In another wonderfully emotive moment, augmented by Earle Hagen’s evocative score, the fugitives set off at the conclusion of their fourth adventure, leaving behind a very different (but no less significant) “legacy” to the one they had anticipated creating: Arn and Kraik beginning a new, more fulfilling life. While Virdon, Burke and Galen may possess more emotional baggage than they had at the start of the story, however, our heroes are noticably (and un-necessarily) unencumbered by anything to carry their things in. Or, for that matter, the things themselves. Questions abound. Did Virdon get his family portrait back? What about the disc? Where is the rifle Burke had? He had it with him when he crossed the bridge to the farm of Tomar’s brother—but did not have it when he emerged from the house. Interestingly, George Alec Effinger—in his novelisation of this story—describes Burke throwing the Simian weapon into a stream at this point in the tale. This is presumably the author’s own attempt to address an oversight he has noted in the shooting of the episode; the fate of the rifle goes unmentioned in the copy of the script I have…