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* AntagonistInMourning: Played with after Servalan thinks she's destroyed Cancer's ship with our heroes still in it.
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* AntagonistInMourning: Played with after Servalan thinks she's destroyed Cancer's the black ship with our heroes still in it.
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* IdiotBall
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* IdiotBallIdiotBall: Steven Pacey hated this episode because Tarrant was portrayed so foolishly. One would think that Avon too would be more suspicious of Peri, as she points out InUniverse.
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* InTheBack: Instead of shooting the dummy from the safety of the doorway, Avon and Tarrant run around the front of it first.
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* PercussivePickpocket: Done by Nebrox to Borac. Peri is implied to have been an AffectionatePickpocket to Tarrant, lifting the key during their SecurityCling.
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* PercussivePickpocket: Done by Nebrox steals back Avon's teleport bracelet while grovelling to Borac. Peri is implied to have been an AffectionatePickpocket to Tarrant, lifting the key during their SecurityCling.Baroc.
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* MoneyIsNotPower: On seeing Avon is up for auction, Servalan offers any price the slavemaster will name if he's sold to her immediately. However she's not willing to bend the rules in public, so Servalan has to bid with the others.
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* MoneyIsNotPower: On seeing Avon is up for auction, Servalan offers any price the slavemaster slavetrader will name if he's sold to her immediately. However she's Verlis not willing to bend the rules in public, so Servalan has to bid with the others.
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* FauxActionGirl: Soolin -- if she's teleported down with Dayna, Servalan would be dead. Likewise she'd be a logical choice to go onto Cancer's ship to take on a ProfessionalKiller like herself. She makes up for it in the second half.
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* FauxActionGirl: Soolin -- if she's she'd teleported down with Dayna, Servalan would be dead. Likewise she'd be a logical choice to go onto Cancer's ship to take on a ProfessionalKiller like herself. She makes up for it in the second half.
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* DoubleStandard: Soolin when accused of being a GreenEyedMonster by Tarrant.
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* DoubleStandard: Lampshaded by Soolin when accused of being a GreenEyedMonster by Tarrant.Tarrant.
-->'''Soolin:''' Oh, terrific. If two men don't like each other that's a rational judgement. If it's two women what else could it be but jealousy?
-->'''Soolin:''' Oh, terrific. If two men don't like each other that's a rational judgement. If it's two women what else could it be but jealousy?
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* CuttingTheKnot: Rather than waste time trying to identify Cancer, Avon figures they can just kill Servalan before she has a chance to pay the assassin. Never mind that our heroes haven't been any better at killing Servalan than she is at killing them.
** Rather than go searching through Cancer's ship, Avon suggests barricading themselves on the flight deck, flying it back to Xenon Base and keeping it there until Cancer is forced to surrender.
** Rather than go searching through Cancer's ship, Avon suggests barricading themselves on the flight deck, flying it back to Xenon Base and keeping it there until Cancer is forced to surrender.
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* CuttingTheKnot: CuttingTheKnot:
** Rather than waste time trying to identify Cancer, Avon figures they can just kill Servalan before she has a chance to pay the assassin. Never mind that our heroes haven't been any better at killing Servalan than she is at killing them.
** Rather than go searching through Cancer's ship, Avon suggests barricading themselves on the flight deck, flying it back to Xenon Base and keeping it there until Cancer is forced to surrender. Unfortunately the controls are locked (because Servalan is controlling the ship remotely).
** Rather than waste time trying to identify Cancer, Avon figures they can just kill Servalan before she has a chance to pay the assassin. Never mind that our heroes haven't been any better at killing Servalan than she is at killing them.
** Rather than go searching through Cancer's ship, Avon suggests barricading themselves on the flight deck, flying it back to Xenon Base and keeping it there until Cancer is forced to surrender. Unfortunately the controls are locked (because Servalan is controlling the ship remotely).
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* BBCQuarry: In this case a sandpit in Dorset.
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** Our heroes discover the black ship with a prominent cancer sigil dead in space of a power failure. Avon admits that it's ObviouslyATrap, but if it isn't he's not going to miss his opportunity.
** Averted when 'Cancer' escapes; Avon isn't silly enough to go [[DarknessEqualsDeath searching a dark ship]] which [[HomeFieldAdvantage Cancer knows and they don't]].
** Averted when 'Cancer' escapes; Avon isn't silly enough to go [[DarknessEqualsDeath searching a dark ship]] which [[HomeFieldAdvantage Cancer knows and they don't]].
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** Our heroes discover the black ship with a [[SigilSpam prominent cancer sigil sigil]] dead in space of a power failure. Avon admits that it's ObviouslyATrap, it seems an ObviousTrap, but if it isn't he's not going to miss his opportunity.
** Averted when 'Cancer' escapes; Avon isn't silly enough to go [[DarknessEqualsDeath searching a dark ship]] which [[HomeFieldAdvantage Cancer knows and they don't]]. However when life support is shut down they have to do so anyway.
** Averted when 'Cancer' escapes; Avon isn't silly enough to go [[DarknessEqualsDeath searching a dark ship]] which [[HomeFieldAdvantage Cancer knows and they don't]]. However when life support is shut down they have to do so anyway.
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Averted; Tarrant wants to beat the rendevous information out of Cancer, but Avon points out that he knows YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness at that point, so is unlikely to talk.
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Averted; Tarrant wants to beat the rendevous rendezvous information out of Cancer, but Avon points out that he knows YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness at that point, so is unlikely to talk.
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* WomanAreWiser: It's Soolin who works out that Peri is a fake, while all the men are holding the IdiotBall.
* WorthyOpponent: Avon to Servalan. Cancer/Peri however is disappointed. "It's a pity, Avon. I was looking forward to a real duel between us."
* WorthyOpponent: Avon to Servalan. Cancer/Peri however is disappointed. "It's a pity, Avon. I was looking forward to a real duel between us."
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* WomanAreWiser: WomenAreWiser: It's Soolin who works out that Peri is a fake, while all the men are holding the IdiotBall.
* WorthyOpponent: Avon to Servalan.Cancer/Peri Peri however is disappointed. "It's a pity, Avon. I was looking forward to a real duel between us."
* WorthyOpponent: Avon to Servalan.
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* BigBlackout: Cancer shuts off power and life support, so our heroes are forced to leave the flight deck and search.
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* BigBlackout: Cancer Servalan remotely shuts off power and life support, so our heroes are forced to leave the flight deck and search.search for Cancer.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing
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* BitchInSheepsClothingBitchInSheepsClothing: Peri is Cancer.
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-->'''Avon:''' All right, he's not infalliable. It's just that up to now he has never failed.
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-->'''Avon:''' All right, he's not infalliable.infallible. It's just that up to now he has never failed.
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* FictionalCurrency: Servalan pays 700 vems for Avon. That's amore.
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* FictionalCurrency: Servalan pays 700 vems for Avon. That's amore.''amore''.
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* GrapesOfLuxury: They're not shown eating the grapes, but Servalan and the slavemaster spend a lot of time drinking and being fanned by enormous feathers held by shirtless slaves.
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* GrapesOfLuxury: They're not shown eating the grapes, but Servalan and the slavemaster slavetrader Verlis spend a lot of time drinking sipping drinks and being fanned by enormous feathers held by shirtless slaves.
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* HystericalWoman / GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Soolin responds appopriately.
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* HystericalWoman / GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Soolin responds appopriately.appropriately.
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* AllAccordingToPlan: Avon is CapturedOnPurpose, beaten up and MadeASlave. He'll be all right as long as they left his teleport bracelet on him, err...
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* AllAccordingToPlan: Avon is CapturedOnPurpose, beaten up and MadeASlave. He'll be all right as long as they left his teleport bracelet on him, err...him...
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* BigDamnHeroes: Dayna pulls a TeleportationRescue JustInTime. Tarrant jokingly accues her of waiting till the last minute on purpose.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Dayna pulls a TeleportationRescue JustInTime. Tarrant jokingly accues accuses her of waiting till the last minute on purpose.
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* DoubleStandard: Soolin when accused of GreenEyedMonster by Tarrant.
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* DoubleStandard: Soolin when accused of being a GreenEyedMonster by Tarrant.
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* IGotYouCovered: PlayedForLaughs
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* IGotYouCovered: PlayedForLaughsPlayedForLaughs; while Tarrant engages in GoodOldFisticuffs with Fake-Cancer, Avon is shown [[PassThePopcorn sitting in a chair watching them]] until the right moment when he can stick a gun in Cancer's face.
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* FictionalCurrency: Servalan pays 700 vems for Avon. That's amore.
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* WretchedHive: Domo, a haven for slavers and SpacePirates.
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* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: The Servalan/Avon FoeYay reaches FetishFuel levels when Servalan buys Avon as a slave and insists that [[{{Dominatrix}} he call her Mistress]].
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* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: The Servalan/Avon FoeYay reaches FetishFuel levels when Servalan buys Avon as a slave and insists that [[{{Dominatrix}} he call her Mistress]].
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* LuredIntoATrap: Given that Servalan already knows Orac can intercept and decode her communications. Why waste time trying to find your targets when they can come to you?
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* LuredIntoATrap: Given that Servalan already knows Orac can intercept and decode her communications. Why waste time trying to find your targets when they can come to you?LuredIntoATrap
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* BigBlackout: Cancer shuts off power and life support, so our heroes are forced to leave the flight deck and search for him.
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* BigBlackout: Cancer shuts off power and life support, so our heroes are forced to leave the flight deck and search for him.search.
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* DoubleStandard
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* DoubleStandardDoubleStandard: Soolin when accused of GreenEyedMonster by Tarrant.
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* DiesWideOpen: Avon wakes up StrappedToAnOperatingTable with Cancer standing over him.
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* DiesWideOpen: Avon wakes up StrappedToAnOperatingTable with Cancer standing over him. Or is he?
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* AllAccordingToPlan: Avon is captured, beaten up and MadeASlave so he can become a TrojanPrisoner. He'll be all right as long as they left his teleport bracelet on him...
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* AllAccordingToPlan: Avon is captured, CapturedOnPurpose, beaten up and MadeASlave so he can become a TrojanPrisoner. MadeASlave. He'll be all right as long as they left his teleport bracelet on him...him, err...
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* WomanAreWiser: It's Soolin who works out that Peri is a fake, while all the men are holding the IdiotBall.
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* IAteWhat: Avon when told his stew is made from fungus.
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* IAteWhat: Avon when told his mangon stew is made from fungus.
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* CoverIdentityAnomaly
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* CoverIdentityAnomalyCoverIdentityAnomaly: Despite being a slave since she was a child, Peri doesn't know what mangon is. Realising she's slipped up, she kills off Nebrox quickly.
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* IronicEcho: "just a man"
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* IronicEcho: "just On meeting the legendary Cancer, Avon comments that he's "only a man"man". When the real Cancer is about to kill Avon, she too expresses disappointment. "A man's just a man when all's said and done."
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Peri pretends to be a weepy DamselInDistress who's not particularly bright.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Peri pretends to be a weepy DamselInDistress who's not particularly bright.who keeps talking about how silly she is.
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* PetTheDog: Avon is clearly lying when he says he'll help Nebrox escape as well. But at the last moment he delays his TeleportationRescue, ordering Dayna down with an extra bracelet for Nebrox. After all, IGaveMyWord is the [[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E8RumorsOfDeath one rule Avon sticks to]].
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* PetTheDog: Avon is clearly lying when he says he'll help Nebrox escape as well. But at the last moment he delays his TeleportationRescue, ordering Dayna down with an extra bracelet for Nebrox.teleport bracelet. After all, IGaveMyWord is the [[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E8RumorsOfDeath one rule Avon sticks to]].
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* AntagonistInMourning: Played with after Servalan thinks she's destroyed Cancer's ship with our heroes still in it.
-->'''Captain:''' You don't seem altogether happy.
-->'''Servalan:''' Oh, I'm happy enough. It's just that a universe without Avon and Tarrant will take a certain amount of getting used to.
-->'''Captain:''' You don't seem altogether happy.
-->'''Servalan:''' Oh, I'm happy enough. It's just that a universe without Avon and Tarrant will take a certain amount of getting used to.
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* FakeKillScare / VillainInMourning
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* FakeKillScare / VillainInMourningFakeKillScare
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* TheRadioDiesFirst: Avon's commlink comes off during the struggle, and one of his captors decides to keep it.
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* TheRadioDiesFirst: CutPhoneLines:
** Avon's commlink comes off during thestruggle, struggle with the slavers, and one of his captors decides to keep it.it. Fortunately Nebrox gets it back for him.
** When Cancer fails in her mission, Servalan goes gunning for their ship. Avon calls for Scorpio to turn around and rescue them, but communications are full of static and it's unclear if they got the message.
** Avon's commlink comes off during the
** When Cancer fails in her mission, Servalan goes gunning for their ship. Avon calls for Scorpio to turn around and rescue them, but communications are full of static and it's unclear if they got the message.
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* IHaveYouKnowMyPretty: The Servalan/Avon FoeYay reaches FetishFuel levels when Servalan buys Avon as a slave and insists that [[{{Dominatrix}} he call her Mistress]].
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* IHaveYouKnowMyPretty: IHaveYouNowMyPretty: The Servalan/Avon FoeYay reaches FetishFuel levels when Servalan buys Avon as a slave and insists that [[{{Dominatrix}} he call her Mistress]].
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When the Seven discover that Servalan has hired a professional assassin known only as Cancer to eliminate them, they decide to strike first.
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When the Seven our heroes discover that Servalan has hired a professional assassin known only as Cancer to eliminate them, they decide to strike first.
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* CutTheKnot: Rather than waste time trying to identify Cancern, Avon figures they can just kill Servalan before she has a chance to pay the assassin. Never mind that our heroes haven't been any better at killing Servalan than she is at killing them.
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* CutTheKnot: CuttingTheKnot: Rather than waste time trying to identify Cancern, Cancer, Avon figures they can just kill Servalan before she has a chance to pay the assassin. Never mind that our heroes haven't been any better at killing Servalan than she is at killing them.
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* FauxActionGirl: Soolin -- if she's teleported down with Dayna, Servalan would be dead. Likewise she'd be a logical choice to go onto Cancer's ship to take on a ProfessionalKiller like herself.
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* FauxActionGirl: Soolin -- if she's teleported down with Dayna, Servalan would be dead. Likewise she'd be a logical choice to go onto Cancer's ship to take on a ProfessionalKiller like herself. She makes up for it in the second half.
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* ScreenWipesScreenWipe
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Averted; Tarrant wants to beat the rendevous information out of Cancer, but Avon points out that he knows YouWillHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness at that point, so is unlikely to talk.
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Averted; Tarrant wants to beat the rendevous information out of Cancer, but Avon points out that he knows YouWillHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness at that point, so is unlikely to talk.
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When the Seven discover that Servalan has hired a professional assassin known only as Cancer to eliminate them, they decide to strike first.
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!!This episode has the following tropes:
* AllAccordingToPlan: Avon is captured, beaten up and MadeASlave so he can become a TrojanPrisoner. He'll be all right as long as they left his teleport bracelet on him...
* BigBlackout: Cancer shuts off power and life support, so our heroes are forced to leave the flight deck and search for him.
* BigDamnHeroes: Dayna pulls a TeleportationRescue JustInTime. Tarrant jokingly accues her of waiting till the last minute on purpose.
* BondOneLiner
-->'''Avon:''' I'm afraid your friend is feeling the pinch.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou:
** Avon doesn't want to kill the man they think is Cancer, in the hope of getting Servalan as well.
** Peri knocks the gun out of the fake Cancer's hand rather than let him shoot Tarrant and Avon. She later reveals that her contract was for all five Scorpio crewmembers, so it was done to earn their trust.
* ConflictBall: Avon and Tarrant fighting over Peri. If Avon HasAType, Peri is definitely not it.
* CoverIdentityAnomaly
* CutTheKnot: Rather than waste time trying to identify Cancern, Avon figures they can just kill Servalan before she has a chance to pay the assassin. Never mind that our heroes haven't been any better at killing Servalan than she is at killing them.
** Rather than go searching through Cancer's ship, Avon suggests barricading themselves on the flight deck, flying it back to Xenon Base and keeping it there until Cancer is forced to surrender.
* DarkIsEvil: Scorpio's black ship; even the interior is black! When Peri does her EvilCostumeSwitch she's in black too (unfortunately it's let down by a silly topknot).
* DiesWideOpen: Avon wakes up StrappedToAnOperatingTable with Cancer standing over him.
-->'''Peri:''' You're quite right. He's completely dead.
* DistinctionWithoutADifference
-->'''Avon:''' All right, he's not infalliable. It's just that up to now he has never failed.
* DoubleEntendre: When auctioning Avon, Borac says he's strong enough to work all day with strength enough for "any little chores you might have in the evenings".
* DoubleStandard
* DynamicAkimbo: Soolin combines this with a CaptainMorganPose.
* EurekaMoment: One which saves Soolin's life, as she rushes off just as the mechanical spider is about to strike.
* EvilGloating: Peri takes Avon alive just so Servalan can call him up and tell him how she planned the whole thing.
* FailedASpotCheck: Peri wears a [[SigilSpam crab-broach]]. "It's been staring you in the face the whole time."
* FakeKillScare / VillainInMourning
* FalseReassurance: Peri apologises for being a HystericalWoman. "It won't happen again, I promise." Next time we see her, she's Cancer.
* FauxActionGirl: Soolin -- if she's teleported down with Dayna, Servalan would be dead. Likewise she'd be a logical choice to go onto Cancer's ship to take on a ProfessionalKiller like herself.
* GirlyRun: Avon before he's caught under a DogpileOfDoom. It's especially funny as a female slave is seen doing this during the slave escape.
* GrapesOfLuxury: They're not shown eating the grapes, but Servalan and the slavemaster spend a lot of time drinking and being fanned by enormous feathers held by shirtless slaves.
* {{Handwave}}: The EconomyCast at the auction is explained by them being agents acting for a large number of clients who'd rather not be directly involved in something as illegal as slave trading. All the bids are made via communicator.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: "So the prey has come looking for the hunter. How interesting."
* HystericalWoman / GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Soolin responds appopriately.
* IAteWhat: Avon when told his stew is made from fungus.
* IdiotBall
* IHaveYouKnowMyPretty: The Servalan/Avon FoeYay reaches FetishFuel levels when Servalan buys Avon as a slave and insists that [[{{Dominatrix}} he call her Mistress]].
* IronicEcho: "just a man"
* KarmicDeath: Cancer
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Avon takes evident pleasure in gunning down Borac.
* TheLoad: Our heroes leave Peri locked in a cabin rather than take her with them, despite knowing that Cancer has already gotten through a locked door. Peri however turns out to be Cancer anyway.
* LuredIntoATrap: Given that Servalan already knows Orac can intercept and decode her communications. Why waste time trying to find your targets when they can come to you?
* MadeASlave
* MoneyIsNotPower: On seeing Avon is up for auction, Servalan offers any price the slavemaster will name if he's sold to her immediately. However she's not willing to bend the rules in public, so Servalan has to bid with the others.
* TheNameless: Used for GenderMisdirection.
* NeverSplitTheParty:
-->'''Tarrant:''' What should we do -- split up?
-->'''Avon:''' No. Let's cover each other every step of the way.
** Averted when they are AlmostOutOfOxygen, as they have to split up to search as they have limited time to find Cancer.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Peri pretends to be a weepy DamselInDistress who's not particularly bright.
* PercussivePickpocket: Done by Nebrox to Borac. Peri is implied to have been an AffectionatePickpocket to Tarrant, lifting the key during their SecurityCling.
* PetTheDog: Avon is clearly lying when he says he'll help Nebrox escape as well. But at the last moment he delays his TeleportationRescue, ordering Dayna down with an extra bracelet for Nebrox. After all, IGaveMyWord is the [[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E8RumorsOfDeath one rule Avon sticks to]].
* ProfessionalKiller: Cancer
-->'''Avon:''' I don't know who he is, how old he is, what he looks like, or where he comes from, but I do know [[PunctuatedForEmphasis what-he-does]].
-->'''Tarrant:''' And what's that?
-->'''Avon:''' He ''kills'' people, for a ''great deal of money''.
* TheRadioDiesFirst: Avon's commlink comes off during the struggle, and one of his captors decides to keep it.
* RedHerring: Avon captures a man on Cancer's ship who plays the role to the hilt, but he's actually a professional entertainer hired by the real Cancer, who's posing as his SexSlave. Nebrox is also available as an alternate suspect.
* SalvagePirates: An InvokedTrope by Avon, who pretends to be a crashed survivor so he will be MadeASlave.
* SecurityCling: Peri does this a lot, which is a ChekhovsGun as she's an AffectionatePickpocket.
* SchmuckBait:
** Our heroes discover the black ship with a prominent cancer sigil dead in space of a power failure. Avon admits that it's ObviouslyATrap, but if it isn't he's not going to miss his opportunity.
** Averted when 'Cancer' escapes; Avon isn't silly enough to go [[DarknessEqualsDeath searching a dark ship]] which [[HomeFieldAdvantage Cancer knows and they don't]].
* ScreenWipes
* TestosteronePoisoning
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Averted; Tarrant wants to beat the rendevous information out of Cancer, but Avon points out that he knows YouWillHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness at that point, so is unlikely to talk.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: InUniverse when Soolin quips re Peri, "I expect a little suffering will have helped to make her a better artist."
* WorthyOpponent: Avon to Servalan. Cancer/Peri however is disappointed. "It's a pity, Avon. I was looking forward to a real duel between us."
* YouGotSpunk: The pirates don't mind that Avon tries to fight them off, as it means he'll be a robust slave.
* YouExclamation: Dayna on [[YouKilledMyFather seeing Servalan]]. And if she'd fired instead of wasting time talking, she would have had her.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The fake Cancer gets killed off the moment Peri decides he's a nuisance. She was planning to kill him anyway, after all.
* YouWontFeelAThing: Averted
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!!This episode has the following tropes:
* AllAccordingToPlan: Avon is captured, beaten up and MadeASlave so he can become a TrojanPrisoner. He'll be all right as long as they left his teleport bracelet on him...
* BigBlackout: Cancer shuts off power and life support, so our heroes are forced to leave the flight deck and search for him.
* BigDamnHeroes: Dayna pulls a TeleportationRescue JustInTime. Tarrant jokingly accues her of waiting till the last minute on purpose.
* BondOneLiner
-->'''Avon:''' I'm afraid your friend is feeling the pinch.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou:
** Avon doesn't want to kill the man they think is Cancer, in the hope of getting Servalan as well.
** Peri knocks the gun out of the fake Cancer's hand rather than let him shoot Tarrant and Avon. She later reveals that her contract was for all five Scorpio crewmembers, so it was done to earn their trust.
* ConflictBall: Avon and Tarrant fighting over Peri. If Avon HasAType, Peri is definitely not it.
* CoverIdentityAnomaly
* CutTheKnot: Rather than waste time trying to identify Cancern, Avon figures they can just kill Servalan before she has a chance to pay the assassin. Never mind that our heroes haven't been any better at killing Servalan than she is at killing them.
** Rather than go searching through Cancer's ship, Avon suggests barricading themselves on the flight deck, flying it back to Xenon Base and keeping it there until Cancer is forced to surrender.
* DarkIsEvil: Scorpio's black ship; even the interior is black! When Peri does her EvilCostumeSwitch she's in black too (unfortunately it's let down by a silly topknot).
* DiesWideOpen: Avon wakes up StrappedToAnOperatingTable with Cancer standing over him.
-->'''Peri:''' You're quite right. He's completely dead.
* DistinctionWithoutADifference
-->'''Avon:''' All right, he's not infalliable. It's just that up to now he has never failed.
* DoubleEntendre: When auctioning Avon, Borac says he's strong enough to work all day with strength enough for "any little chores you might have in the evenings".
* DoubleStandard
* DynamicAkimbo: Soolin combines this with a CaptainMorganPose.
* EurekaMoment: One which saves Soolin's life, as she rushes off just as the mechanical spider is about to strike.
* EvilGloating: Peri takes Avon alive just so Servalan can call him up and tell him how she planned the whole thing.
* FailedASpotCheck: Peri wears a [[SigilSpam crab-broach]]. "It's been staring you in the face the whole time."
* FakeKillScare / VillainInMourning
* FalseReassurance: Peri apologises for being a HystericalWoman. "It won't happen again, I promise." Next time we see her, she's Cancer.
* FauxActionGirl: Soolin -- if she's teleported down with Dayna, Servalan would be dead. Likewise she'd be a logical choice to go onto Cancer's ship to take on a ProfessionalKiller like herself.
* GirlyRun: Avon before he's caught under a DogpileOfDoom. It's especially funny as a female slave is seen doing this during the slave escape.
* GrapesOfLuxury: They're not shown eating the grapes, but Servalan and the slavemaster spend a lot of time drinking and being fanned by enormous feathers held by shirtless slaves.
* {{Handwave}}: The EconomyCast at the auction is explained by them being agents acting for a large number of clients who'd rather not be directly involved in something as illegal as slave trading. All the bids are made via communicator.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: "So the prey has come looking for the hunter. How interesting."
* HystericalWoman / GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Soolin responds appopriately.
* IAteWhat: Avon when told his stew is made from fungus.
* IdiotBall
* IHaveYouKnowMyPretty: The Servalan/Avon FoeYay reaches FetishFuel levels when Servalan buys Avon as a slave and insists that [[{{Dominatrix}} he call her Mistress]].
* IronicEcho: "just a man"
* KarmicDeath: Cancer
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Avon takes evident pleasure in gunning down Borac.
* TheLoad: Our heroes leave Peri locked in a cabin rather than take her with them, despite knowing that Cancer has already gotten through a locked door. Peri however turns out to be Cancer anyway.
* LuredIntoATrap: Given that Servalan already knows Orac can intercept and decode her communications. Why waste time trying to find your targets when they can come to you?
* MadeASlave
* MoneyIsNotPower: On seeing Avon is up for auction, Servalan offers any price the slavemaster will name if he's sold to her immediately. However she's not willing to bend the rules in public, so Servalan has to bid with the others.
* TheNameless: Used for GenderMisdirection.
* NeverSplitTheParty:
-->'''Tarrant:''' What should we do -- split up?
-->'''Avon:''' No. Let's cover each other every step of the way.
** Averted when they are AlmostOutOfOxygen, as they have to split up to search as they have limited time to find Cancer.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Peri pretends to be a weepy DamselInDistress who's not particularly bright.
* PercussivePickpocket: Done by Nebrox to Borac. Peri is implied to have been an AffectionatePickpocket to Tarrant, lifting the key during their SecurityCling.
* PetTheDog: Avon is clearly lying when he says he'll help Nebrox escape as well. But at the last moment he delays his TeleportationRescue, ordering Dayna down with an extra bracelet for Nebrox. After all, IGaveMyWord is the [[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E8RumorsOfDeath one rule Avon sticks to]].
* ProfessionalKiller: Cancer
-->'''Avon:''' I don't know who he is, how old he is, what he looks like, or where he comes from, but I do know [[PunctuatedForEmphasis what-he-does]].
-->'''Tarrant:''' And what's that?
-->'''Avon:''' He ''kills'' people, for a ''great deal of money''.
* TheRadioDiesFirst: Avon's commlink comes off during the struggle, and one of his captors decides to keep it.
* RedHerring: Avon captures a man on Cancer's ship who plays the role to the hilt, but he's actually a professional entertainer hired by the real Cancer, who's posing as his SexSlave. Nebrox is also available as an alternate suspect.
* SalvagePirates: An InvokedTrope by Avon, who pretends to be a crashed survivor so he will be MadeASlave.
* SecurityCling: Peri does this a lot, which is a ChekhovsGun as she's an AffectionatePickpocket.
* SchmuckBait:
** Our heroes discover the black ship with a prominent cancer sigil dead in space of a power failure. Avon admits that it's ObviouslyATrap, but if it isn't he's not going to miss his opportunity.
** Averted when 'Cancer' escapes; Avon isn't silly enough to go [[DarknessEqualsDeath searching a dark ship]] which [[HomeFieldAdvantage Cancer knows and they don't]].
* ScreenWipes
* TestosteronePoisoning
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Averted; Tarrant wants to beat the rendevous information out of Cancer, but Avon points out that he knows YouWillHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness at that point, so is unlikely to talk.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: InUniverse when Soolin quips re Peri, "I expect a little suffering will have helped to make her a better artist."
* WorthyOpponent: Avon to Servalan. Cancer/Peri however is disappointed. "It's a pity, Avon. I was looking forward to a real duel between us."
* YouGotSpunk: The pirates don't mind that Avon tries to fight them off, as it means he'll be a robust slave.
* YouExclamation: Dayna on [[YouKilledMyFather seeing Servalan]]. And if she'd fired instead of wasting time talking, she would have had her.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The fake Cancer gets killed off the moment Peri decides he's a nuisance. She was planning to kill him anyway, after all.
* YouWontFeelAThing: Averted
