WAIT TIKIT NO I WAS JUST SYMPATHIZING WITH YOU STOP DIB DOESN’T DESERVE THIS!
[The door to the control center slides open, and Tikit and Dib appear, followed by a new face. One that should never have been aboard the ship to begin with.]
"It seems like at least someone in your audience realized the truth about you. Thank you, dear listeners, for helping me track this pest."
"HIIII MASTER JAZ!!"
"Gir?! Gir too?! How could you drag Gir into this, he hasn't even done anything against you!"
"Well I need some kind of negotiation, don't I? You're not the type to surrender easily."
"What are you playing at?"
"An exchange. You turn in yourself and erase the ships map that you just downloaded from your database, and both Gir and Dib live and return home."
"If I refuse?"
"Then Gir will die, at the hands of Dib."
"Gir can come back, his memory chip-"
"Do you not remember MES? Do you think this is any different?"
[Jaz goes quiet at the mention of MES. He knows Dib isn't truly under Tikit's control, and Dib wouldn't harm Gir- But he was caught in a corner. Dib was in harms way, Gir was in harms way, and there was no easy out. He thought over the mission, the likely end of the mission, and eventually, came to a decision.]
"I refuse."
"If you insist. Dib, deactivate Gir."
[Dib hesitates. There's a terrible silence as everyone waits for what happens next.]
"I can't.."
"I know."