OUT OF TIME

BY GUY MULLALLY

MARGUERITE: You forget who funded this expedition.

ROXTON: With you constantly reminding me, how could I?

MARGUERITE: Why are you always in such a hurry?

ROXTON: Because I'm trying to find a way home before we all die out here.

MARGUERITE: Well, I for one intend to be rich when we get there.

ROXTON: Are you OK?

MARGUERITE: You're kidding, right?

MALONE: They're acting like you're some sort of Goddess.

ROXTON: Novel way to greet a deity.

BOCHRA: I am Bochra and these are your people.

MARGUERITE: Mine?

BOCHRA: Lost in the cosmos for almost two thousand years.

ROXTON: How careless of you.

MARGUERITE: Even as a child I never believed in fairy tales.

MALONE: Are you going to help them?

ROXTON: Marguerite help someone? Only if there's a percentage in it for her.

MARGUERITE: Then you'd better come along, just to keep me honest.

VERONICA: He's so beautiful.

SUMMERLEE: He is when he's like this.

VERONICA: You'd cry too if you were hungry and alone.

SUMMERLEE: Well, yes, I suppose I would.

ROXTON: So, when are you going to tell me?

MARGUERITE: Tell you what?

ROXTON: Why you've decided to become Moses to lead the Druids to the Promised Land.

MARGUERITE: Leading people on doomed expeditions is your forte, not mine.

MALONE: Now what?

ROXTON: Priestess?

MARGUERITE: Philistine.

MARGUERITE: See something you want?

ROXTON: What are you offering?

MARGUERITE: More than you could handle, I'm sure.

ROXTON: Oh, from what I've seen, I think I could manage.

SUMMERLEE: Just look at her, she's a natural mother. Almost makes me wish she could keep him.

CHALLENGER: Oh, don't you start, Arthur.

SUMMERLEE: If it's not too personal, George, why did you and Jessie never have children?

CHALLENGER: It's too personal, Arthur.

SUMMERLEE: Sorry.

CHALLENGER: One of us didn't want any.

ROXTON: I've had just about enough of this. What else are they going to throw at us?

MARGUERITE: Don't look at me.

ROXTON: Well who else should I look at? 

MARGUERITE: You didn't have to come!

ROXTON: This whole thing is out of control. You know, that dart was this close to killing you.

MARGUERITE: It's not your mission in life to protect me.

ROXTON: Protect you? It's the rest of the world that needs protection from you.

MARGUERITE: Just what's that supposed to mean?

MALONE: Guys, I don't think now is the time for this.

ROXTON: It means you're an overwhelming pain in the arse.

ROXTON: For someone who trusts no-one, she's taking a hell of a lot on faith.

MARGUERITE: It's the way we've been directed. The vicious little creatures on the beach, the quicksand, head-hunters. There'll be other signs.

MALONE: Hopefully more conventional ones.

MARGUERITE: Much as I may have been tempted to kill you from time to time, I have never acted on my impulses.

MARGUERITE: If we don't bring back the emeralds, they'll be lost.

ROXTON: And you're concerned for their well-being?

MARGUERITE: Yes.

MARGUERITE: No offence, Roxton, but you wouldn't understand.