(1) INT. ANIMAL TRANSFER UNIT
[Doors open, Gordon Rimmer and M.o.M. enter. The Soul Exchanger sends in the middle of the room]
Gordon: All right, get the machine. Plug it in. Put the dog there. We’re switching her into the dog, and the dog into her. Tie her in.
Dirk: That’s Lydia!
Gordon: Strap her in tight. Get her tight– Get her tight. Oh, yeah. Careful… Careful with that. Good, good. Good. Good… Sorry about this, Rapunzel. Good, okay, now, take her helmet and back up. Everybody, back up! All right, ready? Okay, here we go. Three, two, one, go!
[Rapunzel’s soul has been transferred into Lydia Spring’s body]
Gordon: Stay.. Everybody, stay back. Stay– stay back. Everybody, stay back. Okay. Hey, girl. Aw… there’s my girl. Aw… okay. Okay, get the dog–
[Rainey walks in with her drones]
Gordon: Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait! Wait, wait, wait whoa, whoa! Whoa, no, no! Whoa, whoa! Whoa, hang on…
Rainey: So it’s come to this, Pollux? Sacrilege. Treason. Death.
Gordon: No one has to die here today, Rainey. Do you know who this is? Do you? Come here. Come here… Lydia Spring. Patrick Spring has the other machine, the unlimited energy device. He’s waiting for us at the Perryman Grand right now.
Rainey: Spring is no longer a threat. We don’t need his other machine.
Gordon: You have been running things for too long. This is a new era. You have lost the path. It is time… for a change–
Rainey: Enough! Get the dog. If he resists, shoot it.
[One of Rainey’s drones yanks Rapunzel away from Ned]
[Gordon wrenches the Soul exchanger off the podium, raising it over his head]
Gordon: No! No– I will smash this, and I will end it, and you will spend the rest of your miserable life in that body. Give me my dog.
Rainey: Put… the machine… down.
Gordon: Give me my dog! You… can’t beat me. Let’s go. Now! And I will be back for my goddamn dog!
[Gordon and M.o.M. exit]
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(2)
Gordon: Aren’t you tired of being mindless drones? Aren’t you all tired of being mindless drones? Isn’t that why you came to me in the first place? I tell you, I have plans. Big plans. Red here is gonna meet a guy in the desert who is going to help us change everything!
Fred: You said that I could have Rainey’s body. I want one of the good bodies, like the original souls get.
Gordon: I am sick and tired of Rainey treating you like you’re disposable, putting you for years into dogs and-and birds. It does something to you, mentally. You deserve better than that.
Zed: Yes, I also think that in my head.
Ed: I want to be a panther. I want you to put me in a panther. I don’t like to be a human anymore.
Gordon: You will be a panther. You will be a panther, Ed. Do any of you think that I want to be Gordon Rimmer anymore? No! We’re going to get both machines. We’re going to get them both, and all the power that comes with it, and then we’ll be able to do whatever the hell we want.
Zed: That is what we like best about you, Gordon, you always tell us what we want to hear.
Gordon: Okay. Who has the kitten? Rainey is a coward, content with the status quo. But not us. Not you, not me. I am the only one with the balls to use the machine to create things. That little kitty cat is what I call a weaponized soul. That’s right. Very dangerous. You understand. We only use the kitty cat as a last resort. You know what is gonna be the sweetest thing in the whole deal? Getting me my goddamn dog back!
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(3) EXT. THE PERRYMAN GRAND