The Chute Line-by-Line

[Athena28]

KIM: I can handle him.

 

[Orac]

Tom: Just watch your back, okay?

 

[May 20]

KIM: Try to get some rest.

 

[Orac]

Tom: Remember our deal?

 

[May 20]

KIM: What deal?

 

[Khamsin]

PARIS: If it comes down to it, you're going to save yourself, right?
If you see a chance, just go. Don't come back for me.

 

[CaptVader]

KIM: I think the clamp must really be starting to make you crazy.

 

[Khamsin]

PARIS: I'm seriouse, Harry!

 

[Athena28]

ZIO: I'm getting tired of waiting.

 

[May 20]

KIM: I've got to go.

 

[Athena28]

PARIS: Harry.

 

[May 20]

[Akritirian prison]

(Kim is working on a panel by the chute, and making sparks fly. Zio appears to be meditating.)

KIM: Damn it!

 

[CaptVader]

ZIO: Don't fight it. Use it.

 

[May 20]

KIM: How do I do that? I feel like there's a million fire ants in my brain.

 

[Khamsin]

ZIO: Good. Make them work for you.

 

[May 20]

KIM: How?

 

[CaptVader]

ZIO: Fire ants sound vicious. Imagine them as your army moving in a vast wave to conquer your enemy. There's a massive struggle going on inside you, a battle to the death between you and the clamp. You have to use whatever force you can to defeat it.

 

[May 20]

KIM: I'd rather use my energy to work on getting out of here.

 

[CaptVader]

ZIO: When I first got here, I assumed the clamp was just a refined form of torture to make our prison stay that much more arduous. Gradually, I began to understand it more fully. It's all right here in my manifesto. My insights, my reasoning, my evidence. It's an experiment. They're studying us like animals. Pitting us against each other to find out what happens. You can see that, can't you?

 

[Athena28]

KIM: I guess so.