Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series)

Vegas in Space (1979)

Cesar Romero: Amos Armat

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• Major Marla Landers : Oh. Excuse me, Dr. Huer. I was told you wanted to see me.

  Dr. Elias Huer : You were told correctly. Come in.

  [Landers walks in] 

  Dr. Elias Huer : This, uh, gentleman... has just made the Defense Directorate a very interesting proposition. Major Landers, Amos Armat.

  Major Marla Landers : Alleged businessman. Moon base construction, I think, isn't it? Of course, your *real* expertise lies in extortion, smuggling illegal weaponry to warring colonies. And, of course, slave trafficking.

  Dr. Elias Huer : That's very true. Mr. Armat's covert activities have perplexed the interplanetary authorities for years. But, as yet we've been unable to prove anything.

  Amos Armat : And rest assured, you never will, unless I turn myself and all my records over to you. Which I am prepared to do.

  Major Marla Landers : Why?

  Amos Armat : An employee in my company, Falina Redding, has been kidnapped. She's totally innocent of wrongdoing. She's a digital programmer. A good one, I'm told. Except last week, by mistake, she saw a readout containing a numerical code, which, if obtained and deciphered by one of my competitors, would ruin three-fourths of my operations. Falina had no idea what she'd seen. She reported the error, which is standard procedure, and kept right on working.

  Major Marla Landers : One of your competitors heard about it and kidnapped her... so that eventually he could get the information out of her head.

  Amos Armat : I tried to warn her, but it was too late.

  Major Marla Landers : Which competitor? Do you know?

  Amos Armat : Velosi. He's had her taken to Sinaloa. My people can't touch her there, but you people can.

  Major Marla Landers : And you'll turn yourself in if we get her back for you?

  Amos Armat : Yes.

  Dr. Elias Huer : I'm afraid the answer is no, Mr. Armat. Velosi will use whatever information he gets from Falina to cripple your operation. And that event is rather appealing to me.

  Amos Armat : But don't you see? He'll get what he wants and then kill her!

  Dr. Elias Huer : I find it rather hard to believe that a single murder even registers on your consciousness. Tempting as the prospect may be of personally removing you from this planet forever, the answer is still no, because I'll not risk any of my people to save the lives of one of your *innocent* employees.

  [Armat turns to leave] 

  Major Marla Landers : Dr. Huer, don't you think that a man of Mr. Armat's connections, someone with easy access to all sorts of information about illegal weaponry, probably he would have a good deal to tell us about the Hatchet fighters?

  [Armat turns and stares at Landers] 

  Dr. Elias Huer : The Draconians are using them to ambush Earth's squadrons. If we were to get Falina back, Mr. Armat, not only would you turn yourself in, but you'd also find out why the Hatchet fighter is in previous to our computer control systems, wouldn't you?

  Amos Armat : [looks at Landers and then back at Huer]  It's a deal.