Sunday 12 October 2008

Narrator: The Touch-And-Go is station-keeping "above" the wreckage in Southport.

TAG: Surveillance drones are done sweeping the scow. It is empty. I am tractoring it off the dock now.

Captain Tagon: What do you suppose it's worth?

TAG: Scrap. Hull integrity is dubious, fittings are picked clean.

Captain Tagon: Perfect. I'm transferring fire control to my console.

TAG: Sir, it may be scrap, but it is scrap worth millions. That scow is heavy.

Captain Tagon: And now it is in easy-to-carry pieces.

TAG: Except for the stern. That chunk is still mostly in-

TAG: -um-

TAG: -tact?

Captain Tagon: Tact has nothing to do with it. This is diplomacy.