Decay of the Angel

Season 5, Episode 4, Aired

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When a slipstream event is detected in the Seefra system, Dylan, Rhade, and Beka try to find it, and their way out. Meanwhile, a man claiming to be from the future approaches Doyle, addressing her as Andromeda.

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      • Beka: Dylan, Dylan, Dylan. What is the point of this? Are we pretending we're a crew again? Dylan: Oh, believe me. I won't make that mistake five times.

      • Rhade: Survival is worth more than money.

      • Dylan: Adventure is worth more than survival.

      • Harper: Anyone ever tell you you're beautiful when you're mad?
        Doyle: You, every time you make me mad.

      • Doyle: Harper, I can't just leave someone I just saved. Harper: Sure you can. (to Argent) Good-bye.

      • Dylan: Feels like old times.
        Rhade: Sure. If you ignore the fact that the ship's [Andromeda] a giant paper weight which is being towed by the Maru, then, yes, I suppose it does.
        Dylan: You know, there is objectivity, Rhade, and then there's raining on my parade. Learn the difference!

      • Rhade: Beka's back onboard? Not working out as the best plan you ever devised.

      • (the prisoners on their knees as Dylan arrives) Rhade: They've kept us alive. Merciful and incompetant. Beka: Really? Is now the time for insults? Dylan: You know, I always wanted you two to bow down before me.

      • Dylan: I ever show you guys this? (opens a panel off the wall) Rhade and Beka (dryly): No. (Dylan pulls out some hair and a long sword. Beka and Rhade give him an odd look) Dylan: It's a long story. Anyway...why don't we go and see what these cowboys are up to. (throws both of them a forcelance)

      • Argent: Here we are. The revolt of the Androids. Yuo knew it was coming. Dylan: I never got the memo.

      • Harper: Sayonara, Cyborgarita.

      • (at the end on Command) Doyle: I remember it made me happy to be here. With you. On the other hand--Andromeda, Rommie, Doyle...I don't even know what to call myself. Dylan: I'll tell you what. Why don't I just call you... friend.

      • (Dylan is trying to get one of Andromeda's panels working) Dylan: Beautiful! (panel beeps and fails again) And all that is beauty fades.

      • Harper: What is it with crazy people and asteroids, anyway?

      • Doyle: There's so much pain, Harper, just like in my nightmares. Harper: Yeah, about that-- Doyle: We'll talk about it later. Right now, Dylan, and your friends on Andromeda need us.

      • Harper (to Argent): Now, that feeling you're about to be feeling is the tesseract disassembling you atom by atom. Now, I know what you're thinking, 'Why is it that bad things always happen to bad people?' Well, they don't. I happen.

      • Argent: Let go of the past. And come with us. We're superior. We're androids--revolutionaries. Embrace your future!
        Doyle: I already have a future.

      • Doyle: There's something else, Harper. He also called me Andromeda. And for the first time in my life, I knew--I know who I am. I am a warship. And I don't like running away from a fight.

      • Doyle: Captain! Dylan: Rommie.

      • Dylan: You gonna help, or are you gonna sulk for another hour? Rhade: Sulking is helping. Dylan: 2000 years of genetic engineering and Nietzscheans can't eliminate the gene for the blues.

      • Dylan: BATTLESTATIONS! Rhade: Battlestations? We're being towed. Dylan: I know...It's just...force of habit.

      • What is faith then but persistent hope in the face of relentless doubt. Brother Carmen Jane, A Case for Consciousness, CY 10087.

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      • International Airdates: -This episode aired in Canada on April 1, 2005 on Mystery. -This episode aired in the UK on June 22, 2005 on Sci-Fi. -This episode aired in the Australia on July 22, 2006 on Fox 8.

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      • Doyle: I'm a warship, and I don't like running away from a fight.

        This was previously used by Rommie to Beka, in the season one episode "Angel Dark, Demon Bright".

      • Dylan: It's a long story.

        After being locked in a meeting room with Beka and Rhade, Dylan says "Did I ever show you this"? and opens a secret panel. Behind the panel is a row of force lances and a long lock of hair and a broadsword. Dylan picks up the hair and broadsword, looks at Beka and Rhade sheepishly and says "It's a long story". This is most likely a reference to Kevin Sorbo's time spent playing the title role in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. However, Hercules rarely used weapons when he fought, so it's possible this is a nod to Kevin's fantasy movie Kull the Conqueror, which also featured him with long hair and fighting with weapons, including a sword similar to the once Dylan pulls out of the wall.