAFFIN: Touch me and you're dead. Now go. Or stay. Yeah, yeah stay. I'll call the teeps, tell them how you threatened me, how I had to shoot you. Its happened before. Don't ask questions, they like me, the teeps.

19_S.TGV

ARRIS: Okay, shoot, Taffin. But make it a good one. Because if I don't drop dead the second you pull that trigger, you lose the rest of your ugly face.

TAFFIN: Oh, the pod, you want to know about the medical pod. Why didn't you just say so?

TAFFIN: I sold it to a guy called Angus Santana on Anhur. He works for some charity called Interplanetary Aid.

ARRIS: What did Santana want with it?

TAFFIN: They were looking for something to use as a med-evac.

ARRIS: How come you sold it so fast?

TAFFIN: I don't like trouble. That ship's trouble. There was some people, there was a lot of questions. Everyone's been getting rid of anything they had from that ship.

ARRIS: Why all the interest?

TAFFIN: Get out of here.

20_S.TGV

ARRIS: Ser, I'm sorry. You could say that I'm not really myself at the moment. Please excuse me.

TAFFIN: People like you think they can push me around. Well I don't like it, see. It's gonna cost you. Twenty big ones. Or you're out of here.

ARRIS: If that's what it'll take. Allright, tell me what you know.

TAFFIN: I sold it to a guy named Angus Santana on Anhur. He works for some charity called Interplanetary Aid.

ARRIS: What did Santana want with it?

TAFFIN: They were looking for something to use as a med-evac.

ARRIS: How come you sold it so fast?

TAFFIN: I don't like trouble. That ship's trouble. There was some people, there was a lot of questions. Everyone's getting rid of anything they had from that ship.

ARRIS: Why all the interest?

TAFFIN: Get out of here.

21_S.TGV

ARRIS: Ser, I'm sorry. You could say that I'm not really myself at the moment. Please excuse me.

TAFFIN: People like you think they can push me around. Well I don't like it, see. It's gonna cost you. Twenty big ones. Or you're out of here.

ARRIS: If that's what it'll take. I... don't have that much.

TAFFIN: You talk big for a guy with no money. Get outta here, don't come back till you got the necessary.

22_S.TGV

TAFFIN: So, this time you got enough money to make me feel like having a conversation with you?

ARRIS: No.

TAFFIN: Then come back when you do.

23_S.TGV

TAFFIN: So, this time you got enough money to make me feel like having a conversation with you?

ARRIS: Yeah. Now about that pod.

TAFFIN: I sold it to a guy named Angus Santana on Anhur. He works for some charity called Interplanetary Aid.

ARRIS: What did Santana want with it?

TAFFIN: They were looking for something to use as a med-evac.

ARRIS: How come you sold it so fast?

TAFFIN: I don't like trouble. That ship's trouble. There was some people, there was a lot of questions. Everyone's getting rid of anything they had from that ship.

ARRIS: Why all the interest?

TAFFIN: Get out of here.

24_S.TGV

SANTANA: Don't mind the mess, mess the mind, that's the slogan for today. I don't know what it means, hah, but when did that ever stop progress, eh? How can I help, Ser...

ARRIS: Lev Arris.

SANTANA: I can only give you a few minutes I'm afraid, Ser Arris, On the way to a meeting. Three meetings, actually. Simultaneously.

ARRIS: I appreciate that.

SANTANA: Where did I put those minutes? You must be with Taffin Reclamation.

25_S.TGV

ARRIS: Yes.

SANTANA: Hey, it's really cool about that memory solid turning up. We could have had mucho trouble decomissioning the pod without it. Uhm, you want tea, coffee, liquid air?

ARRIS: That is.

SANTANA: That is? That is aint in the script, is it? That is is decidedly un-this conversation.

ARRIS: What?

SANTANA: You're not with Taffin, are you? Whoever you are, the idea of you coming in here wearing a fake beard and moustache, metaphorically speaking, doesn't flight my bird. Do you hear what I'm saying?

ARRIS: I'm sorry, Ser Santana. LIsten, I've been doing through some kind of hell the last few days but I shouldn't have tried it on. I'm not with Taffin.

SANTANA: Tell you the truth, I think he's kind of creepers anyway. So what does bring you here?

ARRIS: The pod that Taffin sold you. I have an interest in it.

SANTANA: Of that, I figured.

ARRIS: I was in it, just before it was sold.

SANTANA: That would account for the interest.

ARRIS: I'm trying to clear up some questions about the facility I was in prior to being put in the pod, but I can't do that without the pod's serial number and it doesn't show in the manifest of the ship it was on.

SANTANA: What ship was that?

ARRIS: The Canera.

SANTANA: The one that crashed? Hey that whole business was not un-strange. Some crazy rumors flying around. Way off-planet. Could you put some clothes on those rumors?

ARRIS: Maybe. But it's the pod I'm that interested in. Can you, ah, can you give me the serial number?

SANTANA: Well, if I had time to think about it I'm sure there are a million reasons why I shouldn't. But I'm in a charitable mood and I do have a meeting to get to.

ARRIS: Three meetings.

SANTANA: On the button. Mmm, here's what you're after. I've transferred it to your computer. If you follow the landings and the cargo information attached to that tracking number you ought to be able to find the planet of origin. That's the old number, a new ones been assigned since we bought the pod.

ARRIS: Thanks. You said something about a memory solid going missing.

SANTANA: Yes, not something that normally would become detached. Is there anything else I can do for you?

ARRIS: No. You've been very helpful. Thanks very much.

SANTANA: Think nothing of it.

26_S.TGV

ARRIS: No, no I think there must be some mistake, I'm not with Taffin. The pod that Taffin sold you, I have an interest in it.

SANTANA: Of that, I figured.

ARRIS: I was in it, just before it was sold.

SANTANA: That would account for the interest.

ARRIS: I'm trying to clear up some questions about the facility I was in prior to being put in the pod, but I can't do that without the pod's serial number and it doesn't show in the manifest of the ship it was on.

SANTANA: What ship was that?

ARRIS: The Canera.

SANTANA: The one that crashed? Hey that whole business was not un-strange. Some crazy rumors flying around. Way off-planet. Could you put some clothes on those rumors?

ARRIS: Maybe. But it's the pod I'm that interested in. Can you, ah, can you give me the serial number?

SANTANA: Well, if I had time to think about it I'm sure there are a million reasons why I shouldn't. But I'm in a charitable mood and I do have a meeting to get to.

ARRIS: Three meetings.

SANTANA: On the button. Mmm, here's what you're after. I've transferred it to your computer. If you follow the landings and the cargo information attached to that tracking number you ought to be able to find the planet of origin. That's the old number, a new ones been assigned since we bought the pod.

ARRIS: Thanks. You said something about a memory solid going missing.

SANTANA: Yes, not something that normally would become detached. Is there anything else I can do for you?

ARRIS: No. You've been very helpful. Thanks very much.

SANTANA: Think nothing of it.

44_S.TGV

XAVIER: I hear you've got yourself a ship.

ARRIS: You must have good ears.

XAVIER: You've got a little time on your hands.

ARRIS: Who's asking?

XAVIER: Xavier Shondi, with an X.

ARRIS: Lev Arris, with a why?

XAVIER: Why?

ARRIS: Why do you want me and my ship?

XAVIER: I've got a shipment in. All nice gear. Requires a bit of escorting.

ARRIS: I don't usually do escort work. It's something sensitive.

XAVIER: I wouldn't say sensitive. A little moody, maybe.

ARRIS: I charge extra for arms shipments, they tend to attract unwanted attention and I've got to know what it's for, otherwise no go.

XAVIER: There's a nice little uprising on Karatikus.

ARRIS: What, the mutants, eh?

XAVIER: I prefer to think of them as genetically challenged. You got something against muties?

ARRIS: Not if I can help it. So come on, Xavier with an x, what's the score?

XAVIER: Guns, a transport.

ARRIS: What are we talking, credit-wise?

XAVIER: 8,000 up front, ditto on completion.

45_S.TGV

ARRIS: You're on. Cred me.

XAVIER: Credit where credit is due. You'll get the rest when I get back here.

46_S.TGV

ARRIS: Not enough.

XAVIER: I'll get someone cheaper, then.

47_S.TGV

XAVIER: Everything sweet?

ARRIS: Not too many problems.

XAVIER: 7,000 what we agreed on.

ARRIS: Eight, and you know it.

XAVIER: Silly me. It'll be transferred now. Thanks, Ser Arris, very nice job.

70_S.TGV

?: Can I talk to you for a moment, friend?

ARRIS: Yeah, sure.

NELSON: Joe tells me you are a dependable bloke.

ARRIS: Lying again, he's terrible.

NELSON: Seriously, I need escort off the planet to Janus IV.

ARRIS: What's the problem?

NELSON: Well, I work for an... organization, you might say, which asks me to collect funds for them from time to time. It's been a profitable one, this last haul, and I want to disappear for a little while, if you understand me. I need someone to come along to make sure I get to Janus in one piece. I'll pay you 4,000 credits. Interested?

71_S.TGV

ARRIS: Sorry, friend, can't do it just now.

NELSON: Ah, well, thank you all the same.

72_S.TGV

ARRIS: Sure, why not? Just let me know when you're ready to leave.

73_S.TGV

NELSON: Lev! Hah hah hah hah hah! I've had the money we discussed transferred to your account. Thanks again for your help.

ARRIS: You're welcome. Are you sure you're going to be allright here?

NELSON: Yes indeed. I'm going fishing! Hah hah hah hah hah hah!

81_S.TGV

GABRIEL: Ser Arris?

ARRIS: Yes, Aunt?

GABRIEL: Can I ask you a favor?

ARRIS: Depends.

GABRIEL: A paid favor.

ARRIS: My favorite kind.

GABRIEL: Can you get me out of here?

ARRIS: Sorry?

GABRIEL: I don't particularly want to be here. Unfortunately, some people want my money to be here.

ARRIS: Your money?

GABRIEL: I've just come in to some. Quite a lot, actually. If I don't move pretty fast now, these people are going to get it.

ARRIS: But what can I do, Auntie?

GABRIEL: Get me off-planet now. I'll give you 3,000 credits to get me to Hepheastus.

82_S.TGV

ARRIS: Sorry, Auntie, I don't want to be declared anathema. The beer's too good here.

83_S.TGV

ARRIS: Well, if you can get yourself ready quietly.

GABRIEL: No trouble.

84_S.TGV

GABRIEL: Ser Arris, I owe you my freedom.

ARRIS: And 3,000 credits.

GABRIEL: Paid, with thanks.

ARRIS: And a beer?

GABRIEL: Don't talk to me about beer.