A: Heroes And Cowards

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Fred: Now then. For most hyenas, sword fighting is foreplay. It's the dance of life and death. It's the highest form of skill and bravery. Our culture gives the greatest honours to those who are masters of the sword. Guns make heroes out of cowards—

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Koz: Hey! I resemble that remark!
Fred: Anybody can push a button from a bunker a thousand miles away and annihilate an entire city, but it takes a special kind of courage to face death over crossed steel...

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B: Variations On A Theme

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Fred: Sword fighting takes minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master. We don't have a lifetime. We have only a few days... which will be your lifetime if we don't get this right. So pay attention. I have set up several exercises designed to train you in strength, dexterity, and— hopefully— in that ineffable third quality of all great swordames— intuition.

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Fred: A successful warrior becomes one with her weapon. She feels through it as if it were an extension of her own body, acting without having to... to stop to think, protecting herself at all times, whilst also seeking any vulnerability in her opponent, and knowing in an instant how best to— to exploit that opening to— to—

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Fred: Would you guys please stop humming "The Force Theme" from Star Wars—?!