Arc 2 Episode 13
SAWA
Captain there’s a distress signal.
NOVA
(groggily)
A distress what?
SAWA
Signal.
NOVA
Wha—? Hold on, wait up, I’m—, what time is it?
SAWA
It is 0300 hours.
NOVA
Mmm (pause) sorry, a distress signal?
SAWA
Yes, it would require a five-degree alteration to our current trajectory. Would you like to intercept?
NOVA
A five-what?
SAWA
A five degree course alteration to intercept.
NOVA
Damn, it’s early. How old’s the signal?
SAWA
The signal has been outgoing for approximately four years.
NOVA
Good, then everybody is either long dead or rescued. Sure. (yawns) Reroute. And notify Jeanne.
SAWA
Understood.
Nova getting out of bed
NOVA
Mmm
(stretching)
Walking to Hatov’s shame corner
Sending hammock swinging
Pretty Boy, get up.
HATOV
(Panicked) What? Jeanne I (beat) Why can’t anybody wake me up like a normal person?
NOVA
Because you’re a freeloader (beat) wait, you sleep with the puzzle box?
HATOV
I don’t mean to, it’s, well it’s something to do.
NOVA
(beat)
Fair enough. You need to get a suit from Jeanne.
HATOV
A suit?
NOVA
(Drowsily)
Mhmm, a suit, to uhm (beat) we’re looking for shit.
HATOV
Getting out of the hammock
I need a suit because (beat) we’re looking for stuff?
NOVA
Yup, exactly
HATOV
Nova, that doesn’t make any sense.
NOVA
Sure it does. Everything I do makes sense. The more hands we have, the faster things will go, the sooner we can (yawns loudly) go back to bed.
HATOV
What’re we doing?
NOVA
Oh, that. There’s a ship, a distress signal, we’re going to see what’s left.
HATOV
(in disbelief, mild)
You’re going to rescue people.
NOVA
(laughing)
Fuck no. We’re going to salvage what we can from the ship. Power cells, tanks, tech, suits, the works.
HATOV
But (beat) aren’t we on a schedule?
NOVA
A schedule?
JEANNE
What kind of ship?
HATOV
Does she sleep?
NOVA
(To Hatov) She does and it’s a very bad idea to wake her up. Can you stop denting my droid? And I haven’t checked the monitors yet. SAWA do you have any idea?
SAWA
In order to make the ship safer, it is advised that you
NOVA
The ship, the ship we’re intercepting. Do you know what kind of ship it is?
SAWA
It appears to be an A-class.
NOVA
Private or commercial?
SAWA
Commercial.
NOVA
(quietly)
Well, there goes going back to sleep.
SAWA
Captain if you’d like to rest may I suggest
NOVA
Not the time. Jeanne can you get him a suit?
JEANNE
(beat)
It’s not going to fit right.
NOVA
Will he die?
JEANNE
No, but it’s going to ride.
NOVA
That’s gonna fucking suck.
SAWA
We will be approaching in one imperial hour.
NOVA
Go on.
HATOV
What?
JEANNE
You’re with me, come on.
Leaving the Nova’s ship to get onto Jeanne’s
HATOV
Ehm (beat) what’s going on?
JEANNE
We’re scavenging. Ships breakdown all the time. Things get left behind.
HATOV
(beat)
And you take them.
JEANNE
They’re not using it anymore.
HATOV
But (beat) but why? Don’t you have enough money?
JEANNE
It’s never about money, it’s about business.
HATOV
That doesn’t make any sense.
JEANNE
It makes all the sense in the galaxy, Hatov.
HATOV
But
JEANNE
Does the Galactic Union turn a profit on every planet? Have they asked your Eolara for more than a nominal fee?
HATOV
Well (beat) no (beat)
JEANNE
What kind of technology are they interested in?
HATOV
(uncomfortably)
I (beat) I don’t know. I wasn’t allowed in the meetings, I just had a tutor teach me about the union and Galactic Common.
JEANNE
And did your father pay for any of this?
HATOV
I (beat) I don’t think so
JEANNE
Then it’s not the money they’re after.
HATOV
(impatiently)
Then what is it?
JEANNE
Besides the tech? Here, (suit flap) it’s old, but it should hold.
HATOV
(beat)
Are you sure you don’t have anything (beat) better?
JEANNE
I’m sure that you don’t have a choice in the matter. Take it or leave it.
HATOV
Eh, uhm, thank you (beat) I guess.
(long pause)
Jeanne, why are you an InCo?
JEANNE
I don’t like personal questions.
HATOV
(beat)
But (beat, somewhat childishly) a secret for a secret.
JEANNE
(pause)
We’re long past that. You should be happy you’re still alive.
HATOV
I answered your questions.
JEANNE
(sighs)
I’m an InCo because I am.
HATOV
But (beat, slowly) it’s not about the money?
JEANNE
(annoyed)
It’s never about the money, it’s about what comes with it.
HATOV
And what is that?
JEANNE
Power, freedom, comfort.
HATOV
(beat)
You don’t seem very free to me.
JEANNE
I am precisely where I want to be, when I want to be, doing exactly what I want to be doing.
HATOV
Then why do you want more?
JEANNE
That’s none of your business.
HATOV
I was just (beat) I just don’t understand. Why any of this?
JEANNE
I asked you four questions, you answered three of them. We’re even.
HATOV
But, I don’t, why the scavenging?
JEANNE
Hatov, it’s early, and I’m in a bad mood.
HATOV
But—
JEANNE
(Nonchalantly)
Your value to me won’t change if I break a few bones.
