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FADE IN:
INT. EXCALIBUR – BRIDGE
Ivanova is on the monitor. Gideon is in his C-Chair.
GIDEON
Well I guess this is farewell Captain.
IVANOVA
It is. A big thank you from me to you and from my crew to yours. You really – saved our butts. We'll have to repay the favour sometime.
GIDEON
Understood. But know this, I always collect my debts.
(beat)
I'm sure as we're both one of the few Earth ships running around this far beyond the rim we'll run into each other again somewhere down the road.
EXT. SPACE
The Titans turns, opens a jump point and disappears.
INT. EXCALIBUR – BRIDGE
GIDEON
What's our next destination Lieutenant?
MATHESON
Based on Ranger information and our current location we should head on a bearing twelve-thirteen-by-four-six.
GIDEON
You heard the man Helm.
HELM
Aye sir.
A few BEATS pass then,
MATHESON (!!)
Sir! We're detecting a jump point opening in sector 19!
(beat)
It's. . . it's. . . It's Galen sir. He's requesting permission to dock.
GIDEON (Unamused)
Galen?
MATHESON
You weren't expecting him to return?
GIDEON
Actually – Nevermind Lieutenant.
INT. EXCALIBUR – MEDLAB
Chambers is checking Nurse Hemming over with a scanner when Dureena enters.
DUREENA
Do you have a minute doctor?
CHAMBERS (To patient)
Do you mind?
(to Dureena)
I guess so. Go ahead Dureena.
DUREENA
I just wanted to -
(beat)
-thank you for trusting me enough to take me on your mission. Even if we both did nearly get killed.
Chambers smiles, as if to say more: to acknowledge their friendship openly, but Eilerson enters.
EILERSON
Dureena! Where the hell do you think you've been? Hmmm? Going to die down on some anonymous planet BEFORE you could repay the money you owe me?
We CLOSE UP on Chambers shaking her head in disbelief before we CUT,
INT. EXCALIBUR – DOCKING BAY
Galen's ship's hatchway descends and the cloaked technomage exits his ship. Gideon is waiting for him.
GALEN
Miss me?
GIDEON
Where'd you go this time?
Gideon examines Galen's ship a moment, digging his finger into a small crack and revealing a build up of sand.
GIDEON (CONT'D)
Make a crash landing in the Sahara by any chance?
GALEN
If only you knew the half of it.
(beat)
Infact –
The two begin to walk together.
GALEN (CONT'D)
-I did a little passenger escorting.
GIDEON
You're carrying passengers now? Where do you keep them? Where do they sit? From what I've seen of the inside of your ship, and that's very little there's no chairs!
GALEN
Your Earthers Matthew. Obsessed with chairs. A few years from now you know a human will even manage to install chairs on a Minbari ship.
Galen stops talking for a BEAT, hoping Gideon will move the conversation on. When he doesn't,
GALEN (CONT'D)
A simple run from one place to another.
GIDEON
Who were you running?
GALEN
An old – (doesn't want to say friend) acquaintance. A very old one indeed. He's safe, I have left him in a place where he can't do any harm, and no-one can do harm to him.
EXT. HYPERSPACE – WELL OF FOREVER
The Well of Forever is how we have SEEN it before. There is a small white, but transparent bubble, on one of the Well's surfaces. Inside we can SEE Nava.
We hang on this for a BEAT, then,
FADE OUT:
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