His answer isn't changing, Rade.
"No, Medea," says Jericho. "I always knew this would be the hardest for you. It's not that I didn't trust you, just your... gentle nature was always going to make it all more difficult for you."
"Make what more difficult?" asks Medea. Then, after a pause, she whispers... "No..."
"What did you DO with me?" she asks, desperately.
"This is the logical extent of what we agreed, Medea," says Jericho, gently.
"I never agreed to this!"
"You did. In your heart, you know it to be so. Like all of us, you want to live."
"But... but I'm..." says Medea. She slowly approaches the cylinder with her next copy inside of it, and traces a hand down the side. Tears are in her eyes.
"You see why you are on my side, Medea?" says Jericho. He points at you, Rade. "They cannot help you. They have nothing to offer you. What they want is irrelevant; they cannot do anything. Only I can help you, Medea. I am your Captain and your guide. But for the crew of the Bounty...
...there is no Zion any more."
Medea screams a howl of despair and defeat...
... and she lowers her gun, and walks over to Jericho's side. She does not meet your gaze, Rade.
Maybe.
"What you want is rather irrelevant," says Jericho. "Medea warned you to not come look for me; and you have come to kill me. Anyone who tries, I will kill."
Sadly, Jericho's logic is correct. No matter what you think about coinciding views, your orders are to eliminate Jericho if he cannot be brought back. He knew that he could never meet you as friends.
Persepolis
A new wave of sentinels barralled in from a tiny right-side passage, the mass almost ramming into the ship as it came past. Persepolis performed an almost lazy barrel roll on its left. It needed to be tighter; much tighter, but it couldn't be done- whilst transmitting, a violent manoeuvre could kill those still being broadcast.
"Left! Left!" yelled out Finn, in a rare lapse of composure.
"There's no room left!" said Marduk.
"And no signal right." Marduk did not reply, but threw the ship left. There was a hard impact as the top of the ship smashed into something, leaving debris strewn behind as something tore off. Two sentinels had managed to latch onto the rear of the ship and were merrily cutting it open.
"Too fast," said Marduk."We need to take longer. Find me a loop, Finn." Finn studied the plans for the area, and quickly checked back to see if the crew was ok.
"Hurry it up, you bastards..." he said.
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Medea stays silent.
"Well then," says Jericho. "Kill them. This ends now."
"Oh. how right you ARE, Jericho..." comes a voice from behind Jericho. A moment later, the door he took to enter the room is smashed effortlessly from its hinges, propelling several feet into the room. Three figures step inside, with purpose.
"So this is where you have been hiding, Jericho," says Agent Daniels, with a wide grin. "I said I would find you..."
In the moment of stunned silence that follows, your phone rings, Rade...
The Agents level their guns at Jericho and his crowd.
"Stop them!" he orders, and as he and the others rush towards them, the Agents fire...
... at the cylinders. One by one, they start to shatter, exploding with more force than their appearance would have suggested possible. On the Shez, Ariadne's eyes widen as the bulging code on the screen before her starts to go haywire.
Jericho and the others move to engage the Agents but they merely defend themselves as they concentrate their fire on the cylinders. As you move past, one of them sees you.
"Ignore them."
"They are irrelevant."
"Eliminate the irregularity."