[Street across from Garos's shop] (Music)
(Riann is making notes in a book.)
Samples from three new subjects indicate no Did you say something?
Sorry.
I mutter when I'm writing sometimes.
It's an old habit.
I have a similar one.
I talk to my dog.
My mother bought me a tousorobco once, but it tuployo pludak.
What was that?
(Riann speaks in Akaali, so Archer kisses her to shut her up while he adjusts the translator.
It doesn't work first time, so he kisses her again.)
Are you all right?
All right?
I'm all right.
Someone was walking this way, but he turned and went around the corner.
I thought if we pretended to be I understand.
(The shop door opens and a man loads three crates onto a hand cart then wheels it away.
They follow.)
[Forest] (As Archer and Riann watch, he unloads the
crates then talks into a device similar to Garos's scanner and finally leaves.)
I want you to head back.
Not before I see what's in those crates.
Help me open this.
(A bright light appears from above them and they dash for cover.)
Move!
(They watch from behind a shrub as a small ship comes down and tractors the crates up
before heading into space again.)
Have you ever seen anything like that?
Actually, I have.
(A phaser-type beam hits a tree near them.
Archer gets his phase pistol out.)
Stay here.
(He circles around to find their attacker.)
Jon!
(The man is above him in a tree fork.
Archer pulls him down and they fight on the ground.
Finally Archer knocks him out, then peels off his latex mast to reveal a scaly face.
Both scrabble for the phase pistol, Archer gets there first and stuns him.)
It's all right.
He's not dead.
(He takes the alien's equipment.)
Is there anything else you'd like to tell me, Jon?
(Music)