Azati Prime Line-byLine

[Reptilian ship brig]

ARCHER: Hello again.

 

DEGRA: How do you know me?

 

ARCHER: Long story.

 

DEGRA: Repeat what you told him.

 

ARCHER: The name of your third child is Trenia.

 

DEGRA: Leave me alone with him, and take him as well. (Exeunt Reptilians)

 

ARCHER: Three months into the pregnancy your wife contracted Anaprolean fever. You lost the child. You were going to name it Trenia.

 

ARCHER: You told it to me. You also talked about the weapon you designed, the one that killed seven million people. When you watched the telemetry come in you wondered how many of those seven million were children.

 

DEGRA: Who are you?

 

ARCHER: It doesn't matter who I am or how I know all this. What's important is that you listen to what I have to say.

 

DEGRA: Continue.

 

DEGRA: What lie would that be?

 

ARCHER: That at some point in the future humans are going to destroy your species.

 

DEGRA: That is not a lie!

 

ARCHER: You know about the Spheres.

 

DEGRA: Of course.

 

ARCHER: They were constructed by trans-dimensional beings. Their purpose is to reconfigure the Expanse to make it habitable for their species. That's what destroys the Xindi, not humanity.

 

DEGRA: I've studied the Spheres. There is no evidence to support what you're saying.