Synopsis:
The Scorpio crew meet up with an old friend of Avon’s, Keiller (Roy Kinnear), who is on board pleasure cruiser The Space Princess as purser. Keiller tells Avon about Zerok, the gold planet. On board the Space Princess happens to be a valuable cargo of gold, travelling incognito. Keiller wants Avon and the others to help him steal the gold, using the Scorpio as getaway.
Avon is suspicious of how easy it all seems, with only two plain clothed guards standing over an unmanned crate of gold. Keiller says that it is because the gold needs to be reprocessed on Zerok because in its current state, black gold is worthless. Keiller proposes to go down to Zerok, tamper with the processor in order for the gold to stay of value.
Avon, Soolin and Keiller teleport down to Zerok first and make their way to the processor in a radiation bay. Dayna and Tarrant arrive as backup, but when they get there to meet their friends, they find Keiller unconscious and two unrecognisable bodies, dissolved by the radiation…
In fact, the bodies are two guards that jumped the group. Avon says that the men were not Zerok guards though, because the guards were not standard issue. Avon deduces that someone is using Keiller to get to them. They get back on board the Space Princess which is still loading, and make their way to the purser’s office, where they make two discoveries. One, the pleasure cruise is just a sham. Space Princess does a direct route between Zerok and Earth with drugs in the food to dope the passengers. Two, is Keiller’s record, which shows that he used to belong to the Federation president’s personal staff.
Avon and Soolin teleport back, where Keiller tells them that he was told to contact Avon by an unknown party in order to get black gold by laundering it through the bank on Zerok. Keiller decided to go his own way and get more money. He pleads with Avon to accompany him back to the Space Princess. Avon agrees on the condition that the robbery goes ahead as planned.
On board the Space Princess, Avon and Keiller make their way to the gold, shoot the guard, and despite a lethal booby trap, get the consignment. Dayna is drugged in order for Scorpio to pretend to be a civilian freighter to take her to Zerok as a medical emergency. Dayna’s trolley, now housing the gold, is wheeled into the lift, and despite the alarm being raised, they manage to get the gold on board the Scorpio which has docked with the cruiser.
Avon demands 10 billion credits, as Keiller prepares to rendezvous with his paymasters on Beta 5. On the planet’s surface, a party of black-clad figures drives towards them. The leader, of course, is Servalan.
Avon realises that Keiller worked for Servalan, and that Keiller’s record was left there deliberately for him to find. Servalan planned every move, and knew that Keiller would disobey her. But with a case of money, Avon, Tarrant, Dayna and Soolin teleport back up to Scorpio. Driving off with the gold, Servalan kills Keiller, who had been abandoned by Avon for being too untrustworthy.
Unfortunately, Orac has bad news for the crew. Zerok has acceded to the Federation, meaning that the black gold will be of use to Servalan, who has made a good profit. What’s worse is that the Federation system will take over Zerok, meaning that all Zerok bank notes will be invalid in a week, and that any private transactions will be illegal. An angry crew realise that they have risked their lives for nothing, only to make Servalan rich. Avon laughs as he realises the terrible irony of the situation…
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Cast
Roj Blake - Gareth Thomas
Jenna Stannis - Sally Knyvette
Vila Restal - Michael Keating
Guest Stars: Roy Kinnear (as Keiller), Anthony Brown (as Doctor), Dinah May (as Woman passenger), Norman Hartley (as Pilot)
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Originally Broadcast: on BBC1
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