Synopsis:
Blake, Jenna and Vila teleport down to the planet Goth in their quest to find Lurgen, the man that knows the location of Star One. The native Goths, however, don’t appear to take kindly to strangers, and overpower the trio. Jenna and Vila are captured, as Blake hides, desperately calling for Avon and Cally to teleport now.
Problem is, Avon is on his own mission – to destroy Travis after his ship has been located above Goth. The Liberator opens fire on Travis’ ship which explodes. After going back into orbit mode above Goth, they teleport a furious Blake back up, who now has to return on two missions and find Jenna and Vila, as well as Lurgen.
Jenna and Vila are brought before the planet’s ruler – or Charl – Gola (Bruce Purchase), who is not amused by the entertainment of his Fool or his mad old soothsayer Tara. Unfortunately, Travis is still alive and desperate to know the location of Star One. Visiting Servalan in a nearby tent, he persuades her to let him have her ship after he has found the identity of Lurgen in order to alert a Federation flotilla to attack the Liberator. Avon has found the ship, and is keen to destroy it. Cally, however, stops him, after his previous mistake with Blake.
Blake has met up with Gola’s brother Rod, who promises to take him to the underground tents and to attempt to stop Travis and Servalan finding the location of Star One.
Jenna and Vila are questioned By Gola about their mission. Gola takes a particular fancy to Jenna, and says that they will both ‘pair bond’. Before this can happen, Jenna is taken before Tara to meet with her approval. Jenna attempts to look at Tara’s amulet – one of the amulets contains a brain print and the secret of Star One – but she is mentally overpowered by the soothsayer. Tara then agrees to show Jenna the amulet but it is blank, so later she tries to look at Gola’s amulet, but is told that it is not permitted.
Blake meets Vila in one of the dungeons after he has been forced in there after the Fool mimicked his voice and insulted Gola. He also meets a whining old man who cannot stop moaning and shrieking in one of the dungeons. However, Vila is to replace the Fool after the jester is accused of putting a drug into Jenna’s wine.
Jenna has confronted Servalan and claims that she has been tricked by Travis, who has probably found the location of Star One, and is off to destroy it. After recovering from her brief dizzy spell, Jenna looks at Gola’s amulet but this too is blank. They are interrupted by the arrival of Blake and Rod, who challenges his brother Gola to a duel. They indulge in combat, but Gola gains the upper hand and kills Rod by strangling him and then stabbing him. Gola’s victory is short-lived though, after he drinks from a poisoned liquid handed to him by Tara, and dies. Now the only man to know the location of Star One is actually the old man – in reality the father of Gola and Rod. He was deposed by both, who then quarrelled over who should be the new Charl. But by the looks of it, the next Charl is to be Tara…
Blake, Jenna and Vila frantically run to the underground dungeons but they are too late – the Old Man’s talisman is blank too, after Travis has taken the brain print. The Old Man dies, but before he does, he whispers to Blake that “A fool knows everything and nothing.” Blake repeats this out loud, to which the Fool reacts by saying that the location of Star One is at Grid Reference C-17320 in the 11th Sector. Blake surmises that Lurgen put this into his brain, and when told that phrase, it acted as a trigger signal. They teleport back up, and the crew are now on course to find Star One…
Cast
Roj Blake - Gareth Thomas
Jenna Stannis - Sally Knyvette
Vila Restal - Michael Keating
Guest Stars: Bruce Purchase (as Gola), Shaun Curry (as Rod), Freda Jackson (as Tara), Cengiz Saner (as Fool), Arthur Hewlett (as Old man), Ron Tarr (as Patrol leader)
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Originally Broadcast: on BBC1
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