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-->'''Orac:''' Join us, Soolin. We can fulfill [[YourHeartsDesire your every desire]].\\

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-->'''Orac:''' Join us, Soolin. We can fulfill fulfil [[YourHeartsDesire your every desire]].\\
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[[caption-width-right:350:They had one job. ONE JOB.]]

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* BBCQuarry: Averted; this part of Xenon is a nice woodland (Box Hill in Surrey).



* BBCQuarry: Averted; this part of Xenon is a nice woodland (Box Hill in Surrey).



* CleavageWindow: And Vena has the chest for it.



* CleavageWindow: And Vena has the chest for it.



-->'''Avon:''' You plan to unite with Orac.
-->'''Android:''' One being.
-->'''Vila:''' [[AllYourPowersCombined That could be a lot of power.]]
-->'''Android:''' To you, it will be God!

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-->'''Avon:''' You plan to unite with Orac.
-->'''Android:'''
Orac.\\
'''Android:'''
One being.
-->'''Vila:'''
being.\\
'''Vila:'''
[[AllYourPowersCombined That could be a lot of power.]]
-->'''Android:'''
]]\\
'''Android:'''
To you, it will be God!



-->'''Orac:''' I am obliged to do as you tell me, even though I know it to be wrong.
-->'''Avon:''' Only following orders? That's not very original, Orac.
-->'''Orac:''' There is nothing very original about domination, as you will discover.

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-->'''Orac:''' I am obliged to do as you tell me, even though I know it to be wrong.
-->'''Avon:'''
wrong.\\
'''Avon:'''
Only following orders? That's not very original, Orac.
-->'''Orac:'''
Orac.\\
'''Orac:'''
There is nothing very original about domination, as you will discover.



* NotSoStoic: Even Soolin can't repress a girly scream when [[CatScare Vila bumps into her in the dark]] while they're hiding from a mad headless android.



-->'''Soolin:''' Is this a private game or can anyone play?
-->'''Vila:''' We've been looking for you.
-->'''Soolin:''' [[DeadpanSnarker In there?]]

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-->'''Soolin:''' Is this a private game or can anyone play?
-->'''Vila:'''
play?\\
'''Vila:'''
We've been looking for you.
-->'''Soolin:'''
you.\\
'''Soolin:'''
[[DeadpanSnarker In there?]]there?]]
* NotSoStoic: Even Soolin can't repress a girly scream when [[CatScare Vila bumps into her in the dark]] while they're hiding from a mad headless android.



-->'''Tarrant:''' [Avon] probably just wanted to get you away from the base, to avoid more bother over Muller's lady.
-->'''Vila:''' I was a perfect gentleman towards her!
-->'''Tarrant:''' That's what bothered us.
** The usually servile Slave's curt response to every inquiry by the crew.

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-->'''Tarrant:''' [Avon] probably just wanted to get you away from the base, to avoid more bother over Muller's lady.
-->'''Vila:'''
lady.\\
'''Vila:'''
I was a perfect gentleman towards her!
-->'''Tarrant:'''
her!\\
'''Tarrant:'''
That's what bothered us.
** The usually servile Slave's curt response to every inquiry by the crew. crew.
**
-->'''Orac:''' It would be prudent to worry about the details now.\\
'''Avon:''' When did you start offering gratuitous advice?



* RoboticReveal: When Muller gets back on his feet after losing his head.



* RoboticReveal: When Muller gets back on his feet after losing his head.



* StuffBlowingUp: Deciding there's NoKillLikeOverkill, Dayna attaches three [[StickyBomb magnetic bombs]] to the android and watches the subsequent pyrotechnic display with appreciation.



-->'''Avon:''' Restore the teleport to normal function.
-->'''Orac:''' I urge you--
-->'''Avon:''' ''RESTORE the teleport!''
* StuffBlowingUp: Deciding there's NoKillLikeOverkill, Dayna attaches three [[StickyBomb magnetic bombs]] to the android and watches the subsequent pyrotechnic display with appreciation.

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-->'''Avon:''' Restore the teleport to normal function.
-->'''Orac:'''
function.\\
'''Orac:'''
I urge you--
-->'''Avon:'''
you--\\
'''Avon:'''
''RESTORE the teleport!''
* StuffBlowingUp: Deciding there's NoKillLikeOverkill, Dayna attaches three [[StickyBomb magnetic bombs]] to the android and watches the subsequent pyrotechnic display with appreciation.
teleport!''



-->'''Technician:''' Muller's dead.
-->'''Security Central:''' Dead?
-->'''Technician:''' At least it could be Muller.
-->'''Security Central:''' Clarify that.
-->'''Technician:''' The head's not there.
-->'''Security Central:''' What?
-->'''Technician:''' His corpse. It's got no head.

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-->'''Technician:''' Muller's dead.
-->'''Security
dead.\\
'''Security
Central:''' Dead?
-->'''Technician:'''
Dead?\\
'''Technician:'''
At least it could be Muller.
-->'''Security
Muller.\\
'''Security
Central:''' Clarify that.
-->'''Technician:'''
that.\\
'''Technician:'''
The head's not there.
-->'''Security
there.\\
'''Security
Central:''' What?
-->'''Technician:'''
What?\\
'''Technician:'''
His corpse. It's got no head.



-->'''Avon:''' It will be Vila, or it will be me.
-->'''Vila:''' It'll be you!

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-->'''Avon:''' It will be Vila, or it will be me.
-->'''Vila:'''
me.\\
'''Vila:'''
It'll be you!



--->"Tarrant, what have you got up there apart from yourself, a halfwit and a corpse?"

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--->"Tarrant, -->"Tarrant, what have you got up there apart from yourself, a halfwit and a corpse?"



--->'''Vila:''' A little hard work never hurt anyone.
--->'''Tarrant:''' How would you know?

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--->'''Vila:''' -->'''Vila:''' A little hard work never hurt anyone.
--->'''Tarrant:'''
anyone.\\
'''Tarrant:'''
How would you know? know?



--->'''Orac:''' Join us, Soolin. We can fulfill [[YourHeartsDesire your every desire]].
--->'''Soolin:''' [Turning Orac off] You wouldn't know where to start.

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--->'''Orac:''' -->'''Orac:''' Join us, Soolin. We can fulfill [[YourHeartsDesire your every desire]].
--->'''Soolin:'''
desire]].\\
'''Soolin:'''
[Turning Orac off] You wouldn't know where to start.



--->'''Avon:''' {{You fool}}! It's [[EvilLuddite superstitious half-wits]] like you who hold back every advance we make.
--->'''Orac:''' And arrogance, Avon, like yours and Muller's which threaten to destroy--
--->'''Avon:''' [[BigShutUp Shut up!]]
--->'''Orac:''' Yes...Master!

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--->'''Avon:''' -->'''Avon:''' {{You fool}}! It's [[EvilLuddite superstitious half-wits]] like you who hold back every advance we make.
--->'''Orac:'''
make.\\
'''Orac:'''
And arrogance, Avon, like yours and Muller's which threaten to destroy--
--->'''Avon:'''
destroy--\\
'''Avon:'''
[[BigShutUp Shut up!]]
--->'''Orac:'''
up!]]\\
'''Orac:'''
Yes...Master!
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* StickyBomb: Though according to the blooper real, the actors had trouble making them stick.
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->''"WHERE IS ORAC?"''
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* AnswerCut:
-->'''Vila:''' Yes ''sir!''\\
'''Slave:''' ''(grudgingly)'' Sir!\\
'''Vila:''' What's got into Slave?\\
''(cut to Muller in the medicapsule)''
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* CranialProcessingUnit: Only the inhibiter is in the android's head; the body contains its computer brain, sensors and voice synthesizer.

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* CranialProcessingUnit: Only The killer android keeps coming after our heroes even after a RoboticReveal involving his head getting knocked off. Turns out the inhibiter is in head was [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters that of its creator]], and the android's head; the body contains its computer brain, sensors and voice synthesizer.real head was a RestrainingBolt so it wouldn't KillAllHumans.
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* OminousCube: The dreaded black box.
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* AlmostOutOfOxygen: The android has secretly taken over Slave, so when the Seven LockDown ''Scorpio'', he cuts off life support so they have to turn the teleport back on to rescue their friends.

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* AlmostOutOfOxygen: The android has secretly taken over Slave, so when the Seven Orac puts ''Scorpio'' into LockDown ''Scorpio'', he cuts off to prevent Muller from escaping. It responds by shutting down life support so they have to turn support, but fortunately the teleport back on crew get into rescue suits in time. Avon then has to break quarantine to rescue their friends.them, as the suits have limited oxygen supply.



* BearHug = DeadlyHug: Muller to Tarrant, and later his mistress (fatally).

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* BearHug = DeadlyHug: BearHug[=/=]DeadlyHug: Muller to Tarrant, and later his mistress (fatally).
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-->"Tarrant, what have you got up there apart from yourself, a halfwit and a corpse?"

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-->"Tarrant, --->"Tarrant, what have you got up there apart from yourself, a halfwit and a corpse?"



-->'''Vila:''' A little hard work never hurt anyone.
-->'''Tarrant:''' How would you know?

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-->'''Vila:''' --->'''Vila:''' A little hard work never hurt anyone.
-->'''Tarrant:''' --->'''Tarrant:''' How would you know?



-->'''Orac:''' Join us, Soolin. We can fulfill [[YourHeartsDesire your every desire]].
-->'''Soolin:''' [Turning Orac off] You wouldn't know where to start.

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-->'''Orac:''' --->'''Orac:''' Join us, Soolin. We can fulfill [[YourHeartsDesire your every desire]].
-->'''Soolin:''' --->'''Soolin:''' [Turning Orac off] You wouldn't know where to start.



-->'''Avon:''' {{You fool}}! It's [[EvilLuddite superstitious half-wits]] like you who hold back every advance we make.
-->'''Orac:''' And arrogance, Avon, like yours and Muller's which threaten to destroy--
-->'''Avon:''' [[BigShutUp Shut up!]]
-->'''Orac:''' Yes...Master!

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-->'''Avon:''' --->'''Avon:''' {{You fool}}! It's [[EvilLuddite superstitious half-wits]] like you who hold back every advance we make.
-->'''Orac:''' --->'''Orac:''' And arrogance, Avon, like yours and Muller's which threaten to destroy--
-->'''Avon:''' --->'''Avon:''' [[BigShutUp Shut up!]]
-->'''Orac:''' --->'''Orac:''' Yes...Master!
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* LuddWasRight as usual. Surely everyone knows that the moment you create an artificial lifeform it goes mad, kills its creator and tries to take over the galaxy?

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* LuddWasRight as usual. Surely everyone knows that the moment you create an artificial lifeform android it goes mad, kills its creator and tries to take over the galaxy?
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* LuddWasRight as usual. Surely everyone knows that the moment you create an artificial lifeform it goes mad, killing its creator and attempting to take over the galaxy?

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* LuddWasRight as usual. Surely everyone knows that the moment you create an artificial lifeform it goes mad, killing kills its creator and attempting tries to take over the galaxy?

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* SuddenlyShouting

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* SuddenlyShoutingSuddenlyShouting: Avon has to teleport to ''Scorpio'' to rescue his friends who are AlmostOutOfOxygen, but Orac has [[LockDown shut down the teleport]] to prevent the android escaping.



-->'''Orac:''' Yes...Master!

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-->'''Orac:''' Yes...Master!Master!
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[[AC:Written by Roger Parkes.\\
Directed by Mary Ridge.\\
Airdate: 2 November 1981.]]
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* ServileSnarker

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* ServileSnarkerServileSnarker: Orac gets in the last word.
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* RobotsAreJustBetter: The android is rampaging through the base looking for [[MagicalComputer Orac]] who begs to be shut down before this happens, as with [[AllYourPowersCombined their combined powers]] they could dominate and eventually make extinct all organic humanoid life.
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* TapOnTheHead: Tarrant [[PistolWhipping pistol-whips]] [[YouAreNumberSix Technician 241]] unconscious with no visble consequences. Then Vila hits Muller across the shoulders with a WrenchWhack and apparently kills him.

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* TapOnTheHead: Zigzagged; Tarrant [[PistolWhipping pistol-whips]] [[YouAreNumberSix Technician 241]] unconscious with no visble visible consequences. Then Vila hits Muller across the shoulders with a WrenchWhack and apparently kills him.
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* HulkSpeak: Muller's speech, presumably because the android would be limited in the amount of facial articulation it could make. Once the android loses it's head, it becomes a lot more fluent (though no less hammy).

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* HulkSpeak: Muller's speech, Muller, presumably because the android would be limited in the amount of facial vocal articulation it could make. make through a surgically-attached human head. Once the android loses it's head, the head it becomes a lot more fluent (though no less hammy).
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-->'''Orac:''' Join us, Soolin. We can fulfill your every desire.

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-->'''Orac:''' Join us, Soolin. We can fulfill [[YourHeartsDesire your every desire.desire]].
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* ExplosiveInstrumentation: When Tarrant and Avon use the BigElectricSwitch, the antique circuits burst into flame.
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* OffWithHisHead: Poor Muller. At least it was bloodless.

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* OffWithHisHead: Poor Muller. At least [[BloodlessCarnage it was bloodless.bloodless]].
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** While being chased around Xenon Base by a mad Muller, Avon [[NeverSplitTheParty leaves Vila alone]] so he can change from his rescue suit into his studded black leather outfit.

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** While [[SkewedPriorities being chased around Xenon Base by a mad Muller, Muller]], Avon [[NeverSplitTheParty leaves Vila alone]] so he can change from his rescue suit into his studded black leather outfit.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Avon says "I'll be back" [[Film/TheTerminator three years before Arnie]], in an episode with a killer cyborg posing as a human!



* SpecialEffectsFailure:
** The android grows in height after losing Muller's head.
** A thunderclap sound effect is used for the power surge on ''Scorpio''.

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* OutOfCharacterAlert: The usually servile Slave's curt response to every inquiry by the crew. InUniverse with Vila.

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* OutOfCharacterAlert: The usually servile Slave's curt response to every inquiry by the crew. InUniverse with Vila.


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** The usually servile Slave's curt response to every inquiry by the crew.
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* HairFlip: Vena ''{{Camp}} and Avon]]'' do this after taking off their rescue helmets.

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* HairFlip: Vena ''{{Camp}} ''[[{{Camp}} and Avon]]'' do this after taking off their rescue helmets.
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* HairFlip: Vena ''and Avon'' do this after taking off their rescue helmets.

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* HairFlip: Vena ''and Avon'' ''{{Camp}} and Avon]]'' do this after taking off their rescue helmets.
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* CallBack: Muller was a student of Ensor, the creator of Orac.

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* CallBack: Muller was a student of [[Recap/BlakesSevenS1E13Orac Ensor, the creator of Orac.Orac]].

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